hemlocksock ([personal profile] hemlocksock) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-05-23 04:34 pm

I don't want to be in love, I don't want to be in love



EVER BEEN IN LOVE?

Be for real. Be so for real right now. We won't judge.

how to play
I. Answer the question IC-ly in your top level.
II. Has your character ever been in love before? Yes, no, maybe so? Give us all the details.
III. Repliers will shake their heads in simultaneous pity and judgment discuss one of life's fundamental experiences with the original responder!
tetrahedonist: (I was a bad idea)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-24 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I get it, it's the rules! Oh, well, you couldn't possibly break a rule.

Guess you just gotta be sad forever instead. [ Bill. ]
wendypleakley: (🌺007)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-24 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not about the rules- my life is perfectly fine as it is now, I don't want to risk ruining it.
tetrahedonist: (It's like they dropped you from the sky)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-24 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
... You think if you tell him, not only will you get rejected, but it'll make the friendship you have now damaged beyond repair? Am I on the right track?
wendypleakley: (👗H-002)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-24 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Now you understand! Not only will I get rejected, it will ruin the friendship, and my living arrangement, and my entire stay on the most beautiful planet I've ever seen! Then I'll have to go back to my home planet- but that's only as long as my mother never finds out about my feelings, because then she'll disown me for sure! And then I'd have to wander the galaxy alone!!!

[Catastrophizing, much?]

But I might not like him like that, so it's irrelevant anyways!
tetrahedonist: (why did you write all of your)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-25 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He lets Wendy get all that out, reflectively. ] Earth is pretty beautiful, huh. [ But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it's not likely Wendy and Bill necessarily have the same aesthetic tastes. ] Is he the only guy you know? Maybe if it goes south, somebody else will let you couch surf a while!

You got a good imagination for the worst case. That tells me you could use that tool to imagine a bunch of middle cases and even a best case.

By the way, name's Bill Cipher! I usually introduce myself before I give unsolicited advice, but you looked really desperate, so I skipped that step! What's your name?
wendypleakley: (🌺018)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-25 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Desperate? I'm not desperate! I'm so normal!
My name is Pleakley.
tetrahedonist: (When they fished me out of the blue)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-25 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
My mistake! And you've got the luxury mouth and everything, I should've been able to tell instantly that you were normal!

And what's his name? [ The way Pleakley says it will surely be a clue if he truly is in love. It can be that easy. At least, for someone like Bill, who just decides what reality is based on what appeals. ]
wendypleakley: (🌺026)

the picture in this icon is them trying to discover the essence of love together. not kidding.

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-25 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
His name is Jumba Jookiba.
....Yes, that Jookiba. He's a better person now, I promise! Barely even evil anymore!

[Pleakley is assuming Bill is from another planet- the whole "other dimension" thing doesn't even cross his mind. And the arrest of Dr. Jookiba made galaxy-wide headlines a few years ago.]
tetrahedonist: (I was a bad idea)

I'm happy for them tbh

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-25 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A better person? How'd you manage that? [ Can this power be taught? Can love, ohana and the power of family redeem anyone? Or is there some catch like you've got to want it and work hard at it or something, boo. ]

I'm more suited to tell you how he's feeling, probably. Definitely been called the E word myself.
wendypleakley: (🌺004)

the subtext is pretty much text at this point

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-25 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't manage it, he had to choose it himself. But I'm very glad with what he chose.

[Yeah, sorry, Bill, you've got to work for it. Love, ohana, and the power of family only redeems if you willingly join the family.]

I just don't know what I'd do without him!
tetrahedonist: (When they fished me out of the blue)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-25 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always a catch. I mean if you'd been trying to kill him at the time, probably would've worked out worse for his redemption, right?

[ Bill's situation is a bit different from Jumba's, but he's gathering up info anywhere he can, you never know when it might be handy to know something. ]

You two share any other friends?
wendypleakley: (🌺017)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-25 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
There's the girls, but they're family, not friends. He doesn't really have any Earth friends.
tetrahedonist: (It's hard to tell you this)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-26 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If I were you I'd probably have blurted it out by now, but if I pretend I'm you and I haven't, I'd recommend you ask one of them. Just generally what they think about how he feels! Maybe they noticed something you missed!

But once you've told anybody inside the house, you're gonna lose control of the whole narrative, that's the downside. He might find out and then you'd have to go through the whole thing.
wendypleakley: (👗B-008)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-27 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
...Noticed something I missed... that's a good idea, actually. I'd have to be subtle. Maybe just observe him on my own, at first. Like you said, if I tell anybody in the house, I'll lose control of the narrative and he might find out.
tetrahedonist: (It's hard to tell you this)

[personal profile] tetrahedonist 2025-05-27 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'm full of em.

I'm sure it won't be too much of a hardship, keeping your eye on your guy who you don't love or anything. Taking coded notes about how your words and actions might change the most subtle aspects of his character. Cataloguing smiles, the kind of smile when he invents or discovers something or the kind of smile when he looks at you.

[ This is only barely about Jumba anymore and it's only barely teasing Pleakley too. Bill knows exactly how it feels to turn a single, adoring eye onto a mad scientist and fight the impulse to compound his affections. ]

Anyway promise you'll report back. I'm invested now!
wendypleakley: (🌺024)

[personal profile] wendypleakley 2025-05-27 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pleakley catches onto that. Someone with a similar experience, huh?

But then Pleakley gets lost in his own thoughts again, thinking about Jumba. His smiles, even the evil ones. How he helps calm Pleakley down during anxiety attacks.]


...Yes, I'll report back.