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@vandalized-swingset
The name's Parker. I'm a contra-air elemental. He/she pronouns.
My mom's Maddie Sha.
Part of the punk scene, sorta. I like playin' video games and explorin' abandoned places. Spray paint's fun t'work with. I do some sewin', mainly to add stuff onto my jacket. Pretty sure I'm aroace.
Are there any blue roses? Like real ones. Or do they just take the white, green, or red ones then paint them as blue?
no, blue roses don't occur in nature- but they're easy to make artificially. just place a cut white rose into blue-dyed water and wait a bit, and eventually the rose will be blue. also why did you ask me this
i used to stick flowers in dye as a kid to make them different colors
every month i track down and kill a member of various professions so that i can absorb their workplace knowledge. last june i shredded a florist
I got a piece of candy today for giving my therapist actual information about my dead dad instead of avoiding the topic again :>
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
We met through a mutual friend an' I kinda tossed a sewin' an' patch kit at him as a welcome gift.
That's nice of you! Bet he got lotsa use out of that. (she lightly elbows Parker) Yeah, I did. Lou was also one of the people who got me to quit smokin'.
Really?? Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got help with it.
Yeah... I gave him an' his foster sister a buncha dum dums to help with cravings.
Dum dums?
Uh...regional thing, right.
They're a brand of suckers.
[He digs through his pockets and produces one.]
They look like this.
Ooh! Yes, those! They're tasty. If only I'd smoked, maybe I'd've been given some too. (she jokes, and Parker laughs)
They definitely helped. 's surprisin' how much just having a way to keep your mouth busy helps- scratch that, sounds dirtier than it did in my head.
If you really want some, I can bring a few for next time that aren't pocket gross.
Pfff.
Really?! That's so nice of you!
Yeah, really. I um...I've got a lot of 'em an' I don't mind sharin'.
Thanks, Lou. (she beams) Now, we should get the rest of this stuff set up, yeah?
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
We met through a mutual friend an' I kinda tossed a sewin' an' patch kit at him as a welcome gift.
That's nice of you! Bet he got lotsa use out of that. (she lightly elbows Parker) Yeah, I did. Lou was also one of the people who got me to quit smokin'.
Really?? Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got help with it.
Yeah... I gave him an' his foster sister a buncha dum dums to help with cravings.
Dum dums?
Uh...regional thing, right.
They're a brand of suckers.
[He digs through his pockets and produces one.]
They look like this.
Ooh! Yes, those! They're tasty. If only I'd smoked, maybe I'd've been given some too. (she jokes, and Parker laughs)
They definitely helped. 's surprisin' how much just having a way to keep your mouth busy helps- scratch that, sounds dirtier than it did in my head.
If you really want some, I can bring a few for next time that aren't pocket gross.
Pfff.
Really?! That's so nice of you!
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
We met through a mutual friend an' I kinda tossed a sewin' an' patch kit at him as a welcome gift.
That's nice of you! Bet he got lotsa use out of that. (she lightly elbows Parker) Yeah, I did. Lou was also one of the people who got me to quit smokin'.
Really?? Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got help with it.
Yeah... I gave him an' his foster sister a buncha dum dums to help with cravings.
Dum dums?
Uh...regional thing, right.
They're a brand of suckers.
[He digs through his pockets and produces one.]
They look like this.
Ooh! Yes, those! They're tasty. If only I'd smoked, maybe I'd've been given some too. (she jokes, and Parker laughs)
They definitely helped. 's surprisin' how much just having a way to keep your mouth busy helps- scratch that, sounds dirtier than it did in my head.
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
We met through a mutual friend an' I kinda tossed a sewin' an' patch kit at him as a welcome gift.
That's nice of you! Bet he got lotsa use out of that. (she lightly elbows Parker) Yeah, I did. Lou was also one of the people who got me to quit smokin'.
Really?? Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got help with it.
Yeah... I gave him an' his foster sister a buncha dum dums to help with cravings.
Dum dums?
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
We met through a mutual friend an' I kinda tossed a sewin' an' patch kit at him as a welcome gift.
That's nice of you! Bet he got lotsa use out of that. (she lightly elbows Parker) Yeah, I did. Lou was also one of the people who got me to quit smokin'.
Really?? Oh thank goodness, I'm glad you got help with it.
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
I'm glad y'all got out.
...So am I. Anyway! How'd you and Parker meet?
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
Oh wow!
Thanks!
Yep, we were foster siblings together for a bit. (Parker nods) That house sucked. It did. But at least we're here now!
