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WEEK ONE: THURSDAY MORNING
[ so, dave wants to broach the topic of a Team with clementine again and has chosen thursday to do it. he'll flag her down the first time he sees her and looks...mostly fine...except a finger on each hand has a splint/is wrapped in the way one would do when they are broken. for the record this is his left pointer finger and his right pinky.
what the fuck is he doing with his life, it is week one. ]
Yo, Clem! Got a sec?
what the fuck is he doing with his life, it is week one. ]
Yo, Clem! Got a sec?
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[ Also... ]
Did you find anything, or just play dominoes and hurt yourselves?
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It sounds pretty lame that it's pretty much...the latter...
[ GOOD...JOB...STRIDERS? ]
Maybe I should come up with a lie about how I broke my fingers that's like, less completely idiotic. [ like. ] Like, wow, I fought a tentacle monster, and it snapped my fingers before I gallantly drove it away??? Or at least "hell yeah we found somethin'" but then I would need actual information to provide, which...would require us to have found somethin'. Shit.
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Can I see? [ She can tell that they're already set, but still just wants to take a look. Just for peace of mind, okay!!! ]
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[ he will immediately hold out both hands. the fingers do seem to be set and wrapped pretty professionally, presumably by either dave or dirk. dave doesn't seem. too bothered? by them? but. ]
I'll still be able to fight more or less fine, Bro never considered broken bones like, a reason not to strife.
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So he is your brother.
[ She kind of figured, after seeing their last names on the profiles. But, uh, wait now, strifing...? ]
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[ hahahah that's a sticking point, but - ]
"Bro" is the guy who raised me. This will sound completely insane to you, probably, but Dirk? He's...an alternate universe version of that guy. My Bro died last year. Dirk's...version of me died before he was ever born. We'd never met 'till we got here, but I knew he, like...existed.
[ he shifts, uncomfortable. ]
We're...I don't know what we are.
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[ she actually kind of followed that. like, it's fucking weird, obviously, but. okay. she's getting used to weirdness. she's kind of concerned about the strifing with broken bones when you're raising someone business, because what the fuck? But this is an alternate...? So???
w h?? at?? ]
Should he be with us?
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[ good question and it makes dave freeze because he still doesn't know the answer to it, even as he licks his lips. ]
I don't...know. [ because yeah, the strifing with broken bones was a thing and he'd been flippant when he said it but. ] Things are...complicated.
[ how do you trust someone you've known for barely a week who looks and sounds just like the guy who abused you for thirteen years? how do you believe he won't throw you to the wolves for anyone else at all, because you've never mattered to the person he used to be? dave hasn't figured that one out just yet. ]
I didn't...my Bro and I weren't...close. [ normally he'd say they were fine, but she's asking him why dirk isn't here, basically, in the group dave's trying to haul together, and that's why: he simply cannot bring himself to some sort of settled feeling about dirk strider, because he has thirteen years of history weighing him down. ]
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she's been seeing... a lot of complicated brother relationships lately, it seems. she's just had been dealing with something vaguely similar back home - though with less alternate realities involved. but what she's just come from paints her ideas on this. ]
Then we'll leave it for now.
[ 'for now.' maybe that'll change later, if Dirk proves himself to Dave. that's how she's thinking of things. ]
Being family doesn't necessarily mean being... Good.
[ not to say that he's bad. just that he needs to be judged on an individual basis, the same as anyone else in this cluster of people. ]
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[ a helpless shrug. ]
If you do want to pull him in ever, he won't come without English, and they might have other people they're workin' with, too. I don't know.
[ and dave may or may not be a lowkey mess about dirk, but like. he can deal if that's what has to happen. ]
I don't know if he'll want to, either. He...might work with me, I don't know about the rest of you. [ he shakes his head. ] The only other person I'd say bring it off the bat is maybe Violet, if y'all want.
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[ she mulls it over, sort of making a face without meaning to. ] I'm not sure how I feel about Jake, yet. He's nice. And seems like he knows how to fight. But he's... Cheery. [ optimism is a death flag, as far as she's concerned. ]
I haven't talked enough to Violet, but... We're in this together, so if you want her to be with us... [ she can put aside her apprehension for the sake of being a nice leader, right? right. ]
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For Vi, we can wait 'till next week maybe? I'll talk to her and feel her out and see. Four people might be a good number to go on with. [ WHY DOES THIS SUGGESTED GROUP CONSIST OF A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL, A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, AND 2 14 YEAR OLDS, CHRIST ] But she's smart and I think she'll work with us, so.
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[ As much as she would like to, looking after everyone is impossible. ]
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[ he's...talkative? so he's a good ambassador or something. ]
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I don't like being sneaky like this.
[ ..... like, not enough to not do it, but ]
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[ not said with suspicion - just curiosity. ]
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But there's no context for his context and what the hell croco..diles...? ]
That sounds... Bad. [ She has not heard much about his Bro but it all seems unpleasant. ]
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[ 100% willing to throw his life away for everyone else. cool child raising ]
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[ on one hand: she'd like to think he'd still be him without bad experiences. on the other hand, she knows that her experiences have absolutely shaped and prepared her for life, so... ]
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