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.

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[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.

[viiru2alert]

You wanted to suggest I moved?

[timelymaid]

I wanted to see you more often! It sort of equates to the same thing.

But that would have been selfish and silly to say. So I didn't.

[viiru2alert]

...Yeah, that would have been kind of selfish and silly to say, TBH.

[He just said TBH.]

I mean, I wouldn't have gone either way. I'm sorry, AA, but a lot of the shit I did for money was based off of those things, and just uprooting them to a place farther away from where I could get my supplies... it wouldn't have worked out in the first place.

[Le shrug.]

[timelymaid]

I said I know that, silly. It's not something you would have to apologize for.

[viiru2alert]

Yeah, but you wanted it to happen, I know.

[timelymaid]

I also would have liked to live closer to Tavros. And Terezi! And maybe Nepeta. Being in this place where all the humans live so close together just makes me sort of think about it. It's not really that important.

[viiru2alert]

...Well, we can travel together for now. And I guess if you want we can pick up TS or TZ or NP if they show.

[timelymaid]

Nepeta's here, actually! She's travelling with Equius.

[viiru2alert]

...Oh. Didn't know that. When did she get here?

[timelymaid]

I think she was here before I was, but I'm not sure. I've spoken to Equius more than Nepeta!

[viiru2alert]

I talked to Equius once, yeah. He didn't seem that much different.

[timelymaid]

[ ...This is actually reminding her of her last conversation with Equius, which is an awkward topic, so. Time for a subject change! ]

I guess not. Anyway, I think everyone's here, pretty much - we're only missing a few people.