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[supercilious]

List of things I am absolutely not going to do.

- Fail my father and country with a continued inability to return home.
- Partner up with a woman in order to help defend these thankless people.
- Continue to tolerate these wretched conditions as though they are acceptable.
- Fight anybody or anything for money.
- Act as my own manservantHonestly,

Comments

[earned_my_eyes]

You are rather demanding.

[ voice. ]

[supercilious]

I am not! Don't speak like that to me.

[ voice. ]

[earned_my_eyes]

I don't take orders from you. If you can't handle the truth about yourself, then perhaps you should change.

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[supercilious]

Ha! Change? You don't mess with perfection.

[lenalee_lee]

Is there something wrong with being partners with a woman?

[supercilious]

Obviously. I'd have to be factoring how best to defend her in case of trouble into my strategy.

[lenalee_lee]

What if she didn't need you to defend her? What if she ended up defending you?

[supercilious]

Yes, and then all the monsters will get up and go away without bothering anyone. Of course.

[Voice]

[sucker_punches]

What is your problem with women?

[Voice]

[supercilious]

...I don't have a problem with women! As a general rule, women are lovely.

[Voice]

[sucker_punches]

Yet you seem to think they're not good enough to fight alongside you.

[Voice]

[supercilious]

I took a vow to protect women, not to put swords in their hands and watch them die.

[smoke_koan]

I'm partial to a brush and an ink tablet, myself.

I don't believe the inability to find a way out of this world is a failure on your part. This place seems reluctant to let us go, even if its citizens are more than willing to do otherwise.

The gender roles in other worlds may be different from what you're used to. The two young ladies who commented before me certainly attest to that.

[ Voice. ]

[supercilious]

It's a thrice-cursed sorcery keeping us here and I shall get to the bottom of it or die trying.

Yes, the harridans that continue to pester me do indicate a sort of difference in standards, don't they?

[ Voice. ]

[smoke_koan]

Sorcery. [a thoughtful pause] It's a viable culprit, isn't it.

Worse has been done to them, in times of war and of peace. I don't blame them for fighting.

[ Voice. ]

[supercilious]

It always seems to be at the root of peculiar mischiefs.

A woman forced to fight, that's another creature entirely.

[voice]

[lonestray]

[A scoff.]

I doubt you have a choice, as far as staying here, considering that mist.

[And then his voice takes a suddenly bitter edge to it.] And if you think women are any less capable of killing than men, you're either a fool, or incredibly sheltered, or both.

[He's speaking from experience here; there weren't very many female soldiers in Ishbal, but the ones that were there were every bit as deadly as the male ones.]

[ Voice. ]

[supercilious]

I am well aware of the situation's current limitations. And I am neither.

[ Voice | ...they're getting off to such a great start, aren't they? ]

[lonestray]

I wouldn't go making any bold proclamations about leaving then, unless you actually have a plan of some sort. You are. Both.

[ Voice | sob sob yyyyeahhhh. ]

[supercilious]

I don't know why I'm bothering with talking to you, you're rude and obviously a moron.