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who's rose? another one of your friends?
if she likes Harry Potter then she has good taste that's for sure.

rose is my sister
her tastes were kind of all over the place but mostly she liked magic and dark shit and junk
she liked to write

[As she's typing out her response, Ashley takes note of something kind of chilling:

Dave's writing in past tense.]

the sister you mentioned with purple eyes!
well I believe in the supernatural (of course) but I'm not exactly fond of it in real life.
but it would be nice to talk like that with her.
especially about writing.

yup thats her
apparently she was here a while ago and shes part of the reason some people kind of sort of know me
but it looks like i missed her by a pretty wide margin
or this iteration of me did anyway
but thinkin about that stuff too much gives me a headache so ive tried to put it behind me

I don't want to think about stuff like that either that just sounds confusing.
maybe she'll show up again and you can see her?
now that I can take everything slow I kind of just want people I miss here.
like
abduction aside
if I'm gonna be here
anyway so you have one friend here Jade right?
and a whole bunch of people from the same place showed up here recently.
do a lot of people usually have friends here or? is that a minority case.
not to digress or change the subject you can tell me all about your sister if you want I was just wondering.

nah its a good question
i havent talked to everybody or put out a survey or anything to see who knows who but from what ive observed
probably a majority of people are CURRENTLY lone representatives of their worlds
you dont usually get a bunch of people showing up from one universe at once like with the remnant kids
but it seems like once one persons here the pokegods get more inclined to send them a buddy eventually
not everybody stays the same length of time but its something
and then there was the weird shit that happened in november

so all I can really do is hope then
Ha
well at least there are some nice people here like you and york and north and those girls and others who showed up same day i did. and ms sandiego and mr tsukiyama.
better to be prepared than not

but excuse me what was that about november??

if were all on board with the video game language all i can really say is that things got
glitchy??
not in a dangerous way i dont think but suddenly a whole mass of people were here who usually arent and some other things were bonkers too
thats when jade first showed up
like she hadnt been here at that point and then she turned up for about a weekend and then was gone again
and then came back for real a couple weeks later but she didnt mention being here

people can be here for THAT short a time??
that's horrible
and WEIRD
it doesn't sound like a normal thing right? like if someone I know shows up I don't have to fear that they'll just VANISH in a day??
that must've been so awful for you jeez I'm sorry

yeah its not the usual
and it seems like everyone knew about it before it happened so its some kind of predictable
someone warned me about it so at least i knew what to expect and since id been alone before that i
well i mean
not alone alone
i had penny i was ok
but anyway because itd been a while since id seen jade at least it was nice to hang out

yeah I get you
even for a little while
I don't know
maybe it'd be nice. mostly I worry it'd be too upsetting to carry on after

yeah
if shed been there right when i showed up and then abruptly fucked off to places unknown
or if i hadnt known it was probably a temporary thing
i probably woulda had words for people
but at that point id had some time to get adjusted so it was more like
kind of a bittersweet deal
and she had fun too i think
shes always been more into the outdoors and animals thing than me so it was cool to see her get all hype about battle poodles and shit

it'd be cool
to see them all happy and relaxed here
something to think about I guess. for the future
if it happens.
in any case I'm glad your friend's here after all of that.
she must be having a blast if she's that kind of person

as far as i can tell yeah she is
she also didnt have a lot of people around to talk to growing up so you can imagine getting to make all these new friends is like constantly blowing her mind

[Dave, you might be projecting there.]

i bet shed like you too shes nice as hell and crazy smart
she does like astrophysics and shit instead of literature though

~~why didn't she have people around? was she an~~

[ASHLEY YOU CAN'T JUST ASK THAT thank god she realizes]

astrophysics?? ooohhhh I'm not good at that kind of stuff
science is HARD I have to work at it a lot same with math.
but she sounds nice so who knows
she's with you in Violet City right?

yup
we got rooms next to each other at the inn so if she ever wants to show me a funny lillipup video she can just holler
youll recognize her on the network if you see her she types in this horrendous bright green
like its a good thing i wear shades all the time because otherwise id have been blind by age twelve

what color are her eyes?

guess

wow you were right that IS bright
why do you guys do that anyway??
accepting your sister's eyes ARE that shade of purple
is it just a weird friendgroup thing??

its just a weird friendgroup thing yeah
though i guess the trolls do it too except with their bl

ummmmmmmmmmm pretend i didnt say that
or pretend i was about to say the statement of a sane and rational person

answer me one question
is this the kind of thing that would make me paranoid of things that go bump in the night.

uh
no?
i dont think so
trolls arent scary theyre just assholes who like to hassle people on the internet
and if they go bump in the night its probably because they tripped over their own furniture and in that case youre a lot more likely to hear all the cursin than the bump itself

alright
so since we've established whatever it is you were going to say is not rational nor sane
can I put a pin in this and ask about trolls and their bl some time
preferably some time when I'm less
this
because curiosity is kind of my thing see. I like learning things and asking questions and if I don't they kind of gnaw at me.
but it hasn't even been a week and I'm still getting used to this place so

[One day can you tell her about Homestuck]

yeah thats reasonable
its not relevant atm anyway

[lol]

its just the color things pretty common around where im from
everyone i knew back there did it

[no one tell them]

that's so strange to me
I mean OK I spend a lot of time on the internet but I mostly text my friends and you can't really change text color on the phone
instead it's all emoji fun
but a custom color sounds interesting even though I don't think I could go off eye color

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