Voice Test - Three Musketeers (2011 adaptation)

[dirtyblade]

You think that you're clever, girl?

This is almost as senseless as apologizing to a horse.

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[dirtyblade]

[ Standing at attention. ]

Your Grace is correct. My standing remains the same with His Eminence. Should I find any need for more horses, I am sure he will provide.

[airshipswank]

[ Mmhhh, attention. So well-deserved and yet so dreadfully scarce in his new... residence. ]

And whichever one of them you wronged, I am sure the beast will find it in its heart to forgive you eventually.

[ Aha haha ha. Ha. Ahem. ]

Oh, but pray tell, what is it then that you seek, if not an addition to your stable? Or must I ask what it is... that your mundane seeks?

[dirtyblade]

[ Yes, Buckingham. Attention. This soldier has plenty, though his palate for humor is rather limited. ]

Company, I believe, Your Grace. She has the interest of finding familiar faces.

[ Unless a majority of the preferred were swinging from the gallows, he does not share the enthusiasm. ]

[airshipswank]

Indeed. They do seem awfully fond of choosing our company for us, not... always with our best interests at heart, I'm afraid to say.

[ A deep and enunciated sigh. ]

But perhaps my face would... suffice?

[ Not only is it familiar, it is also ridiculously smug smug smug handsome. ]

Or the sullen one of your old friend in the thread below mine?

[ Naturally, even in meta terms the fact that his mundane happened to comment on this entry just the slightest bit earlier is somehow clearly proof of his vast superiority... and uncanny handsomeness. ]

[dirtyblade]

[ Ah...and here he had been so looking forward to some disappointment for his own mun. It would have been perfectly enriching to the afternoon rounds-- things that truly needed to attention. ]

Both are familiar.

[ However, rudeness is costly with this particular party. ]

I believe the other prefers to wallow alone.

[airshipswank]

A preference you would indulge?

[ That seems like an awfully boring option. ]

[dirtyblade]

His brooding leads to civil disturbance more often than not.

[ Unfortunately, not something his men can ignore for long. Public intoxication, a skirmish here and there, not to mention the irksome habit of collecting runts and instilling them with false confidence... ]

He enjoys the attention almost as much as his flock.

[ Because, sure, he's talking to one perfectly absolved of such vanities. ]

[airshipswank]

[ Hey, it's not vanity if you just objectively happen to be the most handsome and magnificent man in the universe! ]

Ample cause for arrest then, or is it not?

[dirtyblade]

[ Well, there is the short matter of their particular aversion to arrest and the general incompetence in a few men that comes with holding Athos and his men captive. Really. He doesn't need the micromanaging. ]

He has the favor of the King as I'm sure your Grace is aware.

[airshipswank]

[ Details, details. Buckingham tuts and looks really rather sorry about the whole mess. ]

Yes. Shame about that.

[ Really now, what has the world come to when people can just get away with anything because their misdeeds have royal approval? What's next, bestowing title upon title on a country boy without a single drop of noble blood just because he has a pretty face?

...Oh. Wait. ]

[dirtyblade]

[ ...But we don't talk about them. Not with any kind of civilities anyway. Don't mind his momentary silence and any subtle shifts in his jaw. That's just some wounded pride. ]

You appear to have your own interest in them.

[ Not directly a question-- he knows better than to expect any sort of straight answer from this particular source. Three-and-a-half outlaws really couldn't be that big of a sensation. ]