So, I need sunglasses to look like I'm not about to cry from how tired I am is what you're saying? [ ah yes! pretending you have your shit together seems easy enough! ] You don't always have those on so I'm not letting you say you're not at least a little bit cool under pressure though. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. You don't want me to get chased by a murder but appreciate my company. Thanks.
Hmm. Bad stuff is why I can't remember it so I'm not sure that's a universal thing. Ha ha. [ Fucked like him! But he thinks "Steve that sounds like it SUCKS." ]
Oh, always need one. Definitely. I want to make a mental vision board. Like a highly detailed one.
It helps a little, definitely. ( Steve has used sunglasses to block his true feelings even before the murder dimension, suffice to say he is grateful they hide his misery just as much now. ) Fine, I'll take it. Cool under pressure. My life being goddamn insane even before I got here gave me plenty of practice. And that's it, you got it in one, buddy. I like you on my team, but I don't like watching you get chased with a chainsaw.
Shit. I didn't know that was a thing. ( now he feels a bit like an asshole on accident. which is better than being an asshole on purpose, but only by so much. )
I like it. A vision board. My mom used to do that, she would cut pictures out of magazines and put them on the fridge. We'll just have to do it in our heads, that's all.
You think I could get a loan on sunglasses from someone? [ Maybe he can siphon a pair off Wesker. He seems to have... many many pairs. He's not sure that particular style is going to not look utterly stupid on his face though. ] Haha. Well, cooler than some of us anyway. I hate that you have practice. Hey, same here.
Yeah. Sorry. That's probably not a thing people casually mention. It's a thing. It's less of a thing now but a thing. Yeah. [ Leave it to him to make Steve feel uncomfortable. Shutting up now. ]
What was on it? Our head one can look better than the mess we'd probably make trying to figure out how to get pictures for the thing.
( great minds running on two braincells tops think alike because: ) If we just pallet stun that tentacle arm creep a few dozen times, we can pick up the broken pairs he hucks on the floor and hobble together something useable. I stun, you swipe. Deal?
You don't gotta be sorry, man. I'm sorry, I'm a complete dumbass. ( who should know the brain can just shut down trauma that is too much for it to handle. is Steve sorry that something shitty enough happened that Quentin's mind tried to blank it out? is he sorry Quentin remembers whatever that thing is now? both! both is good. Steve is just gonna feel bad overall on this one, and happily let the subject drop. )
She liked fancy buildings. Like Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. When she went she'd take the picture down and put up a photo of her in front of it. ( fuck now he's missing his mom 😭 Momma Harrington was an airhead, but a lovable airhead. maybe the apple didn't fall far from the tree. ) Yeah, brain pictures are gonna have to do. I don't think there are magazines around here. And if there are they're probably moldy or bloodstained or both.
I mean, I think we can do better than a broken pair. I think the best move would probably be grabbing from his smug face while being carried, getting a save in, and booking it. [ this braincell is picking the far more reckless option. ]
For having zero idea? No, no way. That doesn't make you a dumbass. Don't call yourself a dumbass. I'm fine. It's fine. [ Quentin is more than happy to move on but he is not letting Steve call himself dumb for something he dropped on him. That's awful. ]
That's so cool! I definitely want one of those now, if I can get back. I always liked when people do stuff like that. Like have a collection of photos of something they bring with them on trips like a bear too. You ever see people do that? [ Steve's mom sounds like she had it good. If only she were a little more attentive to her son, from the little he's heard, Quentin would be praising her. ] Well, there's actual pictures. I mean, there's cameras around. I'm decent enough with one. I used to take pictures all the time. Zarina has one, Ghost Face has one - probably more than one. [ how many killers is he planning to steal from? ]
Can you bait him into grabbing you from a locker? It's easy to set up an angle from behind a locker. ( Jesus Christ someone separate these boys before they go through with these hairbrained schemes and are crammed full of spaghettis and camped to death
what if he is a dumbass though, Quentin? what if he never seems to notice how fucked up people are by things until they're at a breaking point??? maybe he does need to be sorry!!! or, to be more fair about it, a little more astute with trauma. hard to do when Steve is so determined to undermine his own. and avoid talking about anything heavy if at all possible. case in point: ) If you say so.
