🎵whistle while you work🎶(closed)

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Who: A. Rama Raju, Lanfear, William Gibson, Renny Oldoak
What: wilderness chore bonding time!
When: I'm thinking some time after the ghostly housefire, but it's loose
Where: the forest around Milton

Content Warnings: talk about food/eating/not eating, possible talk of fire stuff. will add as stuff comes up

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Thank god that Raju agrees with him on this one. Billy does like to think that Rorschach's mask is pretty objectively strange, but that man had acted like it had somehow been a normal thing. Despite the mask itself being odd enough - both in the design and in the way Rorschach always seems to wear it around town, to a point where Billy is pretty sure no one here must ever have seen his actual face - and then the way it seems to shift while you look at it being even weirder.

At least there's still some people here who have a good head on their shoulders, apparently.

"Nothing specific," he replies to the question. Though he also knows it didn't have to be specific. Not when Rorschach is so intimidating to Billy in general. "Only general harm."

And it probably doesn't take a genius to take a look at Billy and tell that he isn't exactly a fighter. Not when he's shaped like a stickbug, and when his pale skin and the sickly dark colouration around his eyes make him look like a stiff breeze could knock him over. If Rorschach wanted to hurt him, he easily could.

"But it is enough to make me hesitate on going near him." Alone, at least. It's why Billy is still walking in the direction of the library, despite what he's saying. Because he's got Raju with him here, and given everything the other has said so far, Billy likes to think he'll be able to rely on him.

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"Mm," he says, thoughtful. It would have been more helpful of Rorschach to be specific, so Raju could tell whether he was dealing with someone who knows how to fight. Swiss name, odd manner, American accent— it isn't much to know about a person. That's alright. Raju's confident in his own ability to improvise. Most people would rather threaten to fight than actually do it, and if Rorschach collected enough books into one place to call it a library, maybe he'll hesitate to get too physical somewhere that might damage them.

"Have you talked to him since?"