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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]

[He's doing his best. He doesn't buckle up either but he turns to face him.]

Not particularly. Got something else in mind?

[parodeity]

Mm. Not sure we're drunk enough to commit to tattoos, babe.

[windeity]

[A soft laugh.] Do you want to be drunk enough for something like that? [He gives another contemplative look.] We don't have to actually do tattoos. You know I was mostly kidding. [Mostly because...he would totally do it, he just doesn't think Dave has to.]

[parodeity]

I wasn't.

[windeity]

[...ok the laughing stops and he just. Stares.]

...really?

[parodeity]

[ no!!! don't stare!!! ]

I wasn't even joking the first time.

[windeity]

...huh. [Well now he's going to think about logistics.] Where would you get it?

[parodeity]

[ a shrug but he taps the area underneath his collarbone and above his left pectoral. ]

[windeity]

...right above the heart huh. [That's a little sweet, he'll admit.] That wouldn't hurt too much.

[parodeity]

My pain tolerance is high. [ he's just watching john curiously now. he doesn't care for pain in the general way of things but he can put up with it sometimes and he's never minded john's teeth. needles are whatever. ]

[windeity]

Yes I've noticed. [He drums his fingers on the steering wheel.] I think maybe the wrist...or the same place as yours. The wrist because I could at least see it while I was playing and most days I think of you when I play anyway.

...trading aspects?

[parodeity]

You got the organ wrong.

[windeity]

Wait what? How?

[parodeity]

Well. Half marks. But if it's breath, lungs seem about right. [ it's one of those things he says mildly. ] I've thought about it before.

[windeity]

[...oh.] ...that sounds about right, yeah. [His voice sounds far away.] ...time is kept in my fingertips. [He plays a bar of something across the steering wheel.]

...were you going to tell me before this?

[parodeity]

I mean. [ well like ] It was maybe more likely I was just gonna do it on my own one day when I felt particularly into the idea and then hide it from you for however long?

[ he at least sounds wryly amused. ]

It isn't like I don't already carry you around, but sometimes reminders are nice.

[windeity]

Why would you hide it from me? [A curious look.] I would have eventually found it, maybe.

[parodeity]

It feels selfish to want, I suppose.

[windeity]

I don't think it's selfish. Why do you?

[parodeity]

...because if I said "hey John get a tattoo for me" you would without any actual argument?

[windeity]

Believe it or not, I can say no to you if I really wanted to. Most of the time I just don't want to.

[parodeity]

I can't even remember the last time you told me no.

[windeity]

I haven't needed to. [No, John's mostly just a sucker.]

[parodeity]

Babe, we're basically mutually pathetic except I tell you no sometimes when it's for your own good.

[windeity]

Like I said, I can totally tell you no if I wanted to. [...] I like the idea of having a permanent reminder I'm yours and you're mine. [Even in a world if they ever broke up, he doubts they'd stop being friends anyway. It makes sense.]