abnormalizes | Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

Most people deal with it by not thinking about it. Showing the vulnerability of that fear isn't weakness. Vulnerability is how you grow stronger, allowing others to help and allowing you to work through it openly and honestly. It's more of a strength than perhaps some would care to admit.

Oh. ...So they're still scared, they're just not acknowledging it?

[News to her.]

More or less. The big uncontrollable dreads are easier to deal with if you don't let them enter the conscious mind. Most people try to not think about it until it happens. Then they grieve.

That makes sense. I guess most people have more space between it happening than I’m used to at home.

[Harder to avoid thinking about it when it happened near daily.]

A good thing to keep in mind. You are more intimately familiar with losing people than most. Cole and you likely have a similar disposition to it honestly.

You aren't alone.

I'm not alone. And it's okay to be afraid.

[Inhale, exhale.]

...Alright, I'm good with not talking about my issues for a little bit, how are you and Esme? Have you gone on any cute dates?

Fair enough.

[Max grins.] No super cute dates yet. Most of the time we just sit a home and snuggle, to be honest. But he's making friends and is proud of me for making them too.

Probably will go out on a cute date here sometime soon. I'm just still looking for the perfect one to go on that we can get through without either getting distracted with each other or pick up a plus one along the way.

So it can actually be cute the whole time.

Oh, yeah, I've definitely had that problem. With all of my partners. Woops.

[She's deeply horny and so are her girlfriends and boyfriends.]

So far from my limited dating experience, I highly recommend finding something with your boyfriend's niche interest to just watch him get super excited about. Went to a monster truck show with Chipp, I didn't know a thing about monster trucks going in and I still had a great time.

Hmm. That could work. A nice boat ride maybe. He does love sailing. We could fish too. That sounds nice. I haven't gone fishing for a long time myself. My moms took me when I was ten last.

Sounds like you're overdue for a nice fishing trip, then.

[Not her thing, but she can see why people enjoy it.]

I definitely am. Also overdue for a vampire hunt but that's not as cute or romantic.

No, probably not. Still enjoyable with the right person though.

[Have they talked about hunting dates before, yes.]

True I guess. Not sure who I would take on a date like that.

Probably not me, I'd get distracted...

[At least she's self-aware.]

I mean if they'll bleed for me in exchange for sex, I'd be down for that kind of hunting. It'll definitely help with my cravings.

You could combine both in one with the right matchup. I've been getting a lot of fun knifeplay experience lately.

I see~ Hm. Maybe we could go vampire cruising instead.

So knife play huh? Courtesy of your new partners?

At least one has absurdly rapid healing and a willingness to indulge me with slasher villain roleplay.

[Indulge, she says like he hadn't come up with the idea originally.]

You never told me you wanted to indulge in slasher villain roleplay before.

New kink?

Not new, but like…. [Vague hand gesture.] It’s kind of hard for me to just ask people ‘hey do you want to be a serial killer and me your helpless victim, as a sex thing,’ if I’m not pretty sure they’ll be into it? Chipp’s the one who brought it up with me, actually.

Oh. Huh. I got it backwards. I thought you were slicing him up. And like you never asked me if you could put on a hockey mask and take a machete to me or something.

That makes more sense.

I did do that once, me getting to be the serial killer, and that was fun! But we started the other way around.

Glad to hear he's helping to expand your kink list even further than you already had it going. That's romantic.

Sure is. What is romance if not feeling comfortable trying weird shit together?

I mean, I think that is the perfect definition of romance. Ever.

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