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谢怜 || Xiè Lián ([personal profile] scrapgege) wrote in [community profile] westwhere2023-02-20 07:01 pm

So a god walks into a bar...

WHO: Xie Lian, Ignacio Varga, Stephen Strange, maybe more?
WHEN: In the second phase of Alem's siege
WHERE: Around the arkets and near the Hellgate
WHAT: Xie Lian has some existential conversation while feeding stray kids and investigating the gates to hell, as you do.
WARNINGS: It's Xie Lian, so he might offhandedly mention some of his past which includes suicide and torture, and a whole lot of people dying.


[Starters in comments]
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[personal profile] nachocheese 2023-02-21 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[The kids are kind of scared of Nacho. Most of them, anyway. He doesn't blame them. He's spent a lot of time developing skills of intimidation, and not a lot of time learning to be nurturing. Hey, it's not like drug cartels famously value someone's ability to be Mary Poppins, alright?

But that doesn't mean he doesn't care about those who are starving, those who are going without.

Especially the kids.

So when he overhears someone nearby, he turns, and catches Xie Lian's eye.]


It's okay. I've got some money. [And more importantly, ways of getting things without money, but he's not going to say that in front of a much of impressionable children.]

What do they want?
nachocheese: (sabrosito)

[personal profile] nachocheese 2023-02-25 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Don't think we have. Nacho.

[He extends out a hand for Xie Lian to shake, if Xie Lian is amenable to such things.

His eyes travel to the kiddos and his expression melts. Part of him is tempted to buy sweets, but they need real food. Sustenance. Dessert won't tide them over for long.

...and okay. Maybe one sweet or too, if he can sugar talk the merchant into throwing it in for free.]


Come on. [With that, he'll lead Xie Lian and the children to one of the stands, before glancing sidelong at his new companion.] You want anything?
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[personal profile] nachocheese 2023-02-28 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nacho frowns to Xiè Lián's insistence that not having food won't kill him. He's tempted to shoot back something about, well, actually not eating any food does eventually kill people, that's kind of how it works...but who knows, maybe this guy is a god or a ghost or some shit like that. So it might be true.

Still, Nacho insists. Maybe he just wants to be useful where he can or maybe it's just the sight of Xiè Lián holding the little girl warms the inside of his chest. So he says only:]


Gotta eat something, man.

[Food is scarce during the siege. Nacho beelines to one of the merchants he knows, a pretty young woman who's made it clear she likes his eyes and who he's not above flirting with to get his way. More importantly, he knows by now who is easier to deal with and who isn't...and who can be manipulated by the sight of a dozen hungry children and who can't be.

He gets some bread for everyone, some dried cured meats, dried fruits...nothing fresh, though. The merchants haven't had anything like that since he's been here, as far as he knows. He does look over his shoulder, almost conspiratorially, at Xiè Lián and the little girl and although he drops his voice, it's not hard to hear him saying, "Two pastries? For them?" as he makes a 'number two' symbol with his hands.]
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[personal profile] nachocheese 2023-03-15 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nacho looks questioningly at him when he doesn't eat.]

You weren't kidding about not eating, huh?

[He looks at the collection of little ones that form Xie Lian's impromptu entourage.]

So I've heard. Sorry 'bout it. [He sighs a little.]
Edited 2023-03-15 20:45 (UTC)