[the last time Dave opened with that line, it turned into a joke about a roomba. and maybe there's a reason for that? maybe he's trying to loop a thread of normalcy back into a relic reclaiming quest that's been low-key, then very high-key, shitty for the past several months.]
like does the word normal even have any tiny fuckin minuscule shred of a definition anymore [oh ... no, wait, he's actually getting philosophical. chalk it up to him not really having any other ideas on how to process.]
also isnt having a ghost square during permanent halloween horror nights kinda redundant
Getting all Plato on me and shit. I mean, do we get to wear togas for this at least?
[Oh, it's one of those things where he's saying what he means through the use of extended metaphor. Ryuji retracts the toga statement.
Although, one day.
Togas.]
Dude, reality check. Have either of us even known what normal actually looks like in literal years at this point? I came from a place where you could rip your soul out of your body to use it as a pocket monster and you were stuck in a video game.
Normal's kinda relative to some made up point in your head that goes right up to the end zone of "what the hell is this bullshit" and "I guess this is alright."
Anyway, as a rebellious teenager and your bf I'm s'posed to tell you normal sucks. Shit, we're kicking it straight into adulthood at this rate. Lookin' forward to retirement
I dunno
Maybe ghost square is just putting all the ugly this place has right out in the open. Like some sick asshole who made this place is sayin'
"Look, I'm messed up. You didn't know? It's right here, can't you see it?"
[hm. those thoughts about togas go unacknowledged — which, considering their previous wardrobe history, is probably an agreement. picture: Dave wrapped up in card suits sheets and waxing Socrates.]
[so, it's literally no different than any other day.]
is it weird that your origin story sounds way more like a video game than mine does [no it doesn't, Dave.]
no but like and maybe im barreling too far ahead here doing this thing where i yell at the direction i want the timeline to go in the hopes itll actually fucking listen for once putting it in writing or maybe its more thinking about nice future shit because the presents actually a sack of fetid whataburger leftovers you forgot in the microwave for a year
but when all this is done when were done cramming a few swords down a final boss gullet or whatever break out some incredibly cheesy lines for the occasion grab hands and go on to the direction i keep mumbling about whats that gonna be like or i guess its really more what does not having to worry about fighting gonna be like the more i think about it the more i realize i dont have any clue on that at all i mean im pretty goddamn educated about ramen now at least step ones squared away
[that was ... a very roundabout and kind of depressing way of asking, "hey, Ryuji, I kind of fucking hate the Ghost Square, can you tell me about Tokyo some more?"]
Man that's real imaginative, you always have a way with words that leaves me kinda smiling AND scratching my head
Well scratching my head more often but like I think that comes with your level of word wizard powers
I mean, said it before but we're goin' home, yeah? I mean home is pretty much wherever you are at this point and I'm pretty sure that if I threw a basketball at a ten ton trailer with a bullseye on it it'd land smack dab in the middle of hitting the same mark as how you feel outta the whole deal.
So we go back, and we get to become real Reclaimers. Not relics or any bullshit like that, but. You know.
Reclaiming the years of our lives we never got to have?
Or something like that
Maybe just MAYBE I'll agree to the coupley shit like goin' for brunch or hitting up an outdoors market
But one of the dumber kinda traditions that's totally true and totally real and if anyone tells you otherwise they're goddamn stupid 'cause it's REAL man, is goin' up to Tokyo tower and putting a lock on the railing. We should do that. Has a great view up there too, y'know? Can see all of Tokyo from that viewpoint and it's real nice when the weather gets a little bit cooler.
[Ryuji always has been really good at catching Dave right where he is while he's in the middle of dancing around his actual meaning with things like "final boss gullet." you'd think he'd stop doing that, after all this time? the dancing thing. he tends to have a bit of an inexplicable rhythm when it comes to expressing his feelings.]
[he is, at least, able to tone himself down for when they're talking deadly serious.]
[and, knowing that Ryuji went and caught him once again is enough to get a smirk out of Dave.]
yeah im pretty great you too bro im into everything youve laid out here especially the shit youre dubiously agreeable to
whats with the lock thing though the totally real and not at all a lie lock thing and also just out of completely random and idle curiosity what is tokyos breadstick situation
Actually nah whatever I gave up caring about that like 50 whole kisses ago
Let em know I'm down for the big brekkie with the boo that also serves a dual lunch purpose
Maybe we could even invite the whole scooby gang to one, one day? I dunno about you but you've never seen someone eat so much cake in one sittin' until you've seen Ann eat cake in one sitting. It's like terrifying in a really cool way.
