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chaoscheebs · 5 years

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Celdic Crew Group Chat Log

So, um, look, I had the urge to type out a fake chat log for Fie, Elliot, and Machias, because they’re probably pretty tight after what happened post Cold-Steel 1/early-ish Cold Steel II. No serious spoilers I can think of, it’s just a roller-coaster of stuff.

Tl;dr their group chats are wild.

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Fie: you see this is why i’m the only one of us who’s touched a boob

Elliot: Didn’t Machias technically touch one too?

Machias: WHAT WHEN?!?!?

Fie: oh yeah, in the windmill. forgot about that

Machias: WHAT I DID NOT

Fie: you were sleeping. you called me ‘jusis’ and went in for the squeeze. honestly you were doing a pretty good job, i was almost hesitant to smack you awake

Machias: WHAT

Elliot: Man, I still get why you did that, Fie, but did you have to smack him hard enough to make him elbow ME?????

Machias: THAT WAS WHY YOU DID THAT!?!?!?!? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME?!?!?!!

Fie: didn’t seem important

Elliot: Honestly, I thought you knew you were Mr. Hands in your sleep already after all the times *I* elbowed you awake too.

Machias: NO I DID NOT YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME!!!! I WOULD HAVE SLEPT FURTHER FROM YOU IF YOU TOLD ME!!!!!!!

Elliot: And let you freeze instead? We knew the risks after the first night. D|

Fie: nah he wouldn’t have frozen, it wasn’t THAT cold. he’d COMPLAIN a lot in the morning tho

Elliot: Oh, yeah, definitely. Especially since we didn’t have his terrifying favorite coffee blend available there.

Fie: lol yeah

Machias: MY COFFEE ISN’T TERRIFYING AND ALSO DON’T CHANGE THE SUBJECT

Elliot: Machias, it has a *caution label* on it to not drink more than two cups of it and you down the whole damned pitcher! D: D: D:

Fie: it’s honestly kinda impressive, you really are unbreakable lol

Machias: CAN WE GET BACK TO THE POINT ALREADY?!?!?

Elliot: Machias, when do we ever get to the point here?

Machias: . . . DON’T TRY TO CONFUSE ME WITH LOGIC HERE. 8T

Fie: lol

Elliot: *Anyway*, if we were really upset about it, we would’ve said something, but we knew you really missed your boyfriend, so…

Machias: HE IS NOT—I MEAN HE WAS NOT—ARGH THIS IS STILL HARD TO ADMIT NOW

Fie: that’s the other reason we didn’t say anything, you were EXTRA shouty whenever we mentioned him back then

Elliot: Truth. You two going from *loudly* hatefucking constantly to actually admitting you *liked* each other was a long, wild ride. A long, *LOUD* wild ride. D|

Machias: JUSIS STILL TWITCHES HILARIOUSLY WHENEVER HE HEARS “THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO CELDIC” THANKS TO YOU TRYING TO MAKE US STOP BEING LOUD, BY THE WAY

Fie: so does alisa, she had some choice words about your angry midnight concertos too

Elliot: Oops. She did kinda live above me, didn’t she? I should maybe send her apology flowers someday.

Machias: THAT’D ONLY BE NICE.

Fie: i notice you’re not asking for flowers too

Machias: HONESTLY WE KINDA DESERVED IT. ALSO IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY. SERIOUSLY, SOME STREET MUSICIAN WAS PLAYING IT ON OUR LAST, ER, MEETING AND YOU COULD FEEL THE BARELY REPRESSED ANGER COMING OFF OF HIM, LOL.

Fie: lol

Elliot: Lol.

Fie: so did rean ever realize you weren’t playing unsexy violin ditties because you just love music that much?

Elliot: Not on his own, no. Emma and I ended up talking to him about several things he was, um, overlooking waaaaaaaaaaaaay back before that school festival at the academy.

