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[So Vesper clicks on the video around this comment of this thread. Bond and Archer are apparently quite content to keep wailing on each other in the middle of the dining hall now that Vesper and any other innocent bystanders are out of the way, and it doesn't take an expert in martial arts to recognize that their respective styles are pretty fucking brutal, even if at the moment, they're sort of in a... compromising looking position? You can probably hear Archer yell "Did you plan this??", even though she's a good couple meters away from them.

Vesper sounds more tightly controlled and maybe a little bit angry more than anything else, because from her perspective, it's like Archer just marched down to the mess hall, threw a punch at her boyfriend and got... whatever this is started for no good reason.

(Presumably no good reason, anyway, she's not naive enough to think that Bond couldn't possibly have done something to encourage this.)]

Rogue, I would sincerely appreciate it if you could get down here and help contain your inmate.

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[bitteraftertaste]

Just out of curiosity, would you be acting this unconcerned if Cassel was the one who was attacked - to the best of your knowledge - without provocation?

[mistconduct]

Bond's getting attacked by the same asshole who broke into my room, dumped a tv on my bed, and forced me to watch his shitty home videos of the time he got vagina cancer. I'm milking this for all it's worth.

Besides. He can take him. Archer's like the Shasta Cola to Bond's Coke.

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[bitteraftertaste]

[Well, that sort of answers her question. B( It takes her a while to respond - once Rogue shows up, she's not really paying much attention to this post, but she does come back to it, and she hasn't exactly cooled off much. She's stressed and worried and pretty angry about... lots of things, really, but Chris has kind of turned into the straw that broke the camel's back, here, so she's not letting it go.]

I'm going to be honest with you, Chris. I've tried to be polite for Cassel's sake, but quite frankly, I'm tired of you treating serious situations like they're some sort of joke. I don't care if it's a coping mechanism or if you just honestly don't understand why your behavior's inappropriate, but between this and what happened with him and Cassel several days ago, I'm sick of you acting like every serious thing that happens to him is happening purely for your entertainment, because it isn't funny.

If you absolutely have to do it, take it up with someone else because I'm tired of listening to it.

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[mistconduct]

[The split difference between where Chris is joking and when he's being serious is abrupt. His eyes harden, and he starts to look like it really had been a year since he's been on the Barge.

Because Vesper's right; it is a coping mechanism. On the Barge, people come back and are okay again. He's missed that, where people can fight and it seems like playing around because the Barge always puts you back together again. That doesn't happen in the world he'd just escaped.]


Go fuck yourself.

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[bitteraftertaste]

[Nope, not dignifying that with a response. She's got bigger problems to deal with than feeling sorry for hurting someone's feelings because she was laying down boundaries.]

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[mistconduct]

And for the record, I was only being polite to you for Cassel's sake too. So fuck off and stop making such a huge deal about shit that doesn't even matter in the first place.

[Hanging up. Like a mature person.]