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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[splinten]

[Dirk is quiet, but he nods.]

I don't know if I caught it all, or even the majority of it. Sorry.

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You don't have to be. It's easier if you don't. It's...a normal thing.

[splinten]

Sometimes, what's normal isn't okay. You don't deserve to be the one takin' the hit, especially not always.

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I kinda do.

[ he thinks so, anyway. ]

About what you said earlier. It's normal to...not have people entirely. It's weirder to have them.

[splinten]

Disagree.

[He knows Dave won't agree with him on it but he also can't let it stand with implicit agreement.]

What's normal or weird isn't exactly my priority when it comes to considerin' what I want.

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Name one person you have entirely.

[splinten]

I said want, not have.

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Wantin' that kind of shit just causes problems.

[splinten]

Problem causing is apparently my general state of being.

[never miss a chance to drag himself: dirk strider]

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Not you. Although that will cause you problems if that's what you want from everyone, dude.

[splinten]

I don't want it from everyone, Bro. I don't even want it from Roxy.

[parodeity]

Who made your weirdo list, then.

[splinten]

[Well.]

You. It seemed unfair to ask that, though. Especially because you had Rose. So I tried not to.

[parodeity]

That's a terrible list and why the fuck am I on it. You have Roxy.

[ why is he arguing this. ]

[splinten]

It seemed weird to think about havin' Roxy completely. [It just never made sense to him?]

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How the fuck is it any less weird with me, I ain't your twin.

[splinten]

Because you're you.

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That's why I'm failin' to get it.

[ tbqh. ]

And anyway, I figured that wasn't a thing.

[splinten]

I can't elaborate on somethin' that is essentially a gut feeling. It's just how I feel.

[So. Yeah.]

[parodeity]

Are you sure you're not just trickin' yourself into thinkin' that's a thing you want re: me?

[splinten]

Given the sustained nature of this feeling, as in a continuous sentiment from our childhood to the present moment, I am reasonably confident that it ain't a self Jedi mindtrick.

[parodeity]

You gave away pieces of me willingly.

[splinten]

I didn't think that was what I was doing. That probably makes me a fuckin' idiot, but it... It's the home thing. I wasn't thinkin' about the physical location of it, and you were. I was thinkin' of it as both of us always being able to go to each other, whenever, for anything, as the same home in a different place.

I was stupid not to see it, but I didn't.

[parodeity]

You missed things.

[splinten]

I did.