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[bossyboiler]

Who: Kate Cordello
Username: bossyboiler
Warnings: N/A (will update when/if necessary)

Could everyone maybe check in, even if I don't know you. I feel like there's a few people I haven't seen around here lately.

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[bossyboiler]

Kate finally lets go of Winter. It had been a good hug but she knows how he is about touch. There can be too much of a good thing especially if it's one sided. (She would rather it continue. It's comforting.)

"You'd better not do either of those things either," she shakes her head. She is only joking a little. "I don't know what I'd do without you. I mean that. You're like a brother to me." Is she going to cry? No. Can she feel her eyes get a bit misty? Yes. She blinks and the mistiness is gone.

"More museums are good. Just promise me you won't play any of the games?"

[worthallthis]

He has no intention of dying. It just might happen, especially with them going rogue like this, with no backup, and he has to make sure his people are prepared for that. And hopefully don't go on rampages or turn to entities if he does.

"No games," he swears. "Just dinosaur bones and dioramas and maybe the pretty rocks. Not into that modern art shit anyway."

[bossyboiler]

She has no intention of dying, disappearing or becoming an Avatar either. However, things in Gloucester happen. She had not imagined her almost boyfriend turning into a weasel nor had she ever pictured someone turning into a mannequin or any of the other horrors she had witnessed.

"No games," she repeats and is glad that he agrees. Even if he does play games she doesn't need to know that. "Modern art is so pretentious anyway." Pot meet kettle. "Who can blame you for that?"

[worthallthis]

"I don't know how you determine if something's pretentious." He knows the dictionary definition, but it seems subjective. "I just don't get it. It's weird and boring. Older stuff is better." Paintings that have actual subjects, not just lines and blobs of color.

[bossyboiler]

"If you ever feel like a snob about something or look down on something because you find yourself feeling superior, that's pretentiousness." Kettle meet pot. "Older stuff like you?" She teases.

[worthallthis]

"Older stuff like me, sure. Though I don't think I'm as old as a painting from the 1800s." Winter sounds distracted, as he tries to think of a time he's felt like that. "Like when I yell at movies for being really bad at fighting or shooting?" That's the only time he really feels superior to anyone or anything.

[bossyboiler]

"Kind of like that, Winter. Yeah. Except you know what you're talking about and yell about the practical aspect of it. OH. It's like when I watch cooking shows and think I know what I'd do and do it better." Hey. Wait.

[worthallthis]

"You do that a lot." But he's kind of half-smiling as he says it, to show he's teasing. Maybe he's not sure how paintings can be like that, but frankly, he doesn't care, either. He'd rather rib Kate for lecturing the tv.

[bossyboiler]

"I know. I must sound insufferable when I do." But look. Sometimes people on the television are wrong and they should know it along with the people around her. "I'm sorry."