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[thekidsare0kay]

Characters: Sollux and YOU!
Setting: The dormitory levels, but if you want to meet up with him somewhere else that's OK, too.
Format: Whatever you like
Summary: Sollux is out and about, looking for love in all the wrong places.
Warnings: Inappropriateness

He didn't notice the hand until it reached out of the bookshelf and clawed at his arm. But the moment he turned to see it, he fell in love. He reaches out, crooning, and takes the hand in his own. It scrabbles at his skin, tugging, and he pets its arm lovingly.

"Hey there...Come on out? Come on, there'th got to be more of you, hmm? I won't bite...much..."

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[thekidsare0kay]

I guethh that'th pothhible. Though how the fuck he can jutht be a hand, I don't know. Where doeth he keep hith brain?

[He raps on the wall with bony knuckles, frowning]

[finallycowboys]

Perhaps it's nestled in right at the wrist, next to the Ulnar artery.

[He looks down at the severed hand, and picks it up by a finger. The sliced off end is blackened from the light saber, and it's pretty damn obvious that no brain of any sort could've been nestled in there.]

Think there might be something behind this wall?

[thekidsare0kay]

[Eyeroll. He glances at the hand, but doesn't look too upset by the sight, and then returns to considering the wall]

I can try to break in.

[finallycowboys]

[He steps back, then makes a sweeping gesture with his arms towards the wall.]

Please. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[thekidsare0kay]

[He sighs as he slips off his glasses.] Though it probably won't work. The tower itthelf theemth to block my powerth.

[And indeed as he aims his eye lasers at the wall, they ricochet! Might want to dive for cover, Henry]

[finallycowboys]

[Oh shi--

Having no time for a full-on dive, he activates the beam saber instead, taking a quick step to the side as the lasers careen off the bright purple pillar of light.]

Christ.

[Then after the light show is over, he brushes his hand against the blackened spot on the wall and offers his most insincere apologetic look.] Hate to break the bad news to you lad, but it looks like the end of the road for your conquest for love.

[thekidsare0kay]

[Sollux is already diving when it ricochets, and several of the lasers rebound again off of a shield he hastily erects. He does manage to see Henry use the light sabre, and he stands up when the lightshow is over.]

Maybe he'll come back. That'th a hell of a thtrife thpethibuth you have.

[finallycowboys]

[His guard and saber is up the entire time, just in case the lasers decide to come back him, and then deactivates it once the coast is clear.

He has no idea what a "strife specibus" is, but he assumes the kid is talking about his weapon.]

Oh, this? Yes, she's quite the beauty, isn't she? But it is merely a mechanical device. Not as dependable as your innate ability.

[Then glances over at the wall again. Yes, perhaps it'll be back...though he hopes that if it does, that Sollux wouldn't be around for it. Poor kid would probably try to attack him again.]

[thekidsare0kay]

Well, yeah. I don't have a thtrife thpethibuth, becauthe my powerth are pretty awethome.

[finallycowboys]

Indeed. [Eyebrow raises in amusement.] You make it seem as if this "strife specibus" is mandatory.

[thekidsare0kay]

Mandatory? Well, everyone'th got one, if that'th what you mean. You have to equip your weapon to it or it won't work right.

[finallycowboys]

[ :U ] Equip your weapon to it-- right, well, it seems I've got the terminology a little botched. Excuse my rather rude assumptions of your culture's terms. What is a "Strife Specibus"?

[thekidsare0kay]

...[Argh, how to language this basic concept] It'th a thpecial moduth for thpethifying what kind of weapon you want to uthe. Once you've thet it, you can't change it, though you can get more cardth for different kindth if you're good.

[finallycowboys]

[Oh, so that's what it is. Sounds kind of old-school, he thinks.]

Sounds like a bloody hassle to me.

It only just occurred to me that they're both self-aware video game constructs

[thekidsare0kay]

[He shrugs] How elthe are you thuppothed to do it?

IKR? hahaha

[finallycowboys]

[He stares down at the handle in his hand, flipping it around a bit.]

Could just hold onto it, I suppose. Never crossed your mind?

[thekidsare0kay]

That'th crathy! And pretty inefficient. You can draw fathter from a thpethibuth than jutht having it in a holthter ath part of your clothing.

:|a whoops henry had to be re-apped sob

[finallycowboys]

See, that's coming from someone who is used to drawing their weapons from this Specibus rather than a holster or something of that sort.

Oops, lol

[thekidsare0kay]

No, I'm not! I don't have one, remember. I jutht pick up shit, but I know becauthe that'th how thpethibi work.

yeahhahaha

[finallycowboys]

My point still stands. For you, that's just a thing that naturally occurs. You immediately store it into this invisible specibus without consciously thinking about it, and that's that.

[He taps his chin thoughtfully, looking down at his own weapon.] Unless it's just that easy. I really wouldn't know.

[thekidsare0kay]

Yeah, I guethh tho? But it ith that eathy. I could program you one, I bet.

[finallycowboys]

[8Ua huh, Henry imagines what that would be like and finds it quite appealing.] I certainly wouldn't bet against you. Are you offering?

[thekidsare0kay]

[He cocks his head] Yeah, I'm offering. I'll thtart with a bathic fetch moduth and you can let me know what kindth of frillth you like, okay?

[finallycowboys]

[Suspicious Henry is suspicious. Usually people don't just up and offer to do something like that for him, especially in this case because their meeting had started off a little...awkward.]

All right, sure, thanks, I suppose. I have no idea what any of that even meant, but I'd be glad to learn once it is fully functional. I'm more of a hands-on learner, anyway.

[thekidsare0kay]

Okay. [The truth is, Sollux just likes doing shit like this, and he's never built one from scratch, so he's curious if he can] I'll figure it out and get back to you then.