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Yeah, maybe. I was never any fuckin' good at bein' cool, really.

[ it feels weird and wrong to actually say it out loud, but. he never got bro's ideal of it. if there even was an ideal. dave's never going to be certain how much of the bullshit standards he just...made up. ]

Tho I'm never gonna like earn a diploma with honors or anythin' on the grounds schools don't really exist. So I'm still safe.

[Dirk glances over at Dave. It is not about the 'cool' comment.]

What made you think there wouldn't be a diploma at the end of this? I am committed to your education, bro. A fancy piece of paper acting as an arbitrary signifier to your knowledge is requisite.

If you stay on your game you might even make the Dean's Roll. [Dirk gestures towards the Magister which means that apparently the Magister is the Dean]

Ok, but there's no way I'll be top of the class when I'm competin' with a super nerd.

[ he does not actually see them as competing right now. he's just talking to talk. and to avoid the thought of a diploma because now he's not sure? how much of that was a genuine desire but he thinks maybe he really does want something stupid and arbitrary and he doesn't want to like admit to it. so. ]

I have no idea what I would study in college if I "graduated" high school though.

We both know that I'm gonna deliberately flunk my tests as a protest against the system.

[He also does not see them as competing, or himself as even taking 'classes' in the same way Dave is. He thinks that what they're both doing here is a little different from each other.]

You can take a general major until you decide what you want to specialize in. You won't have to worry about tuition costs there due to socialism, and also money not being a thing.

Yeah money not bein' a thing is never going to be not really super normal. I'm used to thinkin' of it as a thing, until the game and even then it was still a thing? I just had so much of it that it was...less an important thing.

[ though he had Enough to get himself food usually from...his dumb websites... ]

...Technically I think I'm still torrentin' grist from John, somewhere out there.

Thereby makin' money more and more worthless somewhere out in the ether.

[He could not be more pleased.]

Hey, he had a shit ton of it and we needed it for house stuff. But yeah that was...huh, I guess that was a miniquest or somethin' for me more or less. I definitely wrecked more than just my own economy.

[ WHOOPS. ]

I'm possibly a criminal? I mean, almost definitely.

The things you did to that stockmarket are definitely illegal to start with.

[Also other laws like ones about swords and owning weapons whatever not important those are on Bro's hypothetical sheet]

I kinda figured although technically there aren't any laws about usin' time travel to abuse stocks. ...Are there.

[ he genuinely doesn't know but ]

That depends on the Nakodile legal books.

[Of course it depends on that.]

I'm...actually not 100% they even have any laws. TBH not sure how they had a stock market either? They were adorable but nooooooot the brightest.

[ ??????? belated consort questions. ]

Also I'm not sure what the fuck they did with the money they had. Jesus I guess I didn't investigate as well as I could have, but it was kind of a busy day even running all those loops.

They seem pretty funny. I'd like to learn more about them when we get the chance.

[just run off and rule their kingdom tbh]

It'd be cool to show you around LOHAC. As long as you don't mind lava? Or gears.

[ he has no idea why dirk would mind either. dave had a reason to mind a place full of metal sounds and danger and pain but.

it was his planet. he adapted. ]

No objections to either. It'd be interesting to see.

I'd give you the tour of LOTAK, but there wasn't much, and also you guys apparently managed to make it blow up, along with my apartment. [He wasn't there? He just knows that he no longer has a planet. Thanks, Lord Jacklish or whatever you're called.] The best I could give would be a memory tour.

[ he. blinks. ]

I forgot we could fuckin' do that for a few seconds. Uh. I guess next time we're out thataway we can do the dreamer guided tour shit?

[ A SHRUG. ]

Also we blew up so much shit in game I stopped keepin' track of what, exactly, got blown all to hell. Aside from knowin' my apartment is fine, since Jade had LOHAC with her.

[ he's not sure how he feels about that. he'd like some of his crap back but he would prefer to just let his apartment rot, otherwise? ]

I'd like that. It might be good practice for me on controlling the dreamscape.

[It'd be nice to see. They could wait, but at this point they do not know how long it will be until they can actually get through this.

It seems less positive that Dave's apartment is fine. Dirk has a ton of stuff he wants to get back from his and can't; Dave, from what Dirk saw, has much less to want to recover.]

Whenever you want, then.

[ they've only done the dream-tour thing twice, but it's getting more familiar and dirk's still the one person he's willing to start regularly offering that kind of bullshit to.

rather than his own surviving apartment, built clear off the planet to his gate, it's easier to talk about the other places that survived. ]

You should see Rose's place sometime. It's like, wizard central. Like holy fuckin' shit do Lalondes like wizards. And mausoleums? And cats. Did I mention wizards?

No, you did not mention wizards. [Dirk has that fondly amused thing going now. He often does when it comes to their Lalondes.] We have no place to comment on the carryover of interests but it's pretty entertaining. They really do love cats and wizards. And, for some reason, death memorialization. Derse can't be their excuse when neither of us ended up weirdly into that kind of thing.

[ he flips over a fleeting impression of that one huge wizard statue as seen from the height of a 13yo boy via telepathy. they all had to go through one another's lands and houses to reach the gates in succession, so he's seen it. there's a vague sense of "why the fuck not" re: the wizard. ]

They aren't into rap and the shit we're into, either. I guess it's a smaller closed paradox loop than "Derse".

[The amusement spikes. What a dumb, perfect thing.]

So the Lalondes get morbidity and we get the fine art of rap. It's kinda cool, in its way. I appreciate the larger family unit, but it's nice having these things to ourselves.

[Also Dirk is done with his current textbook so he goes and gets another THERE ARE SO MANY and that's just the math books]

[ dave's just going through them pretty easily now. sometimes he'll put a post it on the cover if the first few chapters are all new, but usually he's going case by case. ]

And music generally, and I guess - likin' to bullshit stuff? Not like lie, I mean, like - just talkin' about nothin' forever. And birds.

[ and a million things, pleasant and unpleasant, but even the bad things are kind of cool to share. dumb, but. ]

I like it, too.

Do birds count as an interest or as a Paradox Space cosmic haunting?

[He feels like they're a cosmic haunting. He feels like they did not choose birds, birds chose them.]

Probably more the latter. We can say our sense of humor is an interest, though. It would've been fun to like, be alive at the same time when the internet existed. You would've been a kickass troll.

[ on the internets ]

I basically missed out on my life calling. [Tragic.] It would've been hilarious to come up with theories on your comics and post 'em to the forums. Make up obscure references to people who didn't exist and explain the Nancho party as a parable of Calvanism.

Do you think people really have life callings? Like...obviously we were all fated to do what we did, but like, life callings how people usually talk about them. Like the things they feel like shit, this is it, this is why I was born - not just like the actual reason as accordin' to p space.

[ dave just mark your books holy shit ]

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