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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]

Hmmm. Well, Shouto and I decided we are going to burn all of your ugly Christmas sweaters if you ever start in on a 30-day campaign ever again? Does that count?

[parodeity]

You stay out of my clothes. Rose got me most of those and made others. And I mean...you know what I mean. Jokes aside, is there anything?

[windeity]

Like I would burn anything Rose actually made you. [An eyeroll. But they should maybe order so give him a moment to look over the menu.] Anyway I am sure there is but I can't think of what's really important right now? We've covered our stances on a lot of things that I could think of like dates and anniversaries and physical stuff so...[Shrug?] I am guessing that is a perk of dating you in particular.

[parodeity]

What is? [ distracted by what john might consider a perk ]

[windeity]

Knowing you the way I do? Being able to actually talk to you? Stuff like that.

[parodeity]

...huh. [ maybe? it occurs to dave not for the first time he never tried to say even halfway the important and heavy things to everyone else he’d tried this with. ] I guess we have covered an amount.

[windeity]

[He has that idea, too, but he won't pressure him to say things he's not ready to. He just has to hope maybe someday Dave will talk on his own. On the other hand, he's said a lot more than John expected and he's proud of him regardless.]

Yeah. We kind of have? It's a little weird to think I didn't even know you existed a few months ago and now it's almost like we were never really separated. [He makes a circular motion with his hand.] Lifetimes.

...what looks good to you? [Food. Right.]

[parodeity]

Pasta with alfredo sauce I guess?

[ right, food. dave stops scanning john and starts scanning the menu. ]

...you’ll let me know if you think of something though?

[windeity]

Doable. Want to split it? Their portions are kind of big. [And there's that. John looks up then and he nods slowly.] Have I ever held back on stuff like that? Of course I'd tell you.

[parodeity]

Yeah, please. [ he feels less bad not finishing a thing when eating if it’s because someone else splits it...? ] And you haven’t so far. And I guess I can’t really think of answers to “hey what do you want from this” off the cuff either.

[windeity]

[One of the other things about dating is learning how the other person operates. One of the benefits of Dave is that John's been in his space for the last four months and has picked up on habits, such as never finishing big meals. It's accommodation and compromise and neither of those are bad for him.

As such, the waiter comes back and John orders for them before returning to the main point of conversation.]

...if there are things I need to tell you or things I think are important I will tell you because they are things we could work on together. But for right now I'm pretty happy with what we have.

[parodeity]

[ dave doesn’t mind john ordering for them - prefers it to dithering further - and just props his chin on one hand, watching him calmly. ]

One of these days you’re gonna say something pointlessly sweet and I’ll fall in love with you. Excited for classes to start back up again?

[ with his new major. ]

[windeity]

[Yeah he's not a moron, Dave, smooth subject change. But he allows it as he just grins and allows Dave to change the topic.]

Yeah! Kind of? School is school but I think this semester will actually be better? It will make a lot more sense than last semester. Plus we have a class together and I have some projects I can work on. It will be nice to have something to focus on.

[parodeity]

[ he wasn’t trying to be smooth okay ]

Still want to be on call to be composer for any films I do?

[windeity]

[Idiots.]

Yeah, obviously. What happened to your horse propaganda thing anyway?

[parodeity]

I actually shot some footage with Minato. I’ll show you later sometime?

[windeity]

I can't decide if I'm excited or if I'm horrified. But sure, sounds cool. I like seeing what you come up with and Minato's kind of weird but he's nice enough.

[parodeity]

Be honest, you’re just excited. [ for some reason dave is pretty sure john likes his work ] And he is. Nice, I mean, if also admittedly weird. You met anyone else interesting of late?

[windeity]

Maybe a little excited. [He stops to think about that though.] I met this kid a little while ago. Name's Gar. Seems really invested in the idea of superpowers so I showed him I could fly. One of the newbies on the app from the last batch so I figured it would help ease up when everything else starts to hit. I think I've just been working on getting to know people better? I've been here for a while now but there's still a lot left to learn about them.

[parodeity]

I like that you are. [ excited. interested. dave doesn’t know how to explain so he just moves on, listening. ] I don’t think I’ve talked to him. I do talk to a few every time, and sometimes I offer to show ‘em shit or just get to squabbling about time travel. I think there’s always room to get to know everyone better though.

[windeity]

[Cute...] Pretty sure he's one of the younger high school kids but yeah. I try to talk to a few people at least on that first post they always like to give us for the same reason. Trying to make sure things are good. A few people know about the windy thing now but I'm still getting the hang of it.

Oh, and Eleanor might hit you up for another Q&A on time travel just a heads up. [Since we're talking about getting to know people better.] I like meeting new people even if I always don't, so learning new things about the people I know is a compromise.

[parodeity]

I don’t mind explaining things to her. Y’all were talking about it?

[windeity]

Mostly about possibilities and impossibilities. I told her to be a little more open-minded about it when asking since it's probably annoying to go in circles about what is and isn't possible. [He shifts to match Dave's stance, chin resting on his hand and elbow on the table.]

Eleanor and I talk about a lot, I guess.

[parodeity]

[ dave’s eyebrows lift but he doesn’t ask for details. ]

She’s easy to talk about serious stuff with. We spin our wheels about philosophy sometimes too. Or end up teasing. Or both.

[windeity]

She's really smart and she's actually pretty good about asking questions. I am somehow not surprised...she and Yukiko are some of my favorite people. Which by the way we're supposed to probably do dinner with them to celebrate taste mostly being back. I think Yukiko said something about barbecue? And I think I want to introduce them to Natalie.