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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[withtheoldbreed]

That's fine. I just can't stay here forever.

[patheticvillain]

Where're you going back to, then?

[withtheoldbreed]

The Pacific. I'm with the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. We landed on Peleliu?

[He says with that glimmer of hope that maybe someone will know what the hell he's talking about.]

I don't wanna hide out here forever. [Which is just the truth, not some commentary on what Cassel's doing here. Who knows what this guy's been dealing with that this place is better?]

[patheticvillain]

Wait, you want to go back to war?

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

[withtheoldbreed]

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

[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!]

[patheticvillain]

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

[Tact master Cassel Sharpe.]

[withtheoldbreed]

Yeah. Admiral forgot to mention I was gonna be this far behind everyone else.

[patheticvillain]

You want a slang dictionary?

[withtheoldbreed]

Guess it couldn't hurt.

[patheticvillain]

Cool. I'll get working on it. We'll update it constantly as we come up with new weird shit to say.

[withtheoldbreed]

Just don't expect me to start complainin' about "kids these days".

[patheticvillain]

If you don't make the joke at least once I'm gonna be pretty bummed.





That means sad.