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smashacademy2013-12-15 11:37 pm
rivalsolarbeam) wrote in smashacademy2013-12-15 11:37 pm
Entry tags:
- !action post,
- bulba/venusaur (pokemon),
- jolt/jolteon (pokemon),
- kerosene/charizard (pokemon),
- kumatora (mother),
- marie/wartortle (pokemon),
- max (advance wars),
- nyx/gengar (pokemon),
- sasha/charizard (pokemon),
- skull kid (zelda),
- sonny moe/snorlax (pokemon),
- vinnie/venusaur (pokemon),
- voile/gardevoir (pokemon),
- zelda (zelda; ocarina of time)
So Many Text Messages: "Come hang out with us" in a nutshell.
[Long before the rest of these posts were ever conceived: AN TEXT MESSAGE TO DARGON, FROM ONE YELLOW FLOWER BUTT.]
Hey! … Listen, I don't want to tip toe around this or anything. There's a guy I like a lot, and fairly recently we decided we wanted to try giving going out a shot. If you'd be up for it, I'd really ilke you to meet him? (You already know him though.) Maybe we could meet up some time…?
[And then eventually, after dargon business went down, a series of other private network text posts were made from both of Bulba's and Vinnie's accounts. Wow. Gosh.]
[Dear Nyx and Jolt, from Bulba:]
So…! I recently kind of started seeing someone, though uh… maybe you'd already heard. Anyway I'd really like to introduce him to you, even though you actually already know him. Do you think we could hang out some time?
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[Dear Red Team, from Vinnie:]
So uh. It felt like I should give you guys the heads up, cuz I just started seeing someone. If you wanted your karmic payback for whatever, then y'know... I deserve it.
I'll just fuckin' spare you from wondering. It's Bulba.
Okay, that's all.
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[Dear Voile. Dear Max. Courtesy of Saurs.]
Hey do you mind if we hung out sometime? We wanna tell you something.
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[Note written to Skull Kid:]
Hey Skid, if another flower smellin' guy with blond hair's around more often, uh, do you mind?
We're dating, so try not to prank him too bad. It'd mean a lot t'me.
He made some cookies for you. They're double chocolate chip, you can have the whole plate.
[It is a whole plate of cookies. There is a little hand written note with the cookies that reads Hi, these are from Bulba (that's me). I hope we can get along. What kind of cookies are your favourite? ❀]
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[DEAR ROOMIE LADIES from Bulba:]
Hi...! Uh! I just wanted to let you guys know that there might be another guy hanging out here sometimes now. Do either of you know Vinnie? He's got green hair and piercings, and he's a Venusaur like me.
We're going out now so... yeah, you'll probably see him around? He's really nice and we won't be a bother to anybody, promise! I just wanted to give you a heads up.
ps.
Pancakes on Wednesday??
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[HELLO You can jump straight into action threads if you want to handwave setting things up. We can assume they planned to meet [SOMEWHERE!] at [SOMETIME!]. If you would also like to just text reply or handwave things, that is also super cool :>]
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
Let me tell you something.
I loved my dad. But as much as I loved him, he made decisions I didn't like and didn't agree with. We argued, and I left hating him.
I didn't understand until I was older. But I'll never see him again.
There is nothing I can do t'change the way you think right now. I can't push you into forgiving me. So one of three things is probably going to happen.
You'll eventually understand me. You'll eventually understand me, but it'll be too late an' I'll be gone from your life. Or you will never understand me.
So I'll wait. Because I still love you anyway.
PRIVATE [probably quite a bit later]
I started a fight because I was mad. I lost control and I... yeah, did something that could have killed him. [Then he tried writing a bunch of excuses, but backspacebackspacebackspaced everything.] whatever i hate myself
PRIVATE [after a bit of a pause]
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
Were they about me
PRIVATE
you left, red was telling me i was worthless because he was cursed or whatever but it felt real, bulba makes you happy and i just cause problems so i got mad and caused more problems like i always do
he said he understood how i felt and i just wanted to smash his stupid head in
PRIVATE [after another pause]
in person
PRIVATE
i miss youfhgkhlk
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
A FEW MINUTES LATER?
SOUNDS GOOD.
The knock was ignored. For several moments.
...
.......]
You can just, like, come in.
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Well... okay. Vinnie carefully opened the door and stepped through, just enough to close it behind him. There was a stretch of silence as he contemplated whether he should speak, or just wait for Marie to say his piece.
He almost said nothing. But after a moment, he just couldn't help himself.]
...Hey, M.
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He bristled when Vinnie addressed him. With such familiarity, too.
Marie didn't look at Vinnie, keeping his eyes on his hands as he picked at his fingernails. He took his time before responding. Mulling over his response like it was going to be something grand.]
I don't know what you want me to talk about...
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Anything. Chew me out if y'wanna. Tell me I'm selfish an' a traitor. Call me an asshole.
...Whatever you want.
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A thousand things popped into his head. Vinnie's suggestion didn't go ignored, and Marie considered all of the awful things he could call him. Selfish was at the top of his list. For a second, Marie opened his mouth to say it, but he quickly shut it again. What was the point?
He thought about screaming about Bulba. How much he hated him. But, again, what was the point?
His eyes had long been bleary before Vinnie even came to the door. But his expression tensed up when he opened his mouth again, letting words pour out without thinking (as he often did).]
... I think about you every day. And every time I think about you I want to punch myself in the face. Thinking about you hurts so bad, and I don't know what to do about it. I want to hit you. I wanted to hit you really bad when you told me you were leaving.
[Pause. He grit his teeth, and continued.]
Sometimes I just want to forget you ever existed. That you were ever a part of my life. I try to. Really hard. [He relaxed his jaw, but his expression remained tense.] But that just makes me think of you more. I don't know...
[He covered his face with both his hands.]
I hate him. I hate you. [Pause.] I hate how much I miss you. ... I suck.
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When Red came back with amnesia, the pain of being forgotten hit Vinnie like a sledgehammer. But now, hearing that his little brother wanted to erase him and everything he'd done from his life... maybe it hurt less because he deserved it. He was just a ghost to Marie at this point. Maybe they'd both be happier in the long run if he just stepped backwards, into that haze.]
...If you want t'forget me, don't get stuck tryin' to erase the past. That'll never change.
Just move forward with your life. Hate me as much as you need to. Hate me until you don't have any hate left, an' you just don't care.
And... eventually I'll be gone.
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He hated Vinnie for leaving. But no matter how much he wished he could forget him, that simply wasn't possible unless he'd never been a part of his life in the first place. Almost all of his memories involved the Venusaur. The scars on his face made him think of Vinnie. He had his flowers tattooed on his back. He was covered in visual reminders of the person he used to call his brother.
No matter how much hate he poured into him, he wasn't going anywhere. Marie shook his head, still covering his face with his hands.]
I can't.
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[Because he didn't want to tell Marie to forgive him. That would be asking too much of of the Wartortle. If it ever happened, it would be on its own time, on its own terms.
Vinnie stared him straight in the face, unwavering and dead serious.]
...Do you still want to hit me?
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A pause before he replied... Then, very sure of his answer,]
Yes.
[Not that it would fix anything. But Marie certainly didn't care all that much.]