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Post by Tikoaztite on May 2, 2017 19:36:53 GMT -6
spring break's ended, my french grade is slipping, i might have a yeast infection, and my shit is quickly falling apart. there are 6 songs by mika on my drawing music playlist and 4 by avril lavigne. there are 20 songs. Help Me
I think I can pay ransom. Don't expect anything super daring, though. Graphite shrugged back, looking towards the door. Promise you'll save me if I'm the one kidnapped, though? Some reporter called me a damsel once. She flipped her hair dramatically when she was sure that Raoul had finished reading. Do you think I could be a good damsel in distress? I mean, I have the hair for it.
"Even so, you're like... 19? 18? To even take part in only two, at your age..." He stopped himself before he went on a tangent. You couldn't tell because his face was obscured, but there was definitely a warm, genuine aura about his words. "And... Yes, for the most part. Bucky does a bit of lab work from time to time. Not much, though. Otherwise, yes."
"Well, no..." Charcoal fiddled with her hands as she thought. "Well, the press calls us siblings and Dad would probably cry if we didn't see eachother as family. Besides, like I said, we certainly look the part." She crossed her arms, before thinking back to the first thing Basil had said. "Wait... So now that I'm here, I can't leave?" She seemed a bit... Surprised, like she wasn't expecting that.
"Yeah. Then Charcoal's with her." Carbon nodded, looking towards the rest of the hallway. It honestly looked like it went on forever. "I'd rather ignore them, to be honest." "Me too." Diamond agreed, pushing her dark hair out of her eyes. "Well, I think we should find 'em. Who knows what they'll do to Charcoal or what she'll try to do to them..." Of course Bucky was the only one to disagree. He quickly got an idea, though, and raised his hand. "Maybe we should split up!" "I thought Scary Movie Saturdays taught you something about splitting up, Bucky." Carbon muttered, just loud enough for him to hear
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Post by Kor on May 2, 2017 20:34:11 GMT -6
both good artists, cannot blame you. hang on tight buddy
"I wonder if Basil will take money," hummed Raoul. "Nobody's ever really tried. Either you can offer them twenty bucks in quarters and they'll say yes or they'll turn down thousands of dollars. I wonder how much I'm worth." He stopped to read the rest she'd written, then laughed aloud. "I'm pretty sure I'm valiant enough to come save you. Uhh, it depends how distressed you get, I guess. You certainly are a damsel, aren't you?"
"21," murmurs Coby, but smiles proudly anyways. "I learned from the best. ... Not to imply that you're not the best, I- there's not really a scale, but- you know what I mean, don't you?" Ollie adds seemingly unrelatedly, "He also worked on Leo almost completely in secret with none of my help to prove a point about how smart he is." "I can't tell if you're insulting me or complimenting me."
Basil taps her chin. "I dunnooo. How good are you with secrets? You haven't made a great impression by telling everyone I was eating these cheetos, so make this a good justification or I'm not letting you go. That sounds ominous. This is for secret-keeping purposes. You are not a hostage."
"By splitting up, you mean you and Cedric-Thomas go looking for Basil and us three stay back here and do nothing," Leo corrects. She was quiet for a second. "I'm game. You're wasting your time, though. Basil will show themself one way or another anyway. Chasing them down is just playing into their game." "Anything we do is playing into her game," Decaire returns. It was hard to tell if he was discouraged or not.
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 5, 2017 16:40:38 GMT -6
it's not a yeast infection and i got a 28 out of 30 on a video i had to do for french (i'm at a 91 average now !!) but i had to do the actual fucking fitness gram pacer test today and thats put a damper on me energy
I mean I'm pretty much a princess and those two are pretty connected. Oh look, surprise surprise, another dramatic hair flip. And also if she doesnt take money, have fun being a hostage since that's all I have to bargain with. Sorry :( Also you're probably worth a whole lot of $$$ Well, at least she was honest about it. honestly she writes like she texts im not gonna bother with the Perfect Grammar
"I know exactly what you mean, Mr. Eldridge." Father nodded, sitting down near the wall to give both Coby and Wil room to sit if either wished to. "Very impressive, sir- Please, both of you, sit down. I can't imagine you'd have been comfortable just standing around for... However long we've been here for."
