ceasetoexist | 59 - Action/Phone

[Action; Locked to 502 Ricardo]

[Well. Someone's pissy and annoyed after last night's dream. And because of that? Pokey is loud as hell as he gets up and storms off to the kitchen, somehow making a mess as he prepares a bowl of cereal for breakfast. Just fuming.]

[Phone]

Oh wow you morons put two and two together. Guess what? The town is probably brainwashing you idiots into thinking people aren't here. Whatever we were promised, we didn't get zip. I can't speak for anyone else but, uh, I'm legit. So stop running around like morons acting like anyone here is a clone or something.

[Action, Around Town]

[Pokey is busing running around like a moron, trying to search out the people he knows and see who was or wasn't replaced. So far? He isn't happy about the results, and he's busy hustling through the streets pushing over anyone in his way to see who's still here.

Picky? Slugger? Yeah, he'll also be heading for both your houses soon.]

[OOC: Pokey's been erased, so he'll seem like one of those doppelgangers yep.]

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Be quiet. No one here is going to fall for that. Just save yourself the time and be quiet already.

[ You get to be one of Rika's first phonecalls! During the period where she's angry, before she gets depressed. Congrats. ~~I'm sorry if she's mean.~~ ]

[~~Don't worry he deserves bad attitudes.~~]

Uh. Uh-huh. Are you serious right now?

Want to tell me how often it is that they, you know, actually do what they just said they did over the phone?

You would know, wouldn't you? Being part of their dumb game. But we can see through it this time. Sending fake copies of our friends twice in the same year is quite unoriginal.

Yeah. Exactly. They did it twice in the same year. You'd think that'd be some kind of hint that something else was going on, stupid.

[ Being called stupid makes her really sad. But also very angry. Tch. This fake is just asking for it. ]

Give it a rest. You're a terrible actor. At least you could have learned from past failures and made better fakes this time.

[The moment Pokey reaches the front porch of 726 Anderson Lane, Slugger moves through the front door and, in his rush to get away from the house, collides with Pokey.]

My acting is terrible? My acting is terrible?! I'm not acting, you moron! It's me! Seriously, I thought this was your smart personality I was talking to at the moment.

Yeah, and you'd think you could learn too.

[And down Pokey goes. He glowers a bit as he looks up to see what happened.

And glowers even more when he sees Slugger. What's standing in front of him? Isn't Slugger. He'd know. He'd know for sure. They really did replace some of them. Son of a bitch.]

.....Bastards.

[Lucas is meandering around on his table when he spots Pokey approaching. ...There is an instinctive urge to turn around and go the opposite direction.]

That's---!!!

Tch, you're quite the pain. The real Pokey is much more interesting than you are! [ Ow, her ego, ow, it throbs.

She calms down and hisses in annoyance. ] Do as you please then. Watching you struggle will at least be somewhat amusing.

[Funny story. Instead of the usual guilt Pokey felt when he saw Lucas? This time?

He was angry. Goddammit. Goddammit, was he wrong and they actually were replacing people? And, of course, it had to be one of the decent people to get taken for real instead of him. What a stupid friggin' mess.]

Oh boy, look at you. No surprise you were dumb enough to do what the dream said, huh?

Hey, I'll take it as a compliment that I'm, in fact, more interesting than myself, I guess.

Whatever. You're going to be kicking yourself when I turn out to be right.

[Lucas forces himself to stare at the boy in front of him for a few moments. Karkat had told him what was going on, so... Still, there is a gnawing feeling in his gut. And it isn't just because he has good reason to despise Pokey. Lucas responds quietly.]

So were you. ...Yours was the first name.

...Tch. Whatever.

[He just stuffs his hands in his pockets, looking away.]

I don't have to defend myself on it. Doesn't matter anyway, since it wasn't real.

[Clone. He just wants to shout it at you. That he doesn't have to defend himself because you aren't even real.]

[And just as he's making breakfast, Clod approaches the kitchen table and prepares breakfast for herself as well. She gives Pokey a glance and that's about the only form of greeting she'll give him. The girl is still smiling like always, of course, but she isn't quick to strike up conversation.]

Tch. We'll see about that.

[ And Rika hangs up.

And yes, she will be kicking herself. ]

[Pokey will just sit down, annoyed, with his breakfast.]

I had the dumbest dream last night.

[She was tempted to say "And they programmed you to dream too? That's a useless feature". Very tempted. But Clod takes a few seconds to figure out exactly how to respond. Ah. Maybe a simple response would do the trick. At least, to see exactly what makes this "fake" so different from the real one.]

Do tell.

[Gash is seen strolling down one of those streets- well, more like nervously edging around. That dream last night has him beyond cautious and worried.

Something's off. Somehow.

Ah- Is that? Maybe he'd have an answer!] Unu! Pokey-dono!

[The true extent to which Pokey has changed has reached him, for the first time. There comes a sense, perhaps, that Lucas has done his job too well. In place of a megalomaniacal tyrant, what he had now was... a boy who, in self-loathing, would give up his own existence.

He would have to think about that. ...As soon as he could stop thinking about how repulsive he was.]

Maybe it was. Just... in a different way than what we're thinking.

[He pauses for a moment. That was odd. She'd usually respond a lot quicker. She needed to think out "do tell"? Okay. Whatever.]

So I dreamed this kid I knew told me I had to sacrifice myself, or everything was going to be destroyed. It was like, the cheesiest, stupidest attempt to get someone to fall for self-sacrifice ever.

[And he fell for it. Hook, line, and sinker.]

[There's a fleeting rush of elation as Slugger picks himself back up, but it quickly dissolves when he gets a better look. This wasn't Pokey. He doesn't know how he knows or what it is that betrays the fake, but it's definitely a fake.

He eyes the other Pokey with a wary, disappointed look...]

What do you want?

[Pokey turns at that voice. And just stares.

You too Gash? Really. No. That makes sense. Of course you would too, you moron. For a moment, Pokey glowers, and then tries to hide the fact that was what he had been doing.]

Hey.

...How're you?

[Just a brief snort of disgust, and Pokey shakes his head, mockingly.]

Oh. Nothing.

I just came to see if someone I cared about was here.

Guess that was a mistake on my part.

....Could be.

[You're not looking any better yourself to him, Lucas. For the first time, he doesn't see another Ness, but a stupid, pathetic copy of it. And it's disturbing, to think it was this thing that had an impact on him, on changing him.]

...Guess it could be a slow fade. Wonder what'll happen.

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