backdated to November 18th @treefucker

[legbreakings]

Fucking goats!

[ Look who is back from the dead.

Yes, it is Jiang Cheng, newly returned to the lands of the living after humpty dumpty met a goat even bitchier than himself and took a little fall.

Still hasn't figured out how to network. ]

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[legbreakings]

That sounds like my friends and I.

Well, it's mostly me telling them they are idiots, to be fair. But they have it coming when they are idiots.

[bearhole]

hey, sometimes your friends are idiots and that's just the way it is.

[legbreakings]

You understand me

[ Someone after his own heart! ]

[bearhole]

I've got you.

if you ever need someone to vent to when they're being the most idiotic versions of themselves, you can always come to me.

[legbreakings]

Thank you. I make the same offer. We've got to stick together as the voices of reason, right?

[bearhole]

right!

[legbreakings]

[ They've got this! ]

Thank you. For. Listening. Distracting me.

[bearhole]

any time.

do you need any more distracting just now or are you feeling a little better?

[legbreakings]

I'm feeling more grounded. More like myself.

[bearhole]

good. now, just stay away from those goats.

[legbreakings]

Trust me. I will. I don't remember much but. There was that moment

I will be careful.

[bearhole]

good. I'll need you to stick around, as the other voice of reason.

[legbreakings]

I'm going to learn from this. I don't plan to die here again. Or at least not such a humiliating death.

I would rather not die at all.

[bearhole]

I'm with you. not dying is always the goal, but...

if us dying is what those Technicians really want. I say we don't give them the satisfaction.

[legbreakings]

That's a good point. We shouldn't let them think they have worn us down and are going to get what they want.

Although I don't know what we can do about it either.

[ And... he may not have tried too hard to escape, considering his dead family is alive here. ]

[bearhole]

[ Half her crew is here, and she's responsible for them, so she's not escaping until they're safely out. ]

simple. we fight back.
whatever they try to throw at us, we throw it back tenfold.

[legbreakings]

I agree with the sentiment. It's what I want to do, too.

I just worry my family will pay the price.

[bearhole]

I guess I can't relate. my family have always been soldiers. they would want me to fight, fight, and keep fighting.

[legbreakings]

I think mine would want me to fight, too. But some of them are here.

[bearhole]

I take it they're not the "fight beside you" type?

[legbreakings]

It's complicated.

[ As in, he doesn't want to see them die again - and also isn't sure he really wants to be sent back just yet to a world where they are dead, but that is nothing to advertise so... ]

I don't want them to pay the price for my defiance.

[bearhole]

[ She does, in fact, remember what he told her about how they died back in his time. In a way, she gets it. She doesn't want any of her team to die for her. She doesn't want Tuuri to have to die again.

But her team all signed up to face monsters. Jiang Wanyin's family didn't. ]

then, we add "protect them" to the battle plan.

[legbreakings]

[ Jiang Cheng may need a moment to process that. The easy comradeship, this stunning sense of knowing there is someone watching his back even without ties of sect or blood binding them. It is the one thing from the Sunshot Campaign he misses, really. ]

Thank you.

It means a lot.

[ Words that aren't enough for what it means. ]