Betrayal (93)
Betrayal
=Griffin=
"Hey guess what guys? So long as I take it easy, Nadene agreed to let me out of the hospital bed."
"That's great! Well.... other than that I'm still..... um, *ahem*." Gilda replied sheepishly. She really was happy, but given the situation she was in for at least another two weeks, things would be a bit harder on her now that I'm up and about.
"Well, I still don't have a wing, which Geirmund and Steelhorn have apparently been working on some kind of 'special design', but it isn't ready yet, so unfortunately, I'm pretty much stuck on the ship until they get that finished." I lifted my existing wing into the air, stretched it out, and ran my claw along the inside edge, straightening some feathers out. I moved to do the other side, had a sad 'Oh, yeah.' moment, then folded it back in.
"Well. I guess you'll be wanting to take command again...." Gilda said, a little bit of disappointment in her voice, actually. Hmm. Time for that pleasant smirk.
"Nah. I'm nowhere near ready for that. Besides, you did a good job, and it takes a load off my mind so I can work on.... other things. So, pretty much, until you're ready to give it up....." I slapped one of those triangular pirate hats on her head, with one of my own feathers sticking out of it. Where did I get the hat? From Pinkie Pie's time on board, she stashed a number of nautical hats on board, in case she ever decided there was a 'hat emergency' I just happened to find one, sitting in an air duct where she thought nobody would find it. I mean, why bother when she has hammer space? Actually, I think that's how she did it, because I could have sworn there was no hat there till I wanted one. More likely she just put an entrance to her pocket dimension in an inconspicuous location. And now I'm rambling. Anyways, found the hat, put one of my feathers in it, put it on her head. "you get to stay captain."
I gave her a quick nuzzle, since we still haven't figured out whether or not it's even possible to kiss with beaks, especially since ours are two different sizes.... and now I'm rambling on biology too. Did you know griffins have teeth? It's like our heads are human, with a beak stuck on over the mouth and nose, and a longer tongue. There's lips and everything. If we didn't have that, we'd only be capable of squawks and whistles. In fact, we make make a full vocal range without moving our beaks at all....... and I keep losing my train of thought because I've been locked up in the medical ward for WAAAAY too long.
Anyways. I went inside and grabbed a snack of banana yogurt, brushed my beak, (and teeth), took a quick shower, then headed down to the training room... which considering everyone trained on deck or in their own rooms unless it was something particularly big or dangerous, it was empty, with the exception of Surprise who was teaching her.....pair of shadow mice some tricks.
"Um.... Surprise... why are there two Whiskers now?"
"Well, Whiskers looked like he was getting bored and needed a friend, so I made another one. I call him Munchkin. I thought I could start a little shadow mousy circus, so I've been teaching them tricks!" How she could tell the difference between the two, I have no idea.
"Anyways. I was trying something out, but I just couldn't seem to get it to work. I thought, well, pegasi and griffins use their feathers to move air currents, if they didn't, there's no way our wings could lift us given their size compared to our weight, so I started working on something, and I got stuck, so I was wondering if I could see your wings?"
"Tee hee, not without a date and dinner first silly!" Wha...... oh geez.......
"What I mean is I want to examine the airflow around them."
"Okie dokie pokie." Shouldn't it be lokie? Right, not Pinkie Pie. I had her stand in the middle of the room, close her eyes, and , then took out a cloud I had one of the other griffins grab, one of the really wispy ones, and put it under around her wings. I watched as all the cloud above them was pulled down below, where it then stayed in a neat little pocket of air. A couple times I moved the cloud on top, and it just flowed back under. Then I tried the same with my wing, and the same thing happened.
"Hmm..... alright..... yeah..... thanks Surprise. I think I get it now."
"Alrighty! Glad you're walking around. Once you're totally out of the doctor's sights." She aimed down her hoof like it was a gun. "I'll throw a party for you."
