( how many windows has clint climbed through in his time? yes. )
how are you defining "okay"? ( it's a "yes, sometimes, but sometimes really fucking not, and sometimes we just meet up for hookups and don't acknowledge anything else at all." ) nah, it's fine. we still work together anyway, so we know how to keep the peace.
Sounds really awkward. But then again, the closest thing I had to an ex moved out of the state, so I never had a chance to be around them after things sorta fell apart. It's gotta be weird having a 'family' with someone you weren't planning on being with again, though.
( "her dad—." and you try and tell him you're not a kid, peter. )
i've dated bad guys. things happen.
( then a pause, because ??? )
it's been a while since i dated someone that wasn't superhero-adjacent. my points of comparison are pretty slim.
but you don't have to worry about explaining the job to anyone, which is nice. ( and by that he means the broken bones, the missed anniversaries, the absences. ) doesn't mean any of it's easier to deal with though.
( and he's had to go to funerals for three of his exes (who did not actually stay dead). )
[HE'S NOT. Technically! He's out of school! He's legally allowed to...
Well, not gamble or drink. But still. Juvie is unavailable!]
Seems like being a hero and in a relationship is just all around a tough time... I had a hard enough time just balancing work with homework, back then. :/
[Last time you thought about homework... WWII? Maybe?]
I guess I kinda knew that already... Still, it's nice to have false hope! For a sec. My current relationship is, like, mega complicated. It's so complicated, it's not even a relationship anymore, because I'm pretty sure it takes two people knowing the other exists for it to be a relationship.
[.......... that sounds absolutely bonkers without context]
I never try to! Maaaan, it's not like that. 😭 My girlfriend forgot I existed because of magic. She got the heads up and wanted me to reconnect with her before memory of me went poof, and I want to reconnect, too... But it's kind of hard to explain without sound, y'know. Creepy.
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I scared the crap out of them crawling through the window like a ghoul
but they were cool!
Luckyyyy, though!
I gotta stop being so clumsy.
Is your family cool?
love how i just missed out the whole middle part of a sentence in that prev tag SORRY FELLA
most people outside of our line of work think people climbing through windows are shady.
my family's some british kid and my ex-wife.
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Maybe I've gotten a LITTLE too used to windows being doors.
🤏🤏🤏
Ex-wife...........
OOF.
Do you guys at least still get along okay?
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( how many windows has clint climbed through in his time? yes. )
how are you defining "okay"? ( it's a "yes, sometimes, but sometimes really fucking not, and sometimes we just meet up for hookups and don't acknowledge anything else at all." ) nah, it's fine. we still work together anyway, so we know how to keep the peace.
( they have never known how to keep the peace. )
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Sounds really awkward. But then again, the closest thing I had to an ex moved out of the state, so I never had a chance to be around them after things sorta fell apart. It's gotta be weird having a 'family' with someone you weren't planning on being with again, though.
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( "weren't planning on being with again"...
...sure, yes. let's go with that. )
i still work with, like, half of my exes. it's only as awkward as you make it.
how's it "closest thing" you have to an ex? were you ""dating""? 'cause that always ends badly.
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We didn't exactly have a chance to make it official or anything.
Her dad ended up being a bad guy?
Super awkward for everyone involved.
I've never dated a superhero, though. What's THAT like?
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i've dated bad guys. things happen.
( then a pause, because ??? )
it's been a while since i dated someone that wasn't superhero-adjacent. my points of comparison are pretty slim.
but you don't have to worry about explaining the job to anyone, which is nice. ( and by that he means the broken bones, the missed anniversaries, the absences. ) doesn't mean any of it's easier to deal with though.
( and he's had to go to funerals for three of his exes (who did not actually stay dead). )
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Well, not gamble or drink. But still. Juvie is unavailable!]
Seems like being a hero and in a relationship is just all around a tough time...
I had a hard enough time just balancing work with homework, back then. :/
["""BACK THEN"""
ok pete]
1/2
""homework"". do you know the last time clinton francis barton thought about homework, peter benjamin? )
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( don't ask him how that went. )
and ha. that's just relationships, kid. they require work. they're never "easy".
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I guess I kinda knew that already...
Still, it's nice to have false hope! For a sec.
My current relationship is, like, mega complicated. It's so complicated, it's not even a relationship anymore, because I'm pretty sure it takes two people knowing the other exists for it to be a relationship.
[.......... that sounds absolutely bonkers without context]
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are you trying to sound creepy?
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I never try to!
Maaaan, it's not like that. 😭
My girlfriend forgot I existed because of magic. She got the heads up and wanted me to reconnect with her before memory of me went poof, and I want to reconnect, too... But it's kind of hard to explain without sound, y'know.
Creepy.