Stanford "Ford" Filbrick Pines (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cryptograms) wrote2021-09-04 07:34 pm
cryptograms) wrote2021-09-04 07:34 pm
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...I'd love to play in one, honestly.
I also have a few ideas for running a campaign of my own devising on the backburner, but I think I'd like to see how the game plays in practice for a little while longer before springing it on you and Sasha.
I also have a few ideas for running a campaign of my own devising on the backburner, but I think I'd like to see how the game plays in practice for a little while longer before springing it on you and Sasha.
[ He... guesses they're really having this conversation, huh? ]
No, he wasn't being creepy.
[ ... Well, maybe a little? Ford doesn't have the best yardstick for creepy behavior. ]
He didn't seek me out. We met coincidentally both times.
I don't think reconciling is possible right now, but I don't need help avoiding him. It's just happenstance that we met.
[ Surely it won't happen again in a place like Trench. ]
No, he wasn't being creepy.
[ ... Well, maybe a little? Ford doesn't have the best yardstick for creepy behavior. ]
He didn't seek me out. We met coincidentally both times.
I don't think reconciling is possible right now, but I don't need help avoiding him. It's just happenstance that we met.
[ Surely it won't happen again in a place like Trench. ]
It is.
She asked me to fill out a survey, then left a candy bar at my door.
Then came back and took half the candy bar for herself.
She asked me to fill out a survey, then left a candy bar at my door.
Then came back and took half the candy bar for herself.
[ Just what he likes to hear! He has no idea if it'll actually help Shannon, but a nice distraction is, in his experience, always welcome. ]
I'd be delighted to play in your campaign once we're done with this one. You picked up the rules and nuances much faster than most people I've taught.
I'd be delighted to play in your campaign once we're done with this one. You picked up the rules and nuances much faster than most people I've taught.
[They are totally having that conversation.]
Okay. That's good.
And I get it. I uh- I've had a big falling out with him before too. I don't want to compare it to what you probably went through. But I get why he's the way he is and how hurtful that can be to the people around him.
I don't think he means it a harmful way but he's been hurting for a long time his reactions to avoid getting hurt again come out on the fly.
It doesn't justify what might have happened, but I just wanted you to know that.
I wont push ya any further but if you do need anything just let me know.
Okay. That's good.
And I get it. I uh- I've had a big falling out with him before too. I don't want to compare it to what you probably went through. But I get why he's the way he is and how hurtful that can be to the people around him.
I don't think he means it a harmful way but he's been hurting for a long time his reactions to avoid getting hurt again come out on the fly.
It doesn't justify what might have happened, but I just wanted you to know that.
I wont push ya any further but if you do need anything just let me know.
I've always had a fondness for these sort of... narrative games, although I didn't really have any partners for them back home. It's easy to turn my competitiveness into a desire to make the best story possible with everyone else, as cheesy as that may sound.
voice | un; glitch | Several days after Glitch left
glitchinthesystem
2022-04-14 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Ford.
So. If you're getting this I'm gone. Probably not the greatest thing to hear or maybe it is, I don't know your life.
I wanted to say goodbye as well as one who just returned to the sea could but I guess that's how things go. Not like we ever expected anything good to end up happening to me anyways, right?
I don't have a lot I can leave you except I hope you take care.
I liked the weird supernatural stuff you talked about a lot when I hung out.
Try not to hide in your lab, you won't help anyone that way. So uh.
Take care.
-Glitch
So. If you're getting this I'm gone. Probably not the greatest thing to hear or maybe it is, I don't know your life.
I wanted to say goodbye as well as one who just returned to the sea could but I guess that's how things go. Not like we ever expected anything good to end up happening to me anyways, right?
I don't have a lot I can leave you except I hope you take care.
I liked the weird supernatural stuff you talked about a lot when I hung out.
Try not to hide in your lab, you won't help anyone that way. So uh.
Take care.
-Glitch
[ Ford's knee-jerk reaction is that he doesn't want to hear it. Ozpin isn't the only one that's been hurt, even if he seems to think he is, and Ruby's reassurance strikes him as hopelessly naive. He knows that isn't fair, though, and he definitely knows better than to tell her that.
He's not really intending to tell her anything except another insistence that he's okay, but another thought occurs to him. Before he even realizes he's sent the thought along to Castor, who in turn relays it to Ruby. ]
What's changed since your falling out?
He's not really intending to tell her anything except another insistence that he's okay, but another thought occurs to him. Before he even realizes he's sent the thought along to Castor, who in turn relays it to Ruby. ]
What's changed since your falling out?
It's not cheesy at all! That's the very spirit of the game.
[ As for her other comment... well. Ford relates to that far more than he wishes he did - though mostly in the form of wishing that Sayo didn't have to deal with anything resembling the sort of isolation he did. ]
I'm glad you're able to enjoy it here, then. It's frustrating to not have anyone to play with.
[ As for her other comment... well. Ford relates to that far more than he wishes he did - though mostly in the form of wishing that Sayo didn't have to deal with anything resembling the sort of isolation he did. ]
I'm glad you're able to enjoy it here, then. It's frustrating to not have anyone to play with.
