Hartley Rathaway 🎶 Pied Piper (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
socialactivillain) wrote2016-05-31 09:35 pm
socialactivillain) wrote2016-05-31 09:35 pm
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Guess I'll have to step up my game.
We should get lunch or something soon. Catch up.
We should get lunch or something soon. Catch up.
I love how quickly you contradicted yourself.
But yes, let's. Do you have somewhere in mind?
But yes, let's. Do you have somewhere in mind?
I found possibly the only hole-in-the-wall Italian place in downtown Maurtia Falls that probably isn't run by the mob.
Somehow I doubt that.
Either way, it'll be an entertaining evening. The poor #MsGems hashtag has been so dead of late.
Either way, it'll be an entertaining evening. The poor #MsGems hashtag has been so dead of late.
[This is a very hesitant text given that David isn't completely certain if he's someone that Piper wants to hear from or not.
After their initial meeting they seemed...okay? Still, Piper is the only one that comes to mind.]
Can I ask you a question?
[A beat.]
Aside from that one of course.
After their initial meeting they seemed...okay? Still, Piper is the only one that comes to mind.]
Can I ask you a question?
[A beat.]
Aside from that one of course.
[ Piper's a little surprised to get a text from him, but it's certainly not unwelcome. ]
Sure. You can even ask more than one, if you want!
Sure. You can even ask more than one, if you want!
I have a code too. [Not that dissimilar, come to think of it, even if every now and then a code was more of a guideline.] These days the rule is not to do anything I can't get Mick to stop talking about by taking of my shirt.
[It's a good rule to live by, all things considered. Right now the quip also serves to distract him from that inkling of something where Lisa is concerned. His sister, in any universe. He'd want her safe.]
[It's a good rule to live by, all things considered. Right now the quip also serves to distract him from that inkling of something where Lisa is concerned. His sister, in any universe. He'd want her safe.]
Basically everything.
And don't worry, you don't sound like an idiot.
And don't worry, you don't sound like an idiot.
How weird?
I know at least one person who's from a world where they think chopping heads off is an acceptable form of justice, bagels don't exist for him. [He thinks. Listen, it's an educated guess based off of what little Foggy has gathered of Westeros.] I'm just saying, there's a correlation between the non-existence of bagels and other breakfast foods and the shittiness of some realities.
I know at least one person who's from a world where they think chopping heads off is an acceptable form of justice, bagels don't exist for him. [He thinks. Listen, it's an educated guess based off of what little Foggy has gathered of Westeros.] I'm just saying, there's a correlation between the non-existence of bagels and other breakfast foods and the shittiness of some realities.
Basically about as weird as this one, re: superpowers. Just less cross-dimensional kidnapping, usually.
Even without the decapitation, any world without bagels isn't one I'd want to spend time in anyway.
Even without the decapitation, any world without bagels isn't one I'd want to spend time in anyway.
It'll be "entertaining" as long as you don't get anyone's blood in the marinara sauce.
And I basically know nothing
[Aside from the fact that they produce sound and in the hands of someone competent, a particularly nice sound]
I didn't come here with much, but I do have flutes and I don't know how to care for them.
Four of them belong to...they don't belong to me...and one is a gift I've been holding onto.
I'd like to keep them in good condition and normally when they are in my care I take them to a specialist...that sounds so clinical
[And he's relieved that he doesn't sound like an idiot, especially since he's dating someone who knows everything about flutes and he doesn't have the first damned clue about music.]
[Aside from the fact that they produce sound and in the hands of someone competent, a particularly nice sound]
I didn't come here with much, but I do have flutes and I don't know how to care for them.
Four of them belong to...they don't belong to me...and one is a gift I've been holding onto.
I'd like to keep them in good condition and normally when they are in my care I take them to a specialist...that sounds so clinical
[And he's relieved that he doesn't sound like an idiot, especially since he's dating someone who knows everything about flutes and he doesn't have the first damned clue about music.]
Ours is slightly less weird. I mean, there's the Incident and the Avengers, plus a few vigilantes popping out of the woodwork, but otherwise? Same.
I'm not my own personal fog machine back home, though. What did you get here?
