[Now, Faye is a beautiful girl, but she's a beautiful girl who is under no contractual obligation to flirt with him or lean suggestively over a table, giggling over every goddamn thing Dandy says. He seems blissfully unaware or perchance simply unbothered by the fact that all of this interaction is entirely fabricated, not to mention one-sided. In the midst of oogling the waitresses, he does happen to catch wind of a few words.]
What? Oh! Nopety-dopety.
[This, surprisingly, isn't denial. It's simply that he's misremembering the joke.]
I just kinda-sorta assumed they were taller than yo- Ah!
[One of the workers bends over backwards to pick up a check, an unnecessarily brazen display of acrobatics. Not only does this mean more midrift to look at, but her skirt is hiked up inches higher and that is definitely an anime-grade panty-shot she's got going on there... Ugh.]
Hah.
Screw gasoline, it's boobies that make the world go 'round. Speakin' of boobies-
[They're in a breastaurant, there's no need to, it'd only be tacky at this rate-]
So you're the only pair of boobs on your ship? Well, our crew's two knuckleheads are 0 for 0. Tit for tata, I don't even know what holes Meow's got and I don't wanna!
[QT has his battery outlets, poor little guy...]
You ever get tired of those losers? Err, your losers, I mean.
[ faye would feel embarrassed by the miscommunication if she wasn't more thoroughly bemused by dandy's, uh, personality. her eyes flit between the flexible waitress and the look on his face. what a pathetic horndog, she thinks, and it makes her laugh; the sound disappearing as she takes another sip. men are too easy. just wink at them and they're in love. it would take nothing at all to get someone like dandy into bedβthere's even a moment where she considers it before shaking her head and downing the rest of her drink. as she sinks back into her seat, her gaze settles on the big-haired goon, glossy green bedroom eyes that tell him she is comfortably sloshed. she smirks, though it begins to wane. ]
Oh, Dandy... every woman is more than just their tits, no matter how great they may be.
[ faye emits a sigh and lazily reaches out towards her jacket for a cigarette. bringing one to her mouth, she gently bites down on the butt and speaks around it. ]
Ha, my losers... yeah. I get tired of them. [ a soft flick, followed by flame, and then smoke. ] They're always on my ass about something, or blaming me for their shortcomings like it's somehow my fault. But outside of that? We hardly acknowledge each other. In fact, I think they still wanna kick me out. Can you believe that? After all the hundreds of thousands of woolongs I've helped them bag? How I've saved their asses? They'd be lost without me and they're afraid to admit it.
[ ... and she punctuates that with a small burp. now to address what is important: ]
Waitβyou own a cat? I would've pegged you to be a dog person. I feel like you and Ein would hit it off... [ pause ] And he's all yours for a single payment of 40,000 woolongs if you want him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hearts and stuff! They're, like, important or whatever.
[Poor Faye doesn't know that Dandy would turn down the opportunity to be God so he could still maintain the corporeal form that allows him to touch a titty.
She'd be right that getting him into bed would be a piece of cake, and it's true that Dandy falls in love easily, easier than he'd like to admit. His problem is, perhaps, since he's really the type to go with the flow...
That if he sees the current carry a woman away from him, no matter how much he may want to be with her, he's likely to let her go.]
Oh, I am so a dog person! The cat's just a mangy bag of fleas. He's not mine, so much ass he is my problem! He just mooches off me and eats all my snacks. Which is a pain in the ass! Especially since I'm the biggest snack onboard... One day, when he's eaten me outta house and home and QT finally runs outta battery... I'm startin' to fear he'll come for me.
[That's... Depressing, but probably one of the episodes that never made it to air. If he vaguely projects or remembers it, it's probably happened in at least one timeline.]
You're always lookin' to make a quick buck, huh? Well, can't say I blame ya.
That load of moolah your ex left ya to pay off sounds like a fuckin' death sentence.
[He closes his eyes, the alcohol getting to him, but not in the way he'd like. Dandy massages his temple with a finger.]
No wonder you seem so goddamn miserable.
[Surprisingly, he doesn't mean it as a complaint.
In the brief amount of time together, he's been able to ascertain-]
[ now, faye genuinely believes dandy is talking about an actual cat. this one, strangely enough, don't ask her why. that's what comes to mind. ]
I've heard that cats considered humans to be just like any other animal. He probably will eat you under the right circumstance. If I were you, I'd watch my back.
[ she realizes too late that she talks about them in the past tense. they still exist, just few and far in between. it's been ages since faye has physically seen one. they might as well be some kind of fabricated being at this point. ]
Dogs too. I think. Ein probably wouldn't. He's a fat, smelly, lazy little furball. Kind of cute though.
[ she plucks an ice cube from her glass and sucks off the residual tequila. eh, maybe she'll order one more. faye waves her glass and catches one of the waitresses: a brunette with a lot of boobage and a top that's much too small to contain it. sooner or later the fabric is going to give and dandy will probably not survive that one. it's entertaining to think about for all of three seconds. no wonder you seem so goddamn miserable. words that will undoubtedly slip into sober thoughts much later.
faye sighs again, shrugs, seemingly dismissive about the implication. ]
Sure, you could say that, but who isn't miserable these days...
[ she runs a hand through her hair and takes a long drag off her cigarette. not everyone feels the way she does. she knows this. still, there exists a yearning to touch common ground with someone, to be heard and understood. it has never not existed. she just chooses to fight it. ]
[To be fair, that's just Meow without the hat, electronics, and full body anime girl pillows.]
"Kind of?" C'mon! Dogs are the best.
[Dandy's face brightens up immediately. Unfortunately for his Beetlegeusian crewmate, he is one-hundred percent a dogs over cats kind of guy.]
They're loyal, they've got waggly lil' tails on wiggly lil' booties, and they're almost always happy to see ya. Who cares if they're kinda stinky! It's all a part of their charm.
[Happiness is not a constant state of being. There is no joy without sadness, and much of the time, Dandy is on some wild goose chase that almost never leads him anywhere. His job is far harder and much less worthwhile than the flashy description would lead him to believe, but he still answers without hesitation-]
Happy? Right now? Well, yeah.
I'm happy. And when I get less happy, I come here! And if Boobies is too far out, I'll just find my way back to somethin' that makes me smile, fills my stomach, or is a lot more fun to do than what I'm doin'.
[He shrugs, raising his glass half hazardly in Faye's direction before downing the remaining.]
I mean, think about it! We're in space for cryin' out loud! If you've got a ship of your own, you can go anywhere. Look out the window and you'll get a front row seat to an ocean of stars.
Life's too short to be spent mopin' around, baby.
