immamartillo | 6th Hat Flip [Accidental Video/Action]

[Somewhere in Luceti, Firo's draped over a tree branch, asleep and freshly returned from his mallynapping. He looks a little worse for the wear, but he's out of the woods (figuratively) now, isn't he?

Unfortunately, gravity's not going to give him a break today, and as soon as he shifts in his sleep Firo goes tumbling to the ground. How's that for a wake up call?

It's not far of a fall, but Firo's incredibly ungraceful landing doesn't do him any favors. There's a crunching sound as he hits the ground, twisted around so that he lands on his left hand.]

Ah-! Ow-! Shit!

[Firo stays lying like that for a moment: both in the process of waking up and cursing everything from the malnosso to the tree- whatever he can blame for this situation. Then, with some reluctance, he rolls onto his side and stares at his hand with a mixture of pain and consternation. Unlike what he's become used to over the past few years, it stays stubbornly broken. His eyes widen. This is not how it's supposed to work...]

What? Why isn't it-?

[He tries to flex his fingers and winces; it's then that he catches a glimpse of his journal lying open nearby. Great. Of course it had to show off one of his less dignified moments.]

Damnit... Are you kiddin' me?

[Sighing and gritting his teeth against the pain, he pulls himself into a sitting position. Arms crossed over his chest, he takes a deep breath and tries to recover some aplomb.]

So... Guess I'm back. Screw this place.

[ooc: Firo's back from being mallynapped and is now going to be without his immortality for a while. After a few weeks it'll return to its normal Luceti dampened state.]

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[Bad Firo.]

Do you think they forgot?

You really think that's somethin' people can just forget?

Oh, why couldn't they forget it?

[He has enough presence of mind to realize he shouldn't mention the specifics to her.]

...When the consequences are strict enough, people don't forget. They just try to be sneakier.

[Blink.]

I'm sure that's not true. After all, that wouldn't be very nice.

Some people just aren't nice.

[He shrugs.]

Luckily most a' the ones I run into are easy enough to handle.

[At his first sentence, Grune shakes her head.]

That's not true. Everyone can be nice. But sometimes, they just don't know how.

[Here comes this discussion again.]

So, what then? Am I supposed to teach 'em how to be nice?

[Sorry, Grune, but he can't help but sound skeptical.]

[Unfortunately for Firo, sarcasm is just not a thing Grune understands.]

That's a good idea! Then they would do the right thing from then on.

Wha-?

[How did he not see that coming?]

How am I supposed to do that!?

Why, just tell them that what they're doing is wrong. Then they won't do it anymore.

[It's as simple as that! Totally.]

[Blink.]

...Has that ever worked before?

Oh, I'm sure it's worked all kinds of times.

[Yep.]

[He'd ask if she's ever seen it work personally, but he has the feeling she wouldn't remember.]

Okay, um... But I have a feelin' with most a' these guys it'd be a "can't teach an old dog new tricks" thing. They're just too used to not bein' nice.

[He doubts it would work on anyone, but he knows he'll never convince Grune of that.]

[She shakes her head.]

That's not right. Everyone can learn to be nice. It just takes a little while if you haven't done it before, that's all.

Yeah, well... Maybe these guys just need a better teacher than me, then.

It's all right. I'm sure you would be a wonderful teacher if you practiced hard every day.

[She has faith in you, Firo!]

Uh, thanks, but... how do you practice somethin' like that?

[And every day? Firo doesn't have the patience for that!]

Why, by being friendly to everyone you meet and always giving your biggest smile. Then everyone can learn from you.

[That's totally the thing for a gangster to do, right?]

...No offense, but I'm pretty sure that'd be like an invitation to try and mess with me.

[Except that does kind of describe Claire off the job, and he's one of the best assassins in Firo's world.]

Mess with you?

[What does that mean?]

You know, like, try to start a fight. Not that I'm worried, it's just less trouble if I don't hafta get in one in the first place.

[Firo, that makes no sense to her at all.]

Oh, I'm sure no one would do that if you were being kind to them. You would make them happy, not angry.

Have you ever met a thug who ever got happy over anything?

[...She probably doesn't even know what a thug is, Firo.]

[Not only that, but she has no concept of rhetorical questions. Whoops.]

Hmm....

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