[YEAH!!! THAT'S HIS HAMSTER AND ALSO HIS SON!!!!! this is one of my favorite reveals i love their weirdass relationship where they are like 20 things simultaneously.
Sidon is such an empathetic lil bald fishman though, out here truly embracing the life time and moods of a fleshy who puts so much meaning on hair. It's such a softly worded sentiment that Dahut can't help but smile even if he's not fond of these MEMORY EXCHANGES... As usual, it's the warm sort that makes his eyes halfmoon.]
Ehe... I'm glad that you think so! We've done a lot of good work together, Monsieur Scien and I.
it's a little weird being privy to memories like this; as much as he likes people being open and honest with him, this is more like taking a crowbar to someone's brain. or their heart, in this case.
so he goes about it a little more gently than his usual speed, which is just barging forward full-tilt. ]
You have! It seems you've a long road ahead of you, but you're doing well. You've even taken on your own project.
[SONSTER HAMSON yeah that's Scien to him in a nutshell.
He also appreciates sweet Sidon just continuing to be sweet Sidon, because he is truly so discomforted by this entire effect. Having to experience other people's trauma is also very harrowing?! There is so much trauma in these fucking nerds, man.
Fortunately, Sidon makes it easy to set aside the heavy parts that he dislikes and he just throws his arms into the air! Yay!]
Thank you very much! The road is long, but I'm a hard worker and I'll never give up! [DETERMINED GREEN BEAN.] Though honestly, my project is a little bit of a moot point by now... Something even better came along to replace my ideas, but that's good news too, don't you think?
[ there is truly so much trauma, it's like perhaps there are a bunch of maladjusted nerds here for a reason.
this is something he can relate to though, so he responds with a careful sort of empathy. ]
Oh! It is! [ you can tell this is a work of fiction because actual researchers would be insanely pissed at being outdone ] Does that mean you're a bit closer now? To your mother's goal?
He just beams at that, though, because he is a fictional researcher who isn't insanely pissed about being undone. He's more than happy to take someone else's staircase that they built and use it to keep shooting for the stars...]
It does! Isn't that the most wonderful news? My mother will be able to live in the exact sort of nation that she wished to!
[ he's so happy for him... he will get to be son and not just hamster mom soon. his joy for dahut's sake is exuberant enough that he may just toss his arms up too. ]
That's incredible, Dahut! [ hope there's no crazy twist downside to this ] Does that mean you'll be able to see her again soon? I can still scarcely imagine people coming back to life...
[ except as zombies. but everyone here was also revived so. ]
[65 year old son to his 23 year old mother... They can match, though! Hands up! So much exuberance in this stupid fuckin void pocket from hell!]
Isn't it? [Who would put a tragic twist into this great plan of reviving the nation's emotions, wow.] And it does! Sooner than I had even hoped for!
[He bounces onto the balls of his feet a little, his smile as bright as ever.]
It is a hard thing to manage, though... But! Fortunately, all of the right things are coming into alignment. I wish it was as simple as waking up in the Helly Belly, but it's still pretty stinky here, and we're maaaybe being digested, so that probably outweighs the ease.
[ help his mom relationships are so complicated. ]
Well, as they say—nothing good comes easy.
[ there's a lot of drawbacks to their current revival method of being spat up and digested slowly. ]
I don't know if our experiences are the same, but my people are very long-lived. It makes time flow... differently. [ his relationship with time is just different from the people here, so many of whom have even shorter lifespans than normal. even so, living forever doesn't make it easier to be apart from someone you love. ] But I know even then, it's a long time to see someone again. You've been very patient.
I guess that's true, huh? [MAYBE NOT TO THE EXTENT OF BEING DIGESTED but that's also fine, surely.
He just nods at that, though. He's not as old as SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE, but considering he's 65 amidst a population where 50% never make it past 23, he does feel his age quite acutely, even if he's basically encased in resin at the age of 15.]
Thank you very much. [For saying he's been patient, because he has been, and it's hard!! It's nice to have that acknowledged.] I think that no matter how much time you have in the world, even just a few moments is too much to spend away from the people you love, you know?