[he says this butt he's so gd dramatic when he's Being Moody lmfao]
[ faye squints at dandy through a screen of smoke. heβs like the human equivalent of a dog, but one that turns into that cartoon wolf that howls and salivates over the beautiful dancing woman. sheβs half-expecting him to morph when the busty waitress drops her drink off. but whether he were to change into an actual Horn(y)Dog or not, she probably wouldnβt have noticed. thereβs a window to her left, his right, that frames the yawning darkness around them; stars winking and ships whizzing by, flashing billboards and satellites filling the in-between.
dandy wasn't wrongβit really is beautiful out there. plus the added convenience of ships and zipcrafts made it possible for her to travel out into that beauty. that's lucky. she dreamily sighs and forces her gaze away, looking for her drink, and then dandy. one last drag and she discards her cigarette, blowing the smoke away from him. ]
Do somethin' dope, huh? Like what? Get drunk with a strange woman you met off a dating app in what looks like every teenage boy's fantasy?
[ she snorts into her glass. ]
I think our definitions of 'dope' are very different.
i should never phone tag i always end up re-editing
[At that, Dandy lets out something like a sigh. Itβs not disgruntled or insulted, and surprisingly, thereβs a sound of empathy to it. He leans over and reaches out, giving her hand a little rustle, trying to peer over and into her eyes, as if that would tell him anything about what was wrong.]
Like meetin' somebody new!
Takin' a walk someplace youβve never been, starting a band! Anything, baby.
[His brows press together, smile ever-present, although he looks worried.]
Whenβd you stop seeing the good in things, huh? When that guy screwed ya over?
I thought you were tryinβ to get the hell out of dodge from a shitty ex-boyfriend when you rushed on over here, but now I get the feeling that youβre runninβ away from you.
[Usually, he'd be pissed that someone was killing his buzz at boobies, and while it's true that Faye's looks are definitely enough to win her many a favor, Dandy isn't the kind of person to leave anybody miserable in the lurch when he can say something of comfort.
He notes that she's said a lot about things she doesn't like, but he hasn't got a clue about anything she seems to actually enjoy. A thought passes idly by inside that empty head of his, that she's had her fill and even got the sandwich she so desired, and yet there's something about her that seems bogged down by a heavy weight. At the moment, she's directing her anger at him and exercising her disdain for his favorite establishment, but tomorrow it will be something or someone else.
[ she holds his gaze for an uncomfortable amount of time, searching with an uncertainty of what she's even looking for in the brown of his eyes. her brows gather together as a sort of wistfulness momentarily bleeds into her face. so many thoughts dizzily swimming without anchor. she draws a deep breath through her nose and breaks her stare. ]
Running is all I know. Itβs what I do best.
[ when she moves her hand from dandyβs, she does so slowly, almost like she doesn't quite want to pull away just yet. she forgets how nice it feels to be touched when she's always keeping everyone at armβs lengthβbut there she goes recoiling from her emotions again. a failsafe. ]
I don't think I'm running from myself just... running from my problems. [ her debt, her feelings, other people, etc. ] It's hard to run from yourself when you don't really know who you are. Who you're supposed to be.
[ there's no added context to help him understand what exactly it is she means. anything can be taken from that. or perhaps it's just drunken jargon.
[Running is a constant state of being for all of them, for anyone who isn't a star fixed in place or stuck standing still, whether it be due to an obligation that keeps them there or a hesitation to move forward. Dandy in particular prefers to be running towards the objects of his desires, and yet he tilts his notched chin downwards as he listens, having done his fair share of running away. Life, and all of its little joys, is mostly about the journey, and all the wonderful things that can happen along the way. Whether you're chasing after something or being chased by something else.]
Sure did.
[Another bead of murky water drops into that melancholic pool, rippling once more when Faye chooses to move her hand away, as though it's written in the genetic code that Dandy doesn't appear to have, that love is always just once step out of his proverbial grasp.]
Why don't we get outta here? That is, if you can walk!
Buuut if you start struttin' your stuff all wobbly-like, your carriage awaits!
[He gets up, demonstrating that even after a few drinks, he's still got the ability to navigate his surroundings fairly normally.]
You can just climb onboard and I'll carry ya, piggy-back style. I've gotcha!
[ casual confidence. she's got this. faye pushes herself from the table and proceeds to follow dandy's demonstration with her own. the difference is that she's slow to start, carefully measuring each move and doing a terrible job at retaining that casual confidence, but eventually rising to a successful stand. ]
Wait, my jacketβ
[ faye turns and leans down to grab it, but when she pivots back around itβs with juuust enough momentum to cause the entire breastaurant to spin, which in turn causes her to lose her balance and nearly fall on her ass. luckily, she falls back into her seat instead, but she looks to dandy with a kind of sheepish smile. ]
Just a little, uh... light-headed... hold on a second.
[ once she finishes putting her jacket on, the room has stopped spinning to the point that she feels good enough to stand again. but first, she reaches out to dandy and grabs his hand. you know.... for support. ]
i don't know how this tag won't come off as me giving pervs the go 2 b pervs... rip
[He allows her to get up and try for herself, her turn and the shape of her body reminding him of someone whose name has long slipped his mind. It would be impossible for him to know that he's thinking of his first love, the very first, who had left him inexplicably, just like all the others. Try as Dandy might to keep his heart and soul light, these emotions haunt him at various hours on random days, although he usually...
She falls all of a sudden and he's pulled back from that dark place, an empty chamber full stars shining faintly in a cold, black box.
He edges closer to her, feeling guilty for being so wrapped up in his own depressing daydream that he wasn't able to help her before so she ungracefully landed. Dandy's fingers lace around hers when she finally reaches out to him. How long has it been, with the way she curses the world and carries herself, since anyone's been there to catch her?
Dandy doesn't know why it is that a woman's shape is enticing to the point of being his reason for being alive, but the truth is, he's obsessed with the kind of bodies he can touch, the sort of curves that will reverberate or indent when he comes into contact with them, because to exist no matter what is both a blessing and a curse.
He will always be around in some capacity to experience life's joys, but without connection, sans feeling...
When you have simply been for so long, that's the only way to know if any of it is actually real.]
Just a second?
[He meant that to sound like a tease. In actuality, he is begging.]
[ touch was an anchor and sheβs been adrift for too long.
she feels intangible, lost forever by her own reluctance to let people in. itβs moments like this that remind her that sheβs real; keeps her grounded, in one place. fingers entwined like they were lovers or good friends, not just a couple of uninvolved strangers provisionally passing through each other's lives. she can pretend it means something. that she wasnβt on her way to being alone once more. no one will ever know thereβs a flutter in her chest at the idea that she wonβt see him againβconvinced that itβs wonβt and not might.
there's something mysteriously kind about his eyes. she looks up at him for what feels like a very long time. a minute, at most. all the noise and excitement around them dies away when she manages to focus, instilling a sort of interim quietude. it only lasts for so long before the room starts to spin again. thinking she can stop it, faye gives dandyβs hand a squeeze and uses it to pull herself back up, their bodies nearly collide as she recovers her balance. close and yet not close enough, she almost gives in to the press of his body. the warmth inviting her to linger. one secondβ¦ two secondsβ¦ threeβ¦
suddenly, her knees buckle. she manages to catch herself but not without instinctively using both hands to latch onto him. it makes her sincerely laugh for the first time all night. ]
You know what, that piggyback ride doesn't sound half-bad... you sure you can carry me okay?
