i was talking with one of the rolutes about alternate timelines and it just made me think i wonder how we wouldve gotten along if i were a girl what if you were a boy? oh man does that mean you wouldve proposed to ME
Well, if you'd been a girl, I suppose I might've hated you a bit for being so much prettier than I was. Unless of course I'd been a boy and you'd been a girl, in which case I imagine I would've been absolutely tongue-tied around you. Or quite astonished by your unladylike tendencies, as I saw them, but...
Mm. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm glad that you're you and I'm me, because I can't imagine the two of us being any better together than we are simply as we are.
awww same babe its just sort of fun to think about also no way would girl me have been prettier than you because you are FOSHIZZLE the prettiest and idve still been walking smack into walls around you for cause of wonderstruck which i guess is maybe slightly endearing in a sad kind of way? but not part of the classic definition of pretty
i still wouldve had an extravagant crush on you cause of how nice you were and the things you said to me and how id feel when i was around you and cause youd still have been you i dont think anything would change the fact that you and i go together but i might never have ever made a move romantically i mean
...Were there others, before me? People you wanted to put yourself out there for, but didn't because you were afraid...?
It's all right if there were. Or, what I mean is — it won't hurt my feelings any, I should say, to hear about it. I won't be jealous or resentful or anything of the sort.
yeah i had like ugh i dunno this really dumb thing about jade when i was a kid or maybe about the idea of jade that i could go airmail myself to her and wed live like two feral fucking mowglis on her jungle island and id take care of her or something but she never needed that i just probably i was desperate to think someone did
and then terezi was the one putting the moves on me but that went belly up pretty damn quick
those were the two big ones i guess jesus both before i was like fourteen but still all that time and nobody ever made me feel like like they were waiting for me to take that step like i could be exactly what they always wanted just by existing you know?
i hope i make you feel even a little bit how you do me i want you to feel that way forever
I didn't know there could be boys like you, before I met you. I thought I knew what I wanted. I thought I'd found it once, too — I think the same way you'd thought you'd found something with Jade.
It was a dream of being happy. I think...perhaps, neither one of us really knew what would make us happy, back then. We only thought we did.
But it was. It was like that for me, too. I'd spent so long trying to be who I had to be, but all I ever had to be for you was myself, and it was enough.
It's strange to think of all we had to go through, the two of us, to find each other. But we did find each other.
I really do think we were meant to find each other, you know.
it feels like that doesnt it like as unlikely and incredible as the circumstances were any other outcome would be somehow incomplete so even though the probability of a millennial texan and a girl from 1897 was ridiculously fucking low new universes just had to keep splitting and splitting off so at the same time there was always going to be a universe where we met maybe in the universe where we were both boys you took it on to teach me how to dance and maybe in the universe where we were both girls i confessed to you one night after a lullaby but i dont think theres any world where the idea of dave strider wouldnt discover its home with the idea of you though i guess im as biased as you are
I can imagine quite clearly that Marius Everett would have been most distressed at the notion of Dave Strider not knowing the proper way of asking a lady to dance. And so perhaps they did — dancing lessons for modernity lessons, an equal trade. And I suppose if that Dave Strider wanted to keep his lack of knowledge into the subject a secret, then there would be no one but Marius for him to practice with...
And so perhaps they did dance. Perhaps that's when Marius felt it too — that feeling of a song drawing to a close, and wishing so desperately that it wouldn't.
As for Meridiana and Davinia...well. That Meridiana would have invited Davinia to share her room and her bed far sooner than I ever did. I suspect that would have hastened things along, for Davinia's sake.
...
But I'm glad that we ended up as we are. Not least of which because it means that all of those times when I was wrong — low-born, no class, foolish, worthless, narcissistic, wretched — I really...wasn't. It was only wrong because it was still only me and them; it wasn't yet me and you.
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(You would be, of course, there's no question of that.)
