Camp: private conversations

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Respond here for a private conversation with Red! All comment threads are screened.

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[le_mat]

[He doesn't know the brand: after all, purse owners have their knock off verse brands. But he knows legit cola when he sees it and nods]

Late night pop, now I'll never sleep. For shame.

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One of the perks to being a counselor is no curfew, so there's no need to go to bed at the appointed time.

[Which means that, with her permission, campers can violate curfew. So Ren can have that permission for now. Especially since he'll need to stay put during body cleanup.]

[le_mat]

I feel so privileged. Guess that means I'll have to keep myself entertained though.

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Stay off of my computer and you'll be fine.

[She still has his phone too.

In face she's using it right now.]

[le_mat]

You better not be looking up anything weird on there.

[for a high school boy his phone is pretty clean TBH-he kept all that to online and kept his browser clean... Till Futaba joined and no porn was ever on any electric device he owned ever again. ]

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Is a gacha game weird?

[She totally downloaded Fire Emblem Heroes on his phone and may have hacked it a bit to make a team of swimsuit girls for the main team right now. For summer appropriateness, of course.]

I even got you 'brave princess Lucina' on here, that one took me some time to acquire.

[le_mat]

Lucina...

Hey, Red. Did you make those puzzles for the game yesterday?

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Hm? No, Archer decided to this week.

[le_mat]

[But this was Archer's first week... so why would the note say 'this time?' Ren is concerned. But this isn't the place to question it]

Huh. I was wondering, because they were pretty hard.

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[THAT IS INDEED A MYSTERY REN SHOULD WORK AT FIGURING OUT. Probably Eski forgot she switched from Stan to Archer this week idk she's asleep so I can't ask her.]

Logic puzzles can be tricky, but some people think they're fun.

[le_mat]

[I MEAN HE STILL SHOULD QUESTION WHY ARCHER WOULD GIVE THEM A CODE TO A DRIVE THEY'RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE BUT EITHER WAY]

I usually manage them okay, dunno if I'd call them fun though.

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Would a redhead-themed one suit you better?

[le_mat]

[He flusters]

What's that supposed to mean!

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It means you're very obvious.

[le_mat]

[He huffs. There's a lot of people this could mean to be honest- but the meeting laid out everything and he wasn't exactly subtle beforehand either]

Well... I mean, I was done trying to keep things in. It didn't help with Talcott so... you know.

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There's nothing wrong with it, you know. Your feelings are your feelings.

[She's also 99% sure everything that's happened here is Dumb Teenagers Exploring Feelings and everyone will eventually figure shit out, so.]

[le_mat]

[Of definitely. Teenagers and stress never leads to anything other than chaos.]

You know though, it is funny- we have... had... a lot of red-heads here.

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It is indeed a large number of redheads. I would suspect someone doing it to poke fun at me, except outside of one person I can't think of who would do that.

[le_mat]

Though, the only one with the same shade as you is Mitsuru-senpai.

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What, you don't appreciate the carrots?

[Ichigo, Kon, and Floe, she means.]

I think Kon was nursing a crush on you, even.

[le_mat]

I didn't say that, just... you know, it's different!

[He fiddles with his bangs]

You... really think he was? He had it pretty hard for Natsume.

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It's actually fairly normal to crush on many people, even if you're in a committed relationship. The point of commitment is to say 'sure, those feelings exist, but I'm choosing to ignore them because I care about you more'.

I doubt he would have done anything about it without effort on your side of things, he was a bit needy like that. But him liking one person doesn't prevent him from liking someone else as well.

[le_mat]

[He nods along... and it's nice, having that reassured by an adult. He knew he tended to like a lot of people at once, but he was with Talcott.

And Nine? He was still working that out

But back home it was a constant battle between what he wanted and what was fair to his friends. Maybe... being under so much stress was making it harder to remember that here]

AH... well... I mean, I wouldn't have minded it.

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[Look she is much older than him and has had her fair share of relationships, so she feels like it's her job to make sure these teenagers don't fuck things up too badly.]

I'm sure he wouldn't have either.

Though I would caution you against dating more than one person at a time in a serious relationship. It can be done, but even adults with years and years of experience with dating struggle with it. It's a very quick way for hurt feelings to develop, especially among teenagers.

[Since they. Aren't mature emotionally yet.]

[le_mat]

Yeah...

[Talzombo trying to break up with him kinda hammers that home, though he worries it's more his rock-addled head just misinterpreting something, either way, it's clear something is Wrong.]

...what about you and Archer? How'd you two get together?