IC contact [Mask or Menace]

[infomodder]

"Gone fishing."

[ so don't leave messages to ruin the after fishing glow !!!

your one stop shop for not leaving him alone ]

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[infomodder]

of course i do
but i don't want to go to jail either
so
we're gonna have to plan this one out very carefully aren't we

[aggressiveapathy]

nah
just a good wardrobe

no i can't read the tag i need the icon to match exactly omg hdu

[infomodder]

[Will's not keen on eye contact and has plenty of bullshit reasons whenever it's brought up, but Annie watches him and he can't be bothered to to look away. The behaviors probably don't translate to her in the same way as they might to other people here from worlds similar to his own, takes away the point. He stays completely focused, lucid, eyebrows furrowing slightly as he reaches a hand up to rearrange the hat on top of it.

The eye contact stays put, what could be seen as nervousness taking place elsewhere. This is one territory where the crossing rules might be different, might boil straight down to the most basic of basics: thou shalt not kill, everything else is pretty much okay.]

Mmhmm. [Calling him on his shit isn't against the rules. If he's going to tell her she's welcome somewhere, he's going to do what he can to make sure those words don't prove empty in the long run. Promises people make get broken, people get broken, it happens. The little things is what he's banking on.] It's the only one in there that's vegan. It's on the box. You'll see it.

[And Gunther will happily follow her wherever she may go. Will seems to be fine staying perched on the stool behind the counter, grabbing up another one of those teeth like he's totally not going to be following her with his eyes or waiting to hear any reaction, leaning back to see if he can catch a glimpse of her as she digs through the freezer and quickly getting back into place just in time for her to not know. No way, not him. He's 100% interested in this shark tooth and the world around him is a mystery.]

[infomodder]

like what?
does my plaid scream criminal too much

[He can wear the orange jumpsuit instead. That screams nothing criminal.]

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[lyingheart]

Will, when's your birthday?

[infomodder]

yearly

[lyingheart]

Ah, so you're not born on February 29th. 365 other days to go through next.

[infomodder]

I'll give you 200 guesses.
Starting now.

[lyingheart]

I'll wish you Happy Birthday every day of the year from tomorrow forward just to cover my bases.

(I finally figured out that baseball metaphor.)

[infomodder]

I can't wait for you to find out about unbirthdays.
(Which one?)

[lyingheart]

I'll wish you a happy unbirthday and birthday every day. They'll cancel each other out, but the gesture will be the same.

(The one where I know the bases are small geometric shapes used in a game of baseball.)

[infomodder]

You don't wish people happy unbirthdays. It's merry unbirthday. If you say happy unbirthday to someone who knows the reference, they'll probably be a jackass about it being wrong. And then you'll suffer bad singing.

[Because Disney lovers are whiny assholes, it is known.]

(But what was the metaphor? The ballpark figure mention?)

[lyingheart]

What's the reference?

(Yes, whatever Levi was talking about like it had meaning back when it didn't.)

[infomodder]

A movie based on a book. Loosely.

[Kind of like NBC Hannibal, but more music.]

(You got any others plaguing you? I could probably explain.)

[lyingheart]

And that book is...?

(Most the time I ask the person saying them. Levi's just an ass.)

[ that she's not asking for anything from. ]

[infomodder]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sometimes just called Alice in Wonderland.

[Drugs and decapitation, winning combo.]

(He is? I couldn't tell.)

[lyingheart]

Is it worth reading?

(Sarcasm, right?)

[infomodder]

Depends on what you like to read, Annie. I'm not sure what you prefer.

[He kind of wants to say no because of the premise, because of Annie and this new world filled with so many strange things, because it might...well.]

(Right.)

[lyingheart]

Everything. Though things about the holocaust are difficult.

[infomodder]

[He figured that "everything" was a possible answer. She seemed genuinely interested in spiny lobsters, of all fucking things.]

It's fiction. Nothing about that in there. I'm not sure if I'd recommend it. I haven't read in a while myself. It's a really good example of what's called literary nonsense. If you read it as a story about a curious young girl who falls into a world filled with creatures and politics she doesn't understand, it might be fine.

[If she reads it as a child might, it could be worthwhile. If she consumes the alternate meanings the way Alice consumes words and food and reacts with her stomach...perhaps not a great choice.]

[aggressiveapathy]

we may have to make a change from that
for a night
or settle for olive garden level plates
and that's not even worth the effort

text | going to keep this to one thread but it begins

[lyingheart]

Happy birthday, Will. And have a very merry unbirthday, too.

[infomodder]

you already have a "wardrobe" in mind?
let me know
i'll get whatever it is
unless you wanna pick it all together

[Otherwise he might do that thing where he puts on a nice coat and scarf and yet when it comes off, it's still the same hideous paint job underneath.]

[lyingheart]

[ she wouldn't be able to read it like a child might. as a novel, it's a chancier one to take in, mull over, press her lips into a thin line and wonder what it says about the places the author had come from. ]

But if I read it some other way, it's less fine?

[aggressiveapathy]

well
it's kinda different from the original kidnap job
more like a variation
but we can make this work
and the proper clothing will appear when the time is right