14th Match // Video - August 21st

[fuelthefire]

[Krieg is in a much better mood than he has been in for months. So when the video feed opens up, his masked face is right up against the 'Gear, just like old times, as he excitedly announces:]

Today's my birthday!

Guess my age and win a prize!

And no cheating if you already know!

[Says the man wearing an almost entirely face-obscuring mask. No one said this was going to be easy!]

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[a_sin_for_him]

Good.

Ah, but you didn't ask for a number. You asked for your age. And I gave it.

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[fuelthefire]

Pffff! I'm pretty sure my age is a number! How many years has it been since Mommy Dearest gave birth to a belligerent bouncing baby boy?

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[a_sin_for_him]

Not necessarily. Age is just a created concept, you realize. So is time. What's a year? It's not the same everywhere. My world used to define a year much differently than it does now.

It could be impossible to give an accurate number.

And besides, you can't change your question after it's been issued.

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[fuelthefire]

[He shrugs, and his amusement fades as he grows more serious. He's about to get real with you, Lust.]

I didn't have any years or a birthday on Pandora. And I probably wasn't going to, either. Then I came here, and the doctors here told me I probably had about thirty-six or thirty-seven, and Angel picked my birthday, so now I have both.

[So they're kind of important to him, now.]

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[fuelthefire]

[...And then he perks back up just as if he'd never been Super Serial to begin with:]

But I'll give you a prize anyway, because I like you!

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[a_sin_for_him]

That's something I understand all too well. I didn't have a birthday until this world, either.

I hardly need a prize, but thank you.

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[fuelthefire]

When is yours?

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[a_sin_for_him]

It's in November. The eleventh, I believe.

How fitting, that it's a dying month, just before the cold and snow comes.

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[fuelthefire]

Everything dies. [He shrugs] The cold sucks but the quiet's nice.

[...As quiet as this place gets, with its mysterious, relentless BGM, anyway.]

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[a_sin_for_him]

Some of us many, many times.

I find a harsh beauty in the winter months.

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[fuelthefire]

I live, I die, I live again!

[The rules are a little different on Pandora, but that's basically been his experience, too.

...Also that one time he died here. That was rough.]

Last winter was the worst. This one will be better.

[Because he's pretty sure Angel will be spending it with him, instead of avoiding him. >>]