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sidony venaras. ([personal profile] indissection) wrote2011-09-29 09:20 pm

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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-15 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[One evening--after internal debate and an afternoon of wine, ostensibly for courage, but really just because he loves wine--Nikos decides, abruptly, to contact his cousin before she contacts him. Or before she is somehow used against him. His second cousin? Third? Fourth? What is a family tree but a morass, curated largely so those who care about title and inheritance can move about their pieces on the board.

He almost loses himself in that thought before he remembers. Sidony Venaras. Eight, nine, ten years younger. Nevarra City. He can picture the exterior of the Venaras home, Nevarran in its architecture and in the color of the stone used to build it, its gardens trim around it. His father, pointing it out to him as the carriage went past. Maybe he saw her at a holiday, a party, an interchangeable cousin bedecked in finery.]


All right-- [Heavily, like he's picking up a conversation when they never started a conversation in the first place--a habit of his, she'll find, if they take up any sort of regular correspondence--] --you're Sidony Venaras of Nevarra City. I'm Nikos Averesch. We're related, somewhere, somehow.

Now it's been acknowledged.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-15 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[What. His nose wrinkles in bemusement. And he sounds a little less brusque now, at least, even if it's rude to answer a question with a question.]

Is that what he said?
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-15 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[He snorts.]

This reminds me that we are no better than strangers. Kostos wouldn't tell me if he was fucking run through with a pike and on death's door. He's a-- [there are so many words for what Kostos is, and Nikos flips through them all before settling on the diplomatic,] prick.

I'm sincerely surprised that he would imply the need of a surgeon.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-16 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Nor mine.

[Pike to the chest, deadly STD, who cares. See how much he doesn't care about his brother? It's a lot.]

We don't need to keep one another company. Any of us. Family relation is hardly the binding contract it is purported to be.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-16 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that what you say when your disappointing brother pays a visit?

[Brothers =/= cousins; cousins are actually, comparatively, better than brothers, but still.]
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-18 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucky.

[Just kidding, it's not like his brother ever visited. Or like he wanted him to. And now they live in the Gallows, and are often within spitting distance of one another. Spitting distance for a champion spitter, at least, which Nikos is. So it could be worse, unless--]

Unless that implies you wished for a visit.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-19 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[No shit, Nikos thinks, with some mild interest. To say that he cares would be an overstatement. Interest is a better word.]

Good. Because I've no desire to bloat the region with any more relations. Three is enough.

[This is a request, phrased more like a statement, but--]

Remind me of his name.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-19 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He snorts.]

That's right. The one with the stupid name. Octopus.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-22 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Likely because he was called 'Octopus' too often.

[In the interest of fairness and full disclosure, and nothing else:]

Si-Drone-y. Your voice was too high-pitched to be called a drone, probably. It was just the closest pun. Think it was meant to indicate boredom.
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-24 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan:] That's a horrible nickname for me.

[And also, gross.]
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-24 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
And you want me to do your work for you. Knew we should've gone with Sid-Uncreative-y. Fits a little less, but suits better.

We're too old for nicknames anyways.

[He's absolutely going to call her Si-Drone-y.]
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[personal profile] exsecutus 2018-10-24 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor wilting flower. Try to get over it. You won't be much use to the Inquisition if you've fainted.