[ being long-lived comes with its drawbacks. you get time to heal. you also get that much more time to remember. a single loss stays there for decades. for the rest of your very long life. he smiles, touched with some melancholy but still filled with warmth. ]
...I'm sure it's the same for her. Every moment she had with you must've been incomparably precious. [ it must've been hard for her to say goodbye, when the time she'd stretched as far as she could finally ran out. ] There's nothing quite like family.
[Imagine being long-lived and not carrying some heavy burden of loss, couldn't be his ass.
The faint bit of melancholy that he picks up on just makes him reach out in this hell void that will probably start departicling soon unless you have another surprise fish memory to give, setting his hand gently on Sidon's arm.]
Those words really mean a lot. I think you're likely right! She cherished every moment of her life. [Even if it was such a short one, he still finds that so admirable.]
[ they really are kind of stuck in the same weird aging range help. he doesn't flinch, just giving a grateful touch to the back of dahut's hand in return.
i want a dahutty second memory so we can trade ]
Hah... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so obvious!
[ he's not very good at hiding anything. ]
—Say, Dahut. Your solution, where you expanded your heart to feel more keenly. Did it make you happier?
[THEY'RE JUST OUT HERE!!!! HELLISH!!!!! At least Sidon is a giant shape of water fishie about it. BLASTS U WHAT MEM U WANT give me.... more fishmems.]
Oh, please don't apologize! Wearing your heart on your sleeve like that is such a beautiful thing. [Of course DAHUT WHO'S OBSESSED WITH FEELINGS would have this opinion.] I'm only sorry if my pointing it out was uncomfortable.
[As for the question, though, there's not a single ounce of hesitation.]
It did! Literally, in that I could feel happiness much more acutely - but also in that I believe it's important to feel everything, even if it's not always pleasant or wonderful.
sidon is an open book for most things but he's a little apologetic when people have to deal with him having feelings that aren't exuberant cheerfulness? which is a little hypocritical, considering, ]
It is! Sorrow and anger have their place, too. Even if rarely feels that way at the time.
[ but anyway, as the void finally seems ready to free them—it acts back up. the atmosphere takes on a lovely mist, the sort that rises at the end of a waterfall, and it's memory time again? ]
The way Sidon feels apologetic when people have to deal with his sad feelings and the void immediately decided YOU WANT SAD FEELINGS?? (yaywon voice) GRIEF
This is probably one of the most familiar feelings to Dahut, though, so he's sure not going to shy away from it! Even if he does look a little apologetic in turn as it fades away.]
...I'm sorry for seeing something so private, monsieur. [Grief is such a personal thing. Loss in all its forms is something so private.] And I'm sorry that you lost her. It seemed like having her was such a wonderful thing, though...
[ THE VOID HAS COMEDIC TIMING... though he is truly not amused. drawing out of it, he immediately grimaces. ]
No, no, I should be the one to apologize! [ imagine just making everyone feel your childhood angst all of the sudden, awful. but, really—and very unfortunately—he doesn't think dahut is a stranger to this genre of emotion. does that make it better or worse to share? ] It was a very long time ago.
[ he pulls himself together and smiles, which is genuine even if it's practiced. he's not a stepford smiler. ]
It was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a better sister. [ could've asked for more time, though. ] I try to carry the fond memories closer, these days.
[HELP. The way you have to specify this because there are multiple stepford smilers in this graveyard LUKE.
It's nice to see some genuine warmth even in the seat of grief, though - even if it's an old, worn grief. They'd just talked about what it's like to sit with loss as long-lived people, after all.]
No need, no need. [To apologize, that is. And then:] I think that's a lovely idea! Your memories are one thing that can't be taken from you, so I think they're just as important to treasure as the things you felt. Both the happy and the sad.
[Sidon was such a tiny little lad... But loss is loss, whatever shape it comes in and whatever scars it leaves behind.
Anyway, the void spits back a memory completely unrelated to familial grief ie the one that i wrote for you that i ended up not giving. now u can have. it is this.]
