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Grant Abaroa ([personal profile] woofdad) wrote2020-10-28 06:38 pm
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[victory road] IC CONTACT

[For private communication, Pokegear or otherwise!]
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action, during the Bodyswap Debacle

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[From what Dedue can discern, of all those in their household, he and Grant are the ones who are unaffected by the bodyswapping. In light of that, the general horseshittery that has occurred, and the fact that Grant is good company, Dedue has sought him out.]

Grant. May I ask something of you?

[A totally non-ominous way to start a conversation.]
donoteattheweeds: (gods fucking dammit felix)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-20 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Attempting to corral the Pokemon-in-people's-bodies has been very similar to trying to herd cats, or perhaps to trying to convince Felix Fraldarius of anything at all-- far more difficult than anticipating, exceedingly frustrating, and ultimately futile.]

[Talking to someone who is actually a human in a human body is refreshing.]


Ah. Yes. It is somewhat related.

[But only somewhat.]

Would you like to leave the house for a while?
donoteattheweeds: (downward)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-20 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
If I am to be honest, I had not thought that far ahead.

[He's not that picky, really. So long as they go somewhere not here, he could probably make the best of it.]

Would it be uncouth of me to suggest somewhere that serves alcohol?

[Is it a socially acceptable time for alcohol? Who cares?]
donoteattheweeds: felix is still a bitch (thinking thinky thoughts)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-20 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It would probably be for the best that we do not go too far, in the event that we are needed.

[As much as he would like to fuck off as far as possible, they should probably be at least moderately available in case something happens. Drunk, maybe, but available.]
donoteattheweeds: (gods fucking dammit felix)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-27 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[While Grant goes to inform his child that they'll be leaving, Dedue fetches himself a coat and shoes. When he returns, Grant does, indeed, have the opportunity to hold the door for him, which is a strange reversal of Dedue's usual role. He's not particularly used to having other people do things for him.]

[As they walk out into the cool winter weather, Dedue breaks the silence with a particularly astute,]


It has been a very strange day.
donoteattheweeds: i have concluded that felix is a bitch (i will consider this carefully)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-27 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing that I cannot handle.

[Which, considering that he could handle Dimitri being mad, a continental war, and nearly dying at least once, isn't saying much.]

I discovered that Ginger's name is actually Stephanie. That was a strange experience.

[She also hit on him. It was weird.]

You seem... stressed.
donoteattheweeds: (downward)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-27 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
I have had easier days.

[It's the closest thing to an admission that he's going to get. There's nothing, after all, that Dedue can't overcome with unyielding willpower.]

She seemed to enjoy the opportunity to make herself a nuisance to Lorenz.

[She even locked the poor man in a cupboard and went on a shopping spree with his money. And while it must have been an exciting thing to have a body again-- ignoring the existential questions that arise from Pokemon having once been people-- it's quite cruel to imprison a man just so that you could run amok.]

I suppose they are all too engrossed in the possibilities of being in a human form to concern themselves with reason. I hope they have not given you too much trouble.

[Grant is a kind man, he doesn't deserve having to corral a bunch of misbehaving Pokemon-in-friends'-bodies.]
donoteattheweeds: felix is still a bitch (thinking thinky thoughts)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-02-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lorenz has had quite a lot of stress since he'd arrived, for a number of reasons. Dedue... worries for him, for lack of a better term. Lorenz had never been a particularly robust man, and his health seems to have made little to no improvement in the five years since they were at the monastery. Of course, not all men are built to the constitution of himself or Grant, nor would Dedue expect him to be, but Lorenz is frightfully delicate.]

[But, well, the delicacy of Lorenz's constitution is perhaps a discussion for another day.]


Has Claude taken well to the change? He is, ah... somewhat harder to locate, now. [Because he's a four-inch speedy little spider, mostly. Dedue could've had him perched on his back and wouldn't have noticed his tiny body.]

Regardless, it will be good to have a respite from it all for a time.

[Besides, nothing terrible is likely to happen. A little mischief, perhaps, like Stephanie's, but that's hardly much more than a little embarrassment and some lost funds, which could be easily replaced. Goddess knows that Claude has enough of it, since he was willing to drop two million on a Dreepy.]
donoteattheweeds: (dedon't)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-03-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
These kinds of disturbances do not seem to last for very long, at least. [A few days at maximum. If nothing else, they shouldn't be dealing with any of this for very long.] But let us hope that it is among the shorter of them.

[And, well, there's still always alcohol.]
donoteattheweeds: felix is still a bitch (thinking thinky thoughts)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-03-08 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[They approach the establishment, and Dedue makes it to the door first this time; Grant gets the door held open for him. It's only fair.]

Would it be strange of me to admit that I have not had occasion to drink at such an establishment?

[A bar, he means. He'd been at taverns before in Fodlan, of course, but not to drink; merely to acquire food, which he would usually eat quickly and leave to reduce the risk of attracting too much attention. Even before he was rescued from imprisonment, though, he never frequented public houses.]
donoteattheweeds: felix is still a bitch (thinking thinky thoughts)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-03-26 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[The establishment is not terribly busy at this time of day. Being the one who lacks experience, though, he decides to follow Grant's lead in general bar-associated activities.]

That is true, though I do not mean only in this place. Even in Fódlan, I did not frequent public houses. [A brief, considering pause.] I did once bring Sylvain back from one, however.

[It had been quite late and Sylvain had yet to return to his room, and Dedue had gone down into the town that surrounded Garreg Mach to see if he was still carousing. He had instead found Sylvain relieving his stomach of his contents in an alley near the public house, and had brought him back to the dormitories to rest. Despite his late activities, he'd still been surprisingly spry the next morning.]
donoteattheweeds: i have concluded that felix is a bitch (i will consider this carefully)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-03-28 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[The seats at the bar are significantly higher than the ones at the tables, which would... seem to be easier for men of their stature.] The bar will be fine.

[And continuing the subject of Dedue as they make their way to their seats,] It would have been unseemly, as I am intended to be His Highness' bodyguard, as well as his vassal. Even so, I would not have been particularly welcome in any establishment, regardless of whether I had the money to spare for something so nonessential.

[A vassal's stipend hardly afforded him much spending cash. And while Dimitri had a fairly large budget for his household as the crown prince, his uncle still had control over it. It seemed prudent to keep his expenses as low as possible, so that there could be one fewer angle to censure him by. Here, there's no such risk of disapproval. Perhaps it says something about the degree of pressure that Dedue was under that it's taken him approximately half a year to go out.]
donoteattheweeds: (he ate the weeds)

[personal profile] donoteattheweeds 2022-03-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
There is no war here, and the risk of significant and permanent injury seems far less than in Fódlan.

[Which... is sort of a reason to relax some of his hypervigilance. They are not all on battlefields every month, fighting for their lives against Imperial forces or vicious monsters. Dimitri is no longer a wild-eyed vagrant stalking the woods of Faerghus. Their lives here are comfortable, with ample resources and time for leisure.]

[But--]

[And this is where Dedue gets something of a thousand yard stare, comparable to the most shellshocked of Vietnam vets--]


Save for the danger that His Highness actively seeks out.

[The list of the many and varied ways that Dimitri has managed to find trouble even in this world flashes through his mind. Even Grant may be able to read in Dedue's stoic face that he's actively reconsidering his decision to leave Dimitri alone, even for a short while.]

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