It's a brand new day, and what do I say? I'm bored. I've noticed slavery is real in this country, and I hate it. Time to ban it. Now. And I already know a path to it based on the history of my world. We begin with protests. And organization.
I go to the Crimson Wolves headquarters, and meet up with Jacob.
"Hey, what's up bro?" I say happily.
Jacob and I fist bump lightly as a greeting.
"Not much, you?" Jacob says warmly. "I'm just waiting for a new adventure on the board to show up." he says, bored.
"Yeah, I can imagine. So can I ask a serious question?" I ask warmly.
Jacob shrugs.
"Sure, what's up?" Jacob says warmly.
"So I think I'm gonna get to work on banning slavery. How would you feel about that?" I ask warmly.
Jacob grins with malicious glee, which concerns me.
"I would gladly fight for that cause. They occasionally try to make me a slave during my adventures. I've always loved killing a slaver." Jacob says with malicious glee.
I smile with mild concern and affection. I pat his shoulder.
"I appreciate the enthusiasm, big guy. Just point that malice somewhere else." I say, cautious and affectionate.
Jacob's grin softens, and he looks away. He ends up staring at a church, and glaring intensely at it. I stare at that church. It has a Christian cross on it. Strange.
"What church is that?" I ask nervously.
"Christians. The church and I don't vibe well." Jacob says bitterly.
I stare with mild shock and concern at that.
"I don't care for the Christian church myself sometimes. Their morality is twisted to me." I say nervously.
Jacob looks around nervously for a moment to see if anyone is around. Then he hugs me weirdly. He lifts one leg up a bit and smiles at me happily.
"I like that you're with me on this. I'm almost tempted to kiss you, I'm so pleased." Jacob flirts happily.
I gasp a bit, confused and aroused. I hadn't expected Jacob to do this. I'm… hesitating cause of that dragon woman in my head. But… I card game this a little. Jacob is attractive. And my friend. I should be cautious about this though, because he is a valuable asset. That… I might not be able to afford to lose.
Jacob opts to kiss me on the cheek, and I feel a blush on my face form.
"Allow me that much affection. I hope you aren't offended." Jacob says happily.
Jacob steps back, staring at me with nervous affection. I… decide to vibe with it.
"I'm sorry if I'm hesitant. I'm scared of relationships. Once we love each other, we could… break up and stop seeing each other as much." I say shamefully and nervous.
Jacob sighs angrily and smacks his fist against the nearby wall.
"You're just like August, I fucking knew it!" Jacob snaps angrily.
I tense up a bit. Jacob calms down, just glaring at me, annoyed with his hands at his sides.
"I'm a adventurer and a hero, Henry. I will not abandon you as long as you're a good man. I will even help you with things if necessary." Jacob says seriously.
Then he brightens up and as a joke to himself, pulls out his business card and hands it to me.
"If you want to guarantee it, pay me for the job." Jacob says with forced confidence.
My heart blossoms with affection. I dare to lift his hand to my face after I take his business card. And kiss his knuckles. He pulls me in for a hug. I'm a bit overwhelmed, it's a bit abrasive to be forced into it.
"Jacob, stop. You're not setting up enough romance, this is annoying." Henry says, sheepish and annoyed.
I want to be comfortable, but it's too fast. Jacob sighs and steps back, letting go of me.
"I should've seen that coming, Henry. You are a shy guy, kind of. It must be that lawyer side of you making you so cautious." Jacob says with affectionate humor.
I chuckle a bit hard at that, and nod happily.
"Honestly yeah. The lawyer in me makes me card game a lot. Especially relationships." I say with sheepish honesty.
I see Jacob restrain himself from doing some hand gesture I bet would've been physical affection. Like a smack on the shoulder or something.
"Can we go do a lunch date real quick?" Jacob asks hopefully.
I snicker, annoyed and pleased.
"Jacob, I'm gonna real. I was motivated today to like, start protesting and trying to end slavery. I love this vibe, but I really wanted to focus on that today." I say happily.
Jacob's grin brightens too hard.
"I need to whisper something in your ear, Henry. It's important." Jacob says with loving glee.
I nod with a small smile. And get close to Jacob. He dares to hold my hand as he says it, and I allow it. It pleases me.
"I would literally fucking suck your dick over committing to that. You almost made me fall in love with you on the spot with that line." Jacob whispers with happy, manic love and glee.
He's too pleased with me. The lover boy in me knows he needs a date now before I go on my slavery protest adventure.
"Ah God. Let's go do lunch first before I go begin my protest arc." I say lovingly.
We begin walking together, hand in hand down the street. There's a diner close by to this place. We might've gone there before as friends, I'm not sure.
"So how are we gonna get rid of slavery?" Jacob asks happily. "August has never agreed to do this quest with me. I've always begged her to let me go to hell on these people with her resources. For shit like slavery. She never lets me. She always has her own plans to focus on. She keeps saying she's more worried about staying rich as a woman in this society than caring about slavery." he rants, happy and annoyed.
I stare at Jacob with affection and concern at that statement.
"Uh, we aren't gonna murder everyone. I hope. We're gonna… we're gonna win this with protests, court cases, and… lots of non-violent stuff hopefully." I say sheepishly.
Jacob sighs a bit and looks ahead, disappointed.
"I think we're gonna kill each other anyway, first of all. And second, your adventure sounds lame now. I'm probably gonna watch from afar and only help with fights. I might join you for some stuff, but I hate being in court all day. And I dunno, I'm not that charismatic. I'm meant to be the muscles, not the brains." Jacob says, warm and disappointed.
"You're still smart to me, don't count yourself out. You seem like a smart hunter." I say warmly.
"Oh yeah, I suppose I have some things I'm smart in. It's mainly survival. I know all the ways to live in the wild if necessary. And I'm a combat expert. That's my real specialty. Nobody likes when I talk about it though." Jacob says warmly.
