OFFICE HOURS

[didntgetdadslooks]

Got something you want to say to your good friend The Professor's Assistant? Come on in, don't be shy! Her official hours are daylight hours - girl has to sleep? after all, probably - but if you knock on the door at night she'll generally answer. Please just make sure to leave the in-game date and time in the header of your toplevel!

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Comments

[nothingcanstop]

...That's a shame. I mean- not that I want information about my family out there, for anyone to see. But, they've all got some interesting stories about them too. I guess I'll have to tell you about them, some day.

[didntgetdadslooks]

That'd be cool. I uh... didn't really get out a lot before this, either, that didn't change. But I got to talk to some pretty cool treasure hunters, sometimes.

[ angel the absolute queen of misrepresenting her own backstory ig ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ angel swear the fuck to god ]

Yeah? What were they like?

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ look sometimes a cool treasure hunter friend is someone your dad makes you manipulate until you manipulate them yourself into killing you it's FINE ]

Well... Pandora isn't usually exactly where the nice treasure hunters come to, it's a really tough planet, but if you know where to look you can find the good ones. I mean... they're all a little more violent than your family, but you can trust them. I did, and things mostly worked out. Wonder if they beat Jack yet without me there.

[nothingcanstop]

Beat? Like...in a bet, or... Oh, you don't mean a bet. You were friends with the people trying to uh, take down your employer?

[ An eyebrow raise. ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Someone had to. Take him down, I mean. They had plenty of other friends to help more with that than me.

[nothingcanstop]

That's not... [ What she was asking, really. Della chooses her words carefully. ]

You...really weren't kidding. When you said that was a lot like here.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel laughs a little, but there's no humor at all in this one. ]

I get jerked around by guys with big egos a lot, I guess.

[nothingcanstop]

[ ... ]

I hope they beat him too, then.

[didntgetdadslooks]

I'm sure they can. It gets a lot easier without me around, the idea of beating him.

[nothingcanstop]

...Just what did you do for him, Angel?

[didntgetdadslooks]

I... managed things. Assets, mostly, for his company. And there was something he needed me to do, something he needed me to get. And as long as he was using me for that, I was trying to figure out a way to help someone else get rid of him. But... it turned out they needed to get rid of me, first.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Hm! Don't like it! ]

Why would they have to... What did you do that was so crucial to his...everything? [ Her eyes travel to her arms. The tattoos that lay under her lab coat... ] ...Was it...something dangerous?

[didntgetdadslooks]

Well... my body can process Eridium, that purple stuff, into huge amounts of an energy he needed for one of his projects. There aren't a lot of people in the whole universe who can do that, so... with me gone, that's a pretty major setback for him. He doesn't have me, he doesn't get The Warrior.

[nothingcanstop]

He used you as a literal battery...?!

[ uh oh ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Well... yeah, that's the short answer.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della snaps her pencil. ]

...I can understand not liking him.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah, he's... not great. For a lot of reasons.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Taking a moment to soothe her anger, Della sets the halves of pencil down and spreads her hands out over her notepad. ]

To do that to anyone... Was he why you were...leaking Eridium?

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yep. It uh... I have some ports in my back, the injectors put it through that way. Fun stuff.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Talking about this is a good way to raise Della's blood pressure, it turns out!! ]

I'm sorry, Angel. No one deserves that. Especially not you.

[didntgetdadslooks]

It's... I mean it's not fine, but. For now I don't really have time to unpack all of it.

[ I'll worry about that after we bust out of here. ]

Thanks, I think is what I meant to say? Thank you, Della.

[nothingcanstop]

[ ...She doesn't really have a pencil to write back anymore, oops. Della forces a smile. ]

I... Yeah, I understand that. Focus on what you can do next, have a...a goal. ...Just don't sit with it all alone if you don't have to.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel nods. ]

I'll... make sure to try to aim a little higher than "just keep on keepin' on."

[nothingcanstop]

That's all you can hope for, some days.