shitposting rave 3: Dawn of the third rave

...your mom said she was the one who did it because she loved you...even if she wasn't that great at showing it...there are other people who love you, too...isn't that a good reason for existing?

 

Juice seems to like you. Seems like a reason to stick around.

Look, you don't like it when people make fun of you and try to hurt you, right?

Sounds kinda cool. Not really my, uh, style, 'cause I don't do well out of cities. Been in 'em too long, if I see too much sky I start to worry, you know? Um, nosy people, though-- I know lots of nosy people.

 

but not EVERYONE cares that much.

 

But you don't know that. You care, don't you, when people make fun of you and try to hurt you?

 

but THIS guy didnt, trust me.

 

I really don't feel like I can, dude.

 

I don't deserve them. I tried to hurt them when we first met, because they got in my way when I tried to hurt a bully.
[Orlandeau tries to light a cigarette, but his hands are shaking too much.]

Why do you even like me, I'm a terrible partner.

 

Okay. And? They like you, and they want you to stick around. That's a reason.

[Marcus pulls out his own lighter and holds it out to light the cigarette for him.]

 

regardless, it was a while ago. at least a year, maybe two. hes probably over it by now, wherever he is.

 

Are you over the stuff people did to you a year ago?

 

thats not relevant because were DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

 

you've gotten a lot better now, from the way you were before...and i don't like you, i love you...you're a wonderful and loving guy...even if you don't like to show it...you say you like to offend people...but you were the fastest person in our friend group to accept my pronouns...and without speculating about my sex...you're really nice and caring too...when we're alone...there's more to people than the good and the bad...the world's not so black and white...you gotta learn to see the grey

 

Yeah, but sometimes that's a handy thing to think to yourself. Like, oh fuck I would still be so mad because Norm made fun of my boyfriends, maybe I shouldn't do that to someone else or him. Just, um, think about it?

 

clearly you dont understand anything.

 

That's definitely the explanation that makes sense. You got me.

 

EY, ALIEN BOY! light me one too!
*She holds up her own cigarette.*

 

T-Thanks...
[Orlandeau sits down and tries to regulate his breathing.]

To be honest, I used to be afraid of allowing you to become close to me, but now I'm afraid of losing you. You were the first person to actually be nice toward me, even if I was at my most unpleasant. Not even Arin warmed up to me as fast as you did. I'm still not used to it.

 

Hah. Anything above an ort souls is too big for Ghost River burials, because you keep running into houses!
(An "ort" seems to translate to 12 to the power of three, or 1728. It feels like someone said "a thousand", just in a base 12 system)
Speaking of nosiness, what is your line of work?

 

its not my fault that ive explained this MULTIPLE times and youre clearly too dense to get it.

 

Please, Marcus, do be a dear and perform this one small task for me, I will be forever in your debt, my darling. [He grumbles, but does light the cigarette, because why the fuck not. Then he lights one of his own and sits back on his heels.]

No problem.

That's a... lot of souls. I'm a, uh, barista. Coffee shop worker. In my day job. I'm a manager, technically, but that just means they can call me in at any time and does jack fuck for me. I do vigilante stuff on the side though. Street theater with a side of crime busting.

That's definitely the thing that's happening here. Yep.