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FRANK ARCHER

COLONEL OF THE AMESTRIAN MILITARY

Determined to warmonger his way to fame, Archer is an aggressively ambitious man who while Lawful Evil, absolutely uses the law to enable the evil. He's not opposed to underhanded methods like blackmail and recruiting a supposedly-dead man, and he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants (war).

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[alchemicals]

I might have gotten talked into doing something.

[sadisticwarfare]

[...oh no.]

Oh? What are you going to be doing?

[alchemicals]

She really wants to watch me blow some stuff up.

[oh yes.]

[sadisticwarfare]

[...does Kimbley's alchemy count as art... eh, you know what, he's not going to complain, Kimbley's probably looking forward to the chance to blow things up.]

I suppose it goes without saying, but I'll be there, then.

[Mostly to keep an eye on you, but if this is how you want to express your artistic(?) creativity(??) then he's all for it(???).]

[alchemicals]

I'm going to assume you're deeply confused over there.

[sadisticwarfare]

[...called out.]

What gave it away?

[alchemicals]

Because I'm trying to conceive of you making any connections between what I do and "it's an art form" and I can't see it happening.

[sadisticwarfare]

You're correct. Given what I've seen of your "artwork" it is rather hard to imagine. With that said, I'm all for embracing your passion and creativity as long as you aren't causing any problems for me.

[Maybe don't blow anyone up, but otherwise have fun!]

[alchemicals]

I used to consider it more of an art thing when I was younger. Now it just kind of is what it is.

[sadisticwarfare]

Did you? I never would have guessed. I'm curious to see what you'll end up doing for your performance.

[alchemicals]

Pretty sure I was just more pretentious about it back then.

I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I mean, I've got an idea, but nothing's too solidified right now. It'll work itself out, I'm sure.

[sadisticwarfare]

I'm sure it will. Should you need any assistance, you know how to get in contact with me.

[alchemicals]

If you want to meet up that badly you can ask, you know.

[sadisticwarfare]

I didn't say that, Kimbley. The same goes for you, of course.

[alchemicals]

Yeah, I know you didn't say it. Never said you did.

[sadisticwarfare]

[.............]

Where would you like to meet up, then?

[alchemicals]

Come out to the lake if you want to see me destroy some stuff.

[sadisticwarfare]

I'll be there soon.

[Who wouldn't want to watch Kimbley destroy stuff?? That's totally the only reason why he's going and not because he likes spending time with Kimbley shut up.

Anyway, it doesn't take Archer very long to head out there - how's it going, terrorizing the poor mermaids again today?]

[alchemicals]

[Of course he's terrorizing the mermaids. They probably completely hate him by now.

He'll look over when it feels like someone's approaching, though; he can usually tell when someone's over there, and sure enough.]

You been bored or something?

[sadisticwarfare]

[Those poor mermaids. Not like Archer cares, though. Tough luck, mermaids.]

Perhaps a bit.

[It's an easy admission because Kimbley certainly already knows as much. Archer's always busy. Suddenly having a lot of downtime without any work to do is... not a good thing, as far as he's concerned, actually.]

So how have you been entertaining yourself here?

[It's still idle chatter, but it is a legitimate question. Kimbley has been behaving from the sound of things, so Archer's genuinely curious how he's been doing.]

[alchemicals]

[Kimbley just kind of shrugs at that, really, before turning and throwing whatever rock he's got into the lake - he was working on one when Archer came up, and the blast fires off with a loud cracking noise.]

It's like I told you before. I've been talking to people. I make friends pretty easily, so it's not like it's been terrible. Boring, but not the worst.

[sadisticwarfare]

[And there it goes. Those poor mermaids. Archer's smile is sharp, approving, as it always is whenever he gets the chance to see Kimbley doing something pointlessly destructive.]

I imagine you've been out here more than a few times?

[To blow off steam, if nothing else.]

[alchemicals]

You know I don't like staying inside.

[For what are likely obvious reasons, especially since their last discussion.]

[sadisticwarfare]

[...You know what.]

You have my apologies for that.

[He's actually going to say it. He isn't going to try to explain himself because frankly, it'll sound like he's trying to excuse his actions when there isn't really any excusing it. He knows Kimbley doesn't like to be locked in anywhere. He's behaved himself better than Archer thought he would for the time it took them to get to Liore, so he's willing to overlook the mess that followed, primarily because he knows at least half of that was directly in response to being shoved in a small room and told not to leave.

So yeah. He acknowledges he fucked that one up.]

[alchemicals]

[That seems to catch him off-guard and for a long moment he just stares; he actually wasn't prying for that, it was just one of those things that he said because it happened to be true and it was a technical answer to the question.

It takes him a moment.]

...So I'm going to assume that conversation's been digging at you or something lately.