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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]

I am serious. My head hurts, you feel like you have a fever, and I think all of this started a few days ago when we got back. Yes or no?

[parodeity]

...Yeah. I kinda don't want to go back but I'm starting to feel like we might have to consider it.

[windeity]

That's seven hours one way. What if...I don't know, what if there's something else we're missing here? I thought it would go away when we left but obviously it didn't. It just stopped glowing so much. So maybe it's not necessarily tied to that place?

[parodeity]

Like what happened when it started?

[windeity]

[...] Do you want to go back and listen to those voices again?

[parodeity]

Not really. [ they weren't saying anything he didn't know. ] But maybe we're supposed to.

[windeity]

Why? [He doesn't like that plan.] We don't know that they won't just repeat themselves all over again, so what would be the point? If we already know what they're saying and everything we could just stay here.

[parodeity]

Because they're getting worse? Look, we can ignore that and pretend we never brought it up but it's kind of not...great?

[windeity]

I know. I know, I know, I'm just...I don't want to go back, so can we just talk about it here maybe? I don't even know what you heard.

[parodeity]

I already went first, it's your turn.

[windeity]

About what I heard? [A frown.] It was just...shit. I didn't manage to do.

[parodeity]

I'm not really sure what you mean by that, sweetheart. [ p sure john has said he finds that particular ephitet dumb before but dave does whatever he wants, which is mostly "calls john a variety of things anywhere in the gamut of dude/bro to darling". ]

[windeity]

Just...[A hand comes up again to thread into Dave's hair. He doesn't say anything about that particular name at the moment though.] Things I failed to do or things I fucked up, stuff like that. The trees knew about it. That is what I heard. Everything I failed to do for you guys. Which is dumb since that was another life but then there's also stuff from here about other people that I can't even fix, I don't think.

[parodeity]

You've never failed me. [ annoyed the fuck out of him and frustrated him to no end? sure. but that's not the same thing at all. ]

[windeity]

I have. Maybe not always here, but in both places. I have. So...[A shrug.] Is it irrational to regret something that happened in another lifetime?

[parodeity]

Do you really think of it as another lifetime now?

[windeity]

No. It's a continuation of this one. Like a scratch. I think. I don't know, I know it was me and it was you and how things went before that universe disappeared, too.

[parodeity]

[ dave shifts, looping his arms around john's neck and dragging him in for a lopsided hug. ]

You haven't let me down before, your atrocious taste in mancrushes aside. When do you think you did?

[windeity]

[That's fine. He'll just kind of...tip over into him and hold onto his arms.]

Um. In the old life, a lot. [...] What do you remember about the end of the world when everyone was killed?

[parodeity]

...plenty. But that wasn't your fault, dude. [ if anything that failure was on other people ]

[windeity]

The stuff that happened after was. I'm finally putting it all together. Like what happened after the end occurred. And I'm sorry. I should have tried even harder to figure out a better solution.

[parodeity]

...You mean the part where you split the timeline?

[windeity]

Yeah. I think I get it now. The weird time-hopping power and Terezi's list and Roxy. I get it. That's what happened after everyone else permanently died.

[parodeity]

Babe, you can't change a timeline without that happening.

[windeity]

Roxy stayed the same. There had to be something, like going back further in the timeline and changing things that way without overwriting everyone. Why couldn't that be a thing?