Voicetesting....new muse and doing them justice is tough.

[cantdealwithit]

Mister Mun? Aren't we...isn't this a little early to be thinking about this? I don't know how to deal with that game, and maybe I could just have some time to think.

[How much time?]

Well, I...I don't know, enough time, I think would be good.

[How about we try for a month]

But if a month is over and I'm not ready, is it ok if I say pass?

[We were through this already, Crona. If I give you the option to pass, that's all you'll say. Wasn't that what happened last time?]

Pass.

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[memory_of_fire]

[Okay she has a soft spot for kids.]

Hey Sugar-pop. You'll be fine. Your mun won't let you get seriously hurt.

[She'll just be hugging Crona and shooting his mun a glare.]

Right mun?

[cantdealwithit]

Ah! I- Wha? [Crona goes entirely stiff, arms wriggling a bit in the hug. The kid is a twig, and their voice shifts to a well-worn plaintive note]

Stooop, I don't know how to deal with hugging.

And no he won't. [Crona gives her left shoulder a despondent look] I've seen the things that've happened to the other people there. It's not a place I know how to deal with at all.... I wouldn't be any fun there, honest...

[memory_of_fire]

You hug back of course. [She's actually smiling if a little sadly.]

[Leaning down she kisses his forehead.]

Come on that's no way to talk. I bet you're a lot stronger than that.

[cantdealwithit]

[Crona closes one eye, leaning away from the kiss, half embarrassed, half still mortified by this strange person]

No, I'm really not... If I was stronger, I wouldn't be so afraid all the time. I'd know how to interact with things, and I wouldn't have to worry...

[A higher pitched, louder voice pipes up, with a strange small face poking around the side of Crona's head]

But that's ok, because there's me! I look after Crona just fine, don't I?

have another voicetester? T.T;

[tanuki_totem]

"That approach isn't going to help. Muns never listen, you know. You should try to haggle, that way you at least get something out of it."

[cantdealwithit]

I'm no good at that, though...every time I try to make a deal with someone, I always end up doing what they want me to anyway...

[Crona scuffs one foot behind their back, looking down at the floor and avoiding the other's eyes.]

[tanuki_totem]

"So? Be tough! Take a stand! They aren't the boss of you.
Or, whatever, don't."

[Hmph, either way, not her problem. Have a dismissive wave.]

"Apparently money there is worthless, so hell if I know what to barter for."

[She grumbles. Money; her one fallback in life; the one source of stability she could rely on as a constant is going to be taken out of the picture and it. is. going. to. suck.]

[cantdealwithit]

I've never been any good at that... and I think they are, or they're supposed to be? Aren't they? [their voice gets a little more plaintive, and Crona shrinks away, trying to make their body smaller]

Money's not- I mean, unless you think it is, I don't think it's very... I don't like it.

[tanuki_totem]

"What?"

[Just this face. What are you even going on about?]

"How can you not like money?!"

[It's shiny and the sound it makes when it jungles in your wallet and ack- she's getting ahead of herself.]

"It's the one thing a person can rely on- even when the world turns it's back on you, money always follows the same rules."

[Funny you can like and hate something at the same time. Now it is Kim bundling up to look smaller.]

"It's dependable."

[cantdealwithit]

Anytime I get given it, someone convinces me to give it to them, then it's gone. Or it goes someplace else and I lose it, and Medusa gets even more mad at me. I just...don't know how to deal with money. [Crona shrugs sadly]

How is it dependable? I don't think it's very dependable at all....

[tanuki_totem]

"Oh."

[As the person who is sometimes responsible for swindling money from such people- uh, Kim is going to wisely not comment.]

“Money doesn't discriminate between it's handlers. A ¥100 is still a ¥100, whether in the hands of a witch or a human or anyone. It doesn't matter who's side your on, it's worth something, even when you aren't. Everyone has their price.”

[She gives a pitying look to Crona. She has heard of Medusa through the witch masses.]

“But maybe yours isn't measured in wealth.”

[cantdealwithit]

That'd be good, I think. I wouldn't like to be measured in something like that.

So...so, in inches then? What? [Crona looks up at her, mildly curious]

[grigorichord]

[NO.]

C-Crona...[So many mixed feelings.]

[cantdealwithit]

[Crona actually perks up a bit when they see Maka, something approaching a smile on their face]

Maka...

[And then Crona remembers why they'd run in the first place. What they'd left behind them back home, and the smile dies in its infancy]

He's going to send me away.

[grigorichord]

[That half smile tells Maka enough to know that they aren't from the same time. Maybe Maka hasn't failed this Crona yet.]

Who's going to send you where? Away to the Facility?

[cantdealwithit]

My mun... He wants to send me to the facility now, but I don't want to go.

[Crona sits down on the ground, wrapping their arms around their knees]

It's too much at once. I know I won't like it. I don't know how to deal with space stations...

[grigorichord]

[There aren't words to describe how much Maka does NOT want Crona to be sent there, but if she says that, it'll only make Crona more nervous.]

If you do end up there, I won't let anything happen to you. I'll be there and I'll look after you, okay?

[cantdealwithit]

Ok.... [Another smile, quickly cut off by a guilty look. She was Crona's friend, even in a place like that, and they'd already betrayed her...]

That doesn't make me want to go, though. I've seen what the others have been through there... The tall man and the little one I don't know how to deal with, they get hurt all the time.

If I get sent there, it'll all be my fault.