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[denyamenti]

[ He keeps it short and to the point, audio only for the chance that someone might respond with decent advice before they realize by his voice who they're talking to. ]

How does one go about undoing a sudden interest in guardianship that a certain shelled someone seems to have found in me?

[ Someone's been trying to ignore Emily-Helen's insistent mental summons of her new papa, and it's getting to a point where it's becoming near-impossible to hear himself think over her in his head --and he's used to some pretty chatty ghosts already stuck up in there. ]

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text; anonymous

[unetrustworthy]

[This was...one of the last thing she expected to hear over the network. And she wasn't happy about it. She didn't want to talk to him face to face, but that didn't mean she couldn't let her grievances be known:]

Qui aurait jamais vous laisser être un gardien de tortue?

[Oh by the way, can you read French, Bakura?]

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[denyamenti]

[ He really has utterly no clue what to do with that. He inherited English and Japanese from his host, but even if Ryou had known enough French to puzzle that the general meaning of that, he no longer had access to the teen's mind to rifle through it. The knowledge Bakura had now was static; if he hadn't sought it out before, he no longer could get to it. But he can play around with the words a little. Ironically knowing hieroglyphics, wherein letters could be grouped in different setups and all mean the same thing, is helping here. ]

laisser   |   tortue
jamais   |   gardien

gardienguardian

j   t   l
a   o   a
m   r   i
a   t   s
i   u   s
s   e   e
-   -   r

[ "Turtle" and "tortue" had the same amount of letters and the "t--t--e" in the same place, so Bakura was reasonably certain that was intended to be the same word. So this person was repeating something of what he'd said? ]

text; anonymous

[unetrustworthy]

[...what?]

[Oh. Wait. That middle word...gardienguardian...that was actually two words. One in French, the other in English.]

[Of course. She had been so frustrated at finding this whole mess out, she'd forgotten. The consoles didn't translate text, and there were so few people who spoke her native tongue.]

You. A Guardian. It is wrong.

Re: text; anonymous

[denyamenti]

[ Oh, so they can type in something he can read. Anonymous still, but the sentiment could come from anyone. ]

I know.

text; anonymous

[unetrustworthy]

[Barely.]

[Her English was adequate enough for simple conversation, but hardly sufficient to express what she really thought.]

Why did happen?

[She was also far more prone to grammatical errors when she wasn't thinking at her clearest. Which may or may not give away her lack of fluency.]

--> voice;

[denyamenti]

[ He changes back to voice, though he doesn't care if they stayed in text. ]

As I said, a mistake I am trying to rectify.

text; anonymous

[unetrustworthy]

[She had registered as anonymous for a reason. Unless he gave a clear indication he knew who it was, she would just as soon not do anything more to reveal her identity. No matter how much it limited her vocabulary.]

Learn how.

That will teach how to undo it.

audio;

[iwannabeadragon]

[Hey there Bakura it's one of your best friends.]

Have you tried swallowing a blade? That would solve everyone's problem I think.

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[denyamenti]

[ Bakura mutters something under his breath that sounds vaguely like "Nile hippos" and a suggestion for Hawke to do something probably uncouth with it, but it doesn't carry well on the audio feed. ]

I'd ask what you did with your turtle but I'd have to check if it still lives first.

[ He knows it does; more snark on principle. ]

audio;

[iwannabeadragon]

[Hawke takes Bakura's annoyance as a personal victory.]

Like I'd pass the chance to watch you flail about incompetently anyway.

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[denyamenti]

Come and have a rematch if you think that's what will happen, sefet.

[ He's been alive for almost a month again, time to live dangerously. ]

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[iwannabeadragon]

Eager to get stabbed with your own knife are you?

Re: audio;

[denyamenti]

If that's what it takes you imagining to find the courage to show up, so be it.

Re: audio;

[iwannabeadragon]

Last time we did this I left you in a puddle of your own blood and spit. Are you sure you're not just a masochist?

[backinakidflash]

Why would you want to? They're amazing.

[denyamenti]

Because it's clearly a choice made in error.

[ Because even Bakura knows he's a really bad option for turtle parent. ]

[backinakidflash]

I think that the mentoree teaches the mentor more than the other way around.

[denyamenti]

Perhaps in most cases. The point is more that if you know something will end badly-- fix the problem ahead of time.

[backinakidflash]

Depends on your point of view. Just about everything that ends well for someone ends badly for someone/something else. Teach a man to fish... yeah, he won't go hungry anymore, but wow it sucks for the fish.

Anyway. You're gonna have to define badly. Preferably without it sounding all 'oh no this cute turtle wants to be my friend.'

[denyamenti]

Badly as in I would probably end up getting it killed. How's that?

[backinakidflash]

Uno, there are other people linked to the turtle; dos, you can't make it do things; tres, they're pretty tough. I've seen them go through walls.

[skeletonenigma]

One doesn't. Believe me, I've tried.

[He's also amused by the myriad of responses. The more he learns about Bakura, the more he feels like he's watching a train wreck in motion.]

[denyamenti]

That would end very badly for all involved.

[ Skul's observation isn't inaccurate. Bakura knows he's not a most liked person in this city (and with good reason) but he had hoped, at least vaguely, that the fact of this being related to the hatchlings would override their dislike and get viable replies. Clearly not! ]

[skeletonenigma]

Well, as long as 'all involved' doesn't include everyone on the turtle, I don't suppose I can stop you.

[He may stop by later to make sure no one's dead, though.]

[denyamenti]

No promises.

[ Because he really isn't ruling it out if this turtle baby doesn't stop agitating his ghosts. ]