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alright so just kind of chilling here on the beach instead of some underwater city this info guide talks about
and you know thatd be kind of cool if it werent for one major issue
what the fuck just happened
seriously i think i just got whiplash from trying to figure out where that five minutes went so wrong
i mean the first time i got teleported randomly at least it wasnt just me
landed right on my ass confused as hell but i wasnt the only one
its easier to sit there and look like a tool when youre in a group trying to figure out what the hells going on
its lame to lay on a beach alone looking like a tool getting wet sand in places sand doesnt need to be

read over the whole welcome thing so ok cool i get it
stranger shit has happened i guess so why the fuck not
moving on to try and be somewhat productive here
sup names dave
tell me theres someone that knows me here cause itll make this shit a lot easier
or worse
idk i guess well see
like id say something is better than nothing but i can think of a lot of cases where that wouldnt really be true
so for better or worse i guess
isnt there like a saying or something that knowings half the battle
does that apply to this situation?
well it does now because i say so

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[Oh. Well... Huh. Damn. Bro hadn't expected Dave to be back within a month. Because that's what this is, it's exactly within a month. Trouble is, he doesn't remember and that is going to make things hella awkward. Last time they were reunited, Dave had already been here for a while and knew crazy shit could go down in Vatheon. Now he's a fresh newbie and Bro's going to have to break the news to him as subtly as possible. He can't stand having to be subtle.]

hate to break it to you. the goddamn underwater city is getting flooded. thats irony for you.

anyway. theres a whole buttload of people who know you including trolls. dunno if that makes it easier. at least your sprites here too.

and yes. its exactly what you think it is.

balls in your court bro.

[Of course the one who gives him the useful information he was looking for his him. Of course it's him responding like this, right after he heard he was here. He's still not sure what to think, a bit of panic and fear and so many other emotions he's kept back for so long gripping at him.

He doesn't know what to say, doesn't know what wouldn't be cool to say or how he should act. Three years, and suddenly he feels like a kid again.

So he goes with what he can, just trying to pretend like it's no big deal when it's a huge fucking deal.]

pretty sure thats why people dont usually live in underwater cities
the whole fear of water on every side collapsing on top of you thing
nep gave me a pretty detailed list of whos around in this place yeah
only really know like two or three of the trolls
jade and sprite self
and you
so not too many im familiar with

[So for a kid who was supposedly stuck on a meteor with trolls, Dave doesn't seem to know too many trolls. Granted, Bro's mum on the details of just how many trolls were on that meteor and which of them are here in Vatheon. The troll girlfriend is definitely gone from this place, but it's not like he got much info from her either.]

youll have plenty of time to get to know them. not much else to do around here anyway. especially with the city turned into a fucking swimming pool.

i hear youve been living off troll food for the past few years. if ive got my timelines straight anyway. lemme know if you need legit human junkfood.

[It's still hard, but it's a lot easier if he tries to just forget and let himself believe that nothing's wrong, that this shit is totally normal and how it's supposed it be. How it used to be.]

ive been living off of that and shitty coffee
i havent had apple juice in three years
no one could figure out how the fuck to make it like youd think it wouldnt be that hard but apparently we were wrong

the fuck. all you need is apples. how hard is it to get fucking apples if you can get coffee?

dont worry bro. we got all that shit around here and more. even weird coral flavored pringles. seaweed doritos. like a lot of stuff is underwater themed. even the movies are goddamn bootleg underwater movies.

pretty sure the aj doesnt come from underwater apples so youre safe there.

[Dammit he's doing it again. He's doing that thing where he's supposed to be talking to Dave about serious shit and then he gets derailed into irrelevant nonsense instead. Not that Dave's helping much in that area.]

[Serious shit is overrated right now. Serious shit can wait until he's not trying to be cool in front of Jade. He's already dangerously tip toeing the line of highly uncool and lame, he doesn't need to jump right over it and dive headfirst in a whirlpool of emotions he's not ready to handle yet.]

we didnt have apples and apparently rose pointed out that while she could make shit tons of booze left and right to supply her for a whole god damned year she couldnt figure out the basic components wed combine to make an apple

id pretty much kill for some aj right about now
hell even seaweed doritos dont sound half bad

[Okay. Okay, this is good. Now play it smooth, Bro. Don't overwhelm the kid. He needs time.]

right.

lemme know when your schedule clears up. ill be there to deliver the goods.

[He wants to say right fucking now because one he really just wants nothing more than to see his bro actually alive again. For two, he needs that apple juice like he needs air. But that would be too eager sounding, wouldn't it? He's gotta act tough here.]

i can have jade drop me off whenever shes done with me if thats cool

its cool.

ill be by the elevator.

[Meanwhile, he'll brave the watery tomb that is Vatheon's underwater city to get to his secret snack stash. The apartment is on the highest floor of a middle district building, so it's not like the water's gotten up there yet. It'd be even easier if he had his rocket board, but hell, it's not like he minds getting a little wet. This little trip shouldn't take him more than three minutes.]

[He spends a lot of time contemplating it, wondering if he should or not or if he should just play it off still like he has been. But fuck it. After a while he doesn't give a damn as much anymore. Okay, so he cares a little otherwise he wouldn't bother putting it to private but whatever.]

hey bro

im glad youre here
youve got no idea

[Bro spends a good couple of seconds staring at that message. It's not the message itself that gets him, so much as how long it took for that message to be sent in the first place. Either it was added as an afterthought or a lot of thought went into it. He's spent enough time with Davesprite to suspect that it's the latter option.

