smashacademy | 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 :>]

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[No one told him this story. Vinnie just went along with Bulba's suggestion to do this at the buffet. But Max has a habit of yelling a lot of things, so he couldn't say he was especially surprised.

Vinnie took another bite of his peanut butter covered bar.]

Yeah.

[Here he'll give you a run down while Max handles not dying on his chicken breasts.]

This happened when I came out too.

Same place! ::There is marvel in Max's voice::

You took me to the same place to tell me that, too!

::Max looks from Vinnie to Bulba and back several times::

You're dating?

[Vinnie looked at Bulba with a raised brow of suspicion.]

Is that why you picked this place?

[He took on a sheepish smile towards Vinnie.]

It's kind of nostalgic, I guess.

[And to Max:]

Definitely dating.

I don't. But. I know Bulba's gay. But. Vinnie I thought you... weren't? Or... were you? I don't.

::Max is having difficulty processing this information. You're going to need to give him some time to get through it all.::

Uh... [How was he supposed to respond to that? Vinnie wrestled with the peanut butter stuck to the inside of his mouth a bit before replying.]

Turns out I'm al'right either way? I mean, I've liked girls before - not that it's ever come up with you, by the way - but...

[He glanced over at Bulba, as though meeting his eyes would help give the older Saur a surge of clarity in his words - though he only really just managed to turn slightly pink instead.]

...It's new t'me too. I just know that after everything, I care about'im - all of him - too much t'be scared of that.

[Bulba had been looking in Vinnie's direction a bit, slightly unsure as to how he'd answer. In a way he still felt a little... not bad, per se, but he wasn't sure how okay it was that he had shifted Vinnie's perceptions. Despite all the people they had told, this was the only time the preference had been addressed.

What he got just made him go red. Oh, Vinnie...

Under the table, the older saur got a gentle knee squeeze as Max continued to churn his processors.]

I'm sorry, you just gotta give me a minute to think through this. I been inside of Bulba's body before. But that was back when he was a Bulbasaur and not a Venusaur so he was like... a 10 year old back then, I guess... so now all I can imagine is me as him back then makin' out with the now-you and...

::Max trailed off, thinking about himself as Bulbasaur Bulba making out with regular-type Vinnie. It wasn't doing much for him.::

No. No stop. Stop that right now.

Wh...?!

[WHY WERE YOU EVEN IMAGINING THAT. PLEASE STOP TRYING TO IMAGINE ANYTHING. Vinnie's face scrunched into an expression that was equal parts disbelief and discomfort. His chewing slowed, as though the taste of protein bar in his mouth had suddenly turned to ashes and grit.]

...Why are you even tryin' to imagine that?!

[Bulba was burying his face in his hands.]

You didn't even know me when I was 10.

I ain't tryin' to think about it! It's just in my head! I don't wanna think about you makin' out with the me that's Bulba!

::Max people are starting to sort of look at your table out of the corners of their eyes::

And I don't know how old you were when I was you; last time I was as small as I was when I was you I was like eight or maybe nine.

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