 "un/finished") |
FERN |
Ooo slang part the second |
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FERN |
i think we just shared electrons, because i'm feeling a covalent bond between us |
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LANCE |
Pidge, I need your help. I gotta send a meme to Chloe but ... |
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DIPPER |
Hey Varian. You know those crazy alchemy bombs you used... |
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PETER |
Hey Varian, this is Peter. Um, Peter Graham. |
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USAGI |
Soooooooo~ How'd the date go? |
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MAKO |
Varianβ Checking in. |
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SHIRO |
i think one of us put a chicken patty in my toaster |
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EDDIE |
Hey. We need to talk. |
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MELIUS |
π»πΎ. πΌ ππππ πΎπ πππππ πππΎππΉ πΆππΉ πΎπ πΎπ πππ ππ½πππ |
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EDA |
Hey, kid. I... owe you an apology. |
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LUZ |
Valentines |
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MAUL |
I have a proposition for a project I think you'll be interested in |
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USAGI |
I LOVE YOU |
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FERN |
DUDE you still have your bandana! |
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BUZZ |
Morning. I heard from Fern you wanted to go out into the blizzard. |
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FERN |
dude your profile changed |
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USAGI |
Ruby told me about the breakup. |
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GLITCH |
Varian, I'm gonna go live somewhere else for now |
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MAKO |
A "nerd" is somebody smart... |
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MAUL |
Gifts |
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FERN |
heeyyyy quick question |
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FERN |
Christmas is coming up!!! |
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CHLOE |
god who the FUCK ever thought emojis were a good idea??? |
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KRISTOFF |
Varian,It's getting colder so I thought you could use this |
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FERN |
heyyyy Variable |
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RAPUNZEL |
okay not to put you on the spot but... |
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EDA |
Potion time |
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NEO |
Dude, I can mine antidote shit here! |
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GLITCH |
Got this in my basket. |
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EDA |
hey smart kid |
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TEN |
Hallo |
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ADAM |
Hey, k-- uh, Varian. I just wanted to check in |
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USAGI |
I'm sorry I worried you and fainted on you yesterday. |
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AMARA |
i lived, bitch |
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NEO |
Debatably good news, asshole |
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USAGI |
Hey Varian! It's Usagi |
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OSCAR |
I'm sorry, Varian. Tell me what you need |
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FERN |
a dark past huh |
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MAUL |
Varian. I am in great need of your assistance |
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FERN |
Varian VARIAN I CAN EAT FOOD |
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USAGI |
How much moon essence do you have? |
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USAGI |
VIVI-KUN, VIVI-KUN GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT! |
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RICHIE |
well I promised |
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FERN |
A TOTALLY INCOMPLETE LIST OF OOO WORDS 'N SLANG |
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GLITCH |
VARIAN ARE THERE BUGS IN THE WATER?!
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USAGI |
To help with restless nights and the... |
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VIRA-LORR |
Little alchemist. I have a gift for you. |
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MARTIN |
Hi, Varian. This is Martin. I wanted to reach out... |
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USAGI |
Hi Varian, sweetie! I have a question for you. |
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GLITCH |
varian I need to talk to you. it's important. |
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USAGI |
I need you not to panic after what I tell you. |
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FERN |
dog you have so many vests |
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IRONHIDE |
HONK HONK |
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USAGI |
... I'm sorry I couldn't help you better, Varian |
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EMERALD |
Hey, V. Not that I care that much or anything... |
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FERN |
tell me when you're alive |
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FERN |
Varian i stabbed two people |
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AMARA |
hey weirdo i have something for you
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FERN |
is the Rapunzel in town your Rapunzel? |
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PENNY |
Salutations!! You do not know me, but my name is Penny Polendina |
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YANG |
Hey, is this Varian? I think we've met once before. |
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FERN |
hey can we talk |
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FERN |
you told ruby |
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MAUL |
Surviving another year is always an occasion worth celebrating |
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USAGI |
Hey I wanted to apologise |
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USAGI |
VARIAN-KUUUUNNN!!!! |
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FERN |
birth |
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MAUL |
Look what just arrived for me. |
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KATHERINE |
Do you want to get paid to make more purple goo things? |
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FERN |
ok i know you're good with plants but what about animals |
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FERN |
dog interested in means girls or guys |
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The kind of stuff that still needs to be fixed is more in your girlfriend's wheelhouse.
Everything else fixed itself without me.
So what now? What's left?
You don't have to answer that.
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[Because he's helpful like that. And it's something he feels she needs to know.]
That person I told you about back home who is very... Ruby-esque does most fo the fixing, too. Thing is, you need to help mend the stuff you can't see so easily. It's not just one thing you do, you just need to add good to the world bit by bit. Sometimes you'll mess it up, but it's important tog et up again and keep at it. Even if you feel like you don't deserve it any more because it stops being about you when other people are the victims. You kind of need to put them before yourself for a while.
So you build their faith in you, a little bit at a time. Doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Help them move some boxes. Do something to make their day a little easier. Be there to answer the call if they need you. I'm still working on mine, but I was getting there, back home.
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Something like turning back around to save Ruby's life after she saved mine in the labyrinth?
Or letting her friends know that I'm not interested in getting any kind of revenge on her for anything?
That kind of thing, you mean?
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Redemption is kind of like restoring, I don't know, a chair. When you start, it's been tossed out for ages, it's all messed up and splintered, parts of it are torn, it's been through some stuff and it's categorically broken, tossed out and useless. But little by little you fix it up. Give it new stuffing, maybe fill in a couple of cracks on the legs. Sometimes you might mess it up, break a piece off because you tried too hard, or couldn't save something in time, but you keep going anyway. Eventually, you get a functioning chair again. You can't ever get it looking exactly like it did before- it can't be the same chair it was before it got tossed out, that's impossible. But you get something different, built on what was left behind. It's still a chair, it's still good, it's just got... a messier history now, is all.