I smile lovingly at Jacob, remembering him fighting. He was a beautiful, almost traumatic God of War to me. When I think of that, I'm so fond of him. And when he trains me to be strong. Along with August too, of course. They both helped a lot.
I dare to lean against him as we walk for a few moments, my head touching his affectionately. It was a dork moment. I bonked my head against his, and pouted upright. Still holding his hand. Jacob looks at me, amused and a bit annoyed.
"You ruined the cute moment." Jacob teases.
We both chuckle at that as we arrive to the diner. We sit down at a table outside. We order our food, I'm eating spaghetti with meat. Jacob wants a steak and a baked potato. Now we wait for our food while chatting.
"So I think my main strategy will be by beginning as a grass roots movement. Asking around about who does and doesn't like slavery." I say happily.
Jacob sighs and frowns bitterly.
"I've done that already. Almost everyone here likes slavery too hard. It's a slaver town. Only the strong beat them. And it's stupid, we kill each for fun basically over it." Jacob says bitterly. "It's encouraged by the churches around here, even. They justify it by saying if you don't have enough mental strength, you're automatically a slave."
We both get pretty angry at that. We've both been through it. We've seen it. The anger dissipates for us as we're staring at each other. It turns to love as I take Jacob's hand across the table.
"We're gonna have to fight eventually, Henry. I do know people in the Crimson Wolves at least that would fight with us. We do it a lot anyway to avoid becoming slaves." Jacob says seriously.
I look at my card game anew, realizing again intensely that this is not my home. Where it is already civilized. This is a medieval world of magic and hell.
I know Jacob is probably right. But-
"I should still try negotiations, Jacob. I can't be violent from the start. I will go talk to the church and negotiate with them about slavery." I say seriously.
"I'm coming to that talk. Every church talk." Jacob says intensely.
Jacob's magic activates in that moment, he's so intense about it. For a brief second, his eyes are red with malice and he has a red aura of wind around him. Which he squashes immediately.
"They're too dangerous. I can't abide you going in alone." Jacob says seriously.
I nod, and kiss his hand.
"Thank you for this." I say lovingly.
It's dangerous to us both to do this. The church in my world is powerful. Too powerful. They are the morality of God's Will. And they were always flawed to me because we could never co-exist forever. At its core, it's cause I'm bisexual. Or I smoked weed in that world. I haven't found it here yet, but there's alternatives that work close enough. Irrelevant tangent, but I learned a smell that makes purple smoke happen people get high on. I was bored, it helps pass the time.
Anyway, it's gonna get bad if this doesn't go well.
"It's gonna get bad if they aren't reasonable." I say nervously.
"They are never reasonable. It's madness to not strike first to me. But I'll follow you on this. We've all had a phase of yelling at people we trusted as fellow Christians. But I'll admit, I never… dared to argue with the church's official people. Maybe I should've tried that." Jacob says, serious and nervous.
Jacob chuckles and facepalms.
"But the badass in me wants it now. What kind of story is it if I don't argue with the church at least once for real before killing them?" Jacob laughs madly.
We both laugh a bit at that, but he laughs harder. I just chuckle. I enjoy the madness of it, but not like he does.
"I live for the story of life Henry. I even purposely be stylish and say cool lines to make the story of life seem cooler, Henry. This is such aesthetic to fighting the church, it's so obvious I should've done it sooner." Jacob says with mad glee.
I can't help it. I want him a bit now. I walk over to Jacob.
"I want a quick kiss now." I say lovingly.
Jacob quickly gets up, and we kiss sincerely. With love. For a minute. With tongue halfway through. Jacob grabs my ass a bit, and I let him.
Then the first blow of the Church versus Us begins. Several random civilians get up, and just open fire over that kiss.
Jacob saw it coming too hard. When chairs started scrapping across the stone floor, Jacob creates a wind wall around us with his magic. Then he expands the wind wall, blocking the bullets and pushing those civilians against a wall. And one of them into the ground.
Jacob growls angrily. Then looks at me with serious concern.
"We have to leave. I thought they would be reasonable about this one cause of how strong I am. I was wrong." Jacob says urgently.
We quickly walk away. My heart is stone cold with rage and logic. I realize this needs confronted immediately. Hardcore. It's honestly just the man in me because this reality has become too unreasonable.
"We need to go to the church now, Jacob. We aren't waiting any longer." I say seriously.
"I love that idea." Jacob says with malicious glee.
He draws his sword and swings it at the air, he's so maliciously pleased. Then he smiles at me, embarrassed as he stiffens up a bit and sheathes his sword.
"It's fine, darling." I say lovingly.
I hold his hand as we walk there. We are quiet for most of the walk as the church is only a block away. I am preparing arguments in my head for how this is all wrong. And Jacob radiates malice. I feel it pass through me like hot air, but his eyes glow red. And his red aura is present. He is focusing himself for combat. And I let him. The intimidating presence of Jacob Deatrix should be enough to keep the average person calm.
And many more. I've seen him slaughter men for fun. It will be fine for a bit. It will escalate into a war eventually. Unless they yield to reason.
They won't. It's war already over being gay men together. It's about everything at this point. All the issues the Church and I disagree on.
It already came to blows like this before in my reality. I didn't win that hard. But I won enough to where we ignored each other. I was just someone to be neglected to the church.
Here, we have magic. I have a boyfriend with anime powers. We might get August Caeser and the Crimson Wolves to help us. This is a war that we can perhaps win cause of magic alone.
Especially if I did what I really want to do. And just go train in the woods for years, and come back to kill them all. But for now, we will just see if it's necessary. If it gets bad enough, I will maybe, go train. If it's possible and reasonable too.