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[The video feed comes on, showing a bleary, teenage face caught in the middle of a yawn. Face already half-buried in a pillow, the most immediately distinguishing feature to be seen is a serious case of bedhead, brown hair sticking wildly every which way. It's almost a whole minute before Lloyd seems to become aware enough to realize the SFC is on. Even then he just stares at it sleepily.

Until something on the screen registers. Eyes widening, he jerks a hand up to reach for the SFC.]

Wait, when did it become Monday?

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-=someone he cares a lot about is in a coma right now and has been for some time. he doesn't like to think about it=-

They probably just, did not want for you to maybe sleep walk yourself into something that is painful or unfortunate.

Good point. There's stairs in Vatheon. If I got outside while I was sleepwalking, I might have fallen down some of them.

[~~I warned you about those stairs-~~ oh wait, no he wasn't warned. Still, it's common sense that stairs can be dangerous!]

At least I don't think there's any cliffs in Vatheon. That would have been really bad.

Edited 2012-11-24 01:25 (UTC)

-=~~told you dog=-~~ or not, but apparently he has more common sense than most people who need warnings=-

There are rooftops. Which can, uh... be just as detrimental, at the unfortunate culmination of falling. Off a rooftop I mean, in case that wasn't clear.

[At the mention of rooftops, Lloyd looks incredibly sheepish.]

Yeah, I... uh... kind of already know about falling off of rooftops.

[Since he apparently tried to jump off of one when he got drunk.]

I definitely don't want to do that again. I don't think that's something I'd do in my sleep, but you never know, right?

Falling great distances, is a bad idea of a thing to do in general. I had an accident off a cliff once.

-=though it's less the falling and mroe the stopping part thats the problem=-

I guess, you wouldn't really know, being asleep and not conscious of your happenings.

Ouch. [Lloyd winces.] But you're okay, though, right? I mean, you're still here and talking to me.

[That had to count for something, right?]

Usually the most I ever do in my sleep is roll around. It'd be kind of hard to climb a building and get on the roof if I wasn't awake.

I needed a four wheel device to get around, for a long time. But now I have these swell robot legs, that make me so I can walk and run and jump, and have confidence.

-=alive is usually better than dead yes=-

Maybe if you were inside, and went up some stairs? Sometimes roofs have stairs, I think.

Robot... legs...?

[Sorry, give Lloyd a moment here. He's from a particularly backwater part of a technologically stunted world. That's not to say he hasn't had his fair share of encounters with technology, but he doesn't have the best handle on what words like "robot" mean.]

So they're... legs that pick you up and carry you around? There's actually things like that? [A pause as he tries to envision that. Would it be like having two raybits under his legs?] That sounds pretty neat!

[At least, it looks pretty cool in his head.]

Good point. I guess maybe it really was a good thing my friends moved me.

[Assuming that that's what happened.]

Edited 2012-11-26 16:12 (UTC)

Yes! That is exactly how they work!

-=since that's exactly how legs work! He swings his sfc around and points it at his legs, showing off his metal feet, new and improved with toes and little fairy wings on the ankles. he even wiggles his toes a bit, the metal making little clicking sounds=-

See? They are the best legs, anyone ever made.

-=and lets just pretend that his friends moved him around, it's better than the alternative. tavros is the best at believing in things to make them seem more true=-

[That is not at all what he was imagining, as the startled, half-alarmed look on Lloyd's face probably shows.]

Wait, you mean your legs actually machines? What happened to your real ones?!

[BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU WERE IN A WHEEL CHAIR, NOT THAT YOU LOST YOUR ACTUAL PARTS OF YOUR BODY.]

Edited 2012-11-28 23:24 (UTC)

My friend cut them off with a chainsaw, while I was sleeping.

-=because that is totally a normal thing to happen=-

[Alkasjdalfsj.

WHY DO YOU LOOK SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT

WHY WAS THAT A THING THAT COULD EVEN BE SAID

Lloyd has no idea what a chainsaw is, besides the fact that it's a saw, but

CUTTING LEGS OFF. WHY. THIS IS NOT OKAY.]

Your friend did what?! What kind of friend would do that?!

[He's both horrified and outraged.]

-=he is not comprehending your outrage sir. trolls sure are weird=-

She cut off my useless legs as a surprise, so then I could get robot ones to make me able to walk, and have lots of strong confidences!

But that could have killed you! Even if your legs didn't work anymore, they were still part of you, part of your muscles and bones and everything. You could have gone into shock and bled to death!

But Equius was right there, to put a new lower half on right away!

-=he doesn't see why this is a problem! walking is a totally swell thing to have!=-

Equius?

[Wait, he knows an Equius. An Equius who's a troll. This guy's obviously a troll, too. It's probably the same Equius he knows.]

Equius did this to you?!

-=he really doesn't understand the problem=-

He, uh... He is the one who built my legs, and put me back together, so now walking is a thing I can do again! Having usefulness is the key to being happy.

Did he cut off your legs, too?

[Please say no. Please. He wants to believe the best of his friend.]

What makes you think you wouldn't be useful if you couldn't walk?

No. That was Kanaya, who has a chainsaw.

-=equius is magic with doctoring and engineering! tav has the upmost respect for him now=-

... Because, I did not have much usefullness to offer my friends, when I could not walk.

[Another troll he knows. Another troll he can't see doing something like that.]

But Kanaya's nice! At least she seemed really nice when we talked!

[He shakes his head.]

If you're friends couldn't see how you could be useful without using your legs, then maybe they need glasses. You can still talk and think. You can still use your hands. You can do lots of things!

Kanaya is, very much a nice person. She gave me advice, to help with the levels of my self esteem, when they were much lower than they are now. In which case I mean, that those levels are now very high!

-=she helped him get robot legs, that was nice!=-

It does not matter now! I have legs, that walk and jump and run, and carry me so I may do many great deeds.

Nice people don't saw off their friends' legs.

[He draws in a breath and lets it out in one confused, frustrated puff. He doesn't get why Tavros is so happy about this.]

Look, I'm glad you can walk again, but wasn't there any other way without hurting you even more? Didn't your friends even look?

But she was doing it, to help me. And, I uh... I never would have gotten, anything like robot legs back home, because I am a lowblood. So having them at all, is an amazing thing to happen!

-=well technically she didn't have to saw off everything from the waist down, but he doesn't want to look a gift hoofbeast in the mouth=-

Not really, I don't think. And there was no time, for anything else to be looked at.

...a lowblood? What does that mean?

[He has a suspicious feeling, and his indignation is already stirring, but maybe he's wrong. He can hope for that, right?]

What was happening that there wasn't even time to look?

Uh... my blood is brown and I was a cripple. So that meant, that my importance was very small, and negligible. But that's okay! I am here now, where it does not matter anymore. I even have a matesprite, who is in fact an olive blood!

-=if you believe in something hard enough it makes it just a little bit less false?=-

And uhh... there was a demon, winged, woofbeast guy, who was trying to make it so we were all dead.

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