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[itsjiaheng]

Name: un: tacobell
Date: 13 Feb
Format: text

ayyyy so like
does this place have like
special germs or whatever ??
like
ok maybe that sounds dumb
but like HEAR ME OUT
in my world it was very possible to never be sick
so i never got sick
like EVER
but maybe that doesn't work here ???
got no experience with it tho
so has anyone else gotten here and got sick afterward ? (ง ื▿ ื)ว
before you ask......
i never left the city so it is not.. that thing
a l s o
is there uhhh you know
magic potions or whatever for this kinda thing ?
so thanks or whatever i'll reply after a nap i guess

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[itsjiaheng]

i'd sign up for that group
and not just because free donuts
lol and then they'd probably tell everyone in the group to bond with each other
cuz clearly we're probably all gonna be un-bonded
you'd think if they wanted people to like.. connect like that
they might bring people here who are most likely to wanna connect
'they' being whoever makes executive decisions about who gets sucked in through the mirrors or whatever
i basically just don't want people all in my head like that haha
but also tryna save whoever tries bonding with me the trouble too lol
like no one understands someone's particular flavour of bullshit better than they do probably
i'm realistic about this
i'm not out here wanting to inflict that on others lol

[coherer]

I'm half-expecting someone to tell me to "man up" at any given point in time LMAO.

That's not the regular kind of response I'm used to hearing about people having someone in their head. Usually it's shyness about the whole "sharing feelings" bit. You okay?

We've got time, so don't stress too much about it. Worst case scenario, if you wanna try it on for size then temporary bonding potions might be your best bet. Just to get you by without you and a partner inflicting too much of yourselves on one another?

[itsjiaheng]

heheh yeah i hear you
some people have said that too
more or less
just that 'you're overreacting stop that' mood

see, i'm fine
i'm used to whatever goes on in my head
i've basically seen the kinda stuff that sticks with you after awhile
since i dunno how much gets passed through bonds that you don't want to pass
i have no idea how much stuff that no one planned for is gonna get piled onto whoever bonds with me lol

i'm guessing (hoping?) those temporary bonding potions are like
bond-lite?
so maybe.. less of the above ??
because i could maybe deal with that

[coherer]

I feel similarly, dw. If your head's full and my head's full, maybe us trying out a temp bond is better than putting that on others. If you ever get worried then I've got you. hmu

My teachers seem to think it's a good alternative to actual bonding, but not a full replacement (obviously). I stopped paying attention after that. Lmfao

(( rolls up to the club late af orz ))

[itsjiaheng]

wow really ??
that's like hella generous lol
and appreciated ofc
that goes both ways too btw just in case that needs saying lol
i would argue that magic overload > going feral in terms of like
general unpleasantness of the experience so like lmk if you need help with that too

1. you're lucky you get teachers for this !!
2. it sucks you get dragged here and have to go to school
2a. ima guess school sucks because people say it does i wouldn't know rofl

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[coherer]

Oh man lol, we will see. I could always dump a bunch of magic into some runes for you when I actually get good. If ever, amirite??

School doesn't so much suck as it does...... make you want to sleep. I'd rather be sleeping. Here, it's cool bc you're learning about things you could never have imagined. And it kinda feels like I stepped into a fantasy novel. I've got a bigger attention span for practical stuff.

You've never been to school?

[itsjiaheng]

pfff i'm sure dumping magic into something in general is like chapter one it's fiiine how hard can it be ??

[ he has chosen to selectively ignore every instance of blowing something up whenever he'd applied energy to it in his own experience with his own powers back when he still had powers. this is different!! also there's all kinds of other nonsense to worry about so why add to it? IT'S FINE BE POSITIVE GO. ]

yeah i've never been lmao
i mean we were like... educated basically
and someone helped me learn other languages
but it wasn't really "school" at all

[coherer]

Oh, were you like homeschooled or smth?

(sweet summer child)

[itsjiaheng]

uhh yeah ? something like that yep

[ you have no idea ]

[coherer]

man I wish I'd been homeschooled.

(WE'RE MISINTERPRETING EVERYTHING NOW.)

ig it teaches kids to socialize and stuff but they expect all kids to learn one way when we all think differently. Or maybe I'm just a dumbass, who can say?? Lol

What was that like? Did your parents teach you or whatever?

[itsjiaheng]

[ OH BOY. ]

ah yeah kids are weird tho so it's probably not just you lol

we had a lot of like.. stuff to memorise?
you know like multiplication and whatever
or how to write all these really difficult words no one even uses cuz the practise is supposed to be good or make you mindful or whatever idek.

my father helped me learn other languages tho so there's that

[coherer]

Not too different then. Except for the languages, that's p cool honestly.

What languages do you know?? ik they aren't too useful in Aefenglom but whatever it's still smth you gotta brag about.

[itsjiaheng]

ikr my only useful skill and it's totally useless lmao my luck
i know japanese and korean and english
which is like five alphabets
but so pointless now ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[coherer]

Dude, ik that isn't your only useful skill. C'mon you have to be good at like video games or smth too.