A bear? That's cute. Never heard of that, but that's cute. When I was a kid I'd get postcards and never send them to anybody. ( kind of a weird kid thing to do in hindsight. at least Quentin seems like a guy that can embrace weird. ) Even if we could get our hands on a camera. Developing the film would be the hard part, wouldn't it?
I can do that. That's not too hard. [ Not too hard to get impaled with worms either if he brings a mori. ]
I mean it. No dumbass talk. [ Does he look okay to anyone here? Not one bit. But he'll keep saying it until he buys into it himself (never). Steve can get a free pass and a subject change. ]
Yeah, a bear. I guess it's more popular when people can share it with a whole bunch of people on Facebook. It would but not because we're lacking the means because there's a whole fully stocked red room in the RPD. It's more because that would require sneaking in another place.
Good. Then we'll score you some glasses, Smith, no problem.
All right, all right. Geez. ( fine, Quentin, he'll just THINK he's a dumbass, thoughts are free 😤 )
Facebook? What the hell? You mean like, a photo album? ...and yeah, a camera probably won't help. ( since the things and places they wanna do outside of the fog are ... notably ... outside of the fog. ) Brain pictures it is, buddy. Unless you can draw. I sure as shit can't, though.
Awesome. I'm going to look cool and like my shit is completely together.
If I catch wind of that kind of negativity, I'm flicking your nose really hard. [ Damn. A loophole. ]
Is like a digital photo album. Like sending one through a text but everyone can see it. [ He really hopes he's getting better at explaining this stuff. ] Not well. Nancy was the artist. Maybe we can commission Jeff.
Good for you, buddy. Can't wait. Maybe work on your evil scientist impression, huh?
What the hell. ( that is SO RUDE but also, he laughed. )
Wait, you can send pictures on these things? ( this could be bad information for Steve Harrington to have. ) I think he's got better stuff to do than that, but... actually, maybe not. That's the worst part of being here, right? So goddamn boring if you're not actively getting chased and murdered.
You didn't know about the pictures? I'm about to make your day. You see on the bottom of the screen there's a couple of little icons? Tap the one that looks like a camera. [ He can't believe he gets to be the one that lets Steve know what a selfie is. This is exciting. ] Right! I think he'd appreciate it.
Gotta get it all nasal and kinda horny, that part's important. Poor performance indeeeeeeeed.
( they're both gonna be doing Wesker impressions now, aren't they... as if they weren't already gonna die for stealing the sunglasses, now they're super extra gonna die for hurting Wesker's poor pissbaby super serious science guy feelings. )
Holy shit. This is fucking amazing. ( fog technology is so confusing, but Steve is gonna take this one as a w. he's from 1985, cameras exist, hell even polaroids do!! but digital, instant photography? nope. unfortunately for Quentin, this means Steve just sends him a picture of his sneakers, because that's all he's got to take a picture of right now. hope the guy likes Nikes. ) Appreciate it is a strong word, but hey. Desperate lengths or whatever.
Yeah, yeah. How do I convey that in text? [ There's a short delay here and then: ]
yOu 😤 ThInK 😠 yOu 🔪 CaN 😩 dEfEaT 🕶️ mE???
[ They're going to get thrown across the map like bowling balls and then impaled with worms. There's no way that man isn't going to skin them alive. ]
I knew you'd get a kick out of that. [ Quentin, in support of Steve's first digital photo, sends a picture of his sneakers right back. Look, he's got Nike's too. Different shoe but same brand. ] Hey, so tap the circle of arrows from there and it'll turn the screen around on yourself. You can use it like a mirror, take a picture of yourself, etc. Cool, right?
Fuck. God that guy sucks. ( thanks for the laugh though, Quentin, that was nice. worth dying over? yes probably, because Steve is an idiot, and again, Wesker suxxxxxxxxx
Steve has been running around the wastes long enough that cool shit other people are used to that he has never conceived doesn't come up that often anymore. the camera is a rare and exciting exception. he's honestly not even a picture guy, not really, it's just... it's cool! okay? why hasn't he tapped on more of these little buttons, what else is on this thing???
he's grinning like an idiot, and definitely showed whoever was nearby the picture of Quentin's shoes, even though Jake doesn't care at all. it's just that he was there and Steve is so marveled by the technology he's gotta show somebody. speaking of marveling at the technology, when Steve follows the instructions and fumbles through his first selfie, Jake is there visibly blurry as he tries to dig deep for the patience required to deal with this dumbass from Indiana. Steve, for his part, is pointing at Jake like a huge dope, as if he's some celebrity and not a guy Quentin has seen dozens or hundreds or maybe even thousands of times. the image is a little bit out of focus.
