dear_mun | homeless and waffling on everything

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homeless and waffling on everything

Mundane,

Considering the amount of success you've had so far in deciding on any sort of time point to take me from or place to send me to, I'm not sure why you keep trying to jump into things. You can't even settle on how I ought to introduce myself, let alone anything else. Perhaps it would be best until you had a better plan, rather than--

And now you're using me as a source of procrastination. Well done.

I'll still be seeing you around, though, won't I?

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Ha, that thing. If there's a way to keep Kasumi around without having to face that twice, I definitely wouldn't blame your mun for taking it.

Have to say I don't think Garrus would be all that amused by the canon point choice. Perpetual mortal peril, more or less. But then again, the one I'm close to seems to be a little bit jealous of the fact I've been threading with you lately. For a big guy, he gets wussy about missing you sometimes, you know.

Kasumi is hilarious, so yeah. Keeping her around is a positive.

Mm, Garrus. This mun of mine waffles around about him. There are moments when she's jamming that damned cabin door tight on the two of us, and then moments where she's cursing about you, and then God. Liara. [Just spreads her hands, giving up.]

Guess I love you all in my own way. I'd be long dead if it weren't for all of you. Joker, EDI....that damned Grunt, Mordin. Goddammit. I understand about the wussy shit. I know I--

I had issues seeing Vakarian go down in a puddle of blood. I had a shitton of issues. And would have been just as screwed up if it'd been you or Liara. Makes jack for sense.

No, I understand, Shepard. My mun is the same way. Besides, we're... like your family, right? So spread the love and worry about the details as they actually come into being issues.

... This hilarious writer of mine wishes to have it known that she keeps saying polyamory is the answer. I'm not actually sure she gets the whole envirosuit thing.

I'm leaning toward your writer's point of view, but yes. You guys? You're the only family I have left.

I got an answer about envirosuits. It's called being excessively careful and taking every precaution you can. And then misbehaving as much as possible.

[It is a damn good thing you can't see her face because she is blushing something furious at that.]

Ah... that would work, I suppose. I'm sure the reward would outweigh the cost. Not that I've thought too much on it, or anything like that!

[Wild hand gestures of inarticulacy.]

But yes, family is good to have, even when you have to recruit it yourself.

There's thinking and then there's thinking, Tali. Not gonna sit here and tell you I haven't.

[So totally amused.]

Gotta say, I didn't have a damned doubt about any of you.

You somehow manage to be both terribly predictable and frustratingly surprising, you know, Shepard. At this rate, my mun is going to be bothering yours to keep you around.

[She tips her head, a little amused, but still flustered.]

Picking excellent members for your rag-tag crew has always been a specialty of yours.

I do try. Well. Sometimes I try harder than others, but, good. I'm glad I still got kick after all the times I've been, y'know...practically punched through bulkheads and shit. I'm actually a little surprised I'm not dumb as a damned brick from all of that.

[Sarka sniffs just a little and can't hide the smile.]

I guess I'm good with people. Except the Council. They can go jam it. Most of the time. [She gets why they do what they do, really, but goddamn are they fun to screw with.]

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Don't worry, Shepard, you've got plenty of kick left in you. Although I am certain we could find plenty of people who could attest to at least minor amounts of brain damage in you. Your choices are sometimes... interesting. [She's teasing, yep. Teasing in that genuinely worried for your mental health sort of way.]

The Council are special breeds of... difficult, I think, so you needn't include them in the category.

Mmmm...yeah, I know a few Salarians, Batarians, Krogan, Asari, Turians, Hanar, Elcor--wait, let's just sum that up as assholes people who'd like to hand me my own skull.

Makes bar life interesting.

[Her hands go up in defense.]

I do try to be nice. Mostly. Kinda. [She winces.] A little.

You're nice in your own, ruthless way. I think you're nice, at least, even if you're trouble.

M'only ruthless when I need to be. Can't be sweet to everyone, that's how you die quick and bloody.

And I was born for trouble, grew up in trouble, watched trouble kill my parents, and now? Now I nut-punch trouble for breakfast. Kinda fitting.

Appropriate, yes, but still not always easy to watch. You're not the only one who gets upset to see one of your shipmates in dire danger.

Yeah, I know. If someone's going down, I'd rather it was me. Not any of you guys. If that means I break some heads... [She makes a face.]

But you know us. Let us intervene at all and either we're coming home or going down together, simple as that. Garrus and I -- and everyone else -- lost you once already. And that was too much.

I can't makes promises that I don't know if I can keep, Tali. But I'll try my damned best. Don't know the future, don't know where you'll be or where I'll be or how the Reapers are going down, but I know we'll all be there at some point, together.

For all the uncertainty of the universe, I guess that will have to do. Just do your best.

In the meantime... is your writer playing you anywhere in particular these days?

Can't not do my best.

Nah, this asshole's got memes, but nowhere real. [Because memes are just...memes, not games or something.]

There's nothing wrong with memes. There's a little less... permanently traumatizing than some other places. But anyway, I was obligated to ask because my writer and her partner will shortly be opening up a game they've more or less designed because nowhere was perfectly frustrating to put myself and Garrus. When it opens, it might be nice to see you there.

I'd...really be interested in that as would my writer. She's only in one game, doesn't tend to have a ton of time, but she can juggle all sorts of cats these days. If it means seeing both of you again, I'd get out the massive guns.

Juggling... cats? [Headtilt.]

But, ah, oh, Shepard, that would be good. What's the fun of being trapped on a strange space station in some system you've never heard of before if you haven't got friends with you, right?

Afuckingreed.

Cats. Small furry animals with sharp claws and a propensity to defy gravity. Juggling them is next to impossible.

But why would you want to juggle them? [Humans are confusing. D:]

I suppose that's the point. No one wants to juggle them, but we all gotta do shit we don't want to do. Lots of activities, zero time, but we make that shit work.

I... suppose that makes a little more sense. From what I've seen of felines, it seems almost dangerous to one's health to be tossing them around.

It's a good metaphor.

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I need to darken these icons. Effing Photoshop :( They looked dark before upload.

curse you photoshop!!

Srs. :|

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