ic: continues because juan is being a Bro.

[maleborgia]

*okay guys do your brotherly love shit.

This Cesare is just in Canada dealing with this complicated.*

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[maleborgia]

I imagine our father was displeased with the both of you as well.

[foundjuanting]

You would know, you were the one who was able to see what came after.

[maleborgia]

I was not the one with the power to change it.

[foundjuanting]

No, but you do use it as an excuse to bring judgement down on us. You are younger than us, and yet you act like your world will be different, your version of the family is superior. It is an idea that begs to be tested. It was just over a year ago when my brother would brawl for me in the streets, and I for him. When all of us played cards in the summer heat in the family's villa. One year and I am floating in the Tiber and my dear brother in the swamp, my sister no longer the delicate maiden she was, our mother cast aside, our father snapping like a lean and hungry dog at threats and alliances, and a foul whelp to inherit it all. One year Cesare and we've been reduced to that. Tell me brother, how do you plan to change that for your family and so quickly? How will your superior family fare when you return home and not a memory remains.

[maleborgia]

It will not be different unless it is God's will. I have been given the rare opportunity to come here, for longer than you--hopefully long enough that some of what I have learned will be retained when I return. My family is no superior or inferior to yours, make no mistake. Our lives are just as intertwined but our fate may be different.

[foundjuanting]

Then don't judge my retribution, brother. You may soon be doing the same to my reflection in your world.

[maleborgia]

You would not say that if you knew how much effort I put into trying to do for him what I could not for you.

[foundjuanting]

You say this now, but in a year past father becoming pope you'll have a blade to his throat.

[maleborgia]

I am not so like him on the outside. What makes you think we are identical within?

[foundjuanting]

You carry the same rage and temper, and his jealousy.

[maleborgia]

And you do not? That is a Borgia trait, not one only the two of us share.

[foundjuanting]

But you scold me like a common dog, while you will butcher brothers and our dear sister's husbands on your whims, and you will pass these off for the good of the family.

[maleborgia]

I've never killed you. Do not confuse what happened to you with what I will accomplish.

[foundjuanting]

But you will murder your brother. I wonder if power or revenge will guide your sword.

[maleborgia]

I will not murder Juan. Do you not think I can learn from the mistakes you two made?

[foundjuanting]

No, that is also a Borgia trait, we always give into our vices.

[maleborgia]

Then you should pray for me.

[foundjuanting]

Pray for my murderer? I think you have mistaken me for a cardinal.

[maleborgia]

*fine, if you are going to act like a bratty younger brother I am going to straight up kick you underneath the table*

You were the one to call this place Purgatory. Surely you want to quicken the journey.

[foundjuanting]

No, I have a far different goal in mind. I will leave the salvation of one's soul to you.

[maleborgia]

What is your goal?

[foundjuanting]

To wander, to seek retribution against those who wronged me in life, to stand at my brother's side whenever he spills blood and remind him of what he'll never be able to wipe away, to trouble his sleep when he is done entangling himself with our dear sis. After all my brother has taken up the sword now, exorcisms will be beyond his reach. I may just enjoy being dead.

[maleborgia]

Dear God, no, don't do that. That is the most idiotic thing I have heard out of your mouth since you arrived the first time, including when you admitted to killing your brother.

[foundjuanting]

And why is that?

[maleborgia]

Why do you think? I doubt you will manage to accomplish it, for one, and for another it surely cannot do your soul any good.