Machias: OVERLOOKING, MY BUTT, HE HAD TO BE WILLFULLY IGNORANT AT THAT POINT. I’M PRETTY SURE EVEN MILLIUM HAD IT FIGURED OUT AT A GLANCE, HOW DID EVERYTHING AROUND HIM FLY OVER HIS HEAD THAT MUCH

Fie: lol wow way to burn yourself man

Machias: IN MY DEFENSE I’M ALSO BURNING JUSIS AT THE SAME TIME, WE WERE COMPLETE GARBAGE HIDING ANYTHING AND WE ALL KNOW IT.

Fie: true, lol

Elliot: Also in his defense, I was also talking about all the *other* stuff that flew right over his head. Like the fact he kept taking me to *date spots* and also apparently witnessed Laura’s love confession to you, Fie, and completely didn’t notice.

Fie: eh, it was laura. it flew over her head too for a while. good thing she’s kinda cute when she’s clueless, lol

Elliot: It’s terrifying that Machias and Jusis were the closest to having their stuff together out of all of us back then, by the way.

Fie: absolutely horrifying

Machias: HEY

Elliot: It’s kinda true. You two were at each other’s throats for a while there, man.

Fie: and not in the kinky way

Elliot: It’s probably in the kinky way now, tho’. XD

Fie: no doubt lol

Machias: WILL YOU TWO STOP?!?!? BESIDES DON’T YOU TWO HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN RIP ON ME????????

Elliot: Not really; my schedule’s clear today.

Fie: the better question is don’t YOU have anything better to do than stay here and get dunked on

Machias: . . . NOT REALLY I’M WAITING ON JUSIS’S TRAIN TO COME IN

Elliot: Well, there you go.

Fie: aww, you have plans then?

Machias: NOT ANYTHING MAJOR, HE’S COMING IN ON BUSINESS AND I THOUGHT WE COULD AT LEAST SQUEEZE IN LUNCH TOGETHER BETWEEN THAT

Elliot: “Lunch.”

Fie: ‘lunch’

Machias: OH GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER

Elliot: So you’re not planning on finding a closet to fool around in, then~? ;)

Machias: . . . . . . . . . SHUT UP

Fie: this is text

Machias: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!! AND HONESTLY, FOR SOMEONE WHO KEEPS TALKING SHIT ABOUT ME BEING A HORNBALL, YOU’RE THE ONE WHO ALWAYS KEPT FINDING SOME DOROTHEE-LEVEL GAY SMUT, ELLIOT

Fie: it’s always the cute, quiet ones lololol

Elliot: Hey, Dorothee knew where it was at, guys; you’re all just mean. :(

Machias: IT ALWAYS SURPRISED ME HOW SHE GOT AWAY WITH AS MUCH AS SHE DID WITH THOSE BOOKS

Elliot: Eh, when it sticks to just text, it’s hard to tell at a glance if it’s “clean” or not without reading the whole thing, and teachers don’t have time for that. Thank Aidios for exploitable loopholes!

Machias: DIDN’T PROTECT ME WHEN YOU GAVE SOME “LITERATURE” TO READ. 8|

Elliot: That’s because it had illustrations; it’s hard *not* to notice when there’s pages like that. Quality art, tho’.

Machias: . . . IT KINDA WAS

Fie: ok, first what book is this, and second why didn’t you share with me

Elliot: Because it got confiscated way back when. It’s out of print now too to boot, dammit. :( :( :(

Machias: RIP IN PIECES, LOVE’S FIRST BITE, PEPPERONY AND CHEASE

Fie: what

Elliot: Machias, get off the orbal net, we’re worried about you.

Machias: ORBAL NET MEMES ARE THE WAY OF THE FUTURE, DAMN IT

Fie: neeeeeeeeeeeeerd

Elliot: Turbo-nerd.

Fie: lord nerdlinger regnitz-albarea of the nerdlinger province

Machias: DAMN IT DON’T START MARRYING ME OFF WE’RE NOT AT THAT POINT YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elliot: Too late, we’ve called Gaius, he’s gonna officiate the marriage.

