Archery is hard

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir Aeser and Diarmuid
Setting: Forest (the not safe one)
Format: Either
Summary: These two meet, also there is archery fail
Warnings:

The bow Nesir had looked as terrifying as it's wielder did not. Though it had been crafted out of wood found in the forests here, or perhaps because of that fact it looked evil, as if it wanted to do you harm.

A fitting weapon and Nesir was pleased with it. With the look of it anyways, it was still a bow and bows were still the most stupid weapon ever created. But she had promised Ganondorf she would become competent with one, and so here she was, in the forest- she had thought this the safer forest and was a little confused at the amount of monstrous animals. Not that she minded, they made good targets.

She hadn't hit one yet. Except one squirrel that had mocked her so much she had given up and threw a dagger at it. The anger of the last month had faded into a muted annoyance with everything but she forced herself to focus. Dipping in and out of the emptiness, pausing every so often to touch the scarlet ribbon that held her hair back.

She still hadn't decided which side was best. A right handed grip had the obvious problem; her index and middle fingers were missing on her right hand, reducing her ability to draw the string properly. Left handed though was a disaster and the arrow went spinning off to the side, luckily it probably didn't have enough power to puncture anything.

"Darkness be taking his eyes." She hissed, sometimes; despite her loyalty, she really hated Ganondorf.

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[oathshackledbird]

"All right then, morning it is," Diarmuid smiles and then nods toward her arm. 'Will two days give your arm enough time to recover? Where would you like to meet? Usually, I train people up in the gym, but we could meet again here as well if you prefer a quieter place."

[culbutiri]

"Two days will be being plenty." She grins, "And so will be being the gym. I do be spending a lot of time there."

She grinned. "Do you be having a name?"

[oathshackledbird]

"I do. My apologies for not giving it to you before," Diarmuid places a hand against his chest, bowing his head slightly. "I am Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. May I ask you for yours in return?"

[culbutiri]

Nesir gave a formalised bow in return, "It do be being nice to be meeting you Diarmuid Ua Duibhne." She stumbled a bit over the last name. "I do be being Nesir Aeser."

[oathshackledbird]

For a moment, Diarmuid does not reply, surprise crossing his face along with a slight flickering of confused distrust. He has heard that name before. From Tohko... A 'Nesir' was one of those who she listed as being an ally of Ganondorf and Sephiroth. Indeed, now that he has the name, her missing fingers also trigger a memory. Tohko had mentioned them in her description. How had he forgotten?

"You are friends with Ganondorf and Sephiroth..."

And yet she had said she was friends with Lancelot as well. How could that be? Did he not know? Or had Tohko been mistaken?

[culbutiri]

She saw that distrust and frowned right back though there were plenty of reasons why he may have heard she was not to be trusted.

She frowned at the reasoning though, drawing herself up a little, "I would no be calling myself friends with Sephiroth, and I doubt he would be lowering himself to be thinking of me as such." She nodded, "But I do be knowing them both yes."

[oathshackledbird]

Relief shows in Diarmuid's face at hearing that. There is a difference between knowing someone and being friends with them. Perhaps Tohko had made a mistake? She and Nesir had not had good encounters from what little Diarmuid knew, but that didn't necessarily make Nesir a bad person. After all, while Diarmuid had never been bothered by Tohko, other people he was friends with found her annoying or overly naive at times. It could be Nesir found her the same and Jason's experiments had made things worse.

"Sephiroth forced my son to kill himself in front of me. I am afraid I would not be able to train anyone who was friends with him," Diarmuid's voice is stern, an obvious example of how much he dislikes Sephiroth. "What of Ganondorf? Is he your friend or just someone you know?"

[culbutiri]

"That do be sounding like Sephiroth." Diarmuid had a son? Not that that was really surprising, but the fact he was here was. She had heard of people from the same universe being there but not whole families.

She frowned though, "Ganondorf do be being another who would no be lowering himself to be being friends with me." Or anyone. Actually.

