[ reaching up and tapping his forehead with his free hand, but he grins back a bit, easy, and nods. ]
Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Grilling, boiling - can you chop? I could use a spare hand, if you've got one. [ and gestures over at some veggies and a knife! ] If you work, you eat.
Don't get too excited - you'll have to help with the dishes, too.
[ though it's hard to tell whether he's being a little bit shitty or he actually means that... bt for now, he gestures to the veggies and then resumes watching the meats. ]
You never know - could be a spoiled blueblood, for all I could tell.
[ strohl says, clearly recognising ace is literally anything but a spoiled blueblood - and grins a little, adjusting the pan. ]
It could use a bit of variety, but, if you know your way around a kitchen, it's not so bad. We'd nowhere to feed ourselves short of what was provided in the resort, and I'd nearly forgotten.
anyway. to ace's questions, he nods. ] 's right. I've heard we had it easy, supposedly - if you could call it that. It sounds proportionally that more died in the shorter time.
It was months ago, for me, anyhow - tried my best to wipe it from my memory, for the most part.
[ he is also clearly kidding. he nods along at that ]
Probably harder to lose more people that fast, but a lot of the worst part of this kind of thing is the waiting around with a predictable schedule. You know exactly what'll happen every week, but you can't do anything to stop it.
Of course it is. You don't grab a group of people and make them kill each other for good reasons. [ he shrugs a shoulder ] And there's nothing we can do about it right now even though we know exactly what's coming.
I can respect that - don't mind doing the same, myself.
[ (me pushing up my nerd glasses) brawler archetype is my favorite strohl archetype ]
It sounds like most of us are of the same mind, at least. The whole thing's a damned injustice, so we ought to find a way to take it down. [ a beat. ] Thrown fists with Vi, yet?
[ people are selfish, sometimes. not strohl, but. dang.
anyhow - the perking up makes him smile, too, brief because that's his blorbo!!! though it flickers away fast as he continues. ]
...Yeah. That was the plan, right up until it wasn't. Something went wrong, when we tried to leave together. [ mods voice: funny ] For as awful as this whole situation is, I'm thankful we've the chance to try again - hardly any time's passed for her, but it's been months, for me. All that stress.
Ridiculous, isn't it? That doesn't even cover the fact that apparently a couple friends of ours were in one of these things - despite the fact that they would've had to be dead to be in it, and we just were with them five minutes before we arrived here. All this time stuff gives me a headache, if I'm honest.
[ it gives a very satisfying sizzle. he makes a show of investigating his knife cuts at the details comment, but otherwise gives it a flip and then sets it back over the heat. ]
Duly noted. [ lol. ] Hope you can handle your spice.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
[ reaching up and tapping his forehead with his free hand, but he grins back a bit, easy, and nods. ]
Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Grilling, boiling - can you chop? I could use a spare hand, if you've got one. [ and gestures over at some veggies and a knife! ] If you work, you eat.
no subject
[ is it. anyway he's immediately walking into the kitchen towards the veggies ]
Yeah, I can chop. If that's all it takes to get a taste, count me in! [ he is a very deft hand with a knife so. he does not hesitate to get to that ]
no subject
[ though it's hard to tell whether he's being a little bit shitty or he actually means that... bt for now, he gestures to the veggies and then resumes watching the meats. ]
At least there's a kitchen.
no subject
[ he's like yea that's fine and normal. you have to earn the right to eat at all times dishes is a small price to pay ]
Right? The restaurant's a pretty nice place.
no subject
[ strohl says, clearly recognising ace is literally anything but a spoiled blueblood - and grins a little, adjusting the pan. ]
It could use a bit of variety, but, if you know your way around a kitchen, it's not so bad. We'd nowhere to feed ourselves short of what was provided in the resort, and I'd nearly forgotten.
no subject
[ but he knows it was a joke because. he has. seen himself. ]
So all the food was premade in that resort? [ a beat ] Wait, weren't you only there like two weeks?
no subject
Nothing wrong with a noble. [ okay,
anyway. to ace's questions, he nods. ] 's right. I've heard we had it easy, supposedly - if you could call it that. It sounds proportionally that more died in the shorter time.
It was months ago, for me, anyhow - tried my best to wipe it from my memory, for the most part.
no subject
[ he is also clearly kidding. he nods along at that ]
Probably harder to lose more people that fast, but a lot of the worst part of this kind of thing is the waiting around with a predictable schedule. You know exactly what'll happen every week, but you can't do anything to stop it.
no subject
Right. [ ugh. ] Whole thing's a bloody farce no matter what angle you take it from. Shorter or longer, it's an injustice all the way through.
no subject
no subject
All the better reason to get out of this, and burn it down behind us, if you ask me.
no subject
[ which would almost sound cool when he's holding up a knife but there's some like bell pepper stuck to it that ruins the image ]
no subject
Swordsman of the bell pepper. Great ally.
[ you're the one that made him chop vegetables, strohl, ]
no subject
[ laughing along as he goes back to chopping ]
I'm more of a brawler. Swords have never been my thing.
no subject
[ (me pushing up my nerd glasses) brawler archetype is my favorite strohl archetype ]
It sounds like most of us are of the same mind, at least. The whole thing's a damned injustice, so we ought to find a way to take it down. [ a beat. ] Thrown fists with Vi, yet?
no subject
It's kind of the obvious goal for everybody to share, right?
[ oh, perking up a little at vi mention ]
Vi and I have talked, yeah. Wait, that's right, she said she was planning to go to your place before she wound up here instead, didn't she?
no subject
[ people are selfish, sometimes. not strohl, but. dang.
anyhow - the perking up makes him smile, too, brief because that's his blorbo!!! though it flickers away fast as he continues. ]
...Yeah. That was the plan, right up until it wasn't. Something went wrong, when we tried to leave together. [ mods voice: funny ] For as awful as this whole situation is, I'm thankful we've the chance to try again - hardly any time's passed for her, but it's been months, for me. All that stress.
no subject
Huh... So you knew she hadn't been able to come with and she was missing the whole time, even though you both wound up here? Or what?
no subject
[ incredible!!! truly!! ]
Ridiculous, isn't it? That doesn't even cover the fact that apparently a couple friends of ours were in one of these things - despite the fact that they would've had to be dead to be in it, and we just were with them five minutes before we arrived here. All this time stuff gives me a headache, if I'm honest.
no subject
[ yes but only sanji ]
It's weird, but the entire thing is weird in the first place, isn't it? It's better not to worry about the details too much.
no subject
[ affectionate?? probably
he's getting basilio vibes here. he holds the pan out for the veggies. ]
In they get.
no subject
[ lightly but INTO THE PAN the veggie go ... there they go ]
no subject
Duly noted. [ lol. ] Hope you can handle your spice.
no subject
[ don't judge his knife skills wtf. he is so good at knife. ok he is better at cutting meat than veggies but ]