canon is Zero Escape series; likely spoilers for Virtue's Last Reward in comments

[fourleaf]

Don't even think about it!

I see you looking at your old application and your notes, and it's not gonna happen! No way are you kidnapping me to some other game. Don't you think I've gone through enough already? It's not fair! None of it is any fair!

Besides, you know what'll happen if you try taking me outta that game, don't you...? Do you really want to do something like that...?

So... just forget about it, okay?

Comments

[stealer_ofsouls]

You know what's going to happen in response to your protesting, right?

[fourleaf]

Realize what a huge mistake she's making and call the whole thing off?

[stealer_ofsouls]

More likely just the opposite.

[notevenjupiter]

Gosh. You almost make it sound like fairness was ever on the table.

[formulating]

Clover, I'm not entirely sure if fighting your mundane will work, however I'm sure with persistence you will succeed.

[Alice will... cheer her on as best as she can.]

[fourleaf]

That's really stupid!

[fourleaf]

I've already had to go through this mess! Why should I be the one stuck going through it all over again?

Unless... Are you getting kidnapped to one of these dumb games, too?

i'm sorry bb i had to

[stealer_ofsouls]

You do know who you're talking about, right?

[fourleaf]

[Oh gosh it's Alice
GOTTA ACT COOL]

Of course it will! She's a total pushover.

sobs quietly

[fourleaf]

... Some doofus that can't pull off pigtails or earmuffs as well as me?

[formulating]

That's the spirit.

[Defeat the enemy, even in the face of danger. Never showing a single hint of weakness. After all, mundanes are their enemies, forcing them into the unthinkable.

Not that Alice is kind of scared herself, but it's Clover. She's got to be a good role model for her.]

[stealer_ofsouls]

Well yes. But I was referring more to the personality behind the pigtails-and-earmuffs.

[fourleaf]

Wait, what about you? You're not being abducted somewhere, are you?!

[Even with victory in hand, how could Clover be happy if her totally awesome mentor is in trouble??]

[fourleaf]

... Really, really lazy?

[stealer_ofsouls]

And stubborn.

[fourleaf]

I don't think she's stubborn enough to tackle this timeline.

[notevenjupiter]

Well, I guess it couldn't hurt to tell you here, so yeah. But you'd find that out soon enough.

[formulating]

She's thinking about it, however I'm taking things in stride. We'll see what happens when we get there.

[AKA, she's hoping her mundane loses interest...]

[stealer_ofsouls]

Until she makes an Excel chart of it, you know.

[fourleaf]

[sour:] Maybe we should stick them in these bracelets and see how they like it.

[fourleaf]

Huh? What's that supposed to mean?

[formulating]

You mean to make them feel the pain we went through in hopes they'll leave us alone. [She chuckles.] Not a bad idea.

[fourleaf]

Whose side are you on, anyway?

[fourleaf]

Think about it! If she decided to drag me to one of those games from that game, I'd be... y'know...

[stealer_ofsouls]

I'm just stating fact.

[notevenjupiter]

Unless we're not talking about the same "game," exactly what it sounds like.

[fourleaf]

You sound like you're encouraging her!

[fourleaf]

Well duh! I already know you were in a Nonary Game, too. I meant, are you getting thrown into one of those "RP" games?

They're all horrible.

[stealer_ofsouls]

I'm certainly not. Because that would mean turnabout, and mine does not need encouragement.

[notevenjupiter]

Ah, that. Can't be too sure on the whens of things anymore.

Lucky me. Mun's feeling unsure of me after that ending.

[fourleaf]

Hey, she might lay off me if we make this about you instead...

[fourleaf]

You get used to it after a while... I guess you kinda lucked out, being the mysterious one.

[stealer_ofsouls]

Nonsense. Every girl likes to talk about herself.

[fourleaf]

Not when they're up against someone as suspicious as you.

[stealer_ofsouls]

How am I possibly suspicious?

[formulating]

Relax, Clover. They're not all like the Nonary Game, though I hardly wish to be in any of them since they're not much better than being forced into a game based on the prisoners dilemma.