Fifth Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

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Jeremy was getting a fake little sibling tomorrow. He was pretty pumped about it, because his three elder siblings and a twin sister meant he'd never been a big sibling before. Even a fake one. And he was taking this new responsibility very seriously.

By lounging on a common room sofa, sipping coffee and dictating stuff into his phone about everything he thought he should remember to tell the new kid.

"-- oh, and the deer? Are apparently actually that color just by nature."

Now if he could only get someone to type his ramblings out and make a coherent list of them by tomorrow.

[ooc: Open common room!]

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"Well, I'm not studying," Jeremy decided and took a sip of coffee. "I'm just getting prepared, like a good big brother. It's a responsibility."

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Topher laughed. "Ooookay, dude, whatever you say." He flopped down on the couch to make himself more comfortable. "Although? Maybe you should write it down."

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"Maybe," Jeremy allowed, though he didn't look like he was really considering it. "That just sounds like a lot of work."

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Topher sighed, exasperated. Did he have to do everything? "One sec," he said, then made his way out of the common room and down to his dorm.

When he came back, he had his laptop tucked under his arm and reclaimed his spot on the couch as he opened up a word processor.

"Alright," he said. "Lay it on me."

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Jeremy looked mighty confused when Topher just took off like that; he was thankfully pretty fast in getting what was going on once the guy came back.

"Well, the island moves around," he said. "That's definitely the first point to make."

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Yeaaah, that was just his style. Sorry, Jeremy.

"Aw, you're just going to tell them that?" he said, wrinkling his nose. "That's no fun. Wouldn't it be more fun just to let 'em, you know, find out on their own?"

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Jeremy gave him a sceptical look. "I don't think that would be very responsible of me, dude." And Jeremy really was doing his best to be as responsible about all of this as he possibly good. Within the bounds of his laziness. "I don't want the kid to come up to me later and asking why I held back important info. I wanna be a totally wet big sib."

And one that was luckily willing to explain his personal slang.

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...Wet. Oookay.

"Right-o," Topher said, and typed it up. "Alright. Island moves, and you're... wet. Good to know."

Not dirty.

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"Means cool," Jeremy filled in easily enough. He'd learned not to expect people to recognize his name, nor some of the words he used.

He drank some more coffee as he tried to remember some of the things he'd thought of. "Moving on... Time travel happens. So do different universes."

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Topher got that part down as well, typing ridiculously fast as usual. It got obnoxious.

"Time travel and different universes, check," he said.

Then --

"Ooh, are you gonna mention the robot spiders?"

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"... Maybe?" Jeremy hedged. "I don't know if I'm gonna really be... going into all the invasion stuff much. I don't wanna emphasize the negative."

Because potentially scaring off his little sib sucked.

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Oh, Jeremy was doing this all wrong. Topher almost wished he had a little sibling to torture instruct in the ways of Fandom.

"Or you could think of it as preparing them," he reasoned. "Because what if the next time the spiders invade, they're the only one not expecting it?"

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"Well I'm not intending to not tell them about it," Jeremy defended himself. "I'm just saying, is that something they need to be hearing straight away? Plus, I don't think it's gonna happen again. I've heard all the invasions seem to sorta be one-offs."

Which not beside the point in the slightest.

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"Okaaaay," Topher said. "But if your little sib gets mauled by an angry spider robot, that is so not my fault."

Technically it would be the fault of the spider.

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If only Jeremy had been observant enough to point that out to him. Alas, no.

"You can write invasions down," he allowed reluctantly. "But I think I'm gonna divert them with the shapeshifting and stuff."

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"Gotcha," Topher said, and he gleefully added that. Hey, if the new kids couldn't be underinformed, at least they could be overinformed, and that was just as bad!

...He really needed to get some professional help.

"Alright, what else you got?"

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"Well, the shapeshifting," Jeremy pointed out, snapping his fingers. "Into animals and other people and whatever the hell it is that others have turned into."

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"Oh, is that where the random pets keep coming from?" he asked, leaning forward a little. "I was kinda wondering. And the vampires, and random different faces that I have no idea who they belong to..."

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"My sister was a dog for a while," Jeremy shared, but his voice trailed off because something else caught his attention there, making him tilt his head and furrow his brow in confusion. "Vampires?"

Had he managed to miss that?

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"Yeah," Topher said, rolling his eyes at the craziness of the memory. "This blond chick from downstairs went all meta for Dracula on me and Nathan. It was nuts."

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"What? When was this?" Jeremy asked, now raising his eyebrows. "And who was this?"

In case there was a need to be careful around the girl.

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"Um, it was around last month, I think?" he guessed. "Like, middle of May. It was around the time everyone kind of turned into different stuff. And she's... Kate, I think her name is? She lives on the third floor."

That was pretty much all he knew about her. But oh, he'd be learning more soon. Scary more.

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"What, cinema girl?" Yeah, there was a minor bit of playercest-y history there. "Oh man, I know her. Why was she a vam--"

He cut himself off when he placed the weekend in his own personal experiences.

"Ohh, that was probably the weekend I was a transvestite. No wonder I had no idea."

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Topher snorted. "A transvestite? Really?" Except wait, he totally didn't want a reprise of the discussion he'd had with Hermaphrodite Guy, so maybe he'd better leave it alone.

"I had some stranger's face that weekend," he added helpfully. "Which I wouldn't have even known if my roommate didn't have mirrors lying around."

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"Dude, you got to still be yourself but with another face?" Well, that just seemed unfair to him. "Jules looked like herself but she was some random chick called Anna, and I didn't look like myself at all. I just had the same last name."