Fie: he said ‘fucking finally, next we have to get rean and elliot to be a thing’

Elliot: FIE!!

Machias: HA

Fie: it’s true tho, you need to go kiss your husband already, elliot

Machias: SERIOUSLY, I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY YOU TWO NEVER ENDED UP A THING, YOU TWO WERE SUPER-CLOSE EVEN BACK AT THE ACADEMY

Elliot: Rean’s not interested. End of story.

Fie: did you ask him?

Elliot: Don’t need to. If he couldn’t tell I was flirting with him, or notice where exactly he kept taking me, he clearly wasn’t into me like that. End. Of. Story.

Machias: ELLIOT, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED REAN IS A HUGE DUMBASS IN THIS AREA. ASK HIM.

Elliot: I. Said. End. Of. Story.

Fie: ouch, we found a sore spot :c

Elliot: Look, I just… I don’t really want to talk about this, OK? Rean’s never seemed super-interested in… anyone, really, and I doubt I’m magically going to be the exception, and I accept that.

Machias: . . . . . . . . .

Fie: …………………………………

Machias: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Elliot: … you really want to say something, don’t you.

Fie: not saying a word

Machias: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OK LOOK

Fie: oh boy

Machias: I’D ARGUE YOU’RE THE ONLY PERSON HE’S SHOWN ANY SERIOUS INTEREST IN, ELLIOT. HE TOOK ***ME*** TO THAT DUMB ROSE GARDEN THING FIRST AND I TOLD HIM IT WAS MORE A COUPLE’S THING AND HE STILL TOOK ***YOU*** THERE TOO. REAN IS AN AWKWARD ***DUMBASS*** ABOUT THIS STUFF, ***ASK HIM***

Elliot: Machias…

Machias: BE DIRECT AND ASK HIM OUT. IF HE SAYS NO, HE REALLY ISN’T INTERESTED, OK, FINE, GIVE UP THEN. BUT DON’T GIVE UP BEFORE YOU REALLY TRY!!!!

Elliot: … ha. Man, you really can’t stop yourself from talking, huh?

Machias: HEY, I MIGHT BE A DUMBASS ABOUT THIS KINDA THING TOO, BUT I’M A DUMBASS IN A STEADY RELATIONSHIP. I KNOW THINGS SOMETIMES.

Fie: i can’t believe i’m agreeing with him, but for once, he has a point. do the thing, go get you your man

Elliot: Fie… Man, you guys…

Machias: DAMN, I THINK THAT’S JUSIS’S TRAIN. SEE YOU LATER, GUYS.

Fie: have fun on your ‘lunch date’

Machias: OH DON’T START

Elliot: Yeah, later, Machias. Um… thanks for caring?

Machias: THANK ME ONCE YOU’VE GOTTEN YOURSELF YOUR BOYFRIEND. BYE!!

[MACHIAS has left the room]

Elliot: … he really doesn’t understand how severe that sounds at all, does he.

Fie: nope

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chaoscheebs · 5 years

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Celdic Crew Group Chat Log Side J

A friend pointed out it was odd that Jusis was on a train in the last fic, so, um, Jusis’s side of this happened. Please enjoy 1,400 words-ish of Millium poking 5000 holes in Jusis’s dumb plan to see his boyfriend on the sly.

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This was a rather relaxing change of pace, Jusis thought from his seat on the train. The car he was in wasn’t crowded, no one was fussing over him or spouting some itinerary of things that had to be done. It was nice and quiet, and he was rather enjoying the peace…

And then the ARCUS chirped, indicating a new message and shattering the peace.

MILLIUM: HIYA, JUSIS! ^o^ \o/

Jusis frowned. Nope, not today, closing the ARCUS now, he will deal with this later.

