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Some meme threads

Sentinel au is always a fav. i love building a story for settings like this! and definitely can be played gen instead of shipping whatever seems to work for our characters.
Snowed in meme. Marco is a world hopper in his original canon so he could be anywhere.... or i can au him into your canon, i just don't know anything about it!
Cyberpunk au! always in for some CP
Random rp scene meme

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This could easily enough be a trick. A plan to make Kai trust him, words twisted deliberately make that happen. But that doesn't really make sense when Kai stops to think about it. His brother and father never cared about fooling Kai's mind, didn't need that control to accomplish everything else they wanted.

So Kai has to seriously consider the possibility that Marco is telling him the truth. Even if that still doesn't leave him clear on why he's sharing that much.

"I have no desire to get involved in elfin politics," Kai says with an apologetic shrug as he picks up Marco's glass. He sips at it this time. "If you're looking for an ally you could do much better." And Kai can't exactly see himself as being much use to Marco, or Merlin, even if he were wiling to play meatshield himself.

"I'm not looking for an ally," Marco replies with a shake of his head. He probably was sharing too much. "I'm just offering you a story," he says this with a quiet look at Kai. "Nothing else."

He steps up again, this time with a quiet sigh as he makes his way around the bar and again pulls out a few bills before he pours himself another serving. Kai still has his glass.

He fixes himself a drink and returns with it, taking a seat again.

"So, that was me," he says brightly. "What about you? You've obviously been here long enough to know the human ways a lot better than I do."

Kai manages to look amused, to offer a sheepish smile. "I've got a story, but it's up to you to decide if it's true or not." He's used to being greeted with a certain amount of disbelief from humans, can't imagine an unsidhe having much more sympathy. Better by far to make it something that can be laughed off, even if that might make Marco annoyed.

"Grew up in a cell. My mother was...a sidhe prisoner. I didn't know her, but one day one of my guards snatches me and takes off running. Don't know if he thought he could get reward money from the sidhe side of my family or what, but I don't think they were interested. The guard ends up losing me in a poker game to Dempsey, an asshole human Stalker." Kai's voice is touched with fondness for Dempsey, despite the words.

"Dempsey more or less raised me, to follow in his footsteps." Kai decides this is a great time to finish off his (Marco's) glass.

"So..." Marco says thoughtfully, eyeing Kai curiously with a new kind of understanding. "You're half and half." It's a surprise to be honest. He had expected something else. Maybe there's a fleeting chance that he's not dying his hair after all.

"And then raised by the third," Marco observes. He can feel that fondness, the bitterness that might come from facing so much disbelief, and plenty of anger, which doesn't surprise him in the least.

"That sounds like a rough beginning for a life," he says quietly.

"We all come into life screaming and naked," Kai says. "We move past it." He wants to avoid any risk of recapture, but he doesn't feel like dwelling on the pain of his past.

"If you're in a sharing mood, do you want to say how it is you happened to come by while I'm the only one here." Kai lifts and eyebrow and leans back in his chair to keep an eye on Marco.

"In this bar right now?" Marco asks. Then shrugs easily, a bit of a smile curving over his lips. "I sought you out. I assumed it would be obvious." Why else would he be here right now?

"And before you lose your marbles about stalking you, yes, yes, I did that. I have no ill intentions towards you, Kai. But you know as well as I do that ignoring each other will only increase the suffering. I'd like to know you rather than apply my own guess work in place for the facts."

Marco is right, Kai doesn't like that at all. He tightens his lips, pursing them into a frown and glances over at the brownies to see if they've settled down yet, if he can call this job complete.

"I don't think I know that." Which is either a way to say that he doesn't care, or expressing his genuine ignorance about all things which are elfin customs - especially the sort that they don't talk to humans about.

Marco quiets as he considers that. Then he nods. "Alright, if that's how you feel about it. You aren't going to see me forcing your hand."

He smooths his sleeve as he stands up, taking a last sip from his drink before he pushes the chair back under the table, tidying up.

"It was a pleasant enough afternoon with you, Kai Gracen. I would imagine we'll see each other again. Until then."

Kai is starting to think that he doesn't understand Marco at all, certainly hadn't expected someone who admitted to stalking him to simply leave when asked.

It's a surprise, too, that there's a certain steadiness in Kai that fades as Marco gets further away.

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