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timelymaid) wrote2013-07-04 03:31 pm
timelymaid) wrote2013-07-04 03:31 pm
fourteenth bubble; video/action for mahogany.
[ This entry takes place in the dark. The dark of a hotel room! ...In the day, so the blinds are drawn shut. Why? Because Aradia has received only the world's most fantastic shirt. It glows in the dark! Specifically, it is a Haunter shirt...and lit by the dim glow of the shirt and the light from the gear, Aradia can be seen. Why yes, she is also wearing Dad's fedora, a hat that only a few people would recognize, and her hair is actually not crazy - for which you can thank Kanaya, whose disappointment in this ensemble may be sensed through the screen. Aradia, this is not fashion. ...And no one but Kanaya can even see the fact she's probably wearing her omanyte toe socks, which don't help matters. And those are also from John, come to think of it.
Aradia is also wearing what is probably an unconsciously creepy grin. Whoops. That's what happens when you post from a dark room and have a tendency towards unsettling people sometimes?
After a moment of grinning in silence, she'll actually stop that and talk, though. ]
Hi!!! This is Aradia. [ In case you couldn't tell. ] And this is the best shirt ever! John sent it to me! He has one like it, too, and I said it was amazing and now I have my very own! Isn't that just fantastic? I had to turn out the lights to let you all get the proper effect!
[ ...But now that you've gotten it, she'll actually turn the lights back on. Aradia's sitting crosslegged on a hotel bed, presumably in Mahogany from the music, and in the light her grin is a bit less eerie. Sort of. ]
That's not the only reason I wanted to post, though! Actually, I have something I need help with. See, ghost and fossil pokemon are my absolute favorites! And while getting ghost pokemon just requires catching them, fossil types are...well, a little bit harder. I only have a few species: Kabuto's line, Aerodactyl, and Tirtouga's line. [ Though by reason of people leaving she has two of the first and three of the second. ] And this is not at all a complete collection! Which is sad, because I'd like to study fossil pokemon up close.
So if you have any and could either breed me one or trade me one? I will pay or trade you an egg you'd like! Very specifically I am also looking into getting two Archen! One of those is not for me, but is for Dave, whom also has a sad lack of fossil pokemon that has to be corrected!
I figured it was worth asking, at least! Oh, and before I forget, if you didn't tell me your birthday a few months ago when I asked and we're now friends, you should probably tell me about it now! I don't want to miss someone's birthday on accident. And I think that's pretty much everything? Though on the topic of birthdays, I know of three for this month! And just in case you don't? Equius picked the 9th, Francis Bonnefoy told me his birthday is the 14th, and Misaki's is on the 25th! Be sure to wish them well on those days, okay?
Aradia is also wearing what is probably an unconsciously creepy grin. Whoops. That's what happens when you post from a dark room and have a tendency towards unsettling people sometimes?
After a moment of grinning in silence, she'll actually stop that and talk, though. ]
Hi!!! This is Aradia. [ In case you couldn't tell. ] And this is the best shirt ever! John sent it to me! He has one like it, too, and I said it was amazing and now I have my very own! Isn't that just fantastic? I had to turn out the lights to let you all get the proper effect!
[ ...But now that you've gotten it, she'll actually turn the lights back on. Aradia's sitting crosslegged on a hotel bed, presumably in Mahogany from the music, and in the light her grin is a bit less eerie. Sort of. ]
That's not the only reason I wanted to post, though! Actually, I have something I need help with. See, ghost and fossil pokemon are my absolute favorites! And while getting ghost pokemon just requires catching them, fossil types are...well, a little bit harder. I only have a few species: Kabuto's line, Aerodactyl, and Tirtouga's line. [ Though by reason of people leaving she has two of the first and three of the second. ] And this is not at all a complete collection! Which is sad, because I'd like to study fossil pokemon up close.
So if you have any and could either breed me one or trade me one? I will pay or trade you an egg you'd like! Very specifically I am also looking into getting two Archen! One of those is not for me, but is for Dave, whom also has a sad lack of fossil pokemon that has to be corrected!
I figured it was worth asking, at least! Oh, and before I forget, if you didn't tell me your birthday a few months ago when I asked and we're now friends, you should probably tell me about it now! I don't want to miss someone's birthday on accident. And I think that's pretty much everything? Though on the topic of birthdays, I know of three for this month! And just in case you don't? Equius picked the 9th, Francis Bonnefoy told me his birthday is the 14th, and Misaki's is on the 25th! Be sure to wish them well on those days, okay?
