six (video) ♊ it's the pokémon christmas bash!

[viiru2alert]

[Sollux has been wandering around all by his lonesome since the Cinnabar incident, letting Karkat and Vanitas have their... alone time without a third wheel intruding. He's sure they were very grateful, but didn't actually get around to telling them he was leaving, so he couldn't be sure. He's been doing his own wanderings all over the place, contemplating maybe getting Badges or something... and never actually getting any Badges. Good job, Sollux. But now it's time to actually kick his ass back into gear; the Pokémon are getting antsy from all this wanderlust. He can feel it by the way Fefero slams him over the head with a cannon. That's a bored cannon.]

[There's a really quick video post up on the Network now; it looks like he's sitting on a beach, Axolotl the Absol on his lap as usual. Resting in Olivine does have its perks.]

Anyone in Johto know a place to go for the holidays? Preferably in a town with a Gym? [And yet he hasn't left the city yet.] I feel like integrating myself with the locals and getting my ass out of this chair at the same time.

Comments

[timelymaid]

Who else would I be running around with? I'm still a part of Jake and Jane's group until after Christmas, and I'll probably meet up with them again eventually. They're nice! You should try talking to them sometime, Sollux.

[viiru2alert]

Yeah, if I ever need to. Probably gonna run into at least one at the party.

[By which he means, he will watch all of them from the shadows and judge them, even more than he judges the rest of the people going to this stupid holiday event.]

[timelymaid]

Jake even likes ruins and things! We went to Alph together.

[viiru2alert]

Yeah? Hah, I bet you have lots of fun geeking out with him.

[timelymaid]

I do! He actually lived near a bunch of ruins, like I did. And he likes baby pokemon and eggs, so there's always something for me to do...

[viiru2alert]

Did he find an apocalyptic computer game in his ruins too? [Some black humor for you there, Aradia darling.]

[timelymaid]

Nope! Like the other humans, they didn't have to write their game. [ Like that's going to throw her. ...It even gets a laugh, because really, she likes that kind of thing. ]

[viiru2alert]

Lucky bastards. I lost so much sleep over that damn puzzle box.

[No you didn't, Sollux, you would have been up all night anyway.]

[timelymaid]

Since when do you have a normal sleep schedule?

[viiru2alert]

Touché.

...But how do you know I didn't just randomly decide to adopt one for the period of time during which you happened to be sending me that box?

[timelymaid]

I watched you sometimes.

[viiru2alert]

[ ... ]

Well that's not creepy at all.

[timelymaid]

[ ...She belatedly realizes how that sounds. ]

Oh! Oh, I - that's not what I meant. Well, it is. I mean, at the time I was just checking to make sure things were on schedule?

[ Because dead. And schedule-oriented.

wow this doesn't make it sound any better fuck. ]

[viiru2alert]

Oh, you were creeping on me for the sake of efficiency. That makes me feel so much better. [Sollux shakes his head.]

So, what other fun things did you find in the house of Captor?

[timelymaid]

...Would you like it better if I were creeping on you for other reasons? I really can't think of a single good one.

[ Like at all when did the scales tip to her being the awkward one. Can she file to have the scales re-tipped, please? Aradia does give the question some thought, though. ] I wasn't really that nosy. [ Again, obvious reasons for why - alive, she might have been more curious. ]

[viiru2alert]

[No, she cannot. Having Sollux be the less awkward one is an almost undocumented phenomenon, and scientists are hoping to glean as much information from this exchange as they can get.]

I guess you probably expected all the shit in there anyway. Old computers, video games, magic bees...

[timelymaid]

There wasn't anything you hadn't mentioned to me at one point or another.

[viiru2alert]

...I guess I shoulda cleaned up. [As if you could, when you had no idea when she would be coming.]

[timelymaid]

...How would you have known to do that?

[viiru2alert]

I dunno.

Had to clean that place anyway. The crapvalanches nearly killed me a few times.

[timelymaid]

Well, if you would keep things tidy on a usual basis instead of letting them build up, maybe you wouldn't have that problem!

[viiru2alert]

They're built up already, my hiveleaf isn't big enough for all of it.

[timelymaid]

But you like it there, don't you?

[viiru2alert]

...

[His first impulse is to say no, he doesn't like it there, because it's small and cramped and he has to chain his lusus to the top of the building, for God's sake. But he reconsiders that, because even beside all of it, he still likes looking out over the city at night. From his view, he can't see any of the thugs wandering the streets or the lesser psionics getting the shit beat out of them. All he can see is the skyscrapers and the lights and everything luminous and beautiful in the starless world.]

Yeah, I do.

[timelymaid]

That's why I never suggested you move, you know. Not that moving is something anyone ever really did!

...I miss it there, too, though.