twelve ☼ video

[deshabille]

Former, current, or, in fact, future members of the Tenth Foot, this is your corporal speaking.

[Yes, even if you are from the future or the past, she is still your corporal.]

[A significant pause. Then:]

Stand up straight. You're embarrassing me.

[That will be all u_u]

Comments

[deshabille]

You'll all embarrass me anyway.

[kissthatgoodbye]

Oh come on, now, you haven't even met all of us.

[deshabille]

I've met enough to generalize rampantly.

[kissthatgoodbye]

What if I promise to stop slouching?

[He's actually totally slouching.]

[deshabille]

If I believed your promises even a little, that might be enough to get me to stop generalizing.

[kissthatgoodbye]

Touche. Good thing I really don't care about your approval.

[deshabille]

Good thing I don't care about your not caring.

[She likes you. You have weird knives sticking out all over you under the grin. That is her favorite kind of person.]

[kissthatgoodbye]

[He likes you too. You speak-a his lannnnnguage.]

As long as we're on the same page.

So what is the Tenth Foot?

[deshabille]

My regiment. Tenth Infantry. We are temporarily in different universes, so, you know. Every opportunity to check in must be taken.

In case they're burning down the country. [Not that there's much to burn, it's kind of a damp place.]

[kissthatgoodbye]

But the real question is are they supposed to be burning down the country?

[In his experience with the military, one can never be absolutely certain of this.]

[deshabille]

No.

[A very firm no. The kind of no that means she will yell their ears off if they are. That country ought to be standing, or else.]

[kissthatgoodbye]

Well.

Sounds like a boring war.

[deshabille]

Best kind of war, in my experience.

[May you live in interesting times, and so on.]