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	FERN	Ooo slang part the second
	FERN	i think we just shared electrons, because i'm feeling a covalent bond between us
	LANCE	Pidge, I need your help. I gotta send a meme to Chloe but ...
	DIPPER	Hey Varian. You know those crazy alchemy bombs you used...
	PETER	Hey Varian, this is Peter. Um, Peter Graham.
	USAGI	Soooooooo~ How'd the date go?
	MAKO	Varian— Checking in.
	SHIRO	i think one of us put a chicken patty in my toaster
	EDDIE	Hey. We need to talk.
	MELIUS	𝐻𝒾. 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓉
	EDA	Hey, kid. I... owe you an apology.
	LUZ	Valentines
	MAUL	I have a proposition for a project I think you'll be interested in
	USAGI	I LOVE YOU
	FERN	DUDE you still have your bandana!
	BUZZ	Morning. I heard from Fern you wanted to go out into the blizzard.
	FERN	dude your profile changed
	USAGI	Ruby told me about the breakup.
	GLITCH	Varian, I'm gonna go live somewhere else for now
	MAKO	A "nerd" is somebody smart...
	MAUL	Gifts
	FERN	heeyyyy quick question
	FERN	Christmas is coming up!!!
	CHLOE	god who the FUCK ever thought emojis were a good idea???
	KRISTOFF	Varian,It's getting colder so I thought you could use this
	FERN	heyyyy Variable
	RAPUNZEL	okay not to put you on the spot but...
	EDA	Potion time
	NEO	Dude, I can mine antidote shit here!
	GLITCH	Got this in my basket.
	EDA	hey smart kid
	TEN	Hallo
	ADAM	Hey, k-- uh, Varian. I just wanted to check in
	USAGI	I'm sorry I worried you and fainted on you yesterday.
	AMARA	i lived, bitch
	NEO	Debatably good news, asshole
	USAGI	Hey Varian! It's Usagi
	OSCAR	I'm sorry, Varian. Tell me what you need
	FERN	a dark past huh
	MAUL	Varian. I am in great need of your assistance
	FERN	Varian VARIAN I CAN EAT FOOD
	USAGI	How much moon essence do you have?
	USAGI	VIVI-KUN, VIVI-KUN GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!
	RICHIE	well I promised
	FERN	A TOTALLY INCOMPLETE LIST OF OOO WORDS 'N SLANG
	GLITCH	VARIAN ARE THERE BUGS IN THE WATER?!
	USAGI	To help with restless nights and the...
	VIRA-LORR	Little alchemist. I have a gift for you.
	MARTIN	Hi, Varian. This is Martin. I wanted to reach out...
	USAGI	Hi Varian, sweetie! I have a question for you.
	GLITCH	varian I need to talk to you. it's important.
	USAGI	I need you not to panic after what I tell you.
	FERN	dog you have so many vests
	IRONHIDE	HONK HONK
	USAGI	... I'm sorry I couldn't help you better, Varian
	EMERALD	Hey, V. Not that I care that much or anything...
	FERN	tell me when you're alive
	FERN	Varian i stabbed two people
	AMARA	hey weirdo i have something for you
	FERN	is the Rapunzel in town your Rapunzel?
	PENNY	Salutations!! You do not know me, but my name is Penny Polendina
	YANG	Hey, is this Varian? I think we've met once before.
	FERN	hey can we talk
	FERN	you told ruby
	MAUL	Surviving another year is always an occasion worth celebrating
	USAGI	Hey I wanted to apologise
	USAGI	VARIAN-KUUUUNNN!!!!
	FERN	birth
	MAUL	Look what just arrived for me.
	KATHERINE	Do you want to get paid to make more purple goo things?
	FERN	ok i know you're good with plants but what about animals
	FERN	dog interested in means girls or guys

