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[force_a_change]

[That's a teenaged girl with blue hair and blue eyes on the screen. It's her first time doing video but also like, she felt this would be better done with face to face instead of text or voice.

So just getting straight to it, she clears her throat and asks.]

I'm hoping to find someone who is willing to ah... Train with knives? I can pay you with moonlacing, if money is an issue.

I just wish to have someone to practice with, and I don't feel like pestering my roommate either.

[And that's it, done as if asking about knife fights is perfectly normal.]

Comments

[force_a_change]

I didn't know training meant anyone was going to get stabbed.

[dashhole]

When does knife training NOT mean getting stabbed?

[Look, he's known a lot of persons whom get a bit stab-happy at little provocation, let alone in a situation where the knifeplay is mutual.]

[force_a_change]

When your partner isn't a coward?

[Well, now Scout has meet another easily prone to stabbing type.]

[dashhole]

[He snorts.]

I ain't gonna come play with a little girl who wants to play with knives, and you can't say nothin' that'll make me.

[force_a_change]

Well, I don't need someone afraid of a girl with a knife to help me anyway.

[Also heh, play with knives. What Scout doesn't know.]

[dashhole]

[Scout rolls his eyes and mimes a "blah blah blah" gesture. Is this what having a younger sibling is like? Suddenly his family dynamic makes a lot more sense.]

Yeah, don't hurt yourself none over there.

[force_a_change]

[She simply shrugs.]

I don't plan on hurting anyone, yet.

[dashhole]

Yeah, the day's still young.

[There's time and plans change. Especially if one is being an annoyance.

Anyway, he continues conspiratorially.]

Hey, you uh, see that kinda creepy guy with the face mask?

[force_a_change]

You mean the gentleman who replied to this first? He doesn't seem creepy to me.

[dashhole]

[That earns an eye roll.]

That's cause you don't know him yet. I used to work with the guy, trust me, he's a creep.

[He lets that sit there, presumably where Spy can hear him, because he indeed likes to be nosy.]

He's also one of the best with a knife I've ever met.

[A compliment?? From Scout??? To SPY???]

[force_a_change]

[Eye roll all you want, Scout. She stands by her words.]

So it's safe to assume that since you worked with a "creep" that you yourself are one too?

[Just gonna... Leave that there too.]

Hm, then him replying is a good thing isn't it?

[dashhole]

I am normal. I am the most normal guy you've ever met!

[Yeah, he's kinda also a creep. :/ ]

Sure, if you wanna learn from the second best. Too bad Sniper ain't here.

[Ah, there's the other shoe.]

[force_a_change]

I somehow doubt you're that normal.

[Sorry Scout, no one out normals one called Kyon.]

Second best just means they have more to learn and more to teach, the best tend to rest on their laurels.

[dashhole]

Yeah, Sniper does do a lot of sittin' around.

[That's not what she meant and he knows it, he just doesn't care.]

[force_a_change]

... You're not that bright, are you?