#that'll queue

Talia: I was perfecting my routine with two other knife throwers from the circus and had asked a few people to be our test audience.

Shinji: And! Elio was actually included in this number.

Elio: Yeah, as the fucking target. They cuffed my wrists and ankles to a spinning thing and just, threw their blades at me.

Talia: Yeah. Because even if something went wrong, blood shield!

Elio: And for some reason, I had to be shirtless. Wearing a bow tie. Like, they were one step away from asking me to put on bunny ears at this point.

Shinji: I did suggest it.

Elio: Sure. Yeah.

Shinji: I mean, who’s idea do you think it was to have you shirtless?

Elio: Are you kidding?

Shinji: No….

Elio: No, Goddess…[annoyed stuttering] Are you kidding? Because I had to strip in front of an audience every other night for…

Shinji: Are you kidding? Who gets a chest tattoo and doesn’t want to be shirtless?

Elio: I didn’t get a chest tattoo! I killed a priest at the top of a pyramid and it happened.

Talia: Do you not like it?

Elio: Of course I do! Have you seen the details? It’s fucking sick.

Talia: Well that’s that about that then.

Shiji: If you really didn’t want to do it, nobody could have forced you to.

Elio: I…

Talia: What? You know he’s right.

Elio: I just thought…I’d be cooperative…because I wanted to be included.

Talia: See, I don’t think Elio’s a prude, but I bet he has a dozen past lives who are. So there must be some subconscious conflict there.

Shinji: Yeah. Because nobody asked you to throw your jacket at the audience that one night. You were having fun.

Talia: Was one of your past lives a stripper, by any chance? Because I know Samar did not teach you that.

Elio: No, I just felt like doing it.

Talia: Would you like to be a stripper?

Elio: Nope

Talia & Shinji: Awww…

Talia: I’d love to be a stripper.

Shinji: Why’s that?

Talia: Cause I have to kill a god Jiji. I would rather do anything else.