riptidequeen | IC Inbox for Prismatica

Boo. You're no fun.

[Toeing lines is what he does best, in spite of his lack of actual toes.]

Sorry I don't find murder fun.

You just haven't found the right murder for you!

[Know what, this stopped being funny so she's just going to go back to digging in the trash.]

[ A good person would apologize for making her uncomfortable.

A somewhat decent person would acknowledge that they made a blunder and leave her be.

Mercury, though. ]

Was that too much? We can start at jaywalking and work up from there.

Nah, I just think the trash is more interesting.

[She doesn't even look at him as she says this.]

... Yeesh. What, did I touch a nerve?

[He isn't apologizing, mind you. He never will!]

Nope.

[Still flat toned, and she wouldn't expect anything from Mercury. He's weird and annoying and for some reason that bothers her because she's not mad at him?]

[There's silence for a moment - the next time she hears him speak up his voice will be coming from right behind her, leaning over her where she's rummaging through garbage.]

You're a lot more fun when you're at least giving me some sass to work with.

[Man, Mercury is lucky there is no water here. Because what he did would have gotten him a face full of water fist if there had been. Instead, Lapis just startles a bit.]

Yeek, back off first and maybe it'll come back!

[To be fair when he does things like this to Emerald he usually gets an elbow in the gut, so a splash to the face might not be so bad.

... Might not.

But her reaction is better than the flat nothing she's been delivering, and he'll humor her with the most intentionally small step backward one can imagine.]

How's that?

[Wow. Such Space. Much Room.

Lapis does the next best thing, she grabs something from the trash, something mushy and... She'll proceed to chuck it at Mercury.

No words, only trash.]

[Thankfully Mercury is from a Stupid Bullshit Fighting Anime, granting him the reflexes to dodge the incoming garbage (with a needlessly acrobatic flip to the side, at that).]

Hey, hey, watch the hair!

Maybe the hair should watch its mouth first.

[She sticks out her tongue at him, but hey she's not going to toss any more trash at him.]

You wouldn't ask a fire to stop being hot, would you? I am what I am.

[... yes he is also calling himself hot, so smug]

Ah, but I can put out a fire without much effort. Doing that to you would be frowned upon... Or so I assume.

[Whatever, she'll get vaguely threaten to drown him.]

Only if you can actually do it. I'm not so easy to extinguish.

[She wouldn't be the first to try! Ha ha ha... ha.. hm.]

Mm, like I said. Drowning humans is probably frowned upon.

[She's going to go gather up her stuff now and start to leave. So if Mercury wants to keep this up he'll have to follow her.]

Depends who you ask! Also depends who you drown.

[... He's bored and has nothing else to do, so yeah. Why not. He'll sidle along behind her, hands in his pockets.]

The world's full of gray areas.

Well, I've almost drowned, and drowned, a lot of people.

[She's not going to stop him, but if she gets too annoyed by him she'll just summon her wings and take off.]

The grey areas are what makes the world what it is.

[Oh. He didn't think he was talking to a fellow killer, but that's good to know.]

You wouldn't think it if you talked to the real goody-two-shoes types. They all think that hopes and dreams make everything better in the end.

[Look, you help terraform some planets there's going to be a few drowned natives.]

One of my best friends is like that, and funnily enough, he's been right.

[She's still kind of getting used to having positive emotions, so she can kind of get where Mercury is coming from.]

[Hey, it's a living]

Then he's just a lucky son of a bitch. The world doesn't work that way.

[He did plenty of hoping and praying for things to get better, once upon a time. Didn't help. Neither did being nice, neither did being positive.]

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. He's good at talking to people, he talked to me when no one else did.

[Hoping and praying only do so much, sometimes action has to happen. Or talking, whatever.]

[Or patricide! Sometimes it's patricide.]

No, he definitely is. Anyone with that attitude is, because they didn't come from a place where they'd quickly learn that they're wrong.

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