[ Mordred, famous? Incredible. His expression twitches, like he's trying to hold back a disbelieving bark of laughter. Famously annoying, maybe, but Eustace has a hard time imagining her as any sort of revered figurehead praised by the masses. Maybe she was an infamous villain? The latter would be more believable than the former. ]
Does that happen often where you're from? That the spirits of famous people end up lingering for a long time to come?
[ They have spirits where he comes from too, but those are more along the lines of trapped souls and specters with unfinished business. Nothing nearly as fancy as what Gray describes. ]
Not that I know of. But there's a lot I don't know.
[ She gave up trying to pretend she knew anything before she ever started.
But she does know one thing. Her tone takes on a gentle note of lecturing. ]
More importantly... it means she can be powerful in ways normal people can't, and she doesn't always have the same logic as a living person. So getting into a fight with her would be very dangerous. Please try to avoid it.
[ God knows Mordred will look for any excuse to laser Eustace into oblivioun. ]
[ Mordred deserves to laser Eustace into oblivion, so this is fine actually.
Unfortunately, what I want OOCly and what Eustace wants ICly are two very different things, and though Eustace is still hung up on the fact that Mordred was at some point famous in her lifetime, he trusts Gray enough to listen attentively to her mini-lecture.
He does have one point to make though. ]
I'm not looking to get into a fight with her, but there's only so much I can do when she's constantly hounding me.
[ She's like a tiny yapping attack dog....which is ironic, given that he's the one with the animal ears. ]
[ Does even God know how to get Mordred to be less Mordred.....
But it's not Gray's job to make sure Mordred behaves herself. And while it might be Eustace's job to moderate how he behaves around Mordred, he's pretty sure nothing he can do at this point will alleviate the deep dislike she has of him. ]
It was back at the shrines. In Horos. [ Which seems like such a distant time now. ] I don't recall doing anything out of the ordinary.
[ He was just being himself...which tbh is enough to provoke anyone into disliking him. ]
[ Back in Horos... Things were more tense back then, but even so, Gray can't imagine Eustace doing anything legitimately offensive without him knowing it. She'll just chalk it up to Mordred being Mordred. ]
If it helps, she didn't like me much at first either. If it weren't for my face, she probably would've stopped paying attention to me.
[ That detail comes out of her with surprising ease; the topic of her face was once close to taboo, but she can at least be (fairly) certain that the legend of King Arthur would mean nothing to Eustace. ]
Actually, she was a famous knight, but it sounds like she didn't like a lot of the other knights. Maybe you remind her of them.
[ The suggestion isn't completely serious, but she could see Eustace as a knight in a different universe. ]
[ Truly Gray's power of imagination far exceeds his own, because he can't imagine any timeline where he ends up as a knight in service of someone else. Maybe it's because he's traveled with too many storybook knights, whose ideals and convictions he can appreciate but not fully adopt for himself.
But also: ]
Because I don't like many other people?
[ It's an objective statement and not any sort of hurt accusation. He knows the (mostly true) image he projects to other people. ]
[ Gray blinks. She knows he can be stoic and reclusive, but she wouldn't have categorized him as a misanthrope. ]
I was thinking more that you're serious and disciplined...
[ Though when she thinks about it, her sampling of Round Table Knights (Kay, Mordred) would seem to suggest that they were more incorrigible than not. ]
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Date: 2023-10-04 12:43 pm (UTC)Does that happen often where you're from? That the spirits of famous people end up lingering for a long time to come?
[ They have spirits where he comes from too, but those are more along the lines of trapped souls and specters with unfinished business. Nothing nearly as fancy as what Gray describes. ]
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Date: 2023-10-06 05:45 am (UTC)[ She gave up trying to pretend she knew anything before she ever started.
But she does know one thing. Her tone takes on a gentle note of lecturing. ]
More importantly... it means she can be powerful in ways normal people can't, and she doesn't always have the same logic as a living person. So getting into a fight with her would be very dangerous. Please try to avoid it.
[ God knows Mordred will look for any excuse to laser Eustace into oblivioun. ]
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Date: 2023-10-06 11:59 am (UTC)Unfortunately, what I want OOCly and what Eustace wants ICly are two very different things, and though Eustace is still hung up on the fact that Mordred was at some point famous in her lifetime, he trusts Gray enough to listen attentively to her mini-lecture.
He does have one point to make though. ]
I'm not looking to get into a fight with her, but there's only so much I can do when she's constantly hounding me.
[ She's like a tiny yapping attack dog....which is ironic, given that he's the one with the animal ears. ]
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Date: 2023-10-09 03:54 am (UTC)I'm not sure why she dislikes you so much. Did you have a bad first encounter?
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Date: 2023-10-11 10:04 pm (UTC)But it's not Gray's job to make sure Mordred behaves herself. And while it might be Eustace's job to moderate how he behaves around Mordred, he's pretty sure nothing he can do at this point will alleviate the deep dislike she has of him. ]
It was back at the shrines. In Horos. [ Which seems like such a distant time now. ] I don't recall doing anything out of the ordinary.
[ He was just being himself...which tbh is enough to provoke anyone into disliking him. ]
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Date: 2023-10-14 03:27 am (UTC)If it helps, she didn't like me much at first either. If it weren't for my face, she probably would've stopped paying attention to me.
[ That detail comes out of her with surprising ease; the topic of her face was once close to taboo, but she can at least be (fairly) certain that the legend of King Arthur would mean nothing to Eustace. ]
Actually, she was a famous knight, but it sounds like she didn't like a lot of the other knights. Maybe you remind her of them.
[ The suggestion isn't completely serious, but she could see Eustace as a knight in a different universe. ]
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Date: 2023-10-15 05:09 pm (UTC)But also: ]
Because I don't like many other people?
[ It's an objective statement and not any sort of hurt accusation. He knows the (mostly true) image he projects to other people. ]
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Date: 2023-10-16 04:19 am (UTC)I was thinking more that you're serious and disciplined...
[ Though when she thinks about it, her sampling of Round Table Knights (Kay, Mordred) would seem to suggest that they were more incorrigible than not. ]