"But you could be saying I do be working with him."

[oathshackledbird]

Diarmuid seems satisfied with Nesir's answer up until the point she mentions working with Ganondorf. Then his whole expression suddenly goes cold and closes off. Not only that, his body language closes off as well as if he is distancing himself from her.

When he speaks, he asks only one simple questions, "Why?"

[culbutiri]

She notices and her body language does the same, becoming more defensive though she does not draw her daggers. Her eyes narrow though as she watches him, disappointed. She should have known that he were just another light addled fool, despite being from the same world as Lancelot.

"He do be actually doing things, he do no be grovelling to the administrators. He might of not been succeeding yet but I do be thinking he has been making more progress than others."

[oathshackledbird]

"Ganondorf cursed my brother to death because he played a harmless prank on him. Forgive me if I find it hard to put my faith in such a petty individual," Diarmuid gives her a steady look. "Do you really think he is doing any more than using you as a pawn in his plans? Shouldn't you ask for more than that for yourself?"

Diarmuid's been a pawn before. Whether Nesir is good or evil herself, he really doesn't want to see her used as a pawn either. Not when she is obviously so skilled.

[culbutiri]

She rolled her eyes, that was typical Ganondorf, overreacting. But she saw no problem with that, curses would be undone once someone died and they caused chaos. Nesir couldn't argue with chaos.

She outright laughed, a sharp almost bitter sound at his next question. "We all do be being pawns in the end." She told him, "For gods or other people, it do no really be making a difference. Some people do just be being made to be being pawns, it do no be being a bad thing." But it was amusing that he sounded worried about her.

[oathshackledbird]

"Whoever told you that was wrong. There is a difference between being a pawn and serving a person. If you accept just being a pawn, you undervalue yourself," Diarmuid shakes his head and then frowns. "Why do you laugh? What is so funny about my questions? Do you think me too naive or perhaps too innocent? I would rather be those things than to give up control of my own fate as it seems you have..."

I am so horrifically sorry x a thousand she is so awful cries forever

[culbutiri]

"The word fate do be suggesting a lack of control already." She pointed out, shaking her head back.

She did think him innocent, she had come to this conclusion about the world after a lot of thinking, and a lot of disobeying and a lot of hurting. Being a tool didn't mean having no control though, there were small things, but they were things you would miss if you spent your whole life fighting against those in power.

But his naivety wasn't what annoyed her, "I do be thinking you a hypocrite." She told him, not laughing now. "You do be being a servant like Lancelot, and you do telling me to be taking control, like you do no just be being a tool yourself."

*pats* It is perfectly okay!

[oathshackledbird]

There had been a time when Diarmuid might have snapped at her for saying such a thing, and for a moment, anger does flare inside of him. However, he easily pushes that anger down.

Perhaps, he is finally starting to learn how to control those dark emotions Kayneth's betrayal awakened in him.

"I am no hypocrite. I only tell you to do what I have already done. Yes, I was a tool once. If you think me too innocent now, you should have seen me before I came here--before all of my ideals and beliefs were shattered to dust in front of me. I did not know I was a tool back then. I know that now and that is what has allowed me to move beyond being just a tool. I have no intention of returning to my own world once this is all done. Instead, I will find a way to go back with another and help him dismantle the very system that made me a tool to being with. Even if I cannot go back with him, I will do everything I can to make sure he is able to succeed when he goes home. For too long, I have let others control my fate. Now, only I will."

"I expect you will laugh at that proclamation, but it is true. Controlling your fate is not just about your actions. It's is also about how you mentally react to things. No one can control everything and things will often go wrong, but as long as I do not let those things keep me from trying then I am the one in control."

[culbutiri]

She raised an eyebrow. Well hypocrite and naive as he was he was at least fighting. Fighting for something, even if it was an impossible quest to be used by no one. She respected that.

But she was still going to argue, because he had tried to pity her and she hated being pitied. More than anything.

"And how will you be ensuring that person will no be just using you." She asked, raising her eyebrow.