[ the way i had to brace myself to come back to memshare
their stories of loss, the shared sensation of at once very old grief and very lasting mourning—it's cleared away by a very different scene?? though not one totally disconnected from the last memory he got. he's quiet a moment as he processes. ]
Oh, dear. [ oh dear!!! ] You two do have a complicated relationship.
BUT YEAH!! YEAH. They're 20 different things! Enemies is one of them. Dahut just laughs lightly as the memory fades, looking sheepish.]
We do! [THEY DO...] Fortunately, that situation managed to work out just fine, but... Well! As you can see, Monsieur Scien and I don't always stand on the same side.
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Sidon is such an empathetic lil bald fishman though, out here truly embracing the life time and moods of a fleshy who puts so much meaning on hair. It's such a softly worded sentiment that Dahut can't help but smile even if he's not fond of these MEMORY EXCHANGES... As usual, it's the warm sort that makes his eyes halfmoon.]
Ehe... I'm glad that you think so! We've done a lot of good work together, Monsieur Scien and I.
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it's a little weird being privy to memories like this; as much as he likes people being open and honest with him, this is more like taking a crowbar to someone's brain. or their heart, in this case.
so he goes about it a little more gently than his usual speed, which is just barging forward full-tilt. ]
You have! It seems you've a long road ahead of you, but you're doing well. You've even taken on your own project.
[ with his EXTRA FREAKY heart ]
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He also appreciates sweet Sidon just continuing to be sweet Sidon, because he is truly so discomforted by this entire effect. Having to experience other people's trauma is also very harrowing?! There is so much trauma in these fucking nerds, man.
Fortunately, Sidon makes it easy to set aside the heavy parts that he dislikes and he just throws his arms into the air! Yay!]
Thank you very much! The road is long, but I'm a hard worker and I'll never give up! [DETERMINED GREEN BEAN.] Though honestly, my project is a little bit of a moot point by now... Something even better came along to replace my ideas, but that's good news too, don't you think?
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this is something he can relate to though, so he responds with a careful sort of empathy. ]
Oh! It is! [ you can tell this is a work of fiction because actual researchers would be insanely pissed at being outdone ] Does that mean you're a bit closer now? To your mother's goal?
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He just beams at that, though, because he is a fictional researcher who isn't insanely pissed about being undone. He's more than happy to take someone else's staircase that they built and use it to keep shooting for the stars...]
It does! Isn't that the most wonderful news? My mother will be able to live in the exact sort of nation that she wished to!
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That's incredible, Dahut! [ hope there's no crazy twist downside to this ] Does that mean you'll be able to see her again soon? I can still scarcely imagine people coming back to life...
[ except as zombies. but everyone here was also revived so. ]
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Isn't it? [Who would put a tragic twist into this great plan of reviving the nation's emotions, wow.] And it does! Sooner than I had even hoped for!
[He bounces onto the balls of his feet a little, his smile as bright as ever.]
It is a hard thing to manage, though... But! Fortunately, all of the right things are coming into alignment. I wish it was as simple as waking up in the Helly Belly, but it's still pretty stinky here, and we're maaaybe being digested, so that probably outweighs the ease.
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Well, as they say—nothing good comes easy.
[ there's a lot of drawbacks to their current revival method of being spat up and digested slowly. ]
I don't know if our experiences are the same, but my people are very long-lived. It makes time flow... differently. [ his relationship with time is just different from the people here, so many of whom have even shorter lifespans than normal. even so, living forever doesn't make it easier to be apart from someone you love. ] But I know even then, it's a long time to see someone again. You've been very patient.
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I guess that's true, huh? [MAYBE NOT TO THE EXTENT OF BEING DIGESTED but that's also fine, surely.
He just nods at that, though. He's not as old as SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE, but considering he's 65 amidst a population where 50% never make it past 23, he does feel his age quite acutely, even if he's basically encased in resin at the age of 15.]
Thank you very much. [For saying he's been patient, because he has been, and it's hard!! It's nice to have that acknowledged.] I think that no matter how much time you have in the world, even just a few moments is too much to spend away from the people you love, you know?