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[GLARE]
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You know I'll find them.
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Except probably not. ]
I don't feel like fighting with you! Go argue with Karkat, instead.
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[And he shuts off the feed.]
[A few minutes later, long enough for Sollux to look at his life/choices and Aradia to move on to something else, he picks up again.]
...Are you still there?
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When she gets the ping from Sollux, though, she'll pick up, raising her eyebrows. What now? ]
Yes. What's wrong? Did you demolish Karkat already?
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[He glances away from the screen, looking p. awkward.]
You got a moment for story time?
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Of course. I have all the time in the world!
[ ...But she can't stop herself from making a time quip. Goddamnit Aradia. ]
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Yes, I do. The most recent one?
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[ She can't imagine what else this would be about. ]
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[ O_O ]
...I mean, no. She didn't. As far as I remember. That's not what this is about.
But, uh, like I said, it's going to be a long story time. And I'll also be a really shitty storyteller at some parts. It happened a long time ago, kinda personal. But, you know... I feel like it's stuff you ought to know about, about me.
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[ AND ARADIA WAS AN IMMORTAL TIME FAIRY, SO WHY NOT. ]
And okay. I'll listen for as long as you talk, you know that.
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I don't know if you knew me back then, but way back in the olden days, I was a little kid. And I had my freaky mind powers and the voices of the imminently deceased babbling in the back of my head. KN knew me during this time. Maybe you also did. I'm not entirely sure, and you might have used time fuckery to realize this already. But anyway. Me and KN got to talking, and we were pretty good friends. But the thing is, I was a lot younger then, and I was. Different.
Than I am now.
[oh good lord this is hard to admit.]
I, uh, I wasn't a manic-depressive snarky asshole.
According to some people, I was actually a pretty nice guy. Who talked a hell of a lot and had zero concept of commitment and probably bored people half to death with his technobabble, but still, nice guy.
But the thing was, being that guy... it took effort, on my part. A lot of effort on my part. If I didn't put in that effort, I would have been the exact same manic-depressive snarky asshole I am now, except tinier. But I did it because at the time, I thought that was what you were supposed to do for people. Pretend your real personality didn't. Exist. And try to bullshit something else a bit easier to swallow. It was easier for KN to swallow, anyway, and we got along fine so I thought I was doing a pretty good job.
And then I grew up. And I got tired of doing a pretty good job, because it was getting harder for me to handle the pressure, you know. In my head. Like the feeling that at some point I was going to fly out my window, drop down to the floor below, and start ripping trolls limb from limb or something. It... got to be too much of a hassle for me, to pretend I was a good person. The whole thing was kind of weak, overall. It was really weak.
So I stopped. All at once.
And, uh, I started being an asshole again to people. KN included. She stopped talking to me and kind of turned into a stone-cold bitch for a while, but that was because I was being a stone-cold bitch too. Just to relieve some of the pressure of being a part of a social species that interacts with others.
...And I think maybe it's time to stop being a manic-depressive snarky asshole stone cold bitch.
But I'm not sure if I am even physically capable of handling that at this point.
And there's my story. Juice and grubcookies are over on the side table, don't take too much or the other kids won't get any.
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I don't think your personality and getting along with people and being happy are mutually exclusive, if that helps, but I'm not sure why you're telling me all of this. Are you asking me to assist you in this?
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Kanaya pretty much made me tell you, I remember her saying that. But yes. Help me.
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You're one of my best friends and I will always support you and try to be there for you, but that has always been true. I'm not sure what you're asking me to do beyond that, because that has always been something I've been willing to do and something I've tried to do - because that, at least, has never been something you've had to ask me to do.
But I don't have a magic way to change you, and I wouldn't do so even if I did. I think what you need to focus on isn't how you relate to others but how you relate to yourself.
And perhaps you should talk to Kanaya about this instead!
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All I was supposed to do is tell you. So can you just, uh... just promise to bear with me, instead? Consider this a warning, a warning that I'm going to turn into a floundering mass of limbs and confusion. Because I'm going to try to not be an asshole, and I'm going to suck at it, and it's going to be twenty-two different flavors of embarrassing, so just bear with me. Okay?
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I think perhaps I'll head on to the next city and skip the bug contest! You and Kanaya should have fun at it, though. It's still the best way to meet up again.
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[Aaand he's gone. NICE WORK CAPTOR, YOU REALLY WON HER OVER THAT TIME]
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