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[bastardofipswich]

[ BEHOLD... a teen witch sitting on his bed. He seems way too energetic, considering he's indoors and doing nothing. (lbr he's nursing a magic-high right now, and it's got him feeling both restless and aimless at the same time.) ]

Hey, show of hands, who here's got too much free time right now? [ HE'LL START. Look at that hand go up. ] Come on, at least one of you watching raised your hand, too. So let's do something about it. Get drunk in public, find a corner to loiter on, a shop to vandalize, you know, normal kids' stuff.

[ He grins. ]

Kidding! [ With a shrug and a careless wave of his hand. ] I'd get up to way worse than that if I wanted to be a public menace. [ Still kidding? EH. ]

Anyway, I can't be the only one here with nothing better to do, so who wants to play a game of Would You Rather? Look, I can even start:

[ He claps his hands together and makes a show of thinking. ]

Would you rather... Have superpowers, but die young. Or be perfectly average, and live a long, painfully uneventful life?

Comments

[bastardofipswich]

ugh that's so much work

what do you do for fun? let's trade hobbies

[talentedscavenger]

For fun?

[...well that's something she hasn't heard before. For fun?]

Don't really know.

[bastardofipswich]

[ Rey.

Rey.

That's really sad. Chase would feel for you if he weren't a completely self-absorbed maniac. ]

huh. so maaaaaybe you shouldn't knock playing games ;)

you seriously can't think of anything you have fun with?

[talentedscavenger]

[It's not something she's really had to think about! She's been busy trying to survive, trying to get her shit together...

And shouldn't building things out of old parts count as fun?

...And what is with that little mo...emotocon? Emoji? Winking at her? Why?]

There are other things you could be doing instead.

What do you define as 'fun'?

[bastardofipswich]

[ Oh just wait until he levels up to proper emojis. ]

so? that's not the point!

fun is like... something you enjoy doing regardless of how much of a purpose it serves

[talentedscavenger]

[....Please no. Just no emojis.]

i enjoy flying, but it does serve a purpose.

[Like you know, out running the First Order.]

[bastardofipswich]

but do you also do it just for the sake of doing it? at least SOMETIMES?

[talentedscavenger]

[There's some pause there as she thinks about it...

Well, the other 'fun' thing she did was having Ivar braid her hair, but that was more for the purposes of learning.]

I ran flight simulations when there was nothing else to do.

[Because...sandstorms.]

[bastardofipswich]

[ ...girl. ]

ok well clearly i'm going to have to be a bad influence on you

[talentedscavenger]

[...what?]

...Yeah, good luck with that.

[bastardofipswich]

i'm SERIOUS. we'll start small and semi-educational so you don't have to feel too guilty about having fun

like

scrabble

[talentedscavenger]

[She can't take him seriously through text.]

I've been doing fine without doing much 'fun'.

....What's scrabble?

[bastardofipswich]

you only say that bc you don't know what fun is

so it's this game where you have a board with a grid on it. and each player has a bunch of tiles with letters on it. and each letter is worth a certain amount of points

and then you make words on the board with the tiles but you've gotta be strategic and crap to get the most points

look it makes more sense if you just play it

[talentedscavenger]

[....So you create words out of random pieces...okay.]

It sounds....interesting.

Perhaps you should ask someone else to play. I'm busy at the moment.

[bastardofipswich]

oh i can ask more people. IT'S A FOUR PLAYER GAME, SUCKER

and we've already established i've got too much free time [ SO HE CAN WAIT ALL DAY. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[....She's not going to go to this. Not unless he managed to find her, but he couldn't do that, right? nevermind that her username has her NAME in it]

Go ahead and ask other people, but I'll pass on this.

[You will be waiting forever! ]

Imagine this is formatted correctly I’m on my phone

[volitaunt]

Come on Rey. Let’s try it.

[HE WILL DO IT WITH YOU you need fun in your life okok ]

LMAO

[talentedscavenger]

[lkdjfklsdjfdslkf!! POE! WHY!? THIS GUY IS WEIRD! AND WHY DID YOU TELL HIM HER NAME!?]

Can we discuss this later?

[volitaunt]

[ BECAUSE.... he has no sense of caution. ]

Sure, I guess. Why?

[talentedscavenger]

[ .....apparently her doesn’t. ]

Because I would prefer to talk about this in person.

[volitaunt]

Uh oh. Am I in trouble?

[ Poe you idiot. ]

[bastardofipswich]

why? :,(

[talentedscavenger]

Because.

[Yes, best argument ever.]

[bastardofipswich]

wow were you on the debate team in school?

[talentedscavenger]

No, but I can sense your sarcasm.

On my planet there were no schools.

[So, you wanna try that again? Huff, Huff.]