warehouse_mods or maskormenace

[tattling]

I am so psyched you're letting me join a game again. I know I was real quiet for a while, but when you started writing that story again I knew I was gonna go crazy if I was just stuck in your head the whole time.

--wait, I'm ... I'm joining a weird artifact game and I'm second to a Jedi?

Come on! I could totally beat a Jedi in a fight! I mean, I know you don't want us to fight, but--

...um, if you have time for games again, maybe you could join that other game instead. Val's there. ... Obviously I don't care, I just think, maybe she needs her big brother -- hey, maybe you could send Future Franklin!

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[smarterthandad]

...You'd better know what you're doing.

mr franklin is actually a douchebag lbr

[mygalactus]

I know I like stroking my beard.

val likes him but we all know val's judgment is highly suspect

[smarterthandad]

[FRANKLIN]

Ugh. Two omnipotent brothers is even worse than the usual allotment.

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[mygalactus]

Technically, we still count as one brother. We're careful about that.

Also, we're-- what's the current word in your time? Oh, awesome, yes. We're awesome.

[smarterthandad]

Only in the original meaning.

[Insults are weird in the Richards family.]

[mygalactus]

[mygalactus]

[ Val wants awesome? She is suddenly seeing the galaxy from the point of Alpha Centauri!

--it's not real, and as soon as she moves, she'll be back where she was. But somewhere, somehow, a point was made. ]

[smarterthandad]

[Franklin, what the heck. Val's startled, yes, but frightened, no. She and Franklin might fight like, well, siblings, but she doesn't think for a second, even on some subconscious level her enormous intellect can't control, that Franklin would ever do anything to hurt her...besides maybe throw a block or a Matchbox car at her head, but this is Val we're talking about, so she'd probably have it coming.]

I already knew you could do stuff like that!

[Franklin, you realize you're arguing with a three year old, right? And that Val has a functionally infinite capacity for saying "nuh-uh!" with really big words?]

[tattling]

Stuff like what?

[ Mr Franklin is such a douche that he left in the same moment as the alternate view. Probably to go save the real universe or whatever. But still. At least he replaced himself with, er ... himself... ]

[smarterthandad]

I take it back. Your future self is just as big a pain as you are.

[The pot is calling the kettle black.]

[tattling]

Yeah...

[ beat ]

...wait, I'm not a pain! Mr Franklin just-- [ upwards sigh, blowing hair out of his eyes ] --um.

You're a pain!

[ yes. that's the smart response. ]