[catch all for crow]

[supercatty]

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[chevaliered]

[ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—- ]

Deeply, and truly Kitkatra. You done with the stalking now, then?

[ she can have all the chicken she wants, it’s her portion of the meal. ]

[supercatty]

[tail flick]

For now.

[she takes a moment to munch on a piece of chicken]

Hey-- do one of those tasks with me.

[SO DEMANDING]

[chevaliered]

Uh huh.

[ well, crow's on the fries and no one can stop him. apart from the part where he stops and glances up at catra for a moment. ]

Why, you looking to get yourself on that Dean's List?

[supercatty]

[flat stare]

No. I don't even know what that is.

I just want more vouchers.

[she wants a TANK]

[and also maybe that wish at the end]

[chevaliered]

[ c'mon ]

Those pictures? That appeared pretty much overnight? [ caTRA ]

But sure. Only if we can double up so I can get my vouchers. We've all got something we want to try and get our hands on, right?

[supercatty]

I saw those. Still don't know what they mean.

[nts: pester Taichi. also, she groans a bit]

Fine. Give something to get something. Tell me what your hopes for the future are.

[chevaliered]

Either something great or something terrible, I guess.

[ taichiiii. ]

...

Okay, literally any one but that one Kitkat.

[supercatty]

[raises a brow]

Why not? Seems like the easiest one to answer.

[she isn't asking him to get SAPPY on her, here]

[chevaliered]

Personal reasons. Any other one'll do.

[ he's not budging. ]

[supercatty]

[taps her claws against the table, then shrugs. she isn't married to any of the options, soooo. . .]

Sure. Tell me about the people you care about, then.

[chevaliered]

[ give him a moment while he restarts his brain upon realising he actually has a lot of options to choose from? ]

Uhh. Sure? Guess my gramps would be a good place to start?

[ ... ]

He was a good man. Mayor of my home, actually. He cared a lot about the people there, and wanted to do good by them. But he wasn't a total stick in the mud? He liked a good drink, and enjoyed stuff like card games, sleight of hand tricks, that kind of thing. He taught me a lot.

[supercatty]

[oh no, this is where Catra is going to reveal just how sad her upbringing was, becauuuuuse]

"Gramps?" Was that his name? Your "Gramps?"

[chevaliered]

My Grandpa. His name wasn't literally "gramps".

[ al, please god don't make me trawl wikis for crow's grandpa's name that might not even exist ]

[supercatty]

[IT'S OKAY I'M GOING TO SAVE YOU BY HAVING HER ASK ANOTHER QUESTION]

. . . what's a grandpa?

[ha ha. ha!]

[chevaliered]

[ ....................... ]

Oh boy, kitkat.

A grandpa. It's like... my parent's parent. Grandpa's male, grandma's female.

[supercatty]

[okay, that's all well and dandy, buuuut]

That explains nothing. What's a parent?

[chevaliered]

[ .....



........................... ]

Thhhhhhe people who birthed you? Normally there's an asterisk like "and raised you" but the "and raised" part is subjective. Sometimes they can't, sometimes they don't, sometimes it's a bit of both.

[supercatty]

Oh.

[okay, well that concept she gets]

I don't know who birthed me. And the person who raised me is-- [. . .]

[she bristles, hair standing on end, ears flattening again]

Whatever. I don't care about her.

[chevaliered]

... Yeah, sometimes people just suck, no matter how they're related to you.

[ he'd press but uh... that topic dismissal was so fast he has whiplash. ]

But that's pretty much the run down. Gramps was my grandpa. He was a good man.

[supercatty]

[lmao yeah, she's not talking about the can of worms that is Shadow Weaver]

Sounds like it. You're-- lucky, to have a guy like that in your life.

[chevaliered]

Yeah. I was really lucky. There are far worse parental figures out there in the world. Met of few of them in the past couple of years too.

[supercatty]

[lol. if Shadow Weaver really is a parent figure. . .]

[. . . ANYWAY]

Yeah? I hope they got what was coming to them.

[chevaliered]

A couple of them did. Jury's out on the last one.

'Course things turned out to be complicated and an aidios-damned half there too.

[supercatty]

[. . . aidios???]

You keep using words that mean absolutely nothing to me.

[BUT. ANYWAY]

Sounds like the lives of the people you know are super complicated. Sucks to be them, right?

[chevaliered]

I mean. Probably not? Aidios is like… worshipped by the church? Sometimes your local deity invades your dialect. It happens.

Literally give me any example where things didn’t go south, complicated themselves and then wrap themselves up in several knots. Class VII are just… really good at being right there in the centre of everything when the mess up starts, y’know?