[popcorn is so long........ well, it's not that weird, lavi thinks, as popcorn cutely trembles, if general klaude nine can have a cute monkey then lu bixing can have his... roommate's.... snake!]
-- Yeah, you're Lu Bixing? [for a white(?) man, lavi's pronunciation is perfect,] Nice to meet ya -- and Poppy.
[don't just nickname someone else's snake??? but all of lavi's earlier trepidation is gone, replaced by a not so small amount of cheer.]
You can have the top bunk if you want, I'm fine on the bottom.
[he waves his hand towards the bed, the hand that's holding the textbook he grabbed earlier,]
popcorn will come around to lavi in time, probably? for now he just curls up miserably around lu bixing, making the saddest face a banana python can physically make. he is... a baby. ]
That's me! Nice to meet you. [ his grin is friendly, and the nickname gets him to laugh - he calls popcorn poppy playfully, scritching him under the chin as he goes to hide again. ] Looks like we'll be sharing the same space, at least a little. I like to think I'm a decent roommate.
[ a pause? hello he has a book ] What've you got there?
he ends up laughing a little, running his fingers gently over the pages. ]
No, no. It used to be an academy - serving teenagers. [ as he flips the pages, he finds another crudely drawn dick across a chart and just laughs. ] A rough and tumble crowd.
[ but even as he says it, he sounds affectionate, if maybe a little sad. ] Wouldn't it be even more of an issue if small children were the ones doing this?
[ now you know it's about space networks from hell (heaven?)
but he grins right back, thrilled with the excitement. ] I'll answer them all. I sense a kindred spirit in you, Lavi! I think we're going to get along swimmingly.
[ i thought i made this tag up in my brain but it was in fact real
the first part is unimportant - he starts to say something about it, opening his mouth, but the second question shuts lu bixing's never-stopping trap and he blinks like, white guy blinking. help ]
Oh, no. [ don't ] That's - that was a joke, I think. It's... a sugar daddy is someone who buys you things all the time.
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-- Yeah, you're Lu Bixing? [for a white(?) man, lavi's pronunciation is perfect,] Nice to meet ya -- and Poppy.
[don't just nickname someone else's snake??? but all of lavi's earlier trepidation is gone, replaced by a not so small amount of cheer.]
You can have the top bunk if you want, I'm fine on the bottom.
[he waves his hand towards the bed, the hand that's holding the textbook he grabbed earlier,]
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popcorn will come around to lavi in time, probably? for now he just curls up miserably around lu bixing, making the saddest face a banana python can physically make. he is... a baby. ]
That's me! Nice to meet you. [ his grin is friendly, and the nickname gets him to laugh - he calls popcorn poppy playfully, scritching him under the chin as he goes to hide again. ] Looks like we'll be sharing the same space, at least a little. I like to think I'm a decent roommate.
[ a pause? hello he has a book ] What've you got there?
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Lavi looks at the title, then holds it closer out for Lu Bixing to see,]
It's -- '[insert the title of one of Lu Bixing's books, is it about space engineering]'? I found it and a bunch of other books over there.
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anyway the title makes lu bixing snap his head up in surprise?!
actually the title is A Complete History of the Eden System in the New Sidereal Era. my god. ]
I - wait, really? [ he stops trying to comfort popcorn and like scurries over to look????? ] The - I wrote this!
i forgot..... my 1/2
[opens it]
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gently turns the book around and places it in lu bixing's hands
there is a small... very tiny... almost inconsequential doodle of...a dick... on the page]
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Oh, this must be from the first day of the Starry Sea.
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[WHO DEFACES LU BIXING'S BOOKS?]
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[ his students ]
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[frowns, protective urges rising for lu bixing's book, he crosses his arms to stop himself from petting the book like popcorn,]
What's the Starry Sea? A nursery?
[teenagers can also draw on books lavi?]
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he ends up laughing a little, running his fingers gently over the pages. ]
No, no. It used to be an academy - serving teenagers. [ as he flips the pages, he finds another crudely drawn dick across a chart and just laughs. ] A rough and tumble crowd.
[ but even as he says it, he sounds affectionate, if maybe a little sad. ] Wouldn't it be even more of an issue if small children were the ones doing this?
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Some kids can get away with anything.
[lavi, also a kid, but he's clearly different. He glances at the book again...
...he wants it..... reading....]
Can I borrow that when you're done? I won't even dog-ear a page, Bookman's honor.
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he laughs a little about getting away with anything. sure, sure... but, then he just hands him the book with a flourish. ]
Here. I've read it a thousand times. [ get it, ] Take it. And let me know what you think!
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lavi beams...!!!]
Thanks, man. [his book about space engineering for teenagers that's covered in (mumbles) stuff] I'm definitely gonna a lot of questions for ya.
[he will have so many questions, he will ask them all]
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but he grins right back, thrilled with the excitement. ] I'll answer them all. I sense a kindred spirit in you, Lavi! I think we're going to get along swimmingly.
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Same here. Never roomed with a prime minister before.
[especially one with a list as long and varied as the one on his profile? Speaking of]
Oh right, I've already got a question for ya. What's a sugar daddy?
[that's after his time.....]
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the first part is unimportant - he starts to say something about it, opening his mouth, but the second question shuts lu bixing's never-stopping trap and he blinks like, white guy blinking. help ]
Oh, no. [ don't ] That's - that was a joke, I think. It's... a sugar daddy is someone who buys you things all the time.
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...Huh, I think I get it. But what's the 'sugar' for?
[turns wide impressionable eyes on lu bixing]