Exactly. It's linked, I'm telling you. If a reality doesn't have bagels, it's bound to be a dystopian hellscape with heads rolling everyday.
I'm not my own personal fog machine back home, though. What did you get here?
Exactly. It's linked, I'm telling you. If a reality doesn't have bagels, it's bound to be a dystopian hellscape with heads rolling everyday.
We've got the Justice League and it's various offshoots back home—though I hear that's started up here, as well. But almost every major city has its own superhero... and the villains that come with it.
[ Hmm, is the "I used to be a Rogue" pre-second date talk, or post? Probably post, right? Right. ]
Well, you already knew about the rat thing, and that's pretty much it.
[ Hmm, is the "I used to be a Rogue" pre-second date talk, or post? Probably post, right? Right. ]
Well, you already knew about the rat thing, and that's pretty much it.
Edited 2017-10-28 05:05 (UTC)
WHAT THE FUCK I REMEMBER TAGGING THIS WHY IS THERE NO TAG HERE
socialactivillain
2017-10-28 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Do I want to ask what rule excludes?
[ As much as he doesn't want to talk about Len and Mick's personal lives, he also really, really does not want to talk about Lisa. ]
[ As much as he doesn't want to talk about Len and Mick's personal lives, he also really, really does not want to talk about Lisa. ]
I nearly said accidents happen, but I must've momentarily forgotten who I was talking to.
Luckily, that's not too hard if they're not being used regularly. You can just keep them in their cases, for the most part.
Maybe polish them and oil the keys once a month or so, but without regular use, they won't need much.
[ He doesn't have to guess whose flutes these might be, and that makes this all a little awkward, but, well, he can't in good conscience let an instrument go untended. ]
If you need help with that, I could take care of it for you.
Maybe polish them and oil the keys once a month or so, but without regular use, they won't need much.
[ He doesn't have to guess whose flutes these might be, and that makes this all a little awkward, but, well, he can't in good conscience let an instrument go untended. ]
If you need help with that, I could take care of it for you.
Avengers, Justice League—what are they gonna come up with next? Revengers? Superfriends?
Definitely not how it works where I'm from. Most of the superheroes I can name are based out of New York, though Captain America was in DC for a while before SHIELD went belly-up. I don't know about villains, they don't seem that common, and the ones I know about are in jail.
[Wilson Fisk absolutely counts as a comic-book supervillain, in Foggy's opinion.]
You can talk to rats, and I can generate fog. I feel like we should lodge a complaint or something.
Definitely not how it works where I'm from. Most of the superheroes I can name are based out of New York, though Captain America was in DC for a while before SHIELD went belly-up. I don't know about villains, they don't seem that common, and the ones I know about are in jail.
[Wilson Fisk absolutely counts as a comic-book supervillain, in Foggy's opinion.]
You can talk to rats, and I can generate fog. I feel like we should lodge a complaint or something.
I can't imagine a reason to use them. In spite of Hartley's best efforts, it's too embarrassing to play in front of him so I never learned. I suppose I'd rather listen.
[That, and David never really had the time. His own parents were less concerned about his artistic development growing up and more concerned with his mathematical and science growth.]
I would appreciate that.
[Another beat and he adds:]
I know it's an awkward request...so thank you.
[That, and David never really had the time. His own parents were less concerned about his artistic development growing up and more concerned with his mathematical and science growth.]
I would appreciate that.
[Another beat and he adds:]
I know it's an awkward request...so thank you.
I don't kill. I don't maim, if I have the choice. Or if someone's really asking for it.
Honestly, I haven't tested the full extent, some of this stuff just seems best avoided when dating someone who's trying to stay on the straight and narrow. He don't mind the stealing too much, but I ain't about to pile onto the moral conflict.
[Not that he was ever going to stop stealing, but hey. It got them a nice place.]
Honestly, I haven't tested the full extent, some of this stuff just seems best avoided when dating someone who's trying to stay on the straight and narrow. He don't mind the stealing too much, but I ain't about to pile onto the moral conflict.
[Not that he was ever going to stop stealing, but hey. It got them a nice place.]
You're too kind.
Anyway, I'll text you the address. Dinner tomorrow maybe?
Anyway, I'll text you the address. Dinner tomorrow maybe?
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