"One, those cheetos were practically begging to be texted about since they're older than 3 of my folks, including me. Two, I can too keep secrets! Just as long as those secrets aren't about.... ridiculous acts of stupidity. If you don't do anything text-worthy, I won't text anyone." Charcoal attempted- keyword attempted- to argue, folding her arms and huffing. Yeah, she wasn't getting out of that room anytime soon.
"That's your full name? ...Wow." Buckminster Simon Fuller muttered, glancing up at Decaire with a perplexed expression. "Well, let's get to it, then!" "Uh. Wasting time's really the only thing Bucky's good at..... Uh... I feel like your name starts with a K...?" Carbon's words (and a nonchalant shrug) were directed at Leo. "He'll probably get bored and come back, like, two minutes into searching, though. Don't expect him to just disappear."
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Post by Kor on May 5, 2017 17:08:58 GMT -6
LMAOO I'm done gym forever now never have to worry about any exercise except uhh the powerlifting I chose to suffer through myself I'm sleepy as shit also smh headcanon that Graphite started w perfect grammar and now she's confy (and realized that Raoul is not on That Level) and is chillin out
"Wow, I'm in the presence of a princess," gasped Raoul sarcastically. "What an honour." He looked over her writing. "... Not to Basil I'm not." His grin was lopsided. "I'm terrible with secrets and it pisses them off, like, a lot." He put a hand to his chest. "But I do have my big heart and beautiful personality. And my locks. And a basic toolbox contained within my hair."
Coby glanced at Wil before taking a seat by Father. Wil stood for a moment, and chose to perch on the foot of the bed instead, keeping a little bit of distance in an assistantly way. "Thank you, Mr. Fuller. I don't mind standing. It's nice to have a change of scenery, even if it's, uh, another dark creepy and vague building. Can't say I like these sleeping arrangements too much, though." Wil made a quiet sound of agreement.
Basil pulled a face. "Ugh, wow, that's pretty terrible. The whole thing about surprise twists is that they're supposed to be a surprise and you'll kind of kill that." She waved a hand. "Maybe you should just get out of here. I have a feeling you'll be more of a handful than you're worth if I take your phone."
Decaire's mouth opened and closed soundlessly for a second, expression unreadable, before he finally managed emphatically, " Cedric T. Decaire. Decaire to you, please, actually." He folded his arms and didn't follower Bucky. Leo tipped her head, eyebrows lowered. "There are literally no K's in my full name at all." She failed to repeat her actual name. Instead of following Bucky, she lowered herself into a crouch. "Well, you haven't convinced me so I'm staying here. Anyone have any gum?"
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 8, 2017 12:14:56 GMT -6
i'd express envy if not for the fact i don't need to be any more of a walking american stereotype and ya !! that's definitely whats happenin !! i didnt even think of that bc im a Donk who doesn't know how the human mind (or in this case the bratty AI) works
Also youre really pretty overall so i dont give a rats ass what Basil thinks, you're worth a lot. Graphite added in, forgetting to dot a few I's and generally not paying that much attention to her words anymore. For reference some dude tacked like 300 high-quality princess and brilliant cut diamonds on some other company's smartphone in 2008 and it went for $176,400. So more than that we don't say the a-p-p-l-e word in this household
"They could be better. Honestly, this entire building could be better- I'm still surprised your uncle turned down a penthouse in New York for this- but who am I to complain?" Father agreed, shrugging. "I'm not even sure where we are. Missouri, maybe?" Out of all people to disregard the fact that there is most definitely some kind of map app on their phone, it's Knockoff Steve Jobs himself.
"You're kicking me out?" Charcoal put both hands to her chest, gasping sarcastically. "You're literally kicking me out. After all I've done." She repeated, 'Buying cheetos and stacking like 2 chairs' apparently being enough work to be noteworthy. "Well, I guess I'm out. Have fun with your little surprises or some shit." And with that, Charcoal was out the door, not even closing it behind her like a douchebag.
