Just apped at exitvoid

[hawkejunior]

All right, you turned the application in. Bloody good for you. About time I show up to sort this mess out (and I'm going to do a better job at it than my brother or that crazy mage, thank you very much.)

Now sit down while I list, point by point, all the parts that are wrong.

- I do not have an inferiority complex!
- I am not jealous of Garrett!
- I am not whiny!
- I do not complain all the time!
- I am not "a bit of a tit" and it's not a justifiable thing to say!
- I do too have charisma!
- I am not IMMATURE.

And last, but certainly not least, this is the worst journal name ever!

FIX IT.

Comments

[circler]

I think it sounds as if your player knows you even better than yourself, Carver. Perhaps you ought to stop and listen to her.

[hawkejunior]

Not you too, Bethany!

Come on! I'm hardly as bad as she's going on about!

[circler]

You're right. You're much worse.

[hawkejunior]

I am not either! Maker, why are you taking her side?

[circler]

She seems like the reasonable sort, and they're rare enough around here.

Anyway, she chose you- so at least she likes all those things about you.

[hawkejunior]

Yes, it all makes me sound like a real winner, doesn't it?

I don't have the slightest idea what I'm getting into, Bethany.

[circler]

You'll always be a winner in my book, Carver.

What do you mean? You're not afraid, are you?

[hawkejunior]

You're supposed to say that. You're my sister.

No, of course I'm not afraid! I don't get afraid. I just-

Well, it's quite... different from what we're used to, you know?

[circler]

Is it? I don't know much about it. Brother's there, at least, and if he can get through that place without mucking things up...

[hawkejunior]

[Eyeroll.] Oh, yes, thank the Maker, Garrett's there.

You're right. If he can do it, I'll have an even easier time of it.

[circler]

Of course I'm right.

Be careful, Carver... the both of you.

[hawkejunior]

Yes, yes, you usually are, aren't you? [Brotherly teasing, of course.]

I will. And I'll make sure he does, too. You be careful too, wherever you end up.

[circler]

[As long as he doesn't put glue in her hair or something, she will accept this teasing.]

Good- I'm sure he misses you giving him a hard time. As I do.

I don't know where I'm going, to be honest. So I suppose I'll have to content myself with worrying over you lot..

[hawkejunior]

[Come now, Bethany, how old was Carver the last time he messed with your hair? 8? 10? 17?]

I miss you too, sister.

Keep in touch, wherever you go. I don't want you slipping out of my fingers again.

[circler]

[Old enough! Next time she's freezing your toothbrush.]

You can't get rid of me that easily. Someone needs to keep you and Garrett from ripping each other apart.

[hawkejunior]

Good.

Though really, as if Garrett could rip me apart? He couldn't figure out how to get my armor out of the way if I asked him to.

[circler]

[She giggles at that delightful mental image.]

He may try to joke his way into it- or get the dog to do it for him.

[hawkejunior]

The dog would do a better job at it, wouldn't he?

[circler]

Yes, but don't tell either of them that. We don't need Garrett trying to prove us wrong - that might get awkward.

[hawkejunior]

If he tries, I'll give him another black eye like I did when I was 13.

[circler]

You have the oddest way of showing you care.

[hawkejunior]

Well, I don't want him trying to take my armor off, now, do I? You know he'd try. In public. For a laugh.

[circler]

He only does it because you make it so easy for him to pick on you.

[hawkejunior]

He doesn't pick on you!

[circler]

I'm charming, so I hear.