"Actually...... here's the thing... I met Gilda a while ago, and I learned when her birthday was AFTER it had passed, and she's been doing so much lately, I was thinking we could throw her a surprise party on Signal. But that's the thing, we CAN'T let her know about it. October Thirteenth. Two weeks Friday. I'm not really sure how to do it, so, think I can leave it to you?" She gave me a salute so hard she thwocked herself on the head with her hoof, causing her eyes to roll around a bit before they settled straight.
"You got it! It'll be the biggest, bestest.... totally not a birthday party for Gilda that I'm trying to keep secret. Oh, and no pranks. Just cake, punch, and fun."
"Good, get to it." With that, she left in a rather perky mood. Partially, I just wanted her out of the training room, but for the most part I really did want to throw Gilda a party. Now, for my experiment......."
=Steelhorn=
"Ahh. Jus a nice, quiet day, with a good bottle a whiskey, relaxin on tha deck, eh Shimma?"
"You said it." Tha young dragon had taken ta drinkin with me. Ah figur she's old 'nuff. Besides, this is a pirate ship. Everyone drinks now and then, with a lot o' emphasis on tha now.
"Ahm jus glad the cap'n been quiet. Restin up, and not doin nuthin ta keep me busy. It's a good thing, bein able ta relax. Maybe if he hadda done it more often, he wouldn'ta turned into a crazy bastard at the gala. Forcin him ta rest may a been tha best bit a good that's happened ta him since he got h---- BOOOOOOOOM......... aww hell. He was let out taday, waddn't he?" The dragoness youngling just nodded sagely.
I lumbered down to where I KNEW he'd be, that blasted training room, and spotted him standing in the doorway, waving smoke away with his wing, his entire left side blackened by virtue of having singed his feathers and fur. Still, there wasn't any fire, but I got no idea why he had that big, stupid grin on his face that despite having been at the center of an explosion, he was proud enough to smile.
"And that was a small one!" He called far too merrily from the hall. I shook my head, grabbed him by his rear leg, and dragged him right back to the medical bay and threw him in his bed. Then I turned to Nadene.
"Listen lass, he tries to get up again before the next two week, ya knock him out. I don't care whether it's with a needle or a fryin pan." She rolled her eyes and gave a huff at Grif, who as I've heard ain't captain no more, by his own choosin. Then I left the room and went back to the scene of the crime to assess the damage. Well, it wasn't too bad, other than that there was a two foot wide hole in the hardwood floor that had been burned right through, and everything around that was black, except for a distinctly griffin shaped spot that was clean as a whistle. I don't know what he did in here, and I don't think I want ta.
"Errrg..... knew I shoulda gone with linoleum....." I turned to look at the hole. "Or maybe concrete. It'd be too heavy to fly, but at least it wouldn't get holes blown in it every week." I built this ship to be damn near impervious to attacks from the outside. I was never expecting the biggest danger to it to be coming from it's passengers. "That griffin is gonna be the death of me. Couldn't he have made up magic for fixin stuff, rather than breakin it? You, unicorn, I don't care what your name is. Fix this hole or find one o yer kin that can, otherwise I'm gonna hafta replace tha whole bloody floor." He gave me a salute, then pointed his horn at the hole, causing it to begin sealing up. 'Shoulda got them on here ages ago....'
=Griffin=
"I let you walk around freely for what? A DAY? And you go and blow yourself up!" Nadene said as she angrily scrubbed my hide of any dirt or grime that had gotten on it from my explosion.
"Yeah..... but the experiment was a success. I just wasn't expecting the loss of containment is all. Taken care of easily enough....."
"Easily enough OFF the ship. I don't care what you do off the ship, but while you're on it, it's MY job to keep you in one piece, and if doing that means giving you a few lumps on the head, then I guess you'll have a lumpy skull till you smarten up."
"Yes mother." I said sarcastically. Suddenly, she jumped right on my bed and straddled me, looking right in my eyes. She was pissed off as is, now she looked to be fuming.
"I can make you cry for your mother if you want me to....." She said with a sadistic grin.
