Bedroom Talk

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Type: Voice/Text
Sender ID: hammertime (Darin Altway)
To: Public
Subject: beds
Warnings: He's so stupid you guys

[Darin clears his throat because forget typing all of this out.]

Okay guys, I need you all to settle a bit of an argument Zelda and I are having.

See, we were out shopping for furniture for our new place and she tells me I need a bed. I say "you're right, I do! I know just the type!" So I go and I show her the hammocks because back home, I slept in a hammock. So she says [Darin clears his throat and proceeds to do his best Zelda voice] "Don't be preposterous, a hammock is not a proper bed."

Which is wrong. Because a hammock is totally a bed. Lots of things can be beds. So, to prove my point, I made this chart.



As you can see by this chart that I spent entirely too much time on, the parameters that dictate an objects "bedability" are thus. I think it's a pretty open and shut case.

Anyway, I think this explains why I should be allowed to get a hammock in my room. You guys are on my side on this, right?

[Just...you know. Ignore how he casually dropped that they're living together because he's brain dead.]

Comments

[forgeabettertomorrow]

It's...well, it's a pretty long and complicated story.

I never really thought much of myself growing up. A lot of people uh...

Well, the term "monster" was thrown around a lot since I was about five...

[empyrean_mirror]

What?

That--that is ridiculous! No child is a monster!

[Oh you've done it now, Darin. He's feeling excessive amounts of empathy.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

It's...look, where I come from hair like mine is indicative of...

Of a taint in the blood. We're said to have demonkin or beastkin blood.

We're not...really looked upon favorably.

[empyrean_mirror]

You're certainly not still entertaining that nonsense, are you? Your blood has no bearing on your destiny or personality, no matter what they say.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Listen, it's hard to unlearn twenty years of people saying you shouldn't exist. Some habits form and they're hard to...to break.

[empyrean_mirror]

Well, then add this to the scale: You seem like a perfectly wonderful young man some distressing ideas about sleep posture notwithstanding who is deeply passionate and loyal to his friends and loved ones. I doubt any of the people who actually know you would ever think you're a monster.

And even if you were, that'd be no reason not to show you kindness and compassion! So those people can shove their cruelty right up their ass--

[Mehrak has disconnected this call for the following reason: unwarranted profanity.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[Darin just kinda. Stares.]

...Oh damn, did I hang up on him?

[He barely knows how to work his shellphone]

text; id: vulturvolans

[indispensable]

[This message comes about maybe fifteen minutes later.]

1) A hammock can be a bed, but it should be modified adequately for long term use.
2) One's past and heritage has never defined a person. Their actions and choices do, including the choice to prevent back pain.
3) Confess to your roommate before you embarrass yourself even further.

My husband will no longer be able to take your calls for the rest of the day.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Oh uh

1) thats a good idea
2) I guess that makes sense
3) IM NOT EMBARRASSING MYSELF WHAT THE HELL

4)!!!!!! WOW WHY THE HELL NOT?!

[indispensable]

[Yeah Darin he's not gonna bother answering you here. Good luck with... whatever it is you're doing.]

he fully stole alhaitham's phone for this

[empyrean_mirror]

IT'S FINE YOU DID NOTHING WRONG MEHRAK JUST CUT ME OFF

YOU'RE PERFECT

AND YOU SHOULD TELL HER YOU WANT TO KISS HER

[forgeabettertomorrow]

WHAT IS HAPPENING I JUST WANTED TO WIN AN ARGUMENT ABOUT A BED

voice;

[empyrean_mirror]

[Muffled, shouting at the phone as though it's being held away from him.]

THE BED! THAT YOU ARE ARGUING WITH YOUR ROOMMATE WHO YOU DESCRIBE AS EXCEEDINGLY KISSABLE ABOUT!

YOU LOVE HER YOU FOOL! KISS HER! DON'T SPEND TEN YEARS DENYING THE WAY YOU FEEL!

voice;

[forgeabettertomorrow]

...Man, talk about a domestic squabble.

Sure glad I don't have that problem with my roommate.

voice;

[tilfrosset]

[And from somewhere else on the network, comes a sweet voice:]

I thought we were supposed to be gentle with him, Kavah.

voice;

[empyrean_mirror]

I WAS DONE WITH GENTLE WHEN HE MADE A BED CHART INSTEAD OF NOTICING SHE WANTS A BED SHE CAN CUDDLE IN, JILL!

[He's still trying to climb his husband to retrieve his phone but Mehrak has helpfully lowered input volume so he is not deafeningly loud. Everyone say thank you Mehrak.]

voice;

[tilfrosset]

[Thank you, Mehrak.]

And now you see why I decided being straight forward was the best option to start with. Saved me from losing my patience.

Though ten years? Where did you get that number? None of us have been here for that long.

voice;

[empyrean_mirror]

That is how long it took us, Jill.

[He is trying to save this boy. He's trying so hard.]

voice;

[tilfrosset]

I see.

[Notice she doesn't judge. It took her and Clive half that.]

And what changed things?

voice;

[empyrean_mirror]

...He helped me. When I had nowhere else to go. And then went out of his way to help me again.

I didn't think I deserved second chances but he gave them to me anyway. Jill, he's not a patient man, and yet...

voice;

[tilfrosset]

Yet he's patient for you and that's all that matters.

Perhaps Zelda is being patient for Darin and Darin only. Their moment of realization just hasn't come yet.

[A cough.]

His moment, I mean.

voice;

[forgeabettertomorrow]

HEY SCREW YOU I WORKED HARD ON THAT CHART DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO THINK OF 'PARACHUTE?!'

voice;

[empyrean_mirror]

What the hell even is a parachute?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

A big blanket that lets you fall from the sky without dying?

[empyrean_mirror]

Why not just use a glider?