forty-five ➢ video

[patheticvillain]

So, I know she talked to some of you about this already. But I thought I'd make sure everybody knew, so nobody worries-- I--

Needy graduated. She didn't go home, yet, probably because her home's total bullshit [and he's pretty sure she's still wanted there??]. Sunny, haunted Beacon Hills, California was the destination of choice, for those of you who really need to know.

Anybody who wanted to say goodbye and didn't get a chance to, um, I can probably get a message to her. And by "I can get a message to her" I mean "I can have Iris get a message to her".

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[mistconduct]

You think that'll work?

[patheticvillain]

[Oh. Right. He forgot about that part. He rubs the back of his neck, a brief acquiescence to awkwardness, then gives it up and dives back in.]

Is she just like you?

[patheticvillain]

Wait, you want to go back to war?

[As a career coward, Cassel does not get this at all.]

private

[patheticvillain]

You keep me in line. That's not useless.

private

[patheticvillain]

I don't know if that'll work, but if we keep throwing ideas at the wall something's got to stick. Right?

private

[mistconduct]

Right.

God, I didn't know showing up at your house required a battleplan, though.

private

[patheticvillain]

Yeah. It kind of does.

I mean, do you think I'm overreacting?

private

[mistconduct]

I don't know. I never really knew your brother all that well, and the rest of your family...

It's all hearsay, really.

[withtheoldbreed]

War's still goin' on. I can't just go home.

private

[patheticvillain]

Well, shit. I'd rather be safe and paranoid.

[patheticvillain]

That sucks, man.

[And some part of him knows that's a completely, painfully inept statement totally incapable of expressing how Cassel feels about it; that there's no way Cassel could ever feel the same way about it that he does. But it's all he's got to give.]

[withtheoldbreed]

"That sucks"?

[He can guess the intended meaning easily enough, but that is a piece of slang otherwise unfamiliar to him, and he sounds a lot more curious than potentially offended.

It chafes at him more when people act like they have no idea what he's talking about.]

[patheticvillain]

That's, uh. It's bad. It's too bad.

You know what I mean?

[withtheoldbreed]

Yeah, I get it.

[patheticvillain]

Is that weird for me to say?

[withtheoldbreed]

No.

[He's just never really heard that exact slang phrase before!]

private

[mistconduct]

I mean, I'll admit some straight-up curiosity about your mom. She seems like somebody out of a young adult novel or something.

private LAUGHS FOREVER

[patheticvillain]

She does not.

[patheticvillain]

Is it weird that people keep saying shit you don't understand all the time?

[Tact master Cassel Sharpe.]

private i'm so sorry

[mistconduct]

Is your mom secretly Cruella De Vil, is what I'm asking. If I'm going to walk in on a woman wearing a dalmatian puppy coat, I want to know. Just so I don't ask for the vegan meal.

private never be

[patheticvillain]

No!

. . . But she does smoke those weird long cigarettes sometimes.

private

[mistconduct]

Oh my god I knew it.

private

[patheticvillain]

She's not Cruella de Vil! She has better hair than that!

private

[mistconduct]

I'm picturing David Bowie in Labyrinth.

In a dalmatian puppy coat.

private

[patheticvillain]

Why the fuck would you picture my mother like that. You're insulting me.