"Aww, come on! It was your idea to try and find the two of them." Bucky whined, waiting a few seconds before sitting down himself a good way's away from everyone else. "Fine. I guess I'm staying, then." "Uh, there are a lot of names that don't have any Ks in them. That's not really narrowing my guesses down." Carbon put his chin on his hand, quickly brushing his hair out if his face. "So what is it, name-without-a-K?" Without even looking at her, Diamond pulled a few sticks of gum (spearmint flavor) out of her purse and handed them down to Leo. If there's one thing that the Fullers all have in common it's the complete inability to make decent jokes
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Post by Kor on May 8, 2017 14:12:14 GMT -6
Raoul put his other hand over his heart, but had to move them up to cover the warmth in his cheeks. "I'm flattered. I'm sure someone out there would want to buy us. Like, I'm not comfortable with the idea of being sold, but it's the thought that counts, right?" Ollie glanced over to comment, "If anyone tried to buy you I'd punch them in the face."
Ollie turned back to remark, a tad defensively, "With all due respect, if I let Basil near New York someone would die. And I'd never be able to find Abel agai-" Wil peered at him sharply. "A penthouse in New York? Mr. Olwin, I- is it too late to change??" "You turned down WHAT?" echoed Coby, eyes wide. "Hey, don't go turning against me now." Ollie lowered his voice to point out, "We can't exactly afford that kind of publicity, you know." Coby looked like he was going to argue, but fell silent, defeated. He glanced back at Father with a little smile. "... Well, Mr. Fuller, if you ever feel like extending an invitation another time..."
Basil came to the door and threw a cheeto at her as she left. "Hey, don't go ratting out my hideout, okay? I've still got your weird brother's phone and a shitty picture of you and I recently ruined a very large project with, essentially, a large supply of sandwiches. So like. Be warned or whatever!"
Decaire said nothing and Leo just shrugged at him. Leo straightened herself out a bit to take the gum, then fell back into a crouch. One could hear her quietly scoff, "Mint..." but she ate a piece anyway. She answered Carbon as she chewed. "Leonore DuCharme. But Leo's fine. I have no idea where you got a K." "I'm not even sure you introduced yourself at all beforehand," commented Decaire. Leo shrugged. "It's actually not that far off... assuming your mind functions similarly to a keyboard?"
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 12, 2017 19:16:23 GMT -6
THIS JUST IN GRAPHITE IS THE ONLY ONE OF MY OCS THAT ONE OF MY FRIENDS CAN RECOGNIZE
"Same goes for you, Graphite!" Father added on, placing his fist in his ofher palm.
I think I got an email about that once. The dude still sent me like 100 bucks in nickels. But I'd rather be like... Auctioned off for charity than bought. that sounds a lot better. Still would be super duper weird Graphite bit her lip, eyebrows furrowing. This conversation just got rly strange. Wanna see my corgi? She changed the subject, already signing into her phone and opening the camera. Because everything can be solved with puppy pics.
"Well... There's always Atlanta." Father made a piss-poor attempt at a joke, chuckling slightly. "Though... It would be quite the long trip, from... Anywhere in Canada, really, to Georgia, wouldn't it?" He shrugged, fiddling with one hand. "And I can assure you that I'd absolutely love to meet up again."
"Geez, I wasn't even going to!" Charcoal turned to the door and harrumphed, opening and going into the closet that the twins were in. "She kicked me out. She literally kicked me out." Of course she'd texted everyone about it- except Xenon, since Basil still had his phone. Within seconds, Diamond had texted back 'mazel tov' like an asshole.
"I dunno, you just LOOK like someone whose name would start with a K." Carbon framed Leo's face with his fingers (y'know the thing where you put ur fingers super close to ur eye so that it looks like your framing some dudes face) and sighed. "Also I have no idea how keyboards work so I wouldn't know jack shit. Either way, it's nice to meet you, uh... Leo. It's Carbon. Carbon Fuller, specifically, but I assume you already knew that."
