homophonic: jonas

[camena]

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[westedge]

[ i don't want to talk about how nice he's been to alex in so many other people's threads. ]

Oh yeah, that's exactly what I want is a bunch of people staring at me and waiting for me to do something. [ no thanks!! ] Have fun being a part of the--what was it?

[ he remembers the band name, he is just making alex say it out loud to acknowledge how dumb it is. ]

[camena]

[ hehe




except less hehe that she has to say it. ]

The. Redheaded Bed-Wetters.

[westedge]

[




yeah he's just snickering like an asshole. ]

[camena]

Onnnn second thought, I've decided to break into the industry as a solo act.

[westedge]

[ hah. ]

I'm sure you'll have plenty of downtime to practice your stage presence between missions.

[camena]

[ she laughs ]

... So you can't play any instrument? I bet you'd be a good drummer. They're always in the back getting less attention!

[westedge]

You know they're also the loudest, right? [ popping a hole in her logic. ] But no, never played anything. Thought about it maybe once or twice but...it's not really a thing people do there.

[ "there" of course being westedge but he doesn't think he has to specify with her. ]

[camena]

I still think you could do it. [ it's the instrument being loud, not him? sure. something like that. ] And—what, really?

[westedge]

[ rolling his eyes. yeah, okay, fair. ]

Well okay, yeah, there were probably some people who played instruments in their garage or whatever but it wasn't like a big thing. People didn't have bands that actually practiced or got together or recorded songs.

I lost interest after a while anyway.

[camena]

Huh.

... So you had interest for a while?

[westedge]

Sure. I had interest in a lot of things for a while.

[ which is kind of vague, but it's also kind of telling at the same time. he doesn't seem to mind admitting it at least. ]

[camena]

[ that sounds a little depressing, so she's just trying to keep this light and breezy. ]

Yeah, I think I went through like a hundred hobbies as a kid that I don't touch anymore.

[westedge]

[ bless her. predictably, easily, he takes the bait and follows the line of conversation. ]

Let me guess, you were the kid who begged your mom to sign you up for swim lessons, and then ballet lessons, and then soccer, and then art, and then science camp, and then girl scouts and you only stuck with each of them for a couple of weeks. A month, at most.

[ he doesn't really think she did all of those specifically but...it's alex. alex is a person that seems like she used to be more well-rounded and wanted to get her hands into things before growing up into the alex who hyperfocuses sometimes and...still wants to get her hands into things. ]

[camena]

[ actually, ]

Hey, I lasted three months in girl scouts! But then Theresa's mom took over as troop leader? And she, like, really obviously didn't care about any of the rest of us, so it got a lot less fun, and we had a family trip coming up anyway, so...

[westedge]

[ oh my god. ]

I'm almost sorry I said anything. [ but this is actually funny? ] Nepotism doesn't do anybody any favors, so sucks for Theresa and her mom. Three months does sound like a record.

[camena]

[ a slight pause because the record was actually swimming lessons.

alex used to really like swimming. ]

Yeah, if I remember right, like half the other girls dropped out the next month. [ haha ]

[westedge]

[ hate this. hate you. jonas knows jackshit and cannot refute that either. ]

I've never, like, really gotten the point of the scouts. Sure you're supposedly learning stuff but I always thought it was just a lot of badge-collecting for the most random stuff and harassing people outside of grocery stores to buy cookies.

[camena]

It's kinda weird, right? It's like... babysitting? But your parents still have to be way too involved with everything to actually unload you.

I think it's mostly just to help kids make friends. [ which clearly didn't work. ]

[westedge]

Mm. Guess that's why the first project you learn to make are friendship bracelets. [ not serious. he doesn't know how scouts work. ]

...that was one of the things that never crossed my mind as a kid. [ unsurprising. ] If you wanted to make friends, you tried sports, skateboarding, or vandalism.

[camena]

Yep. So if you decide you want matching bracelets, just let me know! [ that's a joke.

and, hmm. she considers this. but there's vandalism all over fort milner. and kids definitely play sports and skateboard, including her. ]

Kids still do all that, too. Those are just an age bracket up.

[westedge]

Pretty sure I'm lacking free real estate here. [ lifting one of his own arms where his bracelets are.

he decides not to elaborate, because he's been to camena and he's seen fort milner and he knows that the two things, on paper, are the same, but culturally and fundamentally they aren't. ]

Graduating from kickball to kickflips. Sure, that makes sense, too.

[camena]

You don't wear those all the time, do you? [ says the girl who does not take off this one jacket? ] What, too good for itchy yarn poorly braided together in ten minutes?

[ and just a little nod at the last part! yeah!! like that. ]

[westedge]

[ a shrug, even as that hand also reaches up to adjust his necklace without much thought. ]

Maybe not all the time, but enough. Besides, I think you'd have to use a lot of yarn to even get it around my wrist.

[ his arms are not that big. they're built enough, but it's more of a lazy joke than anything. ]

[camena]

[ hah. ]

It wouldn't take that much, Jonas. See, this is what happens when you don't join girl scouts. You don't even know how to make a friendship bracelet.

[westedge]

I think there might've been a problem with me joining girl scouts, Alex. [ hysterical. ] Guess you'll just have to teach me.

[ don't. ]