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[restoretherace]

[Inside: ADVENTURES]

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[piratey]

Maybe because you usually weren't violent.

[restoretherace]

I wish the trolls who assumed that meant I didn't support tradition would have at least also assumed I didn't live and die for the sake of chainsawing--

[HUFF. Forget about it.] It doesn't matter now, though. I can't very well restore the race alone, now can I.

[piratey]

For the sake of chainsawing what?

[restoretherace]

[She doesn't meet Vriska's eye; this topic makes her warm and fuzzy but sad at the same time]

Oh, this guy I used to know whom an alternate version of myself killed. Justifiably in that timeline, but no one could ever really process that it didn't matter to me and that I didn't want to track him down for homicidal purposes outside of that context.

[piratey]

[thinking, thinking, thinking]

Oh yeah, I heard about that. It was Eridan, right?

[... or was Eridan the one who killed her]

[for the life of her she can't remember]

[restoretherace]

[Her shoulders begin to shake with laughter.] Yeah. Yeah, it was him - everyone seemed to think it was because he killed Feferi and Sollux, [he totally killed Sollux, didn't he?] but the truth is that he destroyed the matriorb! I still have mine, though, so I couldn't care less about that now...

[No more shaking.] I have to admit that I miss him in spite of it all, as much if not more than the rest of them... probably only second to you.

[piratey]

... You miss me more than everyone else?

[restoretherace]

[...she hadn't really thought about the implications of what she had said - and honestly that's a tough question because if there's one thing she knows as a troll it's that different people serve different purposes, like apples and oranges or giraffes and crystal meth.]

Well, there's only so much one can really miss an overpowering genocide complex, and none of the other dangerous women with eyepatches I befriended could entirely... replace you. Since we knew each other back when dimensional stability could be taken for granted, it was easier to build bonds and assume they'd last. So, yes.

[piratey]

... Huh.

I don't know how I feel about that.

[restoretherace]

Neither do I. It's been so long... you eventually stop expecting to see each other again, don't you? After a certain point wigglerhood just seems distant enough to not bother paying such heed.

Who do you miss the most, if anyone, out of our old team?

[piratey]

Oh, I don't know. You or Tavros, I guess.

[speakveryclearly]

...

You know, I think Tavros is one of the only trolls I never saw again after the game.

[And, you know, cutting off his legs.]

[piratey]

He got a lot stronger. More impressive. More like I used to try to make him be; you know.

[restoretherace]

Really? I'd understood your motivations therein but I'd never thought it would actually work, on him anyway.

[piratey]

That's the thing! I didn't do it. He did.

[restoretherace]

...I expected that even less.

[piratey]

So did I!

Anyway, yeah, I missed the guy. Still do sometimes, actually.

[restoretherace]

[She can't really say she does the same and tries to figure out how to sidestep this deficiency]

I've been told it's best to let go, but isn't it difficult.

[piratey]

That's not the problem! I don't pine after him or anything.

[restoretherace]

I doubted you did. [And kinda hoped she didn't... Just - some people, humans especially, seem to think you should just... forget. I'm not sure that's possible, though.

[piratey]

That's not my experience with humans.

But you're right, it's difficult. Moving on is, I mean. Or knowing whether or not you're supposed to.

[restoretherace]

When you never know who will or won't come back into your life, especially.

[piratey]

Who you'll be able to find... whether or not they'll remember you.

[restoretherace]

Or remember you the way you want them to...

[piratey]

If they're not from your world that's not even an issue.