JIAOQIU

[foreverphantom]

shitpost tbd

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[fried]

Nobody will fault you for wanting to exist. But you must coexist. You must remember this - it will help you.

Your existence is not the only existence that matters.

[foreverphantom]

[ he's silent for a few moments as he swallows his first several replies--mostly because he's already tread that ground with jiaoqiu ]

Well, I don't know how else to exist!

[fried]

[ a little tail swish. ]

... I know that you have had a very long life of people trying to erase you. But you cannot always bite and still expect people to hold out their hands. You know this.

I will continue to do so, because I see something in you that I would like to encourage. But I am the exception to the rule, because I do not feel the teeth.

You get what you put in, Brimstone. Learn from what happens to you, don't just block it out.

[foreverphantom]

What if I don't know how to put in anything else?

[fried]

Well, then I'd ask you what exactly you thought the point of all of this was.

This was your chance to learn how to.

[foreverphantom]

Mostly it just felt like another perverse form of jail.

...do you think friendship counts, by whatever rules God will be using?

[fried]

They've been very clear about this being our chance to redeem ourselves.

[ he tilts his head, though, and reaches out to rest a hand on brimstone's arm, briefly. he misses the first time, but he manages. ]

There's a chance that it does. Did you make friends?

[foreverphantom]

[ stares at the armtouch ]

...maybe. I don't really know what qualifies as friendship.

[fried]

I don't know that I can define it.

[ he doesn't pull his hand away... ]

People who you don't hate being around, I suppose?

[foreverphantom]

[ looking away... ]

...yeah. There's a few of those.

[fried]

Well. You can ask, you know. If those people would consider you a friend.

[foreverphantom]

[ finally pulls his arm away so that he can be properly aghast at the suggestion ]

[fried]

Don't give me that look, it was only a suggestion.

I know that you're very tough and evil and mean, but I would consider us friends.

[foreverphantom]

[ oh...that actually makes him relax on the inside, a lil ]

Even though we've barely spoken in weeks?

[ EVEN THOUGH HE BALDED YOU??? (not that jiaoqiu knows that as of this thread but still) ]

[fried]

[ ok listen he will be very upset that he got balded because he was already so sad and it messed him up but that's not now so ]

Of course. Just because we've been separated doesn't mean that I forgot about you.

[foreverphantom]

[ this is

actually so touching he forgets to even try to look unaffected by it ]

[fried]

[ aw buddy!!!

a little smile. ]

I have been told that we will be able to keep in contact after all of this. I may not be able to visit you directly, but I wouldn't mind talking, when you'd like to.