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[deloreandriver]

Characters: Marty, Open
Setting: Library
Format: either I'm good
Summary: Marty has a lot of thoughts on his mind
Warnings: n/a

This is Marty.

This is Marty with arms folded and head bowed.

He appears to be thinking very hard.

He's sitting on a chair next to a table with a book on time theory in front of him.

He is also mumbling to himself.

There is a piece of white paper with math scribbles and dates on it.

Bother, pester, ignore?

Comments

[deloreandriver]

What? If the admins can manipulate it?

[Marty's looking thoughtful too, but also slightly confused.]

[geometry]

No, they're not admins... they've been taken here just like everyone else.

If time was being tampered with, they would feel it.

[deloreandriver]

Yeah, that's what I meant.

[Hmm.]

Nobody's really said anything on the network yet... if the admins can, maybe they can mask it.

[geometry]

Well, if they can... haven't their equipment and things been acting up lately? Someone might notice it soon.

Of course, whether they'd tell anyone about it is a different story. [He's pretty sure at that least one, maybe two, of those time manipulators mentioned before would try to keep their mouths shut about it and fix the problem themselves.]

[deloreandriver]

It might be something to watch out for. Maybe Doc could make a time interference monitor device...

[Marty's just pulling crap out, naturally.]

This place doesn't get any easier to figure out.

[geometry]

...Doc?

Doctor Brown, you mean?

[Yes. Doctor Brown.]

[He just seriously called him Doctor Brown.]

[Someone smack this boy around the head, please.]

[deloreandriver]

[Marty gave him an odd look, but nodded.]

Yeah, but he doesn't mind just plain old Doc.

[geometry]

No, I... he told me. I know.

I just don't feel that someone like him ought to be called just 'Doc'.

[deloreandriver]

[Have another odd look.]

Doc's a great guy and my best friend. It'd feel kinda weird calling him that...

[geometry]

I don't know, he... [Equius leans on the table, unsure of how to continue.] ...he's brilliant. I mean, you know, some of his knowledge is out of date compared to what I know from my world, but even so, I feel he deserves more... respect than that. You know?

[deloreandriver]

Uh... I'm sure he appreciates it.

[geometry]

[The most awkward shrug on the planet. Right here.]

[deloreandriver]

[So much awkwardness.]

So uh... sorry if my memory's a bit whacked, but I'm Marty.

[geometry]

What's wrong with it? [Even this loser forgets to introduce himself sometimes. Not often, but. Sometimes.]

...Uh, Equius.

[deloreandriver]

It hasn't really been the same since I swapped with my roommate. I started thinking I was him at the end there.

[He holds out a hand for a handshake.]

Gotcha. Nice to meet you.

[geometry]

[He stares at the handshake for a moment before taking it. If you need any more evidence that he is an alien and not, say, a particularly dedicated cosplayer, there it is.]

...Oh, right, the body swap... [Casually drifts his eyes away from Marty and over to one of the shelves.]

Yes, I suppose that would be. Difficult.

[deloreandriver]

[Laid back guy here. He just shakes his hand a bit and lets go.]

You okay?

[geometry]

[...Oh. Wait. Dammit!]

Uh, yeah, sorry.

A... lot of things happened. During the body swaps.

[deloreandriver]

Oh... uh, feel like talking about it? I heard, you know, sometimes that helps.

[geometry]

[Uh.]

W-well. I mean, it's... um, not bad...

...I-I think...

[Only Equius could think that finally making it official with his not-boyfriend might possibly be 'bad'.]

[deloreandriver]

Huh. What is it?

[CURIOSITY HERE.]

[geometry]

Um. Well... a friend of mine... we had a conversation while he had switched bodies with someone else... and it was kind of... awkward.