The king would love to. Alas he is but a beggar king and has no coin. However he has proved quite adapt at catching frogs and would try his hand at geckos if he knew what they were.
Written below (to the side of some revisions of the manual's intructions:
Hope you're not a bad king. I've sort of made a habit of blowing up bad kings. And Bernard will come back from where ever he's hiding an' thump me one if I blow up things in his bar.
He finds a sparkly piece of notepaper that looks like it should have come off of a Twilight Vampire's skin.
Boring? Are you saying I'm boring? I hardly think that's the truth of the matter or of any matter. I am the Fool and a fool is many things but never boring.
Ace, having never met a Twilight vampire, and usually meeting vampires that entirely fail to sparkle altogether, misses the reference. She does, however, write back on the same paper, and tacks a small pin to the paper in addition to her reply.
(Spoon might sue for divorce if he caught her reading Twilight. He's a booksnob, yes.)
I am saying you're boring. Not Light or Dark, not Hot or Cold, just... blah. Blah is boring.
The Fool's never heard of Twilight either, it just seemed like a good description at the time of the paper.
I am the Fool. I am a creature of the Shadows and man's fears. I live in the dark and hidden parts of men's minds that was long ago created when they were first learning to Name things. The Fool is neither good nor evil any more than death or fire or a tree. A fool will afflict anyone equally from kings to commoners.
That is what I meant by not good or evil. I am hardly blah. Fear is hardly blah.
While mildly insulted he does take the pin and stick it on his coat.
The pin is gone! Ace feels she's done her good deed of the day, and rewards herself with a chocolate-covered gecko.
No, geckos are tasty. At least, part of her thinks so. She noms on that while she scribbles her reply on the flap of a mostly-used pack of matches, leaving chocolate-y smudged fingerprints on the paper.
Fear is always blah. Fear keeps things from happening, good or bad. No one has ever done great things out of fear.
The matches are taken and in their place is a coaster with a cup stain on it.
No. Fear is what makes things happen. Or at least the desire to overcome it. If there wasn't any fear things would be easy. There would be no challenge if there was no fear of failure. If people weren't afraid of death they wouldn't try to find ways to stop it thus not creating medicines and trying to save people who are hurt. If people weren't afraid of fire they would let themselves burn. If people weren't afraid how could they be brave?
Ace draws a face inside the cup stain, and scribbles her response underneath it. You didn't say you were desire to overcome fear. You said you were fear. Just because color looks good on a blank canvas doesn't mean the canvas gets the glory. Still boring!
The King should buy us all a round.
Several rounds.
Also, geckos.
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The king would love to. Alas he is but a beggar king and has no coin. However he has proved quite adapt at catching frogs and would try his hand at geckos if he knew what they were.
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What kind of lousy king doesn't know what a gecko is??
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I never said I was a GOOD king.
Which is true.
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Hope you're not a bad king. I've sort of made a habit of blowing up bad kings. And Bernard will come back from where ever he's hiding an' thump me one if I blow up things in his bar.
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Good as in knowing what I was doing as opposed to good as in good and evil.
She gets an explanation because she's not being a twit.
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Which still begs the question: Are you either?
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I'm am the Fool which means that I'm not very good at being a king. In regards to being good or evil I am neither.
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Boring!
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Boring? Are you saying I'm boring? I hardly think that's the truth of the matter or of any matter. I am the Fool and a fool is many things but never boring.
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(Spoon might sue for divorce if he caught her reading Twilight. He's a booksnob, yes.)
I am saying you're boring. Not Light or Dark, not Hot or Cold, just... blah. Blah is boring.
The pin will be perfect for him!
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I am the Fool. I am a creature of the Shadows and man's fears. I live in the dark and hidden parts of men's minds that was long ago created when they were first learning to Name things. The Fool is neither good nor evil any more than death or fire or a tree. A fool will afflict anyone equally from kings to commoners.
That is what I meant by not good or evil. I am hardly blah. Fear is hardly blah.
While mildly insulted he does take the pin and stick it on his coat.
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No, geckos are tasty. At least, part of her thinks so. She noms on that while she scribbles her reply on the flap of a mostly-used pack of matches, leaving chocolate-y smudged fingerprints on the paper.
Fear is always blah. Fear keeps things from happening, good or bad. No one has ever done great things out of fear.
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No. Fear is what makes things happen. Or at least the desire to overcome it. If there wasn't any fear things would be easy. There would be no challenge if there was no fear of failure. If people weren't afraid of death they wouldn't try to find ways to stop it thus not creating medicines and trying to save people who are hurt. If people weren't afraid of fire they would let themselves burn. If people weren't afraid how could they be brave?
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You didn't say you were desire to overcome fear. You said you were fear. Just because color looks good on a blank canvas doesn't mean the canvas gets the glory. Still boring!
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You said that no great things happen because of fear. I just said why they do.
Would you care for a position?
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