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[ being long-lived comes with its drawbacks. you get time to heal. you also get that much more time to remember. a single loss stays there for decades. for the rest of your very long life. he smiles, touched with some melancholy but still filled with warmth. ]
...I'm sure it's the same for her. Every moment she had with you must've been incomparably precious. [ it must've been hard for her to say goodbye, when the time she'd stretched as far as she could finally ran out. ] There's nothing quite like family.
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The faint bit of melancholy that he picks up on just makes him reach out in this hell void that will probably start departicling soon unless you have another surprise fish memory to give, setting his hand gently on Sidon's arm.]
Those words really mean a lot. I think you're likely right! She cherished every moment of her life. [Even if it was such a short one, he still finds that so admirable.]
I'm sorry that you know it.
[This type of lingering loss.]
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i want a dahutty second memory so we can trade ]
Hah... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so obvious!
[ he's not very good at hiding anything. ]
—Say, Dahut. Your solution, where you expanded your heart to feel more keenly. Did it make you happier?
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Oh, please don't apologize! Wearing your heart on your sleeve like that is such a beautiful thing. [Of course DAHUT WHO'S OBSESSED WITH FEELINGS would have this opinion.] I'm only sorry if my pointing it out was uncomfortable.
[As for the question, though, there's not a single ounce of hesitation.]
It did! Literally, in that I could feel happiness much more acutely - but also in that I believe it's important to feel everything, even if it's not always pleasant or wonderful.
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sidon is an open book for most things but he's a little apologetic when people have to deal with him having feelings that aren't exuberant cheerfulness? which is a little hypocritical, considering, ]
It is! Sorrow and anger have their place, too. Even if rarely feels that way at the time.
[ but anyway, as the void finally seems ready to free them—it acts back up. the atmosphere takes on a lovely mist, the sort that rises at the end of a waterfall, and it's memory time again? ]
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The way Sidon feels apologetic when people have to deal with his sad feelings and the void immediately decided YOU WANT SAD FEELINGS?? (yaywon voice) GRIEF
This is probably one of the most familiar feelings to Dahut, though, so he's sure not going to shy away from it! Even if he does look a little apologetic in turn as it fades away.]
...I'm sorry for seeing something so private, monsieur. [Grief is such a personal thing. Loss in all its forms is something so private.] And I'm sorry that you lost her. It seemed like having her was such a wonderful thing, though...
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No, no, I should be the one to apologize! [ imagine just making everyone feel your childhood angst all of the sudden, awful. but, really—and very unfortunately—he doesn't think dahut is a stranger to this genre of emotion. does that make it better or worse to share? ] It was a very long time ago.
[ he pulls himself together and smiles, which is genuine even if it's practiced. he's not a stepford smiler. ]
It was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a better sister. [ could've asked for more time, though. ] I try to carry the fond memories closer, these days.
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It's nice to see some genuine warmth even in the seat of grief, though - even if it's an old, worn grief. They'd just talked about what it's like to sit with loss as long-lived people, after all.]
No need, no need. [To apologize, that is. And then:] I think that's a lovely idea! Your memories are one thing that can't be taken from you, so I think they're just as important to treasure as the things you felt. Both the happy and the sad.
[Sidon was such a tiny little lad... But loss is loss, whatever shape it comes in and whatever scars it leaves behind.
Anyway, the void spits back a memory completely unrelated to familial grief ie the one that i wrote for you that i ended up not giving. now u can have. it is this.]
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their stories of loss, the shared sensation of at once very old grief and very lasting mourning—it's cleared away by a very different scene?? though not one totally disconnected from the last memory he got. he's quiet a moment as he processes. ]
Oh, dear. [ oh dear!!! ] You two do have a complicated relationship.
[ EVEN MORESO THAN MOTHER/SON!!!!!! ]
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BUT YEAH!! YEAH. They're 20 different things! Enemies is one of them. Dahut just laughs lightly as the memory fades, looking sheepish.]
We do! [THEY DO...] Fortunately, that situation managed to work out just fine, but... Well! As you can see, Monsieur Scien and I don't always stand on the same side.