If necessary we can trade honesty for honesty: tell me and I'll answer a question, any question, of your choice. Honestly. Even if I think it's unbearably stupid.
oh man you're asking for a loooooong story guess I can try to shorten it a little?
[Unlike Ekko, she's pretty chill with this. Helps she gets a much sweeter deal!]
him and Powder met when their ages were still in the single digits when Mylo would be really mean to her about her inventions and ideas Ekko would just find them really cool he'd even give her ideas and ways to make them even better! Powder had Vi too but Vi was better at punching things and would only ever manage these sort of blanket compliments?
"wow you're really smart" "you could fix anything"
Ekko was adopted too so just a lot in common!
then
Silco killed Ekko's family not long before
Powder accidentally killed half her family and Vi
[She's already told Ekko what happened with Vi but it felt a little easier, in that case. Because, in a way, it kind of just slipped out without much thought behind it. It takes a few tries to put it into typed words.]
Vi hit Powder said that Mylo was right told her she really was a jinx blamed her for everything always going wrong
then
she left got thrown in prison but Powder had no way of knowing that
Ekko tried finding Powder after learning everything he was gonna save her from Silco without realizing
Powder was dead it was Jinx choosing to live with Silco
the next time we met without masks, it was a fight to the death
I killed us both
so here we are now
with him being ridiculously helpful nice hot
and the whole fucking reason I asked that question about sex! the idiot still didn't take the clue!! he keeps acting like he likes me then it's like he's I don't know second-guessing? remembering I'm the reason he's here in the first place???
I just don't think I could handle it if I did initiate and
Shot in the dark, but tell me if I'm wrong: was keeping you in working shape technically a business investment for him?
[They readjust their viewpoint a little and then reapproach. Are they projecting? Maybe! (Yes.)
It's uncharitable to think about the Prince like that, Ashton knows; he was about as close to a decent man in his position as he was going to get, at least to her, and it's not his fault she was too goddamn good at killing to get to take a week or two off. There was always somewhere or someone or something that she could be useful to or for.]
Might have gone differently if you wouldn't have been his anymore.
Back when I had a boss, he did genuinely threaten to have me killed a few times, though admittedly that was partially for dragging his daughter into situations she had no reason to be anywhere near. Hardly without cause.
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So. What's the actual deal with you and Ekko?
If necessary we can trade honesty for honesty: tell me and I'll answer a question, any question, of your choice. Honestly. Even if I think it's unbearably stupid.
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guess I can try to shorten it a little?
[Unlike Ekko, she's pretty chill with this. Helps she gets a much sweeter deal!]
him and Powder met when their ages were still in the single digits
when
Mylo would be really mean to her about her inventions and ideas
Ekko would just find them really cool
he'd even give her ideas and ways to make them even better!
Powder had Vi too but
Vi was better at punching things and would only ever manage these
sort of blanket compliments?
"wow you're really smart"
"you could fix anything"
Ekko was adopted too
so just
a lot in common!
then
Silco killed Ekko's family not long before
Powder accidentally killed half her family
and Vi
[She's already told Ekko what happened with Vi but it felt a little easier, in that case. Because, in a way, it kind of just slipped out without much thought behind it. It takes a few tries to put it into typed words.]
Vi hit Powder
said that Mylo was right
told her she really was a jinx
blamed her for everything always going wrong
then
she left
got thrown in prison but Powder had no way of knowing that
Ekko tried finding Powder after learning everything
he was gonna save her from Silco
without realizing
Powder was dead
it was Jinx choosing to live with Silco
2/2
I killed us both
so here we are now
with him being ridiculously helpful
nice
hot
and the whole fucking reason I asked that question about sex!
the idiot still didn't take the clue!!
he keeps acting like he likes me then it's like he's
I don't know second-guessing?
remembering I'm the reason he's here in the first place???
I just
don't think I could handle it
if I did initiate and
it turned out I was wrong, I guess?
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Alright. I have a few questions, so I'll go one question at a time.
First. If you'd ever decided you no longer wanted to work for Silco, would he have let you go unharmed?
[...They suspect they know the answer to that. But they want her to say it. And if they're wrong, that's still something more she's given them.]
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think so?
He's never hurt me before
even when he was pissed at me
he just
yelled or
quietly grumbled
Re: 2/2
[They readjust their viewpoint a little and then reapproach. Are they projecting? Maybe! (Yes.)
It's uncharitable to think about the Prince like that, Ashton knows; he was about as close to a decent man in his position as he was going to get, at least to her, and it's not his fault she was too goddamn good at killing to get to take a week or two off. There was always somewhere or someone or something that she could be useful to or for.]
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yeah definitely part of it
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Back when I had a boss, he did genuinely threaten to have me killed a few times, though admittedly that was partially for dragging his daughter into situations she had no reason to be anywhere near. Hardly without cause.
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he needed someone who
understood
so I think if
I stopped feeling lonely or afraid of betrayal
that's what would make me less useful
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Were you getting anything meaningful out of the arrangement?
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They're hard to find, aren't they.
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Silco was the only one back then
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It makes it easier.