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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ huh...

thorns just wordlessly hands it over because he decided it's easier to just comply than deal with whatever sick induced delusion elysium is currently going through. stop blaming everything on him being sick. ]
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[ why does he have violent urges in both threads at the same time

he tells himself to relax… this is the love of his life… his grip turns into a vice grip.
]

Self-care is meant to be taken slow. And no—toner's to help your skin's absorption, so it has to sit under everything else…

[ how does thorns understand aftercare but not this. he guides thorns into his arms, head canted to the side. he is taking matters into his own hands. HE IS GOING FIRST!!!! ]

Here.
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[





he blocks dahut and scien's numbers. then, he thinks about it a little more and ultimately decides he should block any incoming numbers that aren't already registered in his phonebook? perfect.

he smiles and hands the phone back over.
]

Okay.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns definitely uses those 3 in 1 shampoos so he's just ?

but he allows elysium to manhandle him, not because he thinks he needs to learn anything but simply because he enjoys elysium touching him. ]


This feels overcomplicated.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ fucking help

thorns just takes his phone back. after pocketing it, he will return to his previous position which was grabbing elysium by the wrist. ]


Right. I'll help you undress if you need me to.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns can experience the joy of living with another person when his 3-in-1s keep going missing. there is only shampoo, conditioner, and cleanser all in their separate bottles. likelier is thorns only bothering to use shampoo and forgoing everything else while elysium keeps wondering why the shampoo keeps running out well before the others, but that's a future problem! ]

Maybe. But you don't put your chemicals in all at once when you're experimenting, do you? There's an order to these things. One reaction leads to another—skincare is as much a science as anything else…

[ funny, elysium could say the same about intimacy. the moment thorns is in his arms, he's immediately mollified and wonders why he was even angry to begin with? this is a good excuse to keep thorns in one place and touch him. wow.

he gently slaps thorns' cheeks with toner. plap.
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[

huh
]

Sorry, what? [ he stares at thorns' hand on his wrist. ] I think I misheard you. What?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium should have tried this explanation on thorns ages ago because it suddenly clicks into place for him. does that mean he will suddenly be good at applying anything? no. but he immediately understands why there is an order to things.

plap plap. ]


Maybe you're a scientist in another life.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
I guess you feel better enough you don't need my help to that extent...

[ which is a relief but thorns wasn't going to let elysium know he was nervous about it, that's the opposite of being helpful... ]

I'll just take you there then.
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[ they're both air-headed in different respects. they can wait for the toner to sit… surely thorns can follow these simple instructions… ]

Only if you're an assistant in that same life. Can you imagine?
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Is there something wrong with what I'm currently wearing…?

[ they are once again having two entirely different conversations. he looks down. a stain he's maybe missing? ]

You still have to be there with me.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ he is truly struggling to imagine himself as an assistant because his patience is below the ground on these matters, but he will try to do it for elysium.... he supposes he is one in certain aspects. ]

You'd look good in a lab coat.

[ thorns doesn't wear those. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ internally screaming

thorns reminds himself that elysium is practically on death's door. he nods his head slowly and starts to tug him down the hall towards the bath... ]
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—I'd look good in anything.

[ reaches for the low-hanging fruit. annoying. but next up is moisturiser… yippee. in the form of little dots on every part of thorns' face. watches as thorns learns nothing from this and just plaps a giant blob on one cheek and smears it around. ]

Should I find one to put on for you? We don't have to work the profession to have fun.

[ he is already forgetting they're broke. also, he has so many stupid things on his list already he'll never have money again… ]
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[ okay. they end up in the bathroom. and instead of asking what they're doing here and not at the front door like a normal person,

he just stares at thorns questioningly? he is truly struggling so much just to make sense of what's going on… why is life hard.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ all of his money is really going into random junk once he actually obtains money

thorns reaches over to flick elysium on the nose. he is not paying any mind to how elysium is applying this. ]


I don't need one.

[ BUT ELYSIUM DOES? ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns stares back, also deeply confused as to why elysium isn't doing anything. he told thorns he doesn't want him to undress him, so he isn't sure what the problem is?

and then it hits him (it doesn't), and thorns turns around to face a wall. just because elysium wants him in here doesn't mean he wants him to see anything... it is simply a solidarity thing. ]


Go ahead.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ his money has always gone into stupid shit it's just more egregious now considering their circumstances… but it's okay. ice soup for sexy lingerie and cosplay sounds like a fair trade.

elysium just sniffs.
]

Then that makes you my test subject.

[ this is about to get unethical so fast ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they are two men standing in the bathroom together… is this thorns telling him he should go before they leave? does he think he'll hit his head somewhere and pass out and die if they aren't in the same room? he just let him go off on his own earlier though?

this is so bizarre…… he stares at thorns' head thinking he might be able to look into it if he stares hard enough.
]

Are you serious?

[ about wanting elysium to P*SS IN FRONT OF HIM????? ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. You can do whatever experiments you want to me.

[ elysium probably said this to scien in the other thread and then it killed him.

but it's fine here. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns is so goddamn confused. why does elysium sound so shocked when he was the one who insisted that thorns stays inside here during this.

does.... does he actually want him to watch? what. thorns should have just let him die. ]


I don't think it's appropriate for me to look.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You're really into this. Should I do what you do? Just hand you questionable chemicals and hope for the best?

[ that is what scien did too, but alas. he is not thorns and so he must now die for his transgressions. ]

Hmm. But I'm more into other kinds of experiments. Like annoying you on purpose to see how much I can get away with. Or——how many kisses it'll take until you forgive me. Those're tons more fun.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-01 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's fine they can both be put out of their misery when he just dies on the spot. ]

Isn't it already inappropriate that you're here.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Those aren't real experiments.

[ thorns temporarily forgot what flirting was for a second there to instead be pedantic. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-01 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh my god

thorns is so confused. at this point he actually turns around because maybe seeing elysium will make this conversation suddenly make any sense at all. ]


You... told me to stay with you?