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i wonder how we wouldve gotten along if i were a girl
what if you were a boy?
oh man does that mean you wouldve proposed to ME
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Mm. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm glad that you're you and I'm me, because I can't imagine the two of us being any better together than we are simply as we are.
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same babe
its just sort of fun to think about
also no way would girl me have been prettier than you because you are FOSHIZZLE the prettiest and idve still been walking smack into walls around you for cause of wonderstruck
which i guess is maybe slightly endearing in a sad kind of way?
but not part of the classic definition of pretty
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Oh, but now it's your turn — how would it be for you, if you were a boy and I were a boy?
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i still wouldve had an extravagant crush on you
cause of how nice you were and the things you said to me
and how id feel when i was around you
and cause youd still have been you
i dont think anything would change the fact that you and i go together
but i might never have ever made a move
romantically i mean
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...
Or is it because you would've been afraid of what I might say and do?
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like
i only even got the courage to put myself out there with you because
i got the idea you wanted me to
i never did before
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It's all right if there were. Or, what I mean is — it won't hurt my feelings any, I should say, to hear about it. I won't be jealous or resentful or anything of the sort.
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i had like
ugh i dunno this really dumb thing about jade when i was a kid
or maybe about the idea of jade
that i could go airmail myself to her and wed live like two feral fucking mowglis on her jungle island and id take care of her or something
but she never needed that
i just
probably i was desperate to think someone did
and then terezi was the one putting the moves on me but that went belly up pretty damn quick
those were the two big ones i guess
jesus both before i was like fourteen
but still all that time and nobody ever made me feel like
like they were waiting for me to take that step
like i could be exactly what they always wanted
just by existing
you know?
i hope i make you feel even a little bit how you do me
i want you to feel that way forever
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It was a dream of being happy. I think...perhaps, neither one of us really knew what would make us happy, back then. We only thought we did.
But it was. It was like that for me, too. I'd spent so long trying to be who I had to be, but all I ever had to be for you was myself, and it was enough.
It's strange to think of all we had to go through, the two of us, to find each other. But we did find each other.
I really do think we were meant to find each other, you know.
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like as unlikely and incredible as the circumstances were any other outcome would be somehow incomplete
so even though the probability of a millennial texan and a girl from 1897 was ridiculously fucking low new universes just had to keep splitting and splitting off so at the same time
there was always going to be a universe where we met
maybe in the universe where we were both boys you took it on to teach me how to dance
and maybe in the universe where we were both girls i confessed to you one night after a lullaby
but i dont think theres any world where the idea of dave strider wouldnt discover its home with the idea of you
though i guess im as biased as you are
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And so perhaps they did dance. Perhaps that's when Marius felt it too — that feeling of a song drawing to a close, and wishing so desperately that it wouldn't.
As for Meridiana and Davinia...well. That Meridiana would have invited Davinia to share her room and her bed far sooner than I ever did. I suspect that would have hastened things along, for Davinia's sake.
...
But I'm glad that we ended up as we are. Not least of which because it means that all of those times when I was wrong — low-born, no class, foolish, worthless, narcissistic, wretched — I really...wasn't. It was only wrong because it was still only me and them; it wasn't yet me and you.
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yeah
hey
you know what i havent tried yet
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...Oh, LOOK! It's me and you! That is me and you, isn't it? And you have your shades on, that's why your eye-dots are bigger than mine?
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and i gave you a flower to wear too
let me blow up the part in the middle though
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...and oh! Goodness, let me see here.
(*⌒◡⌒)ノð ヾ(●ε●)ノ
There! I accept!
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♡。゚.(*♡´◡` 人●◡● ♡*)゚♡ °・
oh look now were dancing
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break it down girl
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And now I'll dance while you take care of the music!
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oooooooh snap dj scandalicious in the house
mwah mwah
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And behind the turntables where no one will see us, even!
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they dont come up that high
will that be a problem
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...
Or perhaps we could simply not care in the slightest, and carry on awfully without giving it a second thought. Which would you rather? ❤♪♬~~~(^ε^人*)
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