listen... even the remote, statistically unlikely POSSIBILITY of dragons is cooler than 95% of stuff from my world.
[ Harsh, but... not inaccurate. Sure, Cisco had lived at the center of all the cool weirdness that his world had to offer for the last two years, but he did still live in Missouri, and he had lived the vast majority of his life in a world that didn't have metahumans or superheroes or anything all that exciting. He had found things to be excited about, in science, and in movies and books, but the reason he'd loved all that escapist fiction was, in fact, because it helped him to escape, if only in his head and if only temporarily. ]
i'm really hoping that for once it's gonna be not awful if my powers make it so i can't get high for the rest of my life i'm gonna be beyond pissed.
[ He hadn't actually considered the logistics of such an experiment. His instinct had been to do it alone, but Taako's right and that's probably a really dumb idea. But if things are not that great, does he really want his best friend or his new boyfriend to see him like... whatever he might be like? He doesn't want to burden them or freak them out. ]
listen you can use all the sarcasm ✨✨sparkles✨✨ you want but you gotta understand it's been a long time since i had a boyfriend, or girlfriend for that matter. like a LONG time.
lemme get back to you on that? maybe i ought to make him do it this time, since you helped me with the whole dream thing that went totally tits up take turns or whatever helping me sort out this bullshit
[ Would that reduce the likelihood of bothering either of them enough that they finally get sick of him? Maybe... ]
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listen... even the remote, statistically unlikely POSSIBILITY of dragons is cooler than 95% of stuff from my world.
[ Harsh, but... not inaccurate. Sure, Cisco had lived at the center of all the cool weirdness that his world had to offer for the last two years, but he did still live in Missouri, and he had lived the vast majority of his life in a world that didn't have metahumans or superheroes or anything all that exciting. He had found things to be excited about, in science, and in movies and books, but the reason he'd loved all that escapist fiction was, in fact, because it helped him to escape, if only in his head and if only temporarily. ]
i'm really hoping that for once it's gonna be not awful
if my powers make it so i can't get high for the rest of my life i'm gonna be beyond pissed.
[ He hadn't actually considered the logistics of such an experiment. His instinct had been to do it alone, but Taako's right and that's probably a really dumb idea. But if things are not that great, does he really want his best friend or his new boyfriend to see him like... whatever he might be like? He doesn't want to burden them or freak them out. ]
listen you can use all the sarcasm ✨✨sparkles✨✨ you want but you gotta understand it's been a long time since i had a boyfriend, or girlfriend for that matter.
like a LONG time.
lemme get back to you on that?
maybe i ought to make him do it this time, since you helped me with the whole dream thing that went totally tits up
take turns or whatever helping me sort out this bullshit
[ Would that reduce the likelihood of bothering either of them enough that they finally get sick of him? Maybe... ]