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netherwork2022-11-06 06:40 pm
fawcetted) wrote in netherwork2022-11-06 06:40 pm
text — un: harrington ;
[ It's the kind of network message that pops up in the quietest, darkest part of the night — when it's just a guy and his thoughts and anxieties in an all-too-silent house. He's surrounded by dumpster-quality furniture and a cat-emblemed pillow that veers on possessing suspicious origins, not that anyone can see any of his living quarters through text. ]
i don't want to panic anyone but it's pretty late and it's been a few days and i don't know, maybe i just need to calm down but
does anyone have an explanation for what happens when your soulmate kinda ... goes missing?
[ Steve really wishes there was a proper instructions manual or something. Not that he'd read through it because who has the time for that, but. It'd be something.
The line goes quiet for a moment, or maybe Steve's said what he's needed to say, before another message pops up from the same username. ]
Honestly, shit's going exactly the way I thought it would. Thought maybe Munson would stick around, thought maybe we were, you know, starting to become friends, and you'd think the soulbond thing would count for something but noooo, he just split. Found a way to get out of here, left his phone, went back to Hawkins and didn't have the decency to leave a goddamned note.
Even he couldn't stand the pathetic loser that Steve Harrington's become.
[ And just like that, the message is sent for all to see before the line really does cut off. Embarrassing. ]
[ ooc: in case it isn't clear, the last bit of text is courtesy of steve's very unpleasant shadow who has adopted an edgelord personality circa livejournal 2001. ]
i don't want to panic anyone but it's pretty late and it's been a few days and i don't know, maybe i just need to calm down but
does anyone have an explanation for what happens when your soulmate kinda ... goes missing?
[ Steve really wishes there was a proper instructions manual or something. Not that he'd read through it because who has the time for that, but. It'd be something.
The line goes quiet for a moment, or maybe Steve's said what he's needed to say, before another message pops up from the same username. ]
Honestly, shit's going exactly the way I thought it would. Thought maybe Munson would stick around, thought maybe we were, you know, starting to become friends, and you'd think the soulbond thing would count for something but noooo, he just split. Found a way to get out of here, left his phone, went back to Hawkins and didn't have the decency to leave a goddamned note.
Even he couldn't stand the pathetic loser that Steve Harrington's become.
[ And just like that, the message is sent for all to see before the line really does cut off. Embarrassing. ]
[ ooc: in case it isn't clear, the last bit of text is courtesy of steve's very unpleasant shadow who has adopted an edgelord personality circa livejournal 2001. ]
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okay thanks
that's really good to know
[ And no, he's not panicking. Nope. Not at all.
Time to seek out a Hierarchy lackey, it seems. ]
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Yeah np, seriously.
Do you need anything? Like are you doing okay rn?
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and i think it just opened some kinda floodgate honestly, like the anxiety's a bit overwhelming
[ Possibly because it might not just be his own, but also Eddie's somewhere out there. (Maybe in the gallows. Shit.) A part of that bond they have now. ]
they don't have aspirin in the afterlife do they?
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that's a level of anxiety jonas understands; he doesn't envy steve's state of mind.)
They totally have aspirin, I went to a convenience store to get smokes and they had a whole medication aisle lmao.
Keep talking to me.
What'd you get up to back home when you were freaked out or smth? tbh I used to go for jogs, runs, hikes, whatever. Anywhere that'd get me out and away from just everything. Did you have smth like that? smth familiar.
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whoa seriously? and here i thought it'd be all weird medieval shit
that's a relief
[ And what's also a relief is the way Jonas is, actually, helping to distract from that Steve-and-maybe-also-Eddie leveled anxiety still bubbling like a too-full cauldron. ]
guess i took drives a lot
you know, to clear my head or whatever
it's stupid but i miss my car
lately things had gotten so insane no one really had the time to unwind
everything was just go go go
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people say it helps. in a place like this, though, would it even scratch the surface? jonas doubts it.)
Man, I am missing the weirdest crap. I miss Waffle House ffs, so your car is totally understandable. And it's always safe just chilling in a car yk? You can jam out, sit in total silence and think, nap, drive around looking at xmas lights, idk. Normal stuff.
wdym insane? Do you want to talk about it?
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even going out and running errands like groceries feels nostalgic
also sorry man i just gotta ask and i know this is gonna sound really dumb but
what do all those extra letters mean?
[ He's trying to fill in the vowels like some complicated game of Wheel of Fortune and it still isn't making sense.
ffs? yk? wdym? what now? ]