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mayfield_rpg2012-01-15 01:41 am
foretaste) wrote in mayfield_rpg2012-01-15 01:41 am
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♎ S33R: R34D TH3 HOROSCOP3S
( phone )
It's Terezi and my auricular sponge clots are still frothing teal from all of those alarms, and I guess everyone is still in a big panic about it but I just wanted to let everyone know that Dave Strider- hard cherry candy red Dave, not delicious orange creamsicle Dave- is gone. Back to... to our universe, I guess, and I mean, I just-...
[Terezi actually sounds pretty miserable about it. ]
I bet he will be back soon. I mean, that's just like a coolkid, to get himself panscrubbed ironically. He will be back in a few days, won't he, I just know it, he's going to swagger on in and be like 'Hey, TZ, hey, everything's totally cool and I was just seeing what it was like to be a drone for a while.' Yeah, that's what's going to happen. Blargh. I think I am going to give him a good hard drubbing the moment he snaps out of it. He's leaving me hanging and-
[Her voice shrinks.] ...Anyway, um. That's all.
Oh, except, by the way, can I ask if there are any people out there who were born between the human calendar dates of... September 24th to October 23rd? [She sounds a little bit hopeful, curious.] Let me know!
( filtered to castmates but easily broken )
I discovered this thing! [She seems to perk up a little bit, although she still sounds a bit tired. There's some rustling on her end of the line.] It's called 'the zodiac'! Humans have this wheel of 12 signs based on the stars in the sky and the way they're laid out and... There's a machine that dispenses something called a 'horoscope'. That's how I figured it out. I don't know how we didn't ever learn about this sooner!
[She gives a huff.] I'm going too fast, but it's pretty exciting! They're our signs, if you haven't figured that out yet. All 12- they're ours. And they're all based on real star patterns. We really did have an influence on this universe. Apparently all humans born on this planet fall under one of our signs. Amazing, isn't it!
The machine's at the comic shop. But I found a book on the zodiac, too! Here, for example, I'm going to read about my sign. It's called 'Libra'. [She pauses for a moment to lick the paper.] 'Diplomatic and urbane, romantic and charming'- hahaha- 'Easygoing and sociable, idealistic and peaceable'... They're all qualities that are supposed to represent our signs, I think! Naturally I am incredibly sociable and romantic and diplomatic and peaceable so this is all one hundred percent absolutely undeniably true.
But the coolest part is, [she takes a breath-] the coolest part is that my sign represents the scales. Equality and justice. And the rest of the signs, are, um, well, you'll see! I think it's all kind of amazing. You should go to the comic shop if you want to see! It's just... I guess even here, it's kind of encouraging to know that we had an impact on things. Somehow.
( action; the comic shop )
[Terezi, dressed in tribute to a certain coolkid, is standing before a rusty machine mounted to the wall. It has a number of different options on it, and after inserting $0.05, it dispenses small tubes of paper containing horoscope information. Terezi is basically choking the thing with nickels and stuffing a bunch in her pockets. She has a lot of Libras and Cancers. Once she amasses enough, she sits down on the curb of the sidewalk and begins sketching on the ground in chalk.]
It's Terezi and my auricular sponge clots are still frothing teal from all of those alarms, and I guess everyone is still in a big panic about it but I just wanted to let everyone know that Dave Strider- hard cherry candy red Dave, not delicious orange creamsicle Dave- is gone. Back to... to our universe, I guess, and I mean, I just-...
[Terezi actually sounds pretty miserable about it. ]
I bet he will be back soon. I mean, that's just like a coolkid, to get himself panscrubbed ironically. He will be back in a few days, won't he, I just know it, he's going to swagger on in and be like 'Hey, TZ, hey, everything's totally cool and I was just seeing what it was like to be a drone for a while.' Yeah, that's what's going to happen. Blargh. I think I am going to give him a good hard drubbing the moment he snaps out of it. He's leaving me hanging and-
[Her voice shrinks.] ...Anyway, um. That's all.