"N...no, no thanks..... I think I'm good." Geez, is she on PMS or something. "Nice kitty?" I began scratching behind her ears, and even though one of them had apparently gotten knicked in the fight, she still seemed to enjoy it, to the point of collapsing into my feathers and purring. "Okay.... awkward........" Wait. Mood swings. Bitchy, then overly squishy..... "Are you in heat or something?" She turned and looked at me with a scowl, then relented.
"I miss MangoJack." Who the hell is that? Should I know him? Could he get me some mangoes?
"Umm...... okay? Definitely in heat. Yeah. I'm not turning human anytime soon, so you can just forget about it. Why is it you cats seem to like humans anyways? You went nuts when Aoi was here, and I could see all the other cats looking at me, heck, even the guys were, although they at least tried to make it seem like they weren't."
She stopped for a moment, thinking, as she considered telling me. She stood at the side of the bed with one finger of her paw/hand to her chin, then shrugged. "The smell."
"The smell?"
"Something.... with the smell... kind of like catnip."
"So.... humans smell like catnip..."
"No, they don't smell like catnip, but the effect is the same. Euphoria, silliness, lowered inhibitions...."
"Okay then.... so basically every time I went human, you're body took a hormone order of a large silly with a side of lust. Nice to know.... guess I won't be goin human around any more cats..... who's MangoJack anyways?"
"Oh... he's a nice guy who passed through not long before you did, but before that asshole came and took over. He was really nice, cute..... we hung out a bit..... he was going to go off on an adventure, and I couldn't leave the village at that time.... I really wanted to go with him...."
"Well... who knows. Maybe you'll meet him again. Anyways, if you're in heat.... how are you gonna handle it? Gilda went pretty bonkers there for a little while, but she seemed to be able to control herself with a bit of help."
"Well.... I have some help of my own." She reached into one of her pouches and pulled out a bag of leaves, rolled them in a piece of paper, lit it, and started to smoke it.
"What the.... catnip?"
"Yeah. Human smell gives the loopy and the horny, catnip gives the loopy, and then the calm. Can I have one of your feathers?"
"Umm.... okay?" I reached over with my beak and pulled out one of my secondaries, then gave it to her....... which she then proceeded to tickle herself with. And here I thought tickling yourself was impossible.
"Um... should you be smoking in the medical bay?"
"It's only you and me in here, who cares?"
"What if there's an emergency?"
"I already got all the potions made up, and the gear heads know what to do with em. Ooh!" She then began rolling around on the floor, batting at the feather to keep it in the air. All I could do at that point is raise an eyebrow at how ADORABLY kitten like she was acting... well.... until I got some of that smoke. Curse my half feline body.
What happened that night did NOT go any farther than cuddling. A bird cat cuddling a cat woman, with super soft feathers and fur. We pretty much spent hours high just petting each other and commenting on how soft the other was, or how good their claws felt scratching behind the ears, on along the spine, or that one little spot that's always there but you can NEVER get yourself. Also, griffins can apparently get high on catnip. It's a good thing Gilda didn't come in at that moment............... except that she did, and while the fumes were still hanging in the air at that.
Well, the next morning I woke up, no longer high on catnip, in my own room, with both Gilda AND Nadene in my bed, surprisingly Gilda between the two of us, one of us laying on each of her wings. Now, my memory of that night was a bit hazy, but I distinctly remember one scene of me laying next to Gilda, with Nadene atop the two of us like a pyramid. I have no clue who had sex with who, are even if it happened at all.
"Hey, Gilda, Nadene, wake up."
"Mrrrhhmmrhh." They both grumbled. So, I did the only thing TO do in this situation. Grab the sheets and pull them out from under them.
"Grif! What the hell!" Gilda yelled.
"I am seriously freaking out right now! Okay, so, I was in the hospital room, Nadene smoked catnip, it got ME high, you came in, got high too, we all snuggled for a while, and then you were laying on the two of us, and we somehow we wound up in my room. I'm really confused."
"Yeah... that about sums it up.... What's the big deal?"
"Did we have sex?!" I then turned to Nadene. "Did WE have sex? You you two have sex with each other?! I don't remember anything past the cuddling bit. We could have some MAJOR problems...."
