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[verymuchalive]

[Aradia's in front of one of the library terminals, clutching her brand new teddy bear which is her reward for losing a game she was never signed up to play in the first place. This somehow translates as a win for her, which is why she's carrying it around with her rather than tearing it apart or burying it at the bottom of a trunk never to be seen again.]

So, these little guys are kind of cute when they're not trying to kill us. I feel like I should give him a name but I can't decide...I'm sure it'll come to me.

Is everyone okay, though? I didn't last long into the evening so I'm not really sure what happened for a lot of it but it sounds like things got pretty messy. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

Comments

[verymuchalive]

im sorry sollux
id say i should have stayed with you but im not sure that would have worked out any better
but we cant blame the bears
they were the tools not the instigators

[thekidsare0kay]

iit'2 not YOUR fault, you couldn't have done anythiing.
but, ii can blame whoever ii want.

[verymuchalive]

if blaming them makes you feel better then i cant stop you
but it wont stop me disagreeing with you

[thekidsare0kay]

ii don't know iif iit make2 me feel better.
iit'2 ju2t the way iit ii2.
2eeiing iit ii2 a remiinder of a horriible death.
you don't feel that way?

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[verymuchalive]

not really
no more than seeing you reminds me of a horrible death
which is to say it doesnt
that wasnt your fault and i dont think this was the bears fault either

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[thekidsare0kay]

oh my god.




really?

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[verymuchalive]

im sorry solluz
i dont like to bring that up any more than you like to think about it
but thats just how i feel
something used those bears to hurt us just like vriska used you
then again maybe thats just because i got off lightly compared to some of the things im hearing about

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[thekidsare0kay]

you really don't blame me?
at all?

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[verymuchalive]

no i dont

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[thekidsare0kay]

ii do.
ii get what you're 2ayiing about vrii2ka u2iing me liike a tool.
but ii don't know iif that really make2 me feel better, beiing u2ed.
ii don't thiink that really let2 me off the hook, becau2e ii 2hould have been 2tronger.
ii 2hould have 2topped her
2omehow.

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[verymuchalive]

sollux stop
there are so may should haves surrounding that whole thing
i should have listened to terezi
i didnt
in fact i could go further and say that we should never have gotten involved with flarping with vriska in the first place
but it doesnt change anything
what happened happened
and i like you too much to want to hold it against you
especially when you were as much a victim of her as i was

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[thekidsare0kay]

fuck, no wonder ii love you.
you're 2o riidiiculou2ly 2weet.

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[verymuchalive]

i try!
<3

want to play games or something til we forget what happened?

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[thekidsare0kay]

<3
that 2ound2 really good, yeah.

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[verymuchalive]

meet you in the media room!