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[unpocoloco]

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[unpocoloco]

Well, I can do that for one person at least.
You've got some wisdom in that head of yours.


Sorry about putting the thought in your head, in that case.
For what it's worth, demons aside, most of the non-humans I've met are kind people.
Hell also aside.

[awooligan]

yeah well
got some sense knocked in I guess

I'm not worried about non-humans, just assholes
unfortunately those don't have any obvious physical markers

[unpocoloco]

Ah, if only.
That would save so much trouble.
Maybe a big red mark on the forehead that says jerk.
That would do it.

[awooligan]

maybe we can make a stamp
have it carved in the bottom of my shoe so I just gotta kick someone and we're all warned

[unpocoloco]

Naturally making you the dedicated shoe-stamper.
That's a big job, do you think you can handle it?

[awooligan]

fuck yeah who do you take me for?
I'll stomp all the motherfuckers

[so so sad he can't say he'd kick the devil in the face]

[unpocoloco]

[SO sad.]

Good man.
You do a service for all of us.

[awooligan]

I don't usually go out of my way like this for people but somebody's gotta do it
you just make sure I'm properly appreciated for my good deeds

[unpocoloco]

A public holiday.
It can't be too hard to instate those, right?
Maybe even the highest of honors
a gift basket.

[awooligan]

of cigarettes and poptarts



oh shit do you know about poptarts

[unpocoloco]

I DO know about poptarts!

[He knows a thing!!!]

When I first got in hell, I had two younger roommates, both from the future.
They loved those things.
It was some sort of knock-off of course, but I stole some for Nekane one time because they said it was the only thing that would get them to crawl out from under the bed and let me fix their wings.
Got to try a piece.

[Confirmed, teenage boys and Nekane love poptarts.]

[awooligan]

[yeah!!!! Good, poptarts are required learning.]

okay their priorities are right but under the bed? what are they, six?

[unpocoloco]

They told me they're late twenty-something but I don't think they actually know.
They like to burrow.
I asked them where they got that instinct from that same day but they just said it's how they are.
Under the bed, closet, wherever's small and enclosed without being pitch black.
Which is how the fort was born.
No more being stupid with the wings. Hypothetically.

[awooligan]

hypothetically
that's the kind of situation most people avoid
I know I hate being cramped up
much rather feel the wind and look out over everything

[unpocoloco]

I did wonder sometimes.
I think I said something like that, how when I was a kid, I tried to get to the top of every building, get up somewhere I couldn't be overlooked or forgotten.
I wondered why they wouldn't want to just fly away from everything.
But I guess the obvious answer is that it didn't work and hiding was the best way to watch their back, especially when there wasn't another option anymore.
But that's getting into the bad stuff again.
In any case, making the fort is nice.
It's kind of fun and it makes things feel more like home wherever we end up.

[awooligan]

yeah that's a super bummer
a fort sounds right up the Rivera alley though
I did wonder what was up with that when I was there
but assuming they sleep there, what about you? there was only one bed and it was made
don't tell me you're a weirdo that actually makes beds

[unpocoloco]

Is it weird to make beds?
[Why is it weird to make beds? Modern people baffle him.]
But, well, I don't sleep well, honestly.
Neither of us does, for obvious reasons, but I also got used to just crashing wherever or sleeping in a hammock when I lived in shantytown.
I keep falling asleep at the table or on the couch or just on top of the covers.

[He'll fix that habit... eventually.]

[awooligan]

uh yeah you're just going to mess it up again
what's the point if you don't have someone nagging you about it

oh there was some kind
oaxacan?
Teto had one of those so I got the bed when we were visiting Santa Cecilia

what the fuck don't fall asleep at the table though
the other stuff is fine

[unpocoloco]

I didn't do it on purpose, I just get tired someti


Hang on.
Teto?

[awooligan]

I forgot I didn't tell you about Teto
but it's fucking complicated man so it makes sense I skipped it
you adopted a fairy and they made a memory of you come to life and now he's a person
that's also like your son?

[unpocoloco]

Uh.


Uh?


What???

What is even happening in that world? I have two more kids?? A fairy??? and ME????

[awooligan]

dude I'm from Oklahoma I don't know shit about this fey stuff
the fairy's name is Mili and they look like Teto's twin
Teto came to the school after you and Coco went back home and I went with him to get his ears pierced for his birthday
and he can phase through walls like a ghost???

[unpocoloco]

I know less than you do! My world's supposed to be normal!

[But yes, okay, he's going to properly read this through. It doesn't get less alarming.]

Wow I

Wow.
I
don't know what to think about that.

The least confusing thing in there is the ear-piercing.

[There's a long pause.]

...Do I... are there others? Not necessarily children just
family, you know?
If there's family
even if they'll never know me
I want to at least know their names.

[awooligan]

like my world wasn't supposed to be normal?

Tío Felipe and tío Oscar live with you
I never met Coco's grandparents or nothing but you weren't exactly their ideal marriage candidate
love Coco though obviously
I think Coco will probably stay instead of moving out when she old enough for that

[unpocoloco]

[He'd point out that Cliff's world clearly has magic but... for once he's gonna let it slide.]

Okay.

Okay.
Nobody I don't know about.
Yeah, I didn't make Imelda's parents too happy either.
She threw everything away for me.
Living with her brothers sounds fun though.
I loved those kids.

[There's another pause.]

I never knew their names.
None of the ones from after I died.
When Imelda showed up she sent me away so many times
I just stopped coming back eventually.
And it wasn't like I didn't know there were others there later, in her shop.
It just didn't occur to me until Miguel that they had anything to do with me.
Stupid, right?
I never got the chance to ask their names.
I had to make a deal with a demon in order to find out.


So. Mili and Teto.
Do they seem alright?
Taken care of? Happy?