PC: ACE 💀

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If I can't find a way to use it here, maybe I'll figure out something when we get home. One of our friends might have a better idea.

[selfimmolation]

That works. Consider it a gift, then.

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I'll cherish it always. [ dry, but teasing. ] This one's better though.

[ having ace back he means...he will be sappy Once. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ it takes him a second and then he's like /// but emotionally as he laughs ]

I'm a gift now? That's not something anyone's ever believed before.

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[ he just grins at that because ace, you idiot. ]

Yeah, well, I don't think I really count as just anyone do I?

[selfimmolation]

You're a little out of the ordinary, sure.

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That might be the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me, thanks. Almost a compliment.

[selfimmolation]

We both know Will's said way nicer stuff to you.

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[ the emotion is. immediately embarrassed. and fond. ]

Nope. Will's actually got a secret mean streak that nobody knows about. Very deceptive of him.

[selfimmolation]

[ his emotion is gremlin ]

If that's the kind of thing you guys are into, I guess...

[resumed]

[ SHOVES A HAND IN ACE'S FACE and i'm sorry the emotion is even more embarrassed somehow. ]

Stop. [ hissing. he does not want to think about that, thanks!! but he grumbles. ] If anything I think he actually does kind of like when I'm a little mean to him.

[ why tf else would will have initially been attracted to him. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ nyehehehehe even as he removes nico's face ]

Then that's the same thing, isn't it? What you guys are both into. [ NYEHEHE ]

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I refuse to discuss this with you. [ the emotions are. conflicted. mostly embarrassed but also kind of confused and annoyed. ] If you're gonna make fun of me for something pick something else.

[selfimmolation]

[ his emotions are still gremlin ]

You did this to yourself, you know. [ hehehe but he's not harping on it more ]

[resumed]

You're full of it. I didn't even do anything. [ no more gremlin emotions!! ]

[selfimmolation]

Sure, sure. [ no. forever gremlin. although... he does go back for one second on it; ] I bet Will likes you being "mean" because he can tell you don't mean it, and then it's funny when you mean it on someone else.

[ no, that's ace, and it's a different kind of like, but he's assuming ]

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[ he sort of makes a face, tilting his head up to look at him curiously. ]

He's stupid. [ idly. ] He liked me before we ever even really talked because I was "mysterious" and kept pushing people away.

[ but also. that is part of it and he does think ace feels similarly in a different like because ace is just like this. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ oh help he's laughing ]

"Mysterious"? I guess I can see that. But weren't you guys just kids...?

[resumed]

That was his word, not mind. [ elbowing him. stop laughing!! but...hm. ] ...I guess so? Camp is and isn't all that big. I didn't even remember the first time I actually saw him until recently. But we didn't really talk much until last year.

[selfimmolation]

[ he cannot stop laughing it's Funny ]

I get it. So he just thought you looked cool from afar. It's kinda funny he didn't get the guts to try to talk to you sooner.

[resumed]

[ never mind ace is the worst but also this big brother energy... ]

I guess to be fair to him, I wasn't exactly there that often. I stayed for a little while, but then I left again to go find Percy and...a lot of other stuff happened. [ an innocent blink. ] Plus he said something about how people would try to talk to me and I'd just be mean to them? Weird.

[ lmao. ]

[selfimmolation]

Wow? Really? That doesn't sound like you at all.

[ :P ]

[resumed]

Yeah, see, that's what I said. [ shut up, both of you. ] It wasn't like...well. You get it.

[ he had his reasons. ]

And anyway I never thought Will was actually trying to be anything more than polite and the next time I did actually talk to him I nearly decapitated him, so it's not like he doesn't know the health hazards of being with me.

[selfimmolation]

It's sounding like you've got more in common with me as a kid than I thought.

[ he shouldn't sound this amused about it, but he is ]

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[ he rolls his eyes. ]

I don't know if I'd go that far... [ the emotion is embarrassed because. yeah. actually. that is maybe correct, he was feral in a different direction but also he nearly cut off will's head solely because will startled him. it's fine. ]