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hey it's abbacchio the asshole with the lipstick and purple stand
you settling in ok kakyoin?

Really, you could have stopped at 'asshole'. Perfectly descriptive. 🐸

I'm figuring things out. Science classes may have been a mistake. I hadn't realised just how little of what I know from home applies. I have to start with elementary school textbooks. I barely used elementary school textbooks in elementary school.

I'm figuring out the dark secrets of the cartoon mascots right now. Molly Molecule has skeletons in her closet, believe me.

not true you know multiple assholes

ok well congrats on school my sister reimi was going so you might bump into her

how are you and jotaro?

And so many of them are in denial. You appear to be the one I can trust for sphincter-related realism.

That's a complicated question, I'm afraid. It would be a simpter one if it were socially acceptable to just say 'bad'. But it isn't.

At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to cultivate an air of mystery - if I were doing that I'd just make shit up - something happened in Cairo. I don't know how much I told you about it before, and there's no sense in dancing around the subject if you already know.

Do you know?

can't deny that
i'm a self-aware anal clencher

i know what happens.
you might not like to hear this
but we shared memories once.

you and i got a lot in common

That sounds needlessly invasive. But also convenient for avoiding awkward conversations. I commend my alternate self for finding such a unique way to overshare.

It's difficult. I think that- you know how scarcity drives prices up? I think that the suddenly very sharply limited supply of me has driven up my value in a way I wasn't quite prepared for.

[ 7FFF00 is typing. Until he's not and three messages arrive in quick succession. ]

Wait what.
Please elaborate, that is a very loaded statement in the current context.
Are you dead.

i'd say it wasn't on purpose but i did warn you at the time
you went through with it anyway
unsurprisingly neither of us were happy with the outcome

yeah
pretty fucking dead
left me with a scar

That sounds like me. It was probably on purpose. I imagine I wanted to see what would happen.
And it sounds like I succeeded at that fucking spectacularly.

Well shit. That's unfortunate.

you saw a lot of shit you didn't need to
and i saw what happened to you
and other things

yeah.
it's not great
but i've had time to deal with it
not well, but im dealing with it

Well, there's an upside to this whole situation. You can take comfort in the fact that I have completely forgotten all of your darkest secrets.

That's what the problem is, I suppose. He's had time to overthink it all. And I havn't. I'm usually the one who has the answers, but he's had all his time here to come up with some convincing argument about how everything is probably his fault. And I'd like to argue against it point by point but I'm still trying to keep track of where my pancreas is.

(It's inside me, in case you were curious)
(but it doesn't feel like it all the time)
(do you ever experience a sensation like phantom pains, except instead of a missing body part it's a body part you have but the pain is coming from the other side of the room?)

nah its ok
you didnt know my worst one

what, jotaro?
well, that doesn't surprise me
he probably thinks you're pissed at him or something
even though you haven't been around for more than what a week or so?
he's had months to think about everything
that's plenty of time to orchestrate a self-loathing
i should know im a fucking expert at it

ive had similar sensations
like my face is breaking
sometimes i swear my chest hurts so bad it wants to burst but that's me
moody blues is the one that broke apart after everything

Oh dear. That's just inviting me to be curious about it. 🐸

I don't think anything is wrong. The obvious aside. But I think it's going to take us both a while before things are really right. He's mourning. Or unmourning, I suppose. And I'm doing whatever the fuck it is I'm doing. And the solution to both of those is just time.

Which is fucking frustrating.

I never saw what happened to Hierophant, in the end. Whether he just vanished or whether it hurt him. I hope he didn't break, that sounds shitty.

guess you'll have to read my memories again sometime

dont be impatient bastards about it
that's really my only advice

well
i hope you never know
it was a terrible feeling

hey
um

so there's something i need to tell you
and i need to do it before the next time you see me
so you can decide whether you want to see me or not

I'm apparently a bird.

I was going to find a better way to tell you but I guess I'm turning this into a dramatic news contest.

I think I win. So what's the losing entry?

Tempting, to be honest. If only to figure out what other dark secrets past-me told you.

And yeah. It's hard not to be an impatient bastard, what with being very other type of bastard under the sun, but I'm trying. It's funny. We're both good at this. Me at acting like shit's normal and him at acting like he doesn't fucking care.

And he needs shit to be normal and I need him to not fucking care. It should be ideal.

But we both know it was always only acting.

wait
what do you mean a bird

what kind of bird
like a whole bird or just part bird

Just a little bit bird. Maybe 25% bird.
But that's still more than the normal amount of bird. Feathers. Hollow bones. You know. Bird.

I assumed this wasn't meant to happen until next month.

guess that means you're not a sanguis then
i don't think sanguis gets birds

probably it's better that way though anyway
then we won't fight when it's sanguis

are you ok

Seems so. Sanguis had been my first guess, but I suppose not all things can be determined by how much one wants to fight people.

I am. Shirts and doors have been challenging, but I've managed without breaking anything.

You never told me your thing.
Ashamed to not be a bird?

that's not it
look i know it would be better if i wasn't doing this in messages
but there's a reason i can't do it in person
so just

look

remember i told you about that guy i know
alucard
i didn't exactly

tell you everything about him

He's a vampire.

I visited him a few days ago. We had hot chocolate.

[ Okay so he was not expecting to have quite so many feathers while admitting to stalking Jotaro's boyfriend but here they are. He's not going to make things more painful by playing dumb. ]

you did what

I made hot chocolate. It's good if you make it with more bitter chocolate, because the milk is sweet.

i would've introduced you to him myself
i was going to tell you

i just

i was trying to go slow
with telling you things
so you didn't keep getting sick

i didn't want you to find out like that

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