"Ah, quit worrying about it. If we did we did, if we didn't we didn't...."
"And... you're not the least bit upset that I may have slept with Nadene........."
"One, you're fine with my history, I don't see why not. Two.... if you did, it was a threesome. With ME. It's totally okay. Just chill...."
"Eh.... grk... ugh...." Right.... I'm used to strictly monogamous relationships, and before coming here, I never even got a girl. Griffin and pony gender ratios are way skewed, d-dogs are the other way, dragons and cats I don't even know, although they seem about even from what I've seen.
"You're right.... I need to calm down...."
"No Grif.... you didn't sleep with me." Nadene finally got up from the floor by my yelling. "I've used catnip a lot in the past, and while it makes me loopy, it partially kills my drive. I don't know how it affects griffins, but I was lucid the entire time, and while the two of you did it, I kinda wanted in on it, but was content to just cuddle, especially since she was ready to gouge my eyes out if I interrupted. That stuff made you go a bit out of it, but it made her right bonkers in the sack. Is it a threesome if one just watches? Anyways after you were both exhausted, I cuddled up in bed with the two of you, and then we slept." Whew. That's a relief.
"Well... that's a bit less worrisome... although Gilda is still in heat. I don't know how likely it is, but I don't want any more risk of you getting pregnant, so I think it would be best if you only smoked catnip in a private place? Since I'm not allowed to run tests in the training room, and nobody else uses it, we could turn it into a smoking area........" At which point, Nadene glomped me.
"Oh thank you thank you thank you! It had really been forever since I last had a good smoke, and I tried to quit after I left the village.... but it's what I ALWAYS used to deal with the hormones. Having a place to smoke would make it a lot easier to cope, for me and all the other cats..... Still....."
"Still?"
"Are you THAT adverse to letting me join in some time?"
"Eh.... I... um.... don't know?"
"I'm okay with it." Gilda shrugged, then turned to look at me. "What? I am. You're okay with my history, and even my decision to go to Nadene or Trixie with my problem, and don't think I haven't seen how you tense up when you're around me. You're dying for it too. If you're really serious about not getting me pregnant, then you know what... erm... who, you need to do."
"What?"
"Either screw around with Nadene once in a while so she doesn't need the catnip, or risk getting high on it and screwing me, and getting me pregnant. We both know it wouldn't mean anything. It would just be..... a friend helping a friend...."
"Then what about you? You'd still be missing out."
"Well if you did it with Nadene, I wouldn't feel nearly so bad about it....."
"So wait, you're telling me to fuck Nadene to make it okay for you to do it?"
"Basically."
"Um....."
"Yes, I do know the only reason I was able to sleep with you that first time was by getting you drunk."
"You planned that?!?"
"Uh huh. If it helps, we can get you drunk again."
"And this time?"
"Uh.... I may have mentioned it to Nadene that getting you high might help. Then she told me that it kills her drive, but was willing to try anyways, seeing as you become a sex fiend when you're under the influence...." Those manipulative little...
"So.... you planned to get me high so I'd screw Nadene while I'm out of my mind, so that the three of us could relieve sexual tension..... and the first time around, you actually planned on me getting drunk so you could take advantage of me. Well..... you could have VERY easily hurt my feelings in regards to that. You know what else? You're right. You're BOTH right. As long as neither of you are hurt by it, Gilda knows I still belong to her, and Nadene knows I'm just helping her out as a friend, if it'll get you both off my back to the point of trying to drug me so I'll relax enough stop being a stick in the mud and screw around, fine. I will FUCK Nadene. And I will enjoy it, because she is an adorable little kitty, who is also SEXY AS HELL, and the only reason I haven't done this before was because I was worried how you'd feel about it, and I'm a social outcast who can't so much as talk to a girl coherently about how I feel about them without being drugged up! so, yeah, that makes it TOTALLY okay to get me drunk or high just so you can sleep with me and open the way for sober sex." How sarcastic was this explanation? Hmm.... to quote Obi Wan Kenobi.... 'It was as if a thousand scouters cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced....'