[He's not shy with his hands, which latch around her waist the second she presses against him. Dandy pulls Faye in not with the intention to seduce but to steady, although once again he's so casual about it that several mistakes could be made. He chuckles at her goofy stumbling, some of the foolhardy bravado from earlier this evening giving way to an air of quiet sincerity. You'd think after his less than impeccable behavior that all the bumping and grinding would lead him to make a lewd remark or take an impure opportunity, and yet oddly enough, the thought doesn't even cross his mind.
Or well, make it to the forefront.]
Hell yeah! You're tiny. Give me a sec, let me scooch on outta here.
[He's so reluctant to move away from her that detaching himself is a slow process, especially now that he's had a chance to gaze into her striking green eyes, amused by the silly, boozy gloss they've got over them. Once he's managed to squeeze himself out of the seat, Dandy circles the table and squats to the other side of her.
It takes an awful lot of concentration to keep from wobbling since he's had a few drinks himself, but hey. He's just brazen (read: stupid) enough to think that he can pull it off.]
Tah-dahhhhhh! Hop on, baby. And, oh- You've gotta point me in the direction of your ship! I have no friggin' clue where that thing's parked.
[ to be fair, neither does she, but that isnβt obvious to her right away.
faye wonβt hesitate to throw her arms around dandyβs neck and climb onβsurprisingly effortless in spite of their current state. she hikes her legs up his sides and relaxes her weight against his back, intending to be as comfortable as possible while he hauls her out of there. though there is a slight timidness she experiences, assuming they're drawing attention to themselves when in truth no one is paying them much mind at all. well, except maybe for the few waitresses that are βawwwβ-ing at them from afar.
reflexively, she hugs onto him a little tighter. time to leave this place and never come back again?? her, anyway. we all know dandy will be back. he gets them outside and faye takes a second to look around and that's when she recognizes absolutely nothing. which comes as a problem because now she's unable to issue proper directions. ]
I think it might be that wayβ
[ she points one way but quickly rescinds. ]
βwait. No, that way.
[ now she points in the completely opposite direction. zero certainty behind her words. ]
Shit. I... can't remember.
[ the booze is hindering her memory but it still bothers her not being able to remember. she drops her head onto dandy's shoulder with a defeated sigh. then, a soft mumble into his back. ]
[Dandy turns right, and then comically, left as per her directions, but it's to no avail. Thankfully, he's too preoccupied by the task at hand to think hard about how she's leaning against him, and that months and maybe years will pass before he ever gets to experience anything like this again.]
You're so trashed somebody'd throw their empty candy wrappers right on top of ya.
There's no way I'm leavin' you here all by your lonesome. That just isn't the Dandy thing to do, baby!
[He sighs, stopping in place but not dropping her or losing his newfound... Determination? We don't know, we aren't sure.]
Okay, let's backy-track-track-a-rooney here. So, you've got a spaceship. Well, is it shaped funny? Oh man! That's not even a helpful detail, since so many ships come out lookin' like... Well, the kind of thing some folks like to take another kind of ride on late at night.
[Dandy's eyes widen after a prolonged silence, and he gasps, seemingly coming to the kind of conclusion that would resemble some sort of enlightenment.]
Whoaaaaaa.
What if those ships are shaped like dingleberries, meatsacks, and fleshy-flower holes 'cause the mad scientists who designed them are all horny as ever? I mean, ya spend all that time locked up in a lab with a bunch of other nerdy uglies, and you'd start thinkin' about nothin' but bumpin' 'em.
[DANDY!!!!!!!]
It'd make a damn load of sense, if ya ask me.
[Nobody asked.]
Well, you said there were other knuckleheads on your ship. Can you call any of them? You got one of these?
[He flashes his handy-dandy multipurpose bracelet.]
[ faye doesnβt even argue. thereβs not enough fight in her. she lazily rubs her nose into his jacket, breathing in smells that werenβt exactly unpleasant but ones she couldnβt name. paired with dandyβs warmth, she finds herself strangely comforted, to the point of closing her eyes and drifting out of consciousness. but something tells her not to, keeps her aware. she lifts her head at dandyβs incessant rambling and stares into the back of his head.
this was a good opportunity to study the structure of his hair. it really does amaze her. she wonders how much gel and/or hairspray was needed to achieve such volume. was it just a helmet of hair then? her boozy wonderment inspires her to reach out and touch it. only her hand stops before she could feel it. having managed to tune him out, the timing is terrible when her attention eventually returns. ]
My ship is not shaped like a dingleberry or fleshy flower holeβ¦ itβs, uh. It's a unique shape. Nothing weird or gross like that.
[ none of this helps anything, faye. you know what else doesnβt help? ]
Dammit, I think I left the telecommunicator on my craftβ¦
[ the only way to reach the bebop is by inputting coordinates that she definitely doesnβt have memorized but her communicator is programmed to have saved. ]
Wait, why would I want to call those jerks anyway? They wouldnβt come for me unless it meant I was paying them to do it. As if I owe them all the favors in the world or something. Ugh!
[ what a great impression dandy has of those two. ]
[He turns to look at her, arching his neck back so that he's peering over his shoulder. Faye's face, yes, her beautiful drunken visage, morphs into a dark, shadowy figure with similarly rouged lips. She has flowers in her hair, and she once clung to Dandy in the same position, but he can't remember what she looked like. Only that it felt similar when she held him, and that they were happy- For a time. His ears are flooded with the faint sound of muffled laughter, his own mixing in with hers, and the sensation of grass and dirt beneath their bare feet. The atmosphere was simpler, so very long ago, it was probably several decades before the last time he warped.
He lost her. He lost her, he lost her.
The information hits him like a runaway car from a loaded freight, suddenly and painfully, all at once.
Dandy squints, closing one eye, turning to look forward once more.]
Nuuuuuuuh-ope! Nope, nope, nope. No can do! I know what people put in those, and none of it smells any good.
[DANDY?! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU IMPLYING... we all know what kind of magazines you read and what tools u use 2 enjoy them!!!! (kleenex)]
Alright! Well then, I guess that leaves us no choice.
We're goin' back to the Aloha Oe.
[Dandy, by virtue of being a stupid man, doesn't understand the implications of his words, which come off gruffly. He by no means is suggesting anything lewd. The image he has in his own head involve setting Faye safely down on the couch and letting her nap until she feels sober enough to get home.]
You'll just have to deal with the peanut gallery.
[He growls softly. They've literally never seen him bring a girl home before, of that he is certain.]
Canβt be as bad as the idiots I deal withβwell, Ed isnβt really an idiot. Sheβs some kind of kid genius hacker or whatever but she does some... questionable things. More of a weirdo than an idiot, I guess.
[ thereβs an unmistakable note of warmth in her voice. ]
Anyway⦠the boys are the dummies, including the dog.
