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Cornelius Hickey ([personal profile] friendsfordinner) wrote2021-07-10 09:20 am

ic contact for tlv

[ it literally is just the generic ic contact post, Hickey hasn't changed the outgoing message yet or anything. ]
lone_horse: (jacket: listening)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-03 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's clear he's considering how to approach that, but he's not dismissing it, not hardly. Instead, he's thinking it through. ]

What would you do there, with the god?

[ That's what he keeps getting caught on. ]
lone_horse: (shirt: concerned)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-03 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He has heard quite a few very weird dreams and ambitions in his time. This is... curiously, somewhere in the top middle. But he's a little confused, and that's clearly what it is. Not some passive aggressive attempt to stymie him or trip him up. He just doesn't get it.]

What would this beast give you that you want? What do you want its power for?
lone_horse: (jacket: relaxing with a beer)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-03 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He certainly understands wanting power. Every Omi scheme to take over Kamurocho, every patriarch who tried to murder his way to the top, even that corpulent police chief and that weird government agent (who he JUST realized he can probably understand now if he thinks back, wow, eh, who cares?) all of it for power...

But, uh-

This? ]


How would being the servant to a bear god make you more?

[ He'll get to what you deserve, Hickey, and what the 'universe' served up. Cause, uh, if you deserved it and it was given to you, what're you doing here? ]
lone_horse: (jacket: watching carefully)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-04 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ That isn't exactly what he's learned about gods; he hasn't learned much, to be fair, since he mostly just went to the occasional shrine, made his offerings, and that was that. Which is why he's not going to start a discussion on comparative theology.

And that word gives him the in.

"Follower". ]


Do you want to follow power? Or have it for your own?
lone_horse: (jacket: distressed)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-04 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ That wasn't actually where he was going. ]

And what do you truly want?
lone_horse: (jacket: listening to you)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-04 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Enough for what?

[ He gets that, though. He'd love to find that place himself. He also knows he never will, but it's a nice thought. ]
lone_horse: (shirt: fight me already)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-04 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods. And then he crosses his arms, and it's clear he's processing all that. When he's done, he nods again, mostly to himself, and looks to Hickey. ]

So you want to go to the frozen north to chase a bear god who killed you last time, after you cut out your tongue, because he may decide to accept you as his follower, and then you may be able to bide your time for more.

[ A pause. A finger raised. And then he's going to stand up. And walk over to his bedroom. There's some shuffling around before he returns with a silver briefcase. He puts it on the table between them and opens it, revealing row up on row of 10,000 yen bills. While the bills themselves are obviously nothing Hickey's ever seen, money looks like money. And this money very much looks like money. Finally, he says-]

I wasn't kidding. And that?

Is 'enough'.
Edited 2021-11-04 03:03 (UTC)
lone_horse: (jacket: frank)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-04 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You wouldn’t have to go to Japan. And I- [ only the briefest pause because everything’s changed now, there’s no sense in staying away from him, but he doesn’t feel great that he’d be coming to him that first time asking for help, though that’s his problem, not Hickey’s ] know someone who could explain the banks to you.

[ He looks over to Hickey. And the question he asks is more about what he’s been wondering than anything directly tied to the discussion. ]

So is it really about ‘enough’? Or is there another dream in your heart?
lone_horse: (tux: trying to be sweet)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ He looks very firmly at Hickey. At his eyes. And he asks, very deliberately. ]

What do you really want, Hickey-san?
lone_horse: (jacket: frank)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-06 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kiryu keeps his eyes firmly on Hickey... and he nods. ]

Then that's what we do. That's what we work on. Your dream is our goal.
lone_horse: (jacket: concerned)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-07 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kiryu shakes his head. Firmly. ]

You can do it. I know you can. But you won't if you don't know that.

[ He leans back and crosses his arms over his chest. ]

No excuses. No halfway measures.

Are we doing this or are you settling for less?
lone_horse: (Default)

[personal profile] lone_horse 2021-11-07 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll hold you to that.

[ Which is when he's going to hold up a finger and reach over to the liquor cabinet (or part of the entertainment center he uses that way) to get a bottle of sake and a pair of cups. He'll pour out for both of them and push one towards Hickey.

They're taking an oath. That means sealing this properly. ]

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