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(pirate noises)

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Makes sense. If they have the supplies...

[selfimmolation]

It's how Will keeps his first aid kit full too, y'know.

[ballies]

[ pfft. ]

Ahh. If we stopped getting injured, he wouldn't have to. But good thing they apparently don't count their supplies often. Or question a hero taking stuff.

[selfimmolation]

Will's a doctor, he's allowed.

[ballies]

Literally. That's gotta be one of the perks of putting all that effort into a medical qualification, right? Free stuff from the hospital.

[selfimmolation]

No idea. Never met a real one.

[ballies]

... You don't have doctors??

[selfimmolation]

Wouldn't that be crazy? [ he says it with a laugh ] It was a joke anyway. There's doctors on pirate ships, but I didn't meet a normal, civilian doctor until I set sail.

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At this point you could tell me anything about your home and I'd probably just have to nod and go along with it. [ HIS HOME IS STRANGE. ]

What did you do if you got injured before you were a pirate? Just... wrap your own wounds and hope infection didn't set in? Home remedies?

[selfimmolation]

If I couldn't take care of it myself, I'd let the bandits handle it.

[ that's just the regular child neglect moment ]

[ballies]

[ hhhhhhhhhhhfffffffghgghgggggggg. puts a hand over her eyes. ]

Right... right, okay. Sure.

[ ... ]

Even broken bones and stuff??

[selfimmolation]

You keep asking questions you clearly won't like the answer to...

[ yeah. ]

[ballies]

[ nrrrrrrrrgggghghgg. ]

Next time, you can always just plead the fifth. I mean, I'll know either way but--

[selfimmolation]

Plead the what?

[ballies]

Exercising your right to remain silent and not implicate yourself, legally speaking. Or, in this case... dodging the question when I ask something I'm not gonna like the answer to.

[selfimmolation]

You don't like when I do that, either.

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Listen... I'm learning.

[selfimmolation]

Learning what?

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That I'm probably not going to like what I hear. [ and then she asks anyway, but at least she's being ✨ self aware ✨ while she does it. ]

[selfimmolation]

But you ask anyway...

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I do… it’s a crippling character flaw that comes up around friends I’m worried about.

[selfimmolation]

You know I'm an adult, right. You don't need to worry about the childhood stuff.

[ballies]

Yes, I’m aware. It’s kinda built into me to worry though. [ especially when he goes idek my eye’s gone but i’m fine as an adult ]

[selfimmolation]

... Like, literally...?

[ballies]

[ ....... ]

A little bit. Mental health support was one of my specific functions, but I developed it more than I think they initially assumed I would.

[ lmao lol ]