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[redcladidealist]

[A letter. That's what Lloyd had come home to. A letter. A letter and a suddenly empty apartment, all of Zelos's things just... gone. Lloyd stands there, still numbly holding the letter. Things had been strained between them ever since he'd found out. Found out that Zelos was dead. And how. Why. But he hadn't seen this coming.

Moved out.

Gone.

His thoughts feel broken and stilted. Zelos was gone.

Squeezing his eyes shut, the teen drops heavily into a chair.]

Dammit...

[For a long time all he does is just sit there, too many emotions lodged in his throat and his head to manage anything else. Finally, he pulls his Dreamberry out. He probably looks as bad as he feels - guilty, miserable. Angry. - but he honestly doesn't care. He needs to say something, even if it's stupid and childish.]

Somebody hit Zelos when you see him.

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[video] Beauty, and it's exactly what I got <3

[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

Oh.

That's decidedly less interestin'. Just the way you were mopin' made this seem like somethin' a importance, I mean, why the fuck do you want someone to hit this Zel person?

[What if Eridan was nosy Lloyd? What if he was trying to get some information about your relationships out of you. What if that was a thing?]

[Well it is.]

[video] Happy to deliver~

[redcladidealist]

[And Lloyd falls for it, hook, line, and sinker. Does Eridan even realize how good he is at pushing Lloyd's buttons?]

He's my best friend here, you jerk! He is important to me! That's why someone needs to hit him, because he's being an idiot! Maybe it'll knock some sense into him!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

Well, if he's bein' such a fuckin' moron, then why don't YOU do it? I mean, if he's so goddamn important and all. What happened, anyways? You two break up?

[ERIDAN IS THE BEST AT THIS. Listening, he doesn't do it.]

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[redcladidealist]

I already did hit him. He left anyway! But it wasn't a breakup, dammit! WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT! He's my friend, he's just avoiding me because I don't want to kill him in the future!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[Eridan was still smirking, opening his mouth to say something douchey and the like--but then that last part makes him close his mouth for a second.]

[And he just stares.]

If he's your friend why would you kill him in the future?

[This suddenly is a lot more interesting than just trolling Lloyd. Mainly, because the subject is pretty familiar to him.]

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[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd's mouth drops open for a moment - not to say anything, but because he hadn't meant to mention that to this guy. He glares at Eridan, as though it's entirely his fault, then looks away.]

I'm not going to kill him. I don't care if he- I don't care what he did.

[Trying to play dumb. Is it working?]

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

So... What'd be do, I mean, it'd hawe to be pretty bad if somehow it'd lead to you thinkin' about killin' him.

[NOPE.]

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[redcladidealist]

[Glare. TAKE A HINT.]

That's none of your business.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[NOPE.]

It could be though, so just spill it. I mean, you'we done QUITE the fuckin' job hidin' this shit so far, may as well come out with it.

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[redcladidealist]

[ALkjsalfs. YOU ARE SUCH A PAIN IN HIS NECK.]

What do you even care anyway?! You don't even know who Zelos is!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious is all. I mean, I may as well start on gettin' to know you and who you associate yourself with better.

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[redcladidealist]

[What? That was the last response Lloyd could have expected. He stares at Eridan, no idea what to even make that. Guarded and uncertain. And a little suspicious.]

Why?

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

I beliewe I was the one askin' the questions, answer mine and MIGHT be magnanimous enough to answer yours!

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[redcladidealist]

[Aaaand we're back to glaring again. If Lloyd was thinking about it, he might suspect that Eridan is getting a kick out of jerking him around like this - but he's not thinking.

He's reacting.]

Who says you're the only one who gets to ask questions?

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

Me. [Obviously duh Lloyd!]

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[redcladidealist]

What, are you the mayor or something?

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

Pfft! I'm better than some shitty mayor--whatewer that is, I'm fuckin' royalty.

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[redcladidealist]

What? No way! Who'd want you as a king?

[LLOYD PAYS ATTENTION IN SCHOOL! HE KNOWS HOW KINGS ARE ELECTED!]

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

I'm not a king, I'm a prince. And, who the fuck says it matters if they WANT me to be king or not? Or, more accurately, Emperor. It isn't like it really fuckin' matters what other trolls want, seriously. Though, Fef is the Empress to be, not me.

[His blood level he'd probably be like her general or some high up there military officer.]

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[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd is trying to wrap his mind around all that politics and hierarchy and social status and...

Yeah, it doesn't click. But he got the important parts.]

Of course it matters what other people want. You can't be a leader if people don't want to follow you.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

You're actin' like they hawe a choice! They don't. They follow you because they don't want to get CULLED, idiot. What sorta fucked up world do you come from where YOUR peons make decisions, fuckin' weird. Royalty sets the order, and we keep the order, any low bloods audacious enough to try and stand against us gets culled, simple as fuckin' that.

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[redcladidealist]

Everyone has the right to choose how they want to live. I'm not royal. I don't even belong to any village. [He'd gone to school in Iselia and had had friends there, but he wasn't really a part of the village, and now that they'd kicked him out, he was even less a part.] My Dad's a dwarf and I don't know who my parents were, but none of that means I can't make decisions for myself! Besides, just because you make the rules doesn't mean you can't be wrong!

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[He's just staring at Lloyd. Mainly, because what the fuck is a dwarf? And a dad? Oh, wait those weird human familial things?]

A course you can make decisions for yourself, they just might get you killed is all. Also, I'm a highblood, a sea troll, I'm royalty, how COULD I wrong? It's within' my hatch-right to correct the lowly. To cull those who stand against me. Those below you are meant to serwe and that's it. Their life is there to be a use to those higher--that is their purpose.

But anyway, what the fuck is a dwarf?

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[redcladidealist]

[There are so many things wrong with what Eridan just said, Lloyd doesn't even know where to start.]

People are people, no matter who or what they are, and everyone makes mistakes. Even you! And if someone in charge is screwing things up, then the people below him should tell him so he can fix it! That's how people work together.

A dwarf is another race, like a troll or a human or an elf. Most of them live underground, so people don't see them very much.

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[forevveraglub.livejournal.com]

[No, Eridan is pretty sure everything he had said was right.]

The only way they'd be screwin' up is if they weren't keepin' their underlings in check. If the idiot isn't doin' it right, the crown will be confiscated and someone else will rise to power. Just how the world works. God, hawe you newer read anythin' about history before? [Eridan is a huge history nerd, man. He knows all the troll wars backwards and forwards, and dates and who fought who and what scars on history was left from when and who and what.]

The only workin' together we do is for galactic domination.

Oh, huh. Elf? I take it your world has a lot a wariation in races? So Dwarfs liwe underground, humans liwe on the ground, what about these elf things? Are they aquatic?