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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]

Yes I researched it. Or I tried to and was a day off apparently. [Don't laugh, that's rude.] I wouldn't mind spending that time with you but why wait? [The keyboard gets tossed into his sylladex and it's hard to say what else is in there already. The telescope goes, too.]

I think I'm ready.

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It's not like I'm doin' much with my nights. [ john says he's ready and dave drags them forward through time, guesstimating with his usual intuition around when he'll want to be. it's maybe haphazard but he's also going off the best viewing hours according to the astronomy sites he...follows...

fuck off?

it's the usual immediate travel, and when they're on the other side of when he doesn't actually drop john's hand. ]

[windeity]

[He knows he's timetraveled before. Or at least he's timejumped enough to know he should maybe be used to this but even so he doesn't let go of Dave's hand either when they reach the other side. He looks straight up at the sky instead to see if they're in the right place.]

Yes, well, the last couple of nights have gone into this so I think we're even. [That is to say he doesn't really care and he's content.] I thought this would be a good spot to set up since the observatory would be crowded and they'd probably get mad at us for being on their roof.

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There's also the dorm roof or like a million others, but this is [ RIDICULOUS? HE FOLLOWED A MAP TO GET HERE? WITH A SOUNDTRACK? ] very 80s movie aesthetic.

[ the corner of his lips quirks upwards ever so slightly. ]

Which you've pointed out is your jam.

[windeity]

[There's a nervous laugh because yeah, that's true enough and he rubs the back of his neck for a moment.]

In a weird way, you're kind of the Diane to my Lloyd mixed with a little Jake to my Sam. Right next to me the whole time and me tripping over myself the whole time to get to you. There's a huge difference between us and them though.

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Is this the part where I guess the difference or the part where you tell me it?

[windeity]

[He just points to the sky instead.]

Tell you what. If you can't guess by the time the shower's over I'll tell you. Deal?

[parodeity]

That better be a promise, babe. [ AND MOVING RIGHT ALONG past the nickname: ] I'm assumin' the extra blankets I was tasked to ferry out are for some sort of makeshift fort here.

[windeity]

Mmhmmm. [He's also just going to brush right past the nickname because that's a thing to talk about Later. He gestures to the space at the top of the structure before he deploys a handful of pillows and a few more blankets.]

If we're going to be here for a while it doesn't make sense to freeze.

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[ he drops john's hand so john can set up and deploys the blankets he got told to bring. ]

That's implying that there was ever any sense in any human being spending any amount of time outdoors in the middle of winter ever.

[windeity]

[Yeah he ends up laughing.]

You know that if we want this to work you are going to have to kind of deal with shit like winter. [But he gets to work on making a cozy nest and setting up the telescope. ]

[parodeity]

I agreed your happiness was more important than my life energy or whatever, what more do you want?

[ to eren

about snowboarding ]

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Uh. What? [Excuse, what the fuck, Dave.] When was this? [He would argue that that's a little extreme but also...it's Dave. Who took on a suicide mission to save the rest of them. So maybe not.]

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...if I tell you you’ll want to do the thing, but yeah, Eren wants to fucking go snowboarding and I asked why he wanted to kill me but pointed out it was your kinda thing and he asked which was more important. [ dave: guess i’ll die ]

[windeity]

[Huh. He finishes setting up their nest and it's more or less a literal bird's nest with blankets and pillows all around in a large pile for them to sit in the middle and John considers that for a moment.]

Snowboarding sounds pretty fun. [RIP DAVE.] But since we're being open about weird shit we say to people, that first note was a text I sent someone. So I guess we are even?

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[ he just gives john the most deadeyed stare from behind shades before flopping dramatically into the nest. ]

I hate you. If you’re gonna be dragging me out into snow it’s officially your responsibility to keep me warm. [ he literally took john iceskating. ] ...one of my friends offered to flirt with you to see if you were less than straight once?

