2019-11-02 - Just Like Batman

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Itzhak.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: Alexander!!!

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Hello. That's a lot of !s. 🙂

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: I TURNED INTO A UNICORN

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: ...you know, in this town, I'm not sure if that's a metaphor or if I should be asking about how you're texting with hooves.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: Well i turned back. But it was so awesome

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I'm glad it was awesome. What happened?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: Chased by hunters from over there. there was an elk and it kind of reminded me of august a little bit. Anything fucked up happen to you?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: It's been one of those weeks. Watching over Thorne, now. He was kidnapped by cultists during his opening ceremonies.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: he okay? You okay?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Drugged. And I accidentally electrocuted him a bit. August boosted me, and I don't really have perfect control of the lightning. But he should be fine, physically.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: uhhh yikes.
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: do I need to go rough somebody up?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Normally I would say yes, and enlist your help to burn a haunted house the fuck down. But I need to see how Thorne wants to handle it.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: I ripped a hole in the Murray house, I'll burn another haunted house the fuck down

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: ::grin emoji::

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: so yeah. Let me know. I'm in
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: okay, awkward question

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I have missed your questions, awkward and otherwise. Shoot. 🙂
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: awww tateleh, gonna make me blush. HEY before awkward question, did you get dressed up?
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Yes.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: Picture?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Here. ::attach:AlexanderPhantom.jph::

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: holy shit. you are hotter than hell

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: That's very kind of you to say. Thank you. 🙂 I rather liked the cape. It was swirly.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: bet your girl appreciated that!
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: more guys ought to wear capes as a thing. imo.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Yes. Appreciation somewhat interrupted by kidnapping. But, yes. I agree. Do I get a picture in return? I assume you have a costume.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: (image of Itzhak in a sleek, slim black suit, with a horned half-mask painted in greens and golds. His nails are painted sparkly gold-black)

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Wow. You're always handsome, but that is a stunning look on you.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: yep definitely blushing. that was Bex's idea, she was at the funeral with me

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Ah. Yes. I've spoken with her before. She has excellent taste, but you wear it well.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hah i'm so flustered. great time for awkward question

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Awkward question. Yes. Go for it.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: de la vega said you asked him if he was banging me. true or false

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I asked him if you and he were going to have sex. So, yes, I suppose.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: what'd he say?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I think it was something along the lines of 'why the fuck are you asking me that'.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: sounds like him
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: why DID you ask him?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I was curious. And scared, I suppose.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: scared? of what?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: It will sound stupid.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: please? pretty please?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I don't have a lot of friends.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I don't really know what to do with friends.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: And I don't really
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: (...)
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I wouldn't blame the either of you if you liked each other better than me, because you have more in common and are more interesting and you could get more of what you want from each other than me. But the thought makes me hurt. And angry. A little.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: awww, tateleh. that's not how this works
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: how it works is i like you, a lot, and nothing changes that

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: That's nice of you to say. I told you it was stupid.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: a lot of people don't know how to be friends with you, because they expect you to be like them, and you're not. you're like you. believe me I know how that is.
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: this is exactly what my ma told me by the way, still works
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hey it's not stupid to notice that a lot of stupid people don't like you

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: They're not stupid. You may just have bad taste in friends, Itzhak. 🙂
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I'm surprised he told you I asked that.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hah, well, that's a matter of opinion I GUESS. but i like you, and i ain't gonna stop being your friend anytime soon.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I'm glad. 🙂

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: yeah...I dunno exactly why he did

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I should ask him, but he'd probably snarl and refuse to answer.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: plus i still have this unrequited crush on you so there's that

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I'm sorry. I don't mean to cause you distress.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: nah, it's just a thing that's happening. I get crushes a lot because I'm a moron like that

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: You're not a moron for desiring people.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: ehhhh I feel like a moron

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Why?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: just another way I'm broken, you know?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: If I had a crush on someone, would you call me a moron?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: clearly you are not a moron. I am the moron here, don't logic me Clayton
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: okay funny story

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Logic is your friend, Rosencrantz. It makes no sense to say you're broken for something that you wouldn't say makes other people broken.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Okay. Funny story.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: when I met your girl I didn't know it was her. that was when we were at Kelly's, right?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Right.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: I got so freakin jealous of her

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Of Isabella? Why?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: because frankly, she's gorgeous. she's gorgeous and obviously she's smart and she's classy, and mayyyybe I wasn't being so rational, but i was like, welp, now I know why I never stood a chance with him, because who wouldn't pick her over me
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: ...him is you. so anyway i was being a real big moron there!

