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kaiba is ridiculous, a post (dec. catchall)
who: Kaiba and you!
what: Brooding, searching, and making trouble around campus
where: All around campus and town!
when: any time!
It's been a whirlwind of a last few days for Kaiba. He's been even more emotionally distant than usual from the proceedings as of late, swooping around campus bundled in his winter cloak and pointedly striding to his next destination.
His first attempt at ignoring his problems is a midterm prep disaster. He's studying illusory magic by attempting to create a living chess game, and the pieces...aren't quite behaving. There's a miniature war all across the floor here---might want to step back or you might find a tiny knight ramming into your foot.
His next attempt consists of burrowing in the living library, surrounded by a stack of books a mile high. And they're getting higher, somehow...a stacking spell gone wrong. He fires up at the stack trying to contain it, but finds himself pushed back and over another pile. This...is a mess. Careful trying to enter or the tide of hardcovers might sweep you away!
Finally, realizing that his magical control isn't in top shape today, he retreats to a small hallway a short distance from Purifeul tower, tapping his pen against the pages of a journal. He'd almost welcome being thrown into someone else's chaos at this point.
what: Brooding, searching, and making trouble around campus
where: All around campus and town!
when: any time!
It's been a whirlwind of a last few days for Kaiba. He's been even more emotionally distant than usual from the proceedings as of late, swooping around campus bundled in his winter cloak and pointedly striding to his next destination.
His first attempt at ignoring his problems is a midterm prep disaster. He's studying illusory magic by attempting to create a living chess game, and the pieces...aren't quite behaving. There's a miniature war all across the floor here---might want to step back or you might find a tiny knight ramming into your foot.
His next attempt consists of burrowing in the living library, surrounded by a stack of books a mile high. And they're getting higher, somehow...a stacking spell gone wrong. He fires up at the stack trying to contain it, but finds himself pushed back and over another pile. This...is a mess. Careful trying to enter or the tide of hardcovers might sweep you away!
Finally, realizing that his magical control isn't in top shape today, he retreats to a small hallway a short distance from Purifeul tower, tapping his pen against the pages of a journal. He'd almost welcome being thrown into someone else's chaos at this point.
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[ He reaches up to squeeze the card-shaped locket that always sits around his neck. ]
My brother and I were orphaned when we were very young. Families visited the orphanage and wanted to adopt me, because I 'looked promising', but they wouldn't adopt us together. Finally, the CEO of a huge international weapons company came for a photo op, and all I saw was someone who could afford to take on both of us.
I could tell he wasn't sentimental, he was easily drawn into wagers, and he valued intellect over all. So I played a chess match with him, on the condition that he adopt us together if I won. I did, and he kept his word...but he was even less sentimental than I anticipated.
We were his pawns and nothing more. My upbringing was strict, but it shaped me into the cutthroat man I needed to be to overthrow him and carve out my own style of doing business. It also made me...a difficult person to get along with, for most people.
'Trust no one, not even your own family' was the first rule of business after all. And...I recently had an altercation that made me realize I might not want to be that way anymore.
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What kind of altercation...? You didn't have a fight with Yugi, did you?
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[ He looks almost offended by the idea. Whatever else is messed up about him, he'd never stoop to hurting Yugi after how far they've come. ]
I dueled someone else. She...showed me in vivid detail what my weaknesses are, and that the past isn't as far away as I like to claim. I've tried ignoring it. It got me this far. Ha.
[ It's a bitter bite of a laugh. ]
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Just making sure. It's not like I'd really put it past this place to mess with our heads to make us do something like that.
But I'm glad that's not it.
[ ... ]
I see. [ she looks aside. ] You never you can never really get away from your weaknesses... you can only do things to try to overcome them. [ she spreads her mechanical wings. ] You've tried and, perhaps, only thought you found the right solution. It's still out there though... You're strong, Kaiba, and you're too good to give up. The solution to the problem is out there and you've created a great network of people who I'm sure are interested in helping you find it.
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{ He shudders. Hurting Yugi would be...well, it would probably be the thing to really break him. But he listens. ]
...mmm. Leaning on friends. I never did it before, I used to call it...what was it? A real sign of failure?
[ He folded his hands together, taking in her wings with a solemn nod. Yeah, he remembered. ]
But that might have been because I didn't believe friendship could be genuine, without strings attached. But I think...mm. I hate to be wrong twice in one day, but.
[ He scoots a little closer to her and takes in some companionable silence, waiting a few moments before speaking again. ]
...if I'd pulverize the next person who starts something with you...I think that means friendship is real.