Pondering who might play a lady!Javert...

[order_and_light]

I doubt this Rule 63 is anywhere in the books of law, mademoiselle. I have no interest in what foolish woman might occupy my place in some other universe. I have my duties here and now, and I will attend to those until my death. Leave me. Take your speculations elsewhere.

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Yep. Packed theatre, and not a dry eye in the place, I don't think.

[order_and_light]

[Tsk, no. From looking at her, he doubts the Courier has the appropriate Lawabiding French Citizen credentials. No trust here.]

[Give him a second to decide how to react to that. The world ended. In his early 19th-century experience, the world is a limited prospect, free of WMDs and the constant awareness of globalization. It ends only when God says it does.]

Explain that.

[Please don't tell him he missed Judgment Day somehow.]

((OOC: A+. Time for massive cultural confusion and disillusionment.))

God, wasn't it just fantastic?

[justnumbers]

[All the frowny face. Everyone has that reaction.]

The world went to war, sir. With weapons that destroyed civilization. Humanity managed to survive, but it hasn't been an easy existence. We do our best to do what is right.

[Well, except for the raiders. And Caesar's Legion. Seriously, fuck those guys.]

Pretty much!

[order_and_light]

What weapons?

[And then he stops and makes a visible effort to redirect his focus. Wherever the Courier comes from, it isn't, by the rules of this place, his universe. So whatever heresies it gets up to have no impact on him.]

How fares France?

[Alright, so sue him, France is important.]

[justnumbers]

Nuclear weapons. [Oh, shit, wait, this guy probably doesn't know about radiation yet.] They're basically very large explosives that poison the ground for centuries.

[And now she just looks a little bashful.] I... I don't know. I'm American, sir.

[order_and_light]

[Not only has he not heard of radiation, but his definition of 'very large explosive' would be something that on a good day might blow up a handful of buildings at once.]

Ah.

[Americans. Americans are not particularly useful. You help them out in a war, then they start having misgivings when you ask them for any return on the favor.]

Then I expect France fares well enough. [Probably 'the world' just means the East Coast of North America. He wouldn't expect the ex-colonists to see much beyond their own problems, anyway.] I will ask no further.