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>"Eh?" Irene peeks over my shoulder to look at Charlotte. "You're cooking something?"


"Yup, and it's going to be great," I say with a big smile. "My Mom's gonna be helping Charlotte make chicken pot pie for everyone!"
"Cecile..." Charlotte growls, holding onto my arm even tighter than before.
"Er, I can understand if she doesn't want to cook for me too," Irene says. "I'm already imposing on you guys enough as it is."


>this is the absolute least charlotte can do for the irene after last night
>leave this up to the charlotte's discretion

>>47600257
>leave this up to the charlotte's discretion

>>47600257
>leave this up to the charlotte's discretion
How's work on your VN coming along arch?

>>47600257
>this is the absolute least charlotte can do for the irene after last night

Besides, she's already making it for everyone anyway. Its just gonna be weird for Irene to eat something else

>>47600257
>>this is the absolute least charlotte can do for the irene after last night

>>47600257
>>this is the absolute least charlotte can do for the irene after last night
Not making it for everyone would be rude, RIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight Charlotte?
*Activate the Cecille leer*

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>wriitng

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"Cooking it while only leaving you out would just be rude... right, Charlotte?" I ask, hitting her with my best imitation of my Mom's stern glare. "Besides, this is the absolute -least- you can do for her after last night."
"......" Charlotte turns away from me. "FINE, it would be weird to make her eat something different from everyone else anyways."

She's acting like it physically hurt her to say that.

"But I'm not going to promise that it'll taste good," Charlotte says. "At all. Because I have no idea what I'm doing."
"Hey, I'm no food critic," Irene says with an uneasy smile. "Y'know, 'that which devours' and all."
"...oh yeah," she sighs.
"So even in the off chance that nobody else likes it, I promise to eat the whole thing!"

Irene gives Charlotte an enthusiasm-filled thumbs up, which is met with a long, exasperated groan from her. And as for me, I have no idea how I'm supposed to react in a situation like this.


>so what shall we do until my mom gets back?

>>47601845
Watch MLP.

>>47601845
Kiss her on the neck and whisper "Be nice." into her ear while we're there.

>>47601845
sit and make pleasant conversation with our friend and our girlfriend, who is going to be good.

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>writing

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I lean in close to Charlotte until my lips are just barely touching the nape of her neck.

"Be nice," I whisper to her. "Unless you want me to spring Round Three when you're least expecting it."
"........."

With the rest of her body completely frozen in place, Charlotte looks down at me.

"Attagirl," I say as I kiss her on the neck.

...and then I realize that Irene is sitting right at my other side and I've practically been shoving this stuff in her face since she came down here.

"Sorry," I say, turning to her, "I-"

Oh. She wasn't even paying attention to that little scene. Just my luck.

"Wha-"

Completely disoriented, Irene darts her head all around the room. But she finally breathes a sigh of relief when she realizes that I was the one who was trying to talk to her.

"Sorry," she sighs, "I got distracted by some other stuff. Did I miss something?"
"No, not really," I shake my head.


>something something other bodies?
>something something foodstuffs?
>something something girlfriends?
>[OTHER]

>>47603000
>>something something other bodies?
>something something foodstuffs?
>something something girlfriends?

>>47603000
>something something other bodies?

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>writing

>>47603000
That pic is pretty funny considering the characters' real personalities.

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"Was it something you're doing in one of your other bodies that got you distracted?" I ask.
"Eheh, yeah," Irene says with a faint smile. "I'm busy with fieldwork in some places, paperwork in others... and this whole thing with Faceless has me being interrogated by our higher-ups almost constantly since I reported his death."
"Ouch," I wince.
"It's just another of those things..." she sighs. "Some jerks in the upper levels of the Tree of Life are suspicious that I was in cahoots with that bastard since we're both Vines so they keep grilling me over and over again in hopes of catching me change my story."
"How unpleasant," Charlotte remarks. "It makes one wonder why anyone would ever associate with those people, doesn't it."


>cut it out, charlotte
>let it slide, I can't scold her all the time

>>47603723
>>cut it out, charlotte
>deploy mom-stare

>>47603723
"Okay! Private talking time."
Take Charlotte into the hallway or something and try and sort through this hostility because it's getting a little silly now."

>>47603723
>>let it slide, I can't scold her all the time

>>47603723
>let it slide, I can't scold her all the time
Hey, where did you get new art Arch?

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>>47603944
>Hey, where did you get new art Arch?
I've actually had that one for about two months now.
There's only one picture that I have yet to use.


>writing

>>47603723
>let it slide, I can't scold her all the time

>>47604000
Use it then!

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Though I do manage to resist the urge to scold Charlotte for being a jerk to Irene AGAIN, I still hit her with another angry glare. Because seriously, what the hell.

"What?" Charlotte looks at me like she doesn't know what she did wrong. "I didn't insult her at all!"
"Really, I'm used to it by now," Irene sighs.