"Grif...." Gilda started, but I cut her off with a death glare as I felt tears starting in the corners of my eyes.
"So SORRY for taking your feelings into account, because where I'm from, when someone sleeps with their partner's friend, it leads to the two of them hating each other, and they all wind up on the Maury show to find out whether or not the guy really IS the parent of the bastard child, and if he isn't, he never says another word to the girl, and if he is, he's stuck hating the kid because now he has to pay child support, and either way his partner hates him because he broke their trust, and the relationship breaks apart anyways, and then EVERYBODY HATES EACH OTHER!!!! Then the kid has to put up with parents who never stop yelling at each other, having a half brother out there somewhere that he's never even met, all because his father is a raging DRUNK who can't keep his dick in his pants long enough to think of where it'll lead him, or how someone else might feel!" I finished my rant, stormed out of the room, laid with my back against the hallway wall, and cried my fucking eyes out.
"Um.... Grif?"
"Go away!"
"Grif... seriously... you're scaring me."
"I said FUCK OFF!"
"And as Captain I ORDER YOU to tell me what the FUCK is wrong with you!" She said as she slapped me across the face. That snapped me out of it. I stopped crying, stopped curling up, stopped everything. That was when I turned around and punched her right in the beak, knocking her over onto her back while Nadene simply stood there, dumbfounded. I had never once struck any of my crew, but at this point, she waaaay deserved it.
"YOU ARE! Both of you! You were SO desperate for sex that you were willing to hurt me, just so you'd feel it was morally acceptable! I already told you I was fine with it, but no. You'd feel guilty, so you tried to make me do it first! You COMPLETELY DISREGARDED how I felt, and tried to take matters into your own hands. You KNOW how I felt about it, but you did it anyways."
"What the hell, it's just sex."
"Just.... sex? Oh, and I suppose you wouldn't be hurt at all if I decided I liked Nadene better, and started spending all my time with her, and then you'd feel like a third wheel. Or maybe I should just go sleeping around with all the other griffins on the ship like a complete scum bag and get them all pregnant. Or maybe I should just totally ignore you when you want it, but when you're not in the mood force myself on you. You're both acting like animals, so maybe I should TREAT you like animals. I don't want to see EITHER of you till you're off your estrus and can think like rational people again."
She stopped to think about what I was saying. What I had said. She turned to me with sad eyes and asked... "What did you mean.... when we were in the room....."
"What did I mean? Isn't it obvious? My dad was married to a woman, and they were happy, and they had a kid, and then my dad got drunk, met my mom at a bar, they slept together, and she had me. His wife found out he was cheating on her and had a child with another woman, and kicked him to the curb, just like she's SUPPOSED TO. They got a divorce, she got half his stuff, and he has to pay her alimony as well as child support. He didn't have anywhere else to go, so he moved in with the mistress so she could work to feed his alcoholism and take care of his OTHER child, me, whom he hates because the kid robbed him of his easy ride through life with his rich businesswoman ex wife, and landed him with someone who works as a grocery store cashier. And SHE hates me because she could have gone somewhere with her life, but had to give up all her dreams because she got pregnant. And they hate each other because they blame each other for not getting what they want out of life. Do you have any idea. Any idea at all? They were constantly fighting with each other, and even though it wasn't my fault, it was almost always BECAUSE of me, and when they weren't fighting with each other, they were yelling at me. I'm the reason they can't travel, why they can't afford nice things, why both their lives are ruined....."
"Grif..."
"I never asked for this. I never asked for any of it. I can't count how many times I wished I had never been born, because then the people around me wouldn't be unhappy. I know it wasn't my fault, but I was what? Five? Of course I blamed myself. And when I stopped blaming myself, I HATED them for letting me, and for them blaming me too. And do you know WHY all that happened? Because of a little 'harmless' sex. I don't care that we're different species and I probably can't get Nadene knocked up. In my mind, it's the same thing. I don't care that this world works differently, that guys have a whack of girls in a herd, or a flock, or whatever you want to call it. That's who THEY are. It's not who I am. Now.... go away. I told you once before that I love you, and because of that, I could forgive you for anything you did in your altered state of mind, but I CAN'T forgive you till you're OUT of that state of mind, and I don't want to see you till your estrus is over. You both really hurt me today. I'm not tired because I just woke up, but right now, I'd like nothing more than to just go back to sleep." I walked back into my room and laid on the bed, then channeled the air through my feathers to make a wind strong enough to close the door from where I was.
