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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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[windeity]

[He blinks slowly because that was definitely a reaction he wasn't anticipating. A hand goes for the cat again, mostly giving himself an outlet for nervous energy while he tilts his head curiously.]

Not in the conventional way, no, but that is way too much effort. [There's an amused little chuckle following that.] I think you're weird and fascinating and cool in situations where most people would be flipping their shit. [Outwardly, at least. But he keeps that to himself.] I think you're someone unlike pretty much anybody else I've ever met and that alone is pretty cool, yes.

What do you even mean yes or no?

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[ he ignores the question and just kind of laughs again, this time a little more hollow and a little less genuine, but like. ]

There's no damn reason to lose your shit with most of this crap. I know it makes me sound callous and inhuman and what the fuck ever, but it's just - another fuckin' post scratch situation, so what?

[ there are worse things in the world ]

You're...yourself.

[windeity]

I don't really know what that means, Dave. Me being myself in what regard? What you're used to? Now? Both? [There's just a light frown.]

I don't think it's inhuman given what I've figured out about whatever happened back there. Just. Maybe obviously don't say that to people who aren't--post-scratch?

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You're just... [ too real

its like dirk but worse

dont say that you cant say shit thatll cause shit ]

...You're a really good person. One of the best I've ever known.

[windeity]

["Which me though?"]

Are you sure? Maybe I'm secretly an asshole and you just don't know it yet.

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You went to get your nails done with Anya. You...

[ he shrugs, and looks away. ]

You've done a million little things that say you're not secretly an asshole. I know how to spot people who aren't right.

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[...there's an echoing shrug.]

...I didn't mean to come here and start that conversation, dude. Also have you ever seen Anya's face? Telling her no is about on par with kicking a puppy. It's awful.

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I'd tell her no if she ever asked me to do anythin' that I seriously took issue with. Probably?

[ i wouldnt answer questions for her about things i would for yuri ]

[windeity]

Probably. [There's a shrug.] You can still do everything and give the world to a person while telling them no. I am just saying that I do not have that limit with too many people.

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[ an eyebrow raise. ]

You're a stubborn little shit when you wanna be?

[windeity]

[A smirk.]

Well, yeah. But not everybody has the advantage of knowing that already?

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I...does that bother you?

[windeity]

[He hesitates a little.]

Probably...not for the reasons you might think.

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For what reasons?

[ he has tried not to guess. ]

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[...]

Expectations, dude. I don't want to fall short. But I also can't pretend to be someone I'm not.

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I...know I'm alone in that, don't worry. [ a small one shouldered shrug, and he's still looming at the counter instead of john. ] Expectations are the last thing you have to worry about.

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Alone in what, exactly? [He's not going to force Dave to look at him but he's carefully watching him anyway. ]

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Bein' the other person.

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...explain that to me. Like. You don't want to be that person?

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John, I'm me. Have been for a while now. "Want " or "don't want" - the shit I would change has never been anythin' that could be changed and who cares about it?

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[...]

Yeah. I get it. [He downs the rest of his coffee anyway.] Uh. I know I kind of started it but can I tap out on this stuff for today? For a little while.

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It's chill to tap out on it permanently - don't worry about it. We have fact cards about how to care for those. I can grab them for you before you go.

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Cool, I do not want to tap out permanently though. But thanks. [He'll slide off of the counter then.]

I'll take them. I think I have time to drop these off at the dorm before my lab. When are you off tonight?

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Another two hours. I'll be back before you're out of class, probably?

[windeity]

Okay, sweet. [There's another easygoing grin then.] I found my Back to the Future trilogy under my bed while I was looking for my glasses this morning and we're watching the first one when I get back. Deal?