foxicide | vash

Mmhmmmm.

[vash could really be a pacifist rang is just being contrary]

We do. If you ask the other dead, then they'll tell you they know everyone's but your team's. [a beat, then] Shenhe told me a bit about it when I asked though.

[SO WHY DID RANG ASK VASH....... he just wanted to see if he'd say :3c]

Sounds like you guys would have it easier to see where team psychs are used in trial, then. Ours wouldn't last long enough from Thursday to Saturday, so I don't think you guys would see it.

[ It is what it is. Vash doesn't seem bothered that Rang tried to trick him. ]

Asking Shenhe isn't enough, huh... Anyway, it's not very useful for erasure. I don't think Wolfwood ever used it for that, either.

[Rang leans back, though it probably looks like he's clipping into whatever else is around here.]

I didn't think so either.

[that it'd be useful for erasure unlike the OTHER INSANE PSYCHS OUT THERE!!! then after a beat, as his expression grows more neutral rather than annoyed.]

You used it on Matsui, didn't you?

[ Oh, he sees... Vash just looks tired. Everyone in this game is so anti-mild curses because they don't go to therapy. ]

My guess is that you're going to get mad at me if I said I did.

I don't care who it was.

[he cares but he knows that he wasn't the one affected so he thinks his opinion doesn't matter here,]

The only thing I care about is for that person to apologize to Matsui.

I'm all for apologies, but you know when you demand them there's a chance it only comes because it's being pressured out of someone, not because they're actually sorry. They can be empty, instead.

Is that all right?

[there is such a long pause as he looks at vash, and then -- his voice tight,]

And if I explained why? Would they listen?

I don't know. I suppose they'd understand, or they would try to. People can still feel bad, but not regret their choice.

[ Vash is being sincere, overall. ]

It's up to you.

[he just closes his eyes]

If you tell me who cursed Matsui's grief away, and then his bloodlust away, then I'll explain to them why it hurt Matsui so much.

I'm not going to make you the messenger for something they're responsible for. Unless it was you.

... Rang, I know you mean well, but I think that's something for Matsui to explain, not you. You're not him.

[ He's saying this as gently as possible here since Rang seems very invested despite not being the one cursed. ]

I was thinking more why they shouldn't have cursed at that time and the consequences of their actions.

And I'm trying to explain those consequences, not just for Matsui, but for myself to.

[he sounds angrier the more gentle Vash sounds,]

I was the one accused of not caring about him, just because I thought he should have kept his grief. Even though I was grieving for Buzen too, but I guess that didn't matter to her at the time.

Sorry to hear that, Rang. I don't know who said that to you, but I think it's incredibly obvious that you care. Back then and also now.

[ If that makes Rang angrier, then Vash will visually shrug. Sorry, man. You are an emotional rollercoaster and that's a bomb during emotion share.

Anyway, ]

I can talk to my team and see if I can encourage them to talk to Matsui.

I said that I didn't want to make you a messenger. I'll talk to them myself.

[and then they all blow up and that doesn't happen]

All right. If you want that responsibility yourself, be my guest.

[ And we exploded. ]

[THE DEAD DIDN'T EXPLODE

rang just stares at vash like he's concentrating very hard]

[ we as in the living please yaywon

Watches him do that. ]

[i should have lied to you and said the dead also exploded]

I can't touch you like this, so I just imagined punching you.

[ I'm glad to know you guys didn't explode ]

For what? It's not like I'm doing anything.

You're helping me. It's like you're a human-shaped stress ball that's not actually human.

I thought you liked hurting humans or something since you dislike them so much. Making me your punching bag doesn't seem productive in that regard.

No, it definitely helps. I'm tired of the humans on this side, so I need to see a new face, you know?

[ignores that vash isn't human]

Woaaaah, glad to be of service as your across the plane punching bag. Your punches tickle a little.

[ Finger wiggling emotions to gesture tickling. ]

You hate me that much?

There's just something about you that irritates me.

[and rang died and never got to see a sad vash memshare]

Would you have ever erased?

Sounds like someone has to talk it out.

[ Poor Rang with his assumptions... We can't even memshare is the saddest thing. ]

... If the stakes were the same where it's for our personal revival, I don't think so. I accepted if death came for me, I wouldn't struggle.

[ Sometimes... Peace is nice, but murder games are stupid. ]

[why didn't anyone kill vash damb,

rang eyes him,]

Punches you.

[That's for Shenhe. MOVING ON --]

What if you got the call?

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