"We fucked up Gilda."
"I know.... let's... just let him be."
I reached into my desk drawer and pulled out a black velvet box. I opened the box to reveal a gold bracelet, with a glowing sun diamond set into it. It was engraved to say 'Gilda, The Light Of My Life' in that really fancy lettering, which was actually inscribed magically by a unicorn so whenever someone looked at the writing it would glow and become more visible. I closed the box containing the wedding band, and chucked it out my window into the ocean below.
"Just because I forgive..... doesn't mean I forget."
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For some reason I have an intense hatred of Grif...I'm not even sure myself.
Aaaaand Griff's throwin' a hissy fit again.
Admittedly this is a very justified hissy fit that almost borders on emotional, but still a bit of a fit. I really lost track of what he was even getting at and who was sleeping with who until the very end. I think Griff ranted about his family again... But then I kinda thought that was Gilda when it first started.
Edit: On that subject- I wouldn't have been nearly as lost if there hadn't been 13-line-long periods of uninterrupted dialogue. Might wanna split those up a bit.
Ok, so Griffin was gonna propose to Gilda, but then background development happened. Wow. The truly sad thing about his back-story is that I can imagine it happening. Anyway, I hope this gets resolved soon. I like happy-go-lucky Griffin who blows stuff up and sings about swinging his sword-sword and banana phones. Not mopey Griff.
By the way.... remember that thing about him feeling pain whenever he talked about his past? Like at that club while on tour? ....... Yeah, this might sting.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh...shit..
ooooh you fucked up there Gilda
You know what? This story is starting to burn out... You've lost your edge, you're grasping at straws to keep it going...
Still this is your story, and it's spawned a shitload of sub-stories so I have no idea if you can end it.
After all, we have no friggin' idea what is the purpose of the Game of Gods...
this kinda reminds me of Peirs Anthony I LIKE Peirs Anthony so continue
He just threw... I will not forgive Griff or you, Black Wing, for this.
Wow, ummm...I'm not sure how to feel right now. One moment I was
then the next //dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Redheart_gasp.png then 
and //dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Twilight_crazy.png for some reason.
with who, are even if it happened: or
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Chell got an upgrade.
Did you just toss the equivalent of a ring out the window? You bastard. It hit me on the head while I was chatting with Plankton. I don't know what to do with this now, I can't just toss it into the ocean. Or should I... Stick it in a bottle?
Mixed feelings... Kinda wanna hate Grif, but it was justified so.... Meh for now.
Oh sure... it's not like my emotions weren't ALREADY bucked up from the Homestuck update. Nooo they weren't bucked up at all! </sarcasm>
That really isn't a pretty picture.
The last bit: Disturbing
1335238 nah, this arc is coming to an end. Patience, padawan.
To the people who are throwing hissy fits over Grif's reaction to this. Just a little relationship advice.
Ask if you want to have sex with other people on the side for fun:
Both people seriously think about it and agree: OK
Ask if you want to have sex as a threesome, adding someone you know or a stranger:
Both people seriously think about it and agree: OK
Ask if you can have sex with other people while your away or otherwise unable to do it with each other:
Both people seriously think about it and agree: OK
Find out your partner will not being doing these things but is still ok with you doing them:
Try to trick them into doing them so you don't feel guilty: NOT OK
I think that's something worse then lying. Being deceitful is almost height of broken relationships. Probably right under abuse.
This story is not your clop fantasy. Go somewhere else.
during this story I had grown to like Gilda, because she seemed to be a nice person.
aaaaand it's gone
To be perfectly honest, I think Griffins actions are perfectly justified. I also have beef with some of what he said.
