GIVE ME YOUR PANCAKES [closed]

[livingdeadgirl]

WHO: the Homestucks
WHERE: IHOP
WHEN: forward dated to Wednesday the 8th, afternoon
WHAT: comparing notes on memories. also pancakes.
WARNINGS: may contain gratuitous amounts of Homestuck

[Ami arrives at IHOP shortly after she gets out of school for the day. Her lusus follows dutifully behind her, wearing a smart red vest with the words "SERVICE DOG" on it. She's a little early, but she's got some kanji practice worksheets to kill time with, so she does that. Anyway, the repetitive motion soothes her nerves about this a bit. She's spent most of the week alternating between "this is exciting" and "this is the worst idea I've ever had," and overthinking what she should say, what information she should volunteer, and so on.

It's a corner booth, so there's plenty of room for all five of them if need be! Or at least there will be once Ami's lusus stops napping on the bench.]

Comments

[grimdeity]

[ there's a bit of slow blink, with her own purple eyes.

but sure okay, if dave wants to lie WHICH SURE IS GETTING NOTED, ]

I imagine Dave just wanted to write in red for the fun of it. He's wild that way/ I just know my former self typed in purple, and well [ gestures to eyes ]

[parodeity]

It’s all about the aesthetic, Rose.

[ he’ll put up with her analyzation later it’s fine ]

[windeity]

[Whoops.] Okay maybe that was a little presumptuous. I just know that mine matched my eyes but blue is also my favorite color? And Jade’s matched hers so I was kind of guessing. I forgot Dave was the outlier.

[grimdeity]

Perhaps his shipment of red eyes was just waylaid by the weather.

[parodeity]

Anyway, my status as an outlier and why we typed like we did has nothin’ to do with anything.

[ trolls were cultural, kids were not. ]

[alienates]

[ as someone who did, you know, actually type in a different font color for Reasons, he does not look too impressed about this really obvious lie but ok. whatever. ]

Yeah, sure, whatever. Ami and I completely believe you guys. Let's move the fuck on to something else before you start reciting poetry on the beauty of hazel.

[windeity]

Anyway. [He's just going to cut in here with all the grace of a tranquilized elephant.] I have a question. Anybody have any idea why there were twelve of you guys and only four of us?

[parodeity]

Twenty-four and eight, dumbass.

[ said about as reluctantly as his kanaya confirmation. ]

[livingdeadgirl]

[Ami is interrupted in the midst of lowkey beating herself up for asking questions, by the burning need to ask more questions.]

Twenty-four and eight???

[windeity]

That doesn't answer anything. [And it doesn't because when the fuck has John ever understood Sburb?]

[parodeity]

[ dave refuses to clarify, simply shrugging. ]

You never understood it anyway. [ said to john although he’s watching the other patrons instead. ]

[grimdeity]

Twelve-- or twenty-four are multiples of four, if that means anything. Four times three, four times six.

[livingdeadgirl]

Well, I thought the trolls had two teams of six... unless it was actually four teams...?

[she's even more confused now sob]

[alienates]

[ karkat looks confused until he suddenly remembers dirk and jake. he has memories of jake at least, but he knows dirk also was a part of this all, and that they mentioned other girls? and jake mentioned other trolls, which karkat thought was odd but it didn't really hit him that they were different trolls until just now since he still hadn't gotten enough memories of his trolls yet at the time. ]

No, we only split up into two teams, Ami. Blue and red. I think it's... other people who were playing? Cause I know Jake and Dirk weren't playing with you guys, but they played the game. And Jake mentioned some troll girls and one of the descriptions just flat out does not match anyone I know. Right?

[ he's lookin' at dave ]

[parodeity]

[ meenah or aranea probably.

dave looks over at rose, and the past her at john. ]

[windeity]

[He also glances at Rose and then over the top of her head to Dave before there's a half-shrug since this part is definitely news to him.]

I don't think any of us had other contact with trolls besides you guys. I wasn't even sure Jake and Dirk were playing the game at all. [Which means Roxy must have been, too, and he glances at Dave and Rose again.]

...we all know that Jake, Roxy and Dirk used to be on the network and we can believe that they played the game. But who can tell me what the problem is with that?

[Who the fuck is the fourth person in that group?]

[parodeity]

There isn't one.

[ and dave looks away again, contemplating the table. ]

[livingdeadgirl]

It just means we don't know who the eighth human is. Or the other twelve trolls.

[Oh yeah, and exposition booth girl... out of 24, that could be friggin' anybody. HOMESTUCK PLS...

Ami squeezes the bridge of her nose. The complication pile doesn't stop from getting taller.]

Maybe... maybe we should come back to that later. What all do we remember about the game itself? Did it have a name?

[grimdeity]

Perhaps we'll learn if more people become aware of Retrospec and such-- that happens periodically, yes?

[ she's tapping her pen on her notebook, looking at dave because if anyone knows the name it's him since she knows he knows a lot and is just, being coyer than a victorian girl with her skirts. ]

[windeity]

It happens, yeah. [Skipping right over the name of the game because he actually doesn't know it yet.] Let's take into account how long everybody's been on this stupid thing. Rose, for example you used to have the app and then you didn't and now you do again. Ami, Karkat and Dave have been around for months and then I just learned about it in September. So I guess that means technically I'm the last "new" user from our universe.

Maybe there's a time limit or something? Like how long it takes for people from certain places to learn about the app. I've been wondering about that anyway. And a better question--[God where is he going with this.]--is why us specifically? Is there a reason or was it like "hey, these dumbasses seem convenient, let's just grab them"?

[parodeity]

[ it's not about their universe, so dave actually answers with his legitimate opinion, although it's flippant-sounding: ]

They probably grabbed whoever they could. With the spread of people across worlds, and what those people are or aren't like, it's more like reachin' into a bag of scrabble tiles and pulling out as big a handful as you can rather than anything more specific, I think.

[grimdeity]

And I don't remember having the app before. [ not sure it Matters but it bugs her? ] It would be nice to have, I don't know, a master chart of all Retrospec users with their "universes" and when they learned about the app. Or when Retrospec let them into the app.

Important question-- if we're scrabble tiles, how much are we each worth? [ trips and falls off topic ]

[parodeity]

You’re absolutely a ten-pointer. [ immediately and without hesitation ] Or at least an eight, with the extra two points earned from your association with me?

[windeity]

[It does matter excuse.]

That is a big project and I have no idea it is something I really want to do. I asked someone else about seeing if there have been people who come back to the app and remember everything but so far there hasn't been an answer.

[He grins lightly because Striders, but the sooner he supplies information the sooner he can understand what's going on here.]

Pretty sure it was called Sburb though.

[parodeity]

It happens sometimes. Aki’s back online now as of this month and she went off in August. That really aggressive cat person once said they forgot too, I think? Then Rose, obviously.

[ to answer that question more helpfully. ]