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[featherduster]

i preemptively know i'll need this

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Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

Of course not.

But you don't need to trivialize the bad shit that happened to you for our sakes, either.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

I'm not just...I mean, point taken. And that was pretty bad. Definitely a top five moment for ow in my memories. But the danger levels? Were just a day ending in y. That's my everyday in the memories. And kind of the everyday on the boat, too.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ He frowns very deeply ]

You've mentioned it. I think I said it before, but I'll say it again: it's bullshit. I hate it.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

It's not great. But it's also hard to get upset over every little thing anymore.

[ hears himself, winces ]

I know. Not "little." But...yeah, it's hard to get mad when it happened so often. Keeps happening.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ He thinks on this for a moment ]

If you had to choose -- this life, or that one.

Which would you pick?

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

[ bites the inside of his mouth hard enough to draw blood ]

...this one. If I really got to keep it.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ That earns the small twitch of a smile ]

I see.

Well, let's do our best to make sure you don't end up holding up this sky either.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

Thaaat would be appreciated.

[ ... ]

I saw one of yours too.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ GRIMACES INVOLUNTARILY ]




.... Oh yeah?

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

[ hands over the slip ]

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ He takes it


Oh. That one. His face does a funny thing where it just kinda goes blank ]

Damn.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

...we don't have to talk about it.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

Experience so far tells me we literally have to talk about it.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

[ sighs ]

Mine too. [ experience, that is ] Um...it was kind of. Intense?

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ Automatically: ] Sorry.

[ A pause ]

... I didn't realize any of those ended up in the bowl. Stuff from-- the visions.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

Uh, yeah, I definitely didn't put what you saw in there on purpose. Or any of mine. So you super don't gotta apologize.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ Sighs, forcing himself to unclench a little ]

... It's easier to play at normal life if nobody knows about any of that.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

Tell me about it. But if you're worried about me, I dunno, judging vision-you or something — don't. That's not gonna happen.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ Giving him a curious look ]

No?

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

That's not exactly the same guy you are, right? And even if he was...uh. Looked like the dude who came after you did a lot of damage. Would've done worse if he could've. He needed to be stopped.

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ Conversationally ]

What if the guy I am here is worse?

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[audacity]

Then that's still the guy who cared for Nettle and me when we didn't have anyone else, and wants to give us a home. That's still the guy who's looked after all of us on the boat, when things were bad or good. That's the guy who keeps telling me all about how I gotta value myself, 'cause he does.

That's the guy who's always been there for us.

So like...everything else is kinda just details, as far as I'm concerned.

1/3

[featherduster]

[ Opens his mouth ]

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ what the fuck ]

Re: tag-ins (aster)

[featherduster]

[ He shouldn't encourage this reaction but he's a bad person so he just laughs instead ]

Okay, okay. Point taken.