001 | Video

[darkest_horse]

[The video comes on to show Xigbar at a kitchen table. He's still in his new get-up with half of a sinisterly smiling comedy mask covering the right side of his face. The prop guns he had been given to complete the outfit have been taken apart, the parts spread out neatly on the table, and he seems to be rebuilding them. Though... a few of the

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action like a boss

[ninthserenade]

How would we even get it in here, Xiggy? I thought they were outside the barrier.

Boss action is reserved for Saix.

[darkest_horse]

Eh, maybe we can find a weak spot in the barrier. It doesn't need to be big enough to get us out, just to get something in.

but Saix isn't here right now.

[ninthserenade]

If we can find that, I could keep the water out while you reached out and grabbed one... You ever see a live one, dude?

[Totally wandering into the kitchen to rummage around in the fridge.]

I know, isn't it excellent?

[darkest_horse]

[Contents of fridge: doria.]

Do we really need a live one though? You and me aren't exactly alive either.

[And you will be even less alive if you get any of your food stuffs on Xigbar's gun parts.]

Slakers unite!

[ninthserenade]

You should ask yourself 'do we really need a living nightmare in the house'. They're tiny, but they'd give you nightmares.

[Okay, everything in the fridge is totally uninteresting right now, so lets go pester the next interesting thing! Xigbar. Sup not!bro? Just draping over the back of the couch and peeking over a shoulder.]

What'cha making, Xiggy?

Today maybe.

[darkest_horse]

Give you nightmares maybe. I think they are plenty cute.

[Motions with the gun.]

I'm fixing these babies up. As if I'm gonna carry around some guns that don't work.

Why do today what you can put off for tomorrow, after all.

[ninthserenade]

I've had plenty, thanks. Remember where I came from~

Is it hard?

Or the day after tomorrow.

[darkest_horse]

It took weeks to get the smell of fish outta you.

Is playing the sitar hard?

or next week

[ninthserenade]

Did I really smell like fish?

Well, you don't see that many people playing one.

Is next month good for you?

[darkest_horse]

You smelled like a fish market. A bad one. It was almost as bad as Vexen.

I think that's cause they realize it is a really crappy instrument. [Grin and a beat] Anyway, what I was getting at was that just cause it is easy for me, doesn't mean it is easy for you. And vice versa.

nah, better make it two.

[ninthserenade]

Man, way to make me feel sorry for all those times I clung onto Super Sniffer for support when I was learning to walk.

Hey, come on! Anything people can play on a guitar I could do just as good on a sitar! [He returns the grin with a light shoulder nudge.] Well, was it hard when you first started tinkering around with 'em? Now that I think of it, this is the first time I've seen you doing something like this...

I dunno. It's christmas then. How about next year?

[darkest_horse]

Well, Zexy is just the right height for support.

It sounds like a dying cat. [Teasing, teasing as he holds up the gun he is working on, a few small tools on his lap.] And I would do it back home in the lounge but there is some loud dude there all the time.

Maybe we can squeeze something in during the spring.

[ninthserenade]

Well yeah, but I was clinging onto everyone here and there. Except for a few people, obviously.

Larxene made it sound like a dying ca--Hey!

Oh, I've got something you can squeeze during spring, all right.

[darkest_horse]

And eventually you learned to walk. What a day it was. Our little nobody, all grown up.

Larxene can make anything sound like a dying cat. It's in her nature.

That's what she said.

[ninthserenade]

Way to sound like someone's old man there, Xiggy.

Well she is a witch. ...Think you could teach me how to shoot one of these days?

I'll be severly disappointed if we can never work a 'that's what she said' joke in ICly.

[darkest_horse]

You callin' me old? [Hooks one arm up over his neck, pulling him down a bit.]

You wanna know how to shoot?