⚡ The Five of Cups

[born_nameless]

It sounds complicated to have a father. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have a parent. It's like imagining how life would be different with four arms or if the City was underwater. It's too weird to think about seriously.

Comments

[anunluckypenny]

It can be really nice, though.

Is it okay if I ask how you... you know, managed to not have a dad?

[born_nameless]

I don't usually tell people this, but I guess it doesn't matter. I wasn't really born, at least not in the usual manner.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

It can be very complicated.

You don't have parents?

[anunluckypenny]

I guess that's not too surprising, since the whole City's kind of... unusual. Sorry you missed out on having parents, though.

[born_nameless]

Is that something to be sorry about?

[born_nameless]

No, not in the any of the usual senses, at least.

[anunluckypenny]

I... maybe? I think so? A lot of people like having them, I mean.

[born_nameless]

It's hard to tell, after all the posts yesterday. I never needed someone to take care of me--not like that. Are you glad you have parents?

[anunluckypenny]

Yeah, yesterday... there're a lot of parent-problems in the City.

Huh? Oh, I don't have any. Now. I did, is what I mean, but I haven't for a long time. It just seems like they'd be nice to have.

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[doeswhathewants]

No father? Test tube baby? I have only heard of those.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

What do you have, then?

[born_nameless]

Oh. I'm sorry?

[born_nameless]

Creators, I suppose. But I don't know much about how I was made.

permavideo

[born_nameless]

You could say that, yeah. Though I was never really a baby.

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

You just appeared as a matured person? Awkward.

permavideo

[born_nameless]

That's not the first word I'd use to describe it, but I did basically just wake up.

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

[Eyes narrow for a moment] How do you know that you only did not remember anything from before you woke up?

permavideo

[born_nameless]

I guess I don't. But from talking to the only other people who would know anything about it, it seems likely. I was...an abandoned project.

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

Oh. That sucks.

But hey, you are your own person now. All the better to ah... carpe diem or YOLO as people are fond of saying now.

Re: permavideo

[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

Dude. Did you really just say 'YOLO'?

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

Yes. I like it, it's catchy.

permavideo

[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

It's stupid.

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

Haters are going to hate.

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[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

Oh, for fucks sake. If you're going to say it, say it right. It's "Haters gonna hate."

permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

How dreadfully American.