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spot's a name for a dog

a dog that has at least one spot

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We can just pretend it has a spot. I'll draw another one so you can give it a proper name.

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is that what you're gonna do if you ever get a dog and can't think of a better name? just paint a spot on it?

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I wouldn't do that to an animal. Maybe I just like the name. [ And maybe, because he likes it so much, he'll just start calling him Spot. ]

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and here i thought i was being unoriginal. [ do it and see what happens ]

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You really don't like it?

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oh my god, you nerd, it's fine. name your fish whatever weird name you want.

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[ His next text comes about ten minutes later. ] What would you wanna name the next one?

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don't know. depends on what it looks like

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What if it was a whale? [ What do you even name those anyway? ]

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not all whales are the same, don't be whale-racist

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I know that. But you shouldn't name something only because of what it looks like.

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well how do i know one whale's going to have the same personality as another whale? that's still messed up

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[ Steve thinks on that a little, and then: ]

Why did you name the goldfish Rupert?

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because he looked like a fucking rupert, i don't know, i didnt have a crisis over it or anything

1/2

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I thought you might have had a reason for it.

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[ Not that it really explains much of anything anyway. Why they're trading fish drawings, why they're discussing the names of these hypothetical fish like they're real. It sends a thousand questions surfacing, and after another ten minutes or so, he finally sends: ]

Can I ask you something personal?

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i guess he seemed kind of dignified

[ and rupert feels like a dignified named, but also kind of dorky. the shift has him frowning at his phone a second, curious and a little wary, but he figures it's alright. after all, he doesn't have to answer if he doesn't want to. ]

i guess. what?

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[ That response almost makes him smile, wondering if a goldfish can really be so dignified, but it's overshadowed by the words he types into the MID, frowning as he does because he has no idea if he's even allowed to ask something like this. It feels like a simple question. Still, he has a lot to learn about Andyr and where he comes from. ]

Why fish?

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why what? why do i like them?

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Why are they important to you.

1/4 lololol

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they aren't really. important. i mean, they're cool and it's interesting, but they're just fish, you know, they're pretty dumb.

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i just know a lot about them

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[ there's a bit of pause before the next set of messages ]

for a while all i had to do was read this stupid fucking marine biology book. just stuck in this room and that's the only book i had, so that's what i did.

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went through it four times the first year, put it away once i got more, but i don't know, i liked memorizing stuff in it. so i just kept getting more fish books and crap.