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DAVE STRIDER

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

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[ reiteration seems safe enough, as dave keeps still as per usual practice so as not to jostle the cat or john. he's counting stars on the ceiling, mentally. ]

Sure, if that's what you want. [ he needs a new topic before john gets it in his head to try to get any sort of read on what dave's thinking. ] I need to write strawberry mood music.

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[He's about to argue because he knows there's something else there, that this subject wasn't over, but yeah okay that's enough weirdness.]

You need to do what now?

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[ too late the subject is dead and dave is swallowing his feelings rip feelings ]

Strawberry mood music. Specifically, sexy strawberry mood music. And also grape. I need to write some.

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If I ask why, how much am I going to regret this?

[The subject is just sleeping okay, John will come back to it later. Probably.]

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[ will he really or did dave's distraction gambit work based on absurdity ]

Have you not been checkin' the network?

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Not really. Not besides today? Why?

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Yeah, Souji is for some reason gonna wear a sexy fruit costume for his - I am not sure who he is datin', actually, if anyone? But presumably there is someone who is getting this. But anyway I pointed out he needed mood music also and offered.

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I am really, really worried about him as a person but alright. What even counts as sexy strawberry mood music? And why a strawberry in the first place?

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I think somethin' upbeat and pop? Maybe like...ok, have you seen that one tropicana commercial?

[ MAYBE NEEDS MORE DETAIL THERE, DAVE. ]

Also, strawberry 'cause he's dumb about what fruit is best, I guess.

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I have no idea what you are talking about anymore, so no. What tropicana commercial? I mean if you're doing sexy fruit seduction music or whatever the fuck upbeat is the way to go, I agree.

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[ he uses this as an excuse to kind of shove john off of him so he can slide off the bed - depositing mewpac to his pillow - and boot his laptop.

eventually this will produce this video and also leave dave seated in his computer chair, one knee drawn up to his chest. ]

This, kinda, although like. This isn't sexy, it's just cute.

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[He doesn't move from Dave's bed. Instead, he's stretching out and resting his cheek on the edge of the pillow so that Mewpac can have most of it and he's watching the video. He's mildly bemused by the results and he's not quite focused on the topic at hand, but he does give a light smile anyway.]

Yeah I cannot exactly disagree with you there. Sexy would need something a touch sultry but you could make it work.

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Granted it kinda depends on what the target audience actually finds alluring, but.

[ he doesn't make any move to go back to his bed, instead flipping tabs and starting to scroll through instagram. ]

It'll be somethin' to do. You don't have to help if you don't want, but if you want to you can.

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That sounds more like a Souji question. [But he lets Dave stay on his laptop and distract himself while John makes himself comfortable, petting the cat with one finger while letting his eyes shut for a little while.]

It could be funny actually so...sure. I still think it is one of the weirdest things I have ever heard, but why not?

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Eh. Yato made the costume thing weirder at one point in time, so this barely registers.

[ he sounds a little distracted as he scrolls, but it's not hard to keep up the conversation anyway. his right hand taps out a nervous beat on his knee as he likes a few images seemingly at random. ]

And I don't make a habit of askin' people about their seduction plans. I'm 99% sure it's some kinda gambit to annoy someone else at its base anyway.

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Oh. [That's pretty much all he says about it, listening to the beat of Dave's fingers on his knee and the light movements of the laptop. His hand moves slower over Mewpac.]

We can do that Sunday before I go to Ayano's, too.

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If there's time after or before the other thing, sure. I have to work Sunday in the evening though.

[ he does not specify which job but he rarely does, whoops. instagram is navigated away from and he checks his website, firing off a few one-handed responses. ]

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Are you unhappy that I want to maybe try this? [That wasn't quite what he wanted to ask, but sure, okay, that's fair.]

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The music thing? No, that should be fun.

[ his website is closed to flip to twitter. how many social media sites is he going to filter through, here. ]

I wouldn't've asked if I didn't want you to help out, that would be stupid. Although I wasn't sure you'd be interested at all since it is pretty dumb.

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[Normally he would let Dave go and feign ignorance on things. He'd let Dave change the subject but one of the things about being best friends is also knowing how to push back when necessary.]

I like working on projects with you, but that is not what I was talking about. I meant the other thing.

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No, I'm not unhappy with you.

[ said perfectly calmly with the full weight of specific truth as he scrolls through twitter and eventually exits to tumblr. ]

That's sort of hard to impossible.

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I know you say stuff like that, and I know you mean it. [Because Dave's always been really strangely sincere about that stuff when he's not about other stuff.] But you have to admit it is can be a little questionable when you stop and then completely pull away.

[...Dave stopped petting his hair and relaxing and physically put space between them so he could do something else and John's not ignorant enough to ignore what that means.]

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I wanted to show you the video. My phone's great, but this shit always sucks up battery life like no tomorrow.

[ mildly, and yeah, that all meant something but dave isn't willing to admit it. ]

I'll go to the thing, okay? You were both right. I've been prepared for that for months. So you don't have to think about it.

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I...[Don't really have an argument, actually. He knows something was said between Aradia and Dave and he's not inclined to say he agrees that Aradia, Ami, whichever was right when he's not sure what part is being referred to. He pauses for a minute before there's a quiet sigh.]

Okay. Cool. We will figure out the rest about that later and it probably will not take that long, then you and I can work on stuff for a while until you go to work and I head to Ayano's. That sounds fair to me.

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All right. Sounds like a plan.

[ and that's apparently all dave has to say to that, eyes still locked on his computer screen rather than john and mewpac. he probably intends to just sit up for the rest of the night at this rate, uneasy even in capitulation. ]