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
Nice t'meet you too, Julie! I'm Lou, an' I'm assumin' you've already met Parker.
[He shakes her hand.]
Your piercings are cool.
(She laughs) Yes, well, we met when we were around ten! And thank you! I like your jacket.
(Before one of the punk meetups, Lou gets there early and sees Parker talking and laughing with a girl that she seems very familiar and comfortable with. She's helping her set up a couple snack containers.) - @vandalized-swingset
[Lou sets some of the donated magazines that he'd brought for the 'zine making session down on the crafts table before walking over.]
Hi! You're new!
Oh hi!! Yes, I'm Julie! It's nice to meet you! (she extends a hand to shake)
(Her accent sounds midwestern and she has short blonde hair up in a ponytail, light brown eyes, as well as nose bridge and septum piercings. She's wearing an unbuttoned black plaid shirt with a pink choker and graphic tee underneath.)
I read the Wikipedia page. It sounds interesting. I guess I'll try watchin' it later.
You should watch Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Never heard of it.
(Parker is glowering a little when he's shown up at Lou's place before the school dance.) - @vandalized-swingset
(ooc: presumably this is before the end of the school year but since they haven't done much since that time the time jump-back shouldn't be hard)
Are you mad at me?
A little still.
(She's wearing a white dress shirt and tie with the sleeves rolled up and black slacks. Her hair is long enough to be styled nicely now, it looks like it's been curled a little with heat.)
[He's wearing a red button down that's cuffed at the elbows and some black slacks.]
[His makeup's bold, eyeliner that's been drawn with star like rays and a couple of dots on his cheeks. His hair is slicked back as best as he can get it although he's still got a couple of fly aways.]
[He nods.]
Sorry again.
You look good.
Thank you. (she grouses)
You look decent. Let's go.
Aight.
I've got a couple sets of unopened earplugs in my pocket in case shit gets too loud there.
'kay. I'll prob'ly be fine.
Yeah. Probably.
's just good to be prepared.
'kay. Hurry up.
(she drags him towards the bus stop)
Alright.
[He keeps step with her.]
(They get to the dance. Cordelia is there in a pretty fancy yellow and white dress.)
! Oh, look, it's the lovely couple.
...
An' that's a lovely dress, Cordelia. You pick it out yourself?
Yes! My brother helped. (she flips her hair gracefully) Though really, it's a tad wasted on this... high school dance.
Aw, ain't that sweet.
Feelin' a little over dressed?
I should be overdressed! But yes, it is getting me a few stares.
(Parker wanders off to find the refreshments without a word.)
..Is your boyfriend ditching you already??
He's not ditchin'. Just needs some air.
You like all that attention though?
..Pretty much, yes!! What use is being rich if you don't use it to make yourself stand out?
You're very odd, but y'know what, that tracks.
?! Really? How??
You've got your whole identity wrapped up in bein' rich an' posh an' British. Might just be rich people stuff but I don't think that's too normal.
...That's what the other people of my status usually do. I'm related to the British royal family, so it'd be weirder if I weren't like this! Maybe!
Y'know what yeah. Probably.
Then it's settled! I am completely valid in my ways and there is no need for me to look inwards and examine my behaviour!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Shhhhh. No more thinking about morality. I'm going to go eat a cupcake.
(She walks off with her dress fluttering behind her. Parker returns with a packet of kool-aid and a brownie.)
Selection over there's about what you'd expect.
Yeah, I figured.
Can we stage a breakup already?
Yup.
Great. Cool. I don't know how to stage a breakup.
I've got three ideas, but it all depends on how ugly you want it t'get.
Lay 'em out an' I'll try pickin' one, then.
First one that comes to mind is just a big explosive argument. We're shitty to each other and end it all decidin' we're done with each other. That'll get the most people's attention an' it'll be fuckin' ugly.
Second is we kinda exchange notes that say somethin' to the extent of the relationship bein' over, feign distress, and avoid each other the rest of the dance an' over the next few days.
Third is one of us ups and leaves in a huff and if anyone asks what's wrong, we tell 'em that we broke up.
(He grins) I kinda wanna do a blow-up fight, yeah. First option.
Let's fuckin' go.
[He grins back at her.]
You get to pick the topic.
...I'm so bad at choosin' stuff on the spot... why can't you pick? Only thing I can think of is you cheatin' but that's a reputation screwer an' we don't need more of that.
Yeah, probably not that.
I guess I just wanted t'give you a choice if you wanted it.