Quentin Smith officially made Steve's year period of time between gross cake with this one. damn, why did nobody tell him the magic fog phone had a camera? they just ain't real ones tbh )
He's the worst! [ Quentin's not entirely sure it's worth dying over at all but he's usually more than willing to openly mock one of these killers to another survivor if they get him going like it was his calling in life.
Now, when he got here there were only ten people and Laurie had her fill of learning long before he got there. He had assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that Min has been beating him to the punch to everyone that came in after him when it comes to technology, for the most part. Mins even showed Quentin things he had no idea about. Her Nintendo can do 3D and she never puts it on!
That he got to spread this little modicum of knowledge and it's clearly bringing a lot of joy is really heart-warming. Steve's just so unapologetically pleased about it. Why Jake doesn't seem to be amused is beyond him. ]
Wow! Is that the real Jake Park?
[ Because it's so amusing to him and just an unbridled source of levity - he's once again sending one back. Claudette is, unlike Jake, completely willing to smile for a picture with him though, if a little shyly and likely extremely relieved the noise coming out of the tired kid that went very quiet was actually laughter and not anything concerning. He does the pointing at her and everything, she's leaned in and doing it back. Steve is endearing. ]
( Jake is one of the not real ones tbh that's the issue. Claudette, Claudette is clearly a real one. that picture is adorable. pictures are in general much better when both parties want to participate. unlike poor Jake who wasn't prepared to deal with a fanboy when he's just vibing by the campfire. )
This is so fucking rad. We should go take pictures of stuff, dude.
( it will occur to Steve later that Quentin has no need to go take pictures of things, because he's known the phone had a camera app this whole damn time. he's just excited, okay! he's a kid from the 80s and it's always nice when he remembers that long enough to act like one. )
[ Jake's a hermit from the woods. Not all that surprising. Pictures are loads better when both parties want to participate. Claudette's willing to put her plants down to deal with the borderline walking dead doing something lively. ]
Sure, okay. Like what? I'll match whatever you do.
[ He does not have a need at all. The camera roll on his phone, outside of any pictures taken from before he got here which he rarely looks at, is utterly empty. Quentin stopped liking having his picture taken for various reasons and hasn't had the need to take one of anything or anyone else until a minute ago. He'll make an exception here. Steve's contagious. He used to take pictures all the time. It's really nice to just do it again. ]
( what should they take pictures of? a crow. a fire barrel. Steve takes at least three more unwitting thumbs up selfies with survivors that made the mistake of letting him get that close. doesn't matter, anything that seems relatively well lit and even a few things that aren't. it's like a completely pointless scavenger hunt of anything he can fit on the tiny screen.
because fuck it. it's fun. not a lot of that to be had in a murder dimension where his negative emotions are an aperitif for a spider god. and if Quentin will humor him, Steve is going to run with the stupid game until it gets old or somebody passes out.
...until he passes out. everyone knows Quentin doesn't sleep. )
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Date: 2022-10-23 01:05 am (UTC)Hmm. Bad stuff is why I can't remember it so I'm not sure that's a universal thing. Ha ha. [ Fucked like him! But he thinks "Steve that sounds like it SUCKS." ]
Oh, always need one. Definitely. I want to make a mental vision board. Like a highly detailed one.
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Date: 2022-10-23 03:44 am (UTC)Shit. I didn't know that was a thing. ( now he feels a bit like an asshole on accident. which is better than being an asshole on purpose, but only by so much. )
I like it. A vision board. My mom used to do that, she would cut pictures out of magazines and put them on the fridge. We'll just have to do it in our heads, that's all.
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Date: 2022-10-23 04:31 pm (UTC)Yeah. Sorry. That's probably not a thing people casually mention. It's a thing. It's less of a thing now but a thing. Yeah. [ Leave it to him to make Steve feel uncomfortable. Shutting up now. ]
What was on it? Our head one can look better than the mess we'd probably make trying to figure out how to get pictures for the thing.
