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[armeyets]

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[motivation]

surprise me
i'm easy

[ she is and isn't and this probably isn't fair, but dutch wasn't raised to be fair. (she was raised to be a weapon, a killer, the kind of person who'd survive the transition to hullen, but that's neither here nor there.) ]

[armeyets]

no pressure or anything, huh? just gotta show the cool spacefaring bounty hunter a good time on earth, paint a good impression of the whole planet?

[motivation]

so you think i'm cool, huh?

[ yep, that's 100% her take-away here ]

[armeyets]

oh c'mon. you know you're a badass. don't even

[ had he stolen a moment, during the whole 'oh dear fucking god an alien is trying to eat my face' chaos, to still pause and admire how the newcomer handled herself in a fight? yep. sure did. ]

[motivation]

[ damn right she knows she's a badass, but —doesn't hurt to have it confirmed now and again. ]

you weren't too bad yourself, sugarpants

[armeyets]

sugarpants??
i give you "badass", and you give me "sugarpants"

[ he acts affronted, but he's amused. ]

[motivation]

don't like it [ and because she's precisely that much of a dick: ] sugarpants?

[armeyets]

[ ok now he's gotta try something ]

trying to get used to it, honey...tits?


[ -- nevermind that sounds terrible ]

[motivation]

that really what you wanna go with?

[armeyets]

i immediately regret everything

where does 'dutch' come from, anyway? is it a nickname? i'm assuming you're not actually from the netherlands

[motivation]

at least you realise your mistake

[ and then there's a brief pause, ... appearing and disappearing while dutch decides how much she wants to tell him. ]

what's the netherlands? [ and she could leave it at that, but - might as well. ] short for duchess.

[armeyets]

it's the name of a country here on this planet. the people from it are dutch. i keep thinking it means you're from there somehow, but obviously that makes literally no sense

and wait, you're a space duchess?

[motivation]

i'm not from wherever that country is

and no, i'm not a space duchess

[ is she going to say it? she's going to say it. ]

i'm actually a space queen
or i was

[armeyets]

[ he walked himself right into that one. ]

are you shitting me

[motivation]

not even a little bit

[ he should feel honoured; she doesn't share bits of her past with just anyone ]

[armeyets]

should i be referring to you by, like, an honorific to avoid kicking off an intergalactic diplomatic scandal or war or whatever? your eminence