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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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Swim with turtles. [He looks surprised to say that though and he shuts up immediately.] ...snorkeling and scubadiving just seem neat.

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That wasn’t what you expected to say?

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Well no. It is definitely a thing I really want to do though but it sounds kind of lame in comparison. Skydiving was on that list, too, but now that I can fly it seems so dumb.

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Are all the experiences on your list vacationy thrillseeking?

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No of course not. There are things I want to do that fall right into cliche crap that maybe will happen someday like...I don’t know, sunset walks on the beach or sharing a milkshake or seeing the northern lights. A new thing added to my list now is beat you in a race.

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Maybe you should keep your list to plausible items?

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Alright then, what's on your list? I think you do plausibility way better than me.

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I really don't think I do. [ or he does, but he finds the plausible implausible. or there's just implausibilities that he can't do anything about:

talk to dirk and roxy again and have them remember. jade coming back, and some stupid fourway friend date. stupid cliched holiday bullshit he doesn't bother thinking about beyond "that'd be neat" and which he never has done. going home, but he isn't certain where he means by that these days. ]

Can I say ballroom dance competition even though I don't like competition all that much?

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You could, but I might judge you a tiny bit. [No he won't.] ...to be honest they do seem sort of neat. A huge ballroom and all of the fancy dresses and suits, a live orchestra and a bunch of people moving in sync under a fuckton of chandeliers. It sounds kind of cool to see.

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I like watchin' them sometimes. [ like. on television. ] However, I also like watching documentaries and shit, so ymmv. But like - I don't know, that's the most easily achievable bullshit on the list.

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Challenge accepted then. [There's a grin but who knows if he's serious. He eyes the camera before eyeing their hands for a moment.

...part of him wants to ask Dave what they're doing, but he's afraid asking will break whatever it is. So instead, he settles for wrapping his fingers around Dave's to keep his hand warm and pulling him along.]

Documentaries are okay if they are not the boring kind, so I can give you, like, half-credit.

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[ dave's grip tightens in return and at least his hand is slowly warming up? the one being held anyway the other one is fucked. ]

I actually missed this. [ for once, he clarifies immediately: ] I used to do these bullshit video interviews all the time. At one point I did them so much Rose banned me from even holdin' a camera around her? That was like, back when I got my first video camera, though.

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And how long ago was that? [Somehow this does not surprise him in the slightest.]

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My first camera? I was ten. So, almost eight years ago. I mean, video camera. I got a like, picture camera earlier. I used to handle the family one sometimes before I got my own, but it was, I dunno, cool? To have my own. So I admittedly went overboard using it for all kinds of bullshit. I broke a bone actually, while I was like - I fell out of a tree, and I was up in it trying to like, get a good angle on things?

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[He can't help it when he laughs in surprise.] Is there a reason we're both stupid enough to fall out of trees and break things trying to get a better view? [Dave trying to get a better angle. John trying to see if his dad was coming home. He doesn't bring up the circumstances but he turns them so they aren't about to skate into a wall.]

...I've never had my own piano. The one at home was Dad's and he just let me use it all the time. So I think I get it. When he first gave me permission to play whenever I wanted I spent hours playing the stupid thing.

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I mean, when I broke my bone I wasn't that old - that was with my like, actual camera, not the video camera. My first picture camera. I wanted a shot of this bird's nest - I scared the absolute fuck out of Dirk, he was supposed to be watchin' us at the time. And I didn't have the balance I have now back then, so...

[ a shrug. ]

We should get one.

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Okay so you are smarter than me. [It's sort of a neat story to hear since it's telling of who Dave is as a person and actually it's pretty funny thinking of a small Dave trying to take pictures of birds.

...what is with Dave and birds???

But there's an agreement hum even while he's not sure what Dave's talking about.]

What, a bird? I think Mewpac would flip out.

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A piano, dumbass. [ but he kind of laughs. ] No reason to bring Mewpac dinner on wings? We'd all get sad.

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You don't think she'd like her dinner to-go? [That was a bad joke, John. But he looks a little perplexed by the idea of a piano.] Your mom's a piano teacher, dude. You know how expensive they are. And anyway I think we would have a hard time fitting it in the dorm. I have a keyboard for now. It works. Ever since I got it back from the shop it works perfectly fine.

[Not fine enough since he keeps fucking off to work on Dave's birthday present but you know.]

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Change your mind again? [ about moving somewhere after the dorm thing, he means. he doesn't answer the piano expense thing for the moment, just raising an eyebrow and trying to determine where the hell john's at again. ]

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[A headtilt.] Of course not. It's still something I really want. I guess I did not think about a piano in that picture. That's all.

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Why not? I play, too, you know. [ not that he would really take up much time on a hypothetical piano. but. ] Someone I knew used to have a savings fund for a trip to another country.

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I know you do. [But he leaves that thread behind.] What does that have to do with the piano?

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Pianos are expensive. [ he's saying it slowly, like he's speaking to a child...john, speed the fuck up? ] So, why not just save up for one together?

[ it's not like dave has any fucking plan with what to do with any of the funds he gets from his jobs. ]

You keep tellin' me you plan to stick around to some hazy someday, so what's the problem?

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[Fuck off, metatext, he's having a hard time. Still, he stops skating at that point, hand tugging Dave back gently as he settles for just giving him another one of those weird looks that can't quite be deciphered.

Eventually though he speaks up.]

I plan to stick around as long as you want me to, yes. Whenever that may be. So...I guess there is no problem with that?