a reboot of sorts

[geckos]

Okay, what? You come into MY house, you swap MY face, on the day of... my -- okay, never mind, but it's been six years, and suddenly I'm waking up with a different face? Like, you were actually serious about this? Of course I'm kinda freaked out, dude! I've been angular for frickin' years! I'm not mad, I'm -- yeah, okay, calming down. I'm calming down. Find me Roy, he's my tiny, reptilian shock blanket.

Buuuut like I said, I'm totally not mad. Not if this means the magic thing is a go. I'm stoked for that. Oh my god, can we have cool magical card games? Like Duel Monsters, but less... potentially lethal. Dude! Dude. I'm not even gonna say anything, I totally see all those ideas jumping out of your brain right now, my friend. This is gonna be so frickin' cool. I can actually do something, for once!!

Dex

Comments

[nonvolatile]

Looks like your chassis got an upgrade, too. How about you let me know if you'd prefer the old face. I'd be happy to switch it out for you.

[geckos]

Oooor we could... nnnot... do that. Please. And thanks. -- Hey, what'd I do to you, anyway?

[nonvolatile]

Fine, but don't say I didn't offer. [Awh, is he scared? Cute.]

If you must know, your varied facial expressions and speech patterns amuse me. Consider yourself lucky! I'm thoroughly entertained.

[geckos]

Oh! Oh. Uh. Thanks, I guess? I take it you don't... see that a lot.

[nonvolatile]

Where I'm from, it's quite difficult to find people as animated... as you are. I can't help myself, I love the reaction. [she doesn't have to rip off your limbs to get a reaction, it's a nice little change.]

[geckos]

Well that's... pretty okay! [ Kinda nice, actually! Maybe she isn't as crazy and evil as he thought. Or maybe he can stave off the crazy and evil with being fun. ] Not the lack of animated people, but that I'm, uh, entertaining! I get that a lot. Pretty sure fate has blossomed me into full goof.

[nonvolatile]

Court jester? [smiiiiiirk] I wonder what kinds of tricks you'll pull when you get where you're going.

[geckos]

Who knows! Who knows if I'm even going, at this point. Definitely not me. But hey, I'm just gonna roll around here and sponge up all the attention I can get, cuz wowee, it's been a while.

[nonvolatile]

That's a very passive way of going about it. If I were in your shoes, I'd be taking out the competition to secure my spot.

[geckos]

Are you sure you even wanna be in the top spot, though? Better question: how much do you love psychological torture? On you. Not. Other people.

[nonvolatile]

[Oh no, Dex, what did you do? She's getting really close. Her eyes are doing that flickering thing. She's all up in your space!] Do you know what it feels like to have every inch of your mind erased, only to trickle back in slowly and rebuild itself? Do you know what it's like to run 273 equations through your mind in 0.5 seconds but not be able to speak? Of course not. You're human.

I've already been through the torture. This? This is freedom. I'll take anything they throw my way if it means I'm not sitting in a storage facility gathering dust.

[afraidofclosets]

They just changed your face? Dude. That shouldn't be a thing they can do, wow. I mean that's gotta be freaky. Did I say "wow" already? Because wow.

[geckos]

'Wow' is right, friend. There should at least be, like, a point where it's like: y'know what, no, I've looked like THIS for six years, I'm kinda comfortable with it by now, right? Paid off my... fmortgage...

But. Cool tradeoff. So I can't really complain.

[afraidofclosets]

What, you couldn't have magic-y stuff and keep your face? Is your new face imbued with powers or something?

[geckos]

Maybe. Nah, it's more like get both or nothing at all. One-time deal. This week only!

-- Oh, uh, hey, I'm Dexter, by the way.

[afraidofclosets]

Rough choice. Or not, because the magic thing sounds pretty badass.

Oh, yeah. I'm Michael.

[hawkbrain]

...Well. That's a little screwed up.