092314MelniaRyspor

 -- gregariousTroubadour [GT] began pestering tumblingThinker [TT] at 16:20 --

 [04:20] TT: Oh um

 [04:20] TT: Hello

 [04:20] GT: ~Ah, hello? Iʃ thiʃ...iʃ thiʃ the right handle?~

 [04:20] TT: Do I know you?

 [04:21] GT: ~Thiʃ iʃ Melnia, correct?~

 [04:21] TT: Yeah, you're handle wasn't on the list...

 [04:21] GT: ~Ahaha, I ʃvppoʃe yov wovldn't, conʃidering yovr parentage.~

 [04:21] TT: Huh?

 [04:21] TT: Did you know dad?

 [04:21] GT: ~Yeʃ. Rather intimately, in fact.~

 [04:22] TT: I'm gonna have to outright say that I am very confused

 [04:22] TT: who are you again?

 [04:22] GT: ~My name iʃ Ryʃpor Tezeti.~

 [04:22] TT: !

 [04:22] GT: ~Not, ah, not the ʃky pirate one.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:22] TT: OhmygodohmygodohmygodIwasnotexpectingthis

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:23] GT: ~Hahaha.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:23] TT: Are you ~really~ Ryspor? Like, really for real?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:24] GT: ~Indeed! I covld ʃend yov a pictvre if yov'd like.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:24] TT: N-No, that's alright...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:24] TT: It's just

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:24] TT: wow

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:25] TT: I...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:26] TT: It's... really nice to hear from you...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:27] GT: ~Well, I ʃhovld hope ʃo, haha. It'ʃ qvite nice to finally talk to yov aʃ well.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:27] TT: Not to sound rude, but is Jossik with you? It'd be great to talk to you both

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:28] GT: ~...Ah.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:28] GT: ~Melnia, I...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [04:28] TT: Hm?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:35] TT: Is something wrong?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:36] GT: ~Yov...covld ʃay that.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:37] TT: (′ A')

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:37] TT: what's the matter?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:39] GT: ~Joʃʃik iʃ...no longer with vʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:39] GT: ~I'm ʃo ʃorry.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:39] TT: ...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:39] TT: oh...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:39] TT: I... I see...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:42] GT: ~I wiʃh I covld tell yov he died bravely in battle, or ʃacrificing himʃelf for a noble cavʃe, bvt...yov deʃerve to know the trvth.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:43] GT: ~He died attempting to tvrn Libby over to Jack.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:44] TT: A-Ah...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [05:44] TT: Was it... Was it ~Painless~?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:06] GT: ~...No.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:06] GT: ~I ʃhovld know. I watched him die.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:06] TT: O-Oh... o~ok

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:09] TT: Huh that's werid its getting very hard to see the screen clearly all o fthe sudden

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:09] GT: ~...If it'ʃ any comfort, he waʃ...not in hiʃ right mind at the time. I trvly believe he wovld not have done what he did had he been. The Joʃʃik I knew waʃ noble, and kind, and caring, and...and the beʃt mateʃprit I covld poʃʃibly have aʃked for.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:11] GT: ~We all movrned at hiʃ paʃʃing. He waʃ a good friend and teammate to all.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:11] TT: Yyeah he wouldn't have don anything to deserve death n ever

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:11] TT: he wax a good guy, and a great father

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:11] GT: ~I heartily agree.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:12] TT: he was only ever looking out for me and I never really got a chance to tell him thanks or that I lov him

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:12] GT: ~I am ʃvre that, were he here, he wovld love yov back with all hiʃ heart.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:12] TT: and this universe's Jossik is MIA, so I may never get the chance at all

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:13] GT: ~At leaʃt yov do not know for certain he iʃ dead! That meanʃ there iʃ ʃtill a chance, no matter how ʃmall that may be.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:14] TT: y yeah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:14] TT: y-youre right

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:15] TT: thanks for telling me I guess, at least know when you all show up I won't be so let down

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:16] GT: ~...Yeʃ, I ʃvppoʃe that'ʃ ʃomething, at the very leaʃt.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:17] GT: ~If...If yov'd like, I covld take yov to my planet ʃometime once the Ark reacheʃ yovr ʃeʃʃion. There'ʃ a ʃort of grave there, for Joʃʃik, and for hiʃ moirail, Kikate. I-it'ʃ not mvch, bvt if it wovld provide ʃome cloʃvre, then, perhapʃ...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:18] TT: maybe... that could be a thing...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:20] TT: it would be nice to spend some time with you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:21] GT: ~I had the ʃame thovght. If all goeʃ well, I may be joining yovr team very ʃoon.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:26] TT: Oh boy

