[closed] March Catch All

[nastyboy]

Who: Team Femblemtroika (Grant, Chip, Dimitri, Sylvain, Claude, Felix, Jinx, Razor, Ashe, Annette, Lysithea - with people going in and out as they please)
What: Please let this group just fall asleep in Olivine for a while with nothing exploding, they beg you
When: March
Where: The Olivine City general area
Rating: T

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[bestswordmaster]

Felix frowns. "What a preposterous argument." Dammit, they're a child and they're upset, don't word things like that... He tries to soften his tone at least a little; it sort of works. But he's annoyed with whoever told Chip these things.

"Back in our world, all of us have a lot more power than we do here. Dimitri's strong enough to uproot a damn tree and crush human skulls in one hand, not to mention the ruler of a whole nation and soon a whole continent. Claude rules a country as well. I've seen Lysithea obliterate enemies in seconds with her magic, and Annette commands the winds. Sylvain can throw fire and impale a man from horseback at a full gallop. Even I can call lightning out of the sky, and you've seen my swordplay. Not to mention that we're all battle veterans who have been fighting a war for the last five years. Dimitri, Sylvain, and I learned to wield weapons before we learned to read or write. Everyone in this room other than Grant is a bigger threat than you."

He shakes his head. "A threat is a threat. Most people I know are threats to one degree or another. Anyone can be a threat, handed a weapon or power over other people. Power and strength are nothing but tools. The question we're talking about here isn't can you do those things, but would you. And you wouldn't, just as Lysithea would never obliterate her friends."

[vrdantwind]

Claude nods in agreement with Felix. "It's not what kind of potential for harm anyone has, Chip, demon or not," he murmurs. "That's exactly why it doesn't matter that you're part demon, or what kind of powers that gives you. You wouldn't intentionally hurt the people you care about, and those examples you gave are so extreme that I can't see you somehow stealing somebody's soul by accident, either. So why should we worry about that?" He almost says 'you might as well worry about Dimitri hurting you, because he never would', but then he remembers that...actually, Chip did worry about that. Damn.

Well, then, time to reframe that. "You were worried we were going to hurt you when we caught up with you, weren't you? But I don't think that means you've stopped liking us. So even when you know we can hurt you, and you actually thought we might...you still care about us. You don't hate us for that. So why should we hate you? Especially when none of us do believe you'd ever try to hurt us?"

[nastyboy]

Thanks for mentioning that he can normally crush a human being's skull, Felix. Dimitri doesn't make any commentary on that, however. All of his attention remains on Chip, the way they tense and lash out angrily. It's a familiar reaction, honestly... One he thinks he knows all too well.

"Felix and Claude are right, Chip," Dimitri says gently. "I do not believe you would ever hurt any of us on purpose... And that is the important thing to me. Even if you did hurt us, I do not think that is any reason to abandon you."

[demonpuppy]

It's a slow thing, the way their expression changes. Confusion softening the furrow of their brow, the tension finally starting to properly release it's hold. They look around at everyone one in the room--far more than they had ever thought would care for a person like them.

They still can't understand why. But...

A few soft hiccups shake Chip's body before they bury their face against Grant's chest yet again, trying hard to keep their tears silent.