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Nov. 2nd, 2013 12:20 pm
tergiversant: (Allow me to ponder such)
[personal profile] tergiversant
[The message that plays when you receive Rufus Barma's inbox is simple, curt, and almost annoyed to have to do this.]

Be succinct.





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Date: 2013-11-03 07:50 am (UTC)
psychopath: thought I was dead, huh. (peek-a-boo!)
From: [personal profile] psychopath
[so jack isn't allowed to behead rufus, because it would make oswald sad, no matter how much bribery involving birds and/or jack himself it takes, so jack has to be civil and all heroic as he tries to figure out if rufus was a threat or not.]

ARTHUR!!!

video;

Date: 2013-11-03 01:24 pm (UTC)
psychopath: (my best ezio impression)
From: [personal profile] psychopath
[definitely not arthur. jack just grits his teeth for a moment before switching to video.]

Err, I don't think Arthur was ever that... formal.
psychopath: (trust me i'm a nice guy)
From: [personal profile] psychopath
[jack doesn't look unfazed when rufus practically admits who he is; in fact, he just gets more cheery.]

As expected from Dodo's contractor, milord, that you would not show your face. I suppose you have red hair too, I guess, and goodness, Arthur was a pleasant man, don't say that.

video; this is true, very true

Date: 2013-11-03 02:07 pm (UTC)
psychopath: (hehe look i fell)
From: [personal profile] psychopath
[if there's one thing nobody knows about jack vessalius (save for oswald) is that jack is actually a five-year-old. a very obnoxious five-year-old. oswald should be proud jack hasn't used oz to paint the town red with rufus.]

I just wanted to confirm it before you snatch Oswald off and you two start fawning over birds. [his eyes widen as if catching himself,] Erm, milord. [and then he ducks his head. he talks a lot.] I think it's a sort of thing when you have a contract with one of the birds. Oh, uh, I'm Jack. Vessalius. I knew Arthur and Miranda...?

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Date: 2013-11-22 04:12 am (UTC)
psychopath: the white king. (chessmaster)
From: [personal profile] psychopath
Please don't call me that, I'm not a hero at all. I just had to make hard decisions- just Jack would be fine.

voice; not long after he replies to riku's post

Date: 2013-11-27 12:26 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} ahahaha)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( it's — a miscalculation.

a huge one in fact, the likes of which would be enough to make barma smirk at him over his fan, flutter it and say something irritating, only it's one thing, isn't it, when barma's only being coy about some information he'll inevitably provide them and another when the last oz heard of him rings in his ears now, sharon almost in tears for her beloved grandmother. i never thought he'd do something like this, and neither had anyone.

but personal timelines are as fluid as water here, and barma may be from before that, before even considering it, or even from the uncertain future leo warned oz about more than once. it means treading even more carefully than ordinarily, and it means operating alone because that betrayal is certainly not something he'd wanted to worry anyone else about, least of all with what little can be done about it from here.

so, his voice is bright, bubbles on a laugh. )


So this is where you've been! How am I supposed to greet you properly if you take so long to show your face, Duke Barma?

Voice

Date: 2013-11-27 01:49 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} the most innocent of questioning)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( this person is so annoying — )

How kind of you! Does that mean you'll be granting me an audience?

Voice

Date: 2013-11-27 02:16 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} for this must ever be a secret)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( he would, wouldn't he; of course rufus barma would manage to think of the single place oz loathes most out of a building, an astronomical body, he already despises. )

I'll be sure not to keep you waiting, then.

ACTION, BABY!!

Date: 2013-11-27 02:59 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} though i admire them)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( barma may have his silk coats and pillows, but oz looks very thoroughly exile by now, just days shy of the ten month mark in this world. he's got the one frock coat in which he'd arrived in september back, borrowed to caesar at vanadi's fateful party, but that's all; the venetian finery is lost in a cold united earth facility, and anything else didn't survive the trip to the moon or didn't exist in the first place. it's locally-made shirts and trousers for him now, long-sleeved against the weather there and chill here, brightened primarily by a familiar gold chain that jangles musically when he moves just so, evidence of jack's pocket watch still never leaving his person. his hair wants trimming, and his boots — local again, it's only been dress shoes that he's brought in from reveil — make his approach audible enough.

(not things he's thought to notice in recent months until now, not even with alice's arrival; but then barma hasn't seen him splattered with gil's and his own blood, clothes ragged from low-ranking chains, hasn't at all besides the luxury that a scion of vessalius house would be expected to wear.)

the additional steaming cup doesn't go unnoticed, scarcely gives him pause; this may be a farce of a meeting between members of two of the four highest ranking families outside of the reigning one, but at least it's a proper one. not surprising that barma would think of the abyss, looking out at space, even if it stiffens his shoulders and makes his steps feel heavier, because it's true — there's no one in pandora who'd look at this view and think of anything else. )


Does it? I didn't know. ( a lie. ) It's a surprise to hear you volunteering information for free.

( on a chuckle, like they're friends, and he sits himself and picks up the cup. he neither drinks it nor looks outside, sits up straight so he doesn't have to lean as barma does, and lets the steam tickle his face. )
Edited Date: 2013-11-27 03:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-11-27 04:06 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} indulgent)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( he'd considered digging up that frock coat, dressing carefully, but had ultimately rejected the thought. it'd likely be obvious anyway, and he'd be surprised if rufus barma of all people, already a not-so-new arrival, hadn't yet seen his face over the network, stretching back for months. there can be value to such short-lived deceptions, but he hadn't seen the point of this one. besides, it puts him at an informational advantage, and he's sure they both realize it. )

Well! That's true of everyone, I suppose. ( he finally has a sip of the tea himself, though certainly not pointedly. ) Quite some time. I'd welcome you properly, but I'm sure the greeters did that already.

Date: 2013-11-27 05:20 pm (UTC)
velveteened: (} the most innocent of questioning)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
You mean you don't know already?

( he can't help himself sometimes, and with duke barma — with the moon, with the ue, with the mutiny, with everything — even his own temper has been harder to mind. )

Though even so, I was supposed to be the one greeting you.

Date: 2013-11-28 12:04 am (UTC)
velveteened: (} kept from all the rest)
From: [personal profile] velveteened
( it's answer enough; he lowers his eyes a moment as he has another sip of tea. he hadn't expected much else, truthfully, perhaps because if nothing else he's not so lucky nor so hopeful.

after a moment he says, )
The United Earth is a formidable enemy.
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