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:26] TT: so excited

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:27] TT: yaaaay!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:27] GT: ~Haha. 3=:)~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:30] GT: ~...I am ʃo, ʃo, ʃorry, Melnia. I know I've ʃaid that already, bvt...I jvʃt don't know how many timeʃ I can ʃay it. I wiʃh I'd done ʃomething, ʃeen ʃomething, that wovld have let me know he waʃ planning to do that. I wiʃh I'd done ʃomething other than jvʃt ʃtand there aʃ he waʃ torn to bitʃ. I wiʃh...GodOʃ, I don't know. It'ʃ jvʃt...meeting yov, I can't help bvt feel aʃ if it'ʃ my favlt the two of

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:30] GT: yov will never meet, and it'ʃ...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:30] GT: ~I miʃʃ him ʃo mvch.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:31] GT: ~I miʃʃ him ʃo mvch, and it ʃtill hvrtʃ after 5 damn yearʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:31] GT: ~I'm ʃo fvcking ʃorry, Melnia.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:33] TT: please, don't call me Melnia. M-My name is Mary.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:33] TT: And I'm sorry too... it isn't your fault. It's no one's fault... it just...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:33] GT: ~Oh! Oh goodneʃʃ, I'm ʃo ʃorry. Yov were introdvced to me aʃ Melnia.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:33] TT: it just hurts a lot

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:33] GT: ~I know.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:42] TT: Ryspor I...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:42] TT: Thank you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:42] TT: for telling me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:43] GT: ~Yov're welcome. I feel yov of all people have the right to know.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:46] GT: ~ʃo, ah, Mary, yeʃ? Iʃ that yovr given name, or...~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:46] TT: No, Melnia is

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:48] TT: I was born with a troll body, but I believe that I'm truly a human, on the inside

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:49] GT: ~Ah, I ʃee. That'ʃ moʃt vnfortvnate for yov to have been born in the wrong body. Dyʃphoria iʃ an awfvl thing to go throvgh.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:51] TT: Yeah, I've noticed

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:52] GT: ~Ahaha, yeʃ, I ʃvppoʃe yov have. Apologieʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:54] TT: no no, don't apologize. It's good enough that you're sympathizing with me

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [08:57] GT: ~What ʃort of father wovld I be if I diʃmiʃʃed my davghter'ʃ beliefʃ with a wave of my hand?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:26] TT: Yeah... not everyone is so accepting...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:28] GT: ~I can imagine. I have ʃome experience with that myʃelf, thovgh mine iʃ leʃʃ a tale of finding my trve ʃelf aʃ it iʃ diʃgviʃing it in order to find companionʃhip among my lowblood neighborʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:31] TT: Even Jossik called it a "strangeness"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:32] TT: And that was the least violent reaction I've gotten

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:32] TT: Eggs never look like they hurt much until you get them chucked at you

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:32] GT: ~Oh dear. I'm ʃorry to hear that.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:33] GT: ~I hope none of yovr companionʃ have been maligning yov for thiʃ?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:34] TT: Not ~intentionally~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:36] GT: ~...What exactly did they ʃay?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:38] TT: Nothing intentionally ~mean~, they just sort of called me trash, but I'm sure they meant nothing by it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:38] GT: ~And who, pray tell, called yov traʃh?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:39] TT: Oh wait, there was another word

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] GT: ~...Another word?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TT: yeah, I only heard it spoken, but it was like

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TT: "Wii abu" or something

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] GT: ~...Weeaboo, perhapʃ?~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TT: but really, I'm sure there were no negative meanings behind it!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TT: Uh. maybe?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] GT: ~Natvrally.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] TT: Do you know what it means?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] GT: ~On a completely vnrelated ʃvbject, I wovld very mvch appreciate the handleʃ of the people who called yov thiʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] GT: ~I'd like to ʃpeak with them abovt a few thingʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] TT: Y-You aren't going to hurt anyone, are you?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] GT: ~Oh, no, no, of covrʃe not.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] GT: ~I ʃimply wiʃh to...correct their ʃpelling.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] GT: ~Yeʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] GT: ~Correct their ʃpelling a tad. It'ʃ very important, yov know.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] TT: gimcrackCarnifex and gallionicAcrobat, i-if you promise

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] GT: ~I promiʃe I will not tovch a hair on their headʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] TT: don't hurt anyone, they apologized and everything

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:46] GT: ~I will not, I ʃwear.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] TT: >:I

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] TT: If you say so

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] TT: but if any of my friends say that my dad is going around terrorizing people

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] TT: I will feel very betrayed

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] GT: ~I'm not going to TERRORIZE them, Mary.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] GT: ~3=>:I right back at yov, yovng miʃʃ.~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:59] TT: yeah yeah

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:59] TT: thanks for the chat Dad, it's really nice to hear from you, despite the bad news

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [10:00] GT: ~Likewiʃe. I am very mvch looking forward to meeting yov in perʃon at laʃt, Mary! 3=:D~

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- gregariousTroubadour [GT] ceased pestering tumblingThinker [TT] at 22:04 --