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[sketchycharacter]

[Presented (mostly) without comment]


AN ARTIST'S RENDERING OF CURRENT ROBOT DRAMA

[This has been a courtesy shitposting interlude.]

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[diamondhack]

Accurate, thank you very much. I worked my bloody fingers off and barely slept. It's why I sleep so much now.

[Beauty sleep, so good, so necessary.

Even if it's really a few hours on some days.]

[sketchycharacter]

Well, you've got one up on me, then. I'm a drop-out.

[He's noticeably non-specific about what it is he dropped from.]

[diamondhack]

From college?

[More curious than anything, really. She knows many a brilliant person whose education was little more than the streets and their own experiments.]

[sketchycharacter]

From everything.

[He shrugs, playing it off casually, but if she looks at him closely, she might spot a bit of tension. It's not that he's ashamed of his background, but admitting this is a little too close to admitting all the claims he's made about being Drake's heir over the years are bullshit, even if Isha hasn't heard them.]

I ran off pretty young. Everything after that was pretty much self-taught.

[diamondhack]

[Isha hums thoughtfully.]

It's not all that uncommon. I know many people who've done the same.

[Herself, namely. She ran off, got put back into the system, and kept running off even after she was adopted. High aspirations, low actualities. She imagines that may be why so many don't see her coming.]

Besides, I wouldn't be half as good as I am now if I didn't take a shine to the underbelly of London.

[She offers him a hint of a smile, nearly mistakable for the beginnings of a smirk. No, she couldn't say she learned everything while she hung out in the streets, but the hardest lessons just happened to be when she was away from the riches of the world. It's where she learned human nature best: in person, on the streets.]

[sketchycharacter]

[Maybe not at age twelve, but he's not going to throw that out to brag. He had someone looking out for him, after all. Plus maybe she has known people who ran that young.]

Maybe next time I'm in Jolly Old, I should leave you a secret message there, then. You can find it in the future.

[Dear Isha Nate Wuz Here XOXO.]

[diamondhack]

[Maybe not, but she was running amok at age six for a good six months. Not alone, of course, Jeramie and... well.

Best not to think back, not to the better days.]

If it hasn't been demolished by corporate gain or simply time, of course.

[sketchycharacter]

I thought England had bragging rights because so many of its buildings are so incredibly old. Don't tell me that's changed in the future. Standards must be slipping.

[diamondhack]

Depends on your definition of old. Old with pedigree and history stays. Old that's useless and dreadful gets demolished. Gentrification, to put it simply.

[sketchycharacter]

It doesn't become not old just because you don't like it. Plenty of shit that's seen as tacky and "dreadful" now was probably t he height of fashion in its day.

[diamondhack]

That is beside the point. If it was of historical use and substance, it stays. Just because something has pedigree doesn't mean it's always beautiful. If they can ruin something to put in its place something better, they will. Money talks more than history.

[sketchycharacter]

I guess times have changed for you then. Most Europeans I know just love talking about their rich history of busted-up crap.

[diamondhack]

When you can't expand and claim new territory, you simply reclaim the old and build up instead of out. No one's going to miss a 35 year old building that's gone out of style and maintenance, according to contractors. Or even 135, for that matter.

[sketchycharacter]

And you criticize me for destroying architecture. Sheesh.

[diamondhack]

Just because it happens doesn't mean I agree with it. Some of it can't be saved, it's more expensive to repair it than to destroy it, but... some things are worth trying.

[sketchycharacter]

Huh. Well, on that we agree.

[He glances sidelong at her.]

Don't act too shocked.

[diamondhack]

I am utterly and completely shocked.

[Check that smirk.]

[sketchycharacter]

Jesus, you can't follow directions at all.

[diamondhack]

What can I say, I have an aversion to following rules.