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DAVE STRIDER | RED | #E00707
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[windeity]

[That answer doesn't surprise him.] A bunch of new people to quest with, you mean. That is kind of cool I guess. What've you done so far?

[parodeity]

I've had the most luck convincing people to chase geese with me.

[ toiletries are a pretty big draw, apparently. ]

Skills I think nets socks. [ so he's like, more into geese. he maybe ? fought the jorogumo, who knows. ]

[windeity]

Sounds about right. The geese are easy. [He makes a face though.] Are they at least comfortable socks? I've been teaching someone skills. What do the wishes give us?

[parodeity]

[ dave produces two pairs of socks from his sylladex for john to see. ]

I don't know. I couldn't tell. I've only gotten one wish actually granted so far. Didn't manage to hit a quest clear last month. My fake gamer soul hates it, or would if I could be fucked to care.

[windeity]

Those are hideous. [And somehow perfect for Dave so he doesn't comment. Instead, he's judging the apples.] I do not really know how to tell when a quest is and isn't completed until loot drops happen, but I might have cleared most of them. I don't know.

[But he seems to see something and he nods, pulling the pot out of the fire with the wind and heading back to the kitchen. There's a startled yell of "fuck!!" but that's mostly because he drops the pot on a countertop/table.

Either way...it takes a few seconds for him to grab the apples and start pressing the mushier fruit into giving juice, also pouring the boiled apple-water-now-juice into a glass. About ten minutes later he returns to Dave with what looks like half a cup of AJ.]

Here. This was the best I could do with the apples we had left. We don't have any sugar so it is just pure apples.

[parodeity]

Congrats. [ on the quests.

dave looks at the aj and accepts it carefully like it's some lost foreign treasure because what the fuck. he's almost hesitant to take a sip although he does. ]

Haven't had any juice in like. Three years. So. You have no competition.

[windeity]

[There's a shrug.] Wasn't really a competition. [The juice probably isn't as sweet as normal AJ but it's flavorful and maybe a little diluted but mostly apple-tasting.] But how did it turn out? Taste okay? I was sort of guessing on the time and squeezing.

[parodeity]

I mean, it tastes like apples, so I love it? [ have a brief if genuine smile. ] Thanks, dude. But you seriously can't think of any wishes?

[windeity]

...[He tilts his head thoughtfully.] Just kind of a dumb one.

[parodeity]

Those are the best kind, so tell me anyway.

[windeity]

[A pause.] Take a selfie with me.

[parodeity]

You know I only have the shitty captchroid camera, right? [ it's not a no so much as like...

are you SURE ]

[windeity]

Yeah. So? The pictures still kind of turn out don't they? [He has bigger wishes, but he actually sincerely wants this...]

[parodeity]

[ john...dave eyes him for a moment before uncurling from his armchair position and standing, setting the cup aside to pull his camera out of his sylladex. ]

Okay, sure. Come here and duckface.

[windeity]

[He floats on over and settles next to him but he's also immediately kind of

putting Dave in a headlock/hooking an arm around his shoulders to pull him down. It's partially for the picture and partially for the contact, kind of like this icon.

Maybe he's not that stupid.]

Ready?

[parodeity]

[ there's the same maybe now-familiar tensing that's sort of freezing up uncertainly at the contact. it doesn't last; it never has the few times john's latched on, save for stunned silence the first time on that one planet that lasted like a half minute tops.

dave shoves at john's face but doesn't shove him away, leaning subtly into the contact in the awkward and sort of hesitant way he usually has. ]

Just try not to ruin my shot. [ bc john is a goober...but yeah. in like two seconds there's a flash, and then john gets handed a terrible catcharoid. ]

[windeity]

[He's keeping his grip around Dave's shoulder pretty firm, pulling in a little since Dave's being...Dave. It's not exactly a hug, but it's contact and it's something he doesn't mind giving right now.

As told, there's a duckface when Dave takes the picture and he takes the catcharoid in his hands and he starts laughing.]

Nice. [He holds onto it instead of immediately banishing it to his sylladex. He's also not quite moving away.] ...we've known each other forever and we didn't get to do that yet. So I wanted to fix that.

[parodeity]

[ dave said "do duckface" but he maybe didn't because he's strider neutral most times.

but there was an uptick to the corner of his mouth. so it's maybe a smile? congrats, now john has to die. ]

There's kind of a lot of bullshit we've never done together. [ the trials and tribulations of being online friends. john doesn't move away and after a minute or so dave leans into him but doesn't really escalate the leaning to Hugging because how the fuck do you even. ]

[windeity]

[Glad it's a photo of Dave looking Dave-like and John being a huge goober. It's kind of perfect though and it just means he'll be happy with it. But the uptick is practically a fullblown grin as far as he's concerned so there's a wider smile.]

Yeah, there is. We haven't done like concerts or movie nights in person or epic slumber parties or any of that dumb stuff. [He registers the lean and doesn't quite let go. It's been a weird day, given.] We need like a bucket list of friendship.

[parodeity]

Concerts and movie nights are maybe out of reach in fairy tale peasant land. [ slumber parties maybe aren't but dave has no idea what the fuck you do at them. ] What the fuck do you even do at epic slumber parties? I know if you're a girl and also a huge movie trope about to be murdered or something you have pillow fights.

[windeity]

Concerts maybe not. Riku is teaching me how to play the guitar. [But enough about that.] I think at epic slumber parties you kind of do whatever you want? You eat a bunch of junk food and you play games and you just hang out with your friends doing whatever makes you happy.

Or yeah, if you are a girl, you run away from serial killers after having sexy pillow fights.

[parodeity]

[ the gif makes me happy every time i open this

dave makes a face. ]

Sexism. I should be allowed to have sexy pillow fights and then get murdered if I want.

[windeity]

[Same tho. But also John just kind of eyeballs him.]

I mean maybe skip the getting murdered part? I think you can probably have a sexy pillow fight without being stalked and killed around the sorority house.

[parodeity]

I guess we can skip that part.

[ we??? ]

[windeity]

[...hm...]

Are we having an epic sleepover tonight? [Curious, not exactly opposing but also just wondering where Dave's going with this.]