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[escarabajo]

Your priorities are way out of whack, you know that? You keep saying you've got, like, 40 pages of term paper to do, and since this is college, it's a really big dea--

You're not listening to me, are you.

All right, all right. How's this? Before you book my cruise on the S.S. Turtle, you do maybe... half of that. I'm being super reasonable here. I'm not even questioning your logic on the whole floating turtle thing for now. Even if I sort of just did it there. (But come on--seriously? A turtle? Can't we go somewhere normal for once? I'm kind of sick of battle royales, and zombies, and monsters. And snow.)

By the way, you really shouldn't get fictional characters to nag you into doing your homework. I'm not even going to touch that one: you can psychoanalyze yourself.

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[urbanmagic]

Are we having girl troubles now?

[escarabajo]

Yeah.

...Well, no. She's a girl, but they're not girl-girl troubles.

[notjustinthemirror]

Sometimes fictional characters are the only ones they listen to. Don't ask me why.

[escarabajo]

[Well... This guy's kind of scary-looking. Mom taught him not to stare, though, so he tries his best to look as composed as he can, initial moment of surprise aside.]

People say that all writers are at least a little nuts. Maybe that's it.

[notjustinthemirror]

Considering they seem to subside on caffeine and junk food I'm not surprised. I'm waiting for mine to go into some kind of diabetic shock.

Just wait till they get to the psychoanalysis. That's when the real fun begins.

[escarabajo]

You'd think they would get sick of pizza at some point. Nope.

Oh boy. That's gonna be a blast. She's done a number on the other guys up here, so I don't know what to expect...

[notjustinthemirror]

It's been my experience that's usually when they decide it's a good idea to kill you. Or put you in some ridiculous situation where you'd rather be dead.

[Isn't he a ray of sunshine.]

[escarabajo]

And here I was thinking she was done with the murder. Silly me.

[notjustinthemirror]

Nah, that's the fun part. Why have a bunch of people running around their head if they can't torture them whenever they want.

[escarabajo]

...Has anybody ever told you that you suck at being reassuring?

[And to be fair, he only got tortured once.]

[notjustinthemirror]

What am I, Your personal cheerleader? I can lie and say everything is full of puppies and kittens if you want.

[escarabajo]

It's called 'seeing the glass half-full'. You should try it sometime.

[notjustinthemirror]

I prefer to see glasses completely full.

[Which he'll demonstrate by pulling a pint glass out of thin air, totally full with alcohol, which turns to tar and he chucks it over one shoulder without even looking at where it lands.]

The fuck do I care? I can't die, so my mundane has to find other things to do. I'm like forcible creativity.

[deciphering]

Since when were you a cheerleader?

[escarabajo]

I'm allowed to be supportive.

[escarabajo]

Full of what, anguish?

[Jaime watches with interest, wincing a little when the glass shatters to pieces on the ground.]

You can't? That's... [On one hand, never fearing death; on the other, fearing eternity.] Sorry.

[wintershepherd]

[ clutching his chest as though mortally wounded ]

What do you mean, and snow? That's cold, man.

[blonder_girl]

Come on a turtle's cool! It's like having a giant pet that you live on.

[deciphering]

That wasn't supportive. That was borderline "let-me-get-the-pom-poms-out" cheer.

Then again, I'm saying that like I expected anything otherwise. Joke's on me.

[escarabajo]

The last-last place I was at had blizzards and storms every other week. Sorry if I'm kinda chilly.

[He can do puns too!]

[escarabajo]

I don't know. I kind of want to get to know it before I have to live on its back.

[escarabajo]

Okay, okay. But that's not a bad thing, right? I'd rather not be the reason she ends up writing 20 pages in a night.

[wherethestoryis]

After everything our universe has done, you're actually questioning the floating turtle thing?

Get used to the lack of vacation. It'll never get better. [Sympathetic look.]

[motherboxed]

....Battle Royales?

[Jaime. What trouble have you been getting into now? And what is this about zombies and monsters even?]

[wintershepherd]

Hey that sounds awesome, sign me up!

[ oho he likes you already ]

Don't worry, we're cool.