Axe snickers a bit as they head to Marcial. "<span style="color: #FF00BF">Imagine? Nit <span style="font-style: italic">cute</span> [color=#FF00BF]instead of the world's biggest ***hole. I wonder if that's what he reins over. Like how</span><span style="color: #408000">Cthulhu</span><span style="color: #FF00BF"> is like the elder god of the sea and madness and</span><span style="color: #000000">Shub-Niggurath</span><span style="color: #FF00BF">is the elder god of breeding and the Lord of the Wood. Nit is the god of being a complete and utter**** to people.</span>"<br/><br/>Scarlet shakes his head. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Heya Nit? Come take a walk with me brotha. We can have a little man to... eldritch talk, huh?</span>" He looks over at Axe. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Cover your ears or have a conversation with Marcial or something. This is private times for a man and a vaguely male creature.</span>" He smirks, leading Nit off in the direction of the meat. He nudges Nit playfully and smiles down at him. "<span style="color: #FF0000">So you insulted her anime stuff too, huh? You are doing a hell of a job pissing off someone this whole neighborhood is terrified of. Do you know that, boss? Oh and I didn't mean you were any less than me with that comment back there. Just eldriches seem to have vague genders if any at all.</span>"<br/><br/>In front of them laid the packaged meat. It looked completely and absolutely wondrous. It was all sealed away in Ziploc bags to hide most of the smell but the whole barbecuing area smelled like delicious flame broiled carcass. Meatloaf, burger patties, grilled chicken, deep fried chicken legs and cutlet (apparently he set up a deep fryer too), turkey legs both grilled and deep fried, smoked fish, smoked pork, smoked ribs, barbecued ribs, pulled pork, and the only thing not packaged was a full pig sitting out on a table. "<span style="color: #FF0000">I ordered more after I saw how well it was going between you two. The pig there is for you to eat now.</span>"<br/><br/>Scarlet smirks a cocky smirk that seem to give away where Axe gets it from. Though Scarlet's is much more subtle. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Am I the man or am I the man?</span>" He holds out his arms in a grand gesture. He then takes an over dramatic bow. "<span style="color: #FF0000">It would have been impossible without the help of my lovely and beautiful assistant Marcial.</span>" He holds out a hand to the other who is likely too far away to understand what's happening in Nit and Scarlet's conversation.<br/><br/>Scarlet takes a deep breath. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Nit, bro... in case it wasn't obvious Axe really loves her anime and manga and stuff. It was her escape when she was younger. For her she idolizes those huge, larger than life characters. She also used those to deal with the fact that...</span>" Scarlet sighs deeply and puts his hands in his pockets. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Let's say she had a really shitty past.</span>" Scarlet says, not only swearing for the first time in front of nit dropping his cheery, confidant smile. "Axe was kidnapped when she was still a baby. I didn't even meet her until I was half way though high school." He looks at the cooked meat, breaking eye contact with Nit and keeping his now much more somber tone. "<span style="color: #FF0000">She was kidnapped by horrible junkies. Worthless sacks of human filth who abused her every day of her life. Physically and mentally.</span>" The young man pauses, collecting himself. It's pretty obvious at this point that this is hard for him to talk about. "<span style="color: #FF0000">I know I'm kinda dropping this on you all at once, but I wanted you to know sooner rather than later. They did horrible things to Penelope. You know those holes in her ears? Where she has all the piercings? They're way too big for a reason. From what she tells me one night her parents were high out of their minds and pinned her down and shot her in both ears with a <span style="font-style: italic">nail gun</span>.</span>" Scarlet's voice turns to venom at the end of his sentence. "<span style="color: #FF0000">She was ten...</span>" He takes a deep breath and composes himself. "<span style="color: #FF0000">But... apparently her escape was going to the library and watching anime and reading their tiny manga section day in and day out. It's how she escaped her terrible life.</span>"<br/><br/>He looks over at Nit, getting back his smile again. "<span style="color: #FF0000">She's still so sociable for someone that was abused the way she was. It took a while to get through to her but I did.</span>" He sighs deeply but continues to smile. "<span style="color: #FF0000">Nit, all I'm asking is just... try to be a little nicer to her? If it has to be out of pity then fine, but I've never seen her so strongly attract to someone before. I think, if you treat her right... you could do a lot of good for her. Isn't that what you want?</span>"