hallucinogem: (i'm after rebellion)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-07-31 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well.
Aside from reaching out to your sister to get up to speed on what happened at Haven and tell her that I didn't want what happened to you,
And talking about fairy tales with your boyfriend and maybe making plans to hang out and share stories once we don't have the bear breathing down our necks,
And some other stuff that isn't really that important because it deals with someone you definitely don't want to think about right now,
It's been a pretty normal month.

Anyway. It's actually about Varian. Or V, if I'm gonna give him enough credit to try to sound cool.
How long were you two friends before you started dating?
hallucinogem: (i'm after rebellion)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-01 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
That's a lot of things all at once that you want me to answer, but... I guess I'm just happy that Yang doesn't know anything either.
She says that by the time she got down there, Cinder was already gone. And that matches up with everything else I've heard.
So there's no point in still holding a grudge. Not when I already know it won't get me anywhere.

And I kind of figured you would show up on your own, so I'm not, you know, against it or anything.
He wants to hear more about Remnant. We probably have a lot of stuff to talk about together with him.

Two months, huh... so how did you figure out you wanted to date him?
hallucinogem: (is it any wonder that the joke's an iron)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-01 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It made me not want to beat up your sister anymore, and that's a kind of peace, I guess.
I mean, we're still going to do it, but it'll be a sparring thing, you know? Friendly butt-kicking.

...Red, I gotta say. I don't know what I expected but it was definitely not that.
Except it just makes absolute, perfect sense to me. It's exactly the kind of total chaos that you live every day of your life in the center of.
Never thinking too much about what'll happen if you just... take a leap of faith.

So you two are happy like that? You're still friends, too? It didn't get weird?
hallucinogem: (i'll settle for lies)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. That's just... how you are. It always comes back to that.
And you did the same thing for Varian, right? You got him thinking about doing a little better every day until he can be more like you?
And it wasn't hard for you two? I mean, obviously you two struggle sometimes, you have problems, people have problems with each other, but... he didn't hate you for trying to take that big of a chance?
With him, I mean. Just making a choice and going for it?
hallucinogem: (i'm after rebellion)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-01 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Keep that up and you'll be encouraging more people than you realize.

So you do get nervous about things. And you went through with it anyway.
Did it just feel like the right thing to do after a while?
Like you spent a while thinking about it and you realized it was what both of you wanted and you decided to just... go for it.
Yeah, that's what an agreement is, I guess. Ugh, never mind.
You were friends for two months, you decided to start dating, you were both afraid of it, and you did it anyway. And it's working out for you.
That's about it, huh? It's that easy?
hallucinogem: (is it any wonder that my mind's on fire)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-02 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, Ruby, maybe it's been on my mind lately.
Maybe I don't have anything else to do right now but sit at home alone and think about everything.
Think about why you get to have all these things that you want that make you happy and why I'm here just


[and she's in the process of finishing that thought on a new line when she reconsiders it. there's a pause.]

I'm just thinking about it.
That's all.
hallucinogem: (is it any wonder that my mind's on fire)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I am NOT interested in either of those, Ruby.
Not in killing you and definitely not in Varian.
You're just the only person I know who actually has a relationship that she's actually happy in.
Gods, I can't believe I'm this close to spelling it out for you.
Don't... worry about it. Ugh.
If you can't think hard enough to read between the lines here then I'm just gonna stop.
hallucinogem: (the secrets of the circuitry mind)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-03 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.
My gods.
Are you out of your MIND?
I do NOT have a crush on your SISTER, Red!
What are you even thinking? You think this whole thing was just some way to fish for information so I could ask out YANG "I BRAKE FOR FAUNUS" XIAO LONG?
You've lost it. You never had it.
hallucinogem: (it's a flaming wonder telepath)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-03 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Listen.
Ruby.
I am not even the tiniest bit interested in getting between whatever cat and mouse game your sister and the Belladonna girl are playing.
I don't want to date her. I don't even want to THINK about kissing her. Me and Yang are going to spar, and that's all. That's it!
That's everything there is to say about it.
hallucinogem: (and the joke's on you)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-04 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, are you saying you'd make me dig my own grave if I did want to date your sister?
Someone's protective. What, you think I wouldn't be good for her? You think I couldn't be a great girlfriend for someone?
You know, if she were an option.
I do a lot of messed up things, but I'm not about to get between her and Blake even when Blake's not here.
hallucinogem: (poison's in my pride)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-04 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, let's get one thing straight before I ask you what exactly the shovel talk is about.
You don't really know me. You know more about me than a lot of people do, don't get me wrong.
But there's only one person who really knows me and it's the one I've been talking about this whole time.
So put on your detective hat and figure it out if you need to.
But before you do, tell me about this shovel talk.
hallucinogem: (their trinity acts a mineral fire)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-04 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That was what the job needed. And now I'm not on a job and you're just getting... me.
Emerald Sustrai. Raw and uncut, I guess. If that even means anything.
And that Emerald Sustrai doesn't have time to mess with you when she could be trying to figure out how to get back at bigger fish. With you.

Anyway. I think the point of it is to threaten the other person and say that you're going to put them in the ground if they hurt whoever.
That's kind of what shovels mean.
It shows tough love.
hallucinogem: (and the joke's on you)

[personal profile] hallucinogem 2020-08-05 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah.
Well.
You'll have to find a better team name if you're considering adding me to it.
I'll take E or M. Not picky.

They do pick up dirt, Ruby. Out of holes. That you put bodies into.
The shovel talk is, like, most of the time a threat. Probably.

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