oh no!

[Just... Looked at her for a minute. Shifted on his feet. Rubbed his nose and sniffed. Blinked.]

Hey yo, who’s free range kid is this????

ohno-ex-nihilo‌:

magicalramifications started following you

Man, for real, I am meeting a LOT of weirdos today. 

Weirdos, huh? Maybe you haven’t met enough weirdos.

I’m not that weird, am I?

Well I mean. You got... some white in your eye. Like...

I call myself Toad.

[As he set elbow upon bent knee and chin upon hand.]

I do not know if ‘bold’ could be a compliment in some circumstances.

I mean uh--it could be! I think it is, anyway. You know like-- 

Daring! Confident! Fresh!

@ohno-ex-nihilo

You are a bold one.

Uh--

[That’s all he got out for a second. Obviously uncomfortable as soon as the other man came in range but not sure why???]

Okay that’s definitely a compliment, and I definitely like compliments so like--you know if you wanna go on you can but--

Uh.

[Squinted at him while he was touching? Her? Excuse you. Just because they’re metal doesn’t mean their not part of her personal space.]

I wouldn’t classify them as ‘good stories’ so much as the stories of a foolish past.

[Either he didn’t care about her nonverbal message or he was just oblivious to it.] 

Man you wanna hear some “foolish past” stories? One time when I was in tenth grade I really wanted to talk to this girl... UGH she was just so pretty, you know? Well next thing I know I got this pen in my hand and every time I put it to paper it just writes the most beautiful fucking stuff. About how much I like her and how amazing her fucking... hair is--I don’t know, I don’t really remember everything. 

But I thought it would be a real good idea to write her out this long ass Shakespeare sonnet or whatever about how I truly feel and she uh--

She thought it was super creepy. Told everyone I was “stalking” her and like, I wasn’t? I just put the poem in her mailbox because I thought it would be sweet, you know? 

[good idea.]

Eventually I might be a robot. Cool thought.

I mean you’re like... half a robot already, right? I mean damn though...

[He only reaches to about her shoulders and crouches a little more to poke hesitantly at her forearm under her coat. When he feels hard metal under there as well he takes a step back and covers his mouth with his hand.] Damn though!!!!

[Offered a high five.]

[TAKES THAT FUCKING HIGH FIVE LIKE

DANGGGGGG.

Fuck ‘em.

Because to say I am ‘immortal’ is misnomer. Most beings who claim the title are just bound to reality until something does them in. Be it a solar flare or faded recollection of old gods.

In my case, I die plenty. Then Death dusts me off and shoves me back into living. Either because some fucking numb nuts who care about me want me back bad enough to make it happen or because some other asshole brings me back through unlife means or That Hoe Over There (death) just thinks I’m more useful on the physical plane?? They didn’t exactly explain that shit real well.

It fucking sucks. Die when you’re supposed to. Being past the expatriation date is not as cool as it sounds when you’re twelve. I have yet to meet a thus-far-deathless thing that’s happy about it.

[He hadn’t expected an answer that thorough or that honest. Especially not from someone who’d been threatening his shit not too long ago. It stunned him into silence for a minute, and in that silence he had a chance to really think about it. What would it really be like to just... never be able to die? Never be able to leave?? He’d always dreamed about an unnaturally long life but...]

Wait a minute.

Wait.