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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?

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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.

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Good. I'm glad.

[But he knows he's different, too. He knows he's lost something important; he knows she's seen it. It shouldn't matter.]

Anyway, that wasn't the only reason I chose the infinity sign. Can't you guess what the other one was?

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[ He doesn't question her, and that feels strange, too. But she's glad he hasn't. She's not disappointed, no, and even admitting as much is strange for a girl who spent a long time mocking a boy for a disability she caused him to have. What she feels about it...

... is nothing she is willing to deeply consider right now. ]

There's another reason????

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You did call me simplistic.

[There's no tone in text, but he'd have hedged something like that with explanations and hesitations if he meant it; he's needling her a little. He has changed.]

It's because it was like yours. Your 8, turned on its side. Call me a copycat.

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[ ........

"Trying to be like her" is not something she'd've ever thought was a thing to rank on someone else's wishlist. ]

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Haha. What an uncreative dwee8. You're right. May8e you aren't cut out for a quirk after all.

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No. So I'll be me, and you be you. And hopefully that will work out well enough.

You say the nicest things, by the way. Simplistic. Uncreative. Are you trying to goad me to do better?

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I don't know. Are you capa8le of gr8ness, Simon?

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Infinite possibilities, my dear.

[No, that's been proven, is what he doesn't say.]

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The last 8oy I helped m8ke gr8 decided he h8ed me.

May8e I will let you fig8re it out on your own.

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Realistically, it's something of a lofty ambition. You know how it is. I'll settle for just living day to day, and not getting any of us killed. Doing what I can.

Little things. Useful things.

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You are way too fix8ed on 8eing useful. It would 8e kind of depressing if it wasn't keeping you alive. Or may8e that's more depressing????

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8eing useful isn't all it's cracked up to 8e!

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It's what I want, Vriska. It's all I want. To be allowed to participate.

[Oh hush, Simon.]

Tell me about this boy of yours. Are we talking about a boyfriend?