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franciscoramon) wrote2017-04-06 09:14 pm
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 LEAVE A MESSAGE! voice | video | text |
franciscoramon) wrote2017-04-06 09:14 pm
LEAVE A MESSAGE! voice | video | text |
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[Lup is a jerk, shocking no one.]
I got two canisters and the ichor so I guess it likes me knowing shit.
It's real fucking weird. Am I like cheating on my boyfriend I don't even have yet? Who the fuck knows!
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[ A part of Cisco does wonder about that, about the distributions of items and canisters, but that is a quandary for another time. ]
i don't think so
i mean just going by my gut instinct
and as a guy that's gotten cheated on.... a few times......
i don't think anybody would see it like that
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Dude.
I mean usually I'm like, the other dude not the person cheating or being cheated on but like, that's rough.
I dunno. I guess it's not like I'll remember this shit anyway.
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i like my spooky levels at about 0%. 2% if i'm feeling adventurous.
[ Cisco you are no fun. ]
it's not that big a deal
(and i don't mean that in a 'saying it's not a big deal but actually it is' kinda way either)
none of them were like, super serious relationships, and i was young
shit happens
[ It hadn't been great for his ego, sure, but it hadn't scarred him, either. He just accepted it, the same way he accepted many things. ]
you'll drive yourself crazy thinking about that stuff
you just gotta do what you need to do to be happy and if/when you see him again, just be honest
that's all anybody can ask for, right?
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[Taako's a fan tbh.]
Still kinda sucks. Any of those assholes show up here and I'll kick their ass for you.
You're probably right and I'm gonna take your word for it anyway cause you've got way more experience with this relationship shit than I do.
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if you don't mind me screaming, holding onto your arm so hard i may cut off your circulation, and hiding my face through like the last forty minutes probably.
but i will do it.
[ Cisco isn't kidding himself, here. He's only made it through a few horror movies, the ones that had hit cult status and everyone said he had to see, but they mess him up. If Taako wants to make him watch one, he should be going in with open eyes. ]
you bet.
but i somehow seriously doubt it
they're too boring to end up here.
[ Okay maybe he is just a teeny tiny bit bitter, still. ]
that's me
the relationship guru
(i'm not, really)
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[That makes things less scary, right?]
So, hey, ignoring all my relationship bullshit, does this thing with Eddie mean you're gonna stay?
[Since Eddie can't leave, and he can't imagine Eddie getting into another doomed relationship so quickly.]
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only one way to find out
[ Cisco is willing to get drunk and subject himself to a horror movie, for science and for Taako's amusement. ]
yeah, i think so
not because of him or anything
i made that decision a while ago
[ And then, because he knows Taako is worrying about his life back in Fearun and his life here, and the complications between them, Cisco adds: ]
but if i can figure out my power well enough to open breaches, even once you go home i ought to be able to visit
so you better not think you're gonna get rid of me that easy
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[He knew that staying was on the cards for Cisco, but this confirms it. At the end of the day, that doesn't really change anything for Taako, at one point he's going to leave and then he'll never see Cisco again. Maybe Cisco will be able to get through to their universe using his powers, but Taako won't hold his breath. It's not out of lack of faith, just... he's a pragmatist, at best.]
You sure you wanna come visit?
You have seen Upsy.
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now we're talking!!!!!
[ Cisco knows there are a lot of variables - Taako's world might be ending, for one thing, if the Hunger gets its way - but at the end of the day, no matter how much he wishes and pretends otherwise, Cisco is an optimist, down to his marrow. What are little things like the apocalypse or the multiverse, compared with friendship?
But he's pretty sure if he said something that sappy Taako might actually vomit, so instead he just kids around: ]
wow you really had to remind me???
when i only just stopped having nightmares?????
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[It doesn't really bother him either way, but it's the sort of thing he should clarify ahead of time, instead of a surprise sister turning up.]
I'm just making sure you know what you're getting into :D
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as long as SHE doesn't mind me screaming
(if the brownies don't cover that)
[ This is starting to feel less like a joke and more like a plan and Cisco is so on board. ]
whatever, i think magic and dragons and orcs and shit cancel out creepy elevator mechs
like just BARELY
[ He thinks about those horror movie plans, and a possible wrench in the works occurs to him, and he says: ]
actually haven't had any of that particular kind of brownie very recently
not 100% sure how it might interact with my powers
in theory it should be more than fine because it's supposed to lower dopamine levels but i should maybe do a trial run
just in case shit's not ideal and sticking to alcohol when there's people and movies is a better call...