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Date: 2022-10-23 11:14 pm (UTC)You don't gotta be sorry, man. I'm sorry, I'm a complete dumbass. ( who should know the brain can just shut down trauma that is too much for it to handle. is Steve sorry that something shitty enough happened that Quentin's mind tried to blank it out? is he sorry Quentin remembers whatever that thing is now? both! both is good. Steve is just gonna feel bad overall on this one, and happily let the subject drop. )
She liked fancy buildings. Like Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. When she went she'd take the picture down and put up a photo of her in front of it. ( fuck now he's missing his mom 😭 Momma Harrington was an airhead, but a lovable airhead. maybe the apple didn't fall far from the tree. ) Yeah, brain pictures are gonna have to do. I don't think there are magazines around here. And if there are they're probably moldy or bloodstained or both.
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Date: 2022-10-24 11:10 pm (UTC)For having zero idea? No, no way. That doesn't make you a dumbass. Don't call yourself a dumbass. I'm fine. It's fine. [ Quentin is more than happy to move on but he is not letting Steve call himself dumb for something he dropped on him. That's awful. ]
That's so cool! I definitely want one of those now, if I can get back. I always liked when people do stuff like that. Like have a collection of photos of something they bring with them on trips like a bear too. You ever see people do that? [ Steve's mom sounds like she had it good. If only she were a little more attentive to her son, from the little he's heard, Quentin would be praising her. ] Well, there's actual pictures. I mean, there's cameras around. I'm decent enough with one. I used to take pictures all the time. Zarina has one, Ghost Face has one - probably more than one. [ how many killers is he planning to steal from? ]
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Date: 2022-10-25 03:09 am (UTC)what if he is a dumbass though, Quentin? what if he never seems to notice how fucked up people are by things until they're at a breaking point??? maybe he does need to be sorry!!! or, to be more fair about it, a little more astute with trauma. hard to do when Steve is so determined to undermine his own. and avoid talking about anything heavy if at all possible. case in point: ) If you say so.
A bear? That's cute. Never heard of that, but that's cute. When I was a kid I'd get postcards and never send them to anybody. ( kind of a weird kid thing to do in hindsight. at least Quentin seems like a guy that can embrace weird. ) Even if we could get our hands on a camera. Developing the film would be the hard part, wouldn't it?
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Date: 2022-10-25 04:08 am (UTC)I mean it. No dumbass talk. [ Does he look okay to anyone here? Not one bit. But he'll keep saying it until he buys into it himself (never). Steve can get a free pass and a subject change. ]
Yeah, a bear. I guess it's more popular when people can share it with a whole bunch of people on Facebook. It would but not because we're lacking the means because there's a whole fully stocked red room in the RPD. It's more because that would require sneaking in another place.
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Date: 2022-11-02 11:34 pm (UTC)All right, all right. Geez. ( fine, Quentin, he'll just THINK he's a dumbass, thoughts are free 😤 )
Facebook? What the hell? You mean like, a photo album? ...and yeah, a camera probably won't help. ( since the things and places they wanna do outside of the fog are ... notably ... outside of the fog. ) Brain pictures it is, buddy. Unless you can draw. I sure as shit can't, though.
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Date: 2022-11-02 11:48 pm (UTC)If I catch wind of that kind of negativity, I'm flicking your nose really hard. [ Damn. A loophole. ]
Is like a digital photo album. Like sending one through a text but everyone can see it. [ He really hopes he's getting better at explaining this stuff. ] Not well. Nancy was the artist. Maybe we can commission Jeff.
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Date: 2022-11-02 11:55 pm (UTC)What the hell. ( that is SO RUDE but also, he laughed. )
Wait, you can send pictures on these things? ( this could be bad information for Steve Harrington to have. ) I think he's got better stuff to do than that, but... actually, maybe not. That's the worst part of being here, right? So goddamn boring if you're not actively getting chased and murdered.
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Date: 2022-11-03 12:06 am (UTC)You didn't know about the pictures? I'm about to make your day. You see on the bottom of the screen there's a couple of little icons? Tap the one that looks like a camera. [ He can't believe he gets to be the one that lets Steve know what a selfie is. This is exciting. ] Right! I think he'd appreciate it.