She just looks completely defeated.

"All I was saying is that it doesn't make any sense to me why you continue to associate with a group that you freely admit treats you ass a slave!" Charlotte says. "I mean, don't they not know that you're staying here?"
"No," Irene replies, "but that's just to keep from complimenting things-"
"And that's exactly what I'm talking about. You do those people's dirty work time and again through multiple instances of yourself yet they treat you with nothing but suspicion. Despite the fact that you've outright DIED in the pursuit of their goals."


>the charlotte does have a point there
>I'm sure that the irene has her reasons

>>47604324
>the charlotte does have a point there
What you're saying is nice why are you doing it in a mean way!?

>>47604324
>I'm sure that the irene has her reasons

>>47604324
>>the charlotte does have a point there

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>writing

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"She does have a point there," I chime in.
"See, even Cecile agrees with me," Charlotte says, tightening her hold on my arm so that a certain softness is way more pronounced. "Even ignoring my own personal issues with the Tree of Life, you don't seem to be gaining anything other than grief by continuing to associate with them."

Charlotte holds up the arm that she's not using to smoosh her breasts against me.

"In the short time I've been here," Charlotte says, "you've been stabbed..." she raises a finger. "...got a laser through you..."

Courtesy of yours truly.

"...and this most recent incident left you maimed -and- trapped in what you believe to be 'hell,' where you then proceeded to die an incredibly miserable death."
"Wait," I perk up, "how did you-"
"I have -very- good hearing, remember?" she replies with a smirk.


>[1/?]

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>>47604898
>[2/2]

"Anyways," Charlotte turns back to Irene, "that makes -three- times that you've died doing their bidding just in this city alone."

She holds up the same number of fingers at Irene.

"And even though you may be able to walk that off like it was nothing, it just seems ungrateful."
"I'm used to being treated poorly," Irene replies. "And it's not like I deserve it... from -them-, at least."

She cuts Charlotte a sharp glance as she says that.

"In the end, I just want to do what I can to be of use to Katrine," she sighs. "And if that means that I suffer undue scrutiny from the other higher-ups then that's just how it is. Regardless of how they act towards me, I wholeheartedly believe in the goals of the organization itself."
"Hmph," Charlotte rolls her eyes.


>speak up
>I'm staying out of this

>>47605059
>>speak up
"I’m glad at least that you stick to your principles, even if I don’t quite follow them.

And you do deserve better."

>>47605059
>speak up
No one deserves being treated like you've been.

>>47605059
>speak up
"You've got other people who care about you know, like Theresa, who don't want you to be treated so badly"

>>47605059
>speak up
Blah blah blah you shouldn't have to suffer like that out of obligation to someone

>>47605059
>"I'm used to being treated poorly," Irene replies. "And it's not like I deserve it... from -them-, at least."
This is why I hate Irene.

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>>47605243
so mean


>writing

>>47605248
>so mean
To be fair, she is parading around in a dead girl's skin.

>>47605310
Well kind of. The girl is still alive, after all. Just… halved.

>>47605248
Irene is so deluded in her self loathing that she doesn't see how much harm she causes to the people that care about her. She's a self-centered bitch that puts her own constant "sacrifice" above the well being of the people around her.

>>47605350
>Irene is so deluded in her self loathing that she doesn't see how much harm she causes to the people that care about her.
Yup.

>She's a self-centered bitch that puts her own constant "sacrifice" above the well being of the people around her.
I wouldn't call her a bitch, but this is also correct.

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"It's good that you're sticking to your principles... I guess..." I say, "...but you still deserve better than that. And you -do- have other people who care about you, you know. Like Theresa."
"Yeah..." Irene sighs. "I know."
"All in the name of some misguided desire for self-sacrifice," Charlotte scoffs.
"What's this about self-sacrifice now?"

Somehow I manage to miss hearing my father's heavy footsteps until he actually walks into the room.

"Did something happen that I ought to know about?" he asks.
"We were just discussing Irene's lack of self-esteem," Charlotte replies.

His interest piqued, my father takes a seat on the smaller couch and we find ourselves pulled into a long conversation about jobs, employers, and all that boring fatherly advice stuff. And of course I'm suck here through the whole thing.

But then I hear the sound of a car pulling into the driveway...


>c'mon charlotte let's go help my mom
>use this opportunity to slip away and do something else
>[OTHER]

>>47605610
>c'mon charlotte let's go help my mom

Slow thread and I'm also kind of burnt out... though I'd have liked to keep going, I'm going to have to end it here.

The next thread will be either Sunday or Monday night, depending on how I'm feeling.


and now questions

>>47605714
Thanks for running

>>47605714
Thank you for running. Wasn’t here as much as I wanted, but it is always nice to wake up to one of your threads.

And now I sleep. Thanks for playing!

For questioning:
http://maouzenigame.tumblr.com/

Game production blog (finally going to update it with something next week I hope):
https://studioarchelon.wordpress.com/