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[harderdaddy]

Text | Voice | Video | Action What are yah stupid? You know what ta do. kisses~

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[harderdaddy]

[The answer takes a while, but Angel can't just leave him on read.]

Am I hurting you?

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Wen Ning really needs to learn to swear. Even to himself, it'd relieve some of the pressure of a moment that really calls for fuck. It might be as bad as he was afraid it'd be. Should have have asked to see Chase's communicator before he stormed out? No, that feels bad, too.]

No. I don't want anything to change.

[A lot of typing... appearing and vanishing again on that one before it finally comes.]

[harderdaddy]

[Angel likewise types and re-types his question before he can hit send.]

Are you sure?

[verynormalturnipseller]

[This exchange is just excruciatingly slow on both sides.]

Why would I want anything you don't when the nice part is doing it together?

[harderdaddy]

I ain't that I don't want...you. I do.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Angel, it's fine.

[Angel was almost Anthony, but that feels like a powerful talisman, one he can't use right now when he has to make this right on his own. He still had to force himself to erase it twice.]

I'm a cold corpse with a ghost for a puppeteer. You're very sweet to me. I'm happy with us.

[harderdaddy]

And I'm an giant spider. <3
You're the sweet one. Sweeter than I deserve.
I don't want to hurt you.

[verynormalturnipseller]

You're a pretty spider.

[That, at least, comes through prompt and clear.]

The first time we ever talked you told me about stars and noodles and your pet pig. Who told you you weren't sweet?

[harderdaddy]

You're a pretty ghost.

Plenty of people. I'm in Hell for a reason, Wen Ning.
You make it easier to be soft though.

[verynormalturnipseller]

It's easy to be soft here. I've got plenty behind me too, you know.

[They've never talked substantively about either of their pasts, but there are enough familiar notes to Angel that he thinks he might know the song.]

I'm sorry Chase upset you. Please don't worry about it?

[harderdaddy]

I know.

[He knows pieces, but like knows like, and Angel can see Wen Ning's past hasn't been kind to him.]

You know I care about you, right?

[verynormalturnipseller]

Of course. You're always good to me. You looked after me after the monsters when I was full of holes. I mean it that I don't want anything you don't want to give.

[What would be the point if he couldn't make Angel laugh with him?]

[harderdaddy]

Holes~

I want to give more.
Eventually.

[verynormalturnipseller]

[That... was not what he was steeling himself for. Once again the answer is slow and tentative.]

I'd like that. No hurry.

[If he's sitting here flustered by the fish pond, at least he can be courteous!]

[harderdaddy]

Never gone slow before.
Something nice about it.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Slow as you like.

[This is one of those times where only being dead is letting him stay sort of calm. His heart can't pound in his ears. What's nice and appropriately slow? Not demanding at all?]

Did you like your mooncakes? I know it's not the right holiday, but you slept through Mid-Autumn.

[harderdaddy]

<3

I always love the treats you make me. You're going to make me fat.

What did you write?
Is it something dirty?~

[verynormalturnipseller]

[Oh, this is actually a little easier to do over the communicator. He's not sure if it's a bit presumptuous. His calligraphy isn't even good.]

The long one is a bit of a poem. The short one is:
安 ān, same character as the capital, that's for tranquility
愉 tōu, that's delightful
霓 ní, that's colorful, or a rainbow

So 安愉霓 is just you.

[harderdaddy]

[Oh fuck off, that's so cute.]

I think that beats the English meaning.
It's beautiful, thank you.

[verynormalturnipseller]

I'm not the only person here who reads characters.

[He's not sure how much of a secret it is, but, just so Angel knows.]

And mooncakes are the prettiest dessert, filled with the fanciest sweets, and then right in the middle salty enough to dry out your tongue.

[Trying to tease again, now that he doesn't feel like dying again.]

[harderdaddy]

I'll keep it somewhere safe

I can think of a prettier dessert~

[Angel can tease right back.]

[verynormalturnipseller]

Enough, enough. Now I know you feel better, mooncake.

[harderdaddy]

Much, mio fantasmino

[verynormalturnipseller]

Later, do you want to watch a ridiculous show with me? I found one where a shopgirl gets reincarnated as the villain of a novel she's reading. And I'll bring apples.

[harderdaddy]

OMG that sounds amazing.
YES