03 - some questions [video]

[paladaddy]

[Shiro is nice enough to wait until after all the dreamtroubles to pose this question to the network.]

Just curious, but how many of you here have jobs? A lot of stuff is free, so nobody really has to do anything, but it seems like it'd get boring if there wasn't work to do every day.

[he may or may not be debating doing some real work, after two weeks of being lazy.]

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[oceanbreasts]

One of us has to. I'm pretty much the most put together of the four of us, and that's really saying a lot about the rest of 'em.

[paladaddy]

It just says you matured faster than your friends. Now you have to be the responsible one while the others grow up.

[oceanbreasts]

[ LE SIGN ]

Sure wish they'd hurry the fuck up an' catch up.

[paladaddy]

Patience is a virtue! But while you wait you can join the 'responsible adult' club and sit at the big table.

[oceanbreasts]

[ :( ]

Don't y'all just sit around and talk about the weather and your taxes 'n shit though? 'Cause I gotta say, I'd rather just hang out against the wall if that's the case.

[paladaddy]

Are you kidding? That's boring. Nah, adults usually talk about what stupid shit kids did and tell dirty jokes. Sometimes booze and poker are involved too.

[oceanbreasts]

[ dramatic finger snap ]

Man, and here I am coming off of the binge drinking.

[paladaddy]

Aren't you underage?

[Even if she's mature for her age, she's still too itty to be drinking.]

[oceanbreasts]

Yeah?

[ And? ]

[paladaddy]

[He is tsk tsking her here.]

Such a bad habit for a young lady!

[oceanbreasts]

S'why I'm gettin' out of it! But I was literally completely alone and there were lots of bottles. Kinda not a lot to do but drink.

[paladaddy]

Even if you were alone with the bottles, that's still not a good habit. Surely it must have upset your parents or guardians or whoever.

[oceanbreasts]

Okay, when I say I was literally completely alone, I'm not bein' a dramatic teenager here. I mean I was actually alone. The only people left on the planet were me 'n Dirk and he lived out in the middle of the ocean somewhere.

[paladaddy]

[He pauses there as he considers that. Surely she must be exaggerating, right? What could wipe out all life on Earth and leave only two people alive?

Well, a lot of things, actually. But they're all not very pleasant.]

What happened to your parents?

[Because she had to be born, at the very least, so she has to have parents.]

[oceanbreasts]

See here's the thing... I wasn't really born? I mean, I didn't spend a buncha time in a womb or anything. It gets sorta tricky, when we talk about it, and I don't have a whole grasp on the ectobio stuff myself, but...

Well I guess I'm something like a testube baby. Only I was never a fetus, either. I just sorta popped up one day, all baby-fied.

[paladaddy]

...

That makes no sense whatsoever.

[He's not calling Roxy a liar, exactly. It just sounds so unbelievable that he wonders who has been telling Roxy the facts of life because it sounds like she has a few key details wrong.]

I'd ask how this is possible, but I doubt you remember anything from when you were a baby.

[oceanbreasts]

Yeah there ain't no way in hell. And as I said, I don't really get the ectobiology stuff much. If you find Dirk Strider, he might be able to fill you in more. Or one of the trolls; the younger set of 'em. Kitten--I mean. Karkat. He likes to talk a lot. Ask him some time, I'm sure he'll fill ya in.

[ And then some. ]

[paladaddy]

['Likes to talk a lot' and a name that starts with K makes Shiro think of the other Vantas which happens to be in Vatheon.]

I'm not going to ask him anything, it took long enough to get him to shut up about the privilege bullshit.

[Dirk he will keep an eye out for, though.]

[oceanbreasts]

Privilege bullshit? Kitten's never talked about privilege bullshit. Mostly he chatters on and on about how we're all useless but you totes know that secretly he likes people and has friends. He's all shy about it.

[ It's sort of really cute. ]

[paladaddy]

Nah, I must be thinking of someone else, that guy was an asshole. Nothing like what you just described.

[And annoying. And a windbag.]

[oceanbreasts]

Huh.

[ oh my god is there a kitten 2.0 out there somewhere

roxy has to find him. ]

Well, find Karkat instead. He'll be more than happy to explain pretty much everything.

[paladaddy]

I'll keep an eye out for him.