The lock stuff? It's just a symbol of love, I dunno. As long as your lock is up there and it doesn't unlatch or isn't opened, it's supposed to be all like... what you have is unbreakable. Which is pretty much the most goddamn true thing of all time
Also it means that I can literally say that I've got your ass on lock down and it'd be true in a really awful kinda way that'll probably make my cheek muscles all swole from the flexing they're constantly doing
Breadsticks... uh, we've got a few of those Italian style joints around Tokyo. Pizza Wigwam is pretty big.
really thats stark opposite to how john reacts to cake i may have already given him post wherever the fuck he is shit for that already well its more like he throws entire fucking tantrums about cakes and betty crocker but then she turned out to be a crazy fish dictator so maybe he was on to something
what if thats just universal balance or something like for every person who throws tantrums about cakes theres someone else whos basically a black hole for desserts
but yeah id be down sign me up for pretty much any idea youve got locks included any place with bread thats kinda vaguely stick shaped is cool too the more unlimited the better
Like not to diss your friend or anything but it's just cake
That apparently a dictator owns?
Man, you're losin' me
I mean that's pretty normal
But still, you're gonna have to sit my ass down and explain. Or re-explain. A few times probably
Dude, I remember this dumb dorama my mom used to like where they talked about people who hate olives should always date people who love them because it'll create a perfect harmony in all their affairs or some weird stuff like that. The olive was also kinda enchanted and made anyone who ate it have weird visions though. Soap operas are the best worst.
[that ... doesn't seem ominous. like the "maybe I'll ask Bender for some olives" kind of ominous.]
i mean if your ultimate lifes calling somehow involves a breadstick assembly line im there to back you up and bring toothpaste it sounds like
[if the little preprogrammed voice in his head that's rallied against ideas like being "uncool" and "lame" and "sappy" all his life is going off right now, it's like he doesn't even hear it. which sounds like an impressive feat for Dave, when pointed out in an rp bracket, but it is Ryuji he's talking to. he moves right along.]
but ok so back home there was this brand of cake mixes and brownies and other shit you bake but then it turned out the lady who runs the whole thing was also like the evil queen of all the trolls and she wanted to be the evil queen of all the humans too i guess?? that was a largely post scratch deal i never really got the whole story on what she did with earth aside from a cliff notes version but she was very good at barging in and breaking shit and she had so many fucking fish puns
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philosophical question
[the last time Dave opened with that line, it turned into a joke about a roomba. and maybe there's a reason for that? maybe he's trying to loop a thread of normalcy back into a relic reclaiming quest that's been low-key, then very high-key, shitty for the past several months.]
like
does the word normal even have any tiny fuckin minuscule shred of a definition anymore [oh ... no, wait, he's actually getting philosophical. chalk it up to him not really having any other ideas on how to process.]
also
isnt having a ghost square during permanent halloween horror nights kinda redundant
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Lay it deep on me man
Getting all Plato on me and shit. I mean, do we get to wear togas for this at least?
[Oh, it's one of those things where he's saying what he means through the use of extended metaphor. Ryuji retracts the toga statement.
Although, one day.
Togas.]
Dude, reality check. Have either of us even known what normal actually looks like in literal years at this point? I came from a place where you could rip your soul out of your body to use it as a pocket monster and you were stuck in a video game.
Normal's kinda relative to some made up point in your head that goes right up to the end zone of "what the hell is this bullshit" and "I guess this is alright."
Anyway, as a rebellious teenager and your bf I'm s'posed to tell you normal sucks. Shit, we're kicking it straight into adulthood at this rate. Lookin' forward to retirement
I dunno
Maybe ghost square is just putting all the ugly this place has right out in the open. Like some sick asshole who made this place is sayin'
"Look, I'm messed up. You didn't know? It's right here, can't you see it?"
Kinda sad when you think about it
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[so, it's literally no different than any other day.]
is it weird that your origin story sounds way more like a video game than mine does [no it doesn't, Dave.]
no but like
and maybe im barreling too far ahead here
doing this thing where i yell at the direction i want the timeline to go in the hopes itll actually fucking listen for once
putting it in writing
or maybe its more thinking about nice future shit because the presents actually a sack of fetid whataburger leftovers you forgot in the microwave for a year
but when all this is done
when were done cramming a few swords down a final boss gullet or whatever
break out some incredibly cheesy lines for the occasion
grab hands and go on to the direction i keep mumbling about
whats that gonna be like
or i guess its really more
what does not having to worry about fighting gonna be like
the more i think about it the more i realize i dont have any clue on that at all
i mean
im pretty goddamn educated about ramen now at least
step ones squared away
[that was ... a very roundabout and kind of depressing way of asking, "hey, Ryuji, I kind of fucking hate the Ghost Square, can you tell me about Tokyo some more?"]
