canon is welcome to night vale u3u

[accede]

You're getting really obsessive for someone who's not even sure if my canon is viable to apply from. Not to mention, you have two other scientists you could have played, and you pick me? I guess there's no talking you out of it, but I'm warning you that you shouldn't get your hopes up.

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[goodnightsweetlisteners]

But you're the very best scientist, Carlos! Why would she choose anyone else?

Anyway, our canon is as viable as a government-issued strain of ebola.

[accede]

Government-issued ebola...?

It's not really a matter of "who's the best scientist," Cecil. Not that I am, either way.

[goodnightsweetlisteners]

Of course you are. Duh, everyone knows it. But you're adorable to deny it.

[accede]

I'm not- ... There's no point in arguing this.

[goodnightsweetlisteners]

Oh good, since I really don't like arguing with you.

I wish you could come to the city where I'm living right now. It's so scientific.

[accede]

[...Scientific, you say?]

How so?

[goodnightsweetlisteners]

[Scientific! He's so excited omg.]

Its this idyllic bubble under the ocean, filled with zombie-like, friendly inhabitants and controlled by a consortium of scientists who perform hideous experiments on those kidnapped from hundreds of different worlds within the vast multiverse.

[hellolisteners]

Welllll, ((in that sort of elongated 'i could think of a lot of great reasons to pick you over another, buuuuuut (said in that sort of "that's kind of embarrassing , becaaaause [ said in that sort of 'cecil likes you' way --this is getting ridiculous] ) ' .

Uhh, right.)) ... ((Coughs.)) I'm sure she has plenty of good reasons. ((YEAH nice save, pin the mun.))

[accede]

And I'm sure she could find plenty of good reasons for the others.

[hellolisteners]

Who knows? ((A shrug in his voice.)) After all, my own selected me against several others based on only a few facts. The dark, encapsulated void of the mundane's mind does not necessarily need very many reasons to make a decision. It is the void, after all.

[accede]

[A void that he is likely never capable of understanding.]

There's nothing I could do about it now, even if I did understand the reasons.

[hellolisteners]

Exactly! What better to do than to accept fate, and hope that in the end, it doesn't spiral into a most unfortunate demise? It is inescapable, after all.

[accede]

[Carlos makes a sound between a sigh and a laugh and a scoff.]

You make giving in sound so easy... Maybe it really is, in this case.

[hellolisteners]

I've found that it is, ((it has that same deep hum of darkness that occasionally slips into his voice, lightening after a moment)) While it.. can be terrifying to realize you have no control over anything at all, it certainly does have that simplistic perk to it.

But... free will or no! In this case, at least, we are hapless in their titanic clout. It hardly seems so bad.

[damncompass]

You can never have too many scientists, frankly. Well, alright, it depends on what kind of scientists. The ones that discover all the strange things could be bad for the world, but frankly, it would just be all kinds of awesome.

[accede]

I'd like to think I was the good kind, at least.

[damncompass]

I'm sure you are. You don't seem the person to make freeze rays or try to blow up the world with giant robots. [Joshua grins.] I just, well,I have a habit of going for the strange and fringe sciences.

[accede]

As do I. Well, now, at least. And honestly, I don't think I could make a freeze ray even if I wanted to.

[claudiometer]

Why wouldn't your canon be viable to apply from? Not like you don't have a backstory and all that. In fact, it's one of the easier ones to point other people to.

I mean, different games, different rules, but my mun apped someone with nothing but a name, once. You got a lot more going for you than that.

[accede]

Thank you. I know, it's just- something she's worried about. I'd rather to be left alone, either way.

[claudiometer]

Look at you, still talking when there's science to do. My brother up there does the same thing. [Fond eyeroll is fond! Claudia doesn't begrudge anyone their science, not in the least.

But, you know, she has an automatic reminder email go to him to tell him to eat his damn lunch, so.]

I dunno how likely it is you'll get her to back off. When these munly types get ideas in their heads they're awfully hard to talk out of 'em. But hopefully it'll at least be a fun ride. And/or one with your community radio boyfriend around.

[accede]

I do have some bark samples I should be looking into...

And I'm really doubting it would be fun exactly. Wait. You know about Cecil and I?

[Come on Carlos. Who doesn't at this point?]

[claudiometer]

You'd be surprised how well his broadcast is doing. [This is Claudia's innocent face! It's super effective.] Besides, I work in weird. Weirder than your weird, sometimes.

Fun depends on the game. I wouldn't do so well with the 'lolz you can never go home again' kind - interdimensional space issues. Fortunately, my mun doesn't like them much either. Not that it's stopped her from trapping me in the game a couple times ('for plot reasons,' she says), but that's not exactly the same.

[accede]

Maybe I should really listen to those broadcasts...

You know of a place weirder than Night Vale? That seems pretty hard to believe.

She thinks I would do alright in a... What was the word? "Jamjar"? That doesn't even make sense. -Since I don't have any emotional attachment to Night Vale. Aside from Cecil, that is.

[claudiometer]

[Maybe you should, Carlos! Unless you'd be embarrassed by how much Cecil talks about you.]

Eh, not a place as such. We collect weird stuff, but it doesn't generally act up once we have it. Usually. At the very least, we have containment measures on hand.

...Yeah, my mun thinks 'jamjar' is non-Milliways-player-ese for 'you're stuck here, buster.' I guess if you don't think of the place as home it might work, but - I can't, so much. My job is my home, and sooner or later people would come looking for me.