004 ♐ text : Fail to screw in lightbulbs.

[musclebeast]

D --> Are there STRONGER light bulbs somewhere in this e%ecrable place
D --> These terrible orbs of shattering pain are e%temely insufficient
D --> Or perhaps just, assistance with getting these into their sockets might be enough

Comments

[Action]

[musclebeast]

Like you have the STRENGTH to do something like that! Not that I'd be against- something- so aggressive... [Sweats, hands clench.] Your silly pranks give me reason enough to better your own dental debacle! Perhaps I'd actually feel threatened by your words once you pronounce every letter correctly.

[Action]

[biwinning]

At leatht I have all of my teeth. I'm honethtly thurprithed you can even thay anything right with the sheer number of malfunctionsth going on with your mouth.

[Sollux steps back a bit, but not in an attempt to get away from Equius. Rather, it's him getting better footing, sorting out his balance to one of a more fighting stance.]

Come on, ponyboy. Yeth or no. Fight me.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

All your teeth and more, at least mine do not grow back in copious, unnecessary amounts like some kind of land jawbeast, if you could even be that magnificently menacing.

[Fight... him, ugh this is the second time this has happened, but he certainly feels like he would enjoy beating the snot out of this little brat.]

[His hands clench, wincing a little from the cuts and small shards still embedded in his skin. He wants to but he shouldn't, how would he calm down? And this... disgusting lout isn't worth it, even if he certainly did manage to really tick him off.]

No, just, just stop it, I, I will not be played for a fool!

[Action]

[biwinning]

Backing out again, huh?

[Although his words keep full of spite, his postures slumps just slightly, and his hands drop from their position.]

Tho it'th true. You really are jutht a huge coward.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

I am not a coward, that is not what this is about! [His eyebrows knead together at the center of his brow. Equius falters a little, but it's just... from being a bit nervous. He doesn't enjoy being nervous like this, mostly because he doesn't understand why he feels nervous.]

I am just not something for you to fool around with when you feel the need to be a little cretin!

[Action]

[biwinning]

Who thaysth I'm fooling around with you!

[Okay, now he's kind of offended.]

Do you think I'm not theriouth here?? Why the fuck would I wathte my time doing thith if there wathn't a reathon for it??

[Action]

[musclebeast]

Is this still happening, are you still trying at this? [His face is a mix of angry and exhausted.]

[Action]

[biwinning]

[He's rather exhausted by this too, you know.]

...Yeth. I don't... want to give up on thith.

[But there's only so much trying he can do.]

[Action]

[musclebeast]

[A stern glance.]

Because of your pride or because it actually means something?

[Action]

[biwinning]

... Both, but... mothtly the thecond.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

You're wise to be honest, lowblood. [Pause.] And I suppose it makes sense for you to be so interested.

[Action]

[biwinning]

I'm trying to be theriouth here, athhole! I'm not interethted becauthe of anything you've done here.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

Right, this other me. Well he is still me, and thus he and by default, myself, are both extremely interesting. [But he takes a breath and becomes silent for a moment.]

Yet I understand, you are trying to be serious, to be fair I am as well when I had said the previous.

Re: [Action]

[biwinning]

I didn't thay extremely interethting. I jutht want what I had before.

[Take that statement as you will, Zahhak.]

[Action]

[musclebeast]

I doubt you deserve it.

[Action]

[biwinning]

Pleathe. You were begging me to date you before.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

Well I'm not now.

[Action]

[biwinning]

You could be. I know you like the idea of it.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

[Action]

[biwinning]

Well...?

[Action]

[musclebeast]

Well. [Gosh...]

[Action]

[biwinning]

I'm athking a quethtion, not athking for a repetition.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

I am perhaps mildly interested in this apparent begging.

[Action]

[biwinning]

"Apparent."

Yeth, it happened, no, I have no way of proving it, but if you really want to know how it went, you can jutht get on your kneesth now and I'll play along.

[Action]

[musclebeast]

I can wh-

Oh my god. [His jaw tightens, swallowing the rather large amount of saliva that had been collecting in his mouth. He shrinks a little, his body actually considering getting down on the floor just as he hears that, but of course he doesn't. That'd be perverse!]