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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..."

Comments

[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.

[finallycowboys]

[Small nod. OK, this is cool. He's getting some weird alien technology. He can totally handle this.]

Sounds grand. Anything I can repay you with?

[thekidsare0kay]

[He cocks his head faintly, thinking hard]

Any thkills other than murdering people'th future matespritth?

[finallycowboys]

[He laughs, not looking at all ashamed or sorry.]

I can do just plain ol' murdering as well.

[thekidsare0kay]

Not that big a deal here, where people jutht come back to life.

You can owe me a favour. It'th no big deal.

[finallycowboys]

[A favor. Extremely vague, but what could a little troll boy possibly ask for that'd be worse than asking him to kill someone? Well, actually, no, he can think of a lot of things, but Henry tends to play a lot of things by ear when it came to the uncertain.]

Fine, sounds good.