♌ Leo gets techy with it - [OPEN]

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who: Leo and Anyone
what: Programming the app mentioned here, but open to hanging out/chatting as well.
when: Every afternoon during curse week starting 5/21.
where: in the park underneath a shady tree
style: Starting with prose, but will change to match.
status: OPEN

Leo made his way into the park and picked out a large shady tree with a bench to sit under. If he was going to be spending all afternoon in one place it had to be somewhere comfortable and easy to be spotted in.

Buford was with him and he was using the sentient table to rest his SFC on so he could check for any messages while he waited for people to come get the app programmed in. He had no clue how many takers - if any - there would be, but he hoped that at least a few would be interested. He could really use the money to get some things from the Nostalgia Nook, especially some celestial bronze. He had a few projects lined up and couldn't get anywhere on them without some decent funding.

While he waited, he kept himself busy by fiddling around with some materials he'd gathered from the shopping district and from his magic tool belt. He built tiny machines and then took them apart again to make something new.

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[420]

Shit, someone record this for the sake of future generations. The day Gamzee used logic to defeat someone else must become a day worth of remembrance.

"See, now you are getting it." Gamzee took his silence as compliance, patting him lightly on the chest. "Sides, least you never up and laid waste to your bros."

Whoops, dangit, curse.

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It shall be remembered for all eternity. Monuments will be erected in his honor and epic parades will happen.

"No, I only believed I killed my mom in a fire for almost half my life. Then Gaea told me she did it to break me." He considered what Gamzee said for a moment, "You killed your friends? For real?"

[420]

Well, that was certainly one way to knock the smile off Gamzee's lips. He doesn't lie though, wouldn't even have lied without the influence of the curse. He was, to say the least, a shitty fucking liar. And Wataru had taught him, so long ago now, that he had to be honest.

Still, just cause he's honest, didn't mean he couldn't be evasive. Gamzee simply hated dealing with his problems. He much preferred ignoring them where he could. And that attitude shows him his stance, the way his shoulders droop and his eyes flick away for a moment, before returning to Leo.

"It... ain't not any shit I'm proud of but yeah. Yeah, I did."

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"It'd be weird if you were, dude." Leo noticed the change in stance, but given that it wasn't any different from his own, he doesn't point it out. No use bringing attention to it.

He feels like he should do something comforting like a hug or a pat on the back, but Leo's kind of useless and awkward about that sort of thing, so he just stands there like he was.

[420]

Gamzee felt like he had to add something though, like he couldn't just let this chat die on that note. Not so much for his own sake, but for Leo's. He already considered Leo a bro, mostly on account of having been in his presence for a staggering two minutes, which was enough for friendship in Gamzee's book. And friends helped friends relax.

"I got Karkat now though. No motherfucker what can help keep lock down at the dark fuckin' voodoos that haunt a brother's pan but my best pale bro."

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"Pale bro?" Troll lingo was still hit and miss on how easy it was to catch onto. "I get the bro part, it's the pale I'm not getting," he clarified, just in case Gamzee didn't catch what part he was questioning.

[420]

"Pale like moirail. Got anyone what did all schoolfeed you on that yet?" Which Gamzee didn't really embrace all the quadrants of their kind with wild abandon (it was mainly the black on that was outside of his understanding) the very idea that humans didn't have something like a pale quadrant was just... it was still kinda weird for him. What kinda species didn't went and got recognition on at such an important relationship?

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"No. Karkat was telling my friends about it, but man, that's too much for me to take in all at once. Percy struggled with it and he's a heck of a lot less ADHD than I am." Leo didn't like talking about being dyslexic and seriously ADHD (even by demigod standards), so he didn't look too happy when that slipped out. It was embarrassing admitting he had learning disabilities, but if he had to let that slip to anyone, at least it was someone as chill as Gamzee.

[420]

"I dunno what any of this ADCD stuff is, but I can give you a motherfuckin' low-down on this shit, no biggie." Leo didn't have to feel embarrassed about his learning disabilities in front of Gamzee. Partially because Gamzee didn't even know what a learning disability was, but mostly because he didn't give a shit. It wasn't like he didn't damage his pan worse every day with his drug habit.