Oh, except, by the way, can I ask if there are any people out there who were born between the human calendar dates of... September 24th to October 23rd? [She sounds a little bit hopeful, curious.] Let me know!
( filtered to castmates but easily broken )
I discovered this thing! [She seems to perk up a little bit, although she still sounds a bit tired. There's some rustling on her end of the line.] It's called 'the zodiac'! Humans have this wheel of 12 signs based on the stars in the sky and the way they're laid out and... There's a machine that dispenses something called a 'horoscope'. That's how I figured it out. I don't know how we didn't ever learn about this sooner!
[She gives a huff.] I'm going too fast, but it's pretty exciting! They're our signs, if you haven't figured that out yet. All 12- they're ours. And they're all based on real star patterns. We really did have an influence on this universe. Apparently all humans born on this planet fall under one of our signs. Amazing, isn't it!
The machine's at the comic shop. But I found a book on the zodiac, too! Here, for example, I'm going to read about my sign. It's called 'Libra'. [She pauses for a moment to lick the paper.] 'Diplomatic and urbane, romantic and charming'- hahaha- 'Easygoing and sociable, idealistic and peaceable'... They're all qualities that are supposed to represent our signs, I think! Naturally I am incredibly sociable and romantic and diplomatic and peaceable so this is all one hundred percent absolutely undeniably true.
But the coolest part is, [she takes a breath-] the coolest part is that my sign represents the scales. Equality and justice. And the rest of the signs, are, um, well, you'll see! I think it's all kind of amazing. You should go to the comic shop if you want to see! It's just... I guess even here, it's kind of encouraging to know that we had an impact on things. Somehow.
( action; the comic shop )
[Terezi, dressed in tribute to a certain coolkid, is standing before a rusty machine mounted to the wall. It has a number of different options on it, and after inserting $0.05, it dispenses small tubes of paper containing horoscope information. Terezi is basically choking the thing with nickels and stuffing a bunch in her pockets. She has a lot of Libras and Cancers. Once she amasses enough, she sits down on the curb of the sidewalk and begins sketching on the ground in chalk.]
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Oh so not all up in the sloppy makeouts and shit. That makes this a lot easier to brain since bros usually don't get into sloppy makeouts on Earth.
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It's... something special. I guess!
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So moirrails basically help keep each other's shit in line like army generals schooling a whole platoon of unruly soldiers, gonna send these kids to university after the war, they earned it, damn. They're like your bro that you can lay all the heavy stuff on and you know they can take it and they don't even mind 'cause they know they can lay their heavy stuff on you too which pretty much sounds like a recipe for being crushed to death but nah, we got this shit, together we'll lift it, teamwork and all that junk.
Is that basically it or did I just jump off the metaphorical tracks with a runaway simile?
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and, more relieving, Dave gets it, too.]
...Yeah. Actually, that is... really spot-on. Sharing the heavy stuff and keeping it together and...
[welp.]
That's what moirails do.
[sudden awkward silence. the train of Terezi's thoughts has come to screeching halt as she realizes she is not sure what to say now.]
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[And that sure is an awkward silence. GOOD THING THOSE DON'T BOTHER COOLKIDS.]
So... what was the point of this sudden education on trollmance? Not that I'm not super grateful that I totally know what to burn Tavros on instead of just throwing random shit and hoping it sticks, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that wasn't why you told me this.
1/2
[how is she even going to bring this up?
it's not like this is just any old talk. Dave isn't even a troll, first off. hell, he's not even a human any more, really. he's completely different from the Dave who just went and got himself droned, and Terezi had been confused for a while. they were technically the same person, and yet... not. not at all. there were things she could say to Dave but not Davesprite, and vice versa, too.
it's the latter that's started to change for her, and that's a little bit terrifying. not just because she's unused to the concept of moiraillegiance, but because of what lies between them.]
...Sometimes when I'm around you, Dave, I don't really know what to do with myself. I don't even get why you hang around me sometimes! I know when we talked, when, you know, you came back, and you told me to leave John alone...
[she goes quiet.]
