Supreme hobo musician, at your service.

[jackofallcharades]

You do realize that the more time you spend in my company, the less you'll be able to catalog all my expressions? It's too bad the existing portraits don't do the full range justice, or so you say, but I think we can make do for now.

Don't you have better things to do than practice your coloring skills, after all? It's not like I'm going anywhere!

... Oh, come on, now you're just being contrary. I don't make enough dopey faces to tide you over the next week. I wouldn't mind a picture of Lacie, though. Why is that taking so long?

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[bloodiedchain]

... to be fair, Jack, you do make enough "derp" expressions to last our whole canon.

[Have a rabbit, Jack. WHAT DO.]

[jackofallcharades]

[Rabbits are always welcome, of course.]

You're exaggerating, you know! I'm not even around most of the time; you can't blame all of Oz's faces on me.

[bloodiedchain]

No, but I'm starting to see where Oz got it from.

[ Good, they better be. :T ]

[jackofallcharades]

I'd say it's still better than where you got your speech from, young lady.

[The smile behind that one is pure mischief.]

[bloodiedchain]

Hey, hey! There's nothing wrong with my speech, Jack, and you know it.

[ALL OF THE TSUN good lord this rabbit.]

[jackofallcharades]

Ehh, but Alice still hasn't learned to speak like a lady. You can't even fake it!

[Teasing the tsun: a fine Vessalius tradition.]

[bloodiedchain]

E-excuse me? I can so speak like a lady if I wanted to!

[ Alice, are you sure about that... ]

[jackofallcharades]

Oh! Does that mean you've been holding out on me and Oz?

[ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOUNG LADY]

[bloodiedchain]

Maybe, maybe not. Wouldn't you like to know.

[ NO SHE'S NOT but damn if she's gonna back down from a challenge. ]

[jackofallcharades]

I would, actually. [Beaming expectantly.] I did manage to teach you everything else, after all.

[laceratings]

Oh Jack, you speak as though you're a complicated man.

[jackofallcharades]

That wasn't me, you know, that was all mundane. [He takes it with good humor, though, at least.] I'm pretty sure I still have more expressions than you, too.

[laceratings]

I hadn't realized it was a competition. Still, I would beg to differ!

[ you have just as many fake smiles as he does you fraud!! ]

[jackofallcharades]

It's not, of course! It just means that being more complicated doesn't give you more expressions.

[Because Vincent has grown up rather tangled up, hasn't he? Jack, you are the worst parent. Also, he has extra dopey faces you don't, come back when you have more of those!!]

[laceratings]

[ yeah you were pretty much the worst. but hey, you taught him how to be a good liar if that helps. ]

Oh, I was only poking fun at you! You do present such a desirable target.

[ hey hey he's got ... a couple derpy faces okay .. ! ]

[jackofallcharades]

[Lying is an important skill!! And it's not like Alice or Gil were going to be good students.]

Haha... I have been told that once or twice.

[Still not enough, of course. You've got light-years to go, young Padawan.]

[laceratings]

[ yes, well. big brother has always been a little.. stupid.

and alice yeah well. brat. ]

I can't say I'm surprised to hear that.

[ HUSH YOU he just has no use for derpy faces okay, they're not his M.O. ]

[jackofallcharades]

[Maybe Alyss absorbed a little more. But Vincent was the star student!]

So cold, Vincent! And we haven't even had time for a proper talk in so long.

[Ergo, less variety in faces! Q.E.D.]

[laceratings]

[ but of course. he's a smart little shit. ]

Come now, Master Jack cannot take a joke? But I suppose you're right; it's been rather a long time, hasn't it?

[ untrue! he may have less dopey faces, but he makes up for it with a wide variety of subtly different creepy smiles and psychopathic grins! ]

[jackofallcharades]

Maybe I'm getting a little shaky in my old age. [He chuckles.] It's too bad we've been so busy -- I've seen much more of Gilbert than of you lately. Time does fly.

[Subtlety? Why use subtlety when you can stretch your face in a million stupid ways??]

EVERYBODY HAS A PAID BUT ME

[stilte]

[

He pauses before hastily writing:
You're smiling all the time. Why do you need more 'dopey' faces? ]

actually I just imported from IJ lol

[jackofallcharades]

[Oh, it's mini-Glen. Jack looks a little confused for a moment -- he remembers the boy talking just fine the last time he saw him.

Well, before the whole unfortunate business came to a head, so to speak.]

Ah, you know! Sometimes one falls out of a tree, or runs into someone one didn't expect to see. I must say, that's happening a lot more often these days.

the fact remains

[stilte]

[ ...Really, now.
I guess that's what happens when one is let out of their mun's headspace. Odd things happen. But how does a dopey face fall? ]

heheheh

[jackofallcharades]

It's the dopey face that comes after the fall! It's not like I fall on purpose, after all. I'm sure even you would make a silly face if you fell out of a tree.

... sobs

[stilte]

[ No.
Not really. I don't climb trees, after all. ]