shadowdive | 28 // [audio]

28 // [audio]

[The feed starts out with a bit of static, but it wears off soon enough with Vanitas talking.]

Out of Mt. Mortar, starting now.

[Off to the side, his tone goes sour.] Now, you're learning how to freaking swim, and we're taking the other route next time. You got that?

I don't see what the bulge fondling deal was. We made it out just fine!

You're learning how to swim. Deal with it.

So, essentially, what we have here is you not wanting to confront your fears so you're more or less attempting to force me to do what doesn't come fucking naturally to anyone indigo on down?

Don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not looking for a lesson this time. While you're here, you're human, and humans can freaking swim.

You don't know what I'm talking about... How about I shove you the merry fuck back in there and sit my Lapras in front of the goddamn exit? What then?

[There's dead silence for a moment, before the sound of a fist hitting a face. Yeahh. The network gets a few audio cues that tell of a fistfight going down, before the gear is dropped and it cuts out.]

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That's totally not what I meant.

Then...what'd you mean?

You're the reason he flipped his shit on me for choosing the cave.

...Yeah. M'sorry about that.

Don't be sorry. Shit happens that's beyond our control.

I'm stressing over the fact that something happened to you and now he's freaking out about it to anyone he thinks of as a friend. Traumatizing, all because it happened to one of the few people he thinks of as important. Ergo, you are important.

Thought I just bugged him more than anything. I mean, we're sort of opposites by nature, so it's not like I didn't expect it, but...

I'll um. See if I can talk to him about it, I don't want to trouble anybody if there's something he needs to say.

Caring about someone doesn't mean it's all moonbeams and starlight, genius. Even those closest to you can drive you shithive maggots. All of my friends irritate me on astronomical levels. They're still my best goddamn friends regardless.

I don't think my friends've really...annoyed me before, so I guess that's something I would've had to hear to really know it.

Thanks for explaining that to me.

That's because you seem to have the temperament of a young barkbeast with doe eyes.

A...what?

A puppy with bright, shining blue eyes that just wants to slobber all over your shoes with unparalleled amounts of slippy affection.

How'd you know my eyes were blue?

The other derp I know has blue eyes. I figured it was the universal constant for derpism.

What is derp, exactly?

Look it up in the dictionary. Your picture will be right by the definition.

I've read a dictionary before, so I think I would've remembered that one.

[Just, you know, censored by Daddyqus accordingly]

And what's the biggest word you know, Shiny?

Shiny isn't the biggest word I know...

But there's one from Hope's world called trapezohedron.

Oh my god. You really are missing some serious comprehension skills in your think pan. Did Vanitas take most of them?

No, I'm just not used to the way you talk yet.

I speak normally, nookbreath.

I'm not saying you don't, I just don't have the same vocabulary.

Hopefully you pick up a thing or three.

I'll do my best to understand.

[Marinated in all the earnest intentions in the worlds]

Now that I believe.