[ which still remains even while she speaks unkindly of them. of course, faye is without the appropriate cognizance to catch it; in her mind, she sounds unattached, is unattached in all other manners of being. unlike the way she hugs onto dandy right now. a momentary anchor. the world starts to spin and faye drops her head back onto his shoulder, eyes closing again, voice just a tad bit more muffled than before. ]
Sounds like you have your own band of weirdos. How many people [ "people" ] do you live with? I know thereβs the catβ¦ [ "cat" ]
i wish i could say this is the worst tag i have ever written but there are so much worse
[DANDY NO!!!! THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT WHAT SHE MEANT-]
Whoa.
[He looks significantly spooked, but not disgusted, nothing like that.]
Eh! I guess a hot girl is still a hot girl... Even when she's got a baby inside of her. But the real question is, does your butt get any bigger? That's what I wanna know.
[...Of course it is.
As they trudge forward through the darkness, Dandy thinks he can see the yellow paint of the Aloha in the distance. He's trying not to think too hard about the adorable way she burrows into his shoulder like some fluffy animal. Wow, this is definitely more endearing than when Meow does it.]
I don't live with any other people. Mmmm, no human beings, anyway! Just a naggy bucket o' bolts and a smelly ol' furball. So... The ship smells like pussy sometimes? But the kind of pussy that coughs up its own hair and eats way too much canned tuna, blech.
her eyes snap open, brows furrowing in mild agitation. ]
No! She's not mine. Just some kid that hacked into the ship and managed to weasel her way on.
[ uh, no, you made her a promise that she could be apart of the crew and then tried to bail on her last minute. ]
I'm not really the motherly type.
[ CLEARLY. perhaps past!faye felt differently but kids are not even a blip on present!faye's radar. that's just extra weight dragging her down and she needs to stay as unrestrained as possible. ]
So your roomies are an animal and [ 'bucket of bolts' ] some kind of machine? [ she's just trying to understand him right... ] And they help you hunt for alien species?
Well! That's great news, 'cause rugrats are the worst!
And they're the last sentient lifeforms I ever want callin' me Space Daddy.
[He's lucky that Faye's eyes are all that are snapping open... And that her hands aren't just snapping his neck.]
Yes-sir-ree! Bingo, bango, boing-boing-boing.
[Unfortunately, the onomatopoeia and it circling back to a topic that's seemingly always at the forefront of Dandy's brain has led him to make a familiar... Double-handed grabby gesture. Gross.
Upon approaching the Aloha Oe, Faye might be able to note that the ship is bright in color and therefore a lot less dreary than the Bebop, its doors opening to a well-lit and comfortable common space, complete with a lush, currently thriving house plant. Sure, the teleporters take forever, and there's probably a nudie mag stuck under one of the cushions in the circular seating area, but QT made sure to do a thorough once-over of the place prior to plugging himself into his battery pod for the night. It just so happens that, hilariously, by some miracle of time, Meow and the talking vacuum are not quite awake yet.
Or, well, they weren't.
QT peeks his head out of his room, not moving fully into the light, seeing as he is still partially plugged into his charger.
"Dandy, Dandy! Is that a new rare alien you're carrying on your back? Should we take it to the registration center?"]
Can it, you sentient sucky-sucker! [get it, bc he is a vacuum??? ok] Can't you see I'm on a date?
[Dandy squints at his so-called comrade.]
Ugh! I can see your half-empty battery signal from here! Go back into your room and charge some more before you almost get us all killed! We can't have you short circuiting again.
[The pompadoured pinhead hops into the circle of plushy butt holders, crouching down to the lowest level so that Faye is able to unmount him and collapse against a more comfortable surface. That is, if she so wishes.]
Hey, Faye. It's time to get off this very pretty ride, baby! Chop chop. Or, flop flop. Onto the couch.
[ faye was expecting... well, the truth is, faye doesn't really know what she was expecting but it definitely was not this. compared to the hunk o' junk that was the bebop, the aloha oe is a shining beacon full of space, a brighter atmosphere, and a huge ass plant that very briefly draws jet to mind. ]
Wow... this is your ship?
[ a question that gets drowned out by dandyβshe doesn't even register who or what was talking to him, too busy scoping the area and getting acquainted with it as best as her tipsy mind could. that's just before he randomly jumps into the circled seating area, which catches her by surprise to the point of an audible eep! and while hitching a ride on dandy's back hasn't been so uncomfortable, faye doesn't delay in sliding off of him and onto the couch. the cushions immediately feel nice against her skin. ]
So soft...
[ she's kind of just talking to herself while petting the fabric. someone clearly needs to go to bed. but then she looks up to see dandy standing there, her once tired eyes now suddenly widening as behind him is the biggest tv screen she's ever seen. ]
Is that... is that your TV?!
i'm sorry for replying so quickly, i am thirsty, pls disregard
[Dandy takes note of Faye's bewildered expression, plopping himself down on the couch next to her. He's warped so many times in this thing, he wouldn't be able to say where and how he got his brightly colored space vehicle, but boy oh boy, is he proud of it. If he ever steps foot on the Bebop, his first comment will probably be something about how much of a dreary dump it happens to be. Jet, however, does not have a meticulous little robot scrubbing the floors twice or thrice daily.]
Oh, hell to the yeah! Ain't she a beaut?
[It should be noted that some autotuned groaning can be heard as QT slinks back inside his impeccably well-kept living space.
The pyonium-based lifeform's gaze follows the honky tonk woman's, and he wraps a lanky arm over the back of the seat rest.]
Yup! Speakin' of which, I don't think we've watched anything on it for a while. A big ruckus tends to break out when we try pickin' out movies- The three of us can't ever seem to agree on what we wanna watch!
[He says that as if he isn't one of the main contributors to this issue...]
Meow likes his dirty pictures, but I prefer the real thing, baby! Shit! If you try to slap an ass on video, that thing's just gonna be as flat as they thought the Earth was back in the old days.
I'm a sucker for action flicks, 'specially the ones with hot chicks and a whole lotta kung-fu. Hoo-hah!
[insert a very unfortunate set of karate chops here rip]
QT likes the home appliance channel. Like, uh, all of the ones for moms and rich housewives? He tries to act so dang cool about it, but it's obvious that he's got the hots for them girly kitchen bots. You know I caught him tryin' to send a love letter to a snickerdoodle toaster one time? The guy may be made of metal, but you can't say he doesn't believe in L-O-V-E, baby.
[He begins to shrug off that signature bomber jacket of his before holding it out to Faye.]
You look like you're about to give birth to a food baby.
[Meaning: She appears tired enough to send that egg sando of hers crowning from a difficult spot... fuck is that really a better explanation????]
Sorry, I don't think we got any extra blankets, so this is the next best thing. As for a pillow, you could use Meow's furry butt, but I've got a feeling that this morning? It's gonna be rank! Showers are that puss's worst enemy.
[ faye just stares at dandy for a moment because she's not 100% sure she heard him right. ]
Your cat likes to watch porn?
[ it's not a question she wants an actual answer to and her tone reflects how weird she finds that, but apparently not weird enough that she cares to outright know? the answer is yes either way. she tilts her attention back to the screen. ]
I'll watch an action flick if it means the hot chick kicks some butt.
