maddeninghatter: (you don't say)
Xerxes Break ([personal profile] maddeninghatter) wrote2013-02-05 09:21 pm
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IC Contact - Exsilium

[ Thirty seconds of tuneless humming--beeeeeeeeep! ]
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maddeninghatter: (you're so tiny Sharon)

[personal profile] maddeninghatter 2013-10-21 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
— except you don't "use" me. I'm not certain that you ever have.

[ This isn't "kindness chicken" anymore. It's the truth. He has always recoiled from saying things like this, but now that the words are on his lips...

He feels strangely free. He reaches for Gilbert, on purpose to pat his head, as if he were still that boy of fifteen. ]
retraced: (what is this I don't even)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-10-21 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[All he's ever done was use him. He used Break to enter Pandora, to learn the principles of the noble houses and the secrets of the organization that had always been nothing more than a fairytale. He'd used Break to teach him the structure that he needed to succeed, and used him as a springboard to learn to cook and bake and fire a pistol.

He'd used Break to learn how to watch death right in front of your eyes and not flinch or look away.]

Break. You -

[But then Break has to ruin the moment by patting his head and making him feel young and short again. He stutters and bats his hand away.]

S-stop treating me like a little kid!
maddeninghatter: (smarmy)

[personal profile] maddeninghatter 2013-10-21 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even now, Gilbert's sputtering is still endlessly entertaining. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, as they say in fantasy Japanese France. ]

Okay then~!

How shall I treat you? What would you like, hm?
retraced: (gilbert 'my life is hard' nightray)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-10-21 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, now he has to muss his hair back into place...]

I want you to eat your chocolate and go to sleep! I have to finish reading - you're a terrible distraction!
maddeninghatter: (GTFO Vincent)

[personal profile] maddeninghatter 2013-10-21 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's about to remark on the mutual exclusivity of eating chocolate and going to sleep, however — ]

You?

You have to finish reading?

[ You're hardly the bookish sort, Gilbert. ]
retraced: (we can't do nothing)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-10-21 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not what it sounds like!]

These documents that Kate compiled about the research that the UE was doing before...

[Well, before they blew up the city.]

It's a lot to sort through.
maddeninghatter: (fuck you Barma)

[personal profile] maddeninghatter 2013-10-21 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Thump! That is the sound of Xerxes Break jumping down from his bunk. His air of affectionate teasing is gone: he's all business. ]

What sort of research? What is it?
retraced: (this soup looks suspicious)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-10-21 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He's taken aback for a split second, but this isn't the first time, nor the last that he'll watch that particular transformation of Xerxes Break.]

Research and development for what they called Project Chimera.

[There's been vague discussion of it on the network.]

Something about tailoring their soldiers to make them stronger through whatever method they were working on. Trying to replicate powers that people from other worlds possess. And they were working on something called a rover. It was supposed to be able to travel across the surface of other planets like a carriage.
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