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kiss roulette ** accepting
17. an upside down kiss
oh, qrow's so glad to see a familiar shock of platinum snags and braids coming through the trees, that all his grunting summoned something other than grimm.
he dangles down, pathetically, from branches; ankles and wings bound by rope, cape falling the wrong way from his shoulders; caught in some old bandit trap, because Misfortune never misses the opportunity to really rub his face in it.
"Liaaaaa," he coos, "jus' th' woman i wanted to see!"
gods, he feels so stupid, and the brow she raises at him does nothing to salve it.
"mind.... uh... helpin'..." he doesn't know why she's looking at him like that. why she steps forward like she's stalking prey, "..me... down?"
"Sure," she says simply, something absolutely unreadable (or perhaps just unthinkable, to qrow) in gray eyes, "...but first."
whether it's something about seeing him, or the opportunity of this situation, or seeing him in this situation, he has no idea. but he finds himself blinking obliviously at the woman's collarbone as she leans in and presses plush lips to his own.
only the softness of her hands and her nose brushing against strands of beard lining his chin, the chastity of a lingering, but unassuming little peck, keeps him calm about being so constrained while this happens. ...has him closing crimson eyes and kissing her back, more swept up in the moment than he cares to be. it feels a little backwards, but fuck it...
he clears his throat when she steps back, finding a smitten smirk and the audacity to look so smug while in so vulnerable a state and still wriggling uncomfortably, "well now... i'd like t'help y'out too, but, uh, blood's rushin' to th' wrong head right now, babe."
the vulgarity makes Lia groan with regret, and qrow considers that a success. he only hopes it doesn't push her so far back that she actually turns and leaves him, er, hanging.
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The diffriders are so fucking fascinating to me specifically flare trooper dumjid bc like. You take a dragon mercenary who has seen war and has actively watched many comrades die. His whole thing is that he’s a perfect guard and thus the only one who survived, leading to a fucked up conception of himself as above death. And then you have him possess the body of some kid who presumably agrees to let him see earth bc That’s His Favorite Card And He Thinks He’s Cool and who’s probably like 12 (sorry saori I have no clue how old you are I’m just guessing based off taiyou + hiroki) and just. Walk around on earth (where are saori’s parents btw. Like you could say this about most vanguard characters but where are saori’s parents/guardians/friends do they know what “saori” is up to?? Does anyone who knew him pre-diffride realize how different he’s been acting?). Play a card game where he commands his dead comrades bc shiranui is paying him (which. How is he paying him, earth currency or cray currency? And what IS cray currency for that matter?). The only thing he likes about earth is the music but he is specifically cursed to keep having his headphones break. When a unit who’s diffriding a human dies in the human’s body, both the unit and the human die on both planets, and besides the money dumjid is only on shiranui’s team bc antero/miguel DIED, a fact which he’s fully aware of and iirc derides him for (may be wrong abt that one though). He constantly tells people to die when he’s cardfighting them. He is laid-back about vanguard and doesn’t care much until he loses a cardfight and because loss and death are inextricably linked in his mind he proceeds to get Super Fucked Up About It bc he’s built his entire self image off being The One Who Survives and losing the cardfight is akin to confirming that it’s possible for him to die & he especially can’t accept that Some Random Humans have the ability to take him out. Sometimes he shows his opponents the battlefield and the bodies of his comrades and they really don’t seem to devote much thought to it (like. What??? I get that chrono & friends love vanguard and chrono does address it a little bit but mostly iirc just to say “I don’t think that’s what vanguard actually does/that’s not OUR vanguard”). He’s affected worse and worse with each loss and joins a group trying to end the world to get revenge on the humans who’ve beaten him (iirc unclear whether he knows the success of the destruction of the earth will destroy him too). He becomes the last of the original diffriders - chaos breaker dragon doesn’t count he was diffridden during U20 - to remain on earth, a point which he makes sure to bring up as proof of his superior survival abilities. The kid whose body he’s possessing expresses that he’s not happy about the way dumjid’s acting and dumjid doesn’t give a shit and continues to puppet his body around. Just, everything about him as a character is so fascinating in a concerning way and, like shiranui, he brings up the fact that vanguard is Real in a way that the earth characters don’t really consider - yes they have strong imaginations and genuine attachment to their units, but ultimately they’re playing a card game where even if cards get sent to the drop/damage zones they can come back for the next battle* whereas on cray they’re fighting Actual Battles and the units that die die For Real And Permanently. Unlike shiranui, who eventually began to see vanguard as a method of reunion with his dead friends and decided that what he’d been told about earth vanguard being a direct cause for his friends’ deaths might be wrong, Dumjid never changes his view on earth vanguard after “experiencing death”, so when he finally loses and goes back to cray he’s essentially dragged back clawing and screaming. I don’t know, there’s just something about him that’s sooooo soooo fascinating to me
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