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[prettypurpleparlor]

[An open space for any roleplay that doesn't fit elsewhere. Please feel free to check my permissions post, also located on this journal, for anything that might be an issue.]

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[voidster]

Silly of you to assume I'm not learning it all because I want to.

[prettypurpleparlor]

A fair point.

[In idle curiosity, she asks:]

So, what is your favorite new discovery, so far?

[voidster]

[The last of the coffee vanishes into his mouth, somehow not spilling out--skeletons are weird.]

That's an unfair question. Worse than asking someone what their favorite food is.

[prettypurpleparlor]

It could be worse- at least I didn't ask you to pick your favorite book.

[voidster]

Equally difficult.

But I suppose I can narrow it down enough to say space is fascinating.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Mm. In a way, I wonder if it's one of the few topics where humans and monsters have the exact same attitude- they're so used to the Surface and so unused to magic, and vice versa, that we have very different viewpoints... but the stars are a new frontier for everyone, still.

[voidster]

Indeed. Both our kinds are here, on this very small planet, when it's compared to the size of the universe.

[prettypurpleparlor]

It makes me wonder if there might be another species out there, one that's even stranger to humans and monsters than we are to each other.

[voidster]

Plenty of fiction has been written about that, actually.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Really? Since we arrived on the Surface, I mean?

[voidster]

No, I mean by humans, before we came up from the mountain. They're fascinated by 'aliens' from 'outer space'.

But you may have noticed that already, you've been free longer than I have.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Ah, yes, that makes more sense- I was thinking it was surprisingly quick for people to have started writing speculative fiction that included us. Still, I have seen some rather nice work in that genre, yes.

[voidster]

Give it a year and there may be books on 'alien monsters'.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Do you think you'd ever try your hand at writing fiction? Being an academic, I assume you've had to publish before.

[voidster]

I doubt it. Now that I've been to real libraries, it seems to me that everything interesting has already been written about.

[prettypurpleparlor]

I don't know- judging by the fanfiction that Dr. Alphys keeps sending me, people are always finding new ideas.

[She pauses briefly and looks at him with a puzzled frown.]

Speaking of which, I don't suppose you have any idea how I wound up on her fanfiction mailing list? It's not that I don't enjoy five-thousand-word persuasive essays on which characters should be kissing, I just didn't think we were that close.

[voidster]

I don't think my writing would be very modern either.

...I have no idea. I'm not on it myself.

[THANK GOODNESS]

[prettypurpleparlor]

I've seen Shakespeare fanfiction. 'Modern' may not necessarily be what is required.

I considered asking to be removed, much the way one does with telemarketers, but I suspected it might lead to Captain Undyne coming down here and yelling at me, which can't possibly be good for business.

[voidster]

Written in the his style?

[One downside of sign language: names are tricky.]

Probably less trouble to delete those emails.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Some of them were.

[She smiles in resigned amusement.]

I believe so. Besides, she's actually a fairly decent writer.

[voidster]

Is she? Perhaps she should write something to publish.

[prettypurpleparlor]

On one hand, she probably could come up with a reasonably good novel.

On the other hand... publishing is, I am given to understand, an industry in which success is generally quite heavily linked to one's ability to socialize in ways useful for networking, take very large amounts of criticism, and tell people 'no' very firmly when disagreeing on important creative issues.

And this is Alphys we're talking about.

[voidster]

Harsher than monsters would be, I take it?

[And the muffin's gone too. Look at that--he was talking with his mouth full the whole time. Ha.]

She used to be more confident.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[The perks of being a skeleton monster.]

Noticeably so, yes- although I doubt she'd be willing to risk trying publication in a monstrous industry either, I have to admit.

[She looks briefly solemn.]

Of course, you'd know better than I would on that subject. I only saw... the aftereffects of that whole disaster. Everyone involved does seem to be doing better these days, thankfully.

[voidster]

[A sign language using skeleton monster, too.]

I know less than you might think, honestly. She didn't become the Royal Scientist until years after my disappearance.