[oathshackledbird]

"A simple answer for a simple question. He will never use me because he has been used himself, and would never want me to feel that pain. Not when he knows how much of it I have already suffered through," Diarmuid's answer comes without hesitation. There are other reasons he could give her, but somehow he doesn't think she will place much value in an answer like 'he loves me.'

"In addition to that, he is the person who has done the most to encourage me to make my own choices and take control of my life. He wants me to stand on my own and be a person again instead of a tool. Somehow, I doubt that will be changing anytime soon."

[culbutiri]

"Tools do be being people." She told him mulling his answer through her mind. She still wasn't sure that this person wouldn't begin using Diarmuid as a tool. After all most people did use others even if they did not mean to.

"I do be hoping you do be winning your fight." She told him, and she was being sincere. Even if she was still angry.

[oathshackledbird]

"Not on my world," Diarmuid shakes his head. "Tools are just tools to the people of my world. Even we heroes are just tools to most of the magi who summon us. Very few remember we were humans once with our own hopes and desires."

He pauses when she gives her best wishes. Diarmuid can tell she's sincere, but at the same time, still angry. It confuses him.

"What of you? Will you remain content to be a tool and nothing else?"

[culbutiri]

"But do you be remembering, that do be being what I do be meaning. No one can be taking our humanity away from us. I do be being a person and it do no be mattering what other people do be thinking." A belief only had to get stronger, if you were the only person who believed it.

She eyes flickered up at him at his question and then narrowed, even angrier at him. "No." She said, sarcasm was still relatively new, but she tried her best, "I did be deciding to be putting aside conclusions that I did be spending the last few years coming to because you did be speaking pretty words."

[oathshackledbird]

"I have lived a lot longer than you have and seen a great many more things. Even if you do not like those 'pretty words' you should at least consider them. Do you always ignore advice that you do not like?"

"I do not understand how someone so sure that she is a person with all the rights that entails can settle for just being a tool. You have amazing gifts. I cannot claim to know your world, but there must be a place in it for someone with your talents beyond just being a tool," Diarmuid's voice is frustrated. He is trying very hard to understand her line of thought, but failing completely. "Surely, you have not already given up on something better? You are young and so there is still so much you haven't seen. Why would you want to settle for something less than you deserve? Why would you want to stop growing and looking for more?"

[culbutiri]

"Do that no be being the point of advice? That it can be being ignored, otherwise it do just be being an order."

She rolled her eyes, "It do no even be mattering, there do no be being anything better at the moment. In case you did no be noticing we do no even be having worlds at the moment, or bodies. We do no even be being tools to the administrators but toys, useless things to be played with and discarded."

Green eyes glinted angrily.

[oathshackledbird]

"No, advice is to be listened to and thought about. If you act on it is up to you, but you should at least think on it, not just ignore it," Diarmuid shakes his head as she continue speaking. Her words sound too much like the words of one who has given up and that frustrates him since she has so much worth fighting for.

"If we were their tools, we would not be fighting them as we are. If we were their tools, we would not be researching to free ourselves from the chains that bind us. We have not given up, not by any stretch of the imagination and that is what keeps us from being just their tools. We might be bound by their chains, but that won't always be the case and then we will take our bodies and our worlds back from them."

[culbutiri]

"I did no be saying we did no be being their tools, but toys and it do no be mattering they do be seeing us the same way." She shook her head, "I do no be saying we should no be fighting them, I do be fighting them, and you will no be saying I do no be."

She shrugged, "Maybe if everyone did be allowing themselves to be being used by one leader we would be getting out of here quicker."

[oathshackledbird]

"While I have always felt that we need to work together in order to get out of here, I don't think everyone working under one leader will get us out of here any faster. No one person has all the answers, and anyone who would use their fellow man as a tool is no better than the Administrators are--"

Diarmuid stops suddenly as several things she's said snap together in his mind, "Don't tell me you honestly think Ganondorf should be that leader!"