NIMONA

[foreverphantom]

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[foreverphantom]

Mostly?

Because he keeps sticking his nose into matters I would rather keep private. And if I let him get away with it, then it would only encourage him to keep doing it.

[ and also because he refuses to suffer the indignity of being bested by a literal baby. ]

[sharkgirl]

You know you can just tell him no without punching him?

[she's mostly amused, though.] Like what's he gonna do. Whine?

[foreverphantom]

Telling him no has not, historically, worked for me. It just increases his efforts.

[sharkgirl]

Huh. I tell him no all the time and he listens. [...] Granted, I'm way cooler than you.

[foreverphantom]

[ rolls his eyes ]

I'm sure it doesn't help that I accidentally punched him last week.

[sharkgirl]

How do you accidentally punch someone...

[foreverphantom]

He shoved me into one of the picture booths, set off the flash to blind me, and then jumped me once I was in there.

And I tend towards the "fight" side of "fight or flight."

[sharkgirl]

Oh, that's right, I saw that picture.

[help]

I'm not gonna tell you he's not a goblin. He is. But he's my friend.

[foreverphantom]

[ oh god he's showing it to people????? ]

How?

[sharkgirl]

How what?

[foreverphantom]

How did you end up friends with him?

[sharkgirl]

[huh. she has to think about that.]

... I don't know. It kind of just happened. [...] He's lost, too.

[foreverphantom]

...lost?

[sharkgirl]

[a little nod.]

The way monsters are. Nobody looks for monsters, except to kill them.

[foreverphantom]

Mmm. I guess so. [ even if they're different kinds of ghosts, ghosts is ghosts. ]

...he knows about me too, now, actually. About how my profile is pretty much completely false.

[sharkgirl]

Yeah? Did you tell him? Or did he just find out?

[foreverphantom]

...both, kind of. It turns out that where he went on Thursday more or less aligned with things that happened to me before in my world. It naturally came out from there.

[sharkgirl]

... Oh.

[a pause, and then:] The... the one that Nico, Reigen and Will went on was like that for me.

[so, same hat, she guesses.]

[foreverphantom]

...oh.

Have you guys talked about it?

[sharkgirl]

A little, yeah. Enough that it clued me in.

[foreverphantom]

[ nods ]

Well...good to know that sometimes when you get kidnapped, you get kidnapped into some twisted version of someone's worst memories.

[sharkgirl]

Yeah, super great to know.

[rubs her face a bit, and then:] I haven't been yet. Guess it's only a matter of time.

[foreverphantom]

Well, here's hoping you end up going on a casino heist that just wounds your pride, and not something that outright kills you.

[ is joke? appreciate joke??? ]

[sharkgirl]

[no, yeah, she laughs at that, making a face.]

No, that's worse, man. Stab me all you want but not my pride!

[foreverphantom]

[ laughs ] I agree.

I'd much rather come out wounded and proud than unharmed but made a fool of.