[ that’s the dumbest thing he has on hand. ]

Hypothetically you. I don’t use names and it was a tangent.

[windeity]

[He'll less than dramatically settle into the nest with him and while there are plenty of things he could say...]

...are they cute? [Teasing, of course, but it's juuuust enough to maybe seem a little genuine to someone who isn't Dave Strider who can read John back forth and sideways.]

[parodeity]

He’s actually super hot so I informed him it would be a useless endeavor. Some brands of attractive transcend sexualities. Also he would look nice in a dress.

[ he also said all of this to kit

in a totally platonic manner

so like why ]

[windeity]

...[What if he just stares at Dave like he's debating if Dave is actually a real person who says words and has them come out of his mouth? What if.]

Okay first of all, I am afraid to ask how many of your guy friends you've decided would look nice in a dress and also, you're right, that probably would have been useless but mostly because I have been pretty focused on you for a few weeks and I am pretty sure I wouldn't be into other guys no matter how hot they are.

[parodeity]

You’d look nice in certain kinds of dresses. [ thanks dave.

more importantly, he shifts a little uncomfortably. ]

...are you seriously okay with this? [ dave is still undisputably a dude, pretty or not. ]

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[Lucky for Dave John can't really argue about that since Dave asked a more important question and he leans back against the wall of the nest, staring at the sky before nodding.]

...I want to take it slow if that's okay. But I am positive this is what I want. Dates and hand-holding and flirting. Everything we were already doing. Don't you?

[parodeity]

That’s not it. I mean, yes, but like - are you actually physically attracted to me or is that a thing you are trying to figure out how to be and might not? [ which he frankly wouldn’t care about if it were a thing since he’d take the emotional shit over anything else and he doesn’t want that much of the rest anyway right now but he wants to Know which to expect. ] And what do you mean by slow. Like go on a date and see what happens and not call it dating until and unless we hit, like, fifty dates and then maybe okay mentioning it in conversation? Am I keeping this absolutely dead secret?

[ is he supposed to mention it to rose or not is there something to mention?? ]

It’s, like, fine whatever way but I don’t know what thing I’m adjusting to here.

[windeity]

Whoa, okay, one thing at a time. [There's another awkward smile because it's still a little overwhelming to adjust to but these are still things they need to talk about.] Yes, I am actually physically attracted to you, but I am also trying to figure out what exactly that means. I think I wanted to kiss you for a really long time and I didn't because I wasn't sure. I'm way more sure now that it isn't just a friend thing but it's a "I think you're unfairly attractive" thing. But I'm...not sure I'm comfortable with anything outside of that yet?

[So that's kind of embarrassing, but anyway.] We don't have to do fifty dates to be dating. I think we've already done at least fifty dates anyway maybe. And maybe don't yell about it from the rooftops because that would be kind of embarrassing no matter what but it doesn't have to be an absolute dead secret either. [...] It's been a while since I've dated or have been somebody's boyfriend so I am severely out of practice.

[parodeity]

Dude, I’ve never done anything besides that. I mean, kissing. One time it occurred with my shirt off and it wasn’t anything more than a kiss followed by me kicking someone out because curfew and that’s pretty much not happening again because I need every layer. I realize I make a shit ton of off color jokes but I am all talk. So that’s not really a huge concern. And you don’t, like, have to kiss me again ever if you’re not comfortable with that either.

[ so moving right along: ]

Also, I only told about three people about my last girlfriend, I’m reasonably sure I never fucking mentioned V - the guy I dated to anyone but Dirk, and I went out of my way to avoid confirming I dated Terezi until after the fact. I do not do rooftops. I do asides or maybe an update if you’re Rose.

[windeity]

[For a moment he just looks a little curious.] ...I could get behind you without a shirt. [But that's all he says.] I want to kiss you. That part is definitely not the issue. Kissing is okay.

If you want to tell people or not is up to you. I'm not really worried about that so much even though it would take some getting used to. But what about you? Do you care if it comes up when I talk to people?