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adandyinspace) wrote2017-03-31 08:28 pm
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A really...bad one... apparently...
[Well, at least that wasn't a lie.]
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Dandy. You're not telling me something.
[The truth, laid out, and then--]
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[She swaps her look of frustration for one of concern, putting her hand to her mouth as she's wont to do.]
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[Dandy leans back despite floating, hands soon resting behind his head. He shuts his eyes from the world, as if not being able to see will somehow shield him from anymore accusations.
...And yet, at the same time, one of his eyes peeks open and he catches a glimpse of Maya placing her hand over her mouth. It's little things like these that make him curse under his breath, how is he supposed to ignore something so pure?]
I mean...you came out here to have a good time, I don't wanna turn into a giant downer on you just like that...
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I'm always having a good time out here, come on. I can listen for a while!
[She swims after him, floating closer to follow sort of above him and guide herself with her palm on his stomach. He's not getting away so casually!!]
Come on, you don't tell me anything!
[She's nothing if not deliberate.]
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[She's not wrong, he doesn't tell her much. Usually it's just because he doesn't like dumping his issues on people when it doesn't involve them, but...he supposes in a relationship...things become a little more...involved. Huh, maybe it's just a trait that carried over from years of being like that.
Well, she said she liked his changes...what's the harm in another one?]
I mean it, it'd be a total mood changer. Last chance, we can always just forget it and go back to playing.
[He just...wants to make sure. In fact, he doesn't seem to be hiding much at all anymore, Dandy looks directly at Maya as he drifts right under her, not trying to be sneaky or anything. He just also doesn't want to be a huge buzzkill, awaiting the okay.]
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[Maya tells him, retuning that look of his with a soft one of her own.]
Mood, changed. And I promise you won't bring me down.
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...And, well, they're underwater. It's not like anyone can listen in, either.]
Well alright then.
[Where to even begin with this? Despite everything, Dandy does his best to remain as chill as possible. He doesn't want to make this a show or anything, just something he needs to get over with already.]
So, uh... [He shrugs his shoulders in a sort of "you know" sort of way. Not that she actually knows. If she did, none of this would be happening.] ...I mean.. Geez...
[This is a lot harder than he thought it would be. No wonder no one wants to hear about their partner's ex, everything about this feels awkward.
And then Dandy remembers he really doesn't care about awkward and pushes on.]
I guess it's really no surprise, but you aren't my first girlfriend. The breakup was...uh, a bit rough for me.
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Well, yeah, I figured you had lots of girlfriends.
[Like Larry, or something. Some guys just date around, and Dandy's always seemed to be that type.
Then again, it's not like he'd run to someone else when she'd disappeared. And that in itself was weird, too, wasn't it?]
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[Well, it's not like he didn't want people thinking that. Dandy never expected his playboy lifestyle to bite him in the ass in such a weird way, but here he is. This is simply an awkwardness he can't get over.]
Correction, I had one girlfriend. A little over ten years ago.
[He just...wants her to know there's been...a gap. As if to reassure her they aren't getting back together anytime soon.]
She, uh...left me. For some other dude we knew.
[Dandy's hand makes its way to his neck as he begins to rub up and down nervously, is he seriously going to let this get to him? Now? He's long since been over this, but for some reason thinking about Paul still pisses him off.]
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Wow, you're as big a sap as Nick.
[Gross.
...But Maya doesn't express that too much beyond a teasing smile, shoving her knuckles against his chest.]
What happened? Why would she do that?
[What's up with love, man, sounds complicated]
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Look, it's kinda long and complicated, and I'm not even sure if you'd get it. ...But long story short, I changed in a way I couldn't pick up on, so I wasn't the same dude she fell for, okay?
[His tone is rather rough, he even sounds angry, and Dandy himself picks up on it. So he sighs, that's definitely not how he wanted to come across, he isn't angry. Not anymore, anyway.]
...I mean, it's not her fault. Sometimes people just don't work out for reasons you can't help.
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But-- everyone changes.
[Not just in Monsterland. Nick changed, Mia changed, even Maya changed-- and she always hoped for the better! But... what would it be like if Nick just stopped wanting to see her because she'd grown up? Or what about Mia?
Was it the same kind of hurt between her mother and aunt when they were young? Could changing really make someone stop loving you?]
That doesn't make any sense...
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Like I said, no big deal.
[He never said that, but he likes to think it was implied. Somehow.]
...well, guess it was a big deal to me back then.
[And for the next TEN YEARS.]
But you gotta remember, not all races see everything the same way a human does, baby. What makes zero sense to us could make complete sense to someone else, right?
[Also he was dating an alien, that was probably important.]
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[An alien, that makes sense. Of course! He's a cool space-man.]
