[on possibly starting a new game]

[gibken]

Mun.

Why do you enjoy it so much when I suffer?

My life was not hard enough in the canon universe, now you're sending me to play in this universe with a friendly Basco and a very not dead Sid?

Because I'm supposed to just handle that?

I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

Comments

[joe_gibken]

My mun made me into Basco's slave ....

[gibken]

...My mun just got the most awful smile on her face. I suppose I am lucky.

Oh no wait. She says she'd do that in a heartbeat if she had an appropriate Basco to hand.

...Why do they hate us?

[joe_gibken]

My mun says 'you always hurt the one you love' but I don't think that's a good excuse.

[gibken]

I agree, that sounds like a big cop-out to me.

[bamick]

...Really.

[joe_gibken]

Believe me, it wasn't my idea.

[bamick]

[frowns]

I'd come rescue you if I could.

[joe_gibken]

Sid-sempai ... thank you.

[bamick]

[unhappy sigh]

Are you still there now?

[joe_gibken]

She writes these things in her fics, so once they're done, it's just waiting to see what she does to me in the next one. *shudder*

[bamick]

Ah, Joe.

Yet another reason I wish I was still around to help you.

[joe_gibken]

What's worse is that she doesn't even throw me the bone of having you in any of the fics with me. She claims to like you, so what's the problem? X(

I guess I'll just keep hoping ....

[bamick]

[sighs, slips an arm around you]

I'm long forgotten by most by now, it's not unusual. I'll be thinking about you.

[joe_gibken]

[watery smile] _I'll_ never forget you, no matter who else does.

[bamick]

Hey, I'm friendly too.

[gibken]

You are more than friendly.

That might be the problem.

[bamick]

[grinning]

I don't see any problems there whatsoever.

[gibken]

It's going to be hard to leave.

[bamick]

So don't.

Stay.

[gibken]

What about the other me?

[bamick]

I'll get him back, too.

And before you say anything, no, I'm not trying to create a harem. I just... his place is here, but yours is, too, if you want it.

[gibken]

That would be a little creepy.

You know the mun split me in two once? Yeah. Only one was a violence-hungry sociopath and the other was a codependent baker.

I have to go back. Marvelous wouldn't survive long without me.

[bamick]

[smacks you in the shoulder]

You know what I mean.

...If you have to go back, you have to go back. But I'll miss you.

Mine's raising her eyebrows at *that*. That must've hurt.

[gibken]

I'll... I'll more than miss you.

Not really. She writes a lot of wonderful fics that she never finishes. That's one. I've been stuck in a female body in another. And there's a work in progress where the rest of the crew except Gai is enchanted into hating me.

...I think she hates me, Sid-sempai.

[bamick]

[stares at you, sighs]

Maybe we can figure out a way you can visit. I'm not about to tell you to abandon your duty to your friends.

[I want to, but I won't]

Wow. Yeah, that sounds pretty conclusive.