i'm not going to lie, i don't really know what that means, but i sorta get the impression it's not the kind of thing i should ask about? unless i'm wrong, in which case, i totally want to ask about it.
It's alright. I'm trying not to have so many secrets anymore, so this needn't be.
[ It takes her quite a while to type out the rest of the message. ]
I did not have a home for a long time. Eventually, I came to Braavos and found the House of Black and White, home of the Faceless Men and the Many-Faced God. They gave me food and shelter, the first I'd had in a long time, but I had to give something back.
I wasn't allowed to be Arya Stark anymore. They made me forget a lot of things, and what I could not forget, I had to give up.
I wasn't always good at it. That's why they took my sight. The Clock gave it back.
[ Okay so what Cisco's getting from this is: fucked-up cult takes in homeless kid, traumatizes her. This text conversation just got Real. ]
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
You're good at selfies already, which as far as I'm concerned is better than being good at giving up who you are. Sounds to me like they were asking way too much from you. Are your eyes still hurting, like when we met? If you want I could make you something to help with that.
[ Yup, he's got it. Or at least, all the nasty stuff that happened in Braavos. Westeros is a whole other can of worms, one that Arya doesn't want to go into. She doesn't know much about text conversations, but she has a hunch that something this heavy is usually not discussed over text. ]
My eyes are much better. Thank you.
The selfie came out rather blurry, but I will keep practicing. Selfie-making is a useful skill to have. It is not one so easily manipulated as fighting, I think.
I suppose. My sister is the beautiful one, though.
[ The more she says about her life, the more Cisco wants to know. He'd seen her post about swords and shit, and now she's talking about people manipulating fighting, as a skill? Yikes. ]
i'm pretty sure selfie skills are immune to manipulation. selfies are pure good. no such thing as a bad selfie.
and it doesn't matter if you're beautiful or not. like, i've never met your sister, so i can't compare, but it's not like her being beautiful would make you less beautiful? not how it works.
[ Sibling rivalry issues? There are no sibling issues to see here, folks. ]
one of the great things about selfies is you can take some and remind yourself hey, look at me, i look so cute in that picture.
Is it wrong to say that's a relief? Because there's less to explain. Some days I worry I'm not good enough at being my sister's sister and some days I just can't be and I don't know how to tell her why.
Thank you!
: D
That is a good face. Sansa taught me a jesting face, too. It looks like this:
it's not wrong. on those days you've just gotta do what's best for you. it's okay not to always know why.
[ Then, because Cisco's guessing they haven't really got the concept of therapists or any of that in a world that has dragons and cults that blind young girls as punishment for being people, he makes a suggestion ]
it could be good for you to talk to someone other than your sister about that stuff, if you haven't tried that. might help you understand it better. there are people where i'm from who help people talk about worse days as, like, their whole job.
do you want to see another great one? >:( it's a really grumpy face, see? with eyebrows. like this.
[ And immediately after the text, he sends a selfie of himself making a ludicrously exaggerated scowl ]
lol = laughing out loud. it's the first letter of each word in the phrase, see? this one is a bit complicated, though, because it became really common and there are some people who just use it as filler or punctuation, and don't mean they are cracking up laughing every single time.
lmao = kind of similar, it's 'laughing my ass off'.
......i could go on for hours, actually, there are a lot of them. maybe i should make you a cheat sheet or something.
i don't really know how it got started. slang's weird like that. i don't know where the phrase laughing your ass off comes from either. it just means that you are laughing really hard.
yeah, like that. maybe i should make you one for phrases, too.
see this is the kind of moment where i would say 'lol'
you remember what i taught you about photography, right? well movies use photography to tell the same kinda stories you're used to in books and songs. there are special cameras that take a bunch of pictures really fast, and then show them to you in order, so it looks like the images are moving. and they capture the sound, as well. so it's like a photograph of an entire play, and you can watch it as many times as you like, just like you could look at a photo as many times as you like.
i could find one with lots of adventure for us to watch, if you've got an hour or two sometime?
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oh.
i'm not going to lie, i don't really know what that means, but i sorta get the impression it's not the kind of thing i should ask about? unless i'm wrong, in which case, i totally want to ask about it.
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It's alright. I'm trying not to have so many secrets anymore, so this needn't be.
[ It takes her quite a while to type out the rest of the message. ]
I did not have a home for a long time. Eventually, I came to Braavos and found the House of Black and White, home of the Faceless Men and the Many-Faced God. They gave me food and shelter, the first I'd had in a long time, but I had to give something back.
