Snipe Hunt

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:32 pm

"...In what way?" Will said, more intrigued than angrily.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:39 pm

"I... well... you see..." he stammered, looking to the others for help.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:05 pm

"You know, treatment for scoliosis and, uh... Chronic Grit Deficiency Syndrome."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:06 pm

"You're just embarrassed by me, aren't you?" Will accused.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:59 pm

"Listen here, you doofus." she says, lifting up the pizza box so she can open it and look in at Will. "You're my dad, so yeah, sometimes you're embarrassing cause that's what dads do. But look at everybody else here and tell me you wouldn't get annoyed by their unchecked brain-otters..." she gestures at Tosh, "...or white-haired push-overs getting shoved around by the crazy twigs-in-her-hair punch-hobo." she sweeps her hand over to Sam. "This isn't you. So have a ding-dang Snickers!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:35 am

Will shied back from Robin's tirade.

"You don't have to be so..." he started, looking down at his feet.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:43 pm

"...Will, she's had to deal with the whiplash of seeing her father whole, then immediately seeing him split into his... most contrasting traits," she says diplomatically.

by **Robin Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:47 pm

"Don't even. He's trying to pity his way out."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:01 pm

"I don't think it's too much to ask to not want to hate myself anymore..."

by **Robin Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:19 pm

"I am, like, 99% certain that this isn't the way to go about that."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:04 pm

"For example, I hate the nervous, cowardly part of me, but eliminating fear altogether would be a problem."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:06 pm

"And there's such a thing as being greater than the sum of your parts."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:17 pm

""You've seen what he thinks of me. You know what I think of him. I don't think we can ever be recombined."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:24 pm

"Part of me hates another part of me because she bends over for everyone."

"That part hates the first part because she never listens to anyone."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:26 pm

"Yeah, but you're special. You're the Morrigan; that's supposed to be your whole thing."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:30 pm

"And you're the Morrigan's champion. Maybe not this Morrigan's champion, but you held out hope for what may well be a couple of geographical eras."

"You may be clay, but you're not common."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:40 pm

It is hard for a sauce-covered person to appear sad, but Will was trying his damndest.

"I thought that, you know, things were going to be OK. When Tereza bought me from the school, when you guys made me part of the Pack...but it's not, is it? I'm not what you want; you don't really accept me for what I want to be; he doesn't accept me for what I am..."

He sighed.

"If you think it would be best if we...got back together. I mean, we can try."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:13 pm

"I don't want to hurt you, Will. But being like this has been hurting you."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:20 pm

"I don't believe you could hurt me if you tried.

I don't believe you could hurt me if you tried."

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:28 pm

"Listen, Dad, I know you think you're happier without the doubt and the... grittier bits, but that's not the only things on the ingredient list of him." she says, nudging the bag of dehydrated clay. "It's your drive to be better in there, your conviction to standing up for people and fight and believe in what's right. And yeah, sometimes that means you feel bad or that you get angry and how dare you make me be the mature one, but this is what you and Mum taught me. So stop hiding in that couch cushion, get back out there, show 'em that a Stanton always bounces back and ask out that boy!"

"Okay maybe that particular talk I'm thinking of doesn't quite apply here, but you get the point!"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:31 pm

"...

I want assurances, though. I don't want to be forgotten. "

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:46 pm

"How could we possibly. You're the bits that make Dad fun and whimsical!"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:55 pm

"We're not looking to erase either of you."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:01 pm

"Yeah, but, you know how much he'll hate everything I want to do."

He took a deep breath, like he was scared by the whole idea.

"...I want a day. One day a week. Where it's me, and not him."

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:06 pm

"I don't really know how we'd do that... I don't want you to hate yourself. I didn't even realize you did! Can we make sure that part isn't gonna be, like, overpowering or anything? Can you fine-tune stuff like that?" she asks Sam.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:09 pm

"Before, there were three bits of him, which... alright, that was probably done because it was another me that did it."

