07 - Like someone cleaned my glasses

[ichoosefight]

[ Video ]

Do you ever wake up and find your life makes a crazy kind of sense? Maybe there's a purpose, maybe there's not, but we won't know until it's all over, so why waste so much time wondering about it all?

Take this place for example. We don't really know why we're here, and we don't really know why people graduate or don't. But stuff is going to happen whether we understand it or not. You focus so much on deconstructing the past and the reasons for everything that you lose sight of the future. The truth is there aren't any reasons and there aren't any answers. There's just this life thing, and whether you decide to live it or not it's going to keep happening.

[ She realizes suddenly she's been pontificating for kind of a long time, laughs awkwardly, and shrugs. ]

Guess I just felt like sharing. Anyway. I was going to say that I'm in way too good a mood to spend today cooped up inside. Anyone up for a trip to the CES? Or maybe the pool? We do have a pool, right, it's not just a myth to make freshmen look stupid?

[ Private to Kevin ]

Hey... there's something I need to talk to you about. Will you meet me on deck?

Comments

private

[fire_punk]

I'm on my way.

private -> spam

[ichoosefight]

I'll meet you there.

[ And so she does, waiting by the rail and looking out at the stars. ]

spam

[fire_punk]

Hey. [He joins her along the railing.] What did you need to talk about.

spam

[ichoosefight]

Hey.

[ She turns to smile sadly at him. She doesn't know how not to project her feelings of sympathy and guilt. ]

Kevin... there's no easy way to say this, so I just will. I don't think we should be together anymore. I like you a lot, but the truth is I don't love you. I deserve to be with someone I love, and you deserve to be with someone who loves you back. I'm sorry.

spam

[fire_punk]

I... [He doesn't know what to do with this. Nothing in his life has prepared him for something like this.] Did I do something?

[mistconduct]

Hey! Hey Steph! Check it out!

Pacheemu ti takoy galuboy?

This. Is. Awesome. I'm speaking nee da dyeloni Russian!

[ooc: 'Why are you so gay?', 'all fucked up']

[ichoosefight]

[ She snorts and cackles, unreasonably amused by this. ]

What the fuck is that? You sound fucking ridiculous!

[mistconduct]

Poshol nahuj! I sound amazing.

Russian cursing is awesome. Ya tvoyu mamu yebal pakimis tye smotrel i plakal kak malinkaya suka!

[OOC; 'Fuck off!' 'I fucked your mom while you watched and cried like a little bitch']

[ichoosefight]

Hey, if you're going to insult me at least do it in a language I understand. I'm total shit at languages.

[voice]

[logistical]

[One can almost hear the raised eyebrow.]

"This life thing"?

[voice]

[ichoosefight]

Fuck yeah! It's a thing. You may have noticed.

[voice]

[logistical]

I have noticed that you are fairly enthusiastic in ruminating about it.

[voice]

[ichoosefight]

That tends to happen when you die. Or at least when you die slow enough you've got a fuck-ton of time to think about it.

[advocacy]

So do you look at this place as an extension of your life then?

[ichoosefight]

I'm here, aren't I? And I'm going to go back home some day, and my life will start up again like it never ended. It's not a lot more than a really shitty vacation.

[advocacy]

But do you think your life's going to be any different because you came here?

[ichoosefight]

Well, yeah. I died. How could coming here and getting another chance not make it different?

[surfaceshine]

Someone found a fortune in their wheaties this mornin'.

[And someone else has a very dry tone and a white shock right at the front of his otherwise bright auburn hair. It's...

He seems okay with it.]

There's a pool. I'll let yeh in..

[ichoosefight]

[ It's totally stylish, Steph loves it. ]

Ah yes, wheaties, the boring-est cereal ever invented. Let me in the pool and I'll adore you for-fucking-ever.

[surfaceshine]

[To which, of course, he doesn't smile but only just. In normal Dean, it would be an impish smirk.]

Yeh already will adore me for-fuckin'-ever.

[ichoosefight]

[ Okay now this is getting a little freaky. ]

Not if you don't smile like you mean it I won't.

spam

[codename_duchess]

[Archer was going to reply to Steph's post, but he's not really big on philosophy stuff and she'd probably appreciate a more detailed response than "Well, duh" anyway. Besides, there are more important things to talk about, and they shouldn't be said over the network.

So here's an odd sight: Archer, dressed like he's headed to the fetish club, politely knocking on Stephanie Brown's door.]

Hey, are ya in there? Got a minute?

spam

[ichoosefight]

[ She is in fact in here, and she heads to open the door before even realizing she recognizes that voice. ]

Archer? Um.

[ Ohgod what are you wearing, she is not entirely sure she should let him in and the distressed confusion clearly shows on her face. ]

spam

[codename_duchess]

[Perfectly ordinary clothes, that's what he's wearing, so he completely misses the reason for her distress.]

Everythin' okay? Uh, do you want me to leave?

spam

[ichoosefight]

[ FOCUSING ON THE FACE. And also the wall. And literally anywhere but his half-naked body. ]

Uh, no, it's fine. Did you, uh... Why are you here?