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[mytarget]

texting meme y'all know what to do (or not!! this can just be a gen texting meme too!!!)

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[in4apounding]

Well that's just sound advice in general.

[zweihandler]

i mean yea but makin me type it out so many times makes me intensely resentful. it makes me want to be even more of a thoughtless jackass out of pure spite. i'm learning all the wrong lessons.

[in4apounding]

Oh no!

Stay good, Erina! Stay good!

[zweihandler]

it's too late. for personal reasons, i'm evil now.

[in4apounding]

No!

I'm so sorry.

This means I have to defeat you now.

But I promise I'll still think of you as a friend.

[zweihandler]

oh no......... penny's going to beat me up with her powerful fists........... whatever will i do.............

[ The Thirst... ]

[in4apounding]

I'll probably have to use my swords, actually.

You're pretty strong.

Unless I can convince you to come quietly? I don't want to have to hurt you.

[erina please this is serious]

[zweihandler]

i can't believe you think telling me about the the homoerotically charged swordfight we're going to have is motivating me to be less evil. the more you talk about kicking my ass, the more evil i become.

Text > Action

[in4apounding]

Noooooo!

Hang on. I'll save you from yourself, I promise!

[And it's- I don't know, maybe a minute or two? Maybe less, I don't know how far apart they'd be for this.]

[But after whatever time passes, Penny's just gonna kind of fly out of nowhere and try to actually tackle Erina into a restraining bear hug from behind. Is this more or less homoerotic than the swordfight?]

i can't believe erina is dead

[zweihandler]

[ You'd think that, being a mutant superhuman literally born for combat and all that, Erina would've seen this coming. But nope – she takes the hit like a chump and goes down like a sack of hammers, with an extremely flattering noise that I can only transcribe as– ]

Guhyah!

[ There she goes...

Unfortunately for all of us, Erina's NOT dead, because she splutters something out from under the crushing support of Penny's extremely powerful bear hug: ]

Holy shit, Polendina!

[ W A S T E D ]

Okay but is this not exactly how she would've wanted to go

[in4apounding]

[Yeah, she's not letting go yet. But she will roll over so Erina is not literally being crushed underneath her.]

I'm sorry! It's for your own good!

do NOT call her out like this

[zweihandler]

It is?! Why? What the hell happened?!

[ in the face of Being Tackled By Penny, she's forgotten about their dumb text conversation. Attagirl, Erina. ]

this is, in fact, a callout post

[in4apounding]

You said you were turning evil because you had to write a lot.

[Said much more calmly, but Penny's still not letting go.]

I said we were gonna fight, but that sounded like it was making it worse?

[zweihandler]

I w–

[ Erina takes two seconds to mentally rewind the last five minutes and realize the enormous error in judgment she's made. ]

Penny. Penny.

I was kidding.

[in4apounding]

[She's quiet for a moment.]

Are you sure? Because that sounds like something evil-you might say if you wanted to keep being evil. A ruse.

[zweihandler]

Do you seriously think I'm smart enough to come up with something like that on the fly, when I'm being crushed by your beefy arms?

[ Beefy?? Iron-y??? Who knows. ]

[in4apounding]

...Yes?

[Probably. It's a pretty basic lie, or would be.]

I should probably hang onto you a while just to be safe.

[And she's just gonna. Kind of awkwardly get up. And take Erina with her.]

[Is being carried over Penny's shoulder enough to make up for being suspected of cartoonish villainy? Cause that's what's happening.]

[Unless Erina manages to struggle free, obviously. But come on. Cute redhead robot deadlifting her in both arms.]

[zweihandler]

[ Erina opens her mouth to protest this, but then Penny deadlifts her like she weighs less than a couple of grapes and suddenly every emotion in her brain is replaced with Being A Lesbian.

Being evil is so worth it. ]

Oh god. Is this how I die? Being hauled around by a cute robot? My heart can't take it.

[in4apounding]

Oh, do you need me to hold you differently? I don't want to hurt you!

[since when the heck have you had a weak heart Erina]

Hang on-

[Boom. Princess carry.]

[She could also do piggy-back if this weren't about restraining you for the safety of yourself and others.]

[zweihandler]

Penny.

[ In a mildly strangled "trying to act like she is cool and unaffected and tragically failing" tone of voice ]

I– am not. Going to turn evil. I promise you, you can knock me the fuck out if I do.

[in4apounding]

Hm.

[suspicious.]

Okay. I believe in you as a friend and a good person. You wouldn't actually lie to me. ...But if you ever actually do turn evil for some reason I absolutely will knock you out until it can be fixed.

[This is serious business.]

...Do you want me to put you down now?

[zweihandler]

[ It takes Erina, like, half a second longer than it probably should to respond. ]

Uh– yeah! Yes! Of course! It's not like I can go be evil with you around to beat some sense into me.

[in4apounding]

I mean, I don't WANT to beat you up. Unless we're training. But that's different than actually trying to BEAT you beat you? Or- trying to hurt you, I guess.

[She is letting Erina down but still keeping a supportive arm around one shoulder.]

And you're pretty strong, so I don't know how well I could stop you without actually hurting you? So- it's good you're staying good. I'm glad. Or were never turning evil to begin with.

[zweihandler]

[ She's at once relieved but also intensely disappointed to be on her own two feet again. Being gay and friends with Penny is so bad for her heart. ]

I mean– for what it's worth, if I became evil, I probably wouldn't advertise it? And definitely not to you, because as we've just established, you could easily get my ass. So like, maybe don't be too worried if I talk about doing evil shit, but if I actually start, you know, DOING doing it, maybe then you should fight me.

[in4apounding]

Hm. You're definitely clever like that.

[penny please]

...Are you particularly worried about turning evil? Should I keep more of an eye out than usual?