"But it seemed to work, aye? Those three bits came out of the box, and one was all Willy Wonka, one was scornful of trousers, and one was an X-Man."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:28 pm

"I mean, I can't say what goes on in my head; I've never been. You need to do what....what you think is best, in there.

I just mean, like, out here. I want to be treated like...well, like I want to be treated; regardless of what he thinks about it.

I don't want people to argue and worry about how busy I am, or consent, or anything stupid like that. I want people to come in and grab me and use me; so I can take care of what's needed. Like I want. Like I'm meant for. I don't want to be...asked. I want to be...told."

It was hard to tell under the sauce, but Will seemed to be turning quite crimson. "I know Viv nixed me being the bed, and I know Tereza is super-hesitant about the concept of owning me, and I know the first thing you did when I came to your room was tell me to go live with someone else. And I know he'll hate it with every fiber of his being; it's demeaning and disgraceful and everything in between. But, since he's been gone, I've gotten to...enjoy some of that, without that constant yelling voice in the back of my mind telling me how it'll hurt my reputation or my authority or my relationships. Miriam did what years of counseling and therapy couldn't do; and when you cram him back into my head..." he trailed off.

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:06 pm

"How's that even work? If we mash you back together this'll be as much part of him as he'll be part of you... Besides, pretty sure I'm contractually obliged to be embarrassed by my parents, but I was never ashamed of you. And boo to you for making him think that way." she adds with a bit of a kick to the bag of Instant-Will.

by **Null** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:09 pm

Sam would get mental images of Robin being sent literally through a wringer. The boy-bag was not happy with any of this conversation.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:11 pm

"This is definitely as much mental as it is physical, aye?"

"He's the part that gives, and our finely ground friend there is the part that resists."

"Which is what he's doing, right now. As hard as he can."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:21 pm

"It is better to give than to receive," Will platituded.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:23 pm

"I mean giving in the structural sense."

"Something that gives way all the time can't bear any weight."

"Something that resists all the time is fragile."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:31 pm

"I think I can bear quite a bit of weight, if the situation calls for it," Will mumbled into his pizza box.

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:55 pm

"And you're the only one who can judge how much 'quite a bit' is. All I know for sure is that it's neither 'all of it' nor 'none'." she says, lifting up the bag-o-will and walking down the hallway and into the communal kitchen.

"We got the flour, grey and crumbly as it may be, guess you get to be the eggs." she says, upending the pizza-box over a bowl and, before Lil' Will can scramble out starts dumping the dehydrated Will-Powder on top of him.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:57 pm

"I think the flour is going to take some work before it's ready."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:02 pm

"Ack! Pffft," Will cried, trying to wipe off some of the powder -- easier said than done when he already had sauce and cheese on him.

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:09 pm

"Well, work you mind-voodoo then." she says, rolling up her non-existent sleeves and reaching into the bowl to start smooshing everything together. Bits of cheese and sauce probably wasn't going to hurt much.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:10 pm

Sam sighs and has a seat on a kitchen stool, closing her eyes and reaching out to the two with her mind.

In the meantime, she also grabs a hole of the boring, repetitive thought process of Robin kneading and holds it in place, trying to draw Robin's more active thoughts into the shared mindscape, along with Tosh for the power of SCIENCE.

by **Robin Stanton** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:22 pm

Forcefully zoning out's a little freaky, but Robin's mind doesn't offer much resistance. Her mental avatar is, perhaps unsurprisingly, more or less exactly the same as her chosen default appearance, though her impression of being swept up in the telepathic link is that of kind of spinning down a drain or a tornado, stretching out in the process till they're through and she snaps all the way there, bouncing around for a moment before pulling herself together.

"I will never get used to this..."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:32 pm

"Neither will I," a lab coat wearing Tosh said, looking a bit green.

"We," Bruce corrected from his right, dressed in colorful swim trunks and sporting a puka shell necklace.

To the left, a white ferret dressed like a cowboy nodded.

Who is online