#41: And I won't feel a thing...

[horrible_phd]

[Voice]

So is the City breaking or what?

[He doesn't sound like he really cares, either way.]

[ooc: So after much internal debate I went with updating him all the way to the end--I'm sort of assuming at least a month or two has gone by for him. He's kind of broken but he'll snap out of it. Eventually. Expect something of a different Horrible until then. He remembers everything from the city, but it all feels a little distant right now.]

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[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

I know. I will.

How have you been?

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

It's weird to be back. But not in a bad way, I think.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Billy.

Me? Totally okay. I mean, there were curses, and some friends died around Thanksgiving, which was pretty upsetting, but they're fine now. Hammer's... Hammery. Hammerier than usual since I broke up with him.

Things've been really weird without you.

How about you? How's... and okay, I kind of know that things didn't go great at home, but how're you doing?

Private/unhackable

[neverendingbeat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree completely. Feelings have a nasty tendency of getting in the way.

I don't know that I've ever been in your exact situation, and I think there's something to be said out of caring somewhat and getting some fun out of the whole thing. Additionally, I wouldn't give up all hope yet on Penny. The City doesn't seem to follow a quite a few of the rules of physics, so if you could harness any of their more interesting exceptions, including the "magic"...
I haven't had a need to study that in particular, of course, so I can't be certain.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Weird things have been happening all over, lately.

Still, I'm glad your weird isn't the bad sort of weird.

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

This place is...this place.

It's been...like I'm watching my life from outside or something. Surreal. I don't think you'd be very proud of me. I don't want to go back.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Most places do that--that thing where they're like the places they are.

Huh? What happened after... you know. The thing that happened?

1/2

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

I robbed a bank.

2/2

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Okay, it was more than one.

1/2

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Like, robbed in a wealth-redistributing take-from-the-rich-to-give-to-the-poor Robin Hood kind of way?

Backdating because OMG I LOVE YOU AND am hyper, hi

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

Only if you've had your way with it.

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Not so much.

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Oh, look, you're still here. Watch me fail to care.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

...But you didn't hurt anyone, right?

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

No. I mean, I don't want to. And everyone's scared or obsessed so it's not like I have to even really do anything anymore, just show up.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Why're they afraid of you?

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

[noticing something off about you, hmm.] Well, doctor, don't think too much of yourself by thinking that I care about your lack of caring, because I don't care that you don't care, and you should care.

Not that I care.

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Good PR. Well, bad PR. Evil PR. Totally inaccurate but useful. And I "defeated" Captain Hammer so it's not like there's anyone around to punch me in the face.

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Well, now that we've got that cleared up I think I'll get back to talking to your girlfriend. Oh, that's right, I mean EX-girlfriend.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

I think we need to talk, Billy.

up for a log? well, mostly tomorrow as i will soon collapse

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

This is talking.

1/2

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

You-

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

Getting in your laughs while you can, I suppose, eh, Billy?

I am! Ah. Yes. Must do finals now, but the hardest one is over today.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

I mean in-person talking. Face-to-face? Possibly with eye-contact?