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[thefavorite]

[ memory theater is go :> ]

Comments

video:

[grigio]

[There's a six year old that might look a little familiar scowling at the screen.]

Wow. Your brother is a dick.

video:

[thefavorite]

[ There is, of course, a delay as Dewey checks out what's happening - curses, of course. Then he comes back to reply. ]

Tell me about it.

Re: video:

[grigio]

Did he get in trouble? He should. That was really mean.

Re: video:

[thefavorite]

Not from our parents... I got him back, though.

Re: video:

[grigio]

[Her immediate and possibly sugared-up response?] Really?! What'd you do?

Oh! Hi! I'm Julie Grigio and I'm new here.

[...no. No, she's really not.]

Re: video:

[thefavorite]

[ ... no. She's not. ]

Julie... ?

[ But he's a smart kid and he's seen this curse before. ]

Hi, Julie. I'm Dewey.

Re: video:

[grigio]

[She will appreciate not breaking her 6 year old brain.[

Hi, Dewey! That's a cool name!

audio; your call if he can hear her or not

[treasuretooth]

[Christmas is coming. It may have just passed where Tooth is from, but here? It's just around the corner. And now she has an idea of what kind of gift this boy might appreciate...especially if there's no one around to break it on him!]

[While she's not sure if this child is a believer, Tooth still attempts to use the audio feature to speak with him. If all goes well, he should be able to hear her. She hopes...]

It's a terrible thing, what your brother did, completely uncalled for! Did you tell your parents?

audio; oh he so absolutely would be able to, yes

[thefavorite]

Nah... they wouldn't have really done much about it.

[ Of course, he has his own ways of dealing with Reese... he may be smaller, but he's much smarter. ]

audio; YAY! ...I was so excited to see Dewey so this makes me happy

[treasuretooth]

[Tooth doesn't know what to say to that. At the very least, Dewey's older brother should have had his allowance stripped to prevent him from anymore harmful and frivolous spending!]

I'm so sorry. [But let's not dwell. She'd rather try to make Dewey happy if she can!] Do you like planes a lot?

audio; ahhhhhh ;; <3

[thefavorite]

He does stuff like that all the time.

[ Something like that might be an option if these kids got allowance... ]

Yeah-- I mean, that one was really cool. I don't usually get a lot of new stuff at home.

audio; <3

[treasuretooth]

[The youngest sibling, Tooth deduces. She wishes North were here. He'd know all kinds of new things to make for Dewey. Tooth can think of one thing to buy thanks to that curiously glimpsed memory, but what else? She's only ever given children small sums of treasure in exchange for their teeth.]

Are there places here that sell planes and other toys like that?

[She feels it is her sworn duty to give this child a fond memory to go along with toy planes rather than this terrible one, regardless of the fact she isn't in possession of one of Dewey's baby teeth. Some memories are better freshly made, anyway!]

audio;

[thefavorite]

[ Bingo. This kid knows hand-me-downs like few others. ]

I think so. The City has almost everything.

[ He might have the slightest inkling of where that question is going, though he's quite careful not to let on to that. Besides, he doesn't generally make a habit of getting his hopes up too much. ]

[defies_reason]

I'm no expert, but I believe that goes beyond the bounds of normal sibling rivalry.

[thefavorite]

Yeah... that's Reese.

[ Not just the video. "Beyond the bounds of normal sibling rivalry" is also Reese. ]

[defies_reason]

You've several brothers, is that right?

[thefavorite]

I have three. There's also Francis and Malcolm.

[defies_reason]

Are all of them so destructive?

[thefavorite]

Reese is the worst. Malcolm is pretty bad sometimes, too, but not like Reese.

[ The short answer is that they're all destructive, but he's only concerned about how they treat him right now. ]

Francis is the only good brother I have, but he doesn't live with us anymore.

Video

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I hope you took appropriate revenge on him.

Video

[thefavorite]

Oh, don't worry.

I did.

Re: Video

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Good. I'm curious as to how.

Re: Video

[thefavorite]

Well, for that one I got a bunch of video of him dancing with all these old ladies... and then I passed it on to the right people.

Re: Video

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Nicely done. How'd you get him to dance with all the old ladies? Or is that the kind of thing he does of his own volition?

Re: Video

[thefavorite]

He was already doing that - our mom dragged him to this dance class that was all these really old people, and all these grandmas were paying him to dance with them. That's how he got the money in the first place.

So, I just decided to go and capture the moment.