notyourfathersosborn

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notyourfathersosborn

Trust me, if I had known it was coming I would have sent something out.

[Normie sends him a link.]

You break anything down enough you can get some cool things, you just have to know what you're looking for... or get something so cheaply it doesn't matter.

[Hahahahaha... About blowing stuff up...

Normie switches to video, where he can be seen smiling and holding up a pumpkin bomb, though it's been scrubbed of the pumpkin motif, so it pretty much just looks like a shiny orange sphere.]

We'll keep this a secret between me and you. Though exactly none of this was made from microwave parts.

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resipiscent

[Is this a blog Normie follows? He's curious, though he scrolls through the pictures without much recognition. He has no idea about this stuff....

Riku's eyebrows raise when Normie shows him his bomb, then lets out a huff of laughter.]

Looks too fancy for a microwave.

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notyourfathersosborn

[Nah, just a cursory google search. He's been messing around with electronics for as long as he can remember, and he's always been a fan of learning by doing.]

I have told you I built tech for superheroes back home, yeah?

Edited Date: 2015-11-02 03:02 am (UTC)

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resipiscent

Yeah. Are you doing that here?

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notyourfathersosborn

[Though Normie manages to catch it, his face briefly falls at the question. His smile now is a bit more forced.]

Oh man, I wish. It's... complicated here.

Does your friend still need his communicator fixed? Probably not, it's been so long.

[Nothing like a good, old-fashioned deflection.]

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resipiscent

Mmn. I get you. Sometimes things are... different here.

[He frowns.] To be honest, I'm not sure. But it would have probably been a kind of frustrating job anyway. It was kind of mangled.

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notyourfathersosborn

[His smile tightens.] More like things are a little too much the same.

Uhh... mangled how? Like... got run over by a bus mangled?

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resipiscent

I see.

[He's just gonna... let that drop, because Normie's clearly uncomfortable.]

Like got crushed with telepathy mangled.

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notyourfathersosborn

It might not have been salvageable. I'm good but I'd also require something to work from.

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resipiscent

Hah. Yeah, it looked pretty bad. Wonder if they replaced it, or managed to fix it...? I'll have to ask next time I talk to him.

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notyourfathersosborn

Yeah, keep me posted.

Who was it, by the way? Someone I know?

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resipiscent

Actually, it's a next-door neighbour of yours. Kaneda.

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notyourfathersosborn

I... can't say the name sounds familiar.

Honestly, I don't go home much.

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resipiscent

Really? ...Is it weird if I ask why?

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notyourfathersosborn

Not at all. It's kind of a two fold thing... first, my job at OsCorp takes up a lot of my time, and that's in De Chima, so sometimes I don't want to walk back to the porter.

The other is, well, people in my house don't tend to stay very long. It's disconcerting walking through the door and finding a bunch of strangers once a month.

Edited Date: 2015-11-02 04:31 am (UTC)

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resipiscent

Huh... well, if that's the case, you can always move.

[He tilts his head a little. He can understand how strange that might be. He's had a few lineup changes himself at the house. Kang and Riku himself seem to be the only constants -- there was Mandrake before, and then Kakashi, and now Marty, but who knows how long he would be there.]

If you lived in De Chima, we might run into each other offline a little more. [Cuz Riku's boyfriend lives there.]

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notyourfathersosborn

I know, I know. Trust me, it's something I've thought about before. I've been on the fence about the whole thing.

Then, uh, I lost a whole month.

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resipiscent

I feel like, if you're that uncomfortable there, you should do it.

[He smiles quietly.]

Yeah, I know. I was there.

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notyourfathersosborn

It's, well... that's where May was, however brief.

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resipiscent

Ah... I see.

[He gets that. Sora lived right next door to him while he was here, and it's weird looking out his window at the house and thinking about how he isn't there.]

Well, that's all right, then.

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notyourfathersosborn

Yeah, but I also can't be dwelling on that either.

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resipiscent

No. It's okay to... need to for a while, though. I feel the same about Sora.

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notyourfathersosborn

But at least Sora was here recently, though. May's been gone a long time.

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resipiscent

Yeah. I... did you get to see her when you were home?

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notyourfathersosborn

...No. Back home, we were both at a point in our lives where our paths didn't cross much. Not that we had a falling out or anything, but she was doing her thing and I was doing mine, and there just wasn't much overlap.

[He read about her exploits in the paper, though. But as Riku doesn't know about her spider side, he keeps that to himself.]

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