To start, the two main catalysts for his outburst are justified. One, gilda and nadne both drugged him with the intention of taking advantage of him in his altered state. This is a major breach of trust, it doesn't matter who you are or who does it to you. It would be devastating regardless.
Two, the caviler attitude towards sex. For humans sex is a bonding mechanism, this has been proven with science, more specifically MRI's but I'm getting off topic. From what it seems, Griffin has deep psychological scarring due to how his parents treated him. This is obviously a sensitive issue for him and they tread on that land-mine completely unawares.
On the second point there is something to make a note of, In Equestria or at least this universe, the gender ratio's seem to lean more often than not to one gender out numbering the other rather than equal distribution. This would likely mean stable sexual relationships with multiple partners is not uncommon if not the norm. From gildas standpoint she was probably completely blindsided by griffins views and upbringing. In my mind, what gilda was trying to do would be very normal and likely a sign of great trust on both griffin and nadne's part. Griffin for not leaving her for a new mate and nadne to trust her with not trying to steal her mate. She knows griffin is sensitive about these kinds of things so she tried to get him to loosen up a little, though make no mistake she went about it the COMPLETELY wrong way. she never acted with the intention to cause griffin any harm, emotional or otherwise. At least that's what it seems like to me.
As for griffin's reaction, I think for what he's gone through, his actions are justified. Up till the point of tossing the wedding band and 'just because I forgive doesn't mean I forget' bit.
Tossing the wedding band... I can accept that, he was very emotional at the time. Gilda had greatly breached his trust, even if it was in an altered state of mind. And reacted in the extreme, as emotional people do.
My beef is with the whole forgiveness part, he says just because he forgives Gilda for what she's done doesn't mean he's going to forget he she did it.
So I got to ask... What's the point in forgiveness then? If you hold something against someone because they did something, that's not forgiveness, that means you still resent what they did and that you still hurt enough that you can't simply shrug it off. The fact is he isn't ready to forgive them yet is a sign that until he gets a proper apology from the both of them in an unaltered state he isn't going to be ready to forgive them, and even then theres no guarantee that he will be ready then either.
But I think when the time comes, he will regret tossing that wedding band. I honestly do.
Though that's just me, I have a nasty habit of thinking the best of people.
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Uh, no, I meant the whole story.
I think he needs to take a short break and do some research.
I think it's great that he's touching moral aspects of HIS life
and Equestria and whatnot but I'm missing the "omph" that
the previous chapters had...
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!! HE WAS GOING TO ASK HER TO MARRY HIM AND THEN THAT HAPPENS!!
YOU BETTER FIX IT OR I WILL FIND YOU AND END YOU!!!!!!!!!!
oh.... drama... interesting. i like that the story is gettin regular updates.
... Oh look, character development just happened. Just remember folks, a lot of the chessverse is made up of very broken individuals.
You know, I personally hate Griffin in the fact that he says "Oh woe is me!" Dear lord, he should remember her past. She was a slave, yet he finds that familial problems trump that. I swear someone who loves him should just slap him hard and most of these issues would be resolved. (and slap in the emotional sense. He never seems to get emotionally beaten unless its by mistake. Someone needs to purposfully beat his emotions down by showing their own horrid past. DAMN YOU AOI FOR NOT DOING SO!)
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When you forgive someone for something you stop punishing them for whatever it is that they did. The not forgetting part makes it much harder to open back up again, which is something Grif is doing to himself, not really to Gilda (although she will suffer for it just as much as he does).
Lots of heavily emotional screw ups in the last few chapters. Gilda for her actions here, Nadine for going along with it, and even Grif for not trying to understand Gilda better as she's struggling with her condition.
Can't wait to see what comes of this.
That last paragraph... right in the feels.
Poor Grif.
Shiiiiiiiiaaaaattteeee.
Wow.. That's A Load.
i would be lying if i said that i diffident love this
i have a very sick mind and i know it, but i would not have it any other way....
