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[studieswaitressing]

Date & Time: July 25th, eveningish?
Location: Equius' home, then about the town
Characters: Equius and Raven!
Summary: Raven takes Equius out for a walk.
Warnings: None so far! Blue people bein' blue?

[She's still not 100% certain she understands how trolls are supposed to work, but at least she has some idea of their relationships, now. After her little chat with Sollux, she's sure that she'll be able to hold something against the other troll if it becomes necessary.

She's grown rather fond of Equius in their time together in the prehistoric. They'd spoken relatively little, but she saw him as, in some ways, a younger version of her friend Hank. Not quite as geeky, maybe, but still quite awkward.

Once she's at his door, she lifts her hand to knock -- and hopes that Sollux isn't the one who answers the door.]

Comments

[studieswaitressing]

-- yeah, I mean. The last big technological advance was nuclear weapons, and we just narrowly escaped everyone trying to blow each other up.

[musclebeast]

That makes your race and planet seem all very... unorganized and childish.

[studieswaitressing]

That's not completely inaccurate.

[musclebeast]

How execrable. [A snarl, adjusting his shoulders a little, making sure everything in his sylladex is in order before they start out of the store and back onto the side walk.]

[studieswaitressing]

[She shrugs.]

All worlds have their problems, you know.

[musclebeast]

Yes, I suppose they do.

[Even his own... unfortunately. Though he doesn't like to admit it.]

[studieswaitressing]

I mean, at least they were starting to get over the prejudice thing.

Towards other people, at least.

[Not towards mutants, as it turned out.]

[musclebeast]

Oh, that doesn't seem like such a problem. [Prejudice? He's used to that, of course.]

[studieswaitressing]

Trust me, it's a problem.

[musclebeast]

[He wants to argue, but looking at her makes him stop.]

...Why... is it a problem? [Some people are just inherently better, right?]

[studieswaitressing]

Because you can't just try to blow up mutants because you're afraid of them.

[Yeah, this is kind of a sensitive issue.]

[musclebeast]

Afraid?

[studieswaitressing]

Yeah, of people like me. They don't understand that we're not that different from them.

[And maybe if they are, they're just -- better.]

[musclebeast]

All right... that relationship I don't quite understand. But destroying something just because you fear it seems silly.

[studieswaitressing]

That's the default human reaction to things you fear.