Nimona ☆ White Tiger

[hanaban]

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[sharkgirl]

From what, falling to your doom? [peers down at him, leaning backwards a bit.]

[hanaban]

[ ... ]

I guess you could say that, yeah!

[sharkgirl]

Uh huh.

Anyway, if you ever ask me a question about myself again I'm gonna answer with huh? What? Did you say something?

[hanaban]

Aw, come on. I answered!!

[ y'know... technically... technically... his parents did nothing to stop him from doing what he did... ]

[sharkgirl]

Huh? What?

[casually is a brat]

[hanaban]

I said I answered!!

[ shakes her shoulders, listen to meeeeeee ]

[sharkgirl]

Did you though?

[she's laughing when he shakes her]

[hanaban]

I did! I'm doing it right now! Look at me answering all your questions!

[sharkgirl]

[she pinches his nose.]

What did you mean by echo? Answer that one.

[hanaban]

What did I say about echo...?

[ help, don't expect him to remember anything I have to parent up half a dozen times for ]

[sharkgirl]

[that's fair i only remember because i had to check if she was still a bird]

You said you're dead. So like a ghost? Have you been a ghost for a long time?

[hanaban]

[ It's nice that she goes for ghost before zombie, but he's figured by now people have read that bit on his profile. And even then, people don't ask.


... ]

That's right! I died... fifty-some years ago?

[sharkgirl]

[her eyebrows raise!]

Huh. So you're old. [teehee]

[hanaban]

Yeah, so listen to your elders, ya punk!

[sharkgirl]

[she MAKES A FACE AT HIM]

Uh, wow? I'm older than you! Listen to your elders.

[hanaban]

No way you're older than me.

[ "how long have YOU been dead, then?" he wants to ask but no, Nimona isn't allowed to be dead ]

[sharkgirl]

Like somewhere in the... [she squints, thinking about it.] I don't know. Thousand something. So like nine hundred fifty years older than you, yeah.

[well, she's not dead! technically. theoretically.]

[hanaban]

[ TECHNICALLY? THEORETICALLY?? ]

...No way.

[sharkgirl]

[yea! theoretically she is not dead at her canon point!]

Yeah way. [taps his hat.] Might be a bit less. I stopped keeping track because it didn't matter.

[hanaban]

[ hmng. ]

...I guess I just can't imagine existing for that long. How do you do it...?

[ When he couldn't even make it past 13 before he gave up ]

[sharkgirl]

[ahhh, well.

she glances back out over the playground.]

I don't know. Spite, I guess. [...] I told you I was tired before I got here.

[hanaban]

[ Existing out of spite... maybe just a little part of his existence is that too

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Nimona, is space travel a thing where you're from?

[sharkgirl]

Not really. People don't even leave the Kingdom.

Why?

[hanaban]

Oh.

[ That's kind of a bummer. He was hoping Nimona was +1950 years into his future instead of in the past, but if she has kingdoms all over again... ]

Around the time when I died, mankind had just set foot on the moon. Space travel became reality for the first time ever... [ He looks up at the sky, at the half-hidden moon, all these unfamiliar stars, and then closes his eyes so he doesn't have to see them. ]

Did you know? There are over two hundred billion trillion stars in the universe! Trillions of planets just like ours, with people just like us, living, just like this...

There's so much out there. I couldn't stand it.

[sharkgirl]

[she also has cell phones and digital billboards her world is weird.

she glances at him, and then... back at the sky.]

... There's all those places out there and you didn't want to see if you could see them? [she's not judgmental, just curious.]