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dave strider ([personal profile] oculusriffs) wrote2018-04-28 11:13 am
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TG: this is going to be fucking stupid isnt it


[want to get in touch with Dave? you can leave a TEXT, VOICE, or VIDEO message — or alternatively, he shouldn't be too hard to track down in person. it's a hunk of junk space house. in space. he's around here somewhere.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He offers a small consolation prize of a smile. Their attempt to kill Yaldabaoth was supposed to be their last heist together as a group. Ren's confirmed that, in a roundabout way, the future for them as phantom thieves has pretty much come to a close. It's a weirdly sad feeling, when you have purpose and meaning, only to see it yanked out and made inert. These cycles keep happening to Ryuji and he never knows what he's supposed to do with his life when things come to a close.

Grin and bear it, he guesses.]


Yeah. Heart snatching. Like, just shoving my hand into people's chests and ripping them still out. [Holding out his hand, like there's a living, beating thing there, complete with pulsating.]

I'm dangerous, you gotta watch out for me.

I mean. Nah. It wasn't that hardcore. It was all metaphors, anyway.

[What the hell is with the Ghostbuster shit, though?]

Well... we already got the tacky jumpsuits. Now all we need are superpowered soul vacuums.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Locked doors, huh? Kinda makes you wonder what the hell's such a secret about this place that it's gotta be under lock and key.

[Although he did remember hearing about people phasing through doors and then playing The Floor Is Lava, only the floor was actually liquid metal and trapped you there for a while.

Oh.

Right. Safety first, though. He takes the first aid kit, and opens it up. Did he really need antiseptic and a bandaid for a cat scratch? Probably not. But then again... Lisa could be carrying the uber bacteria. The one that's going to eat everyone's flesh and turn them into zombies.

So he'll just... try to stop that from happening.]


Aw, man. Was totally hoping for Goodbye Kitty ones. [He does that really gross, unsanitary thing where you use your teeth to pull the back of the bandage off. Good job, Ryuji.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-15 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji just stares at him dumbly.

That wasn't a pun.

That wasn't even kind of intended. What irony was th---

Goddamnit.

(But in retrospect, it's pretty brilliant)]


Ye...ah. That's what I was goin' for. [But the pink ones were kind of cute. With the little cartoon kitties and the blue bows in their hair? Soulless stare that makes one wonder what eldritch horrors Goodbye Kitty has seen to look so empty on the inside.]

C-careful! [And bam! He's bandaged up. Looks dapper as hell.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-15 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[LET'S ROLL INITIATIVE, boy.








Except not, because this isn't a hostile encounter. In fact, it's so not hostile, that Lisa is just swooned by Dave's innumerable hidden charisma stat, which was stacked in his favor from the beginning. Ryuji, on the other hand, looks on in awe. How one man could contain such a beast just by his bare hands. Clearly he is to be feared and respected.]


I hate you so much.

[Yet his voice doesn't indicate anything of the sort. He'll be forced into the realm of being the Royal Litter Box cleaner for a despot that has no love for him. One day, though. One day he'll get that sweet social link to work in his favor.

Just in case, though, his grip on the first aid kit is admirably fastidious.

Let him love you, Lisa. He has so much of his heart to give.]


Swear... it's like I'm part dog or something.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-18 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't mind Ryuji, he'll just... casually... snap a photo of that with his smart watch. There's bound to be a point when Ryuji eventually pisses Dave off, and it's always good to have a reminder that there are cat headbutts to be had instead. Or just tease the hell out of him. Probably the latter. They're 1 for 1 on the embarrassing cat pics.

Except his isn't so embarrassing, it's just. Dumbly adorable.]


So... you're tellin' me to get my cat high so that she'll chill out long enough for me to cuddle her.

[What could go wrong?]

I'm kinda jealous of you right now, not gonna lie. [Still, he'll keep his distance.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-19 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Far be it from Ryuji to stop Dave if he feels like napping and cuddling up with a little bit of Lisa time all to himself. He half wonders if she'll end up being just like Morgana; when getting cold he would just climb up on top of a sleeping Ren and sleep right on his stomach through the night. And that cat loved to sleep. In fact, he told them constantly how late it was and how they should probably all go to bed. Over, and over, and over again.

But, oh, hey, Dave just called him cool. That's pretty damn neat. He'll just be over there, swimming around in the compliment and drinking that shit up like it's air. He doesn't even go through the motion of figuring out if he had meant cool as in having a temperate personality or anything, just. You know. Cool.]


Maybe we'll just have a heart to heart. Build up that trust. And then when the moment hits, she'll brush up against my leg and bury the fish shaped hatchet.

[He wants to go over there so badly and join him, to just pet her head at least once, but he also doesn't want to ruin it for Dave. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, he's more like a hedgehog than a loyal lab.

Or maybe cat's just don't like him.

Eh, whatever.]


You should come by and do this often. Maybe it'll soften her up a little bit. You know, you bein' the cat whisperer and all. You can just be all like "hey, he's a good guy" or something like that. Or whatever you would say, I don't wanna put words in your mouth or anything. Cats can tell when you're bein' disingenuous.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He didn't expect this to happen so soon? It's going so fast, from 0 to 80 in a 25mph zone, and Ryuji's staring onto this fine mess and waiting for the inevitable irritability to start kicking in. Is Dave going to live up to his new titular role as the Cat Whisperer? Is Ryuji ever going to make friends with Lisa?

