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[theweakhavepurpose]

[The video opens on a pile of wood, sticks, shrubbery, and chunks of what might have been siding, all piled into a very obvious pyramid surrounded by rocks.]

So everything has sucked recently. Back home in Montana, when shit got rough we'd always get together and have a big bonfire. Get drunk, make s'mores, all that stuff. It didn't make things better but at least you forgot about it for a little while.

Worth a try right?

[He sounds like he's honestly asking. He's trying really hard to be positive for once.]

I've got some graham crackers, chocolate, and other things for roasting. No marshmallows though so if anyone wants to come through in the clutch it would be appreciated.

I'm lighting this up tonight at dusk, so if you want in, be there. I've only got so much to burn and it might not last more than an hour or two.

((OOC: Feel free to use this like a log and make top levels and do action things. Go forth and get some bonfire mingling on!))

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

[Good old Deputy Pratt, master fire setter. Sounds about right, Peter gives her a nod.]

Yeah, yeah. Definitely better now.

[Except that he kind of wants to be anywhere but here, but he's just gonna have to learn to suck it up.]

[unphase]

[she platonically loves him. Peter, too. but she's in love with someone and she's not about to discuss it]

I'm so glad.

[she moves in for a hug. it could be a brohug if he's not feeling up to a full hug]

[itsnotaonesie]

[he's not sure if he's feeling up for it, but he definitely needs a hug right now, so he's just going to roll with it. He's SUPER CAREFUL about hugging her back, though. He's kind of in a weird place where he isn't sure if he even trusts his own strength right now]

[unphase]

[she feels the care with which he hugs her and it just makes her hug him harder. she's so glad to know him and she wants to help in any way she can]

You're such a good friend.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Give him your hardest hug, he can take it. He's a big strong muscle boy. A big strong muscle boy who is currently trying to claw his way out of a pit of self doubt, but still.]

I try? I think you're better at this than I am, though.

[unphase]

[she does~~. and she rocks them back and forth a little, too. and feel free to discuss the self-doubt with her, it would be a nice distraction from what was troubling her about what happened]

Really? What makes you say that?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Errybody got issues up in here.]

Oh, I... Y'know, nothing in particular? I just feel like I could always use some improving. Why settle for where I am now, y'know?

[unphase]

[more issues than a library].

I think you're fine the way you are. Even if you can't hold your liquor. Which probably made you dance awkwardly. We'll have to do that again sometime.

[itsnotaonesie]

Now, the dancing, I'll totally do that again. The alcohol, probably not? I can't say I'm a big fan of having my senses all... all muddled like that.

[unphase]

Oh. Yeah, it was probably weird with your super-senses. That's fine, not everyone can be a club kid. [she winks at him] More for me! And we do have to go dancing again. You did fine with the dancing.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter's fine not being a club kid. Honestly, he'd rather spend his free evenings chilling at the lab and working on his projects than partying. Like a nerd.]

I am really agile. With a little practice, I could probably dance pretty well.

[unphase]

[while Tinya was a club kid if only to annoy her mother. she "consorted" with all kinds of older men if only to see the look on her mother's face when she admitted to it]

I bet you would be! You'd know which step or arm movement your partner would take before she even took it. Which to be honest, would make most Bgztlian ladies keep their distance, but not me.

[itsnotaonesie]

[You know what girl you live your best rebel life]

I don't know how much I like the idea of scaring people off just by dancing at them.

[He sounds more amused than anything, really.]

[unphase]

[she plans to, as long as possible]

Oh, they wouldn't be scared, they'd just be very politely confused.

[as does she. her world's rules for etiquette chafe at her, they have ever since she was a girl]

[itsnotaonesie]

Confused because I'm too good at dancing? Now, that just doesn't even make sense.

[Chafe them back! You show those rules!]

[unphase]

Oh yeah. Bgztlian dancing takes years to perfect because it's not just dancing with your feet, it's dancing with your hands and arms.

And touch is everything on Bgztl when everyone can become intangible with a thought. Even something as small as holding hands is seen as really intimate and not to be done until you're at least three months into a courtship.

Needless to say, I ignored all of that.

[she winks at him]