Third Eigh8all [Video/Action Goldenrod]

[8etterl8]

Oh hey, is this thing working? Oh Good.

[The camera comes on to Vriska's face for a second before turning to the road in front of her.]

So I got myself a couple more of these Pokémon since I last posted on here when I got Marquise.

[Grabbing a Pokéball she lets out the creature inside. A Magikarp flops on the ground.]This is Camer-- Tavros you

Comments

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[bullieve]

Wow, uhh, you named a thing after me? Even if it is a thing that's not very good, that's still, uhh, pretty cool, I guess.

[ POINT

MISSED. ]

( video. )

[8etterl8]

[Ooooooooh Tavros, you silly thing.]

Cool? You actually think it's cool!? [Brb, laughing.]

Maybe you're dumber than I give you credit for.

( video. )

[bullieve]

Well, I guess so, yes, in a way.

[ okay park the fun bus a sec while he explains the science of this in his most eloquent manner. ]

It's just that it sort of, uhh, implies that you thought of me, for a thing, instead of not. And I think it's better than the not being thought of, uhh, part that I said, in general, mostly, so that's why it's cool. Especially since, uhh, I didn't think that my name was a name that you would want to call a thing that's yours.

( video. )

[8etterl8]

[Stare]

Wow. Tavros.

[Pause in case she might be about to say something nice]

That's incredibly lame. That's just the kind of sentimental thinking that got you ki-- will get you killed.

Do you know whyyyyyyyy I named it after you.

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[bullieve]

[ raises eyebrows!! what was that about--oh okay time to answer a question, he'll get back around to his own concern later. ]

Well... because it reminds you of me, in some sort of way, regarding its traits or appearance? [ side-eyes that awkward fish. ] But maybe not so much the appearance part, maybe.

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[8etterl8]

Traits definitely. More like the fact that it's completely, totally, utterly useless until it evolves. [She'll leave out the part where once it evolves it's a total badass apparently]

It can't do anything but flop around. Which is kinda like you. You couldn't even climb some stairs.

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[bullieve]

Oh, well, yes, that's true, but it's not exactly a thing that I--or it, the floppy creature thing, I mean--can help, really. But I can do things besides flop, sometimes, so, uhh, at least I have that much to separate the two of us, I hope.

( video. )

[8etterl8]

Yeah, I guess you have that. Sometimes you can do things. Not very useful things. But things I guess. It's called a Magikarp by the way.

You know, I suppose there is some sort of sentimental value involved. I only got it because it reminded me of you after all. Had to have something to toughen up.

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[bullieve]

[ see, he knew it. he is such a genius about feelings. ]

That's, uhh, sort of the impression that I was getting, and it's kind of, I guess, maybe a nice gesture, theoretically. Even if your manner of toughening kind of makes me, uhh, worry about the Magic Carp, that you have there, a little bit.

( video. )

[8etterl8]

[He knew nothing. Shhhhhhhhh]

It is a nice gesture! [It's not.] Maybe I can succeed here with this fish where I failed with you. Though I suppose you're not a lost cause yet.

( video. )

[bullieve]

Oh, "yet," that's a good qualifier to put on something, in this case, I think.

[ THERE'S HOPE!!! ]

( video. )

[8etterl8]

Sure, sure.

You know, you got a lot people that jumped to your defense. Been making frieeeeeeeends Tavros?

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[bullieve]

Huh?

[ this comes as a big surprise to him apparently! given how he kind of boggles at the screen for a couple seconds. people coming to his defense, what does that even mean. ]

Oh, uhh... well, I guess so. A lot of people were saying they could help me with, you know, stuff, if I needed it, and generally being nice and things like that. That's a thing that friends do, I think, so I guess I could call them that...

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[8etterl8]

Apparently [There's a huge eyeroll here, because Vriska clearly does not agree] everyone thinks I'm too harsh on you.

Do you. think I'm too hard on you? [She gives him a look that says he better answer carefully or there might be consequences]

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[bullieve]

[ ........... yeah, he is seriously rethinking his answer after seeing that look. ]

I don't really, uhh, have a thing to compare it to, the hard factor, of you toward me, versus, uhh, someone else toward me...

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[8etterl8]

So you don't think I'm too hard on you.