catchall claude

[skyagain]

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week 0, monday

[skyagain]

[ cloud is out there with his stupid outfit and his giant sword about to open door #9 of this hotel as per rng.

claude is also conveniently in the hallway, so he stops with his hand on the handle ]

Looks like you didn't get sick after all.

[ he does not know why he says this. it will only be misconstrued as concern again. ]

[shaft]

[ It is immediately misconstrued as concern. ]

I hope you didn't stay awake at night worrying about it.

[ Also, I'm going to rng against and transform door #9 into door #17 because I can't rp boardgames. ]

[skyagain]

[ you are a coward and we could've played uno ]

I wasn't worried.

[ HE IS GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR ANGRILY TO TRY AND GET AWAY FROM CLAUDE ]

[shaft]

[ I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PLAY UNO

cloud's escape it pointless given that claude just follows him through. ]

I can see it in your eyes.

[skyagain]

Then you should get yours checked.

[ he looks at him with his pretty eyes! that glow a little! it's fine. it's normal.

they are now in a maze and that's not great. the door closes behind them. ]

...

Damn it.

[shaft]

[ They are pretty!! Unfortunately, Claude is more focused on the maze around them, expression grim. ]

Well, this seems fun.

[ Something... growls in the distance. ]

[skyagain]

[ cloud looks like he is in angry despair. this is a very real emotion. ]

Think that's our cue to get moving. [ growls are bad? he is just going to pick a direction at random and go? surely this is how mazes work ]

[shaft]

Are you armed?

[ He can be serious for a moment, looking around at the walls. ]

[skyagain]

[



gestures at the giant ass sword magneted to his back ]

Are you?

week 3, monday

[skyagain]

[ cloud walks into the room claude is in and immediately is showered by stardust. i would give you more of an intro but you said embarrassing and gay and i immediately had an answer in mind so i'm just leaving this here ]

[shaft]

[ help he was not expecting this

what does he even say ]

... You really "worked it", huh?

[skyagain]

Let's not talk about this. [ any of it. ever. forever. but he still feels the need to explain: ] There's a ... I wasn't doing it for fun. There was a reason for it.

[shaft]

[ cloud... they simply will talk about it ]

Which was?

[skyagain]

... A friend went undercover on her own to some asshole's mansion as a potential "bride" for him so she could find out some important intel. The asshole's more dangerous than she knew, though, so we... followed. But the only way inside was if you were an approved potential bride for him.

[ this doesn't sound less stupid when he says it out loud. ]

[shaft]

[ wait ]

So the dance was to... help you become an approved bride?

[skyagain]

... That's how Andrea wanted me to prove myself. [ he sounds SO tired ] It was also helping us get inside for purposes that were pretty obviously not what he's supposed to hand these out for, so. He wanted proof he'd get his endorsement's worth, I guess.

[ by dancing. ]

[shaft]

[ He nods slowly. ]

So you proved yourself... But not as a bride.

week 7, tuesday

[shaft]

[ hello! claude is waving. ]

Cloud. Things are looking pretty shadow-y around here.

[skyagain]

[ hello claude. it is still very weird to see you again as a ghost, but cloud raises a hand back ]

I'm guessing they're about to get even more covered soon enough. [ he tilts his head like a thought suddenly appeared to him ] Can you even eat right now?

[shaft]

I can't... robbed of one of life's few pleasures.

[ SIGHS ]

Are you about to offer me a snack?

[skyagain]

[ claude died so he's going to be nice and not say there's another dick lollipop out there ]

More like wondering what the scale of alive is for both of you.

[shaft]

Well, we're here mentally at least. Enough to... talk and think.

[skyagain]

Sort of like spirits. You can't... affect anything physical at all?

[shaft]

Only whatever came with me from the other side.

[ looks at him ]

Want to help me out?

[skyagain]

... Sure. With what?

[ he sounds a little wary because Claude is a troll ]