[ she sleepily winks at him because she, too, is a hot chick who kicks butt. ha-ha. ]
Then again, I'll watch anything that's interesting enough.... except romance flicks. Those are almost always a snoozefest.
[ something something unrealistic standards.
funnily enough, here's dandy handing over his jacket which could be romantic in the right context??? she drapes it over her shoulders without question. it's big on her but it's also warm and kind of comfy. ]
Gross. The last thing I need is to wake up with a cat's ass in my face. I already have to deal with the dog's stinky bathroom trips. I'll pass.
[ faye wrinkles her nose and closes her eyes, sleep tugging at her more strongly than ever now. she sinks deeper into the couch and eventually finds herself leaning into dandy's side. her head drops to rest on his shoulder. ]
Sorry but I'm feeling really tired all of a sudden...
[Dandy makes himself comfortable while Faye mumbles and does the same, feeling the dregs of exhaustion finally willing his eyelids shut after a night of nuisances and a nearly-missed nutting.]
Uh-huh. He's also a ramen snob. Couldn't tell ya what's wrong with the instant stuff, but get that geek grindin' his gears about it and he'll start goin' off! Picky rat-chasing cat bastard!*
[He parts his lips to launch into yet another tirade about his feline companion, saved from a paw to the face by the fact that Meow almost always sleeps in, only to be surprised when Faye rests her head on his shoulder. She's drunk and has just had her first fill of food in what can only be described as too damn long, and even a glass half-full bastard** like Dandy knows better than to get his hopes up about it. So why, then, does he feel an odd burst of something light in the pit of his stomach? He's far too old and studly to be catchin' a case of the butterflies (Dandy's words, not mine).]
Sure. Yeah! Okay.
[Drowsily, he tilts his head slightly, nose catching a whiff of a strong odor and a tuft of dark, purplish hair.]
You smell like an ashtray.
[*have we ever seen meow chasing any rats???
**he's a glass half-full kinda guy, but he's also the guy who yells at the bartender about a "weird stain" on the inside of the glass, all the while lying out of his ass so he can get the drink for free]
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What? Oh! Nopety-dopety.
[This, surprisingly, isn't denial. It's simply that he's misremembering the joke.]
I just kinda-sorta assumed they were taller than yo- Ah!
[One of the workers bends over backwards to pick up a check, an unnecessarily brazen display of acrobatics. Not only does this mean more midrift to look at, but her skirt is hiked up inches higher and that is definitely an anime-grade panty-shot she's got going on there... Ugh.]
Hah.
Screw gasoline, it's boobies that make the world go 'round. Speakin' of boobies-
[They're in a breastaurant, there's no need to, it'd only be tacky at this rate-]
So you're the only pair of boobs on your ship? Well, our crew's two knuckleheads are 0 for 0. Tit for tata, I don't even know what holes Meow's got and I don't wanna!
[QT has his battery outlets, poor little guy...]
You ever get tired of those losers? Err, your losers, I mean.
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[ faye would feel embarrassed by the miscommunication if she wasn't more thoroughly bemused by dandy's, uh, personality. her eyes flit between the flexible waitress and the look on his face. what a pathetic horndog, she thinks, and it makes her laugh; the sound disappearing as she takes another sip. men are too easy. just wink at them and they're in love. it would take nothing at all to get someone like dandy into bedβthere's even a moment where she considers it before shaking her head and downing the rest of her drink. as she sinks back into her seat, her gaze settles on the big-haired goon, glossy green bedroom eyes that tell him she is comfortably sloshed. she smirks, though it begins to wane. ]
Oh, Dandy... every woman is more than just their tits, no matter how great they may be.
[ faye emits a sigh and lazily reaches out towards her jacket for a cigarette. bringing one to her mouth, she gently bites down on the butt and speaks around it. ]
Ha, my losers... yeah. I get tired of them. [ a soft flick, followed by flame, and then smoke. ] They're always on my ass about something, or blaming me for their shortcomings like it's somehow my fault. But outside of that? We hardly acknowledge each other. In fact, I think they still wanna kick me out. Can you believe that? After all the hundreds of thousands of woolongs I've helped them bag? How I've saved their asses? They'd be lost without me and they're afraid to admit it.
[ ... and she punctuates that with a small burp. now to address what is important: ]
Waitβyou own a cat? I would've pegged you to be a dog person. I feel like you and Ein would hit it off... [ pause ] And he's all yours for a single payment of 40,000 woolongs if you want him.
[ FAYE?? ]
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[Poor Faye doesn't know that Dandy would turn down the opportunity to be God so he could still maintain the corporeal form that allows him to touch a titty.
She'd be right that getting him into bed would be a piece of cake, and it's true that Dandy falls in love easily, easier than he'd like to admit. His problem is, perhaps, since he's really the type to go with the flow...
That if he sees the current carry a woman away from him, no matter how much he may want to be with her, he's likely to let her go.]
Oh, I am so a dog person! The cat's just a mangy bag of fleas. He's not mine, so much ass he is my problem! He just mooches off me and eats all my snacks. Which is a pain in the ass! Especially since I'm the biggest snack onboard... One day, when he's eaten me outta house and home and QT finally runs outta battery... I'm startin' to fear he'll come for me.
[That's... Depressing, but probably one of the episodes that never made it to air. If he vaguely projects or remembers it, it's probably happened in at least one timeline.]
You're always lookin' to make a quick buck, huh? Well, can't say I blame ya.
That load of moolah your ex left ya to pay off sounds like a fuckin' death sentence.
[He closes his eyes, the alcohol getting to him, but not in the way he'd like. Dandy massages his temple with a finger.]
No wonder you seem so goddamn miserable.
[Surprisingly, he doesn't mean it as a complaint.
In the brief amount of time together, he's been able to ascertain-]
No gal who smokes that much is ever happy.
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I've heard that cats considered humans to be just like any other animal. He probably will eat you under the right circumstance. If I were you, I'd watch my back.
[ she realizes too late that she talks about them in the past tense. they still exist, just few and far in between. it's been ages since faye has physically seen one. they might as well be some kind of fabricated being at this point. ]
Dogs too. I think. Ein probably wouldn't. He's a fat, smelly, lazy little furball. Kind of cute though.
[ she plucks an ice cube from her glass and sucks off the residual tequila. eh, maybe she'll order one more. faye waves her glass and catches one of the waitresses: a brunette with a lot of boobage and a top that's much too small to contain it. sooner or later the fabric is going to give and dandy will probably not survive that one. it's entertaining to think about for all of three seconds. no wonder you seem so goddamn miserable. words that will undoubtedly slip into sober thoughts much later.
faye sighs again, shrugs, seemingly dismissive about the implication. ]
Sure, you could say that, but who isn't miserable these days...
[ she runs a hand through her hair and takes a long drag off her cigarette. not everyone feels the way she does. she knows this. still, there exists a yearning to touch common ground with someone, to be heard and understood. it has never not existed. she just chooses to fight it. ]
Are you happy?