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Post by Kor on May 12, 2017 20:04:47 GMT -6
it occurs to me that there is a chance that Raoul has never seen a dog in person before
"Yeah, if I got sold I'd hope it would be for something useful, that's always b-" Raoul trailed off, then shrugged a shoulder, grin coming back up. "Oh, cool! Yeah, sure! Show me that dog!"
"We don't exactly own a private jet," muttered Coby, glancing at Wil. "That'd be one hell of a roadtrip. We'd need to rent a fucking bus." "SPEAKING OF meeting up again," starts Ollie, "we weeerre talking, earlier, about collaborating in the future, and..." He turned his eyes to Father. "... I hope you'd allow Coby to come. He's young, sure, but he's a hell of a polymath, and I'm sure he'd love to..." He trailed off as he glanced up to take in Coby's absolutely shocked expression. "What? You're surprised that I, an adult businessman, can interact professionally with another adult businessman?" "... A little..."
Basil shrugged, shut the door, propped herself up onto her chair throne, and started checking out Xenon's phone.
Leo, out of all of that, chose to reply to the comment about the keyboard, narrowing her eyes. "What the hell do you mean you don't know how keyboards work? You got a phone, don't you? ... Are you thinking of a piano? 'K' is not a musical note. Neither is 'L.' You're... completely, impressively wrong, dude. Carbon." Decaire didn't scold her which was his indication that he was amused.
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 16, 2017 9:32:58 GMT -6
this just in i got a palate expander yesterday and a LOT more time has passed since I last posted than I thought
Without writing anything down, she'd pulled up a cute little selfie she'd taken a while back with a six-month old tri-colored corgi. God knows how she managed to take that and have the dog cooperate. Next was a little video of said pupper trying to befriend its own reflection. Cute as all shit. After that ended, she went into a note-taking app and started typing- Everyone else calls him Whistle because he usually only comes when you whistle at him. For obvious reasons. Just to prove she could, Graphite whistled a small portion of some Spice Girls song.
ironically, father can't whistle
After having a good laugh at that little exchange, Father composed himself and nodded. "Well, I see no reason why not. I mean, adding a fourth head into the mix wouldn't hurt, would it? Honestly, I was under the impression you'd be some kind of package deal." He agreed, handing Coby a business card.
Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM hey if u have my bros ohone plz return it thatd benice. if uve just found it theres a clost that were in Seems that Xenon JUST noticed that his phone was gone.
Carbon was silent for a moment, looking ridiculously embarrassed. "....I knew that. Yeah. I definitely knew that." Diamond slow-clapped, trying to hold in her amusement. On the contrary, Bucky didn't even TRY to keep himself together, putting his face in his hand as he smacked his fist on the ground multiple times. "Great job, Carbon. You get a -- wait, wait, i think Graphite has a pack of gold star stickers in her purse-- I'm telling her everything." He unlocked his phone and began typing. "You, of all people..."
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Post by Kor on May 16, 2017 14:06:05 GMT -6
"You're cuter," commented Raoul on instinct when she pulled up the selfie, grinning, "Although I maintain that I'm cuter than both of you." He arched his eyebrows as she whistled, then asked, "Everyone else calls him Whistle? Then what's his real name and who calls him that?"
Ollie shook his head and mused, "You'd be surprised. Some of our greatest failures have been because we didn't communicate properly, so with more people..." He raised an eyebrow when he looked up. "And we're not a 'package deal,' that's Wil and Coby. But I couldn't leave my dear, beloved nephew out of this, could I?" Coby almost hesitated about taking the card. "Wow," he breathed, "thank you." Without thinking, he leaned his head onto Wil's shoulder and gave him a 'dude this is great right??' look before Wil's mildly alarmed expression made him straighten up, brushing back his hair.
