cradle

[parodeity]

[ entering dave's cradle will drop everyone in the middle of really really normal suburbia. it's a town in washington. texas is great and all, but it's linked to bro in dave's mind, and bro doesn't exist here. instead there's rose and her mom, john and his dad, jade and her (not dead) grandpa. he's not dave strider because in a perfect world he's not part of any of bro's legacy. he's dave lalonde because rose is the only family member he knows he adores without reserve. he can't remember roxy here, after all.

more specifically than "suburbia" though, you'll get dropped into high school. which dave is attending. if you spot him in the halls, he's most likely hanging out with rose, john, and jade. there's a very easy and real friendship between the four of them, and that isn't even a thing his cradle has to fake: it's always been there, but he's been cut off from any part of it ever since he got into this murder game thing. when he speaks to any of the three it's with a small smile usually, and the easy rapport involves teasing one another and generally acting like they've been doing this their whole lives.

also, he's not actually wearing shades. like, at all. so enjoy his red eyes for however long that lasts.

and someone wanted lunch to be a thing in highschool so dave's definitely going to snag a table with rose and wait for john and jade to get their lunches. dave's lunch seems to be pb&j and two apple juice boxes. rose is chatting with him about her last period (english) and he's only vaguely paying attention as he taps out a beat on the table with one of his apple juice straws. ]

Comments

[bloodteller]

Well, you have to spend a semester in a dark room identify dead things' bones for both, right?

[ ... and then a mini food fight commences. yuno moves so that adrien can smoothly grab the juice box, hiding her laugh behind a hand. ]

You know, I've got a recipe for homemade aj I could share, actually. [ she kind of hopes that maybe homemade apple juice will jog his memory. that maybe ~the power of love~ totally conquers all. as it stands they're in a lunch room and adrien and judar are having a food fight tho? ]

[parodeity]

[ rose can't even with you people STILL ]

Seriously? [ dave however brightens at the apple juice offer, glancing back at rose - who does a complicated thing with her eyebrows and eyes like they're conversing without saying anything before dave shrugs and stands. ]]

We should probs split before we get detention, anyway. Dunno what it's like in your school, but food fights actually get you sent to boringsville here.

[muties]

[ roxy's not even surprised that judar and adrien are hitting each other with food, bc of course they are.

for the sake of being helpful, roxy finally remembers her invisibility just so she can quietly grab a guy's pudding and throw it at fake rose. she also tosses a plate of spaghetti at judar and adrien because she can. then hurrying back to where she was standing and reappearing. ]

Oh no! You better go to the bathroom, before that gets stuck in your hair, hun. [ because they. probably should keep rose from following, right. ] Well, boringsville sounds like bullshit, so skedaddling sounds like a great idea.

[douchemag]

[well apparently they need to keep who they are a secret from rose for some reason so HE JUST GETS HIT STRAIGHT IN THE FACE WITH THAT JUICE

Just. Wiping it off while behind him, the food fight suddenly gets a lot more intense as a mini-tornado begins whipping food at everyone. If tornados can actually be summoned in schools. Which clearly they can't, so it's obviously just kids being really into foodfighting!!]

Wait, it can get even more boring than -- uh, I mean, yeah we should totally run for it. Looks like it's only getting worse from here, and we don't want to [choke] get into trouble.