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Date: 2022-11-03 12:21 am (UTC)( they're both gonna be doing Wesker impressions now, aren't they... as if they weren't already gonna die for stealing the sunglasses, now they're super extra gonna die for hurting Wesker's poor pissbaby super serious science guy feelings. )
Holy shit. This is fucking amazing. ( fog technology is so confusing, but Steve is gonna take this one as a w. he's from 1985, cameras exist, hell even polaroids do!! but digital, instant photography? nope. unfortunately for Quentin, this means Steve just sends him a picture of his sneakers, because that's all he's got to take a picture of right now. hope the guy likes Nikes. ) Appreciate it is a strong word, but hey. Desperate lengths or whatever.
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Date: 2022-11-03 12:38 am (UTC)yOu 😤 ThInK 😠 yOu 🔪 CaN 😩 dEfEaT 🕶️ mE???
[ They're going to get thrown across the map like bowling balls and then impaled with worms. There's no way that man isn't going to skin them alive. ]
I knew you'd get a kick out of that. [ Quentin, in support of Steve's first digital photo, sends a picture of his sneakers right back. Look, he's got Nike's too. Different shoe but same brand. ] Hey, so tap the circle of arrows from there and it'll turn the screen around on yourself. You can use it like a mirror, take a picture of yourself, etc. Cool, right?
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Date: 2022-11-03 12:55 am (UTC)Steve has been running around the wastes long enough that cool shit other people are used to that he has never conceived doesn't come up that often anymore. the camera is a rare and exciting exception. he's honestly not even a picture guy, not really, it's just... it's cool! okay? why hasn't he tapped on more of these little buttons, what else is on this thing???
he's grinning like an idiot, and definitely showed whoever was nearby the picture of Quentin's shoes, even though Jake doesn't care at all. it's just that he was there and Steve is so marveled by the technology he's gotta show somebody. speaking of marveling at the technology, when Steve follows the instructions and fumbles through his first selfie, Jake is there visibly blurry as he tries to dig deep for the patience required to deal with this dumbass from Indiana. Steve, for his part, is pointing at Jake like a huge dope, as if he's some celebrity and not a guy Quentin has seen dozens or hundreds or maybe even thousands of times. the image is a little bit out of focus.
Quentin Smith officially made Steve's
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Date: 2022-11-03 01:34 am (UTC)Now, when he got here there were only ten people and Laurie had her fill of learning long before he got there. He had assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that Min has been beating him to the punch to everyone that came in after him when it comes to technology, for the most part. Mins even showed Quentin things he had no idea about. Her Nintendo can do 3D and she never puts it on!
That he got to spread this little modicum of knowledge and it's clearly bringing a lot of joy is really heart-warming. Steve's just so unapologetically pleased about it. Why Jake doesn't seem to be amused is beyond him. ]
Wow! Is that the real Jake Park?
[ Because it's so amusing to him and just an unbridled source of levity - he's once again sending one back. Claudette is, unlike Jake, completely willing to smile for a picture with him though, if a little shyly and likely extremely relieved the noise coming out of the tired kid that went very quiet was actually laughter and not anything concerning. He does the pointing at her and everything, she's leaned in and doing it back. Steve is endearing. ]
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Date: 2022-11-03 02:09 am (UTC)This is so fucking rad. We should go take pictures of stuff, dude.
( it will occur to Steve later that Quentin has no need to go take pictures of things, because he's known the phone had a camera app this whole damn time. he's just excited, okay! he's a kid from the 80s and it's always nice when he remembers that long enough to act like one. )
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Date: 2022-11-03 02:26 am (UTC)Sure, okay. Like what? I'll match whatever you do.
[ He does not have a need at all. The camera roll on his phone, outside of any pictures taken from before he got here which he rarely looks at, is utterly empty. Quentin stopped liking having his picture taken for various reasons and hasn't had the need to take one of anything or anyone else until a minute ago. He'll make an exception here. Steve's contagious. He used to take pictures all the time. It's really nice to just do it again. ]
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Date: 2022-11-03 03:01 am (UTC)because fuck it. it's fun. not a lot of that to be had in a murder dimension where his negative emotions are an aperitif for a spider god. and if Quentin will humor him, Steve is going to run with the stupid game until it gets old or somebody passes out.
...until he passes out. everyone knows Quentin doesn't sleep. )