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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]

[As soon as John's glasses are off his hand comes up to paw at Dave's shades. Those apparently should come off, too?]

Yeah. Be my calendar and figure out what everybody else is planning and I'll make it work.

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[ WHOA. john's wrist pretty flashstep immediately has a hand on it, gripping lightly but firmly even though dave can't seem to. decide what he's doing here. but his reaction to people trying to grab his shades is always pretty automatic. ]

Dude. [ not chiding and not a protest, exactly, but like? ]

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[He doesn't mind but he does raise an eyebrow.]

Dude. [But he'll just kind of squirm a little closer and grin even with his eyes half-closed.] I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

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You’re already showin’ me yours and that sounds dirty. [ but he loosens his grip further. ] They’re too important to grab, okay?

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I know. I'm the one who gave them to you, remember? [And the way he says it indicates that he doesn't think they're important solely because John gave them to him. It's something else.]

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Yeah. So just... [ ummmm. he's taken them off for john all of twice before but it always takes him. a while. to work up to it.

did they turn on the lights or are they in the dark anyway ]

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[John definitely navigated through through the dark and over Dave's mess of cords somehow.]

...you don't have to if you don't want to? I just really like seeing your eyes.

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[ leave his cords out of this!!!!! ]

...that's not it. [ or maybe it is. just. give him a second. he's so used to wearing them all the time the only time he removes them is literally when he has serious conversations lmao...but he very carefully will take them off after a pause of a few minutes, folding them up and letting them fall into his sylladex. ]

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[He doesn't ask. Instead, he's very patient and waits until Dave removes his shades and he leans in a little closer to see him in the dim light of their room from the window.]

...your eyes are still really pretty. Like for a dude. Is it weird to say your eyes are pretty?

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Yours are gorgeous so I don't know if I can say it's weird?

[windeity]

Don't even start. They're just blue, Dave. [He will have this same argument until his dying day.]

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Bluer than blue. [ STUBBORNLY... ]

[windeity]

[A snort.] Okay, whatever. [He curls in closer to rest his forehead against Dave's.] ...hey. If I promise to leave the lights low, can we maybe work that into the schedule, too? One night a week without your shades?

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That's such a weird thing to schedule. [ lord. ] ...Which night.

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Fridays after we get home from whatever the fuck? Since Saturdays are ours anyway.

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As long as we don't intend to stare at a lot of bright screens or whatever on Fridays, then sure.

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I can turn down the brightness on stuff, too. And if it still hurts your eyes to do that then you can put the shades back on. Okay?

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Yeah, that's chill. [ he rolls his eyes. it's visible for once. ] It's not a big deal if that's what you want, dude.

[ OR HE WON'T ADMIT IT IS ONE ANYWAY ]

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[And Dave wonders why John can't trust him about his opinions sometimes. Still, he seems content and he nods, letting his arms wind around Dave's waist and curling in closer.]

Cool...I just really like them.

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You have weird tastes but I guess I shouldn't complain. [ or. well. he has no idea how he managed to get around john's usual tastes but. whatever. now is not the time to think about that. ]

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Don't know what that means, not gonna ask. [But he's also letting his eyes close a little more.] ...guess we lost the chance of you actually being sleepy, didn't we?

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...No? [ he had an hour's nap. he can go to sleep if he lets himself. ]

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Up for it then? [That is to say he doesn't mind staying up a little longer if Dave wants to.]

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You can go to bed, dude. [ he'll follow pretty quick he's sure. ]

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...[There's a derisive sort of snort.] Would you believe me if I said I am kind of too excited to sleep now?