#you are forced motherless pastless selfless to invent yourself anew (verse: stranger things)

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@herhaunts: okay, i’m kinda freaking out right now.

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"okay, well, don't do that." very helpful. admittedly, addy is...generally not the sort of person someone looks to for comfort. she's so used to ignoring her own feelings that she's not particularly good at handling other's feelings. "i mean, it's not...any worse than anything we've dealt with before, right?"

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Addy manages a stiff smile at the response. Not that going to gym class was her biggest concern when it came to going back to school. But instead it was the idea of having to readjust to being in a public school, navigating the sudden change, and, more pressingly, the paranoia that weighed on her each time she takes another step towards trying to have a...slightly more normal life.

Addy's brow furrows a bit at the description, however she nods anyway. "I mean, it's fine." Regardless, Addy isn't...entirely eager to meet that many new people.

"Don't worry it's really not that bad you'll get through it and like I said it's easy to get the teacher on one of her tangents. So when stuff gets really bad we just ask her about her thoughts on women's soccer or something." Pepper says with a smile. She hopes that it works out for Addy at the very least she will have someone to talk to. She isn't sure how well it'll go but they can figure that out later.

"Jonathan Byers. He's in the same grade as us he's- well kind of my brother? Our parents are dating and it's pretty serious I don't know. Either way he's not very talkative but he's a cold dude I can introduce you sometime."

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@lcveblossomed: you know what, this is not my fault. (eddie)

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"Well, you're certainly not doing much to help anything," she doesn't look up while giving her half muttered response. She hates that she's gotten dragged into this all again. "You standing around talking about how this makes no sense is only holding us up. There is an alternate dimension full of monsters that killed that girl everyone thinks you killed. And you can either accept that and help, or get out of the way."

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In verses like DC or fantasy (aka, verses where Addy's food/living/financials have been incredibly unstable) if your muse takes them in she will steal from them. Nothing major, justt things like food, small amounts of money, or small items that could be sold. She typically won't do anything with it (unless something else happens or if it's a case where she's around a lot but not actually living with the person, in which case the food might be eaten), and when confronted she won't have an answer for why she did it. In reality, it's an instinct built from trauma: take something and keep it just in case. She really isn't used to having more than enough.

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@hcartofnovocaine: ❛ sometimes human spaces make inhuman monsters. ❜ - chrissy

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"Something like that." Admittedly, Addy thinks about it in less poetic terms. Has instead considered the science and logic behind it all. Trying to explain it as if that will keep her safe from it, a desperate shield. Thoughts of quantum physics to draw a line between what she knows and what she saw. "How much do you know about Everett and Deutsch's many worlds interpretation? Or uh...Schrödinger's cat?" She figures the latter is probably a better starting point.

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call it the effects of growing up with a wildlife biologist for a mother that addy knows that. mix that with addy's main means of starting conversations being sharing information, and you get how she's arrived at that statement. sure, there aren't any ducks around, but it still seemed like a reasonable thing to say. reasonable for her, at least. "i mean, the bar's low as far as health, considering the bread just fills their stomach and doesn't do anything. it can cause them to be malnourished. The peas have a lot of vitamins for them, though."

@deathsbecome : frozen peas. that's what you feed ducks. frozen peas. they love them, and it's good for them, too.

chrissy tries not to make a face at that, but she has a feeling the twitch of her lips gives her away. you really do learn something new everyday, she supposed. "is that what you're actually supposed to be feeding ducks? not plain bread like they do in all those films and tv shows?" she looks off to the side, wondering if there were any ducks in the pond that might've prompted addy to tell her that. none, unfortunately. "i guess peas would be a bit healthier for them."

good omens season 2.

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@herhaunts: there’s just some things you have to do. doesn't mean you have to like it.

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"yeah, when it's something like finishing an essay or cleaning something." but the idea of social requirements has always made her bristle. she found it frustrating, partially due to her not ever really understanding what those requirements were. "this is just...it's bullshit."

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@herhaunts: that’s not how it goes.

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"eh, it's something like that," she responds, although in reality, yes, she's mostly just messing with chrissy. even if there's very little in her body language to give that away. honestly, she hadn't even expected the other to try correcting her on the matter.

still, caught in her fabrication, she chuckles a little bit. "so close. but what can i say, a grim exaggeration to set the tone never killed anyone." and right now, things certainly felt grim enough to opt for a darker sense of humor.

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"God, that's something I didn't miss from when I was homeschooling," she manages to joke. Addy used to be fairly athletic, to some extent, she still is. But physical education classes themselves were frustrating before, and she figures it will be even worse now. "Yeah, I spoke to the nurse earlier about my asthma, so we'll see how that goes." Asthma was the best way anyone could describe it, at least. She's still apprehensive about what happens if she does have an episode from it. "Jonathan?" Okay, she's been out of the loop for awhile. "Yeah I can imagine." Still, she tentatively opens her locker, putting a few of the supplies she didn't need into it.

Pepper's eyes scan over the schedule before she smiles. "We have the same lunch and PE togehter. At the very least you won't be alone for PE the teacher kind of sucks but it's easy to get her going on tangents so we don't have to do too much running. Let me show you where your locker is so you can drop off your stuff." She says before heading toward the locker banks. She looks at the numbers before finding the locker. "I don't think there's alnyone too crazy next to you- Jonathan's locker is nearby and he's cool. It's better to have no one interesting near your locker though. There's this couple near my locker who are about ready to get to second base against the lockers before first period. It's wild."

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Addy hadn't exactly been eager at the idea of returning back to public school. But while her adoptive family had been open to homeschooling at first, but after a little while, they had decided that public school would be better for her. That socializing with peers would ease her constant worry when she's around others. When the person who's supposed to be showing her around is late, however, her worry spikes anyway. She doesn't like being late with things, and then she's more suspicious of the peer. "Yeah," she responds. Slowly, she starts to hand the schedule over. Still looking her over, somewhat wild-eyed, trying to figure out what to make of the girl.

"Shit uh- sorry. Sorry! I know they told me to meet you here like a half hour before class started but my alarm clock died and I didn't know it." Pepper says as she makes her way up." Pepper says before fixing her backpack on her shoulder. "Okay sorry uh I'm Pepper- Pepper Newby. Do you have a copy of your schedule so I can show you where your classes are? Since it's your first day they won't mind if you skip first period so I can give you a tour."

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