Supreme hobo musician, at your service.

[jackofallcharades]

You do realize that the more time you spend in my company, the less you'll be able to catalog all my expressions? It's too bad the existing portraits don't do the full range justice, or so you say, but I think we can make do for now.

Don't you have better things to do than practice your coloring skills, after all? It's not like I'm going anywhere!

... Oh, come on, now you're just being contrary. I don't make enough dopey faces to tide you over the next week. I wouldn't mind a picture of Lacie, though. Why is that taking so long?

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[bloodiedchain]

... to be fair, Jack, you do make enough "derp" expressions to last our whole canon.

[Have a rabbit, Jack. WHAT DO.]

[jackofallcharades]

[Rabbits are always welcome, of course.]

You're exaggerating, you know! I'm not even around most of the time; you can't blame all of Oz's faces on me.

[bloodiedchain]

No, but I'm starting to see where Oz got it from.

[ Good, they better be. :T ]

[jackofallcharades]

I'd say it's still better than where you got your speech from, young lady.

[The smile behind that one is pure mischief.]

[laceratings]

Oh Jack, you speak as though you're a complicated man.

[jackofallcharades]

That wasn't me, you know, that was all mundane. [He takes it with good humor, though, at least.] I'm pretty sure I still have more expressions than you, too.

[laceratings]

I hadn't realized it was a competition. Still, I would beg to differ!

[ you have just as many fake smiles as he does you fraud!! ]

[jackofallcharades]

It's not, of course! It just means that being more complicated doesn't give you more expressions.

[Because Vincent has grown up rather tangled up, hasn't he? Jack, you are the worst parent. Also, he has extra dopey faces you don't, come back when you have more of those!!]

[laceratings]

[ yeah you were pretty much the worst. but hey, you taught him how to be a good liar if that helps. ]

Oh, I was only poking fun at you! You do present such a desirable target.

[ hey hey he's got ... a couple derpy faces okay .. ! ]

[jackofallcharades]

[Lying is an important skill!! And it's not like Alice or Gil were going to be good students.]

Haha... I have been told that once or twice.

[Still not enough, of course. You've got light-years to go, young Padawan.]

[laceratings]

[ yes, well. big brother has always been a little.. stupid.

and alice yeah well. brat. ]

I can't say I'm surprised to hear that.

[ HUSH YOU he just has no use for derpy faces okay, they're not his M.O. ]

[jackofallcharades]

[Maybe Alyss absorbed a little more. But Vincent was the star student!]

So cold, Vincent! And we haven't even had time for a proper talk in so long.

[Ergo, less variety in faces! Q.E.D.]

[laceratings]

[ but of course. he's a smart little shit. ]

Come now, Master Jack cannot take a joke? But I suppose you're right; it's been rather a long time, hasn't it?

[ untrue! he may have less dopey faces, but he makes up for it with a wide variety of subtly different creepy smiles and psychopathic grins! ]

[jackofallcharades]

Maybe I'm getting a little shaky in my old age. [He chuckles.] It's too bad we've been so busy -- I've seen much more of Gilbert than of you lately. Time does fly.

[Subtlety? Why use subtlety when you can stretch your face in a million stupid ways??]

[laceratings]

That's unsurprising, considering how much time big brother spends besides the young master Vessalius.

[ because, jack, that makes you look stupid. ]

[jackofallcharades]

And yet, you two used to be inseparable. [Among other things.] Growing pains?

[And people enjoy stupid, silly boy. Gil beats you in that area -- without trying, granted.]

[laceratings]

[ right in the gut. you're such a jerk, master jack. ]

Oh, big brother and I are very different people, that's all. But I still care for him deeply; that will never change.

[ okay yes well he will gladly accept defeat in this case. but really, anyone would lose to gil when it comes down to that. ]

[jackofallcharades]

You always were! [A quiet laugh. Sometimes tough love is necessary.] You don't need to tell me that, Vincent. I'm sure things will work themselves out one way or the other.

[One way or the other indeed. At least the brothers together make a formidable team (of some sort). Or just the worst facets of Jack Vessalius, which is... well.]

[laceratings]

Of course. Everything must come to an end, after all.

In this case, it seems sooner, rather than later.

[jackofallcharades]

[A tilt of the head, and then suddenly he's laughing again, pure amusement.]

Maybe that's the case, but while we're here, I think more might be expected of us. Though for the moment, all I'm doing is gathering dust and very strange visions.

[laceratings]

Gathering dust? Why, it sounds as if Master Jack is bored. I assure you, that there is no shortage of entertainment in a place like this. Perhaps you simply need to give your mundane a little.. encouragement.

[bloodiedchain]

Hey, hey! There's nothing wrong with my speech, Jack, and you know it.

[ALL OF THE TSUN good lord this rabbit.]

[jackofallcharades]

Well, it's nothing I'm not used to. [Sitting in someone's head, that is.] But I don't think I'm going to get a longer field trip for a while. She's just as bad about Sablier as the rest.

[jackofallcharades]

Ehh, but Alice still hasn't learned to speak like a lady. You can't even fake it!

[Teasing the tsun: a fine Vessalius tradition.]

[bloodiedchain]

E-excuse me? I can so speak like a lady if I wanted to!

[ Alice, are you sure about that... ]