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[glowsferatu]

It Is My Regrettable Duty To Inform You That The Count Of Those Present On This Plane No Longer Includes The Following
Jake English
Feferi Peixes
Roxy Lalonde
Rose Lalonde
And Karkat Vantas

There Are Others Missing Also But I Havent Identified Them
Just That The Number Of Familiar Threads Are Fewer In Number
It Seems As Though Some Sort Of Mass Exodus Was Accomplished While We Slept Last Night
And We Are The Ones Left Behind In Its Aftermath

I Wonder If We Havent Offended Her In Some Way

Comments

[glowsferatu]

The mistake may be theirs, but there are many cases where the consequences will be on all of us.

Should I just...keep the larger responsibilities to myself, then? Let them handle the more personal ones...personally?

[ maybe that would be a good idea. less time spent being a helicopter, more spent being a breadwinner.

how much complaining will she hear if she stops making dinner every night? nepeta's pretty self-sufficient, she'll manage well enough. ...but what if she eats a bad squirrel and gets sick? kanaya will feel like an asshole. loosening the apron strings is hard. ]

[shipper]

It's a good place to start. [she laughs a little bit, this time more genuinely] Who knows? We might all start picking up some new skills by accident because of it.

[glowsferatu]

I suppose that result would be to a collective benefit. But the transition won't be simple, the others may require instruction.

[ read: feferi will definitely require instruction. ]

[shipper]

Well, nobody's purrfect at furst. Pointing people in the right direction is a purretty good thing fur efuryone involved.

[so if you end up pulling Feferi out of the bay nobody's going to be particularly angry about it]

[glowsferatu]

But would that really count as being so hands-off a you're suggesting?

[ if she has to do that again she is going to be so cross. she is going to start keeping a chart: it has been x days since feferi has had to be forcibly removed from sulking underwater. ]

[shipper]

If you keep slowly backing off as they get a handle on everything, yeah. It'd be pretty stupid to expect you to be able to just drop off completely right from the start.

[and for every week she remains on land she receives a new fish for the aquarium as a prize]

[glowsferatu]

I guess that could work. If I can even be capable of effecting the transition properly.

[ as long as nepeta doesn't try catching the fish...before or after their introduction to the tank. ]

[shipper]

Well, it's not like you'd be doing it alone! I'll help if I can.

[hey now, Nepeta doesn't eat pets. das mean. :((]

[glowsferatu]

How is that? Just...helpfully bugging me when I'm not meeting the maneuver properly?

[ no one said anything about eating! maybe she tried fishing them out of a pond to put in the tank. maybe she wanted to play with them after. ]

[shipper]

Sure! Or letting the ofurs know they need to actually try doing stuff too.

[maybe she'll get her own fish to harass and leave Feferi's alone. maybe that.]

[glowsferatu]

It may be more effective if put forth by another less overbearing source.

[ there are no substantial arguments to raise against this compromise. unless they come from the fish. ]

[shipper]

I don't know about that, but hearing it from two purrlaces is defurnitely better than just the one.

[luckily no one asked the fish for their opinion]

[glowsferatu]

A little confirmation could never hurt. A united front is always more effective, after all.

[ no one cares what fish think, they're just silly and fishy and occasionally tasty. ]

[shipper]

Yeah, and it's not like they really purrposely ignore what their furiends ask them to do. Doubling that might just make it happen a little more quickly.

[fish don't even care what fish think, really]

[glowsferatu]

No, I hardly think it's out of spite so much as a lack of motivation. The simple necessity isn't incentive enough for everyone, unfortunately.

[ all they think is having food and water is pretty cool, beyond that nothing much matters. ]

[shipper]

Maybe we should set up a reward chart fur them.

[the thought's silly and she knows it, but it makes Nepeta giggle a little bit anyway]

[glowsferatu]

Well, it's either that or some way to underline the consequences of negligence, render the circumstances somehow more dire.

...But I'm not entirely sure what a safe way to attempt that would be, if that condition wouldn't be a contraction in terms. What sort of rewards would we even offer?

[shipper]

[her face screws up in thought]

We could offur gifts! And maybe doing something that they like or going somewhere purrticularly nice.

[glowsferatu]

Gifts could be expensive in the long run, but the second one sounds nice. It could give us a break from all the hard work we would be putting in.

An opportunity to relax. [ she hasn't given herself that kind of opportunity for a while, really. ]

[shipper]

That would be purrfect. I like being busy as much as the next purrson, but I think efuryone needs some time to take it easy fur a little while.

[glowsferatu]

Yeah, I agree. It's all been a bit much lately, hasn't it?

[shipper]

Yes. It's just been one thing after the ofur with no break in between.

[glowsferatu]

I've probably only slept for two night out of the last twenty, personally.

[shipper]

That's purretty bad even fur us. [trolls aren't known for their sleeping habits, but they usually get a little more than that in]

[glowsferatu]

[ she runs her hands through her hair, stopping clutching the sides her head. ]

I know. But I slept last night and look what happened.