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"Kind of?" C'mon! Dogs are the best.
[Dandy's face brightens up immediately. Unfortunately for his Beetlegeusian crewmate, he is one-hundred percent a dogs over cats kind of guy.]
They're loyal, they've got waggly lil' tails on wiggly lil' booties, and they're almost always happy to see ya. Who cares if they're kinda stinky! It's all a part of their charm.
[Happiness is not a constant state of being. There is no joy without sadness, and much of the time, Dandy is on some wild goose chase that almost never leads him anywhere. His job is far harder and much less worthwhile than the flashy description would lead him to believe, but he still answers without hesitation-]
Happy? Right now? Well, yeah.
I'm happy. And when I get less happy, I come here! And if Boobies is too far out, I'll just find my way back to somethin' that makes me smile, fills my stomach, or is a lot more fun to do than what I'm doin'.
[He shrugs, raising his glass half hazardly in Faye's direction before downing the remaining.]
I mean, think about it! We're in space for cryin' out loud! If you've got a ship of your own, you can go anywhere. Look out the window and you'll get a front row seat to an ocean of stars.
Life's too short to be spent mopin' around, baby.
[he says this butt he's so gd dramatic when he's Being Moody lmfao]
So why not do somethin' dope instead?
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dandy wasn't wrongβit really is beautiful out there. plus the added convenience of ships and zipcrafts made it possible for her to travel out into that beauty. that's lucky. she dreamily sighs and forces her gaze away, looking for her drink, and then dandy. one last drag and she discards her cigarette, blowing the smoke away from him. ]
Do somethin' dope, huh? Like what? Get drunk with a strange woman you met off a dating app in what looks like every teenage boy's fantasy?
[ she snorts into her glass. ]
I think our definitions of 'dope' are very different.
i should never phone tag i always end up re-editing
Like meetin' somebody new!
Takin' a walk someplace youβve never been, starting a band! Anything, baby.
[His brows press together, smile ever-present, although he looks worried.]
Whenβd you stop seeing the good in things, huh? When that guy screwed ya over?
I thought you were tryinβ to get the hell out of dodge from a shitty ex-boyfriend when you rushed on over here, but now I get the feeling that youβre runninβ away from you.
[Usually, he'd be pissed that someone was killing his buzz at boobies, and while it's true that Faye's looks are definitely enough to win her many a favor, Dandy isn't the kind of person to leave anybody miserable in the lurch when he can say something of comfort.
He notes that she's said a lot about things she doesn't like, but he hasn't got a clue about anything she seems to actually enjoy. A thought passes idly by inside that empty head of his, that she's had her fill and even got the sandwich she so desired, and yet there's something about her that seems bogged down by a heavy weight. At the moment, she's directing her anger at him and exercising her disdain for his favorite establishment, but tomorrow it will be something or someone else.
For some reason, of that, he is certain.]
You think maybe you've had enough?
[To drink, he means.]
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Enough of running?
[ she holds his gaze for an uncomfortable amount of time, searching with an uncertainty of what she's even looking for in the brown of his eyes. her brows gather together as a sort of wistfulness momentarily bleeds into her face. so many thoughts dizzily swimming without anchor. she draws a deep breath through her nose and breaks her stare. ]
Running is all I know. Itβs what I do best.
[ when she moves her hand from dandyβs, she does so slowly, almost like she doesn't quite want to pull away just yet. she forgets how nice it feels to be touched when she's always keeping everyone at armβs lengthβbut there she goes recoiling from her emotions again. a failsafe. ]
I don't think I'm running from myself just... running from my problems. [ her debt, her feelings, other people, etc. ] It's hard to run from yourself when you don't really know who you are. Who you're supposed to be.
[ there's no added context to help him understand what exactly it is she means. anything can be taken from that. or perhaps it's just drunken jargon.
suddenly it dawns on her. ]
Oh, wait. You meant the drinking, didn't you?
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Sure did.
[Another bead of murky water drops into that melancholic pool, rippling once more when Faye chooses to move her hand away, as though it's written in the genetic code that Dandy doesn't appear to have, that love is always just once step out of his proverbial grasp.]
Why don't we get outta here? That is, if you can walk!
Buuut if you start struttin' your stuff all wobbly-like, your carriage awaits!
[He gets up, demonstrating that even after a few drinks, he's still got the ability to navigate his surroundings fairly normally.]
You can just climb onboard and I'll carry ya, piggy-back style. I've gotcha!
Let's make sure you get home safe, okay?
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[ casual confidence. she's got this. faye pushes herself from the table and proceeds to follow dandy's demonstration with her own. the difference is that she's slow to start, carefully measuring each move and doing a terrible job at retaining that casual confidence, but eventually rising to a successful stand. ]
Wait, my jacketβ
[ faye turns and leans down to grab it, but when she pivots back around itβs with juuust enough momentum to cause the entire breastaurant to spin, which in turn causes her to lose her balance and nearly fall on her ass. luckily, she falls back into her seat instead, but she looks to dandy with a kind of sheepish smile. ]
Just a little, uh... light-headed... hold on a second.
[ once she finishes putting her jacket on, the room has stopped spinning to the point that she feels good enough to stand again. but first, she reaches out to dandy and grabs his hand. you know.... for support. ]
i don't know how this tag won't come off as me giving pervs the go 2 b pervs... rip
She falls all of a sudden and he's pulled back from that dark place, an empty chamber full stars shining faintly in a cold, black box.
He edges closer to her, feeling guilty for being so wrapped up in his own depressing daydream that he wasn't able to help her before so she ungracefully landed. Dandy's fingers lace around hers when she finally reaches out to him. How long has it been, with the way she curses the world and carries herself, since anyone's been there to catch her?
Dandy doesn't know why it is that a woman's shape is enticing to the point of being his reason for being alive, but the truth is, he's obsessed with the kind of bodies he can touch, the sort of curves that will reverberate or indent when he comes into contact with them, because to exist no matter what is both a blessing and a curse.
He will always be around in some capacity to experience life's joys, but without connection, sans feeling...
When you have simply been for so long, that's the only way to know if any of it is actually real.]
Just a second?
[He meant that to sound like a tease. In actuality, he is begging.]
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she feels intangible, lost forever by her own reluctance to let people in. itβs moments like this that remind her that sheβs real; keeps her grounded, in one place. fingers entwined like they were lovers or good friends, not just a couple of uninvolved strangers provisionally passing through each other's lives. she can pretend it means something. that she wasnβt on her way to being alone once more. no one will ever know thereβs a flutter in her chest at the idea that she wonβt see him againβconvinced that itβs wonβt and not might.
there's something mysteriously kind about his eyes. she looks up at him for what feels like a very long time. a minute, at most. all the noise and excitement around them dies away when she manages to focus, instilling a sort of interim quietude. it only lasts for so long before the room starts to spin again. thinking she can stop it, faye gives dandyβs hand a squeeze and uses it to pull herself back up, their bodies nearly collide as she recovers her balance. close and yet not close enough, she almost gives in to the press of his body. the warmth inviting her to linger. one secondβ¦ two secondsβ¦ threeβ¦
suddenly, her knees buckle. she manages to catch herself but not without instinctively using both hands to latch onto him. it makes her sincerely laugh for the first time all night. ]
You know what, that piggyback ride doesn't sound half-bad... you sure you can carry me okay?
