WEEK ONE: THURSDAY MORNING

[parodeity]

[ so, dave wants to broach the topic of a Team with clementine again and has chosen thursday to do it. he'll flag her down the first time he sees her and looks...mostly fine...except a finger on each hand has a splint/is wrapped in the way one would do when they are broken. for the record this is his left pointer finger and his right pinky.

what the fuck is he doing with his life, it is week one. ]

Yo, Clem! Got a sec?

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[parodeity]

He's...not a bad person himself, I just...

[ a helpless shrug. ]

If you do want to pull him in ever, he won't come without English, and they might have other people they're workin' with, too. I don't know.

[ and dave may or may not be a lowkey mess about dirk, but like. he can deal if that's what has to happen. ]

I don't know if he'll want to, either. He...might work with me, I don't know about the rest of you. [ he shakes his head. ] The only other person I'd say bring it off the bat is maybe Violet, if y'all want.

[willremember]

Sounds like there's a lot of people here that you know. [ well. ] Sort of.

[ she mulls it over, sort of making a face without meaning to. ] I'm not sure how I feel about Jake, yet. He's nice. And seems like he knows how to fight. But he's... Cheery. [ optimism is a death flag, as far as she's concerned. ]

I haven't talked enough to Violet, but... We're in this together, so if you want her to be with us... [ she can put aside her apprehension for the sake of being a nice leader, right? right. ]

[parodeity]

I don't know either, but I'm...not an unbiased source. [ i.e.: he doesn't trust his own opinions on dirk and jake? okay, dave. ]

For Vi, we can wait 'till next week maybe? I'll talk to her and feel her out and see. Four people might be a good number to go on with. [ WHY DOES THIS SUGGESTED GROUP CONSIST OF A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL, A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, AND 2 14 YEAR OLDS, CHRIST ] But she's smart and I think she'll work with us, so.

[willremember]

I'll leave recruitment up to you. And I'll try to look after anyone you want.

[ As much as she would like to, looking after everyone is impossible. ]

[parodeity]

Yeah. We can reconvene post-trial and see what's up; I can at least keep tryin' to feel people out to see where everyone's at.

[ he's...talkative? so he's a good ambassador or something. ]

[willremember]

[ Clementine sighs. ]

I don't like being sneaky like this.

[ ..... like, not enough to not do it, but ]

[parodeity]

Yeah. I mean...I guess that part I don't guess, since I am used to required sneakiness, but I do get why you wouldn't like it. But it's chill? I can handle espionage for the team.

[willremember]

You play spy a lot?

[ not said with suspicion - just curiosity. ]

[parodeity]

Not as such? It's more like...a lot of the stuff I did in game - sburb, it's a whole Thing - required me to use subterfuge, I guess, although some of that was literally bein' used on crocodiles so it wasn't even me bein' super sneaky it was just me in a crappy disguise, but like...I guess I learned to not mind it from my Bro, maybe...?

[willremember]

[ Clementine repeats subterfuge quietly to herself. She didn't really know that word, but context gave it away, enough.

But there's no context for his context and what the hell croco..diles...? ]

That sounds... Bad. [ She has not heard much about his Bro but it all seems unpleasant. ]

[parodeity]

I mean, it was necessary to make me...me, or whatever.

[ 100% willing to throw his life away for everyone else. cool child raising ]

[willremember]

I don't know...

[ on one hand: she'd like to think he'd still be him without bad experiences. on the other hand, she knows that her experiences have absolutely shaped and prepared her for life, so... ]

[parodeity]

Well, either way...I guess we can reconvene after we see how the whole murder-and-trial shit goes.

[willremember]

Mm. It'll tell us a lot about everyone else. And how well they handle things.