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[franciscoramon]

informal poll for you guys. if you had to choose, is this place more like:

a) fantasia, from the neverending story
b) oz, from the wizard of oz
c) wherever the hell it was with the muppets and stuff, from labyrinth
d) wonderland, from alice in wonderland

[ The question might seem like a frivolous one, but the answers should actually be pretty informative, and it's way more fun than just asking people to describe what this place is really like. ]

Comments

[bone_idle]

[ A skeleton's unsettling to most people to start with -- what little effort Sans actually puts into socializing also means he takes pains to minimize his more, uh, 'monstrous' features. Humans tend to attack when they're threatened, or so the old bias goes, and Sans prefers to appear as unthreatening as possible.

Heck, he doesn't even need to breathe, and pretends to for the subtle reassurance it offers his other, respiratory-system-having folk. Sans is typically more careful about 'tics' like that one, but hey, can't be helped. Cisco really surprised him with that one.

Too crazy for fiction. ]

Point.

[ Ok, he can't argue that. ]

Man, heh heh. How d'ya keep that from messin' you up? Sounds rough.

[franciscoramon]

[ Wow, Sans, way to absolutely go for the jugular there. The simple and honest answer, of course, is to say I don't. But right at that very moment, Cisco realizes he's reached his absolute maximum quota for emotional honesty for the day. Maybe the week. Time to shut this shit down. In a friendly way, of course. So he shrugs and says: ]

You do what you gotta do.

[ Which is about as vague and abstract a non-answer as he could come up with, on the spot. And the fact that it's not really an answer is only underscored by the fact that he follows it with: ]

Look, um, I only just got here so I better gooooo, actually. I gotta get my lab set up. And, y'know, find where my lab is in the first place! But seriously, you ever wanna watch some sci-fi, I'm your guy. Nice talking to ya!

[ Yeah, that's way too cheerful way too suddenly for it not to be obvious that Cisco's covering up, but it'll have to do, because this conversation got too real. ]