Find out next time, on---]


Oh my god.

[He literally just referred to Ryuji as his pooper scooper and he doesn't??? know how he actually feels about that at the moment. He's not wrong, it's just. Man, he's willing to accept the responsibility that comes along with pet ownership no problem, but he doesn't want to talk or hear about the gross litter box cleaning that he has to do- it's a begrudging task that even a true labor of love wouldn't satisfy.

And then, in a smaller voice, just to himself, as his features twist into increasing levels of incredulity:]


Dude...

[This is actually terrible, why did he ask Dave to do this?]

Do I...?

[Ryuji lowers his nose and lifts his shoulder upward a little bit to see if he actually smells. Embarrassing human being, right here.]

I don't smell. [Confirming to himself, really, voice still low and self-assuring.]

Dave... man... that was... super goddamn heartwarming and all, but shit.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
And you're only good as your word.

[It's one of those cliche things that stuck with Ryuji from a pretty young age. He can't do the lying thing, can't try to impress people with dishonesty, and is pretty much immovable when it comes to the things he values. If people don't like that about him or think he's naive to behave that way, that's their problem.

And granted, the lack of space deodorant is totally shittsville, population: Reverie Station... but like everything related to the way Dave unravels himself, from what Ryuji can see reading between the lines (as bad as he is at that to begin with), is reassuring.]


You... you think it's time to give it a chance or should I wait a bit for it to sink in first?
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Nobody out there is immune from the possibility for growth and change; a year ago the Ryuji standing before Dave right now probably wouldn't have paved the path for any of this. He'd be wrapped up in his own head, pissed off at the world for everything, and alone.]

Shit. Well here goes nothin'.

[Embracing the possibility that this might end okay, he makes a step closer. Anything? Growling? Hissing? Okay, not so much. Another step, slow, like he's trying to make sure that there's an air of respect and amicability to what he's trying to accomplish. Ryuji should probably breathe a little more instead of holding his breath, as if the halfway distance of the room could carry his own carbon dioxide outward offensively.

Eventually he reaches the bed and sits at the edge.

She looks so cozy. He wants her to like him so much, but he believes that he's relatively poor at those types of social skills, worsened only by the fact of his own negative image in feline-kind's eyes. He looks at Dave, scrunching up his lips to one side of his cheek. Is this going to be okay? Ryuji's hand connects to Lisa's head, fingers curling. This is it. The moment of truth.

He breathes through his nose, unable to hold it in anymore, and presses a soft stroke to her rounded head, scratching just once behind her pointed ears.]


This is effin' unbelievable. [And then, takes his hand back and doesn't push this any farther than that. Ryuji looks abso-freaking-lutely reverent. Like he's just done the impossible.

Cue the cheesiest grin, ever.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-21 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Dave....

Wow, that was so eloquent and reassuring, so well deserved and perfectly said. Ryuji, of course, has to stoke the fire-]


Huh? Well, yeah. No shit, sherlock.

[He's still riding out the cool, calm, emotionally stable state of being high off of this mission coming up critical success. Maybe it'll pave the way for a functional relationship between the two. Maybe he'll be seen as more than just a really diligent regal pooper picker upper.

Who knows what's in store?]


That was all you, dude. All I did was---

[He pawses for a moment, looking at Lisa content in Dave's lap, and then upwards. Ryuji really, really can't help himself when it comes to being a dick, so he mirrors the action he just did on the ball of fluff by reaching up and patting Dave on the top of the head once, then twice. But since he's just kitten around, he makes sure not to be in the crosshair of a nuclear swipe attack. Just in case. Just in case.

Flush him first, basically.

And this asshole? Starts chuckling, covering his own mouth to cover it up. He has a cool image to maintain.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-22 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He could easily offer to let Dave borrow the scissors that wound up at the bottom of his shower a few weeks ago, but then it wouldn't allow moments like this, where his little fluff of a bend manages to become perfectly un-miffed in the blink of an eye. It's practically spring loaded. And it's great.

And here comes the hyped up Davefury that Ryuji (kind of) wanted to see, right? An explosion of pure grit, a reclamation for justice in a world of head patting usurpers that needed to have their ass handed to them. One eyebrow quirks upward.]


You don't wanna set a bad example for Lisa, right?

[But he absolutely takes stock of him putting her down and out of reach of any thrashing that's to be had. Preemptively, Ryuji scoots a few seat's widths farther away from Dave.]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-06-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[This. Is. Actually worse.

Ryuji stares at Dave when the heavenly flurry of righteous vengeance doesn't seem to happen, and his eyes wander left and right before quirking a brow upward. Wait, what?]


Are you kiddin' me!?!

[He's outraged, to say the least. His provocations were all for naught. He tried poking the fire, only to be met with the cool indifference of a later. Will he ever be able to sleep again?]

O...kay. But. I bet you didn't see that combing, either.

[Heh.

He high fives... himself.]

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