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[nullorvoid]

Two questions.

[Well, it looks like someone's back on the network now that all the general insanity is...mostly over; audio-only again, because apparently that's just how he's going to do things.]

One: is there some way to get levels on your Pokémon without making them fight? I've got one who's decided he's a lover, not a fighter, which is cute and all but he needs the levels and I'm not going to see if the stupid trees will let me wish levels onto him.

[He pauses for a moment once that's out there, though.]

The other thing is that I misplaced a couple people. Somehow. They were here this weekend; I can't find them as of yesterday.

One's fine on her own. The other's someone who shouldn't be wandering around by herself.

[God, no one explained fourth wall to him.]

Comments

[aufsassig]

...What's the difference? They're basically the same thing.

[nullorvoid]

One deals mostly with his situation.

The other deals with yours.

[aufsassig]

[And then he's just kind of quiet, and the only thing that breaks the silence in the beginning is a little fwump that might just be the sound of someone's face landing in a couch cushion, and then after a while the answer finally comes.]

I think it's about him. I don't...think it's bugging me like "why am I the only one caring here", so much as it is, like...

...I think it's wigging me out, the thought of how close the guy's coming to just...fading away into obscurity. Like it doesn't seem right somehow for a person to just...have no one, like that. It's too close to never existing at all, because as far as everyone around is concerned, you never did.

[nullorvoid]

[And there's silence on his end, too, and it goes on for a while; it's a bit more hesitant than usual, when he finally does say something.]

Yeah, but he doesn't have "no one," from what you're telling me - if he didn't have anyone, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

You know most people are okay with having one person, right?

[aufsassig]

[And all of a sudden this is really awkward on his end, because he's half-tempted to speak his actual thoughts and say something like "no one decent", except that then it gets all jumbled up in shit like "okay but it's not like Alfred was decent either" and "the fuck kind of teen girl soap opera shit is this that I'm lying facedown in a couch going BUT HE COULD DO BETTERRRRR" and you know...maybe, just maybe, there's something weird going on here and a fair amount of it has something to do with the fact that his One Person is far the hell away and there's not a whole lot he can do to get back to where he really wants to be.

...So, projecting like an IMAX on some level, probably.]

Do you have one person? Or are you "not most people"?

[nullorvoid]

Ask me that when you're less messed up.

I've been that one person for a lot of people, though - not the one who'll care about them, but the one who's not okay with them just fading like they'd never existed, and the one who makes sure there's proof that they did.

[aufsassig]

...You know, there's something to that.

Here I am kind of messed up, and I could make it go away if I'd just get rid of the thing that's messing me up, but if I do it's gone forever and maybe that doesn't sit too good with me, either.

Yes, it's about me now. A little bit. Deal with my crabbiness, barkeep.

[...]

Sorry. About dumping all this shit on your head, I mean, you just wanted to ask about animal steroids, you didn't ask for this.

[nullorvoid]

Actually, yeah, I did ask for this. Told you to talk about it, didn't I? And hell, if it's going to be about you right now you're not offending my delicate sensibilities any. It's not nice to say it but you're the one dealing with it, he's not.

I'm used to it, anyway. Hazard of the occupation.

[aufsassig]

All the more reason to be the fucking exception. Maybe I'll be so novel you'll give me a drink on the house for it.

[nullorvoid]

No one's managed that yet.

[aufsassig]

Well, it's good to have goals in life.