villainy commenced [[1x1 w/ the-nug-king & hexspecs!]]

[the-nug-king]

"Wake up!" Cazenar hissed, eyes wide with fear. "Lazarus, the stuff I gave you and told you to hide - where are they?"

((Also because I was thinking about it - heights I headcanon gaffv students as!

A Baroness - 5’1”
Three - 5’3”
Aurion - 5’5”
Kinistra - 5’7”
Val - 5’7”
Cazenar - 5’8”
Morgan - 5’9” (when an Adult)
Scorpius - 5’10”
Xi - 5’11”
Phil - 6’2”
Sona - 6’4”
Dev - Nope))

[grey matter]

"Oh- in the scarf!" he said, noticing the intensity of Cazenar's... everything. He started to fumble the stuff out of there in case Cazenar needed said stuff.

[[oooooooooooo
I Enjoy.]]

[the-nug-king]

"Don't get them out! I mean - are they safe in there? The Academy's doing a random search for uh... heroic aligned items? And they might kind of be slightly heroic aligned. But tell anyone that and I will drain your blood."

[grey matter]

Another... holder of a heroic secret of sorts? "They are but I don't know if anyone will end up digging around in my scarf somehow... which, would be bad. I'll try to stop outer access from working for a while or... not... wear it." He sighed at the prospect of that, taking his empty hand out of the scarf void. "Did you steal them from someone heroic or something?" Totally innocuous... and excusable for someone who just woke up. Hopefully. Maybe? He wanted to fall back into laying down but that didn't seem like an option.

[the-nug-king]

"You can't not wear it! You always wear it! That'll be suspicious! Does DarkBoard know you keep things in it? Oh gods, they will, you do it all the time. We need to hide them somewhere." Cazenar looked round frantically. "They're going to be looking in all the obvious hiding places. So... somewhere non-obvious? Or we just... put them in someone else's room and hope they don't find fingerprints or anything and hope we get them back- no, that's stupid, there's pictures of me in there. I could burn them. But I really don't want to burn them. And that doesn't help with the amulet. Lazarus you're my minion, tell me what to do!"

((Edit: Also I've been replaying the Gaffv sequel and it occurs to me that I really need all three of my guys in the first conversation between the genre leaders because I mean

Scorpius: Tell us your favourite ice cream flavour

[A Baroness] looks at you narrowly, trying to guess the intent behind your words. "Oh, I don't indulge. My favorite ice cream is a sparkling water with a light essence of kale."

Three: Sparkling? But you... "don't indulge." I see.

Cazenar: Every time one of you speaks I wish I was dead, and then I remember that I technically am, and I wonder what kind of hell this is where it possible for anyone to be so boring.))

[grey matter]

"Tell you what to- I... um... We... go to Inamonth and ask the voids to... redefine- actually, I don't think that'll work for... non-in-Inamonth definitions. But that's what I did when- When I needed a redefinition of some stuff I stole, y'know, poethievery and whatnot." Smooth. A great lie. Eleven out of ten.

[the-nug-king]

Cazenar shook his head. "The Academy will see anyone leaving today as an attempt to sneak away, and take that as automatic guilt. "Maybe if you just... I mean, we're not suspicious, right? They have no reason to suspect us! We're very villainous villains! I've dedicated my life to the cause of evil ever since, uh, two years ago. Okay, this isn't going to work, and we're going to die, and I shouldn't have kept any of it in the first place! It's - I mean, you think I'm a proper villain, right? You said you thought I stole it? Not just, uh, kept stuff? Ugh, this is stupid! The knights were pretty lawful evil anyway! They just thought they were good guys!"

[grey matter]

"Knights?" Lazarus asked. "And, yes, I think you're at least as proper as I am and... uh, I'll let you explain the knights first."