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Or well, make it to the forefront.]
Hell yeah! You're tiny. Give me a sec, let me scooch on outta here.
[He's so reluctant to move away from her that detaching himself is a slow process, especially now that he's had a chance to gaze into her striking green eyes, amused by the silly, boozy gloss they've got over them. Once he's managed to squeeze himself out of the seat, Dandy circles the table and squats to the other side of her.
It takes an awful lot of concentration to keep from wobbling since he's had a few drinks himself, but hey. He's just brazen (read: stupid) enough to think that he can pull it off.]
Tah-dahhhhhh! Hop on, baby. And, oh- You've gotta point me in the direction of your ship! I have no friggin' clue where that thing's parked.
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faye wonβt hesitate to throw her arms around dandyβs neck and climb onβsurprisingly effortless in spite of their current state. she hikes her legs up his sides and relaxes her weight against his back, intending to be as comfortable as possible while he hauls her out of there. though there is a slight timidness she experiences, assuming they're drawing attention to themselves when in truth no one is paying them much mind at all. well, except maybe for the few waitresses that are βawwwβ-ing at them from afar.
reflexively, she hugs onto him a little tighter. time to leave this place and never come back again?? her, anyway. we all know dandy will be back. he gets them outside and faye takes a second to look around and that's when she recognizes absolutely nothing. which comes as a problem because now she's unable to issue proper directions. ]
I think it might be that wayβ
[ she points one way but quickly rescinds. ]
βwait. No, that way.
[ now she points in the completely opposite direction. zero certainty behind her words. ]
Shit. I... can't remember.
[ the booze is hindering her memory but it still bothers her not being able to remember. she drops her head onto dandy's shoulder with a defeated sigh. then, a soft mumble into his back. ]
You can just leave me here. I'll find my way.
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[Dandy turns right, and then comically, left as per her directions, but it's to no avail. Thankfully, he's too preoccupied by the task at hand to think hard about how she's leaning against him, and that months and maybe years will pass before he ever gets to experience anything like this again.]
You're so trashed somebody'd throw their empty candy wrappers right on top of ya.
There's no way I'm leavin' you here all by your lonesome. That just isn't the Dandy thing to do, baby!
[He sighs, stopping in place but not dropping her or losing his newfound... Determination? We don't know, we aren't sure.]
Okay, let's backy-track-track-a-rooney here. So, you've got a spaceship. Well, is it shaped funny? Oh man! That's not even a helpful detail, since so many ships come out lookin' like... Well, the kind of thing some folks like to take another kind of ride on late at night.
[Dandy's eyes widen after a prolonged silence, and he gasps, seemingly coming to the kind of conclusion that would resemble some sort of enlightenment.]
Whoaaaaaa.
What if those ships are shaped like dingleberries, meatsacks, and fleshy-flower holes 'cause the mad scientists who designed them are all horny as ever? I mean, ya spend all that time locked up in a lab with a bunch of other nerdy uglies, and you'd start thinkin' about nothin' but bumpin' 'em.
[DANDY!!!!!!!]
It'd make a damn load of sense, if ya ask me.
[Nobody asked.]
Well, you said there were other knuckleheads on your ship. Can you call any of them? You got one of these?
[He flashes his handy-dandy multipurpose bracelet.]
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this was a good opportunity to study the structure of his hair. it really does amaze her. she wonders how much gel and/or hairspray was needed to achieve such volume. was it just a helmet of hair then? her boozy wonderment inspires her to reach out and touch it. only her hand stops before she could feel it. having managed to tune him out, the timing is terrible when her attention eventually returns. ]
My ship is not shaped like a dingleberry or fleshy flower holeβ¦ itβs, uh. It's a unique shape. Nothing weird or gross like that.
[ none of this helps anything, faye. you know what else doesnβt help? ]
Dammit, I think I left the telecommunicator on my craftβ¦
[ the only way to reach the bebop is by inputting coordinates that she definitely doesnβt have memorized but her communicator is programmed to have saved. ]
Wait, why would I want to call those jerks anyway? They wouldnβt come for me unless it meant I was paying them to do it. As if I owe them all the favors in the world or something. Ugh!
[ what a great impression dandy has of those two. ]
See? Might as well leave me to become a trashcan.
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He lost her. He lost her, he lost her.
The information hits him like a runaway car from a loaded freight, suddenly and painfully, all at once.
Dandy squints, closing one eye, turning to look forward once more.]
Nuuuuuuuh-ope! Nope, nope, nope. No can do! I know what people put in those, and none of it smells any good.
[DANDY?! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU IMPLYING... we all know what kind of magazines you read and what tools u use 2 enjoy them!!!! (kleenex)]
Alright! Well then, I guess that leaves us no choice.
We're goin' back to the Aloha Oe.
[Dandy, by virtue of being a stupid man, doesn't understand the implications of his words, which come off gruffly. He by no means is suggesting anything lewd. The image he has in his own head involve setting Faye safely down on the couch and letting her nap until she feels sober enough to get home.]
You'll just have to deal with the peanut gallery.
[He growls softly. They've literally never seen him bring a girl home before, of that he is certain.]
Sorry 'bout the dolts in advance.
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[ thereβs an unmistakable note of warmth in her voice. ]
Anyway⦠the boys are the dummies, including the dog.
[ which still remains even while she speaks unkindly of them. of course, faye is without the appropriate cognizance to catch it; in her mind, she sounds unattached, is unattached in all other manners of being. unlike the way she hugs onto dandy right now. a momentary anchor. the world starts to spin and faye drops her head back onto his shoulder, eyes closing again, voice just a tad bit more muffled than before. ]
Sounds like you have your own band of weirdos. How many people [ "people" ] do you live with? I know thereβs the catβ¦ [ "cat" ]
i wish i could say this is the worst tag i have ever written but there are so much worse
[DANDY NO!!!! THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT WHAT SHE MEANT-]
Whoa.
[He looks significantly spooked, but not disgusted, nothing like that.]
Eh! I guess a hot girl is still a hot girl... Even when she's got a baby inside of her. But the real question is, does your butt get any bigger? That's what I wanna know.
[...Of course it is.
As they trudge forward through the darkness, Dandy thinks he can see the yellow paint of the Aloha in the distance. He's trying not to think too hard about the adorable way she burrows into his shoulder like some fluffy animal. Wow, this is definitely more endearing than when Meow does it.]
I don't live with any other people. Mmmm, no human beings, anyway! Just a naggy bucket o' bolts and a smelly ol' furball. So... The ship smells like pussy sometimes? But the kind of pussy that coughs up its own hair and eats way too much canned tuna, blech.