...Or something like that, I'm an alchemist, not a writer, I'm not so good with the allegories. Rapunzel could probably do it way more flowery and probably throw in some super encouraging pep talk buzz words in there too. But she isn't here, so you're gonna have to settle for me and my cruddy broken chair analogy.
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Throw in some random crap about cookies and you'd sound just like her.
I think I have a couple ideas. I should probably talk to... a couple people.
I guess if nothing else, I have some time. I don't have to do all of this at once.
It would probably be really weird if I did, and it would be the most draining thing I've ever done, too.
Going from doing nothing to redeem myself to doing everything to redeem myself in a day and a half? Gods, can you imagine?
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HAH. HAH. Yeah.
Imagine that.
Crazy.
I mean. If say, someone was trying to blow up like, THE ENTIRE TOWN and you were the only person who could stop that. And then you did. Also kind of maybe tried to turn it into a suicide mission but apparently THAT'S not acceptable. So you get to live through that. And get like pardoned and stuff for stopping the thing from murdering literally everyone. Sometimes that can happen.
As a completely unrelated and random example plucked out of thin air.
But also the people you saved still kind of hate you but then you save them again from magical nightmare rocks that literally bring their worst fears to life and getting rid of that apparently negates all the bad things you did because people are fickle. Also sometimes happens.
As an equally completely unrelated and random example.
Also plucked from thin air.
And absolutely not from personal experience.
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Good thing it's not from personal experience or it would really put being a professional Dust thief into perspective.
I mean, a professional Dust thief who's stuck working under someone who wants to kill everybody on the planet, but still.
I've never been optimistic for a second in my life and if you think you can infect me with it, you've got another thing coming, V.
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[Also Rapunzel and Salem are kind of the same person but Varian's just going to continue his long tradition of not talking about that ever.]
I might not be able to, but be careful around Ruby. She's how I got it. She's not careful how she spreads it around.
[Kids, it's optimism, not an STD.]
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I know. She's terrible.
Thinking that everyone can be forgiven and actually giving people the chance to forgive themselves... hearing people out if they need to work through guilt...
I hate that she'll probably end up being good for me. I know I say that all the time but I'm starting to think I won't actually hate it.
Gods, I must be losing my mind.
If she helped reform someone who did everything you've done, I'm gonna be child's play.
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Well, to be fair Rapunzel did most of my reforming back home. Ruby's been more of a stepping stone to... normalcy? I guess. But it does feel good, eventually. Or at least you feel better about TRYING to be better? I'm not all the way there yet but from the view half-way there? It's... not so bad.
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But you're still, like... you can still do the things you did before Rapunzel and Ruby started trying to win you over to their side, right?
You're just doing them with different goals in mind. It's not like you had to drop everything about your "old life" to start making up for it.
Not that that's something I'm worried about or anything.
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But yeah, there's a different set of problems here, but I'm working on making things better for people here. Can't do anything back home while I'm dreaming here, so- Fixing stuff here is the best I can do.
Of course you're not. Would never dare thing otherwise.
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There's probably some way to spin being a thief into something that can actually do some good for them.
'Cause I get the feeling they're not gonna be too happy if I just try to steal stuff for myself. If I can even still steal anything around here.
Stealing's a victimless crime anyway, I don't know why the cats get so angry about it.
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The cats get touchy about arson too, it's rude. Surely there's bigger things to be concerned about. Like all the murder.
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The cats really do need to sort out their priorities. Like, I know they work for Mother Superior (probably), but there's petty crime and then there's people getting kidnapped and burned alive. Get it together already.
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[Oh god, is this another case of someone showing up in Remnant. The Rapunzel/Salem thing is weird enough, thanks.]
I think they like to turn a blind eye to things beyond them. You know. Like real guards. Or... police. Whichever.
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Which, now that I say it, really makes me think you're on the right track with those cats. Can't trust a cop as far as you can throw them.
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[But Robin Hood is a story and Rapunzel is flesh and blood. So how are both a thing in Remnant? Maybe... maybe it's just weird coincidence. Remnant is a weird place. So yeah. Yeah. Just coincidence. ]
You categorically cannot. No pun intended. You're better giving them as wide a berth as possible. I mean, they did nothing this month and look at how many people were murdered.
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Any other stories you think I should be keeping an eye on? Just based off what you've talked about with Red.
I'm sure you two have had a lot of conversations about what your worlds are like.
[she's just guessing at what people in a healthy relationship do. and also assuming that V and Ruby are in a healthy relationship.]
Of course they didn't do anything against giant bear robots. They're cowards. And/or prey.
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[Is "sometimes on fire" healthy? Probably not. ]
Maybe both. And I know I tried to murder a LOT of people and I didn't see a single cat. Which, honestly, would have solved a lot of my problems if they had intervened.
[Ruby wouldn't have had to shoot him in the leg and get herself traumatised from that for one thing.]
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Hell, maybe we could hang out and trade notes. I probably know some things that Ruby doesn't, not that any of them are that interesting.
Maybe sometime when we aren't running the risk of people being put on public trial or whatever, I could head over and we can do storytime.
You know, like adults.
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Hah. Sure. Like adults. I can even make sure we have hot cocoa and marshmallows. So we can drink them. Like adults.
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Add you to my F-calendar.
It's... ugh, gross. It's NICE to have something to look forward to.
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Welcome to having a social life, I guess? It's weird, I don't get it either.
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Some of the tech bros I ran into used that kind of language for their Scrolls back home and I just wanted to say it.
I figure a guy who goes by V wouldn't have a problem with someone trying to talk cool. ;)
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