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Oh, um, I love goggles.

[ Wasn't Really Listening. he does, however, open his eyes the fuck up the second that box comes out. it's hard for him to focus, given so much of this place just screaming ylisse at him, but if there was gonna be one god damn thing that would ease the bad thoughts in his head it would be a rainbow god damn sword. ]

... Th-that-- that's.

[ he doesn't have the words, though. he's just staring at the sword, nervous and still shaken but nevertheless obviously pretty eager to hold it. his stomach hurts, makes a queasy awkward little noise that would get lost in the sounds of the store if archie wasn't so close to him. he struggles to find something to say, and when he finds it, it just kinda stumbles outta him. ]

Why'd you get me this?

Is that a joke? It's a rainbow sword!

[here, at least, he seems genuine.]

I ordered two for myself so I could put them on my wall!

I mean, I love it. Even more than that, I love that you saw this and it reminded you of me. I just...

[ he stares at Archie, who... doesn't seem to be willing to give him much more than a rainbow sword and genuine excitement to see Odin enjoy his present. odin still can't shake this feeling that something's off, here, but if Archie's not gonna talk to him about it, he can't keep forcing it. as he holds his new sword in his hand, he tries his best to just worry on it later. ]

... This is amazing. [ he holds it in front of him, cuts it through the air like he's done it a million times before. ] It's been so long. I wanna find a thief to kill.

[he can't. he should tell odin that he just flat out can't. but... he can't, haha.]

Did you see the little knives as well?

Edited 2017-11-05 12:36 (UTC)

Ah, yeah. [ Odin picks up a couple, spinning them on his index fingers. there's an emotion burning in his throat he doesn't wanna think too hard on. ] They're really nice. The ninja of Hoshido used these against us, actually. They had these little spiral cuts so they could dig into your skin when they cut past you... or if you got unlucky and they actually stabbed through you they could screw up your bones and stuff. I've never held them for longer than it took to dig 'em out.

[ his voice sort of trails off when he realizes archie probably doesn't want to hear about war injuries, and he just quietly holds the kunai in his teeth by the handles as he puts his hands on the sword again. he really does love this thing, despite the awkwardness. ]

[uhhh it's really bad?? relevant, but bad. archie pales and holds his hands up, laughing forced and awkwardly.]

Y--yeah. Sounds tough. Uh-- they have dummies out back if you wanna... practice.

[he'll go puke somewhere cool]

Haha... haaaaahhhhh.

[ Odin scratches the back of his neck. ]

Um - do you want to come too? To the - practice. So we can - practice. Swords. We can cross swords and stuff. Cross our - our swords? Make them - cross.

...I don't think I'll ever be a very good sworder.

[swordsman.]

I'll just watch, if that's not too weird.

Being a sworder is hard, I get it.

[ s w o r d s m a n. regardless, odin heads into the backroom, letting archie follow in behind him. he's playing with the sword once he's directed to the dummies, idly spinning it in twirls over his hand as he eyes the training dolls and frowns. ]

I'm gonna ruin these if I fight them.

Yeah? Guess they need to stop buyin' crap dummies, then.

[he takes a seat to watch, finally kind of forgetting the hitch a couple of minutes ago.]

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