....conflict is needed to grow even tough it hurts(speaking out of experiences)
My respect for Grif just grew a little. Any way, I have a question. Is Grif off the drain blood yet? Cause for a few chapters I haven't seen him drink any.
And then they all f- ...wait.
Jim crack corn, and I don't care
Jim crack corn, and I don't care
Jim crack corn, and I don't care
My master's gone away.
I wonder how Grif blew himself up?
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Agreed. He just went on a half-incomprehensible alien rant, and didn't get checked in the slightest. I don't want the story to go there though; I've had enough of this emotional bullsh*t.
Suck it up you big baby
The're on their heat cycles, they don't know what the're doing
All they know is that they want to get laid.
I am quite proud of Griffin at this point, that was an entirely appropriate reaction to finding out the knowledge that he'd been manipulated into the physical gesture of sharing love.
character development.
very naise. :D
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Yeah, I know. trust me, it IS coming. They're just giving him his space for the moment because he's on an emotional rollercoaster. Gilda's gonna turn around and throw it back in his face. It's on it's way. This is a LONG fic. It takes a couple chapters to get shit done, and yes, I am grasping at straws a bit for the end of the arc. It's gonna pick back up. Grif has what's coming to him coming. His crew is eventually going to get tired of his BS. Ya just gotta WAIT for it.
WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED! I wake up read this before class and you just fucked my mind seven ways till sunday! To be honest I thought this would have been a chapter when some other group betrays him but I forgot that this is Blackwing I am talking about who just decides to fuck my in the head...in a good way...I think...stupid rants in the morning
Anyway the beginning was great because it was the calm before the storm of this monstosity of a breakup. Steelhorn's reaction was great with how crazy Griffin is with his ship. The catnip scene...well I am indifferent with it as I like a way to cope and I don't like it at all.
threesome
hangover scene reminder. Also I can see a scene where the caats are high and they fail in a battle.
Lastly Griffin being used as a sex toy for the horny GIlda and Nadene...FINALLY someone is doing it right. I have read some stories who just throw love out the window in more than one partner sex and people being okay with being used if it is for sex but you manage to perserve Griffin's moral value and not be the typical pervert I read in most my stories. The last scene just broke my hear...I was hoping a fight to break out and one did...that broke my heart and won't get out of my head for the rest of classes. DAMNIT you drive me to insanity with your crazy stories.
I fear Griffin is going to walk a darker path than can be comprehended.
-Sturrn
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Okay, trust me, I can wait, in the end I may be writing more than you, but that's a guess, so I can sympathize with your long arcs
I laughed a bit at Gildas "It just sex", I think Griffins right, tho a bit sad about the chucking of the wedding band out the window, hope someone catches it, it was really nice.
Confusing, but still great. How long is this fanfic going to be anyway?
Am I seriously going to be the only person to ignore the character development for just a few minutes in this chapter and say "9/24 smoke dank nip"? I know all of you were going to think it eventually.
...
Should that be 9/25? I mean, I am partially asleep at the moment.
*snerks* Ah, Griffin's weakness. Now we know how his spirit can be broken. *the new plan, break the chesspieces' minds and wills one by one, and eliminate them... then gain the power and use a newly discovered anti-god weapon to kill off the rest* Then the game will be permanently ended. It is a war they wanted, I shall not entertain their whining simply because I plan to take it to an ultimate end. If they didn't wish to fight a war, they should never have started one. >:3
To Grif and Gilda;
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Sincerly,
People reading this.
1336405 If Jim(my) cracks corn, and you don't care... THEN WHY THE * ARE YOU SINGING ABOUT IT?! Please, explain that song to me. Please.
Ach I know at least a little bit what griffin went through, though his was definitely worse. he definitely overreacted but the kind of pain where the people supposed to love you most, hate you most. and then your new closest friends making light of it and manipulating you, yeah that would suck/
You just opened a door for a friend and I, do you mind if we find your ring?
The stages of my face as i read this chapter...
grif may have over reacted there just a bit i mean sex is sex as long as the other partner isn't in heat i dout that she'll get knocked up
Dude.