Really Shaky Voice Testing; planning to app to Soulgemmed

[eatdavesbabies]

Alright. So I think there's something you're not getting.

Wishes aren't something Striders make. We pull off miracles our own damn selves. We have fucking shelves dedicated to them. We want riches we don't get on our hands and knees and pray, we go to the back room and break that shit out of the little tupperware containers we have them in.

....Dave's fine. He's a big boy now.

Dude can take care of himself.

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[brometheus]

Better than having a sadist at the strings. But I guess if you're headed to our little space in the multiverse then you have the misfortune of being saddled with both. Sorry, dude.

[eatdavesbabies]

It's cool. He turns out that bad we'll just have to set up a safe word so I don't bust his ass that bad.

Though damn, dude. You sound like you've seen some shit at this place.

[brometheus]

We just had to put two teenage girls out of their misery. Yeah. It's been a rough month.

[eatdavesbabies]

[Bro lets out a low whistle.

...He feels like he should say something. Anything. Like even that he's sorry to hear it. But he can't. It's fucked up, but it'd feel awkward to say anything about it, and the things he thinks to say about it. He doesn't want to just gush feelings about this, and even saying something about regretting to hear it feels like gushing to him. Fuck no. He isn't doing that.

That's the price you pay when you're cool, to keep cool. You never lose that chill. The moment you do that's the moment someone sees you're more than ice and that you can't just freeze them in their tracks.]

Least it can't get much worse than that. That shit common around this hellhole?

[brometheus]

[ It's... not an unfamiliar feeling, to be faced with himself. Only this is living, breathing him and not just data on a computer screen. His brain mirrored back at him but twisted through binary and code. This is the same, but different. Him but in the past. Him, grown up and put through his paces by a world that probably had no goddamn place for him.

And he feels his hackles up. Defensive. Knowing that if he lets his guard slip he's showing vulnerability to himself, and he is always his worst enemy.]

No. This was the first major loss in a year, as far as I know. Most of the enemies we fight aren't a life and death experience.