Fourth Floor Common Room, Friday afternoon

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker sat on the couch with his foot propped up. Stress fractures like the ones he'd given himself yesterday weren't so big of a deal -- he had pills for that -- but it still hurt, dammit.

He was playing a match 3 game -- in other words, swiping with one hand at glowing objects floating in the air above his other wrist -- and he had the TV on in the background, for company. It was tuned to The Weather Channel, and he was starting to get a little sick of the Winter Storm Orion coverage. "You know what I hate?" he remarked, to no one in particular. "Weather. We don't really get that, where I'm from."


[Open like a common room!]

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Re: NFB from here please!

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"You know, you think you're making a point, right now, but you're really proving the opposite," Joker replied. "I had completely forgotten all about Naga until you said that just now." He opened his mouth to say something, then thought better of it, and then opened his mouth again anyway. "There a joke there about pretty girls and their pets, but that would probably be really tasteless, wouldn't it?"

Re: NFB from here please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"And their pets?" Eleanor said, folding her arms. "You're right, it would be tasteless. How can you even --"

And he'd called her pretty again.

"You're completely mad."

Re: NFB from here please!

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I'm not the one who thinks that being the victim of freaky-weird shit is going to make people scared of her." Joker shrugged. "Look, you obviously think that 'slug-thing living inside you' is too weird even for Fandom. It's fucked up, sure, but too weird? Are you kidding? Besides, I've seen it happen in fiction."

Re: NFB from here please!

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

Eleanor was giving Joker quite the skeptical look here.

"So ... let me see if I'm following," she said. "You've read stories about people having sea-slugs implanted in them, so that they could drink blood out of corpses and generate ADAM, and therefore you don't find this strange at all."

Re: NFB from here please!

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Corpses?!?!" Joker stared at her. "No, it's usually more of the 'alien parasite mind-controlling the host' variety, but... corpses? What the hell did they DO to you?!?! And how the hell did they get away with it?!?"