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[necrosavior]

If only you were a butch...

[fogsong]

Don't think I could pull off the look.

[necrosavior]

Let me do a makeover. I'll prove you can.

[fogsong]

Fine. Can't cut the hair, though.

[necrosavior]

As long as I can use product in it, I can work with that. We'll make a butch out of you!

[fogsong]

I expect flannel.

[necrosavior]

What kind of heathen do you take me for? You are definitely a flannel butch. A layers butch. You wear layers.

[fogsong]

The kind that grew up in a bone convent, mostly.

But shit, yes. Flannel! Layers! Maybe I can pull this off. So far, not sounding all that different from my usual style.

[necrosavior]

Fair, but I've been here over a year and a half now.

Your style is like first cousins once removed from butch.

[fogsong]

You make a good point.

Goodwill Chic. Cheap Grunge. Comfy Trash Goblin. It goes by many names but it's all the same.

[necrosavior]

I have learned so much while here. All the important stuff. Like the lesbian flag.

Comfy trash goblin. That's going to be your new name.

[fogsong]

Oh, that's an important one for you to know. I hope you've learned about overalls, too.

A nickname I will embrace. I am the comfy trash goblin. No hoodie or legging is safe from me.

[necrosavior]

Overalls are not my personal look, but I'll give you that suspenders are hot.

Be warned, I will sew little bone chips into all of mine.

[fogsong]

I don't think I've seen anyone wear suspenders outside of shitty mafia costumes. Think I could pull them off?

Okay. But. Why?

[necrosavior]

Suspenders are hot af. Mafia's getting it right. Yes, you could pull them off. I know it. Plus they'll butch up your normal layers even further. That's what we're going for.

Bones freak people out. It prevents them from getting stolen. Plus, in a pinch, I have ammo for Harrow.

[fogsong]

Butch up. I like that. I'm gonna be stealing hearts by the time you're done.

I don't know, I'd totally nab bone chipped clothing. That just sounds cool. But also, aww, cute girlfriend shit. [ Yeah, it's cute that Gideon would carry around bone chips for Harrow. ]

[necrosavior]

So many hearts. When you tell them you already moved in with your lover on day one here, you're gonna be breaking them too.

Because you're a NORMAL person, unlike most people here. Everyone reasonable knows it's important to have emergency bone chips at the ready for your hot bone lady.

[fogsong]

I've always wanted to break a few hearts!!

Gideon, I don't think we're the normal ones. But who wants to be normal when you can have emergency bone chips for a hot bone lady? Fuck normal!

[necrosavior]

Now you will! Possibly even mine < / 3

Okay, I get the worlds most people here are from are weird about bones and death and shit, but bones are extremely normal, not just in the Ninth House. All the Cohort ships have bones inset around their entire hulls. Mithraeum? Filled with bones. Bones everywhere. Other Houses also use bones because they're a stable way of storing energy and all that. It's sooooo normal it was fucking weird coming here where everyone freaks out about anything to do with human remains. But also, emergency bone chips are cool.

[fogsong]

I will be unstoppable!

Back home, most people either turn their loved ones to ash through cremation or pump their bodies full of chemicals to slow their decay and then bury them in the ground. Hell, bones were used as a means to warn of danger, death, and poison. It's weird as fuck that you guys just have bones everywhere and use them like batteries from my perspective, ya know.

Bones are still cool, though.

Wait.

Shit.

We use bones as energy back home except ours have turned to oil. RIP Dinos.

[necrosavior]

Bones, bones, can't escape bones. Boil 'em, mash 'em, cook them to a stew. You're no different than we are. You guys use oil everywhere.

Why would bones warn of poison? Most people don't put bone marrow in a stew. Also weird move on slowing the decay. If you're sticking them in the ground, where you can't even see them, why do you want them not to decompose? You can't see them. You can't use them. They're just sitting there like six foot trash.

[fogsong]

I do like a bone broth.

Because it's a real simple way to get the point across that whatever is in this bottle will make you dead. Probably started during a time when fewer people could read.

And that's not something we're taught in school but if I were to hazard a guess I'd say it has something to do with people being fucking weird about death. Don't like the idea of their loved ones rotting or something like that. IDK.

[necrosavior]

Bone broth. I cannot say I've ever had that. Bones were too important to eat.

Maybe it should mean "bone ash" or "bone chips" not death. You know, so it's true to the label. Who can't read???

See that's what I don't get. Why are people weird about death? You know what EVERYONE DOES across all the universes? Everyone? EEEEEEEeeeeeeveryone? They die. It's the most normal thing in the whole fucking world.

[fogsong]

You're literally missing out on the best part of bones.

Uh. Most of society a couple hundred years ago, I'd guess. Man, I gotta find you a film that shows off what humanity used to be like on Earth. It would blow your mind.

When in doubt, blame religion. There's some back home that really nail in the fear of death starting young. "Do bad and God will send you to Hell when you die to be tortured for infinity." Doesn't exactly encourage anyone to get comfortable with the concept when everything is a sin.

[necrosavior]

Staying alive > bone broth. Alas the prices we pay.

Everyone's been literate in the Nine Houses for the last ten thousand years. So you know, weeeeeeeeeeeird that. It's like someone not knowing how to tie their shoelaces, y'know? Perspective-wise.

Oh. Hell. People think that literally? That is so fucking weiiiiiird. Sure I've told my dad to go to hell, but it's not like hell really exists. It's just a thing you say. Where I'm from, everyone's souls go to the River when they die. That isn't even a faith thing. I've been in the River. 0/10 do not recommend.