for Illumi

[oraculi]

gifs will happen later!!

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week one, post trial

[oraculi]

[He's pretty much playing bartender in the lounge right now. Admittedly, it's mostly for himself, but he's amiable towards mixing drinks if someone asks. He's going to hoard the alcohol otherwise. He's got his knife in his hand, and it's gripped tightly as Illumi enters, but he relaxes slightly.]

Welcome. You want something?

[selfservinglove]

Yes, please.

[Aw, isn't he polite. He moves to sit down at the counter, eyes flitting towards the knife, then back at Haymitch. Much like their first meeting, Illumi is incredibly relaxed - he even seems to relax more at the sight of the knife, for some reason.]

A whiskey on the rocks, if you could.

[oraculi]

You're gonna water it down.

[A vague warning, but he dutifully adds a few squares of ice.]

You're pretty calm after nine hours of drama.

[selfservinglove]

I don't mind. It's not like I can get drunk, anyways.

[Thanks a bunch, Haymitch!]

Calm? You think so? [He leans his chin on his hand.] I suppose I've been through worse. You're pretty calm too.

[oraculi]

Cuz I work at it.

[He's a mess, but it's a contained mess. And he wants to ask more, he will, but--]

You can't get drunk at all? Why not?

[selfservinglove]

[He takes a sip of his whiskey.]

My Mom and Dad introduced poisons to me before I could even walk. My body has become immune to them. Alcohol can also be considered a poison, so...I could probably get drunk, but I'd have to drink much more than the average human being. Gallons more, practically.

[oraculi]

So mix something sweet and try it sometime. You're missing out.

[And alcohol is generally terrible if you remove the drunken aspect.]

You get a lot of assassination attempts?

[selfservinglove]

I think I would die of the fluid overload if I did...

[He's still! Only human! (SURPRISINGLY)]

Ah, of course. A lot of people want to kill the people trying to kill them first.

[oraculi]

[BUT WHAT A WAY TO GO.]

And what profession is your family involved in, exactly, that they're going around killing others?

[selfservinglove]

We're a family of professional assassins.

[Even the family dog kills people! It's like the Addams Family BUT WORSE]

[oraculi]

[. . . well, then.]

Sure makes you a lot more dangerous, huh?

[selfservinglove]

I'm very dangerous. [Yep!] Mom had me on missions when I was barely able to walk. I started taking on my own targets when I was, hm, around five or six.

[because everyone wants to think about a tiny kid just out and murdering people]