Text from: Xenon, ??:?? PM tell him to check his pocket
"How old are you?" Leo asked, perhaps a bit cruelly. "If you're younger than me, maybe I'll forgive you. I haven't even ever seen a piano keyboard in person. I just can't believe y-" "Go easy on him, Leo," commented Decaire, taking out his phone disinterestedly. Leo nodded and fell silent.
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 17, 2017 20:42:39 GMT -6
well his real name is technically Graphite whistled as if calling a dog. but you can't write that so it's Whistle. That is his real name. My instagram followers, the rest of my family, and basically every person who vaguely knows who I am and that I have a dog calls him that. I used 'Everyone else' because I myself am not calling him Whistle, because I CANT call him Whistle because I can't call anyone anything. She was a lot faster at typing than writing.
"...I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not but still, I can assure you I will do everything in my power to make sure we communicate properly." He turned to Coby and stuck one thumb up. "And you're welcome, Mister Eldridge. So that's... Five, including me. We're working up a whole crowd here, huh?"
hope they like football because 'shut up the patriots are on' will come out of father's mouth a whole bunch
Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM I told him but it wasn't there Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM WAIT I JUST REALIZED HOW STUPID THAT WAS SHIT
"He's 17." Diamond interrupted, having opened up some weird Color Switch knockoff on her phone to occupy herself. "Diamond!" "What? She asked for it, I answered. Besides, you have to admit that was a crowning moment of idiocy for you." She shrugged, almost dropping her phone.
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Post by Kor on May 18, 2017 7:01:32 GMT -6
Raoul laughed as he read along, then cocked his head. "Okay, fair enough! I'll have to call him Whistle, too. I can't do that." He opened his mouth a bit and tapped his teeth. "Tooth gap. Cute and not bad for me but I'm super shitty at anything whistle related."
Coby shrugged, unable to contain his smile. "Well, Wil won't be in the lab either us, at least..." He eyed Ollie. "But is it safe to leave the others at NAQ?" "That's a later problem," muttered Ollie, leaning his head back, beginning to find the incompetence of his androids embarrassing.
Text from: Xenon, ??:??PM buddy i don't think you deserve this phone back Text from: Xenon, ??:??PM currently accepting bribes but expect no pity from me my guys
Decaire turned to them, raising his eyebrows, the biggest show of emotion they'd seen out of him. Leo's eyes widened and she bit her lip. "... I'm two..." She put a hand over her heart. "You're older than Raoul. I better not let this go to my head. I should tell Coby."
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Post by Tikoaztite on May 25, 2017 19:59:16 GMT -6
two of my friends are having a falling out, someone cut one of my other friend's nerves and now she can't move her hand, yet another much closer friend is getting surgery for her scoliosis at some point in the near future, i'm going to have to leave my friend in the grade below me (who i've literally worried myself sick over many times before bc most of the seventh grade student body is super fucking brutal) behind bc i'll be a freshman in august, my grades are slipping, and my bonsai tree is dying. It's safe to say that my shit has been officially lost. I'm sorry. The Privilege Kids return after a whole week and over thirty listenings of graphy's mixtape
Guy who can't whistle and girl who can't do anything BUT whistle. Wonder how that happened. Graphite leaned back against the corner the bed was up against, absentmindedly opening a knockoff Flappy Bird before realizing that she kind of needs that Notes app open to communicate. Right. Anyway, he's a good boy. He's a pedigreed Cardigan Welsh, just about eight months old.
"...I suppose maybe I could try moving my equipment to Manhattan..." Father had already pulled out a Fullerpad, going through pages of scheduling and events to find an opening. "Well, if you manage to sort out any roadblocks, the earliest I could get you into Fuller Labs is mid-September. Assuming you choose our building in Manhattan. Personally, all of my androids were fully built in Georgia, and I'm most prepared to tackle a collaborative task from there, but like you said, one hell of a road trip. I could get you into Atlanta by July, though." I'm 75% sure that's not possible but with the power of being Rich and Successful you're basically magic.
and if we ever do anything with graphite and raoul, a night on the countryside with the dog and a couple slices of pecan pie is a lot more pleasant-sounding than tours through the Rich People Shops and maybe some broadway
Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM !!! i hav like 2 bucks in pesos and at least one quayrer from at least 20 different states Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM *19, one of them is from puerto rico Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM that phone's been severely outdated for like 5 years tho and he has like 0 contacts have fun with your techno-fossil
"You're only two?" Diamond looked down and tilted her head. "You struck me as being at least four." She herself was at least seven or eight (Younger than Graphite, at least.) Carbon still could barely form words, sitting down and going back to playing on his phone. Most likely Minecraft, to be honest.
