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[OPEN] Making your way in the world today takes everything you got
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When: A bit after the information sharing log
Where: A bar
What: Han seriously needs some grownup friends to discuss his grownup problems with
Rating/Warning: Probably discussion of the altar/sacrifice situation
Han had been a bit out of sorts since seeing that altar. Finding traces of so many people he knew. So many people he loved. Getting more detail about it was... less than comforting, to say the least.
And the problem with there being so many kids here is that there aren't really a lot of people in his immediate circle that he can talk about this with. The idea of something like that happening to his wife, to his children... oh, they sympathize, but he needs to be able to talk about it on a more complex level.
Obi Wan will be fine watching Takeru and Hikari for a few hours. The kid's almost creepily responsible. Anything that's likely to make him run off will also makes the younger ones charge in and he'll hear about it and get there.
Where do you go when something's weighing on your mind and you really need to talk to a non-specific someone? If you're Han Solo, it's a bar.
notsosolo & OPENWhen: A bit after the information sharing log
Where: A bar
What: Han seriously needs some grownup friends to discuss his grownup problems with
Rating/Warning: Probably discussion of the altar/sacrifice situation
Han had been a bit out of sorts since seeing that altar. Finding traces of so many people he knew. So many people he loved. Getting more detail about it was... less than comforting, to say the least.
And the problem with there being so many kids here is that there aren't really a lot of people in his immediate circle that he can talk about this with. The idea of something like that happening to his wife, to his children... oh, they sympathize, but he needs to be able to talk about it on a more complex level.
Obi Wan will be fine watching Takeru and Hikari for a few hours. The kid's almost creepily responsible. Anything that's likely to make him run off will also makes the younger ones charge in and he'll hear about it and get there.
Where do you go when something's weighing on your mind and you really need to talk to a non-specific someone? If you're Han Solo, it's a bar.
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So, like any well-adjusted man, he's getting a drink or five.
Han might recognize the guy settling down at the bar as the one who'd given further information about the sacrifice in the first place. Chibi, too, recognizes Han - one of the many faces who had been at the meeting. He orders a glass of arrack, then nods and offers a wave to the man beside him, trying to be a little more cheerful than he feels.
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He'd listened to the details despite the advice to avoid it if there was someone they loved on the altar. He felt he owed it to Leia and the kids. But he'd been too shaken at the time to actually say anything. Somehow, it was worse than he'd imagined.
How to even start that conversation? "Hell of a month." Understatement works right?
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He nods to the bartender (robotic, but one still ought to show robots respect; they have souls, after all) when it slides a full glass to him, then takes a look into it. Perhaps the ripples in the liquid will give him answers; perhaps the minute knocking of particles against particles will show him how to go forward. It is frustrating to Chibi, the stagnation he feels.
"Between the masks, the lies from CERES and the elementals and whomever else, and..." Well, he'd seen Han listen to him. "Well, you know the rest."
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"When I get my hands on..." He lets the threat trail off, but the dark look on his face remains. This is a problem he wishes he could shoot. Maybe it wouldn't change anything, but it would be doing something.
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"If I thought it would help, I'd have eviscerated Mosley myself," he says wryly. "Thought about it more than once, too, but I'd have to wring information from him first."
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"I'm not sure there's any information we could get that would satisfy me." You don't go after his family.
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"Enough that I can put a stop to it myself," he says. "He subjected himself to that in the name of information, and he can't even speak of it with his own voice. It's the least I could do."
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It occurs to him, then, that the other man is probably talking about his children - or at least some he's taken in over the course of his stay. Chibi, having never been able to have children but always having desperately wanted them, he'd have done anything to have a child with Mina, Goddess knows, he can't say he fully understands. Still, the look that comes over him is lost, sorrowful.
"You lost yours, then, is what you are saying."
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If he had a choice between going through it twice for each of them and what happened, he'd have taken it in an instant. They're his children and he's supposed to protect them.
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"The man whose words I spoke in the Sanctuary... He was - is - my lover. But I cannot imagine what it is like to know one's own flesh and blood has suffered that pain." He offers a wry smile. "You must want to kill Mosley."
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He tips his head in an acknowledging nod when the guy walks by, making only the slightest eye contact in the universal language of tough guys at bars saying hi.]
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Whiskey here isn't bad. Strong.
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[his mark over there looks to be settled in for the long haul, so Zoro has time to chat. He swivels around and gives Han another nod]
Seen you around here and there, I think.
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[How long had it been, anyway?]
Five months, by the calendar here. A lot have come and gone in that time.
[Hence the drinking]
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[And in that case he'd be very disappointed]
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[there was at least one punk with a lightsaber he never got to challenge...
He tips his glass as a sort of hello.]
Or if any of them said anything about Roronoa Zoro.
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[He's ground them but that would mean they were here and safe and he would actually be too relieved to do so]
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I'm their dad.
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...seriously?
Damn.
[he shrinks down into his glass for a moment to try to cover the awkward]
Must be a hell of a lot of trouble in a place like this.
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[Which is why he's drinking, really]
It would have been more trouble if they were the age they are at home... but they never stop being your kids, no matter how old they get.
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There's a lot of kids here, still. It's kind of weird. Wonder how they're doing without their parents or anyone to keep 'em out of trouble.
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as much as he cares for adrien, frisk, and the others that he's formed bonds of loose guardianship here, he's looking for a place to relax without being completely alone. his friend circle doesn't quite associate with bars (and neither does he, normally), so that seems to be the best option.
han will see an oddly well-dressed man come up to the counter, flagging the tender for a scotch on the rocks. he won't overdo it tonight, but he enjoys a drink when he needs to be with his thoughts - after learning so much at that meeting, the idea sounds nice. ]
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This place.
[It's a pretty broad opener.]
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he'll perk up a bit when he hears someone speak in his general directiom, doing the same when he sees who the gesture is coming from. ]
It certainly gets under your skin, doesn't it?
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[THat's what draws them all to bars, isn't it? Sometimes you're out of options.]
Wouldn't be so bad if they weren't doing it to all these kids too.
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[ it's not something he likes to think about. adrien and frisk are the first that come to mind, but there were others in the colony that he's seen. he's witnessed children do incredible things in his world, but that doesn't mean they should have to.
he sips his drink, pensive. ]