[OPEN] The cake is a lie

[chronomancer]

Characters: Jade!Eridan and YOU!
Setting: Cafeteria's kitchen.
Format: Action.
Summary: ...in which Eridan tries his hand at the arcane, mystic majicks of baking for the sake of his matesprit. It goes as well as you'd expect.
Warnings: FLOUR. FLOUR AND BUTTER EVERYWHERE.

[...well. That sure just happened.

Eridan blinks slowly, as the cloud of white slowly descends onto the floor. He'd never known bags of flour were even explosive. Like. Okay. Maybe he'd tugged a little too hard. Maybe. But that's not a good enough reason for it to explode on his face. The recipe he was working off from didn't say anything about exploding bags of flour.

He just stands there for a moment, W E L P all but written all over his face. Somehow, he thinks, this little project might turn out to be a little more complicated than anticipated.]
 

Comments

[chronomancer]

[Sadly, he is a cinema snob, not so much a book critic.]

...you're kinda weird, y'know.

[There's a pause.]

And coming from me that's saying something.

[tohko_amano]

[He's going to be really disappointed then..]

How am I weird?!

[Really, she doesn't see how she's weird at all.]

[chronomancer]

[It's okay. He likes hating movies almost as much as he likes liking them.]

...how's water wet.

[tohko_amano]

[Well, then he'll be in for a treat then.]

Well, for one thing, it helps that water is a liquid, not a sold, so it can soak things. However, after awhile, evaporation will kick in..but you still have to deal with the damage afterwards..

[chronomancer]

[Just. This face. Really, Tohko. Really.]

[tohko_amano]

[Have a puzzled look in return. Really, she thought that explanation wasn't too weird.

..She's a book girl for a reason.]

[chronomancer]

[He's just. Going to facepalm. A bit.]

Sarcasm. It was. Sarcasm.

[tohko_amano]

Ah, alright then..sorry..so you meant that I was just weird in a way you couldn't explain well.

[chronomancer]

...never mind. It's okay.

[It's kind of not, but hey, here comes the guilt!]

Sorry, it's been a long day.

[tohko_amano]

[Is a sun coming along with it?]

Oh, don't worry about it! I imagine that it's been a hectic day, considering how you took to baking.

[chronomancer]

[...small steps now, we need to handle guilt first, and we're talking industrial qualities of it, already.]

Among other things, yeah.

[Eridan shrugged.]

[tohko_amano]

[And, just like industrial sludge, that has to be tossed out.]

What are the other things?

[chronomancer]

[But if you throw out the guilt, you're left with nothing! Eridan is the guilt. It is him. What else can he be?]

...

[Also, he's staring again, because damn girl, ur nosy.]

[tohko_amano]

[Have another puzzled look. Because Tohko doesn't realize that she's being nosy.]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan blinks slowly.]

You just did it again.

[PARADOX SPACE, GRANT HIM PATIENCE.]

[tohko_amano]

[Time and space laugh at your sorrow.]

Did what?

[chronomancer]

[This isn't news. T__T]

The thing.

[Eridan gives her a smile that's half exasperation, half amusement.]

The nosy thing. You did it again.

[tohko_amano]

[Poor guy..><:] Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be nosy..I was just curious. It's fine if you don't want to tell me! [Tohko, finished with the paper towels she had, threw them out.]

[chronomancer]

[It could be worse... but only because I haven't figured out how to make it worse.

He shrugs.]

I'm just wondering now.

[tohko_amano]

[When you do, make sure to be cruel to him! It's what makes this game fun.]

I don't mean to sound nosy..but what are you wondering about?

[chronomancer]

[...well, that'll have to wait til after he's done getting mama'd by his boyfriend. SNRK. But yes.

The corner of Eridan's lip twitches into something that can't decide if it's a smile or a smirk.]

If you ever talk about yourself.

[tohko_amano]

[If you did it while he was being mama'd, you'd give him more time with his boyfriend and more things to work through.

Joy all around.

Tohko looked..puzzled at that.]

..Sometimes I do..but not all the time.

[chronomancer]

But you do ask about others all the time?

[It's a genuine question. Honest.]

[tohko_amano]

Sometimes I do, but if they tell me that they don't want to talk about something, I'll usually leave it alone until they want to talk about it.

[chronomancer]

...isn't that exhausting?

[It sounds like it.]