"Oh... yeah." She'd almost forgotten. "Yeah, I guess. Tomhas didn't believe me when I told him."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"I almost didn't believe it when I was told. Who can blame him?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"I wouldn't lie about something like that," she said quietly. She knew it was an outlandish behavior. She knew it wasn't personal that Tomhas didn't believe her, since it was so out of character for Gaius. But it still stung a bit that he didn't take her seriously when she was being very, very serious.
(Random flashback to my friend laughing at me in undergrad when I was being serious and it stinging lol I am childfree by choice but have dabbled with the idea of adopting and told my friend I was thinking of adopting and she laughed at me because she thought I was joking)(she apologized when I reacted poorly lol but still got that stuck in my head of 'wait does she think I'd be a bad parent?' living rent-free haha)
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
(Aw oof. I bet you'd be a great parent; you seem really cool.)
"I know you wouldn't. Maybe he just hoped it was some dumb joke rather than actually believed it was a joke."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
(Tank <3 for now it's a distant pipe-dream, probably won't be stable enough for at least another solid decade or so to even consider it lol but there are so many teens in foster care who need love and acceptance and they are being so wildly failed by the system. I don't do kid-kids but I've got a soft spot for teens)
"...maybe," she allowed. "I... I don't know. This is all very complicated."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Yeah," Ky sighed, shuffling her feet a bit as they walked as she tried to consider what her next move needed to be. No longer did charging ahead so she could go back to her room seem safest. Now, at least, she had an excuse for why she wasn't searching Tomhas out. Emery was bugging her; there was nothing she could do about that. But once the stupid exercise-your-teen ploy was over? Meh.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Thanks for walking with me,' he said. "I know you didn't want to. It's tough to get up and move around when you're depressed."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"...meh." She shrugged, not looking at him. "...it wasn't so bad, I guess... but I'm not doing it again."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"You should. It doesn't have to be with me, but you should do it every day or a couple times a week."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Mm." She wasn't going to. But no point in picking a fight. Just leave it at a passive non-answer so that he didn't get obnoxious about forcing her to agree. And so that she had plausible deniability if he tried to force her in the future, since she wasn't agreeing with him.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"I'll pick on you," he said with a small smile. "I'll pick on people to come pick on you."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
