HO125E | text | day 031

[trialbyliar]

jeez i'm so BOREDDDD (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞
all anyone cares about is organizing supplies or cleaning up dead crabs or whatever, it's super lame!!!
you'd think on an island where people just respawn there'd be tons of people fighting to the death all the time but instead we're just camping and shit
well except for that cabin murderer guy i guess
everyone else needs to get with the program!!!
lol jk
i really am bored tho so let's play a game!! (･ω<)☆
how about two truths and a lie? ooh or never have i ever??
or both idk just do whichever you want

Comments

[timaeus]

Depending on one's definition of "kid".
But nope, wrong.
If it's any comfort, I'm abusing a technicality here.
Really beating the shit out of it, someone's gonna call the cops on me for domestic violence at this rate.
Anyway it's a long, convoluted story, but the short version is that there's cloning and time travel involved.
My technical genetic children are the same age as me.

[obeir]

Cloning and time travel. Makes as much sense as creating an AI of yourself you don't get along with.
So you're saying you're long overdue to receive The Talk, huh.

Is it weird having kids the same age as you?

[timaeus]

Conceptually, it is in fact fairly weird.
In all honesty, though, I only just met them and really only talked to one of them at length, and I think we mutually consider each other more like brothers.

[This feels like downplaying that whole situation so much, but there's pretty much no way to talk about his feelings regarding Dave without making himself sound absolutely insane. Or rather, displaying the true extent of his actual insanity for all to see.]

[obeir]

A sibling relationship does seem like it might feel more natural when you're all the same age.

[ It strikes a chord with him, too. ]

I've thought a lot about what it might be like to somehow have kids.
They'd grow up, eventually grow old... they'd age. As would their mother. [ He's thinking of Harley. ]
And I'd still be as I am now.
That'd probably be weird for them too.

[timaeus]

[Saying it like that just reminds Dirk of Roxy and the times she'd pester him about what it'd be like if they had kids. It's a bittersweet thought – he loves Roxy and misses her, but her constant blatant "hints" that she loved him in a very different way only ever made him feel guilt and self-loathing.

Ironically, they ended up having kids anyway, sorta. And they're every bit as fucked up as Dirk predicted they'd be, but he admittedly loves Dave more than he has any right to.]

It's not the kind of thought I entertained often.
Never had any particular desire to inflict my genes and whatever bullshit comes with them on a kid, and yet the machinations of paradox space saw fit that make that shit happen regardless.
I guess what I'm saying is you never know.
Who says you couldn't somehow have little baby Ks toddling around that'd be every bit as functionally immortal as you?
Maybe your girl could find a way to escape the shackles or mortality too.
I can certainly attest to weirder shit happening.