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her eyes snap open, brows furrowing in mild agitation. ]
No! She's not mine. Just some kid that hacked into the ship and managed to weasel her way on.
[ uh, no, you made her a promise that she could be apart of the crew and then tried to bail on her last minute. ]
I'm not really the motherly type.
[ CLEARLY. perhaps past!faye felt differently but kids are not even a blip on present!faye's radar. that's just extra weight dragging her down and she needs to stay as unrestrained as possible. ]
So your roomies are an animal and [ 'bucket of bolts' ] some kind of machine? [ she's just trying to understand him right... ] And they help you hunt for alien species?
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And they're the last sentient lifeforms I ever want callin' me Space Daddy.
[He's lucky that Faye's eyes are all that are snapping open... And that her hands aren't just snapping his neck.]
Yes-sir-ree! Bingo, bango, boing-boing-boing.
[Unfortunately, the onomatopoeia and it circling back to a topic that's seemingly always at the forefront of Dandy's brain has led him to make a familiar... Double-handed grabby gesture. Gross.
Upon approaching the Aloha Oe, Faye might be able to note that the ship is bright in color and therefore a lot less dreary than the Bebop, its doors opening to a well-lit and comfortable common space, complete with a lush, currently thriving house plant. Sure, the teleporters take forever, and there's probably a nudie mag stuck under one of the cushions in the circular seating area, but QT made sure to do a thorough once-over of the place prior to plugging himself into his battery pod for the night. It just so happens that, hilariously, by some miracle of time, Meow and the talking vacuum are not quite awake yet.
Or, well, they weren't.
QT peeks his head out of his room, not moving fully into the light, seeing as he is still partially plugged into his charger.
"Dandy, Dandy! Is that a new rare alien you're carrying on your back? Should we take it to the registration center?"]
Can it, you sentient sucky-sucker! [get it, bc he is a vacuum??? ok] Can't you see I'm on a date?
[Dandy squints at his so-called comrade.]
Ugh! I can see your half-empty battery signal from here! Go back into your room and charge some more before you almost get us all killed! We can't have you short circuiting again.
[The pompadoured pinhead hops into the circle of plushy butt holders, crouching down to the lowest level so that Faye is able to unmount him and collapse against a more comfortable surface. That is, if she so wishes.]
Hey, Faye. It's time to get off this very pretty ride, baby! Chop chop. Or, flop flop. Onto the couch.
Y'know!
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Wow... this is your ship?
[ a question that gets drowned out by dandyβshe doesn't even register who or what was talking to him, too busy scoping the area and getting acquainted with it as best as her tipsy mind could. that's just before he randomly jumps into the circled seating area, which catches her by surprise to the point of an audible eep! and while hitching a ride on dandy's back hasn't been so uncomfortable, faye doesn't delay in sliding off of him and onto the couch. the cushions immediately feel nice against her skin. ]
So soft...
[ she's kind of just talking to herself while petting the fabric. someone clearly needs to go to bed. but then she looks up to see dandy standing there, her once tired eyes now suddenly widening as behind him is the biggest tv screen she's ever seen. ]
Is that... is that your TV?!
i'm sorry for replying so quickly, i am thirsty, pls disregard
Oh, hell to the yeah! Ain't she a beaut?
[It should be noted that some autotuned groaning can be heard as QT slinks back inside his impeccably well-kept living space.
The pyonium-based lifeform's gaze follows the honky tonk woman's, and he wraps a lanky arm over the back of the seat rest.]
Yup! Speakin' of which, I don't think we've watched anything on it for a while. A big ruckus tends to break out when we try pickin' out movies- The three of us can't ever seem to agree on what we wanna watch!
[He says that as if he isn't one of the main contributors to this issue...]
Meow likes his dirty pictures, but I prefer the real thing, baby! Shit! If you try to slap an ass on video, that thing's just gonna be as flat as they thought the Earth was back in the old days.
I'm a sucker for action flicks, 'specially the ones with hot chicks and a whole lotta kung-fu. Hoo-hah!
[insert a very unfortunate set of karate chops here rip]
QT likes the home appliance channel. Like, uh, all of the ones for moms and rich housewives? He tries to act so dang cool about it, but it's obvious that he's got the hots for them girly kitchen bots. You know I caught him tryin' to send a love letter to a snickerdoodle toaster one time? The guy may be made of metal, but you can't say he doesn't believe in L-O-V-E, baby.
[He begins to shrug off that signature bomber jacket of his before holding it out to Faye.]
You look like you're about to give birth to a food baby.
[Meaning: She appears tired enough to send that egg sando of hers crowning from a difficult spot... fuck is that really a better explanation????]
Sorry, I don't think we got any extra blankets, so this is the next best thing. As for a pillow, you could use Meow's furry butt, but I've got a feeling that this morning? It's gonna be rank! Showers are that puss's worst enemy.
NEVER BE SORRY!!!
Your cat likes to watch porn?
[ it's not a question she wants an actual answer to and her tone reflects how weird she finds that, but apparently not weird enough that she cares to outright know? the answer is yes either way. she tilts her attention back to the screen. ]
I'll watch an action flick if it means the hot chick kicks some butt.
[ she sleepily winks at him because she, too, is a hot chick who kicks butt. ha-ha. ]
Then again, I'll watch anything that's interesting enough.... except romance flicks. Those are almost always a snoozefest.
[ something something unrealistic standards.
funnily enough, here's dandy handing over his jacket which could be romantic in the right context??? she drapes it over her shoulders without question. it's big on her but it's also warm and kind of comfy. ]
Gross. The last thing I need is to wake up with a cat's ass in my face. I already have to deal with the dog's stinky bathroom trips. I'll pass.
[ faye wrinkles her nose and closes her eyes, sleep tugging at her more strongly than ever now. she sinks deeper into the couch and eventually finds herself leaning into dandy's side. her head drops to rest on his shoulder. ]
Sorry but I'm feeling really tired all of a sudden...
Can you stay here until I fall asleep?
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Uh-huh. He's also a ramen snob. Couldn't tell ya what's wrong with the instant stuff, but get that geek grindin' his gears about it and he'll start goin' off! Picky rat-chasing cat bastard!*
[He parts his lips to launch into yet another tirade about his feline companion, saved from a paw to the face by the fact that Meow almost always sleeps in, only to be surprised when Faye rests her head on his shoulder. She's drunk and has just had her first fill of food in what can only be described as too damn long, and even a glass half-full bastard** like Dandy knows better than to get his hopes up about it. So why, then, does he feel an odd burst of something light in the pit of his stomach? He's far too old and studly to be catchin' a case of the butterflies (Dandy's words, not mine).]
Sure. Yeah! Okay.
[Drowsily, he tilts his head slightly, nose catching a whiff of a strong odor and a tuft of dark, purplish hair.]
You smell like an ashtray.
[*have we ever seen meow chasing any rats???
**he's a glass half-full kinda guy, but he's also the guy who yells at the bartender about a "weird stain" on the inside of the glass, all the while lying out of his ass so he can get the drink for free]
An ashtray that got thrown up on in a bar...