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Let me rewrite that so your simple human brain can understand. "I'm being practical, Simon. It's up to him to prove me wrong."

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Vriska, I _understood_ you. I'm just used to your 8s being in particular places. Where they sound good.

Maybe I should get something like that. What do you think?

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Oh, so you were just 8eing a pedantic asshole for no reason? Gr8! That makes me feel much 8etter.

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A8solutely. It would suit you perfectly.

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Not no reason. I was curious. I asked.

I am pedantic, th0ugh. It rather c0mes with the territ0ry.

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Oh my god, don't do zeroes! One of my friends used to do that 8ack when she was dead. And now her asshole half-dead not-8oyfriend stole the quirk. Pick something else!!!!

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Good lord. Your social sphere is worse than my own.

[His father's, he means; the incestuous, secluded knot he grew up in.]

How ^bout this? *r this? A little unreadable, I think.

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Hahahaha. Now you just look like a tool.

It's perfect! :::;)

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That is both unkind and unnecessary, young woman.

You're right, though. It is perfect.

[He's not distracted from what's happening outside, and he doesn't believe she is. But it's not as if there's anything they can do. And he's used to going through the motions by now.]

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8oohoo. Sorry the truth hurts!

Why those sym8ols, anyway?

[ She knows. And she's still sort of miffed about the way he made light of her statement about Kotetsu. But she's rolling with it for the same reasons: this is all they can do. ]

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They looked like the letters.

Is there meant to be more to it than that? Something symbolic, like you and the spiders?

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There is, and your efforts are so hopelessly simplistic I almost don't know what to say to you.

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Simplistic? My God. It's substituting letters, not EU law.

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I mean, you can take the single laziest, easiest, and most childish way out if you want! Don't let me stop you. ::::)

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Y_∞u're trying t_∞ pr_∞v_∞ke me.

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What about that one?

1/3

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[ ahem. ]

Wow. Okay, this I have to hear. Explain!

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I don't think I like it. Maybe I should only use it for double os. M_∞se. Ref_∞se. Things like that.

Do you promise you won't laugh?

[Sweet summer child, if he only knew.]

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Wow, this sounds serious! Alright, Simon. I promise.

[ ... to try. ]

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It's to do with choices. With having them, and not. Good decisions open up new worlds, new people you can be. Shall I study classics, or law? Shall I work late, or stop for coffee? That sort of thing.

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And bad decisions, those do the opposite. You make one mistake, one bad choice, just once, and it feels like there's nothing left. But it isn't true.

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There are always choices, they're just - different. An infinity of things we can do and ways we can be, that make little differences. An infinity of worlds still out there.

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I just want to remember that. Please don't laugh at me.

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[ Oh. That was less funny than she was expecting. And something about it reminds her of Gliese, which of course she hates. ]

So you want to represent yourself with the infinity of possi8ility. How poetic! Not to mention optimistic.

And duplicitous, coming from you. You're getting 8etter at this.

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[It reminded him of Gliese, too. But not only of her.]

Don't hold back, now. You forgot arrogant and woolgathering and probably a bit mad.

Perhaps I'm just not cut out to have a - you called it a quirk? How was I being duplicitous?

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You are not the same person you were when we met.

The 8oy who was too scared to 8e in my presence for more than a few minutes wouldn't have said shit like that.

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Are you disappointed?

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No.