(why that in particular? we aren't sure.)

Or knitting, or filling out crosswords.

[itsjiaheng]

haha well ok i lied
i'm pretty good at video games
which is really nice for making extra money
but we can't really do that here either
so i guess i mean i don't really have any useful skills for magic fantasy land incompatible with all my most awesome abilities
someone should teach me how to fight or smth

[coherer]

So you ARE a nerd... how can I tell every single time? Lmao which games do you play? Even if I don't know them it's nice to hear about normal things every once in a while here. Keeps me grounded in reality.

You've got abilities back home?? I think ik just the guy who knows what that's like and who knows how to fight.

You see the responses from that guy struggling to communicate desperately with emoji? Ask him.

(yeah, he's reading that adorable bullshit right now. you two are a gift to him.)

[itsjiaheng]

lol was my nerd status ever actually in question ?? i like fighting games, especially the 2D ones but can't go wrong with a 3D like soul calibur
i'm sure i'd like a lot of stuff too but those are the ones people would try and bet on
OH
and like
dancing games
PARA PARA PARADISE
one time the guy who ran the arcade i went to all the time let me have free plays
and i played it so much my arms got so sore and tired i couldn't lift them above my head for like a few days
WORTH IT

idol games and the horse racing games are fun too
also there's one with like a piano
i think i hurt myself playing pop'n music too but no REGRETS

also yeah i used to be able to do a bunch of stuff before but now it's like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it's weird not having it
i'm not saying i cheated at stuff but like... SOME THINGS were easier
kinda like saying a person's cheating because they have hands if everyone else in the world was a dog :T

he knows how to fight ?? his emojis are telling me that he wants to dance really badly

[coherer]

omggg I wish we had those kinds of games here man, I'd tooootally play with you.

I haven't played most of those like the idol ones or the horse racing ones (didn't even know those existed tbh), but I was like super into NBA2K and the GTA games. Some shooters ig too, like Modern Warfare. War games were cool. I tried DDR once, is that like para para paradise...??

How did you get your arms involved????? I was tripping all over the place, but I hung onto that bar like I was gonna die lmfao.

(he's a dudebro... you've met a dudebro.)

Is he mad at you or smth? They definitely aren't dancing emoji, so it sounds like he wants to fight.........

[itsjiaheng]

hell yeah if we had games here that's what i'd do all day fuck part time jobs who would have the time

i played some shooting games before but i don't think i played modern warfare. they had a few with like zombies or whatever tho!

lmao para para paradise is kinda like ddr but instead of stepping on arrows you move your arms around instead and the machine can like read that
i think it had like lights or lasers or smth so you'd block those with your hands to know you were doin it right
anyway you could like just do whatever as long as you put your hands in the right spot at the right time or you could actually learn the dances for each song so i was tryna learn the dances..

soooo i dunno if he's mad at me
I HOPE NOT I'VE DONE NOTHING WRONG
HMMMMM

[ jonas why are you encouraging this............... ]

[coherer]

Getting part-time jobs on this weird vacation is kinda lame, agreed.

Why does that sound like future tech from like 2050?? lmfao awesome. You'll have to show me the moves you picked up sometime, man, that'd be such a worthwhile reason to leave my cottage mancave.

You should ask him straight up bc he's a really serious guy. I mean I think he'll just say it plain if he's gonna try to kick your ass.

(because why not, jongdae. there are too many hours in a day.)

[itsjiaheng]

lmao weird vacation sounds nice

[ that also implies this is reasonably temporary which he's less sure about. like, sure he doesn't have video games but he also has peace and maybe that's a decent trade..? ]

heheh it's probably less complicated than it sounds but it's pretty cool
i will show you some lame dance moves some time sure rofl
para para is like what u do when u wanna dance to really cheesy anime music that's super unironically fun to listen to
but i could also show u moves that actually look cool too

also
it's true he does seem very serious most of the time
it's weird
and curious
i'm tryna figure it out (¬ ‿ ¬ )

[coherer]

Well when you do lemme know, bc he's an enigma to us all. You're doing god's work, man.

(he's already accepted how poker-faced sasuke is, but encouraging jongdae to investigate sounds great.)

I hope I'm not a reject for never having seen like a single anime.

I'm down to learn anything, though, so nerdy or not here I come.

[itsjiaheng]

[ REALLY?? not one single anime?? if only it were possible to properly enlighten someone, but he has a feeling there's not going to be any anime in this world. ]

i might judge u but there is always room to learn

but really tho

didn't everyone watch dragonball z

[ LITERALLY EVERYONE ]

[coherer]

Apparently not??

I know OF dragonball z, but we didn't have cable for a long time so I couldn't watch anything except weird documentaries and news stations. I always spent more time outside than inside, though. So idk a lot of shows LOL

[itsjiaheng]

oh
ok fair
but only if you answer this question
like what is there to do outside exactly
were you always going somewhere ?

[ otherwise... why bother being outside when you're probably always gonna be way more comfortable inside.. ]