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DAVE STRIDER | RED | #E00707
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[parodeity]

Do you even know how many I have?

[windeity]

[A long pause.] No. I stopped counting. Three maybe?

[parodeity]

[ dave, who was definitely never counting because he never intended to cash in on them: ] Try six.

[windeity]

What! [What?!] Seriously? [Good thing Dave has a best friend who's gullible as shit still.]

[parodeity]

[ his favorite kind of best friend ] Yeah, dude. Probably because you keep making bets with me and then losing them. So are you sure you really want another on the slate of friendship tallying?

[windeity]

Are you ever going to claim them or are you collecting them just because?

[parodeity]

Maybe I want to save seven and enslave you via favors for a week. Indentured butlertude.

[windeity]

Kay well we are not on butler island. But that sort of makes sense so sure, if you win, you can have a seventh favor.

[parodeity]

Are you just completely glossing over the idea of a week of butlering here.

[windeity]

I mean. It's sort of whatever isn't it?

[parodeity]

I can't tell if this is a best friend thing or a you thing.

[windeity]

[Valid.] Wouldn't it technically be both since I am me and also your best friend?

[parodeity]

Okay, but would you put up a protest about a week of servitude to anyone else or just go with it? [ he can't tell if he has to be worried. ]

[windeity]

Obviously I would protest, I'm not an idiot. It'd just be, like, you and the girls and it's not really servitude exactly. [He's just. Thinking about something he said to Jade a while ago and decides not to comment on that since that sounds safer and less stupid.]

[parodeity]

What if I asked you to do something you didn't want to do?

[windeity]

Depends on what it is, but if it was something I really did not want to do I wouldn't do it. [But also, he's done stuff he didn't want to do because Dave convinced him anyway so he's assuming it'd be the same thing.] That is not that hard.

[parodeity]

I bet I could talk you into some things? I'll have you know I am extremely charming.

[windeity]

And I will have you know that I will believe it when I see it. I could say no if I wanted to.

[parodeity]

So, what, the base problem is you don't want to say no to me about anything?

[windeity]

What? No, there is no base problem. I'm just saying that even if you are charming or whatever I could say no if I wanted to. That's all.

[parodeity]

[ there's a snort of laughter. ] Okay, but when have you ever really said no and stuck to that?

[windeity]

[...haha. Yeah, about that. There's dead silence.]

I am just saying I could if I wanted to. [So haha never, John's a sucker for his friends, news at 11.]

[parodeity]

[ there's a beat of silence before dave just starts laughing. ]

[windeity]

[WOW???? John's free hand comes up to push at Dave's head but there's not a lot of force and also he's not moving his other arm so like. He's obviously furious. Obviously.]

Shut up! [He's still grinning though because yeah...yeeeeah.]

[parodeity]

You know I'd do anything for you, too, yeah? [ after he manages to quiet down. ]