pc catchall | homophonic | alex

[metacognition]

code

      CORALINE.      

coraline.
alex.

❝ "Because," she said, "When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave." ❞

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w0 monday

[metacognition]

[ good morning and welcome to the selfie museum. we are in a room with a swing.

fei du, who was exploring as you do, hums, thoughtfully, as he looks at the banana. ]

This is a choice.

[camena]

I feel like... there's a dirty joke hidden here, somewhere.

[metacognition]

I think you've just written someone's Instagram caption for them.

[ staring... at this banana... ]

Taking a ride, winky-face-emoji. Something like that.

[camena]

Right, right. Maybe the winking one with its tongue out.

[metacognition]

And the water droplets.

[ hmmm. ]

This room is... [ ... ] What's a good word for it. Gauche?

week 1: tuesday

[camena]

[ hello she is Here ]

Wanna tell me a secret?

[metacognition]

[ help she's so cute

fei du props his chin in his hand. ]

What kind of secret? Something tragic, something scandalous? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.

[camena]

[ she. pauses, like it is just occurring to her that she will need to share a secret too. ]

Um. Scandalous sounds more fun. But my secret won't be very exciting, I think, so—whichever.

[metacognition]

That's alright - mine either. My life's not exactly that thrilling!

[ he thinks about it for a moment, thoughtful.... ]

Let's see... every time I've spilled wine on Luo Wenzhou's carpet, I've blamed it on the cat and successfully gotten away with it.

[camena]

[ pfft ]

What, like saying the cat knocked your glass off the table or something? Actually—how often is this happening?

week 2: monday

[camena]

[ we'll just come back to this post from now on. anyway hi! alex is cuddling puppies at the pet store. and holds one up to fei du! ]

Wanna hold a puppy? It's an extremely potent equivalent to therapy.

[metacognition]

[ YEAH LOOK AT MY CODE I MADE!!!!!

anyway there sure is a puppy. is it a big puppy. a little puppy. he laughs, a little when she offers, holding out a hand to gently reach out - fingers curling briefly in the air - and then ruffle its fur gently. his emotions seem muffled, but they flicker somewhere between friendly and - well, a little worried? but that's smoothed over fairly quickly into amusement. ]

I think the lord and master Yiguo would rip off my hand in my sleep if I came home smelling like dogs, unfortunately. [ affectionate ] So I'll have to enjoy it vicariously through you.

[camena]

[ your beautiful code!!!!!

it's like a medium sized puppy. like a puppy that will one day be a big dog. a good size for gentle squeezing. ]

You could just run to the shower right away!

[metacognition]

You seriously underestimate how petty he is.

[ is fei du in a war with a cat? yeah. probably.

... but with enough provocation, he will come around to where all the puppies are and kneel down. that little undercurrent of worry wriggles through his emotions again, not that you could possibly tell by his face. ]

...Alright, let me see.

[camena]

[ oh... his worry makes her worried. she hands him a smaller puppy, like maybe if it's tiny enough it'll get less smell on him? ]

... You okay?

week 2: thursday

[camena]

Did you get healed? Are you resting??

[metacognition]

Thank you for asking, Alex.
I'm okay. My arm's healed up; magic is really impressive.
Just tired.

[camena]

Yeah magic is still kind of crazy to me. But good.

Take it easy for as long as you can.

[metacognition]

Let's hope it's not a night where I wake up in the middle.
If I did, I guess I could stink bomb them out with that carpet in the Sears now that the egg was all over it, huh?

[ ha ha... ha... gotta joke about it ]

I'll do my best.
The others were more injured than I was, anyhow.

[camena]

Okay that would be kind of funny but I wouldn't really be able to enjoy it given the circumstances...

Yeah I'm trying to check in on everyone. Thursdays are the only time I wish my team had a slightly different composition.

week 4: monday

[camena]

[ hello fei du.

pig time. from 32:15 to 37:43! ]

[metacognition]

[ this game is so powerful im shaking

anyway

wow. that is a lot to come from a pig. there's a lot to unpack here - fei du's eyes are a little wide when it ends. he's sitting on some surface, at least, and absolutely white knuckling the edge of it.

when the memory finally fades, he remembers to breathe, exhaling out, turning his head to look at alex, surprised. ]

What in the world...?

[camena]

... Yeah, it's like a whole - thing. This week.

[ surely that was a nonspecific 'what in the world.' but he looks unwell here, so, tentatively: ]

Uh, are you good, man...?

[metacognition]

I've just - never seen anything quite like that before.

[ oh to be a normie. ]

... What happened after?

[camena]

A lot. A very... very long night. But it's fine.