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You know I haven't really run into a dragon right? They're not just like, hanging around wherever
[He doesn't want to build anticipation. He's fought a skeleton dragon in that stupid team building thing but he's not sure if any of that was real or if it was just some weird shared hallucination.]
Oh, dude, that's potentially fucking awful. You wanna find somewhere chill we can try it cause I dunno if you should do that shit alone.
Or I guess you could ask your ✨✨boyfriend✨✨ to hang with you to make sure it's safe.
[He's a shit, but not a mean shit.]
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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... ]
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[Obviously Cisco is a lot cooler than dragons, which is 90% joking around and 10% truth because unlike a dragon, Cisco is highly unlikely to kill Taako, so that naturally makes him significantly more preferable.]
I mean, gods, fuck the shitty evil version of you running around and the scary dreams, if you can't get high that's for sure the worst part of your powers.
And I wasn't being sarcastic, just trying to not to be weird about it. But hey, careful if you wanna play this game with me, cause it'd been a long century between my last boyfriend and Eddie.
[If he can even use that term to describe either of those situations. It's so weird.]
You don't have to ask him just cause I was around for the last mess, but it's your thing. Totally up to you.
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[ Cisco doesn't think he's even as cool as a dragon's toenail but no way in hell is he gonna risk another pep talk. ]
here i was hoping you'd forgotten about that dude.
ok ok you win, no need to pull receipts. we both know i can't compete with a century. but almost three years is a long time for a simple human who doesn't live a life of resetting cycles and time loops and all that.
[ Looking back, it is kind of weird that he'd gone that long without going on more than two or three dates with any one person. Cisco hesitates before he types the next bit, because he isn't sure he should say it. But... if there's anyone he could say it to, it'd be Taako. Talking about Eobard with Eddie is complicated because of all the shit between the two of them, and if anyone is likely to look at it objectively and not just immediately freak out and lose all sense of proportion, it is Taako. So he taps out quickly: ]
actually i know this is probably gonna sound crazy but i've kinda been wondering lately if maybe dr. wells wanted it that way.
cuz the last steady relationship i had was before i got hired at s.t.a.r. labs
and after that... any time i'd go on a few dates with someone who seemed super nice work would suddenly get super crazy busy and i'd be so tired and stressed out that things just kinda fizzled.
or i would have to leave mid-movie or dinner because i'd get a call that something was breaking and i had to fix it right away or else catastrophe.
i honestly have got no idea if i'm being wicked paranoid and making excuses for my sad ass love life tho or if it was like. a thing.
[ Anyway... that. ]
i gotta say you got way more tolerance for all this bullshit with my powers than i do, bro.
...i know i don't have to, but i think i will ask eddie this time
just for my own peace of mind.
and then as long as that's not a total shitshow, our horror movie night is gonna be l i t
[ Cisco knows that Taako is honest about what he is and isn't up for, but the more he thinks about it, the more he suspects this is just one of those times where his logic is not going to be able to overcome his instinctive fear of reaching that straw on their friendship's proverbial camel's back that is going to make Taako get sick of him. The situation might be different if there were a big button labeled 'off' on his fear that he'll alienate everybody he cares about if he's too much of a burden, but since there isn't... ]
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Listen, if I didn't know half the shit I do it would definitely sound crazy but I do know the shit I do about Wells and it kinda seems like something he'd pull? Keeping you isolated was only gonna help his plans.
[It's a common abuse tactic, but Taako doesn't really know enough about that to comment on it, so he's just going on his gut instinct, which is: Wells was a fucked up, controlling asshole.]
Remember how I'm a wizard? And my sister with a fondness for fire is also a wizard? Whatever weird shit your powers throw at me, it's pretty unlikely I'm gonna lose my eyebrows to it, so, you know.
But that's all G, you kids have fun and then we'll have even better fun with horror movies.
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yeah.
anyway it doesn't matter cuz he's fucking dead now 🎉
[ Wells is dead, and Cisco has a date, and new friends who care about him and treat him well, and he's pretty sure that by any metric that means that he won. So there. ]
i'm not really worried about your eyebrows.
but if it ends up amplifying my powers in some way or making them easier to trigger and someone's nearby
i'm almost definitely gonna get vibes about like, them. because proximity.
and i've already invaded your privacy like way way way more than i ever meant to.
i don't wanna keep doing that to you.
you better pick a good movie. choose wisely.
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[who taught him memes]
Kinda been for tit for tat on that whole... thing but like, I get you. Thanks.
[As much as it worked out fine, everything that Cisco has seen, sometimes it's still weird to remember how much vulnerability that he's shown around the guy.]
I will pick an amazing movie.