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And it was. I wasn't even thinking that it'd wind up complicit in maintaining the alpha timeline anyway. I didn't count on you heading back for him. Well... heading forward, I guess.
[she's talking in a low rush, not letting herself think over her words, becuse then she might hesitate.]
But you did, Dave. You spent so much time trying to fix things. I got John killed. Jade died as a consequence of that, so I guess I killed her too. And it's my fault you're...
[doomed is the word that belongs at the end of this sentence, but she can't bring herself to say it out loud. they both already know it, after all: it's the fate of all non-alpha selves.]
...
I feel like I want to make it up to you. But I also think I could spend three dozen sweeps trying to make it up to you and it wouldn't feel like enough, or right, or anything. And I know it's not about forgiveness 'cause that's not what I want. I know I did wrong. But I always think, 'Wow, it would be completely reasonable if Dave never talked to me again.'
But you talk to me anyway. And I'm trying to... I feel like- [she cuts herself off, not knowing how to phrase it.]
Ugh, this is hard.
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You've done a lot for me, you know? Made me think twice about doing stupid things and... when bad shit happens here, you always make me feel better! Like a real orange creamsicle would except much better because you talk and have no calories.
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[Terezi finds herself thinking out loud. she bites her lip. with Karkat, there had been no confessions or anything like that. they'd barely ever talked about their feelings, and they're still not any good at it now.
should she just... say it? wow, she is terrible at this.
oh, well. nothing ventured...]
So, uh.
Yeah.
...This sure is me admitting a palecrush on you.
Suuure is.
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So by... palecrush... [whoops no idea it's called the pale quadrants] ...you mean that moirail thing?
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I know this must be really weird! Believe me, it is weird for me too. You see, I always thought I was much too badass for a moirail.
[she's joking to cover up how nervous she is.]
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Dave: Roll with it]
Nah, that just means you need a huge badass to moirail for you, someone awesome enough to deal with your epic problems and radtacular emotions.
Good fucking thing I'm here.
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she didn't know what she was expecting coming into this, really. her cheeks are slightly flushed and begins babbling in a spectacularly uncool way.]
Moiraillegiance is a two-way street! So if you agree you've got to let me deal with your epic problems and radtacular emotions too but that was sort of what we were doing already and hopy shit, Dave.
Did you really just agree? Well, that question was rhetorical because I think you just did and...
Ehehehe.
[Terezi leans down and rubs her cheek against the side of Dave's feathery head. She is seeing diamonds everywhere. It is ridiculous.
Terezi: Begin epic bromance. You suspect you have already been in one for a while, but it is now ~*OFFICIAL*~.]
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[This would totally be the part where the the main character kisses the girl and the credits roll but since it's not that kind of romance, maybe a fist-bump would be more appropriate? IT'S A MOOT POINT FOR LACK OF LIPS OR FISTS oh hey suddenly bird snuggles.
CLOSE ENOUGH
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right now she is just birdsnuggling. after such a genuinely awful last month and a half, this is the most happy she's felt in a long while. Dave agreed to be her moirail. this is better than any amount of cherry Kool-Aid.]
You're the best, Dave. But you already knew that.
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[wait shit that sounded way less clever and way more sappier out loud than it did in his head fuck]
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[Terezi giggles appreciatively anyway because Dave can do no wrong in her eyes!! because her eyes... can't... see... get it......]
Everyone will be totally jealous of our fantastic moiraillegience. I have no idea what I am doing and you are not even a troll so I think together those things cancel each other out and it will just make for something totally great.
[she sighs contentedly. it will be a beautiful moiraillegience of terrible comics and delicious orange creamsicles. she is certain of this fact.]
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Bird shit in the eyes would probably still suck even if you're blind]That's definitely how the math works out on that. Double ignorance is just as good as knowing all the things.
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Well, there is a ritual in which we must cover ourselves in grubsauce and fling ourselves off a cliff into a bucket while chanting an ancient Alternian poem.
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[He heard the word "bucket" that makes his point valid]
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