Could be about somethin' stupid like just ragebait with blatantly wrong facts about somethin' one of us is interested in which then leads to insults and then leads to the breakup.
I like choices, I don't like having to pick big things on the spot.
I don't know how we'd do that. I don't have a hobby that would be easy to ragebait about.
Yeah. That checks out.
Ragebait me then.
Mercury should be classified as a dwarf planet.
Okay. That's fuckin' stupid.
Mercury's double the size of Pluto and clears the three requirements for a full on planetary classification.
Nuh-uh. It's like the size of our moon or somethin', right? It should be like a moon or a dwarf planet instead. Maybe it's one of the sun's moons.
Stars don't have moons, and Mercury is quadruple the size of our moon.
Close enough. Earth should be the littlest planet, really, why do we need anythin' littler? That's just silly. An' isn't the sun just a big gas giant on fire all the time? I think it should get to have moons. Maybe every planet's a moon and we've been wrong this whole time.
Mars is still smaller than Earth so you're gonna need to classify it as a dwarf planet too and I think you're going to have a much harder time justifying that in comparison to Mercury.
Who cares, really? Mars is stupid anyway. It wouldn't matter if it didn't exist.
You're gonna have to take it up with the whole scientific community on that. A lot of people care.
Space stuff has gotten people excommunicated from the Catholic church before.
I've never cared about academic bullshit an' I'm not about to start now.
You are infuriatin'!
And you're always up your own ass with your stupid smarmy know-it-all shit!
At least I've got the guts t'be curious about the world around me!
I can be curious! I just don't want to study bullshit that doesn't matter in real life!
The fuck do you mean by that?
The space shit you're so obsessed with basically doesn't matter to the average person! I won't ever need to know it in the future for anythin'. It's just fluffy crap. Who cares what's goin' on on Neptune or whatever!
I thought that you liked that I cared about that 'space shit'.
Everyone pretends to like their partner's interests.
Pretends, huh?
So I guess I was makin' a mistake showin' genuine interest in yours.
Yeah. You were.
Jesus fuckin' christ.
I can't keep doin' this with you, Parker. Do you want this relationship or no?
No! Datin' you is fuckin' awful. Gives me a headache. I'd be better off alone without you stickin' your nose in what I'm doin'.
Then we can agree that we're done?
Yeah. Fuck off.
(he turns on his heel and leaves, brushing his hair out of his face with one of his hands)
(Parker is glowering a little when he's shown up at Lou's place before the school dance.) - @vandalized-swingset
(ooc: presumably this is before the end of the school year but since they haven't done much since that time the time jump-back shouldn't be hard)
Are you mad at me?
A little still.
(She's wearing a white dress shirt and tie with the sleeves rolled up and black slacks. Her hair is long enough to be styled nicely now, it looks like it's been curled a little with heat.)
[He's wearing a red button down that's cuffed at the elbows and some black slacks.]
[His makeup's bold, eyeliner that's been drawn with star like rays and a couple of dots on his cheeks. His hair is slicked back as best as he can get it although he's still got a couple of fly aways.]
[He nods.]
Sorry again.
You look good.
Thank you. (she grouses)
You look decent. Let's go.
Aight.
I've got a couple sets of unopened earplugs in my pocket in case shit gets too loud there.
'kay. I'll prob'ly be fine.
Yeah. Probably.
's just good to be prepared.
'kay. Hurry up.
(she drags him towards the bus stop)
Alright.
[He keeps step with her.]
(They get to the dance. Cordelia is there in a pretty fancy yellow and white dress.)
! Oh, look, it's the lovely couple.
...
An' that's a lovely dress, Cordelia. You pick it out yourself?
Yes! My brother helped. (she flips her hair gracefully) Though really, it's a tad wasted on this... high school dance.
Aw, ain't that sweet.
Feelin' a little over dressed?
I should be overdressed! But yes, it is getting me a few stares.
(Parker wanders off to find the refreshments without a word.)
..Is your boyfriend ditching you already??
He's not ditchin'. Just needs some air.
You like all that attention though?
..Pretty much, yes!! What use is being rich if you don't use it to make yourself stand out?
You're very odd, but y'know what, that tracks.
?! Really? How??
You've got your whole identity wrapped up in bein' rich an' posh an' British. Might just be rich people stuff but I don't think that's too normal.
...That's what the other people of my status usually do. I'm related to the British royal family, so it'd be weirder if I weren't like this! Maybe!
Y'know what yeah. Probably.
Then it's settled! I am completely valid in my ways and there is no need for me to look inwards and examine my behaviour!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Shhhhh. No more thinking about morality. I'm going to go eat a cupcake.