I wasn't allowed to be Arya Stark anymore. They made me forget a lot of things, and what I could not forget, I had to give up.
I wasn't always good at it. That's why they took my sight. The Clock gave it back.
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I'm sorry you had to go through that.
You're good at selfies already, which as far as I'm concerned is better than being good at giving up who you are. Sounds to me like they were asking way too much from you. Are your eyes still hurting, like when we met? If you want I could make you something to help with that.
Arya is a really beautiful name.
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My eyes are much better. Thank you.
The selfie came out rather blurry, but I will keep practicing. Selfie-making is a useful skill to have. It is not one so easily manipulated as fighting, I think.
I suppose. My sister is the beautiful one, though.
But thank you. Again.
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i'm pretty sure selfie skills are immune to manipulation. selfies are pure good. no such thing as a bad selfie.
and it doesn't matter if you're beautiful or not. like, i've never met your sister, so i can't compare, but it's not like her being beautiful would make you less beautiful? not how it works.
[ Sibling rivalry issues? There are no sibling issues to see here, folks. ]
one of the great things about selfies is you can take some and remind yourself hey, look at me, i look so cute in that picture.
so it okay if i call you arya?
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[ She is a warrior, or something like it. ]
I have taken two! One of my face and another of my toe. I don't think my toe is especially cute. It's just a toe.
You may. It's fine if others call me Arya. It's harder for me to call myself that, I think. There are better days and there are worse days.
[ It's a process. ]
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[ He just wants to clarify what she's saying here - whether it's a class thing or a gender thing. Could be either. Could be both. ]
i know all about better days and worse days.
...still might give you a nickname, though. when i come up with one.
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You do?
I do not know how to send a selfie and a words message at the same time but I know how to make a smile out of letters.
: )
I am smiling.
she is the cutest oh my god i'm screaming
next time we hang out i'll teach you to send selfies, it's way easy and you're smart, you'll have it in no time.
you are! :D that's me smiling, too. like a really big one.
eeee thank you
Thank you!
: D
That is a good face. Sansa taught me a jesting face, too. It looks like this:
; )
(I am not truly jesting.)
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[ Then, because Cisco's guessing they haven't really got the concept of therapists or any of that in a world that has dragons and cults that blind young girls as punishment for being people, he makes a suggestion ]
it could be good for you to talk to someone other than your sister about that stuff, if you haven't tried that. might help you understand it better. there are people where i'm from who help people talk about worse days as, like, their whole job.
do you want to see another great one? >:( it's a really grumpy face, see? with eyebrows. like this.
[ And immediately after the text, he sends a selfie of himself making a ludicrously exaggerated scowl ]
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I do not think those people from your world would come here. And to tell all those stories would require a lot of trust. I'm not sure I'm ready.
I make that face often! Sometimes when I'm less grumpy I make this face:
>: /
If I am very grumpy, I make this face:
>: ((
It has two mouths for double the grump.
[ She laughs at the selfie, and makes a mental note to have Cisco show her how to save images. ]
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[ It's not like Cisco's gotten help for any of his shit, either. ]
see, you're a natural at this.
you can just keep adding mouths, too.
>:((( triple the grump
>:(((( quadruple the grump
>:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( maximum grumpage
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>>>>>: ((((((((((((((
he's teaching her the important skills for life
did your sister teach you any abbreviations? might be good to know them if they come up. like, if i said 'lol' would you get what that means?
the clock's real mvp
She didn't. What does that mean?
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lol = laughing out loud. it's the first letter of each word in the phrase, see? this one is a bit complicated, though, because it became really common and there are some people who just use it as filler or punctuation, and don't mean they are cracking up laughing every single time.
lmao = kind of similar, it's 'laughing my ass off'.
......i could go on for hours, actually, there are a lot of them. maybe i should make you a cheat sheet or something.
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How does one laugh their ass off? It sounds dangerous.
Like a dictionary?
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yeah, like that. maybe i should make you one for phrases, too.
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: D
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okay so here's another important question: has your sister or anyone else here introduced you to movies, yet?
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so... have they got books in your world? or legends, like. stories people tell about fictional characters, for entertainment.
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you remember what i taught you about photography, right? well movies use photography to tell the same kinda stories you're used to in books and songs. there are special cameras that take a bunch of pictures really fast, and then show them to you in order, so it looks like the images are moving. and they capture the sound, as well. so it's like a photograph of an entire play, and you can watch it as many times as you like, just like you could look at a photo as many times as you like.
i could find one with lots of adventure for us to watch, if you've got an hour or two sometime?
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