Maybe there are aliens out there that don't change... but people are supposed to!
[Nothing stays the same, especially not people. Maya may have skipped on a few training sessions as a kid, but she knows that much-- people change, and people die, and that's life.]
If you just stayed the same person forever, that'd be boring.
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[That's a really good point, and Dandy can't think of anything to say at first. People ARE supposed to change, that's just life and science and junk. It's like Maya just opened his eyes to something that seemed so obvious now that she's said it out loud.
She did it, she cracked the code.]
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But he can't help it! He's happy! What she said is something he's always wanted to hear, he just never knew it. Oh, if only he could go on like this forever...]
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Why the hell was I even worried...
[It's not like Maya could even pick up on those kinds of things, he's pretty sure she can't, anyway. Maybe mediums can pick up on dimensional planes and their differences, but something tells him they can't, that it's not important if they could. It's not like he's warping anytime soon.
But wow. People are SUPPOSED to change, even just repeating it in his head feels good. A pretty big weight was lifted from his shoulders just then, a weight he probably could've lost sooner if he would just OPEN UP MORE.]
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Just cos your hair gets longer or you make a few friends... I'm pretty sure even then, you're still the same old Dandy deep down.
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[Who even is the same old Dandy anymore? He certainly wanted it to be the cool loner asshole he always likes to present himself as, but at his core, he knows that isn't true. That's how he got here, anyway, he doubts Maya would be floating above him right now if he was still making fun of her titties or viciously calling her names. At the same time, he knows damn well he still likes to go around pushing buttons and provoking stupid arguments with people, and he wouldn't hesitate to dropkick a dude if he's really pissed off. Hell, he's still pumped up over biting some guy's head off, and he has no plans of ever changing that. No, the 'deep down' Dandy hasn't truly taken over yet, but he finds himself at a weird but comfortable middle ground.
Would anyone even recognize him when he finally gets out of here? It's strange how much he can't seem to care anymore, not after hearing Maya spell it out for him. Fuck them, he's allowed to change.
Carefully now, he starts to pull Maya closer to him, so she's resting on his chest and they can just float around together. One arm hangs lazily over her waist in a sort of hug while his other hand buries itself behind her head in a mass of hair. He watches idly as whatever manages to escape his grasp--namely, most of it--drifts above him in a beautiful, relaxing display of pure mermaid perfection. God, he missed this so much, a part of him wonders if it's all still part of the longest dream he's ever had, fully expecting to wake up to an empty bed again.]
Well...I'm pretty sure you didn't come out here just to watch me mope around. What'd you really wanna do~?
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I'm here to swim with you, Captain, unless you plan on moping forever.
It feels like it's been a long time since we talked.
[it's a weird sensation for her to have missed to much, really, but still.
And that's part of it, too-- trying to figure out just how much she's missed.]
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[It delights him to no end whenever she calls him Captain, and his appreciation shows in the way he begins to scratch her head lightly instead of simply holding onto it. He kinda feels like a captain right now. Being submerged and just floating around always felt like the closest he'd ever get to being in space again. You know, if fish were stars and gills were a helmet.
It's really too bad he can't stay under there forever, it's definitely what his fish brain tells him is more preferable. Dandy would be lying if he said he didn't like the look of his tail more than his legs, the giant fluke feeling more natural even if he wasn't born with it. The same applied to Maya, just seeing her tail rest on top of his is way hotter for reasons he can't really explain. It makes her look so soft, so much more hydrodynamic, shit he normally wouldn't care about. The tiny voice inside his head can recognize that as the Fog God's tempering, but the rest of him doesn't like to think about it because he knows it'll only make him mad.]
Way too long. [Although he's surprised it feels that way to her, he just assumed her absence felt like...waking up from a really long nap. What did they do to her...] Whaddya wanna talk about?
[He's game for anything after dumping his soul like that. Now that he's defeated that hurdle, anything else feels like a good time.]
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[As much as mermaid brain might want her to focus on other things, she's still an attorney's assistant (and Herself) at heart, and wants to have a good approximation of the situation. If she were a little more self-concerned she might vocalise or even realise that the influence of the Fog on either of them worries her, but that's not nearly as important as the power the fog god has against the rest of everyone.
...Speaking of.]
You know. Like becoming the fog slayer?
[Hey what the fuck danders]
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...No, you know what, he's still way too happy to let that get him down. It's not like she's wrong to ask, Dandy didn't realize his sudden new opinion on the fog god happened entirely during her absence. He supposes that might seem a little...strange.]
Check it.
I'm gonna kill the fog god.
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[Maya stares, mouth agape, unmoving apart from the gentle flow of water around her. The movement of her hair almost even emphasizes how still her expression is.]
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