In the end, he needs to retype his response like five times before its sent, but even then it doesn't feel right.]

ditto bro.

im fucking glad this place is a thing.

[It's always harder than it should be to find words for them, emotion really isn't his strong point and he knows it's not Bro's either. But damned if he doesn't want to try.]

yeah

so are you from after a certain time point or were you just told about it

[Because he can't bring himself to outright ask if he remembers dying or not.]

[This is so not something Bro wants to discuss right now, but... Well, he'd better get the elephant out of the room and address the matter, seeing as he can't pretend it's not sitting right there on his couch forever. The elephant, that is.]

after.

[He wants to talk about this as little as possible, but at least that gets out of the way what he doesn't have to say himself. There's a whole lot of other shit he doesn't want to say either, but it might need to be said.]

did the other me tell you anything about it

["Other me". Funny, Davesprite doesn't consider himself Dave at all while the original does. Kinda makes Bro hope that Dave will be the one to convince his sprite self to stop being a moron about that. ... You know, once Davesprite wakes up from his magical coma.]

whats there to tell? i was there.

heard plenty about what went on after that. you know. universe resetting and troll meteors. something about a party boat.

[Nobody ever told him what happened to the other parental figures who were taken to the Medium, but he can wager a guess. In fact, Grandpa Harley's fate was already set in stone anyway. Time travel's a bitch.]

when i found you

[He can't say "your body", it's just too disturbing at this point. It's only by sheer will power that he's managing to talk about this. He hasn't talked about it since it happened.]

the bastard stole your shades too
i thought about taking your sword but in the end i couldnt do it

[Oh. Uh. That's not something that really occured to Bro before. Sure, he figured Dave would find his body. Sure, he knows Davesprite saw it up close. But this? He'll just have to play it cool. Yup.]

so its still in there.

guess it doesnt matter. i mean. waste of a perfectly good katana but its not like anyone else could handle that baby.

pretty damn butthurt about the shades though. those are a fucking collectible.

[...]

wait. what about cal?

i was under the assumption it was just a piece of shit katana like all the other ones and tried to break it so i didnt have to pull it out
that didnt end too well so i just left it be
didnt see cal around anywhere
at least not there
i mean i guess the guy traveled around cause one of the trolls had him
and i remembered that there was seriously a time when one of them said that cal was talking to him and telling him to kill everyone
so thats a mild matter of concern
my guess is that jack took him from you then when he ended up in the trolls session to fuck them over he had cal with him and thats how he got there
time shenanigan bullshit

bro. gimme some credit. you really think my prized katana could be a cheap piece of shit like yours? its called unbreakable for a reason.

and i dont see how snapping it in half accomplishes the same as pulling it out.

but damn. sounds like cal really got around. thats cool. little guy deserves to see the world.

dunno why hed tell trolls to kill everyone though. thats not how i raised him.

[Yeahhh, he may be trying to lighten the mood with terrible humor. Thing is, not even Bro can really grasp this Cal thing. He saw two of them around the Incisphere. One of them was in the ectobiology lab, wearing the purple outfit that he had on when Bro was just a young child, so he made the connection to the Reckoning soon enough, but... damn if that didn't break his brain just a little.]

Edited 2013-04-30 20:33 (UTC)

that unbreakable thing would have been good information before i went and did an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle
i guess i thought if i broke it without pulling it out at least there wouldnt be any more blood spilled
no idea what was up with cal either man maybe he was just hanging with some bad influences

[Or maybe the puppet was fucking evil and not to be trusted and all of Dave's fears and paranoia about him were completely justified. But he's not gonna say that to Bro.]

what. the blades still gonna be stuck in my chest. just broken. that doesnt change shit.

[Wow, why is he even arguing this matter? That is so not the right thing to do right now.]

i mean. whats done is done. the lesson to be learned here is that you cant put too much fucking thought into stuff like that.

yeah considering who took cal in the first place. id call that a bad influence. fucking jack noir.

if you happen to see the homicidal troll in question shoot me a warning. gotta make sure to keep cal far away from him just in case. dont want trolls getting launched into a hysterical rampage at the sight of my lil puppet pal.

[Yes, guess who came to Vatheon with Bro? Guess who's hanging over his shoulder as he types this? Cal's staring down at the SFC with his dead eyes right this very second.]

[Keep him away from-Oh god dammit. Why can't that thing just stay lost? He guesses it's not all bad, it's good for bro at least so he has some company. But still. Dave's going to have to remember to watch his back.]

if i had just pulled out the sword i would have gotten blood on me

[Yeah, subject change. He can't think of he didn't want to touch the body when said body was his bro right here talking to him.]

the trolls kind of hard to miss
basically a teenage alien juggalo that types in purple and reeks of crazy
hes here from what i heard

[What, no, you don't get blood on you when you do it right and pull it out in a good clean vertical- okay no. He needs to stop thinking about this now. Much as he wants to be right and for his bro to not be a pussy about things like this, it's getting disturbing.]

purple juggalo troll. gotcha.

saw a few troll douches type in purple. pretty sure they werent juggalos so thats only two outta three.

[He's thinking of the Amporas, actually.]

[Dave's done with that part of the conversation. It was easier to talk about with Terezi back when he was right there. There's a reason he hasn't spoken of it since.]

theres two kinds of purple for trolls
theres the seadouche purple and then theres the bugfuck crazy purple
you gotta be careful which is which with these things

right. sure.

wouldnt want to mix m up by accident. boy would my face be red.

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