catch-all for april!

[pyrafect]

WHO: Pyra and various
WHERE: around
WHEN: throughout april
WHAT: quests and various threads
WARNINGS: nothing for now

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[bittybat]

We won't find one from a store.

[He gets it's a joke (sort of), but he's!! himself!! And so he doesn't entertain the attitude with anything aside from logic.] We can find other methods of wood preservation, however. Tree tar, perhaps. Animal grease, beeswax. If we could find flaxseed, we could use linseed oil.

[So he may not be non-human enough to jerk up some of the pews in the church and carry them outside, but he's a powerhouse of (useless?) information. All kinds. It's stupid.

There isn't a huge rush for him to gut the church and rebuild, not when he needs to extend the things available to keep him busy. He takes his time with the floor, checking the nails over, putting them in the pile with Pyra's unless they're too bad off. Those go into another pile.]

[pyrafect]

[ ...Aha. ]

.....See? You are quite resourceful. And knowledable!

[ And for someone so young, too! ]

Where did you learn something like that? Just studious? Or was it your father, perhaps? A mentor? [ Like a camp counselor or something. ]

[bittybat]

[Again, he makes a strange face, like he's not sure whether to be appreciative of the praise or uncomfortable by it. It sucks being arrogant, but also hating attention. For several long moments, he's silent.]

My mother.

[It's given very clinically, weirdly enough. Very detached, professional. He doesn't look up from his work when he says it. It's true, Bruce has also given him access to a lot of information; however... it had been his mother, for ten years, to see him through so much.]

[pyrafect]

[ She should know to be far more careful than to ask about someone's parents in this world, she thinks. So many here have some sort of... heaviness in their past, and she can hear that same weight in the single word.

Nevertheless, she smiles. ] Your mother. [ She repeats, and straightens up. ]

It might not be my place to say, but your mother must be quite proud to have raised and taught someone like you. And you-- you honor her, just by being who you are. [ By being this young man who wants to continue keeping up repairs to this church despite Zelda being gone, by being a boy who is working with Pyra and accepting her help. ]

[bittybat]

[Well, she wouldn't know. Pyra wouldn't know, and no one else would know except for the select few people still around who have heard it from his own mouth. Or, worse, from one of the wretched events the town dredged up to try to bring them all closer.

Damian keeps working which is, despite knowing him, weird within itself. Someone who diligently continues to focus on a task in the face of being social, opening up.] Your attempts to buffer my fortitude are useless.

She taught me how to be a tool, and that's all she taught me. [For a while, he kept this to himself, but honestly... It's his father and his father's work he keeps concealed close to his heart. Talia? He'll talk about her as he pleases.] She was proud until I refused to accept my birthright, and then she disowned me.

Being Damian Wayne instead of Damian al Ghul is the biggest dishonor she could know.

[pyrafect]

[ She brings a hand to her mouth in concern. Although she had meant her words to be encouraging, it seems she's touched upon something... not so nice, and he's dismissing her words entirely. ] ...I'm sorry. [ She murmurs, heartfelt. Since she's just met him, it would be far too intrusive to ask him why any of it happened, why he switched from al Ghul to Wayne, why was it that she taught him to be a tool... But she can offer him her sympathies. ]

Although, I stand by those words on their own. That... despite where you came from, or your family name, you still are helping with-- [ She waves a hand up towards the church. ] --this.

And maybe she isn't proud of you-- and maybe this won't mean much coming from a stranger... but I am proud of you, of what you have accomplished so far. [ There! She won't give up hope in trying to encourage him. ]