[ out of cyoa hell and straight into death day hell
He can feel his heart squeeze when Nimona destroys the last panel, and wonders how much worse it will be when he has to do it himself, the inevitable. But he's been avoiding it for this long, and it's not like he can do anything about it here, so he slowly unclenches his fists— he hadn't realized he'd been squeezing Nimona's hand so tightly— and forces himself to breathe out.
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...It's just family drama. Something for me alone to deal with.
[ it's a small mmhm, the kind that silently pleads her not to press for more, because that'll lead into a rabbit hole of how his brother became a ghost and why he did what he did, but I don't have concrete canon for that yet so he's going to swerve and change the subject. ]
You were really little, before. Could you choose what age you look like?
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He can feel his heart squeeze when Nimona destroys the last panel, and wonders how much worse it will be when he has to do it himself, the inevitable. But he's been avoiding it for this long, and it's not like he can do anything about it here, so he slowly unclenches his fists— he hadn't realized he'd been squeezing Nimona's hand so tightly— and forces himself to breathe out.
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...It's just family drama. Something for me alone to deal with.
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he can squeeze her hand as much as he wants.]
I haven't had family drama in like a thousand years, so I don't know that I'd give good advice anyway.
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[ family drama the day you were born?? ]
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Yeah. Like if you want me to be really specific I guess it was like nine hundred and four years ago or something like that. I forgot.
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That's still such a long time. I don't think any family can be peaceful for that long.
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[ mom? dad? cute little evil twin brother? ]
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I think. I don't really remember.
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That's alright. I haven't thought about my parents in a long time either.
[ a measly 50 years for him, but still ]
Besides my brother, I don't have anybody else. That's probably why I'm so scared to lose him again.
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she hums.]
... You don't have anybody at all? [a beat.] Is he also a ghost?
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[ it's a small mmhm, the kind that silently pleads her not to press for more, because that'll lead into a rabbit hole of how his brother became a ghost and why he did what he did, but I don't have concrete canon for that yet so he's going to swerve and change the subject. ]
You were really little, before. Could you choose what age you look like?
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I can where I come from. I've never really tried here. [asks the mods if she can because i desperately want her to be baby]
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You can choose what you look like, then? You had these... really fat ankles?
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also rude she just gives him a LOOK]
Okay, well, don't be a dick about it.
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[ her charm point... radish legs ]