reserved at ataraxion. & minor asm 697 spoilers.

[harriedosborn]

Did everyone tell you that you have the weirdest timing? Don't get me wrong, I can't claim to be one to talk, I guess anger inspires the best in all of us sometimes.

But sure, whatever makes your mind up. Whatever. Set the stuff up, get the icons, hey, I'm flattered. Just don't stick me with the beard (spoiler behind link), okay? Not being dead would also be a huge improvement, but I know the other option you're considering isn't much better. Depending how you look at it. Timelines are the worst of it, huh.

Look. If I'm saying to relax then you should take that seriously. I've survived all kinds of things. This'll be like...

... Another day.

Piece of cake.

Comments

[puny_parker]

Look at it this way: If they stick you with the beard you can have Bryan Cranston as a PB.

Also, it's better than the moustache.

[harriedosborn]

Mustaches are fun, Pete. Beards are practically a lifestyle that I'm just not ready to commit to.

[puny_parker]

Eh, not like I have any room to talk about questionable fashion decisions, really.

What's the other option they're considering, outta curiosity?

[harriedosborn]

At least you admit it. It's a little humbling that even having me as your pal hasn't had much of an effect in that department.

Oh -- you know, it's the choice between being a corpse or a fugitive single father. Thrill-city.

[puny_parker]

...I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.

And my mun just noticed that the game you're being sent to lacks yours truly. This is gonna be a mess.

[harriedosborn]

A mess? Gee. Your faith in me just overwhelms. [ Not that 'mess' is inaccurate. Whatsoever. ] Not that I wouldn't also mind the company of some friends who are my age. But... [ Everything complicated always. ] I'm not going to do anything stupid.

[webline]

So being stuck on a spaceship is no big deal then, right...?

[harriedosborn]

Well, I might always develop a mean case of claustrophobia.

Or whatever that other one is.

[webline]

Which I guess is nothing compared to the spaceship collapsing in on itself, we all losing oxygen, and dying?

Not like that ever happening, but you know.

[harriedosborn]

I figured that one might go without saying.

Besides, I've been dead before, remember?

[webline]

Ssssuuuure do.

[ she wanted that to go without saying man ]

Doesn't really make this anymore comforting, dude.

[harriedosborn]

I'm not going to waste my last moments of no responsibilities on panicking, I'm sure that I'll be doing plenty of that later.

[withgreatbleach]

Wow, that beard almost makes my questionable fashion decisions look good.

[ speaking of... since when did peter bleach his hair? ]

[harriedosborn]

I can't believe you could even say that with a straight face.

[ Literal horror right now. ]

What did you do?

[withgreatbleach]

Don't look so horrified! It's not that bad.

[ Yes it is. And deep down he knows it. ]

Anyway... long story short, I needed a new look and making friends with a bottle of peroxide seemed like a good idea at the time.

[harriedosborn]

Are you kidding me? When the heck did this happen, Mr. Parker? [ Because it'd have to be over his dead body. Oh wait. ]

[withgreatbleach]

Heh. "Parker", huh.

[ Shakes his head and puts on the grumpiest face he can manage. Which isn't all that grumpy, really, because speaking of dead bodies... ]

Look, forget that for a second! If anything, I'm the one who should be asking questions here. Since when the heck did you start walking and talking again, Mr. Osborn?

[harriedosborn]

That's your name. Wear it out if you want to.

[ Evasively: ]

You know me. If I'm not doing one, I'm doing the other.

[unheard]

Perhaps it is not about timing but how things are intertwined.

[harriedosborn]

You mean like destiny, or something?

[unheard]

Yes and no. Things come together because their purposes are interconnected or that they cross and touch each other at a crosspoint.

[harriedosborn]

That wouldn't be so bad, if it's true. There's something kind of comforting about purpose.

[unheard]

That's what the purpose of a purpose is. To comfort someone or a group of someones, it brings us together in ways we can't imagine.

[falsehoods]

Do not venture far into the intestines of that metal leviathan. I am told dark things lurk there and I would be loath to see you fall prey to any....mischief...

[harriedosborn]

If that's not ominous I don't know what is.