[Since she's doing this particular house call as Sailor Moon, Usagi changes her username so it's not nearly so obvious she is one and the same person. So with that done, time to make a call, one god to another.]
You're John, correct? [She's not accusatory, she's not mad or upset, she has heard enough about what others have done or have sworn to do to this man and she doesn't see the reason to pile on. She could be mistaken for bored but she is not, just... watching, for now.]
A duel? Oh no no, nothing like that, you are close on what I wish to discuss, though. It seems you had a recent duel with Maul and he came to me for healing.
My question is how much of a back and forth should I be expecting from that? He holds a grudge and I just want to know how often he'll be injured from now on and how often I'll need to heal him.
[Is... is she joking? Well, no, actually. Maul absolutely asked her to fix the mess John made. Usagi wants to know how often she should be expecting that since Maul was as familiar with letting things go as much as he was willing to wear colors besides black.]
[ There is a long beat of silence as John processes this. He is briefly impressed by her good cheer in the face of, you know, an objectively horrible maiming. This is not the tone he expected from this call. ]
It was a hell of a duel. [ This he says dryly. Duel is not the word he would use. ] Your friend has quite a skillset. I'd hate to be whoever else has ended up on his bad side.
But me? [ His smile pulls wry. ] I'll consider us square. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. If he starts that up again, I don't know why he'd expect a different result... but I'm not looking for trouble, here.
[ This is, in his opinion, a generous forgoing of bullshit. If he were being petty about it, Maul would owe him pain. ]
[She suspected he wouldn't expect it, it's why she's doing it. She's not book smart, but she's incredibly people smart when she chooses to be, John's reactions to everyone on his response about the whole ordeal told her plenty. John would have heard her shout "In the name of the moon, I will punish you," and would humor her, like he's humoring her now. Could she handle him, probably, she's not sure. He's perfectly fine after multiple attempts on his life, and with Trench being Trench, there was really nothing meant with John being killed over and over.]
Don't tell him that, it will go to his head and his ego is bad enough already. And plenty of people are on his bad side, being on his good side is a much smaller list.
However, he knows I don't like it when he acts on it and he doesn't like being on my bad side.
But! I'm glad to hear that there won't be anymore from your end so long as there isn't from him. Like I said, he holds a grudge. I'll talk to him.
["Not looking for trouble," she absolutely resists rolling her eyes. He "doesn't look for trouble" by trying to usurp one of this world's gods. But she's not SURPRISED by his statement either. Men like John did not get scared or rattled or worried by blood and gore and torture, he said himself, he'd killed billions and he felt nothing about it. Usagi was not impressed, not even a little.
Killing was easy for men like John. So why should his own death matter any?]
[ John would like to know, the more she smiles at him, who the fuck he's talking to. She doesn't seem to be joking even a little bit about her bad side. It is a wild contrast with the things he's seen (felt) from Maul.
His eyebrows climb, a little. But all he says is: ]
Glad to hear it.
[ (He doesn't feel nothing about any of it. John Gaius has never been particularly good at feeling nothing, or at failing to look for trouble.) ]
[She is the antithesis of Maul on many, many things. It's not even intentional. She sees his facial expressions and just maintains her smile, shrugging and nodding.]
Likewise.
No, not at all, unless there is something you wanted to talk about, I believe we're done here.
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Video; UN: EternalMoon - After Healing Maul from their "fight"
You're John, correct? [She's not accusatory, she's not mad or upset, she has heard enough about what others have done or have sworn to do to this man and she doesn't see the reason to pile on. She could be mistaken for bored but she is not, just... watching, for now.]
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[ When he picks up, it's with eerily pleasant nonchalance. He has, at least, changed into less-destroyed clothes. ]
Sorry to say, I'm booked full. If you want a duel to the death, I'll have to pencil you in for next week.
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My question is how much of a back and forth should I be expecting from that? He holds a grudge and I just want to know how often he'll be injured from now on and how often I'll need to heal him.
[Is... is she joking? Well, no, actually. Maul absolutely asked her to fix the mess John made. Usagi wants to know how often she should be expecting that since Maul was as familiar with letting things go as much as he was willing to wear colors besides black.]
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It was a hell of a duel. [ This he says dryly. Duel is not the word he would use. ] Your friend has quite a skillset. I'd hate to be whoever else has ended up on his bad side.
But me? [ His smile pulls wry. ] I'll consider us square. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. If he starts that up again, I don't know why he'd expect a different result... but I'm not looking for trouble, here.
[ This is, in his opinion, a generous forgoing of bullshit. If he were being petty about it, Maul would owe him pain. ]
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Don't tell him that, it will go to his head and his ego is bad enough already. And plenty of people are on his bad side, being on his good side is a much smaller list.
However, he knows I don't like it when he acts on it and he doesn't like being on my bad side.
But! I'm glad to hear that there won't be anymore from your end so long as there isn't from him. Like I said, he holds a grudge. I'll talk to him.
["Not looking for trouble," she absolutely resists rolling her eyes. He "doesn't look for trouble" by trying to usurp one of this world's gods. But she's not SURPRISED by his statement either. Men like John did not get scared or rattled or worried by blood and gore and torture, he said himself, he'd killed billions and he felt nothing about it. Usagi was not impressed, not even a little.
Killing was easy for men like John. So why should his own death matter any?]
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His eyebrows climb, a little. But all he says is: ]
Glad to hear it.
[ (He doesn't feel nothing about any of it. John Gaius has never been particularly good at feeling nothing, or at failing to look for trouble.) ]
Anything else you wanted to talk about?
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Likewise.
No, not at all, unless there is something you wanted to talk about, I believe we're done here.
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[ Love to know who thinks she can. ]
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