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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]

You held out for longer than I think anyone could have ever expected. [He remembers watching the memory on that train a few months ago, and he thinks his point stands.] But...I understand. Trying and still not feeling like it was enough...right?

[parodeity]

It was Jade. Anything other than success wasn't enough, you know?

[windeity]

I know. I feel the same way about you and Rose. And Jade, of course. [All four of them were best friends. Failure was never an option but then it happened.] Do you...she wouldn't blame you for that, Dave.

[parodeity]

I blame me, I guess. I miss her. [ unrelated (maybe?) statements. ]

[windeity]

The her that was here or the her we remember? Or both, I guess.

[parodeity]

...Both. She was my best friend here. But I always think of the Jade Harley I remember first these days.

[windeity]

I think it's a little hard not to considering how much the four of us went through together back then. [...] If the mail ever starts working the way it is supposed to again, do you think we should send her a letter or something?

[parodeity]

...We can if you want to? Like. [ hm. ] I've never been sure what to say. I'm not the guy that girl expects me to be anymore?

[windeity]

...let's do an exercise. Pretend I'm Jade for a second. What would you say to me?

[parodeity]

Which version of Jade am I pretending you are? [ john. looks a lot like jade, can't be THAT hard. ]

[windeity]

...start with Jade Harley first. [Since that seems to be the crux of things.]

[parodeity]

This is weird.

[ but okay. ]

I'm sorry. That I wasn't good enough to...that I couldn't get h - you to Jane. I should've maybe tried to reason with the dogs more but that wasn't workin' so much. They just kept draggin' you to the quest bed like that'd do fuck all.

[windeity]

[Like. This is weird but maybe it'll help. His voice even shifts an octave higher.] Why the quest bed? I thought we were already gods.

[parodeity]

[ ..........

JOHN??????????????????

sorry dave can't respond he just. starts laughing at john's jade impression what the actual hell john. ]

[windeity]

[He grins because even if he's serious Dave laughing is a good sound. ] Dude come on. You were doing good before that

[parodeity]

Well, don't break out impressions?? [ god.

but okay. ]

I think they had game abstraction knowledge to some degree, just not as much of it as they would have needed to know it would've been more helpful to give her over to me so the life player could like, hit reset.

[windeity]

Well they were dogs. I did not anticipate them having as much intelligence as the sprites. They thought you were trying to take her to hurt her?

[parodeity]

I don't know. It was hard to have a real conversation since they were tryin' to kill one another and also me.

[windeity]

So much of our world involved everybody being crazy. [But he goes back to the original topic.] What else would you say to Jade?

[parodeity]

...That I was sorry for making her watch me die that one time.

[ haha........... ]

[windeity]

Which time was that? [He can guess, like, vaguely, but he doesn't know that much.]

[parodeity]

Lofaf. We were doing frog breeding, Jack shot me up. I knew it was gonna happen but I didn't, like, warn her.

[windeity]

Ahhh. [He shifts enough so that even if he's still laying between Dave's legs he's just kind of curled up into him to keep listening. His head hurts a little less at least.] Did you think she would try to stop it?

[parodeity]

If she had, she would've doomed that timeline. [ so...

yes, kind of? ] Even Rose wouldn't be good at that kind of inevitability, I don't think. You all would have tried to stop it, even if it wasn't a thing that could be stopped.

[windeity]

So you kept it a secret from her to make sure that the timeline went the way it was supposed to, and that is why she did the kiss of life on you. Did she ever understand later?