@vaterslain said: “You babe swaddled in the cashmere blanket of ignorance, you ask too little of me.”
“...you call me a babe, old god?” Oh no. That’s the look of a dramatic monologue coming. the fact that she looks so serious despite what was actually just asked of him-
“I have no claim of suffering to be greater than your own, but I still claim that for my life, I have been blanketed in nothing but snow. That even if it does not compare to your own, it is still significant for me. The ice that weaned me.” The beginning, a hook, a cool sounding metaphor that really just means she grew up in Hamburg, in Germany, where it is cold. “The steel of those who live here is nothing but metal. The only ones who are wrapped in blankets are the dead being bured.” Ooh, real grim sounding. Good one, self! She’ll jot that down later to write in a poem or something.
“I have grown in a place where I am not even a plant to be tended to, but a tool, a knife to be forged. My body is the advancement of my parents’ will and I am the extension of my sister’s life at the cost of my own.” Ah, the melodrama. The needless, yet fun, melodrama. “I am here, tethered and bound, and you know this is my wish- to escape this wretched place. Yet you say I am swaddled in ignorance? I thought we reached an understanding.”
A pause, and then, with a loud whoop, not even missing a beat-
“So are you gonna show me how to do those cool action movie scenes or not, old man?!” Yep. That’s what was just asked. Truly, every strategic, amoral mastermind also has a hidden geek side. Or, a hidden, not quite as morally challenged geek side. “I wanna poison my enemies without them noticing in a really cool way for once! Or like, how to look cool as I kill people! How to have a cool story to tell like the movies my little sister likes!” Maybe scratch out the 'not morally challenged’ part. Sophia, your little sister thinks Die Hard is a Lifetime Chritsmas movie! “Or jump off a big building onto a horse without like, breaking my legs!” That’s exactly what you tell your sister We’ve been subtle, I wanna learn how to do something super dramatic and extra and cool looking!”
“C’mon, you’ve proven how cool you are already!” Now she’s buttering him up! Shamelessly so! “We can practice to Ride of the Valkyries or something!”