Unfortunately, the girl was not deterred and kept spamming messages. Annoyed, he went back to check them and found the following:

MILLIUM: JUSIS! HEY! MILLIUM: HEY JUSIS HEY JUSIS HEY MILLIUM: JUUUUUUUUUSIIIIIIIIIIIIIS~~~~~~~!!!! MILLIUM: I KNOW YOU’RE NOT BUSY, I CAN SEE YOU!!! 8T 8T 8T

“What do you mean, you can—” Jusis started to say, then he finally caught it. The tap-tap-tapping of a new message from one seat up, across the aisle. He refused to look in her direction; that would mean he’d have to engage. And as already stated, nope, not today, he will deal with this later.

Or he would if she hadn’t sent the next message.

MILLIUM: SO WHY ARE YOU ON A TRAIN ANYWAY? DON’T YOU HAVE *WAY COOLER* WAYS TO TRAVEL??

Sighing, he finally tapped out a message back. Honestly, didn’t she have anything better to do than bother him?

JUSIS: I wanted a change of pace, that’s all. Traveling by train can be rather relaxing.

It technically was the truth, just not the whole truth. Hopefully that’d be enough to placate her.

MILLIUM: OK, I GUESS I CAN SEE THAT. SO WHY ARE YOU DRESSED LIKE YOU’RE GOING ON A HOT DATE?

Or not. Jusis could see her peeking over the back of the seat and grinning like she’s got him. Which she kinda did. Damn it. Time to deny, deny, deny.

JUSIS: I am *not* dressed like I’m going on a “hot date”, as you so charmingly put it. This is simply my casual attire.

MILLIUM: “CASUAL ATTIRE”?? DUDE, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE GOING TO HEIMDALLR’S HOTTEST NIGHTCLUB OR SOMETHING!! GONNA GO PARTY DOWN WITH MACHIAS???? XD

Frowning even more deeply, Jusis looked down at his black button-down shirt and light gray pants. All right, perhaps the lacing on shirt sleeves and the belt around his thigh was a bit much, but did it really look like he was desperate to “party down with Machias”? Honestly, he had no idea what even goes on in her mind sometimes. Still, this needed to be addressed.

JUSIS: One, no. Two, do you honestly see him as the “partying down” type?”

MILLIUM: HAHA LOL NO, NOT UNLESS THERE’S CHESS-BASED RAVES OR SOMETHING

Jusis failed to hold in a laugh. If sick chess raves existed, Machias would definitely find one. He proceeded to ignore the cheeky finger guns Millium was pointing his way and sent a message back.

JUSIS: So there you have it. This is not “hot night club” attire.

MILLIUM: THAT’S STILL NOT SAYING IT’S NOT HOT DATE CLOTHES THO~~~~~~~~~~ >_>

Jusis removed his sunglasses and rubbed his temple with his free hand. That girl is absolutely relentless sometimes, he thought. And worse yet, she was actually on the right track. He saw only two options before him: own up to what he was doing and chance more teasing, or keep dancing around the questions and definitely receive more teasing. Making his choice, he put the sunglasses back on and picked up the orbment again.

JUSIS: … I will admit visiting Regnitz is part of why I’m heading to Heimdallr, yes. But it is *not* a “hot date”; I simply wish to see more of the city and as a resident of it, he would make an excellent guide.

MILLIUM: AAAAAAAAAAAAND~~~~~~??

JUSIS: “And” what?

MILLIUM: C’MON EVERYONE KNOWS YOU TWO ARE SMOOCHIN, IT’S TOTALLY A HOT DATE!! >3> <3

The palm of Jusis’s hand audibly met his face, attracting a look from a couple of the car’s other occupants. He waved them off to indicate he was fine, then swiftly sent the girl another text.

JUSIS: *Must* you put it like that?!

MILLIUM: IT’S TRUE, THO~~~~~~~!! JUSI AND MACHI, SITTIN IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G~~~ >3> >3> >3>

JUSIS: And I suppose *you’re* the baby in the baby carriage in this scenario?

