Reno of the Turks (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
raspberryturk) wrote2008-11-11 08:13 pm
raspberryturk) wrote2008-11-11 08:13 pm
"The useful sorta mind games, huh?" Reno glanced sideways at her, curious, and then turned his attention back to the path ahead of them. "Sometimes, the best weapon you got against someone is what's inside their own head. Takes a real artist to be able to pick that apart and make it useful, yo."
That got an impish smile directed at his back.
"In a way," Ino said, thinking through what he'd said and contemplating ways to explain that wouldn't leave him with the wrong grasp of what she did. "Bit more literal than most people do it."
"In a way," Ino said, thinking through what he'd said and contemplating ways to explain that wouldn't leave him with the wrong grasp of what she did. "Bit more literal than most people do it."
"Literally?" Reno paused for a moment, stopping to turn to face her. "Okay, now you know I gotta ask you how literal, and what happens when you do it, right?"
Curiosity killed the...
Curiosity killed the...
Ino shrugged, staring at him.
"Technically," she said, "there's several people 'round here who'd really hate me telling people 'bout what I'm good for."
A bland smile. "Sometimes I get really sick of not talking 'bout stuff though, so I figure, what the hell. Literally, as in literally if I wanted to be in your head I would be in your head. You wouldn't have control of your body, your thoughts, and when I left you'd have no memory of what the hell I did while I was there. That's what my family does. It's a shit skill in full speed battle, but freakin' fantastic for spies."
"Technically," she said, "there's several people 'round here who'd really hate me telling people 'bout what I'm good for."
A bland smile. "Sometimes I get really sick of not talking 'bout stuff though, so I figure, what the hell. Literally, as in literally if I wanted to be in your head I would be in your head. You wouldn't have control of your body, your thoughts, and when I left you'd have no memory of what the hell I did while I was there. That's what my family does. It's a shit skill in full speed battle, but freakin' fantastic for spies."
The edge of Reno's lip quirked, just a little. And he nodded.
"I ain't a stranger to people who can do stuff like that," he replied evenly as he started walking again. "Though, where I come from, if someone gets you that way, you're damn lucky if you ever get free again. And in one piece? Even better."
"I ain't a stranger to people who can do stuff like that," he replied evenly as he started walking again. "Though, where I come from, if someone gets you that way, you're damn lucky if you ever get free again. And in one piece? Even better."
Edited 2008-11-15 08:02 (UTC)
"Takes chakra," she said quietly. "Can't keep it up forever, or you get stuck. But a lot of people who get taken don't exactly come back 'cause the mission said 'have them die, and make it suicide'."
"Science did it, where I'm from." A pause while Reno took a breath. Another while he shrugged his shoulders. "I see plenty not come back just 'cause the rule is, 'All evidence of misconduct must be destroyed.' That ain't nothin' new. Seein' armies of guys who don't have control over themselves no more, that's really somethin'."
"Can't do armies," she said, back straight and pace steady. "But I don't much think I'd want to either."
"You don't," Reno agreed. "Bunch'a brainwashed murderers, all followin' the command of the guy in charge. Messy business. Pain in the ass for the people on the receivin' end. We get to look at 'em and wonder, 'Hey, did I know that guy? It don't matter, 'cause now him and ten other shits are tryin' to cut off my head.'"
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