voice; Awake is difficult and no one understands

[promiselisting]

[ Huh. Here is an unusual thing. Futaba is not usually one to use voice (or anything besides text) on the network. Maybe she wants to reassure other people with her voice and to hear theirs? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that her voice is still a bit muzzy with sleep. Maybe text requires more coordination than she has right now.

Either way, she's got an important post from her sort-of-brother to follow up on. ]

So.

[ There's a long, pregnant pause. ]

How many other memes are you all familiar with? Scientific curiosity.

[ She's been getting reputations up until now. The girl who gathers information. That one who really really mistrusts the Curti Center and is not afraid to be vocally critical of it. But it's past time she showed the world here who she truly is-

a shitposter. ]

Comments

[witchwithoutacause]

God, the future's wild. All these old... wait, how old is that guy?

[ She's only really met Pidge. ]

[promiselisting]

Which one, Shiro?

[ There's... a few guys over in that thread. ]

Twenties, maybe? He's an adult but not like... an adult.

[ If you know what she means ]

[witchwithoutacause]

Oh, he might still be. Cool-ish, I guess?

[promiselisting]

He is. He's pretty awesome for an adult actually.

[ Her smile fades jut a bit. ]

I should know. Met plenty of crappy ones.

[witchwithoutacause]

Same. My own damn parents aren't great, so I'm lucky I learned it young instead of deciding they were normal.

[promiselisting]

Heh, me too.

[ It’d suck if you were a jerk. ]

My dad’s pretty good - adopted dad. Bio dad is pretty much at sperm donor status. My mom was amazing too.

Everyone else...

[ You could cut yourself on the bitter edge in her voice. ]

[witchwithoutacause]

[ Amanda's a different kind of jerk sometimes. The fun kind, not the oppressive capitalist kind. ]

Hey, you're lucky you ended up with someone good, right? I know just saying 'ignore your dumb bio dad' makes it sound easier than it is, but that's a good goal anyways.

[promiselisting]

I mean, kind of hard to ignore a guy who's a total no-show to begin with.

[ Even after her mom died, she only ever got sent to Isshikis. ]

[witchwithoutacause]

Default position in that case.

[ Not the first person she's met in that situation. ]