10th Swing [Video]

[deadalready]

I missed my birthday.

[It's said with no small share of amusement on his part, the fact is he was kind of in the middle of having a huge crisis with Ganon going ape on his birthday so...he doesn't feel too bad but still.]

I've been eighteen for six weeks now -- weird. Where I come from, it's a...pretty big deal. The last year of having your name put in and the last time you'll ever have a chance of being in the Games.

[He says chance like it's some kind of honor to be picked. For him, it was. Was.]

If I had been home, [Still alive that is.] next year the whole town would have gotten together to celebrate - we never did those things small.

[He smiles, mostly to himself.]

It would've been fun.

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[Video] ilikethisthreadsomuch

[deadalready]

[Ah crap.]

It's a...thing that people did where I grew up. It's just...special when you get old enough that you can't participate. Like finally being an adult.

[He's trying to edit so much here that it almost makes the Games sound tame. It's a sign that he's changing though...that he's even bothering to consider her. She's of age to be entered in the Games, but she hasn't been raised with them.]

[Video] metoometoo

[ps3pirate]

[Oh Cato, if only you knew. She could handle the truth of the Hunger Games just fine. As it is, though, she remains blissfully ignorant. She produces a thoughtful sound, then smiles.]

Oh, I get it. It's symbolical. There's just one problem with that, ya know. Adults can play games too!

[Video]

[deadalready]

[*shakes fist* If only.

And also as it is, Cato can't really stop the half-amused snort. He's doing his best at being nice. He is.]

This one was made for kids where I come from...

[--It's unexpected but the truth of the Hunger Games kind of just...hits him there. That they made the games for children to fight. And die in. How did he not see how fucked up things were?]

[Video]

[ps3pirate]

Huh... So you celebrate that you're too old to play a game that was made for kids? I guess that makes sense... Sorta.

[It still strikes her as a little redundant, though. Hm... Well, who's she to question the customs of another world, right?]

So does that mean you get to do adult stuff now? Like drinking alcohol and playing games of strip poker?

[Video]

[deadalready]

Yeah that's about it.

[Cato shrugs. He hasn't given the latter much thought.]

I guess. What the hell is strip poker though?

[Video] 1/2

[ps3pirate]

You don't know? [Patty makes sure to overdramatize her surprise and turn it into mild outrage.]

[Video] 2/2

[ps3pirate]

Strip poker is like normal poker, except every time you lose a round you have to take off a piece of your clothing, ya know.