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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-24 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ OKAY!!!

thorns has to go back up the elevator, and he has to share it with an old lady who is clearly judging him for wearing his sleep clothes outside. he tries not to make eye contact as she makes passive aggressive comments about the youth. thank god they live on different floors. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-24 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ just good luck

okay

unfortunately he finds thorns cute whatever he does so even if he is stuck planning an entire wedding ceremony alone (it will not be this crazy), he finds thorns' willingness to defer to his judgement endearing. he has forgotten how many times he's regretted it, but it's fine.
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That's right. Did you get a chance to replenish your plants and herbs with the apothecary?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-24 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they are suffering every day of their lives.


it's also pretty funny how much animosity they keep getting from old people. elysium's life is terrible for a different reason at the moment, and he's back to the old pen and paper when he realises he is laptopless… hell.

as with all things, this gets better with time? or at least it should?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Unless something happens, it should last us a while.

[ or at least, in theory it should last them until they reach a place where he can restock.

it's interesting to think about how easily they were able to slip into a normal life here. maybe if they were remotely normal, or even just a few iterations of themselves ago, they could have actually settled. instead they are insane. ]


Do we need more hair dye...
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium you are so useless

thorns goes to campus earlier than he would have. he has brought elysium laptop with him even though he has no idea if he will still need it by this point in time. he texts elysium a single question mark and nothing else. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
?

[ texts thorns back a question mark.

but he is a little more useful than that, so—
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Was there something wrong with the food?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ instead they are insane and ready to kill people who were perfectly hospitable to them if they're more than just slightly inconveniencing. it's fine. ]

Good reminder. Even though just touching up our roots takes a lot less of it, it never hurts to have a stock of it in hand in case of we ever end up somewhere harder to take it around.

[ thinks. ]

… We still can't get too attached to the idea, though.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ it takes him a moment to realize why elysium is even asking this because he had been so focused on other things at that time. ]

You forgot your laptop.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...

[ he rakes a hand through his own hair, thoughtful. he is very much thinking that perhaps now it's time to go bald? imagine forcing elysium to propose while you're bald? ]

We can figure out alternatives.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's going to get home and find the untouched plate of food and be sad…

well, that's less important.
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Oh. Yeah. Had to borrow some stuff from people to get by. It happens.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ he grabs thorns by the head—literally. like a claw machine snatching up its prize plush except they are two living beings. ]

Alternatives being natural dyes, yeah?

[ this is not a question. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hmmmm. how to word this and not appear creepy. ]

I have it.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hmmm.

he is starting to think that they might not become bald? this is such a slow realization go have after what they went through when elysium had to cut his hair shorter. ]


... Yeah. Of course.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
What? Really? You seriously saved me from using my lunch break to get it.

I'm surprised you noticed. Where are you?


[ he made such a spectacle in the morning it'd be more of a surprise if something didn't go wrong… ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-25 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he slides his arm further around thorns, tugging him in until his head is nestled firmly against his chest. he strokes his hair for good measure… ]

You told me you were mine. [ (sylus voice) ] Don't forget what that means.

[ this is so serious for a no bald arc ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it was so impossible to not tell something was wrong. it's fine. ]

Near the business building.
Go outside.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-25 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns does not see the correlation between that and his hair. does that mean only elysium can decide on his haircuts? this is so stupid that thorns isn't even feeling the usual amount of smitten right now. he's just confused. ]

I'm always yours?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-26 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ something about seeing thorns outside of hours they aren't used to is exciting now?

there is the shame from the morning but he is also just touched…


he exits the business building and just waves like an insane person. everyone thinks this is too much energy to be showing on a school campus; he needs to relax.
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Thorns—!!
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-26 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ he gets the sense that thorns doesn't quite understand what he's getting at, but it's fine as long as he continues nodding along in the name of love…

he pats him some more.
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The hair on your head is included. You can't do anything to it without my permission.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-26 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns waves back, not as energetically but that really is to be expected.

the vibe here is so different there are students in poorly fitted suits wandering around...why do they never get something that fits properly... anyway. thorns hold up the laptop bag. ]


Hey.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-26 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't going to do anything to it.

[ he was going to do the most drastic thing you could ever do to it, actually, but don't worry about it. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-26 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ they are broke college students not ready to go into debt further debt for a suit… stop judging them!!!!

but elysium clearly couldn't care less about decorum despite looking the part. thorns mentioned wanting to show off? they're showing off. people to the side are blatantly staring, whispering among themselves.

if anything, it only seems to make him stronger!! the pda buff!!

without actually taking the bag from thorns, he slips his hand over, fingers curling around the same handle.
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Hi. When's your next class?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-26 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
No? That's good. It doesn't hurt to be careful sometimes.

[ some pats for good measure. this may or may not be a threat. ]

Let's try to shoot for the end of the week.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-26 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
In a little over an hour.

[ he is looking at their hands... wow. they're touching. this shyness is such a difference from the other thread where they will bang outside. ]

Want to hang out?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-26 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns shaves his head and elysium starts threatening to k*ll himself again

but that sounds like a good timeline. they should probably get some hunting and fishing done so they can last as long as they can with a food supply before needing to stop at a town. ]


Pretty different than the last time we ran away together.