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[abrightboy]

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[littletonoidea]

[Sorry Malcolm - Eiffel is listening, but he's also trying to process what a massive fuck-up he's been towards Malcolm over all this.]

Hey, I was the high-school screw-up too, you know? [But it's soft, solidarity rather than scalding.] I moved to Houston when I was fourteen and nobody liked me, nobody got me - I've been this? My whole life. And it turns out no one likes the guy whose whole personality is just dumb pop culture references.

[Was that the right thing to say? Evil nepobaby sure fucking wasn't.

But if there's one thing Eiffel is good at, especially these days, it's eating his humble pie.]

...I'm sorry, Bright. For being an asshole and for not coming by to apologise earlier when Neal was trying to call me out on it.

[abrightboy]

Thank you. I'm sorry, too. For what I said last time we talked. It was kind of childish to be petty like that.

I'm... surprised. That you struggled that way. I always thought you were really cool. Like. Cool kids cool.

[littletonoidea]

[That gets a good long silence.]

...wait, seriously?

[abrightboy]

Yeah. Your network broadcasts are always really fun. I always wanted to respond, but I never knew what to say. People like you. People who don’t know you. [Obviously a trait of Cool People. Neal has it too.]

[littletonoidea]

[Eiffel is now actively squinting at his communicator.]

...Bright, half the ship can't hablas my ingles. Most of the half that can wanna punch me in the face like my nose is a mute button. There's like... five people that actually like me, everyone else is on varying levels of tolerance. Like-- [He's sort of physically flailing in a way that translates verbally.] Lestat tried to kill me because I was annoying, twice!

[abrightboy]

Oh, me too! Well, just once. But I think mostly because it caused such a kerfuffle for Reid.

…People don’t want to punch you in the face for real, do they?

[He finds that hard to believe. Because of the coolness. Though he did want to punch him briefly….]

It’s probably jealousy. [Only reason to punch a cool person who hasn’t called you names.]

[littletonoidea]

Yeahhhh, I don't think that Lydia Dye-job and Beetleboy kicking my face in for making a dead mom joke was 'cos they were jealous.

...also to be fair Jacobi kind of deserved his, but he still punched me for being annoying. True facts.

[abrightboy]

I don’t think I know those people.

[littletonoidea]

Oh- Crozier's last inmate and Lester's current inmate? Also Jacobi was an inmate who graduated, he's from my world. Same ship and everything, but he's got more history on us than I do since I'm the blast from the past.

[abrightboy]

Lester’s current… oh, Mandrake?

[littletonoidea]

Yeah, a couple of tweens curb-stomped my ass.

[abrightboy]

Teenagers are generally kind of mean, though.