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He beams like he just single-handedly stopped global warming.
"What do you like to do with your friends?" he asks after a bit. Holy cow, this deity likes asking questions.
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And that's when Delphi's openness abruptly snaps shut. Ouch, looks like you've hit a nerve.
"I don't go out and do things with people. There's no time for that."
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"Right now?" Galaxian seems nonchalant, maybe because he hasn't realized her sudden change in demeanor. "Of course not. The war and such isn't over yet."
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"No. Ever." Delphi says curtly.
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"So you don't train with them?" he asks.
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That actually makes her pause and think for a second. "No," she decides. "I don't....no."
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He doesn't judge, but he does find that curious. "So how do you know how they fight too?"
(Does her helping Micah with magic count as training lol)
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//kiiiinda? though that's been more of a ggad fic thing than a canon thing since micah's been mia or with damian
"I mean...." Delphi shrugs. She's trying to think of her friends, and comes up short - she doesn't really feel like she has any, other than maybe Micah and Clay, though their relationships have been more "teacher-and-student" than "friend." Consequences of distancing yourself from everyone for a thousand years after a djinn slurps all the magic out of your girlfriend and murders her, I guess.
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She hasn't really answered the question, or at least that's what Galaxian thinks, since he isn't reading her mind or anything at the moment. He just slightly tilts his head.
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"I don't. I don't really know other people very well." She says, eventually.
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"Oh." He acknowledges that. Maybe she's a hermit who really likes to train or someone along those lines. "Well, we all start like that. So don't worry too much about it!" He makes his head upright again while he's talking, pondering what he should say so it doesn't get too awkward and adds, "Though you probably weren't worrying about it in the first place."
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"Not really," Delphi replies. At least, until someone brings it up. So thanks." She still sounds a little bitter.
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"You're welcome?" Galaxian doesn't really understand her sarcasm in her thanks, but he's also aware that she doesn't mean it in a positive connotation. "So, you probably want to keep training again, right? Sorry for interrupting you. Can I watch you?"
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Delphi hesitates for a second, then says, "Sure. Just stay out of the way."
She summons the avatars again and spins her spear around her wrist like a staff, then charges towards one of them.
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Galaxian backtracks to a reasonable distance with a "Thanks!", though if his physiology is as wonked up as usual, she shouldn't be able to hit him. He watches her movements with intrigue.
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Delphi uses her spear both as a weapon and as leverage for jumps - it must be heavy, if it holds her weight and balances so well, but she whips it around and jabs with one arm like it's nothing.
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Galaxian himself doesn't really use spears, but he has friends who do. He notes that if she ever wants to punch someone, he should try his best to not be that someone. Given that he's tangible, of course. Efficient as usual, he calculates how far she could launch him if her strength is able to exert a certain numerical amount of force.
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Pretty far, if this is anything to judge by, though she doesn't have a habit of yeeting children, so he shouldn't worry.
Delphi spins and decapitates one of the avatars, which puffs out in a cloud of sparkles after its head hits the ground.
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(So other than just general training on part, did you have any idea what they should do? Normally I would say he'd want to do something with her but that was a huge mood wasn't it)
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//i didn't, but he's welcome to ask her and persuade her that doing things with potential friends is a good thing
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(Uh oh a challenge)
After a fair while has passed, Galaxian's still watching Delphi train while looking impressed. How is she? Is she tired yet? It'd be convenient if she's tired. If not, he's gonna ask anyways.
"Are you tired?" he asks while she's not prodding at an avatar with her spear.
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"Nope," she says. "I don't get tired." She's down to one avatar at this point, and she stabs it through the heart, and it poofs out. "But breaks aren't always a bad thing."
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("I don't get tired, I get results")
"They're definitely not," Galaxian advocates, probably having spent the past however-long thinking about her former stance on spending time with friends. The view had kind of conflicted with her apparent agreeability with his talking about spending time with friends after the war before her sudden dour mood when he mentioned spending time with friends generally. While he couldn't figure out why--it's not like he's a deity of angst backstories and can see that her last greatest friendship went less than well--he at least can tell that if she's against spending time with others and part of the supposed ideal future would hopefully involve her having time with friends to spend with them, it's not going to go down the best way. And like the deity who can sometimes be too helpful is, he really wants to at least lessen that mentality conflict in at least some way.
"What do you usually do during breaks?" he asks hopefully, managing to not say something very dense like "Eat snacks?" because everyone should know you don't eat junk food after exercising. Or training, in her case.
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"Sleep or argue with my mother," Delphi replies, leaning on her spear. "Teach people runeweaving. Go to the Isle and check on things. Various things."
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Galaxian looks too interested in everything, including sleep, and his intrigue piles up as she lists things. He's not too impressed with the arguing with her mother thing, though he's not too knowledgeable on it either. For a deity who has never had a family, it's just kind of a fact that he would think that family relationships should try to be as good as they can be. It'd be rude to ask why she'd argue with Singularity, though.
"Are you, like, the Isle's guardian or someone of that sort?" he asks.
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"Something like that," she says. "It's more of my home than my domain. It's....peaceful. I go there when I need a moment of quiet," She sighs. "Until small children break into my cottage to say hello, but that's beside the point."
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"You must be their idol," he says with a grin, though it's like half a joke and half his actual guess for what the small children see of her.
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"Or one of those grumpy old people on their porches yelling 'get off my lawn'," Delphi replies, with half a smile.
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"They do that over there too?" Galaxian asks with a fair amount of what sounds to be disbelief. "Were you actually on their lawn?"
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"They were on my lawn," Delphi says. "And it's not really a lawn, more of a bunch of sand dunes and cattails."