(She walks off with her dress fluttering behind her. Parker returns with a packet of kool-aid and a brownie.)
Selection over there's about what you'd expect.
Yeah, I figured.
Can we stage a breakup already?
Yup.
Great. Cool. I don't know how to stage a breakup.
I've got three ideas, but it all depends on how ugly you want it t'get.
Lay 'em out an' I'll try pickin' one, then.
First one that comes to mind is just a big explosive argument. We're shitty to each other and end it all decidin' we're done with each other. That'll get the most people's attention an' it'll be fuckin' ugly.
Second is we kinda exchange notes that say somethin' to the extent of the relationship bein' over, feign distress, and avoid each other the rest of the dance an' over the next few days.
Third is one of us ups and leaves in a huff and if anyone asks what's wrong, we tell 'em that we broke up.
(He grins) I kinda wanna do a blow-up fight, yeah. First option.
Let's fuckin' go.
[He grins back at her.]
You get to pick the topic.
...I'm so bad at choosin' stuff on the spot... why can't you pick? Only thing I can think of is you cheatin' but that's a reputation screwer an' we don't need more of that.
Yeah, probably not that.
I guess I just wanted t'give you a choice if you wanted it.
Could be about somethin' stupid like just ragebait with blatantly wrong facts about somethin' one of us is interested in which then leads to insults and then leads to the breakup.
I like choices, I don't like having to pick big things on the spot.
I don't know how we'd do that. I don't have a hobby that would be easy to ragebait about.
Yeah. That checks out.
Ragebait me then.
Mercury should be classified as a dwarf planet.
Okay. That's fuckin' stupid.
Mercury's double the size of Pluto and clears the three requirements for a full on planetary classification.
Nuh-uh. It's like the size of our moon or somethin', right? It should be like a moon or a dwarf planet instead. Maybe it's one of the sun's moons.
Stars don't have moons, and Mercury is quadruple the size of our moon.
Close enough. Earth should be the littlest planet, really, why do we need anythin' littler? That's just silly. An' isn't the sun just a big gas giant on fire all the time? I think it should get to have moons. Maybe every planet's a moon and we've been wrong this whole time.
Mars is still smaller than Earth so you're gonna need to classify it as a dwarf planet too and I think you're going to have a much harder time justifying that in comparison to Mercury.
Who cares, really? Mars is stupid anyway. It wouldn't matter if it didn't exist.
You're gonna have to take it up with the whole scientific community on that. A lot of people care.
Space stuff has gotten people excommunicated from the Catholic church before.
I've never cared about academic bullshit an' I'm not about to start now.
You are infuriatin'!
And you're always up your own ass with your stupid smarmy know-it-all shit!
At least I've got the guts t'be curious about the world around me!
I can be curious! I just don't want to study bullshit that doesn't matter in real life!
The fuck do you mean by that?
The space shit you're so obsessed with basically doesn't matter to the average person! I won't ever need to know it in the future for anythin'. It's just fluffy crap. Who cares what's goin' on on Neptune or whatever!
I thought that you liked that I cared about that 'space shit'.
Everyone pretends to like their partner's interests.
Pretends, huh?
So I guess I was makin' a mistake showin' genuine interest in yours.
Yeah. You were.
Jesus fuckin' christ.
I can't keep doin' this with you, Parker. Do you want this relationship or no?
No! Datin' you is fuckin' awful. Gives me a headache. I'd be better off alone without you stickin' your nose in what I'm doin'.
(Parker is glowering a little when he's shown up at Lou's place before the school dance.) - @vandalized-swingset
(ooc: presumably this is before the end of the school year but since they haven't done much since that time the time jump-back shouldn't be hard)
Are you mad at me?
A little still.
(She's wearing a white dress shirt and tie with the sleeves rolled up and black slacks. Her hair is long enough to be styled nicely now, it looks like it's been curled a little with heat.)
[He's wearing a red button down that's cuffed at the elbows and some black slacks.]
[His makeup's bold, eyeliner that's been drawn with star like rays and a couple of dots on his cheeks. His hair is slicked back as best as he can get it although he's still got a couple of fly aways.]
[He nods.]
Sorry again.
You look good.
Thank you. (she grouses)
You look decent. Let's go.
Aight.
I've got a couple sets of unopened earplugs in my pocket in case shit gets too loud there.
'kay. I'll prob'ly be fine.
Yeah. Probably.
's just good to be prepared.
