reunited and it feels so gross.

[sadistic]

If you want me back, we have to thread something with torture in it. That's just the way the chocolate frog melts.

Either find someone who'd like that—someone who deserves it—or you can stand aside and leave everything to me.

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[savedbypudding]

In the history of metaphors everywhere. That's possibly the worst one ever used.

[ Oh my god Sirius. It's just a little torture.]

[sadistic]

[it's only the littlest, eensiest weensiest bit of torture. hardly any. almost no one will be permanently incapacitated and institutionalized. and what harm is that, really? don't trouble yourself, blood-traitor. she's pointedly ignoring sirius, anyway. actually, she's making a show of pretending she doesn't know where that annoying voice-like sound is coming from.]

What is that? Who let it in?

[pacifrisk]

...

[Bellatrix now has a small child staring at her. Well. Presumably staring, at least.]

[sadistic]

[she's never been one to flinch from (presumable) attention. her eventual response is a little sharp and oddly pitched.]

You do know I haven't any actual chocolate, don't you?

[pacifrisk]

[Frisk just keeps looking at her. Pats their chest with one hand -- 'I'.]

Know that.

Who are you?

[sadistic]

[there's some sudden hostility in her narrowed eyes and thin-lipped expression.]

Unaccustomed to answering impertinent questions.

[and her own hand gesture is dismissive: not of her own identity, but of frisk's.]

If you were worth knowing, you wouldn't have to ask.

[disorder_heaven]

Dude, your username is exactly what is says on the tin, isn't it?

[pacifrisk]

I'm not from here. But...it's good to know everyone.

[sadistic]

That? No. That's childishly simple. Much as I like to cause pain, it's only a means to an end. I serve a higher cause. My greatest pleasure is success in the tasks I am given.

[sadistic]

Is it? Is it "good to know everyone"?

[shrill, mocking sort of parroting.]

Are you magical? Do you come from a magical not-here place?

[disorder_heaven]

Right, right, so you're not the kinda person who's a bit disappointed when a torture victim finally gives out the info, eh?

[sadistic]

Did I go that far? Was that exactly, word for word, what I said?

I'll allow that it is a disappointment, but one mustn't mope. One must remain optimistic. The next might prove more resilient than the last.

[disorder_heaven]

No, because if I repeated what you'd said word for word then it wouldn't be a blessed conversation, would it?

And yeah, yeah, you sound like a real angel.

[pacifrisk]

It is.

[Frisk knows that look. That's the look Chara always has -- or had -- and it scares them, maybe, a little. That's the look of someone who does what they want.

The world can't stop those people.]

I don't think I'm magical. I'm just Frisk.

[sadistic]

A real witch.

Words, words, words. You and I, back and forth. That's conversation enough. Then again, I'm given to understand that my conversational skills have suffered somewhat. Should I defer to your judgment? Should I know who you are before I do a thing like that?

[sadistic]

A Muggle, then.

[clearly not a positive assessment, judging from her tone. and "that look" is only getting more severe.]

Frisk what? Frisk who?

[disorder_heaven]

Same diff.

And judgement? I don't have that power anymore. I'm Urushihara. And you're...?

[sadistic]

How is that possible? Relinquishing the power to judge? I judge constantly. I judge you even now... You mean it more literally, perhaps.

Lestrange is my married name.

[disorder_heaven]

I mean it more literally, yeah. Judging used to kinda be my job. I still judge people, but mostly while pointing and laughing from a good distance away.

[sadistic]

... A safe distance, would you say?

[savedbypudding]

[ Almost no one permanently incapacitated and institutionalized. Why you gotta throw shade like that and bring up old scars? Hey, you can't ignore him. She might be TRYING but he's not buying it for a moment.]

I'm actually shocked I'm not as crazy as you. Then again, never was.

[sadistic]

[oh well, it's a pretense she's very quick to drop.]

Ah. The word you haven't bothered searching for is "loyal". You're not as loyal as I am, to put it plainly. Not now, and indeed, never.

[savedbypudding]

I was loyal when the cause was worth a damn.

[ Sure, not to "the family" but his own self made one. He'd die for them.]

[sadistic]

[nonetheless, she thinks he's fickle. forging loyalties of convenience. his friends don't count, shouldn't count. they only ever seemed to make it easy for him. it's beside the point: battle lines are drawn and she feels more contempt toward him than betrayal.]

I don't doubt that that makes sense. To you.

[disorder_heaven]

Safe enough, generally.