video 04 | Hay Fever

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(The feed comes on to Eddie sitting there looking very, very cross. He has a piece of cloth wrapped around his face, covering his nose and mouth, but anyone would be able to recognize him well enough by now. His grey eyes are fierce. Oh yeah. The entire ship is in for it.

He puts his hands up and tips his body to the left side of the screen.)

Nooooooooo Eddie. Mold in space is crazy, Eddie! Why would mold exist in space, Eddie!

(He tips his body to the right side of the screen and crosses his arms over his chest.)

Well guys, I don't know. Because I know how water and bacteria work? Because this isn't the first time I've experienced basic plumbing.

(And back to the left he goes, those hands up in the air now.)

But Eddddddie! You're just being paranoid!! Mold? On a ship! That's dumb!

(And he swivels back to the right.)

OH, I'm sorry. You're right. Why should I not be paranoid in a setting where we have next to nothing on the biological expectations of things like fucking mold?

(Eddie turns his eyes back to the camera, now just looking plain old unimpressed. He raises a finger.)

Not to say I told you so, but I totally told you so. It's kind of super hard to see, but I started having an asthmatic fit in the hall and I was like, wow, this hasn't happened in a while. And then I noticed that it was where one of the pipes had burst. And I was like, huh. Coincidence? Probably not. And guess what buckos? Mold. SPACE MOLD. Because guess what? If humans can exist on a ship, then so can bacteria and stuff like spores. Honestly. I should never listen to anyone.

We have plants here, guys, there's organic material everywhere. There's dinos running everywhere. Probably shitting in the pipes. There's actual shit in the pipes, by the way, at least some of them I assume. Organic. Material. And! On top of that! It's wet! (Wow uh, Eddie really can shriek, can't he?)

So what do we do? You should all wear face masks. Mold can cause a lot of serious health hazards. You can get respiratory infections, which if left untreated, can and WILL kill you! If your throat feels funny, that could be the mold! If your head feels funny, probably the mold! Keep your nose and mouth covered. Make sure your living areas are properly dried out. Gosh. Be careful!

(How does it feel to be parented by a literal twelve year old? Cause that definitely just happened.)

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(Eddie hesitates a fraction of a second. He likes Tetora enough. And Tetora did what he could to make Eddie a little less useless when he had the time for it.

He switches to a private feed purely because...Well. Some part of him, that child naive soft part of him, has some weird conviction that the moment he speaks less than favorably of his mother, she'll appear out of thin air. It was stupid and probably impossible, but all the same...)

It's pretty shitty. At least with my mom it was. She sorta went nuts when my dad died. She spent a lot of my life telling me I had all these problems with me that I didn't actually have. She somehow had the doctors giving me all these placebos. It was from all that that I thought I had asthma. See, sometimes, when I get real freaked out my chest gets real bad like someone big is sitting on me, and I can't breathe too well. (The tragedy of the fifties is that Eddie has no idea that he just has a severe anxiety problem. Arguably even a panic disorder of some sort. But hey, it was convenient for Sonia Kaspbrak.)

So like, I thought I had asthma forever, and on top of that I was real tiny, and she was giving me all these pills all the time and whenever I did get sick she'd flip and drag me to the hospital even if it was just a cough. But um. One day my pharmacist told me the truth and-. I've been trying real hard ever since to remind myself I'm not- you know. Sick.

(He hesitates, and then points to his chest.)

Well. I'm not sick here anyway. (He's sick in other ways, but he doesn't bother to elaborate.)

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[ considering tetora's own canon title psychological profile, he doesn't take long to guess at eddie's own issues - his profiling background kicks in, puts eddie in the "general social anxiety" compartment, considers sharing clonazepam with the kid at some point when they find a decent stash.

it'll help. right? this is being helpful.

what does tetora know about helpful. ]

That's a rough go of things, wow. Holy crap. No one deserves to go through shit like that, especially from your own mother. That's bullshit. [ his own mother issues aside - and he has a lot, to be true - tetora can sympathize. his own mother just wants to kill him. ] Would you go back to her, if you had to?

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(Eddie is frustrated with his mother. He doesn't think of it too much, because he doesn't really have the means to. He doesn't realize how psychologically impacting his mother's actions were to him. Anxiety medication would probably go a real long ways for Eddie Kaspbrak. If only.

Probably.)

I dunno. (Eddie was still caught in the awkward stage of being angry with his mother for valid reasons, and being dedicated to her. He looks away from the camera, biting at the inside of his cheek.)

I know it sounds really mean...But...I don't think I would. Especially now.