new muse; voice-testing. possibly sending her somewhere, though heaven knows where.

[brigading]

You.

( Haruhi glares directly at her mundane, giving the evil eye. )

You haven't been focusing on me lately at all, have you? To you, it's all "but I have homework to do" or "I haven't roleplayed in ages"! ( There's a sigh before she continues. ) Excuses, excuses.

Sure, you haven't played in a while, but that means nothing! You made my account, right? And you even said it yourself: "I want to play Haruhi this time." After all, you didn't do all that well with your other stupid muses. Besides, I'm more important than all of those people combined, right?

So just find me a place to go to and get a move on already!

( And she ends her rant with a huff. )

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[observesthings]

It is. [ Especially since Deus' entire motivation for choosing his successor this way and causing several people to die, or worse, can be summed up to 'I did it for the lulz.' ] I didn't have much of a choice, though.

[brigading]

Makes sense, I guess.

[observesthings]

[ ... That's it? Wow, he's used to navigating a minefield of a conversation - Yuno's gone off on homicidal rampages over less - but that was kind of easy. ]

S-So... yeah. What I'm worried about is Yuno thinking something similar exists in other worlds.

[ A half-truth. That would suck, but that's not his biggest concern. ]

[brigading]

Well, it doesn't exist here, as far as I know.

[observesthings]

I know that. [ His Diary said so. ] It's not me that I'm worried about.

[brigading]

Who are you worried about?

( No, wait. Don't let her answer that. She has an idea. And she's actually smirking at it. )

Your girlfriend?

[observesthings]

... Yeah.

[ Just not for the reason you're probably thinking, Haruhi. ]

[brigading]

You're not afraid that she's going to go full-out yandere on us, are you?

( She's not stupid. She knows them tropes. )

[1/2]

[observesthings]

[ Well, shit. ]

[observesthings]

W-Well--

[ Swallowing the lump in his throat. ]

Not on us?

[brigading]

Oh, so on me, then. Don't worry, don't worry. I think love is a mental illness. I'd never fall for that sort of death trap.

[observesthings]

[ No need to pull punches or anything, Haruhi. Even if she did just hit the nail on the head. ]

From experience, it's not that easy.

[ He's under no delusion that Yuno isn't crazy, he's more than aware of what she's capable of at this point. Nobody ever said love had to make sense. ]

[brigading]

Well, maybe not. I doubted that from the star.

( Haruhi just shrugs, not really giving a damn. )

[observesthings]

T-Then why'd you say that!?

[ He'd seriously have a field-day talking with Kyon about their incredibly messed up experiences with girls. ]

*start

[brigading]

Because I could, obviously.

/pats [1/2]

[observesthings]

[observesthings]

[ Why is Yuno worried about her again? ]

Isn't that called 'lying?'

[brigading]

Not really.

[observesthings]

[ Cue awkward silence. Does... does he even want to ask...? ]

What exactly is it you were looking for in other worlds?

[brigading]

Aliens, time travelers, and espers, of course!

[observesthings]

[ Aliens... well, according to Murumuru, they existed, he just didn't care about them. Time travelers... she kind of just met two, and it was shocking that Yuno was behaving herself this well. Espers? He's never seen one of those himself. ]

Umm... have you ever heard of the saying, 'be careful what you wish for?'

[ Quite honestly, if he never has anything to do with time travel again, he'll be quite happy. ]

[brigading]

Of course I have.

[observesthings]

I probably shouldn't be telling you this but... [ One quick glance down at his phone... ] ... sometimes time travel has really, really bad consequences.

[ Or in the case of the Third World, good consequences. Time Paradoxes don't necessarily have to be a bad thing, but it's extremely risky. ]

[brigading]

You think I don't already know that?

If there's one thing I learned from this thread, it's that these two casts were made for CR.

[observesthings]

[ The obligatory 'clearly not as well as some others' goes unsaid. ]

Some people have had bad experiences with it.

[ Your time-traveling friend: Not that bad.

His time-traveling friend: Intentionally creates time-paradoxes, murders that timeline's version of herself (along with virtually anyone else who so much as looks in his general direction), eventually tries to isolate him from everyone else while participating in the Survival Game, try to kill him when he refuses to win, and then tries to create an even more screwed up version of Endless Eight. ]

I'm just saying, it's probably something best left alone, you know? Though... I guess I'd be interested in meeting an esper, too.

[ Unless Murumuru counts as one? She's more of a vassal god, though. At least, that's what he thought. ]