Oh Thomas, be nice. Also, book spoilers possible in comments.

[thefinalcandidate]

Okay shuck-face. You got me here, now what are you gonna do with me?  Control me like WICKED did? 

No thanks, I'll pass.

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[survivingly]

Planning on goin' somewhere without me?

[ smirk smirk smirk ]

[thefinalcandidate]

Man, I don't want to go anywhere. I could care less if you were with me.

[But he grins, joking, and glad to see his friend.]

Nice to see another Glader around here.

[survivingly]

Like your shuck face'd last long alone.

[ minho shrugs. ] Eh. Better than the Glade, that's for sure. I'm on my mun's back burner, so it's not like I get out much. Gonna drive me crazy eventually.

[thefinalcandidate]

[Cue eye roll here.] It'd last longer without you getting it into trouble.

[Come on, Minho was quick to pick a fight with others on the road. Sometimes, Thomas thought he wasn't sure how his runner friend had lasted this long.]

You're lucky. My mun wants to do something with me. Some of the games out there sound worse than the Maze.

[survivingly]

Hey! Every shank that pissed me off deserved it. Especially Jorge. [ especially jorge. ] It's not my fault you keep running into bad people and I've gotta kick their butts.

[ with these manly arms!!!!

anyway. ] Where you lookin? My mun's in a couple, but none with me.

[thefinalcandidate]

Whatever you say.

[It's easier to say that than continue arguing with them. After all, Jorge wasn't a bad guy in the end, and you know, he was on THEIR side.

Yeah, yeah - we all know you're buff or something.]

Nowhere yet. But don't encourage her - I don't trust her to put me somewhere nice.

[survivingly]

Exactly. [ minho's always right, okay. remember that time he predicted the psycho army of girl ninjas?

(also he was (is) stupid, thomas, he doesn't care what you say)

minho snorts. ] I don't think you're gonna find any of your ponies around here. Most everywhere's a pile of klunk, as far as I've heard. But if you do, let me know--can't have you running your shuck head around unsupervised.

[arms]

You still sound stupid when you use Glader slang.

[ This is clearly the most important thing, Minho. ]

[thefinalcandidate]

[Yeah, his mun kinda thinks the same thing.]

Thanks very much.

[Apparently he's attracting all the Minho's today.]

I don't insult your... arms, do I?

[Or your temper, you know.]

[arms]

[ SHRUG whatever it's endearing and apparently attracts Minhos. ]

Like you would ever.

[ The temper is the more likely one. ]

Mun got an eye for anywhere in particular, or are you just complainin'?

[thefinalcandidate]

[Okay, but everything worked out in the end.

Well... for them it did. But anyway.

Moving on. He shakes his head and sighs a little when Minho mentions those ponies.]

What would I do without your protection? [So much sarcasm there, btw.]

My mun hasn't talked about taking me anywhere yet. I think it's just memes for now... whatever they are.

Apparently I ask too many questions. [And he doesn't sound amused about that. Well, he really does ask a lot of stuff. Thomas should probably be used to people withholding the truth from him.]

[thefinalcandidate]

Hey, I wouldn't want to hurt your feelings. [And get a fist in his face. Because, you know, he loves you but... temper, Minho.]

She won't say. I'm not complaining, why does everyone always think I'm complaining? I'm asking questions, the answers to which I have a right to know.

[arms]

You're acting like I'm some delicate flower or something. [ Look, it's not - okay, it's kind of bad. But, also, it's you, Thomas. He's not gonna slug you. ]

Complaining, questions. Though, you and questions are pretty much best friends at this point. I can't even compete.

[thefinalcandidate]

[He has to roll his eyes here.] I'm not a delicate flower. I'm just usually in the dark about things.

I didn't have my memories before, but I'm pretty sure I've never been to this place before.

It doesn't seem as bad as the Maze, though, so I guess that's a plus.

[fraternalistic]

Doesn't really seem like you or anyone else here has a choice. We're just puppets.

Or worse.

[thefinalcandidate]

[He sighs.] Great.

I've been a puppet before. I don't want to go back to how it was before.