[closed] The Are Vee Bees are at it again...

[a_shadow]

Who: Agents Texas, Washington, and Carolina. Oh, and someone named Leonard Church, too.
What: Welcoming a new roommate
When: Now
Where: Islet #4, Cottage #3
Warnings: Canon typical language

[ Things have been changing a lot in the cottage, but one constant remains: Ami, the tigerlily. She's wandering in and out of the hut, as usual, investigating all the comings and goings of its residents. Meanwhile, said residents have much to discuss. Carolina has been invited to come stay in Maine's former room by Wash, and moving day has come. Besides this, the usual daily work of living has continued.

Living on an island in some kind of alternate reality Pacific tropical paradise does leave some things feeling unreal, after all.

So they might as well mingle. It's time to get to know each other again. ]

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[counterblows]

I got you killed, so as far as I'm concerned, I owed you one anyway.

Besides, it was...none of us were acting like ourselves.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Rrrright, so, I mean--then it shouldn't really count, right? If I wasn't me, and you weren't you.

[counterblows]

You really just want a free chance to wipe me out that badly?

[Ha ha.]





That's...it's a joke. That was a joke.

Sorry.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Hey, Wash? Anyone besides me ever tell you you need help?

Rhetorical question, but still, jesus.

[counterblows]

A little bit more often, since I started hanging out with your team...s.

[Red Team was kind of Church-adjacent. Like, he wasn't leading them, but they were always around, so.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, cuz we're all just a little bit more sane than you.

You know I don't...actually want you dead, right? There's no--it's not about being even.

[counterblows]

I know. I mean, I...don't hold it against you, is all. Most people in my life try to kill me at one point or another.

[Really, this is just consistency. If you think about it.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

I definitely understand that. That's kinda my life in a nutshell. And afterlife. Hell, nobody's even accidentally killed me yet here and that's shocking to me.

[counterblows]

I'm going to call that a step up.

[Calling it "death" seems a bit of a misnomer, considering that it wasn't his body to begin with, back in Blood Gulch, but Wash isn't going to set about splitting hairs there. Not today.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

No argument there. And hey, you did manage to put a hole in me. Sucks that your fake-ass memories made you such a poor shot, but you got me there.

I mean. No, it doesn't...suck, exactly, but like. Man, I guess one of us was gonna get got anyway.

[counterblows]

Look, you weren't the one who set me on fire and stabbed me with a giant trident, so it wasn't as bad as it could've been.

[Not that he holds that against Asgore either, actually.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Jesus, did you even manage to kill anyone? Your team sucked.

[counterblows]

Not then, no. My aim was a lot worse than usual, for some reason.

[Probably because the water-borne invaders weren't used to handling firearms.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

And suddenly I was wicked good at aiming. I mean uh more than usual, I mean.

And I was scared of the water? And also I almost overheated to death. That was fun.

[counterblows]

[Wash very studiously does not go into the specifics of Church's aim. Therein lies dangerous territory.]

And I couldn't stay out of it. It actually helped a few times. Healed me up after... [After, uh, Asgore impaled his arm with a trident? Yeah, that was a thing.] Well, any time I got injured.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Didn't uh. Help you with death, though, huh. Or the...wild forgetting thing after.

[counterblows]

Well, no. People...when they die, it's like they don't come back all the way at first. It's happened before. Just not to me, until then.

[He remembers full well the kind of situation people had to contend with. Only a few months after he arrived, they lost a good chunk of the population to those fucking flowers.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

So...death isn't death, but it's still bad for fucky reasons. Noted.

[counterblows]

Basically. Not fun, but at least it isn't permanent. Usually.

[Why is he even mentioning this? Death has never been permanent for Church, historically, and it continues to not be permanent.]