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JADE: hello!!!!! you have reached jade harley
unfortunately i am not able to take your call at the moment so please leave a message after the tone!
i will get back to you as soon as i can
also do not send me pictures of snausages, i will block you immediately
have a nice day!!!!! :D

#action #text #voice #video

original code by efryndiel, talksprite by glitterfr33ze

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Maybe... a little bit. But it is very different when you are trying to involve someone else in your life. If you are a little kinder to yourself, you will regret a lot less later... I can promise you that much.

[ self-deprecation leads to self-pity which leads to selfishness and then you find yourself alone. it's a nasty cycle. jade doesn't know if she can break it, but.

you know, it's a lot easier to believe in dirk and jake. ]

Harley. Come here.

[ she'd put her hands on her hips, but jade figures that might look too argumentative. instead, she just steps closer, and waits. one of her fluffy white ears twitch, idly. ]

[Unsurprisingly, he flicks her in the forehead.]

What the fuck do you call this?

[He gestures between them.]

You're involved in me and Jake's lives. The absence of sloppy makeouts does not constitute a lack of involvement, Harley. I'm not going to twist your arm on this, but you have as much of a need to consider how you treat yourself as I do. Maybe more, given that I'm not in the position of attempting to work out how to be someone's family right now.

[ ah, yes. there it is. her punishment. she takes it gracefully - that is to say, as gracefully as one can when they slap both hands over their poor, poor, poor, abused forehead, nearly losing their balance in the process. ]

Ouch!

[ but... okay. he's not wrong, and she thinks back to the conversations they've had. in the past, she's been unable to really accept things dirk says about her. in this case, she can't call any kind of bluff. dirk's monotone drones on, but she feels like it's a little more firm than usual. it's probably his choice of words. ]

...Do you think it's because of the game?

[ the lack of confidence, the inability to process compliments, the fact that it's just so difficult to see anything worth... anything in yourself. but she admits it, yeah. dirk's right - she's not fair to herself, and it's hypocritical to demand he's fair to himself for jake's sake. she's not arguing, at least. ]

I don't know.

[He isn't sure about it. He felt horrible long before the game. But then, was there every really a time 'before' it? It was every part of their lives, wasn't it?]

Maybe it's that the game tends to arrange things so we don't have the most emotionally healthy upbringings, broadly speaking.

Sorry, I asked something kind of difficult to answer. [ her face is a perfect recreation of the :/ emote. ]

But... okay. I get it. I can't exactly say it's because I want you to be happy in this instance because even if that is true, you ca parrot it back at me! It is pretty hypocritical of me. I am sorry, Dirk. Just take it as relationship advice, at least, though?

I'm not discounting it as relationship advice, Jade. I'm expressing concern for you.

[ oh.

jade rubs at one arm, feeling a tiny bit silly. ] Thank you, Dirk. I do not know what else to say, but I do appreciate you looking out for me like that. [ um. ] This was kind of supposed to be about Jake, but I guess it became a mutual discussion, heh.

It did. I hope that isn't too intrusive, or anything.

[He's working on it.]

No, it's not! [ it reminds her of someone else, back when things weren't so difficult. jade, however, doesn't want to make him feel like a ghost of someone else. ] You're a lot like Becquerel was, but you haven't grounded me, at least, hehehe.

[Man.]

I should maybe take it seriously that people keep calling me some variation on a manlusus.

Bec was not a lusus! He was a dog. Since it's us, we do not have to worry about cross-culturual terms at the moment.

You are a dog, Dirk!

He was an animal who raised you. He's basically a lusus.

[Like. Just saying. But also:]

Jake always called me a cat.

[ oh thats cute ]

Do you purr like a kitty cat?

I do not purr in the manner of a creature whose physiology I do not in any way mimic.

[a beat]

I guess I growl sometimes though.

Me too!!!!

[ jade demonstrates, baring her fangs (literally, what with being half dog?). the noise that comes out of her is very distinctly canine and not human, because of course it is. woof woof ]

But I only growl sometimes now!!! I can control it really easily, except when I'm angry.

[...]

Congratulations. That was probably hard to master?

[ she was asking what makes him growl without asking :/ ]

Yes it was! It's your turn to show and tell.

[Er]

Mine isn't like yours. It's just the ordinary, human kind of growl.

Obviously, but it must be kinda cute if Jake comments on you sounding like a kitty cat! Can you make any other animal noises, then?

Neigh neigh, motherfucker.

Oh, is that your impression of Neigh the Sayer? It is missing some moxie, mister!

How would you improve it, Harley.

[ jade gives dirk the smuggest look possible. one might think she is about to deliver the best possible impression of a horse any man could witness. one might think she has this on lockdown. one might think jade harley is secretly planning to audition for the next season of my little pony: friendship is magic. one might think jade is going to neigh with the best of them.

jade oinks like a pig. ]

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