regarding mafia and potential games:

[skirtcladgunner]

...okay, maybe I'm not as annoyed with you anymore. Keeping me in those games has really paid off the past few days! So thanks for that. ♥ I just wish he wouldn't insist on pretending Jeb didn't exist. Or that Yuan hadn't died right after thanking me for his gift.

Also, are you seriously writing up information on me for potential RP applications? While I'm flattered that you finally want to work on sending me somewhere, you should work on things you've already planned. The Luceti application for who you've chosen to app there, for example. Just trying to keep you on the right track, mun! You and I both know your tendencies~

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[skirtcladgunner]

[Can't hate on Riddlerhugs, that's for sure!] I wouldn't say neglecting. It's not your fault~ [Giggle.] Well, first I made a bracelet for a certain cranky someone we both know and love. After a severe error in judgment on my part, I presented it to him!

He... [no joking here, but sincere happiness.] He thanked me, Riddler. He really thanked me.

But then he died, because there was a double claim on gallis and we had to test. Turns out we had a miller and a gallis, for once! What a mess.

[fortunefail]

[This entire comment is actually rubbing Yuan the wrong way, but he'll ignore all those ridiculous remarks about the bracelet in favor of that last bit.]

Tori, if I recall correctly I died because your Mafia partner took advantage of the anonymous votes to have me minority lynched. ["We had to test" is not what happened.]

[skirtcladgunner]

Is that what happened? [Actually looks surprised.] I remembered someone saying we should try to get one of you out of the way 'just in case.' And... it's not like Redglare really kept me in the loop or anything. She also told me to kill the "doctor," and... well. We both know how that ended.

Besides, it still pissed me off. I wanted to say 'you're welcome,' but you died too quickly. I wanted to keep my promise to Jade and Nephry, but Redglare insisted on targeting Jade.

If my mun isn't pulling my leg about the "game that never happened," that one would have been a lot better where it came to mafia partnership. ...but things could have been worse, too.

[fortunefail]

I did warn you beforehand that it would happen. It's why I told you to get it over with while you still could.

As for the "game that never happened", it doesn't matter who your partner is. Cooperating with someone you're closer to doesn't make the ordeal any easier. [In fact, it just makes you feel worse if you end up having to throw them under the bus to save your own hide. ... Oh wait did Yuan just imply he's close to Tori? Nope, that was clearly hypothetical.]

[skirtcladgunner]

And if I remember correctly, I told you it could wait until another game. [So there.]

Hey, sometimes it does. Even if shit ends horribly, at least there's that comfort that someone you care about was there with you at all. [Yeah, hypothetical. Just like how Tori finding a loophole in Yuan's logic was a fluke, right? Who are you trying to kid, Yuan?] And while I don't have an issue with Redglare, what if someone I couldn't cooperate with had been in that game and been my partner?

[Things to consider.]

[fortunefail]

[Oh please, when is there ever a guarantee people will come back in the next game?]

If that were the case, it certainly would've ended a lot faster. ... I won't wish the role of Mafia upon myself, so why would I wish it on someone I care about?

1/2

[skirtcladgunner]

[Well, considering the powers that be seem to hate love them so much...]

I wasn't wishing that so much as--

2/2

[skirtcladgunner]

[Wait a second.

Don't mind Tori staring at you in disbelief, Yuan. If you want to keep up that nice act of not caring, you may want to backpedal quickly.]

[fortunefail]

[Backpedaling only makes things more suspicious. He's just going to play dumb and if Tori dares to comment on it, he'll insist it's hypothetical. Because it was.]

...

[skirtcladgunner]

[Was it, Yuan? Was it really?]

...what did you just say? [Let's just approach this from a different angle.]

[fortunefail]

[Yes, it was really.]

You don't agree?

[skirtcladgunner]

[And you're not just tsuntsuning, right Yuan? Because that's a bad habit of yours.]

That's not what I was asking, Yuan...!

[fortunefail]

Then, what were you asking?

[He's daring Tori to repeat how she interpreted his words.]

[skirtcladgunner]

Shouldn't that be obvious? I asked what you said, Yuan.

[She's not going to fall into that trap so easily, not when she knows how he typically responds to things like that.]

[fortunefail]

That it's foolish to wish the role of Mafia on someone you care about.

[skirtcladgunner]

It wasn't wishing. [...she's repeating herself.] I just said it can make things easier sometimes.

[fortunefail]

It doesn't. [Not for Yuan, anyway. He can't even imagine what it'd be like if Martel ever showed up in those games again and he had to be Mafia with her. Or trying to be Mafia with Kratos, eesh.]

[skirtcladgunner]

Maybe not for you, but sometimes it does for me. [Sighs.] I'd rather be thrown under the bus by someone I care about than kill them because they're on the other side. Both options suck, of course, but... heh. It would be great if we could all be villagers, but even that has down points.

[fortunefail]

Hmm...

[Right, well, he'll be giving this thread back to the Riddler now. He's already wasted more time here than he intended.

Mun, one to beam up.]

[skirtcladgunner]

[Wow Yuan, rude. Did you actually expect her to play into what you wanted her to do?]

[batmobilethief]

[Riddler laughs at them both, and grins at Yuan in particular, walking over to him and taking his hand.]

So, it seems you're started something of a bracelet collection...

[skirtcladgunner]

[THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR SCOLDING ME, MAMA YUAN. Daddy Riddler teasing you! ♥]

[fortunefail]

[He just yanks his hand out of the Riddler's reach again. And he's certainly not wearing any of those bracelets in question underneath the vast amounts of glove and wristguard, so there is no point in checking.]

Only because people keep presenting them to me.

[batmobilethief]

[Rude!

... but he lets Yuan, and raises an eyebrow, gently.]

Yuan...

Are you wearing them?

[fortunefail]

Of course not.

[Though it's probably easy to tell from his face that that's a lie.]

[batmobilethief]

[... yeah, uh.

Riddler can tell.

... He's also just. Gonna pull you over here by the cape. And kiss you.]

I'm glad you are, my thorny rose.

[fortunefail]

[Arrrgh, Yuan hates it when the Riddler does that in public and he'll be sure to push the man off again as soon as possible. You do not do this where anyone can see, Edward. You do not.]

I told you, I'm not! And don't touch me!

[skirtcladgunner]

Even if he was, do you think he'd say so?