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	USAGI	So. Maul dropped by, he's got his memories back.
	ADAM	I'm worried about Shiro
	FERN	Hey handsome
	OSCAR	You've been weirdly quiet lately
	FERN	Guess what I haven't told you lately?
	USAGI	Hey. I'm back from the dead and I feel like trash.
	FERN	I made meatloaf that may or may not poison us!
	Emerald	Hey. I know you probably don't want to talk to anyone right now...
	BELLA	Hey Bella. You've dated someone who's a different species to you right?
	BILL	Hi, Fern mentioned you were interested in interdimensional portals...
	FERN	Aw, your pictures are nice!
	KURT	Hey. Are you around?
	RICHIE	Is it just me or is Eddie acting weirder than usual?
	QROW	Hey. Checking up on you.
	EDA	Hi Eda. Hope Ruddiger found you okay.
	GLITCH	Hey. What happened between you and Maul?
	LUNA	Luna- I uh... I think I need your help
	EDDIE	So hey, I finally worked out how to replicate the Antidote
	OSCAR	So, I noticed Ozpin has shown up.
	ROGUE	Hey, I managed to replicate the Antidote
	KURT	Hey. We're back. None of us are dead.
	QROW	Uh... hey. How are you guys holding up?
	PETER	You gave Ruby the haunted dolls
	GLITCH	Hey, Bud. Sorry I tried to murder you with a robot
	KURT	I'm probably the last person you want to talk to...
	JON	I'm sorry I attacked you
	JON	Stay away from Fern.
	FERN	Hey you still haven't got me those baking ingredients
	FERN	Okay so the Betties are upping their war...
	USAGI	Hey. So. Update.
	NEO	You tried to bury her alive? SERIOUSLY?
	USAGI	Emotions are really difficult
	FERN	OH MY GOD YOU HAVE ONE TOO
	FERN	Okay this better be to Fern this time.
	WYNONNA	So guess who got into the fridge and ate literally everything in there.

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[Ohm he doesn't like that tone much at all, no sir. Her ceaseless cheer might rankle him, but he doesn't want to see it gone.]

What? You mean for the whole... announcement thing? I mean, it's fine. I've dealt with worse?

[Haaa, well, that definitely put a nail in her heart.]

Yes the announcement thing, I'm sorry. You didn't deserve that, definitely not on your birthday. Not ever. Ruby asked me but I should have- [She sighs and stops.] I don't know, I'm sorry. I didn't know you well enough to know that you wouldn't like it, but I probably could have guessed.

Edited 2020-04-20 21:34 (UTC)

I mean it, I've genuinely had worse. It's not a big deal.

[Spoilers: being left to rot in the castle dungeons where no one will go near you because the guards treat you like a bomb that could go off at any moment is a pretty terrible way to spend a birthday. Okay, so Andrew was there, but Andrew categorically doesn't count as good birthday company. Or... any sort of company that doesn't end in murder. But that's something he's keeping to himself for one- maybe one day Usagi will friendship hard enough that he'll open up about his shady past, but today is not the day.
]

I mean... it's nice that people here care enough to do that for me? I've got friends back home who would but... yeah. I'm not exactly good at people. If you haven't noticed. So I guess it's comforting there's a few people here who don't seem to mind that.

Admittedly, me too.

And I do care, yes! And you don't have to be good at people, you just be you, Varian. The people who will like you for you will come and you can be good with them. Or they can be like me and force their friendship on you. [She knows herself well enough.]

But Varian, I hope you know you can come to me about... anything. I know I may not be first on your list for that, but I hope you know you can put me on it.

...Yeah, I guess.

[Except, aside from Ruby and Fern, no one here knows who he really is. They know who he's trying to be now. They don't know who he was, what he did. They have a fragment of a bigger picture. He chose this, he wanted to keep that part of his life in shade- to have a try at an actual normal life without everyone knowing him as the guy that tried to murder a bunch of people.

But when he gets close to people, he feels less comfortable with hiding the truth. It's duplicity and he's supposed to be giving up on that. And yet he clings to it. Fern and Ruby haven't ditched him, but Fern's a bigger mess than he is and Ruby's ceaselessly decent. He doesn't know that such luck will continue. That maybe, eventually, he'll open up to the wrong person and they'll turn their back on him. He realises he's been quiet for way too long. ]

Y-yeah. I know. Thanks, I'll bear that in mind. Appreciate it.

Alright, just-

[She wants to say something, he clearly had such a long pause for a reason. But she's pushed him enough today.]

Well, happy birthday, again. I hope it's a good one.

Edited 2020-04-22 22:18 (UTC)

[One day, he will sit down and tell Usagi his whole sad, sorry tale. Not today, though. For sure not today.]

...Thanks. It's been pretty okay thus far.

[Better than Prison Birthday, anyway.]

[And then she will hug him more.]

Well, next time, if we're both here, I'm gonna try for awesome. It's a promise.

[He needs so many damn hugs.]

Duly noted, I'll remember that.

[Don't fall back on your promise now, Usagi, he has i s s u e s when it comes to that.]