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Post by Kor on May 26, 2017 7:27:14 GMT -6
Oh geez bro! Don't feel pressured to reply, okay? That's some weird and tough shit going on and you need to look out for yourself and your friends, okay?
Raoul shrugged. "I could always ask Coby to do something about it now that he's all grown up and competent and stuff but I'd rather leave it be." He blinked, then said, "Well I didn't understand that middle part but damn right he's a good boy."
Ollie sighed deeply and murmured something that sounded suspiciously like "assuming we're all still above water by July," then straightened up. "Jeez, what month is it now? May? My busy forgetful old man brain... I could also try to get in touch with some of Bailey's old friends, they probably still owe them some favours I could try to cash in to get us a plane or something. With a bit of budgeting..." He ran a hand over his face. "Did we already exchange numbers?" Ollie drew a phone from his pocket that was also a little embarrassingly old and wasn't Fuller, but also wasn't Apple. Pretty damn off brand.
Text from Xenon, ??:?? PM not the kind of bribe i had in mind. Text from Xenon, ??:?? PM hey rich kid this phones better than 90% of shit i can reach at naq and i've sabotaged ollie's life work with that crap almost 3 times lmao. i will have fun xx
"Noo, that would make me almost Wil's age, and he helped program me." Leo cracked a smile, looking pretty damn proud. "I almost died when I was, like, 0 though. I hear near death experiences mature a person." Decaire didn't look up from his phone either. "Not sure that counts for androids." Leo sticks out the tip of her tongue. "That's coming from Mr form his own personality."
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Post by Tikoaztite on Jun 13, 2017 21:05:44 GMT -6
y'know rp time gets super hilarious when your rp partner has the commitment skills of a particularly inattentive squirrel but i'm feeling a lot better since the last time we rped !! one of my friends (the one i'll have to leave behind for a year) is showing a whole lot of improvement in the self-esteem department and apparently my bonsai tree was just acclimating to a new environment so a couple things worked out !!
its SUPER cute dont change it i like it Graphite seemed to have totally forgotten all rules of making a coherent English sentence, replacing it with flattery and smiles. And emojis, that was followed by at least 5 heart emojis. btw wanna exchange numbers??? when i finally get my face on Vogue you can be like 'hey, i have her phone number, look' and show all ur friends u have me in your contacts. Instead of doing the more sensible thing and just letting him enter his contact info in himself, she wrote down her own number and handed it to him. and then after that you'll text me and i'll send you a selfie of me in an adorable dress drinking pink champagne and everyone will be jealous because you're buddies with THE Graphite Therese Fuller. The things rich people think.
"June, actually." Father shrugged, having not heard a single thing that came out of Ollie's mouth before that (Seeing as his left ear wasn't all too good.) He chuckled a little as he listened to the other as intentky as he could. "Oh, you won't have to worry about spending a dime getting there. I can send someone." Flaunting that nouveau riche power, are we, Abe? Instead of answering Ollie's question about numbers, he simply slid Ollie his phone and motioned for him to do the same. The top-left corner of the phone- rose gold, how cute- looked like it was cut off, the power button, headphone jack, and charging port located in that little diagonal side. On the home button was a stylized silver F.
Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM suprisingle 'rich kid' is a first Text from: Neon, ??:?? PM you sure you don't want a giant ass headstart on a US quarter collection?? or some pesos?? The Cry Baby's Extra Clutte EP by Melani Martinez??
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