time travel texting.

[hapertas]

THE BIG FAT TIME TRAVEL TEXTING MEME.

How does it work?
- You post your top-level as usual.
- People reply, but the catch is, magical shenanigans intervene and poof! You're getting a text from someone you know, but it's 3 years too early or 10 years too late! What spoilers will you learn? Will you accidentally reveal some of your own?
- You can use this to explore forward-dated scenarios or have characters interact before they "met," or at least before one of them knows they met.
- When you reply, notate in the header when your character's tagging from.

Comments

[gunflowers]

as it should. it's like whenever i see dal with one of the kids, it... gets me feeling a certain way. can't really explain how, it's just. like a gut punch. in a good way.

flower boy junsu was very cute. he cried during the ceremony, you were very eloquent.

...do you want to know what i asked for neve to do?

you know it's never been about wanting to leave you guys, right?

[hapertas]

like something heavy landed on your heart? but you wouldn't mind if it happened again and again? that kind of feeling? i can almost imagine it. but i'm sure it's even bigger than i know.

aw, junsu. he's a really sweet-hearted person. hm, did you cry, myung?

i do. what did you ask my neve to do?

i know. i understood it a long time ago, even if it hurt and made me feel confused for awhile. i think we all have things that make us feel that way, or something like it. but i always suspected you felt them more than most.

[gunflowers]

it's a good, overwhelming feeling, yeah. it feels too much but also so perfect, i want more of it.

did i? no, of course not. totally didn't cry.

i asked him to walk me down the aisle. which is silly, i know! it's a stupid tradition! but it felt significant anyway, and i think. i think he liked doing it. we'd been working on our relationship a lot, you know?

i was just scared. i'm still scared, in plenty of ways. i still worry that one day, we'll get caught, and we'll have to run. that's why i always have a go-to bag, even now. i've unpacked, i'm just. ready. but i'd take you all with me.

[hapertas]

more and more and more, until you can't hold it all?

you did! you really did, didn't you? amazing. it doesn't surprise me though. the way you look at dal, i can imagine it.

oh no, myung, that's not silly at all. that's really, really not silly, the opposite of it, in fact. i'm so happy you asked him. and i'm so happy he said yes. i know it must've been hard for the both of you. neve and i talk about it sometimes. everything that's happened to us, i think it's understandable we'd have these struggles. i know you care about each other though. i never doubted that.

i know you would. and we'd be safe if we had to leave, because we'd go together. i know we would. it used to terrify me, being separated from everyone. i had a lot of trouble. panic attacks, that kind of thing.

[gunflowers]

yeah. yeah, like that

yeah, okay, maybe i did a bit. but it was just overwhelming, that's all! didn't you cry at your wedding?

we've gone through a lot of shit, he and i. it felt... i don't know, it felt right to as him. out of everyone in our family, he's the one i think that's most like me in so many ways, and we've had our clashes and our hard times, but i respect him so much. i love him - don't go telling him that, though.

it's the only thing that still keeps me up at night. the idea that i could lose any of you guys.

[hapertas]

that's amazing. it's nice to hear you talk about something like that.

oh, i did. i cried more than a few tears! i was so happy. it's a great feeling, a huge one, just to be there with the people you love, celebrating something like that.

don't worry, my lips are sealed. but i've always known you're a little bit alike. you have the same kind of stubborn streak. sometimes i think you're hard on yourselves in the same ways.

you won't lose us. we're going to stay together, whatever it takes. i know it.

[gunflowers]

you're so cheesy

and i'm not stubborn!!! ... totally not stubborn.

[hapertas]

i'm cheesy and you're stubborn. that's how it is, myung.

[gunflowers]

you're stubborn too, though.

[hapertas]

well, i guess i won't deny that. but i think that's true of almost everyone in this house, isn't it? maybe there are a few exceptions.

[gunflowers]

i started typing 'dal's not stubborn' and then had to stop because that'd be such a lie

[hapertas]

he's stubborn in a different way to you and i, isn't he?

[gunflowers]

yeah. you should actually have a few words with him, i think. it takes him a very long time to accept the fact that, you know. he's a real person and he's not borrowing a body and a heart, and that his feelings are all valid, all that. maybe you should fuss at him about it.

[hapertas]

put on my dad voice, you mean? i think i could do that.

it's good he's starting to see himself. i can't imagine how hard it must've been for him, but necessary, too? he should know he's worthy of being loved and cherished by people. and not to feel like he's stealing someone else's time.

that's a hard feeling to wrestle with under what you and i might think of as normal circumstances, honestly.

[gunflowers]

yeah, that.

i know, it's tough for him. honestly until he gets his own body, it'll be hard. and there's only so much of it i truly understand. i just. try to be there for him as much as possible.

[hapertas]

you know what it's like better than most, since you are my firstborn and all.

you do well, myung. i can tell, just by seeing how much he's opened up in the last few months. it's incredible.

[gunflowers]

i thought that was minsu? as in the adult one. always thought he was the golden child

yeah? you think so? i often worry that i push too hard

[hapertas]

hm, i think he's neve's firstborn. i'm pretty sure that's right.

knowing you, the only person you push too hard is yourself, myungie.

i got distracted

[gunflowers]

oh so you have different kids? interesting. i mean, i'll take it. you're the voice of reason in my life, you know. the one i always turn to.

psh, nonsense! i'm totally reasonable!

we saw nothing

[hapertas]

i'm a little bit at a loss to explain it logically, it's just how it makes sense in my head! neve adopted minsu first and i adopted you first.

with everyone else, maybe. you forget to eat! we have to basically force you.

[gunflowers]

i am... oddly pleased about that. is it weird? it's probably weird.

i don't mean to forget! also i've gotten a lot better about that

[hapertas]

it's not weird if it's not weird that i had that thought in the first place! you hardly need me to adopt you. you're an adult!

oh, that's good. i know it gives minsu grey hairs and dal frets too, you know. they get excited when you eat.

[gunflowers]

it's not about need

yeah, well, the two of them have a very deep bond that they grew over finding ways to make me eat. these days dal just presents food to me, it's like a pavlovian response

and that sounds dirtier than i mean it to be

[hapertas]

it's not to me either. i'm glad you think that.

there's nothing wrong with food and sex being tied together sometimes, is there? hmm?

[gunflowers]

are you admitting you have a food kink, dash