"It ain't being too hard, even a motherfucker like me can get his pan wrapped about it. See sometimes you got a motherfucker that's a lil' dangerous, right? All sorts of liable for putting the hurt on other peeps, even if he maybe don't mean to all the motherfuckin' time. That's the sort of motherfucker what needs a moirail, needs some other dude for balancing that shit out and for helping him not be any sort of motherfuckin' danger. You got that?"

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There was no point in correcting Gamzee that it was ADHD not ADCD. It clearly didn't matter. Anyway, he listened to what Gamzee had to say and was relieved that there weren't any unfamiliar words in the explanation to trip him up.

"Yea, I think so." Leo considered it for a minute before he made a comparison to something he's familiar with. "So it's kind of like maintaining a machine? Like making sure nothing goes haywire and it keeps working like it should. But instead of a machine it's a troll and sort of like friendship?"

[420]

Gamzee scratched the back of his head with the remote. "Shit, I guess so? Fuck, who even all knows how those motherfuckin' things work, s'all fuckin' miracles up on the inside." Gamzee was not a mechanic to say the least.

"It's like... You ever got to feelin' like you can't up and fuckin' trust in your own motherfuckin' self?"

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"Yeah, been there more than a few times. Didn't trust myself or my fie powers after my mom died. And then after I got possessed by an Eidolon, well, I didn't trust that it was going to be a one time thing. Didn't think I'd gain back the trust of my friends after that." He frowned. Yeah, he knew all about not trusting himself.

[420]

Gamzee gave a little nod at that. He can't say like he didn't all spend some motherfuckin' time staring at the reflective square in the ablution chamber, with his brain spinning a little too long in the darker lingering worries. And shit, wasn't that half the motherfuckin' reason he got to avoiding that ancestor of his? Sure, part of it was just cause the motherfucker was like fear put in bone and husk to any peep in general, but part of it was cause laying gander on that bro for too long sometimes got Gamzee to wondering if he would ever all turn out like him. And that were not thoughts what brought him any sort of mirth.

"Karkat makes it so I can up and fuckin' put trust in my own fuckin' self again. He helps me make fuckin' sense of what darkness does all linger deep in a bro's pan. Helps put the motherfuckin' shoosh on me, when I can't get to calming myself no more."

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"Sounds helpful," Leo replied. "Not that I'm really a danger to anyone. I don't have anyone like that. Mostly because I don't like talking about all that sort of stuff. Or even letting people know that I even have that all to deal with. Though with this curse more people than ever know about some of these things."

[420]

Gamzee's brows furrowed more and more at the words coming from Leo s mouth. "I can all be telling a bro how he gotta be living his life or nothing, but... it ain't no good to be keepin' all manner of dark thoughts bottled up inside of your brainmeats. Sometimes you just gotta speak with your friends on them, let out what fuckin' ails ya so they can be like to fuckin' help you with that. It's good for you, helps a motherfucker find his peace, you get?"

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"Yeah, I get it." And he really does get it. But that doesn't change the fact that he doesn't feel comfortable opening up about everything. If Piper or Jason were here, maybe he could open up completely to them. But as of right now, there wasn't anyone here he was close enough to to feel like he could just unload everything on them.

[420]

Gamzee watched him with a cocked head, before he leaned a bit closer, his voice kind despite the many curses that peppered his speech. "You know, if a brother ever gets to needing it, I don't up and mind lending a hearstub to whatever worries you wanna be speaking about."

Because who the fuck cared that he only had known him for half an hour. He already felt like friends and friends helped each other out.

[fundemetal]

"Thanks, man. I'll keep that in mind." Even without the curse, he's have said and meant it. But he'd much rather take up on that offer after he's got full control over what he says again.

[420]

"No prob. That's what you got friends for." Though he still has one arm draped over Leo's shoulders, Gamzee also raised his free fist to hold it up in front of them, clearly waiting for a bump.

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"Yeah, guess so." Leo raised his hand to complete the fist bump. Like he's going to let a bro hang.