on memes

[ohhdeer]

Oh, for heaven's sake. It's a-- a meme. I know you're extremely starry-eyed over our thread, but for all you know, his writer is only continuing it to be polite. And don't say things like that, that someone like Jono would be 'good' for me. I'm not that shy, and anyway, he has even more-- more things to work through than I do.

Focus on the game I'm in instead! If I'm going to be stuck there, I'd like to not be quite so alone, you know. .. And.. I know you joked about it with Loki's writer, but I really will need someone to teach me how to use my abilities. At least, I will if I want to keep from accidentally hurting anyone.

Um. Maybe not someone like Loki, though.

Comments

[sandwormie]

Polite is responding once or twice and then nothing. Just tell them something in brackets, see what happens!

[...Luke, you're not supposed to notice the brackets.] I notice what I want.

[ohhdeer]

Oh God, please don't encourage her. My life is complicated enough already.

[sandwormie]

All right. Just saying.

[ohhdeer]

[ a ruffle of his hair. ]

You're a sweet boy. Thank you anyway.

[sandwormie]

[flaaaaail]

-Hey! Hey! Not the hair! I'm thirteen!

[ohhdeer]

Oh goodness, my apologies. Thirteen, that means you're already a man, right?

[sandwormie]

Don't condescend at me! It's a graded slope, I'm saying I'm not a little kid.

[ohhdeer]

[ yup. cute. ]

How graded is the slope?

[sandwormie]

[pout!]

Very graded. 'Cause, see, there's older people who still act like they're little and impulsive.

[ohhdeer]

Sounds like you have a lot of first-hand experience with people like that.

[sandwormie]

I am too old to be fussed over and called cute. Especially too old to have my hair randomly touched. But people keep doing it. I know I'm small for my age, but really! I'm not five years old!

[ohhdeer]

I'm pretty certain that the average human is allowed to still be considered cute at thirteen.

[sandwormie]

It's embarrassing.

[ohhdeer]

[ alksjdf he really wants to hug luke right now. ]

I'm sorry, then. You remind me of a boy from the circus I grew up in.

[sandwormie]

...It's... okay, then. [Luke... is rearranging his hair with his fingers, trying to flatten it against his skull. Of course, it does not stay flat.]

Was it a big circus? I've seen holos of those things.

[ohhdeer]

The biggest circus of its kind. There were quite a few half-breeds like me at any given time. Which meant it could be dangerous sometimes, too, but none of us minded.

[sandwormie]

Half-bree- um. Yeah that's probably rude. Sorry.

What'd you do, then?

[ohhdeer]

Well, I started out as an acrobat, then went to aerial silks. Have you ever seen them?

[sandwormie]

Huh. I don't think so? I was never really interested in the holos of circus stuff. There's way too much footage of jugglers.

[...yep, a Holiday Special reference. I am so classy.]

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[ohhdeer]

Next time you get a chance, take a look at one, then. .. I'm Asa, by the way.

[sandwormie]

Okay, sure!

I'm Luke Skywalker.

[sparkystarsmore]

[He's not amused. Totally not, nuh uh. That glare? Yeah, man. That's real. Except. Yeah.]

I do not humour people. I don't think the great puppeteer here does either, but I could be wrong.

[A pause, then a slightly wrinkled nose and an insult, just because.]

Get a haircut. Hippie.

[sparkystarsmore]

...wait, that Loki? No. No. Fucking lunatic. Plus his horse...kid...thing might hit on you. Awkward family dinners there.

[ohhdeer]

Last I checked, you liked my hair just fine.

.. Well, I haven't actually met him, yet, but he does seem a bit.. unstable, if the ones around here are any indication. [ w a i t. ] He has a.. horse-kid?

[sparkystarsmore]

...not the point.

Do yourself a favour, mate, and don't get involved with gods or demi-gods or people who claim to be either. They're all fucking mad as hatters. And yeah. Mind, my mythology's rusty, but if I remember correctly I think he became a horse, got pregnant, and gave birth to some freakish eight-legged spider horse...thing. I don't know. I was always more interested in Egyptian myths anyway.

[ohhdeer]

I'd look silly with short hair.

Well, that's too late, considering my 'canon'. Still, that sounds.. unpleasant. I suppose if you have to give birth to a horse, though, at least it's better to do it as a horse.

[sparkystarsmore]

It is nice to hold onto. Doesn't negate the hippie thing, though.

I...guess so? There is no part of that story that is not seriously fucked up, though. No offence, but I've always been kind of creeped out by those stories where gods take animal forms and trick mortals into sleeping with them...when they don't just outright rape them, in Zeus's case. Not exactly a nice bunch.

[ohhdeer]

Well, I haven't hugged any dryads recently, at least.

No, I understand. It happens a lot where I'm from, humans tricked into sleeping with 'others'. It's at least partially why half-breeds like me are often.. disliked, I suppose. .. And I haven't met Zeus, but I do share headspace with Ganymede. He's about as screwed up as one might expect, given that he's existed almost solely for Zeus's pleasure for the past several thousand years.

[sparkystarsmore]

Eh, see, I don't get the point in disliking the offspring. Just the creeps who're responsible for them.

Not to belittle Ganymede's suffering or anything, but I share headspace with Deadpool. And he can't be killed. I've tried. Repeatedly.

[ohhdeer]

I wish more people thought that way.

Is he that bad? Isn't he just.. very chatty?