considering an app at adstringendum: spoilers for season 2 in comments

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Wait until after your papers on in, you fool, polished though the application may be. You won't have the will power to hold off on entering me.

You'll regret it. Trust me, my judgement is better than yours.

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hi 8)

[deduce]

Some might actually believe that- oh, you're certainly professional, but whenever that tell-tell trolley wheel starts to squeak signalling the sound of biscuits and cakes... Well, I have it on good authority that your restraint isn't nearly quite so dazzling.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Says the family addict.

[deduce]

I've always admitted what I'm addicted to.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Oh, are we on the topic of honesty now? Forgive me, I thought it was still restraint- you lash out so quickly and with such arbitrary vigor I have difficulty keeping it straight.

[deduce]

And John had so hoped for a family reunion. I suppose it's just not on the cards.

_{[ No, Sherlock isn't stupid enough to think for one second that Mycroft wasn't suspicious, that he didn't think about it. Really, that's all they do, isn't it? And Mycroft is smarter than he is - it would take a lot to admit it, but again, he knows, of course he does. ]}

Evening, Mycroft. I hope Mummy wasn't too upset.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I'd like very much to try getting along one day, but it hasn't quite been in the cards, has it?

[deduce]

Well, as charming as the idea is - _{[ and Sherlock seems to make a facial expression that deems the idea not at all charming. ]} - I'm afraid you've gone and put your foot in it a bit, haven't you?

[bigbrotheriswatching]

You started it.

Besides, we're in dear mun, it's not as though you'll remember if I tell you precisely how obnoxious you can be.

[deduce]

I usually do.

I suppose it's like every other meeting only with an alarming amount of meeta attached.

You're intelligent enough to know that I wouldn't be here if my mun didn't absolutely insist, so I'll get to the point. Assuming your mun is interested in multiple games, I'm here to point out amatomnes if it hasn't already been considered.

_{[ and that's all he really needs to say, because Atia is quite renown he knows. ]}

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Goodness me, Sherlock. Are you quite all right?

[Amazing, how protectiveness overcomes the goading for him so quickly.]

She's played at Amat before, I'm very familiar with it and all the... requirements entailed.

[deduce]

Yes, for the most part. I managed to get myself strangled at some point, but that's the aim of the game, as you're already aware. I was lucky to avoid a memory loss, but next time, I won't be that lucky.

Naturally, the threat of losing a memory has forced me to play by their rules.

<sub>[ Though perhaps Mycroft wasn't just talking about the state of his collar, because Sherlock needs certain things to survive or at least, to remain alive in ways that don't leave him seeking a needle and substance abuse.

And perhaps Mycroft's right to worry, because there are no cases to solve and no clever detectives needed. ]</sub>

But there's no smoking ban, so small victories exist.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

My God.

[It's frustrating, not to barrel in there and be able to fix this.]

I suppose I can forgive you a cigarette or sixty, considering that place.

[deduce]

_{[ Well, you can barrel in, but - no, you won't be fixing things. SORRY BRO. ]}

John's there.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

And what, he's given up on his vaunted heterosexuality?

[deduce]

_{[ oh well now that's a discussion that's all the rage right now. ]}

You should ask him yourself when he decides to show up.

_{[ In other words, John's been avoiding him. ]}

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I expect him to look after you. If that means sucking it up and putting out then so be it.

[deduce]

He hasn't deserted me by any means.

_{[ just awkward. ]}

[bigbrotheriswatching]

[Sighing.]

I'd rather you weren't in that place, obviously.

[deduce]

You and I both. Perhaps it's the only thing we'll ever agree on.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

And now mine is considering it for me. Wonderful.

[deduce]

Well, my mun is happily saying 'just as planned'. Personally, I don't feel her joy.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Brat.

[deduce]

I learnt from the best.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Has the city changed much? Still the collar system?

[deduce]

Still the collar system. But it has changed. My mun played there a couple of years ago herself, but ended up dropping because my muse died out. Well, not me personally, but another version.

It's not hard to consider when you think of the game, given my... temperament, but she's managed to keep me going with relative ease.

From what I've discovered of their systems, though, there had been an image overhaul on the goddess and some of the island itself has taken a different shape. We're lead to believe that it was due to the gods fighting amongst themselves, but I'm not sure how much of that story I believe.

Oh, and as far as I'm aware, Atia herself has started spouting some new nonsense about the island being a place to learn new things, but I don't exactly find trustworthy so I was quick to dismiss the idea.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I doubt there's anything there I need to learn.

[Eyes rolling.]

I'll consider it.

[deduce]

My thoughts precisely, though it was confirmed when I discovered that our time on the glorious Island of Atia will be completely forgotten when we're returned to our normal time and place.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

How convenient for your nickname.

[deduce]

The nickname doesn't bother me.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I'm sure it mustn't at this point.

[deduce]

It never did.

alkdsfj sorry you can ignore this threadjack if you want

[stillhastrustissues]

[ ...what the hell. ]

Excuse me?

[bigbrotheriswatching]

You heard me very well, Watson.

[stillhastrustissues]

Yes, I was afraid you'd say that.

You're aware your brother is a grown man, completely capable of going out and landing himself a- a life-preserving shag. One who's actually attracted to him?

[bigbrotheriswatching]

You have met my brother? His is not a personality conducive to securing a shag.

[deduce]

I've managed, thank you.

[stillhastrustissues]

He certainly hasn't had any trouble so far. [ Had to get the shot in. But he does understand that this is a bit of a serious issue. Life or death and all. ]

Honestly? A conducive personality has nothing to do with getting by here, if you don't manage to scare someone off in five minutes. All you need is to have a spare hour or two and for your partner to find you reasonably attractive. It's not committing to a relationship, it's having sex with someone or winding up dead.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I hope it is as you say and he doesn't need your support in this manner. I've never considered you cowardly before, Doctor Watson, and should not like to start.

[stillhastrustissues]

[ The most disbelieving bit of a laugh here. ]

That's a good one, it really is. Using the word 'cowardly', talking like all this time I wouldn't have been able to do something necessary to save his life if things got that difficult for him- as a doctor, as his friend? You're a smart man. You know the answer already. Do you just need to- to hear me admit to it, for some reason?

[stillhastrustissues]

[ lolbetterjudgement hold up let him sass you. ]

Completely sure about that, are we?

[bigbrotheriswatching]

She's a twenty two year old with blue hair and a major in gender studies, of all the employable fields. Of course I'm sure.

[stillhastrustissues]

Could argue for pursuing what she's interested in and having a sense of individuality. But I'll be honest, debating basic humanity with you hasn't ever been on my to-do list.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

Someone is tetchy.

[stillhastrustissues]

It's one of my many skills. [ Life has a special way about it lately. But hey, sure, he can be polite if for no other reason than to be spiteful. Politely tetchy. Trademarked. ] How are you doing today, Mycroft?

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I'm less than thrilled.

[stillhastrustissues]

That's understandable. Afraid I can't say it gets much more tolerable with time.

[bigbrotheriswatching]

I'm generally not being recruited for sex games.

[stillhastrustissues]

...yeah, neither was I. I'm still not quite sure how it happened so quickly.

[deduce]

Feel free to blame my mun.