fall out boy intensifies

[shegypt]

Who: Thief King Bakura & you
Where: Your bedroom. Yes, yours.
When: Llama 20
What: Bakura has decided she's waited long enough to get the heat off of her. She wastes no time doing the things she do.
Warnings: She has broken into your cabin. So don't tag in unless you're okay with that.

[ Bakura has been lurking.

She has been lurking so well she basically missed the whole platform. The whole mission, too - whatever. But her secret explorations have her thinking stealing the Voidtrecker Express isn't going to be something she can actively plan for. (Something she can someday absolutely do, sure! When she sees an opening!)

What's more, it's now been enough time that she bets nobody is gonna care what she's up to anyway. She doesn't see a guard....

It would be smart to keep lying low.

But it would also be dull.

In short, when next you open your still-completely-locked cabin door, there is a woman standing there. Holding your stuff.

She turns, and, without looking too upset, raises a hand. ]

Yo!

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[shegypt]

Huh. That worked. Bakura eases up, letting herself relax (physically; mentally, she's as prepared to respond to circumstances as ever).

"You first."

[marvelous_murderbot]

She arched an eyebrow.

"And trust the supposed Monarch of Criminals?" she replied. "I believe the phrase is: 'I was not born yesterday.'"

[shegypt]

"H-heheheheh....Clever."

Monarch of Criminals. She's gonna have to remember that one. And see what happens if she goes first, as a favor.

"Then I'll take the first move as a show of goodwill!!" Where to begin? Hm. Bakura leans back on her heels, thinking.

Ah, she's got it. "I don't suppose you've heard of Pharaohs."

[marvelous_murderbot]

“I have not, but I think I can presume the term i plies rulership.”

[shegypt]

"Got it in one!" Finger guns. Bakura picked this gesture up from a movie. She doesn't know what it's supposed to be imitating, but she likes the sass. "The Pharaoh's the ruler, all right. The almighty God-King, whose very rule defines the concept of 'justice'! But doesn't that mean......'justice' is 'whatever is most convenient for them'?"

She smirks. "You don't have to answer. It's obvious."

There is a point to this lecture on the hypocrisy of monarchies. She swears.

[marvelous_murderbot]

And she waits for it, patiently. You don't have to tell her twice on the matter, from a galaxy once ruled over by an Emperor.

[shegypt]

Smart lady. Here we go.

"I am the last," brags Bakura, "of a village of thieves. By attempting to abscond with your valuables, I uphold a tradition these play-judges would stamp out because it doesn't fit their ideals! And as King of Thieves, I claim the right to define 'justice' of my own......."

She'd looked cocky, but now there actually is an ember of something darker in her eyes. Something real. Something raw, and hurting.

"A justice that won't be sated. For what happened to Kul Elna."

[marvelous_murderbot]

She thinks that over for a long moment, exquisite brows knitted. She sees the problem with that straight away, really.

“Thus you define your thievery as an act - or tradition - of rebellion against corrupt authority. But by targeting other passengers, you are thereby aiming not at that authority, but rather targets of convenience. Which would be, by any definition, more piratical than upholding a lineage, surely?”

Meet the most noble-minded droid you’ll ever meet, Bakura. In part because, once, she wasn’t.

[shegypt]

Bakura chuckles, totally cool with being called out. "It's also a habit."

Nobility is rather in short supply on this side of the conversation.

[marvelous_murderbot]

She nods.

"Ah. Please continue."