[the-nug-king]

Cazenar sighed. "Ugh, fine. For a few years before coming here, I was a Knight of Erock. They're, uh, my narrative's equivalent of paladins? Wait, you're thriller, do you know paladins? Bunch of self-righteous snobs who go round doing good in the name of their god. Except they didn't always do that much good. They killed a bunch of species they thought were evil. Like, the whole species, they'd just condemn." Cazenar scowled. "Great, now you've got me talking like a hero! Point is, I hated them, and I realised that whatever I did I ended up being bad, so I might as well just give in to it and be the worst I could be, and I betrayed them and came here, and it's the best decision I ever made."

((Also! Cazenar's skyrim backstory, that all this is based on:
-Lives in the city of Markarth, his dad's a wealthy merchant, his mum dies giving birth to his sister
-Markarth Incident happens when he's seven or so, he has to kill people to save his family, it messes him up
-he learns some magic as a teenager
-When he's 20, the Silver-Blood family have his dad murdered, steal his business and force the family into their debt
-A visiting wizard offers Cazenar a job as his apprentice, he accepts to get out of having to work off the debt, leaves town with him and doesn't come back
-His sixteen year old sister Radah is Upset about Caz just abandoning her, and having to be a Silver-Blood servant by herself. He feels guilty and sends some of the money he's making and writes to her a lot, she writes less and less often because she has a Whole lot of resentment
-Caz's wizard mentor starts doing dodgier and dodgier magic and ends up sacrificing innocent people to get more power, Cazenar starts feeling bad about working for him and betrays him to the Vigilants of Stendarr and takes a job with them
-The Silver-Bloods end up ruining Radah's life More and framing her for something and throwing her in Cidna Mine Prison for life, where she joins up with the Foresworn, who teach her to fight. Cazenar isn't told she's in prison, he thinks she's just finally stopped writing to him
-he's a Vigilant for a few years but becomes more and more uncomfy with their No Mercy and No Undead and No Things We Don't Really Like, it's Murder Time For Them stances
-So when a group of vampires attack the Hall of Vigilants, Caz stabs the Vigilant leader and saves a vampire and offers to give them the notes they came here looking for, because Why Not, it's not even possible to be a good person but the vigilants suck and at least the vampires have style
-he gets rewarded by being turned into a vampire lord. He does not throw away his amulet of stendarr.
-meanwhile radah gets out of prison, does some mercenary work, finds out the hall of the vigilants is destroyed, goes over to ask about Cazenar, gets told his body wasn't found, joins up with the Dawnguard to save Skyrim from the Growing Vampire Menance, finds an important vampire lady with an elder scroll in a crypt, and agrees to take her back to hr vampire family on the condition that they tell her where her brother is, and release him if they're holding him prisoner
-Cazenar is Very Surprised to see his little sister here and a vampire hunter, but makes a Very Dramatic Entrance when she asks about him and gives a fun cackling evil laugh. Radah announces that she's gonna murder him
-They spend the rest of dawnguard fighting, at the end of it, the dawnguard attack the vampires, cazenar sees someone about to kill his sister and welp.... betrayal time again...
-he stabs the vampire, Radah tells him to go and hide and get his life together, if she sees him again after this and he's still doing evil - either as a vampire or a human - she is going to kill him. But please, go and get your life together
-he's currently at the college of winterhold trying to do that aaaand that's about as far as I've got))

[grey matter]

"Ohhhh. Well... I think we're about the same here, then. I was apparently a protagonist for a while without realizing it. Then, upon learning it, I talked to a void and now I think I'm an antagonist and- get this, this was... recent. I managed to just lurk about in here as a protagonist... but I'm pretty sure I should be an antagonist by now. In the Inamonthian definition files, I mean. And DarkBoard already knows about this because the last time I talked about it, I read it off instinctually and then, well, at least Three asked them not to tell anyone else. It's funny, I said that would never leave my dorm and... it hasn't. I wonder if, in technicality, my stuff is protagonist items, or if they all became antagonist items with me... and if they did..." He gasped. "That means, because your stuff was in my possession, maybe it would be an antagonist item?"

[[Oooh. I have said it before and I'll say it again: I Enjoy!! With my Limited Skyrim Knowledge (aka watching my parents play it whenever they are), I know about A Decent Amount Of This, so I think I understand.]]