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Man that's real imaginative, you always have a way with words that leaves me kinda smiling AND scratching my head
Well scratching my head more often but like I think that comes with your level of word wizard powers
I mean, said it before but we're goin' home, yeah? I mean home is pretty much wherever you are at this point and I'm pretty sure that if I threw a basketball at a ten ton trailer with a bullseye on it it'd land smack dab in the middle of hitting the same mark as how you feel outta the whole deal.
So we go back, and we get to become real Reclaimers. Not relics or any bullshit like that, but. You know.
Reclaiming the years of our lives we never got to have?
Or something like that
Maybe just MAYBE I'll agree to the coupley shit like goin' for brunch or hitting up an outdoors market
But one of the dumber kinda traditions that's totally true and totally real and if anyone tells you otherwise they're goddamn stupid 'cause it's REAL man, is goin' up to Tokyo tower and putting a lock on the railing. We should do that. Has a great view up there too, y'know? Can see all of Tokyo from that viewpoint and it's real nice when the weather gets a little bit cooler.
Not too cool, just cool enough.
Like you
Heh
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[he is, at least, able to tone himself down for when they're talking deadly serious.]
[and, knowing that Ryuji went and caught him once again is enough to get a smirk out of Dave.]
yeah im pretty great
you too bro
im into everything youve laid out here
especially the shit youre dubiously agreeable to
whats with the lock thing though
the totally real and not at all a lie lock thing
and also
just out of completely random and idle curiosity
what is tokyos breadstick situation
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Actually nah whatever I gave up caring about that like 50 whole kisses ago
Let em know I'm down for the big brekkie with the boo that also serves a dual lunch purpose
Maybe we could even invite the whole scooby gang to one, one day? I dunno about you but you've never seen someone eat so much cake in one sittin' until you've seen Ann eat cake in one sitting. It's like terrifying in a really cool way.
The lock stuff? It's just a symbol of love, I dunno. As long as your lock is up there and it doesn't unlatch or isn't opened, it's supposed to be all like... what you have is unbreakable. Which is pretty much the most goddamn true thing of all time
Also it means that I can literally say that I've got your ass on lock down and it'd be true in a really awful kinda way that'll probably make my cheek muscles all swole from the flexing they're constantly doing
Breadsticks... uh, we've got a few of those Italian style joints around Tokyo. Pizza Wigwam is pretty big.
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thats stark opposite to how john reacts to cake
i may have already given him post wherever the fuck he is shit for that already
well
its more like he throws entire fucking tantrums about cakes
and betty crocker
but then she turned out to be a crazy fish dictator so maybe he was on to something
what if thats just universal balance or something
like for every person who throws tantrums about cakes theres someone else whos basically a black hole for desserts
but yeah id be down
sign me up for pretty much any idea youve got
locks included
any place with bread thats kinda vaguely stick shaped is cool too
the more unlimited the better
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Like not to diss your friend or anything but it's just cake
That apparently a dictator owns?
Man, you're losin' me
I mean that's pretty normal
But still, you're gonna have to sit my ass down and explain. Or re-explain. A few times probably
Dude, I remember this dumb dorama my mom used to like where they talked about people who hate olives should always date people who love them because it'll create a perfect harmony in all their affairs or some weird stuff like that. The olive was also kinda enchanted and made anyone who ate it have weird visions though. Soap operas are the best worst.
Wonder I could learn to make bread
If I could make bread I'd make you breadsticks
They'd be so garlicky
Still kiss ya, too
But man your breath would stink
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huh
[that ... doesn't seem ominous. like the "maybe I'll ask Bender for some olives" kind of ominous.]
i mean
if your ultimate lifes calling somehow involves a breadstick assembly line
im there to back you up
and bring toothpaste it sounds like
[if the little preprogrammed voice in his head that's rallied against ideas like being "uncool" and "lame" and "sappy" all his life is going off right now, it's like he doesn't even hear it. which sounds like an impressive feat for Dave, when pointed out in an rp bracket, but it is Ryuji he's talking to. he moves right along.]
but ok so
back home there was this brand of cake mixes and brownies
and other shit you bake
but then it turned out the lady who runs the whole thing was also like
the evil queen of all the trolls
and she wanted to be the evil queen of all the humans too i guess??
that was a largely post scratch deal
i never really got the whole story on what she did with earth
aside from a cliff notes version
but she was very good at barging in and breaking shit
and she had so many fucking fish puns