[ This conversation is very serious and Ford doesn't mean to distract from it, but Willow makes such a good point he just can't help it. ]
I could have made her give me jelly beans! I can't believe I didn't think of that!
I could have made her give me jelly beans! I can't believe I didn't think of that!
[She's not expecting to exactly change Ford's mind, she just wants to hopefully get her point of view across. He can decide what he wants to do from there.]
Him.
I think.
I don't know exactly.
He... Wasn't honest with us. With the world. And he was desperate to do everything on his own. I don't necessarily blame him for that considering the people he was working with at the time. And who we were fighting.
Eventually I realized he was never going to be honest with us. ...And I forced the answers out instead.
He retreated and cut us off without a word.
I guess he thought if we knew we'd just betray him like the rest.
But we carried on fighting without him and slowly but surely he saw that and started to pitch back in.
I didn't see him fully do it back home until well after first showed up here. But in both places he's shown that he does know and realize the hurt he's done. And that he's willing to try and make things right when he gets the chance. He's just fragile despite his attitude and thinks the world around him is the same way.
I don't know. I just see that he isn't as self centered and uncaring as he likes to think he comes across.
Him.
I think.
I don't know exactly.
He... Wasn't honest with us. With the world. And he was desperate to do everything on his own. I don't necessarily blame him for that considering the people he was working with at the time. And who we were fighting.
Eventually I realized he was never going to be honest with us. ...And I forced the answers out instead.
He retreated and cut us off without a word.
I guess he thought if we knew we'd just betray him like the rest.
But we carried on fighting without him and slowly but surely he saw that and started to pitch back in.
I didn't see him fully do it back home until well after first showed up here. But in both places he's shown that he does know and realize the hurt he's done. And that he's willing to try and make things right when he gets the chance. He's just fragile despite his attitude and thinks the world around him is the same way.
I don't know. I just see that he isn't as self centered and uncaring as he likes to think he comes across.
Excellent! I hadn't thought he would return so soon!
Where are you?
Where are you?
Never mind, I have the compass. I'll come find you.
[ 'Desperate to do everything on his own' sounds about right, given Ford's memory of what happened on the misty afternoon in Deerington. He hadn't even given Ford a chance to handle the situation on his own, just decided he knew how to handle it and done it.
He wants to tell Ruby that she's wrong, that Ozpin obviously hasn't changed if he's still behaving like that... But his normal zeal for pettiness and grudge-holding it beyond him right now. He can see that Ruby's obviously put up with more from Ozpin that he ever did, and he suspects Ozpin must have improved if she's willing to go to bat for him like that.
But more than that he cares about Ruby, and her opinion, and her happiness. The thought of throwing his own experiences in her face like that just doesn't feel great - especially not when Ozpin has been more mindful of boundaries than Ford would have expected since then. So instead... ]
I hope you're right.
I know it isn't likely, but you and the rest of the house are always welcome here if something else goes wrong. Alright?
He wants to tell Ruby that she's wrong, that Ozpin obviously hasn't changed if he's still behaving like that... But his normal zeal for pettiness and grudge-holding it beyond him right now. He can see that Ruby's obviously put up with more from Ozpin that he ever did, and he suspects Ozpin must have improved if she's willing to go to bat for him like that.
But more than that he cares about Ruby, and her opinion, and her happiness. The thought of throwing his own experiences in her face like that just doesn't feel great - especially not when Ozpin has been more mindful of boundaries than Ford would have expected since then. So instead... ]
I hope you're right.
I know it isn't likely, but you and the rest of the house are always welcome here if something else goes wrong. Alright?
[She doesn't expect to change Ford's opinion just like that. She just wanted him to see a bit of a different perspective on the whole situation. She respected his feelings on the matter and honestly certainly didn't fully object with them either. Oz for the generations he had been alive certainly did have a lot of growing up to do.]
I do too, honestly. I don't think you're totally wrong either.
Of course! I will gladly take any opportunity to spend some time with you and yours. You're all great company.
If you guys ever need a little extra protection of just a sunny disposition I'd be glad to pop by too.
I do too, honestly. I don't think you're totally wrong either.
Of course! I will gladly take any opportunity to spend some time with you and yours. You're all great company.
If you guys ever need a little extra protection of just a sunny disposition I'd be glad to pop by too.
Edited 2022-05-08 16:37 (UTC)
Indeed I do.
[ ... Ah, right. They're having this conversation for a reason. ]
Regardless. Willow, can I ask you how you found out about this?
[ ... Ah, right. They're having this conversation for a reason. ]
Regardless. Willow, can I ask you how you found out about this?
You were right. My blood froze up into a big old slipping hazard all over the floor. I'm giving you one good 'I told you so', so make it count.
Edited 2022-05-14 04:55 (UTC)
[ Ford won't actually say 'I told you so' because it's no fun when someone calls his shot, but: ]
See? It's easy to tell with the right method.
See? It's easy to tell with the right method.
[ And then, a moment later, he finally fully processes the 'all over the floor' comment. ]
By the way, are you alright?
By the way, are you alright?
[... ah. He may have given too much away. He honestly was not expecting Ford to ask, given his relative gung-ho attitude about blood thus-far.]
Yes? Yes.
I haven't lost any more since.
Yes? Yes.
I haven't lost any more since.
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