'kay. Hurry up.
(she drags him towards the bus stop)
Alright.
[He keeps step with her.]
(They get to the dance. Cordelia is there in a pretty fancy yellow and white dress.)
! Oh, look, it's the lovely couple.
...
An' that's a lovely dress, Cordelia. You pick it out yourself?
Yes! My brother helped. (she flips her hair gracefully) Though really, it's a tad wasted on this... high school dance.
Aw, ain't that sweet.
Feelin' a little over dressed?
I should be overdressed! But yes, it is getting me a few stares.
(Parker wanders off to find the refreshments without a word.)
..Is your boyfriend ditching you already??
He's not ditchin'. Just needs some air.
You like all that attention though?
..Pretty much, yes!! What use is being rich if you don't use it to make yourself stand out?
You're very odd, but y'know what, that tracks.
?! Really? How??
You've got your whole identity wrapped up in bein' rich an' posh an' British. Might just be rich people stuff but I don't think that's too normal.
...That's what the other people of my status usually do. I'm related to the British royal family, so it'd be weirder if I weren't like this! Maybe!
Y'know what yeah. Probably.
Then it's settled! I am completely valid in my ways and there is no need for me to look inwards and examine my behaviour!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Shhhhh. No more thinking about morality. I'm going to go eat a cupcake.
(She walks off with her dress fluttering behind her. Parker returns with a packet of kool-aid and a brownie.)
Selection over there's about what you'd expect.
Yeah, I figured.
Can we stage a breakup already?
Yup.
Great. Cool. I don't know how to stage a breakup.
I've got three ideas, but it all depends on how ugly you want it t'get.
Lay 'em out an' I'll try pickin' one, then.
First one that comes to mind is just a big explosive argument. We're shitty to each other and end it all decidin' we're done with each other. That'll get the most people's attention an' it'll be fuckin' ugly.
Second is we kinda exchange notes that say somethin' to the extent of the relationship bein' over, feign distress, and avoid each other the rest of the dance an' over the next few days.
Third is one of us ups and leaves in a huff and if anyone asks what's wrong, we tell 'em that we broke up.
(He grins) I kinda wanna do a blow-up fight, yeah. First option.
Let's fuckin' go.
[He grins back at her.]
You get to pick the topic.
...I'm so bad at choosin' stuff on the spot... why can't you pick? Only thing I can think of is you cheatin' but that's a reputation screwer an' we don't need more of that.
Yeah, probably not that.
I guess I just wanted t'give you a choice if you wanted it.
Could be about somethin' stupid like just ragebait with blatantly wrong facts about somethin' one of us is interested in which then leads to insults and then leads to the breakup.
I like choices, I don't like having to pick big things on the spot.
I don't know how we'd do that. I don't have a hobby that would be easy to ragebait about.
Yeah. That checks out.
Ragebait me then.
Mercury should be classified as a dwarf planet.
Okay. That's fuckin' stupid.
Mercury's double the size of Pluto and clears the three requirements for a full on planetary classification.
Nuh-uh. It's like the size of our moon or somethin', right? It should be like a moon or a dwarf planet instead. Maybe it's one of the sun's moons.
Stars don't have moons, and Mercury is quadruple the size of our moon.
Close enough. Earth should be the littlest planet, really, why do we need anythin' littler? That's just silly. An' isn't the sun just a big gas giant on fire all the time? I think it should get to have moons. Maybe every planet's a moon and we've been wrong this whole time.
Mars is still smaller than Earth so you're gonna need to classify it as a dwarf planet too and I think you're going to have a much harder time justifying that in comparison to Mercury.
Who cares, really? Mars is stupid anyway. It wouldn't matter if it didn't exist.
You're gonna have to take it up with the whole scientific community on that. A lot of people care.
Space stuff has gotten people excommunicated from the Catholic church before.
I've never cared about academic bullshit an' I'm not about to start now.
You are infuriatin'!
And you're always up your own ass with your stupid smarmy know-it-all shit!
At least I've got the guts t'be curious about the world around me!
I can be curious! I just don't want to study bullshit that doesn't matter in real life!
The fuck do you mean by that?
The space shit you're so obsessed with basically doesn't matter to the average person! I won't ever need to know it in the future for anythin'. It's just fluffy crap. Who cares what's goin' on on Neptune or whatever!
I thought that you liked that I cared about that 'space shit'.
Everyone pretends to like their partner's interests.
Pretends, huh?
So I guess I was makin' a mistake showin' genuine interest in yours.
Yeah. You were.
