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please tell me you are out on the river and lup isn't trying to roast the decorative koi at a fancy garden or something.
wait did you try to go drunk fishing?

do ou think anyone wold let us in a fancy garden

no im just sayig like GENERALLY this is why. girls got no patience

better question: do YOU think anybody could keep you out of a fancy garden if you wanted to be up in one?

[ That's just logic. ]

have either of you fallen in the water yet?

[ No way that isn't gonna happen at some point. ]

sound point. good logic. we are also veyr drunk though and not very sneakt

[They're not sneaky at the best of times, but the combination of that and alcohol just means they'd have no luck trying to get somewhere they aren't supposed to be.]

:( yes :(

what's the occasion anyway?

are there any swans there? i saw some swans the last time i was at the river, make sure you don't piss off any swans, those fuckers are vicious.

was it you, lup, or both of you?

maggie doesnt remmemebr us :((((

[So, not so much a celebration as it is a bad coping mechanism, but at least they're not drinking alone.]

no swansand im not that stupid, i know not to fuck with swnas

just me. i tried to take lup down with me but she's too fast

[ Damn, Cisco had really been hoping it was a happy occasion. ~~He needs to start creeping on other people's conversations on the network, more.~~ ]

shit, that sucks.
i mean i saw he'd shown up here but i just assumed...
that SUCKS.

hey man i don't know, maybe they haven't got swans in any of the worlds you've been to, better safe than sorry.

and she just let you fall, damn, that's cold
i'd ask if she quoted lion king at you while you were going down but she probably hasn't seen it huh

[ He knows that Taako did at least, thanks to their dope karaoke performance. ]

he's from before we met again too which fucking sucks

[He could've been from when they were working at the Bureau, before Wonderland, and it would've still kinda sucked but at least Magnus wouldn't look at him like he's a stranger. It hurts more than he expected it could.]

shes a bitch. but no she doestn know lion king. we watched a deer one? it was sad

so he doesn't know you at all?
it's because of the voidfish, right? so you can't just undo it with a spell?

[ If Barry showed up from before Cisco ever met him, he could just sit him down and take him through an informative powerpoint about the next few years of his life. With Magnus, though, things are going to be a bit trickier... ]

oh, bambi? yeah that shit is fucked up

we gotta be super vague or it'll static out

ive got voidfish juice leftover but like

he's gotta decide

[And how can he decide when they can't properly explain it?]

it lookd cute! we were lied to

oh.
so it's not impossible, it's a moral quandary.

[ Thus the drunken paddle boat shenanigans. Cisco doesn't blame them. ]

i'm just gonna warn you right now, if you see a cute looking animated movie about a fox and a hound, don't do it my dude.

[ He should just leave it at that. He shouldn't offer advice when Taako hadn't even... ]

listen i know you didn't ask and tell me to shut up if you want but you should give it to him
sometimes, when someone's had their head messed with they can't make informed decisions for themselves, and you gotta do it for them for a little while. like i know it feels like a slippery slope but sometimes you gotta.
and even if he doesn't know what he can't remember... i mean. i bet part of him realizes something's gone, and it feels wrong and awful and he doesn't know why.
that's my take, even tho i know it's not my busisness.

[ Cisco's not an expert on voidfish memory erasure and the experience of it, but he knows a little something about feeling shit that doesn't make sense and only finding out the 'why' later - even before he'd started to vibe or recover any memories of that other timeline he'd felt weird and uncomfortable around Dr. Wells without any reason to. ]

trust me i fucking know how it feels when somethings msising

[There was a hole in his heart for ten years, something he could never really explain. He gets it.]

but hes not like me or merle. magnus is still magnus even without the ipre. mayb hes happeier. its not liek shit here changes anything so all were gonna do is make him worried about the apcolypse and remind him of all the times he died

yeah.
shit.
that's rough.

[ Hell, now Cisco is feeling a little bummed out, and he doesn't even know the guy. ]

that portal sure loves fucking with us, doesn't it?

clarks gone too

[Which is a "yes, it sure does".]

[ Oh, shit. It really has been a day, hasn't it? ]

wait, really?
just like that?
did he... leave a note or anything?

he left a letter

[Which is, on one hand, a very sweet gesture, but it still sucks.]

so he left by choice

[ That was how it had always happened, as far as Cisco knew, in the past. People didn't just vanish: they chose to leave. ]

god you're having the shittiest week
i feel bad for laughing about you falling in the river now

i mean its not like he got sucked back into the portal i dont think it works like that

not the wosrt week ive had, no ones tried to kill me

and nah it was pretty funny and im like cool with water

[By which he means he's decent at swimming.]

didn't think so but it has crossed my mind that if people started to go missing here it might take a while to notice cuz we'd all just assume they went through the portal.

[ Cisco thinks about this kind of shit, after all. After the whole "turns out those random unconnected disappearances were actually Eobard murdering people in secret" thing, he sort of has to. ]

let's hope it stays that way, or else i'm gonna have to fuck somebody up.

[ Aw, listen to Cisco acting like he's tough, bless. ]

magnus seems cool, tho
like we only talked for a few seconds but even so.

when i go ill text you so syou dont think ive been kidnapped or murdererd

[Which also kinds of sucks to think about, because he likes Cisco and it's gonna be shitty saying goodbye, but Taako's never going to stay, not when Lup exists.]

thats vry sweet of you

[Look he might've laughed a little, not meanly it's just... Cisco is an angel.]

hes a great guy. were trying not to be weird

[ Oh no, no that is very much not a good thing to think about. ]

you better. otherwise i'm for real starting a search party, like i WILL assume your ass is stuck in a tree out in the woods or something, and i will waste everybody's time kicking up a fuss.

[ It would be more complicated than that of course - if Lucretia and Lup and Taako all went at once, he would probably guess what had happened, but... joking is better than thinking honestly about the future right now. ]

it's gonna be weird no matter what you do
but this place is a weirdness factory even without voidfish stuff so you're just getting him used to that early on

if i get my ass stuck in a tree leave me there so i dont have to be embarassed

[That's very important.]

its a different kinda weird though like, can you fucking IAMGINE if i hadnt drank the ichor before lup showed up????

nope, i will find you and get you down and then shame you for it like a true friend.

no, honestly, i can't imagine it.
tried to wrap my brain around it but i just couldn't.

hey what did you mean when you said magnus isn't like the rest of you and he's still himself without ipre?

thanks. i hate you.

i mean like. i lost lup

[He's not sure he can really put into words exactly how much that messed him up. Cisco didn't know him before, really, and he didn't know him for those years he didn't even have Magnus and Merle.]

merle pretty much lost his faith cause a lot of that shit was fuzzy for him i guess and it made him pretty shitty and bitter

davenport could only say his own name cause the mission was so much to him

[ Holy retrospective yikes, Cisco had known about Taako not remembering Lup, but he hadn't quite realized there would be a huge impact on the other crew, too. Which was probably dumb, on his part. ]

so basically he changed less than the rest of you, during the cycles?

[ It's the only explanation that really makes sense, with the knowledge Cisco has about those 100 years and how the voidfish works.]

hey so i know you've got it covered right now but if you need another karaoke night one of these days just hmu ok?

[ And in this case 'karaoke night' is clearly code for "if you need me to cheer you up and take your mind off the awful stuff". ]

Edited 2017-08-11 06:24 (UTC)

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