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: But that's not what happened. I didn't pick her over you. I didn't even know you when I met her, Itzhak. And she is gorgeous, smart, and classy. But - so are you. You're brilliant. Your mind is beautiful. Your heart is one of the biggest I've felt. It's not a competition, but you would have nothing to be ashamed of if it was.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: exactly! exactly. it's not a competition. and you don't have to compete with de la vega for me, neither.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: And you're not a moron.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: You didn't try to murder Isabella, though. I can't actually say the same about me and the Captain.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: one minute still flustered
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: whew, is it hot in here or is it just you. anyway, yeah, okay, granted about the murder part, but that's his problem with you, not mine. i get it was gohl. a lot of fucked up shit went down because of gohl.
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hopefully now that he's out of you, you agree it was him and not really you.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Of course it was me. The rage wasn't, but what I did with it was.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: man. I wish I knew how to convince you. okay, letting it go now.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I can provide context. If you want. You may not like it.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: go ahead, I need context so I can grok what you're thinking

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: When you get lost, you turn into unicorns. Or there are giant birds and poison elk. Fantastic things. I got lost in a few of those places, as a kid. But those weren't usually where I'd go.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Most of my 'Dreams' looked a lot like the real world. With all the people I knew, and liked, and trusted. And they'd usually try to murder or torture me, at some point. Which is the only way I knew it wasn't real. Probably.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I don't really know any of you are real until we finish an interaction and you haven't tried to kill me.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: So I've thought about how to kill all of you. In case you're not you.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: ...fuck. i hate that you had to go through that. i hate it a whole fucking lot

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: And I've killed just about everyone I've liked at least once.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Myself a few times. Although that's actually pretty satisfying.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: so you're like batman

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I don't think so?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: yes! because batman has a plan to take down everyone else in the justice league

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: The Justice League? I mean. Okay. Yes. I guess so. In that sense.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: i mean, yeah, that's fucked up. but it's because you went through fucked up shit and you had to survive.
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: you and de la vega have a lot in common like that actually

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I agree its fucked up. And I'm fucked up. But context: What I did to the Captain wasn't something Gohl made me do. It was just something that the influence made it easy to ignore the reasons not to do.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Yes. Probably.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: okay, see, i don't blame you for hating yourself over it. god knows I hate myself over stuff I did that I didn't even have a ghost possessing me for. ...just I want you to be okay.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I'm okay, Itzhak. I know what I am. I've known that for a lot longer than this. I'm afraid that the Captain and I won't ever be friends again, not real friends. But that's his decision to make, and I won't be a stalkery asshole over it. Or I'll try not to be. I've already kind of failed.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: you're stalking de la vega? careful with that, meyn boychik
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: he won't be reasonable if he catches you at it

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: It wasn't intentional. I didn't know he was staying at the murder hotel. I might have pushed it once I did, though. He wouldn't fight me. And I thought fighting was how he worked shit out.
(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: You are all very confusing.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: he was probably afraid he'd kill you

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: That would be okay.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: you're gonna make me yell at you, no that is not okay!!

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: If he needs to hurt me to start to feel better, then I don't see the harm in that. I hurt him.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: bubbeleh, if that was what he needed don't you think he would have done it?
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: does he strike you as a man who refrains from hurting people if he wants to hurt them?

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: He says he wants to. I can feel that he wants to. Even before Gohl, a part of him wanted to.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: heh. bet a part of him did. so ask yourself why he didn't

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Because he's constantly sublimating all of his less acceptable urges into self-destructive actions rather than just expressing them and working through them?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: ...fair...but pretty sure not the whole story

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I find him frustrating.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: believe me you are not the only one. frustrating how

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: In many ways.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: too many to count? hear ya

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Yes. He was at your unicorn thing, wasn't he? You mentioned an elk. So did he.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: yeah. the elk that kind of reminded me of roen somehow. de la vega was a wolf, which no surprise there

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Was it another sick elk? I thought we fixed those.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: this one wasn't sick. perfectly healthy. he was being hunted and we got in the way.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Hunted by what? And I could easily see August as an elk. Strong, powerful, not aggressive usually, but capable of doing a lot of damage when he wants.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: uhhh....hunters. a lot of them. hounds, a whole thing. except on foxes, not horses. turned out they were driving us all into a trap though, go figure.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Huh. Like a Wild Hunt?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: yeah! maybe? I'm not exactly sure what a wild hunt is.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Mythological construct - a hunt lead by fairies, the dead, or sometimes gods. Usually an omen of disaster for those who witness it, or they're kidnapped to the fairy realms, etc.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: I killed one of those lizard dog things and....that was fine, then, but now that I think about it is a little nauseating.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Why?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: crunching. a lot of crunching under my hooves. and squishy, when it wasn't crunchy it was squishy.
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: and i impaled it with my face which was new!

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Okay, that does sound a little horrifying. Although impaling with your face is kinda cool. What was it like. Being a unicorn?

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: i was big and fast and i was ready to fuck someone up. strong. real strong. real fast. but kinda crazy, you know? kinda skittish. everything turned to 11.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: But majestic. I'm sure you were majestic as fuck.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: HAH. i hope so. you'll have to ask someone else. like bex. she was a cougar. rrrowr.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Cougars are nice. All cats are, really. But I've never seen a unicorn.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: unicorns are haunting me a little bit? Can't complain

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: There are far worse things to be haunted by.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: I take my blessings where I can get 'em
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hey let me cook you dinner soon
(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: and I'm gonna hold Hanukkah, you should come, bring your girl

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Sure. And sure. 🙂 That sounds like fun.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: awesome <3 and look, i hope you can make up with javier

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: I will or I won't. Thank you, though. 🙂 And you should come over and meet Blue Bell sometime, if Isolde hasn't invited you over already.

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: hell yes, kitty time

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: ::kitty emoji::

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: At any rate, I'm glad we could talk. I hadn't spoken in a while. I'm glad you're doing okay. 🙂

(TXT to Ac) Itzhak: me too man, let's try to get through this halloween stuff and not die.

(TXT to Itzhak) Alexander: Not dying is always the best goal. 🙂