MILLIUM: OF COURSE, GRAMPY CARL HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED ME! ^o^

“”Grampy Carl’,” Jusis muttered in disbelief. Why Machias’s father still insists in entertaining that joke is still beyond Jusis. Pity, maybe? Whatever, he thought. That was beside the point. The point is this was ruining his tranquil train ride and it had to stop.

JUSIS: Putting who I am “smooching” aside, could you perhaps, say, go take a nap or whatever you normally would do on a train ride and leave me alone? My personal affairs are none of your concern.

MILLIUM: BOOOOOOOOOO, FIIIIIIIIIINE. ONE MORE QUESTION, THO. WHO’S THAT GUY IN THE BACK IN THE SUNGLASSES WHO KEEPS LOOKING AT YOU?? OnO

JUSIS: What

MILLIUM: SUNGLASSES, STUFFY SUIT, BEHIND YOU ON MY SIDE.

Closing the device, he turned his gaze to Millium, noting she had moved further down the seat towards the window. For a hyperactive ball of energy, she’s quite clever, he noted to himself. Looking at her allowed him to catch the person she was referring to out of the corner of his eye, and… damn it. Double damn it. He was certain he hadn’t been followed out of the mansion! How was he found so quickly?!

JUSIS: … thank you for the warning. That person is part of my staff; he must have been… concerned about my departure. You have nothing to worry about regarding my safety.

Making a “V” with her fingers, Millium winked at him. Subtlety, thy name is Orion.

MILLIUM: NO PROBLEM! MILLIUM: SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, YOU KINDA SNUCK OUT, HUH?? XD XD XD

He froze in place for a moment. He was caught, and he knew it. And with her mouth, everyone who was in their former class would know by nightfall that he had basically slipped away from his duties just to see his loud, chess-obsessed significant other. Time to try to reframe this.

JUSIS: … I wouldn’t call it “sneaking out”, but I did decide to strike out on my own without advance warning today, yes.

MILLIUM: THAT’S TOTALLY SNEAKING OUT, DUDE!!!! XD

JUSIS: It’s not “sneaking out” if I left contact information and instructions to contact me immediately if something urgent arises.

MILLIUM: TOTALLY STILL SNUCK OUT~~~~~~~~ \o/

Jusis could feel his eye twitching. How much longer was it until the train reached his stop? He couldn’t recall, but it couldn’t be soon enough. He briefly considered messaging Machias just for somewhat more rational conversation, but he might accidentally tip his hand if he did so. Not that apparently his attire wouldn’t give his plans for a nice day out away the moment Machias set eyes on him anyway, if Millium was correct. Triple damn it.

MILLIUM: HAHA, LOOK AT THAT VEIN IN YOUR FOREHEAD THROB!! YOU REALLY *DO* NEED A DAY OFF, HUH??

Finally, a ray of hope. He could work with this.

JUSIS: Yes. Yes, I do. And I would *like* to enjoy the rest of this train ride in peace. So if I may, I shall be excusing myself from this conversation now.

MILLIUM: AWWWWWWWWW, FINE, I GUESS. BUT CAN I AT LEAST SIT WITH YOU? IT’S BORING BEING ALONE.

Jusis paused, staring at the orbment in his hand. She’s far too energetic and noisy, but she did tip him off that he was being followed, and if he had to be pressed to tell the truth, it was a bit lonely sitting alone for him too.

JUSIS: … that depends, can you behave the rest of the way to the station?

MILLIUM: SURE CAN! CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE, STICK A NEEDLE IN MY EYE!

He heaved a sigh before typing his response.

JUSIS: Fine, come over.

With an exclamation of “YAAAAAY!”, Millium bounced over to where Jusis was sitting and promptly took the seat next to him. And lest Jusis think the end was in sight, she squinted at the design set in dark gray on his shirt. “Isn’t that your family crest?” she asked.

His palm met his face for the second time this trip. This was going to be a very long train ride, wasn’t it?

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