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golden guardian of ([personal profile] gabbie) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2014-02-14 11:00 am

I throw my hands up in the air sometimes


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retropolis: (#screams internally)

NELSON GARDNER

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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glowsferatu: smile (Cant Read My Cant Read My)

Re: NELSON GARDNER

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
gabbie it occurred to me that all of my cr with you is kanaya being hella judgey at some dudes for complicating the lives of women she cares about, and then nelson

we should do something awkward with them
retropolis: (ℳ | get to the point)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
yes we absolutely should

I wish I could think of a logical way for her to finally find out he's the Arrested Restraint author, that would probably fit the awkward bill quite well
glowsferatu: thought, wait (pic#5727988)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
nelson did you know she's now the owner of the very last copies of your book in all of existence, that one of the reasons i carried them over was so that reveal would still one day be relevant
retropolis: (ℳ | get it together dollar bill)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
beautiful

the best I have at the moment in that regard is that next time they talk/log/whatever some of the things he says could have also made it nearly verbatim into the books as dialogue
glowsferatu: smug (pic#6650711)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
what if they somehow end up talking about valentines

maybe the necklace that kanaya is going to literally wear every single time she's conscious and sometimes when she isn't could bring it to that
Edited 2014-02-15 05:36 (UTC)
retropolis: (ℳ | team moms)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
oh that seems like it'd be perfect! at least a good way to get them going in all the right horribly awkward directions

valentines even almost do that on their own
glowsferatu: wait (pic#5727987)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
it's funny that for how central their relationships are to them, it hasn't really come up. well, it makes sense for nelson, but kanaya just needs the right opening to brag about how great her gf is

nelson says "he must be a lucky guy," she grimaces and corrects him. somehow this information never got communicated before.
retropolis: (oh no it's change)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
it's so true

then comes the deer in the headlights moment when nelson has absolutely no useful advice about teenage girls
glowsferatu: omg (Oh Gasp)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
what did he get himself into

i feel like this is probably not the first time he has had that thought around her
retropolis: (ℳ | clone high hands)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
what did he get himself into, he knows nothing about teenage girls and valentines was dangerous, dangerous territory

I think "unfortunate life decisions continue" summarizes their cr well so far
glowsferatu: smile (Stretch Out And Wait)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
it really does. and regretting talking so much about regrets
retropolis: (ℳ | parting ways)

[personal profile] retropolis 2014-02-15 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
the question is now how do we go about this-- although maybe it'd be simplest to do a thread on the log tomorrow
glowsferatu: smile (Too Freely On Your Lips)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-02-15 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, i was thinking the same thing
indentcision: (red herring)

[personal profile] indentcision 2014-02-15 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
excellent excellent we will make this happen