[Audio]

[thekidsare0kay]

Okay, weirdos. I'm fucking bored.

I've reprogrammed this stupid piece of shit alien communicator thingy with a text to speech program. By touch. In a foreign programming language. So now there are no excuses.

Someone entertain me.

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[thekidsare0kay]

fine, y0u can read it.
i d0n't kn0w ab0ut his pr0gramming, he was saying s0me creepy shit and c0nflicting things.
and then he said i wasn't g00d en0ugh f0r him and c0uldn't measure up, and then y0u sh0wed up.

[withoutasign]

OH, SOLLUX, SWEETHEART, I KNOW HE DOESN'T THINK THAT WAY. SOMETIMES THINGS GET MUDDLED AND HE CAN'T HELP IT. BUT GIVE ME A MOMENT TO READ THROUGH THIS, ALL RIGHT?

[thekidsare0kay]

yeah, whatever.
i'm n0t g0ing anywhere.

[withoutasign]

[A few moments later...]

SOLLUX, LITTLE ONE... HE WASN'T DISAPPOINTED IN YOU. HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN HIMSELF.

YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HIS SKILL SET YET AT HACKING OR ENCRYPTION, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN COMMISSIONED. YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TURNED INTO A HELMSMAN, MADE INTO A MACHINE. THE PSIIONIIC... HE DOESN'T ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT HE'S A TROLL, AND NOT JUST THE POWER SOURCE FOR A BATTLESHIP. HE'S LEARNING, AND REMEMBERING, AND GETTING BETTER, BUT IT'S TAKING A LONG TIME.

I KNOW THAT DEEP DOWN, HE'S PROUD OF YOU, AND IMPRESSED BY WHAT YOU CAN DO. IT'S JUST VERY HARD FOR HIM TO SAY.

[Encrypted again]

[thekidsare0kay]

he d0esn't have t0 be disapp0inted in himself!
it's n0t his fault that th0se unbelievable highbl00d assh0les did that shitty thing t0 him!
but he said we're n0t the same, that we've g0t n0thing in c0mm0n and
fuck
i just wasn't expecting my ancest0r t0 be like this.
vriska was always g0ing 0n ab0ut hers and eridan never fucking shuts up either.
and even terezi id0lizes her fucking stupid legislacerat0r ancest0r.
and mine wants n0thing t0 d0 with me.
i d0n't even want him t0 be amazing and s0mething t0 live up t0.
i just th0ught he'd understand me.

[thekidsare0kay]

^The above post has been IC deleted, though Signless is welcome to have seen it before Sollux did that.

[Aaand, encrypted]

[thekidsare0kay]

just tell him it's 0kay.
he d0esn't need t0 be anything he's n0t.

[encrypted]

[withoutasign]

[Signless totally saw the first post before Sollux deleted it.]

I'LL TELL HIM THAT.

AND I'LL TELL YOU THAT TOO.

IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY, SOLLUX. I'VE KNOWN PSII LONGER THAN ANYONE, AND I KNOW HE ISN'T TRYING TO PUSH YOU AWAY. I KNOW THAT HE WANTS TO BE A PART OF YOUR LIFE, AND TO GET TO KNOW YOU. IF HE PUSHES YOU AWAY, IT'S BECAUSE HE CARES AND HE'S TRYING TO PROTECT YOU.

HE DOESN'T WANT YOU, OR ANYONE ELSE, TO END UP LIKE HIM.

[encrypted]

[thekidsare0kay]

i d0n't want t0 be like him, either.
n0t like THAT, anyway, n0t a helmsman.
but we might have 0ther things in c0mm0n, i th0ught.


but yeah, i fucked it up like usual, 0bvi0usly.

[encrypted]

[withoutasign]

YOU DO.
YOU REMIND ME A GREAT DEAL OF HIM, ACTUALLY, WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FIRST MET, IT WAS LIKE I WAS LOOKING AT PSII THE WAY I FIRST SAW HIM. HE WASN'T MUCH OLDER THAN YOU WHEN WE MET.

BE PATIENT WITH HIM, SOLLUX. AND BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF. THIS ISN'T A FRIENDSHIP THAT CAN BE BUILT IN A DAY. IT'S GOING TO TAKE WORK, AND EFFORT, FROM BOTH PARTIES, BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU IT WILL BE SO, SO WORTH IT IN THE END.

[encrypted]

[thekidsare0kay]

i bet he had eyes and wasn't c0vered in mustard when y0u first met.

0kay.
i'll try again, then.

[encrypted]

[withoutasign]

HE ACTUALLY FLUNG ME IN A PRICKER BUSH WITH PSIONICS AND THEN TRIED TO PULL RANK ON ME AND BOSS ME AROUND.

BUT THEN, I ALSO HADN'T SACRIFICED EVERYTHING TO SAVE MY FRIENDS, EITHER. THAT'S SOMETHING HE WOULD UNDERSTAND, SOLLUX.

THANK YOU. I KNOW PSII APPRECIATES IT.

[ex_fintastic398]

Is )(e going to be okay?

[withoutasign]

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE, FEFERI. DON'T WORRY.

[ex_fintastic398]

It's my job to worry w)(en t)(ose two are conc)(cerned!

[withoutasign]

AND I KNOW THEY APPRECIATE IT.

gonna get all up erryones bzns

[0_0]

sollux

grouchy troll: go

[thekidsare0kay]

what.

you stop dat

[0_0]

do you think i can see that conversation?

[Watch her try to take the SFC if he refuses. She'll totally do that.]

he's just embarrassed

[thekidsare0kay]

n0!
why d0es every0ne want t0 read my private c0nversati0ns?
d0esn't any0ne kn0w the meaning 0f encrypti0n??

oh what a poor baby

[0_0]

im only doing it because it involves two trolls that i really do care about!

he is so sad and abused!

[thekidsare0kay]

well we d0n't need y0ur meddling!
it's fine, n0w!

we only abuse him because we care

[0_0]

[Not going to reply anymore, just going to casually sit riiiight next to him.]

Sollux.

[thekidsare0kay]

[Nope, nope, nope, he's shoving his SFC under his stomach and literally lying on it, scowling in her general direction]

Hi.

[0_0]

[That's cute. That's really cute.

Actually it is, but she's going to at least ask nicely just this once before she uses force.]

Give me the communicator.