[narrations + overflow]

[darkinferno]

[A collection of narration bits that don't belong anywhere else from Dante/Riku's time in Recollé.]

[Or, a personal overflow.]

Comments

[daemonized]

[god dante you are an ass of the highest degree

HE SCOFFS AT THAT REMARK, hand reaching up once more to adjust his hat.]

You're on the fast track to dying exceedingly young at this rate. Would you like an adult to lecture you on just how reckless that is?

[darkinferno]

[HAS HE EVER PROFESSED TO BE ANYTHING ELSE? I think not]

You know, when I made that dad crack, I wasn't being serious! How many lectures have you threatened me with now? Two? Three?

Besides, I don't drift inside the city limits.

[Beat.]

Before midnight.

[daemonized]

And I will continue to threaten you with my lectures. It's my civic duty, as a responsible adult.

[SERIOUSLY THO]

Honestly, the recklessness of youth is utterly mind-blowing.

[darkinferno]

[A snort as he rolls his eyes.]

See if I ever give you a ride again. Here I am being innovative and coming up with good solutions and all I get is shit.

Besides, who decided you're a responsible adult? I demand credentials; I don't believe it.

[daemonized]

And exactly what is that supposed to mean, hm?

[He'd take offense to that! ...If he were any other man than Ardyn Izunia.]

I'm utterly surrounded by proof of my responsible adulthood. Surely that much is obvious to you.

[darkinferno]

[Yeah, Dante's side-eyeing Ardyn.]

You're being driven in an RC jeep looking like a kid playing dress-up in his father's bathrobe with a bad hat. Is this a trick question?

[daemonized]

[Wow rude?]

And what does that say about you?

[darkinferno]

That I'm a reckless young man having a bit of fun in a shitty situation?

[Come on, you didn't expect him to admit to anything, did you?]

[daemonized]

Overall, correct. Though a bit more simplistic than what I would have said.

[And before you can ask what he was going to say!]

You're a reckless young man who had better learn -- someday soon, hopefully -- that danger and fun can be mutually exclusive.

[darkinferno]

[It's a good thing Ardyn continued, because that absolutely would have been Dante's next question!]

I already know that they can be.

But the things that are the most fun always have a little bit of risk to them too.

[Adrenaline is a powerful rush...]