Call Ralph's Poke'Gear!

[rocketralph]

Hi there! Wanna thread but don't have time/want to set up a whole post for it?
Does your character just wanna call and shoot the breeze? LET'S DO IT.
Just use the CALL and MESSAGE threads below!

[Psst, if you need OOC contact, try here!]

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[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph feels something jab him right in the chest. He had given up ever being anything else...but here was this guy going out and doing the thing. And he didn't even seem scared. Ralph had felt like that once. Where did that fire go?]}

YOU CAN ALWAYS TALK TO ME BUDDY

I UNDERSTAND

LIKE REALLY REALLY UNDERSTAND

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[grapeeater]

[There's a long pause, before he sends back a message.]

I killed the only heroes around at home.

I have to start learning how to pick up the slack.

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[rocketralph]

_{[At the end of the day, death doesn't matter much to a video game character when it comes to characters within their own games. It was all part of the script, business as usual, quarter alert. He'd bopped Felix plenty of times. He didn't even think about it.]}

I GUESS WE HAVE THAT IN COMMON

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[grapeeater]

... It can be... hard to live with, can't it?

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[rocketralph]

IT'S GOTTEN PRETTY OLD

30 LONG YEARS

I TRIED TO CHANGE. THAT'S WHEN I ENDED UP HERE. THEN I KIND OF GAVE UP. IT WAS WHAT I WAS MADE TO DO AFTER ALL.

_{[Ralph and Micchy are talking about two very different things.]}

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[grapeeater]

It's been that long since it happened? That's... I see. I can't even think that far ahead.

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[rocketralph]

WHAT?

NO I MEAN THAT WAS MY JOB FOR THIRTY YEARS.

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[grapeeater]

... What was?

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[rocketralph]

BEING THE BAD GUY.

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[grapeeater]

What... did that mean for you at home, exactly?

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[rocketralph]

DESTROYING PROPERTY

THROWING PEOPLE OUT WINDOWS

TRYING TO BOP THE GUY WHO'S TYRING TO STOP ME WITH BRICKS

THE USUAL

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[grapeeater]

That's... huh. Did you do that for a lot of different buildings? You must have, I guess.

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[rocketralph]

SAME ONE. THEY REBUILD IT DAILY.

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[grapeeater]

... That fast? Why don't you just move on to a different building if it keeps getting put back up so fast?

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[rocketralph]

THEY MOVED MY STUMP!!!

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[grapeeater]

That... doesn't explain anything, though...

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[rocketralph]

THEY WRECK MY HOUSE I WRECK THEIRS

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[grapeeater]

The same house.

Every day.

... Are you caught in a time loop or something?

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[rocketralph]

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT

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[grapeeater]

If it's not that, what is it?

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[rocketralph]

I'M FROM A VIDEO GAME AND AT THIS POINT I DON'T CARE IF YOU BELIEVE ME OR NOT.

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[grapeeater]

I'm not. Most people aren't. That explains a few things, though.

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[rocketralph]

_{[He wants to argue. HE WANTS TO ARGUE SO BAD. But he's so outta gas.]}

YEAH? I'M LISTENING.

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[grapeeater]

... Ralph, when people who aren't from a video game die, they don't come back.

The people I killed aren't coming back. They're dead and it's my fault. And they were good people who shouldn't have died.

What the hell kind of person kills their brother and their best friend?

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[rocketralph]

<sub>[He's gotta admit, he feels bad for the guy. He doesn't know it's all fake--entertainment for kids at the cost of a quarter.]

[Or maybe he's from one of those home console things Dave told him about. Either way, Ralph is just too darn stubborn to consider any other situation right now so it doesn't sink in the way it should have.]</sub>

A BADGUY