Only slightly?
[ maybe her sisters are right, maybe she has gone soft. how gross. ]
I'll take being your favourite, though.
I mean, come on. I'm clearly the best Cuckoo.
[ maybe her sisters are right, maybe she has gone soft. how gross. ]
I'll take being your favourite, though.
I mean, come on. I'm clearly the best Cuckoo.
It's a moniker in reference to the books The Stepford Wives and The Midwich Cuckoos. If you ask me, it's more than a little outdated, but it still stuck all the same.
[ it's the blonde hair, eerie glowing eyes, and the general creepiness that comes from being identical quintuplet clones who all share a psionic hive mind. ]
[ it's the blonde hair, eerie glowing eyes, and the general creepiness that comes from being identical quintuplet clones who all share a psionic hive mind. ]
cool hang on lemme google some stuff
[ and a couple of quick wikipedia articles later - ]
yeah ok i get it
i mean it fits a bit?
not that you're outdated but you've got that classic oldschool chic look
plus i'm guessing that some old guy named you that, and not you?
[ by comparison, spider-girl is pretty on-the-nose. why not spider-woman? her breath control when she got started was shit, and 'girl' was easier to say in a rush. ]
also yeah youre the best
[ aka "the one who answers her texts and responds to her drunk, rambling voicemails." ]
[ and a couple of quick wikipedia articles later - ]
yeah ok i get it
i mean it fits a bit?
not that you're outdated but you've got that classic oldschool chic look
plus i'm guessing that some old guy named you that, and not you?
[ by comparison, spider-girl is pretty on-the-nose. why not spider-woman? her breath control when she got started was shit, and 'girl' was easier to say in a rush. ]
also yeah youre the best
[ aka "the one who answers her texts and responds to her drunk, rambling voicemails." ]
Our classmates came up with it and it sort of just stuck from there, I suppose, serving in part as a code name and in part because hardly any of them could actually tell us apart.
[ it's a hard knock life being a bunch of emma lites. ]
What about your alter ego?
[ it's a hard knock life being a bunch of emma lites. ]
What about your alter ego?
And that is exactly why I don't do the whole superhero thing.
It's nothing but stupidity, spandex, and silliness.
It's nothing but stupidity, spandex, and silliness.
And?
[ stopping a museum bombing is hardly changing the world, not to mention that it will more than likely happen again sometime later on down the line. ]
[ stopping a museum bombing is hardly changing the world, not to mention that it will more than likely happen again sometime later on down the line. ]
I prefer the big picture made with bold, broad strokes.
I don't always mind control people. I'll have you know I can be just as persuasive without my powers.
[ of course it shouldn't. sketchy telepath shenanigans are her speciality. ]
And that complete lack of confident right there is your problem.
Fortunately for you, I can help you correct that.
And that complete lack of confident right there is your problem.
Fortunately for you, I can help you correct that.
[ it's not often she carries out "charity work", but on the chance that it'll be entertaining in the way that tropey teen movies are, esme decides to reconfirm her offer. ]
I am.
I am.
[ ...huh.
penny's seen a lot of those movies as well, she knows how they work, and esme gives off pretty big mean girl energy.
but she is sort of nice, as well. in her own way. deep down. sometimes. ]
uncharacteristically thoughtful of you, but i'll take what i can get.
penny's seen a lot of those movies as well, she knows how they work, and esme gives off pretty big mean girl energy.
but she is sort of nice, as well. in her own way. deep down. sometimes. ]
uncharacteristically thoughtful of you, but i'll take what i can get.
lmk if this is okay, i took some liberties but i can adjust obvi
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2022-07-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
( you know the weirdest part about seeing penelope every day after those text messages? they haven’t kissed.
archie gets up in the morning with the giddy confirmation that the girl he has a crush on likes him back and he takes her for milkshakes after school like he promised, and he even walks her up to her front door because it’s the gentlemanly thing to do. he regrets not kissing her. he hates being the guy giving mixed signals because he has been that guy before. has said he wanted one thing and did another. of course, fred and val were both right. they were speaking volumes about separate aspects of his life, sure, but he overcommitted to both of them at one point or another. and he doesn’t want to do that with penny, it’s just. you know, a thing. a thing he didn’t want to start because he was trying to respect her insistence that he heal first. only now it feels like maybe he’s an idiot?
so he’s trying to ride this line between friendship and dating because, as mentioned, maybe he’s an idiot. an idiot who means well and is trying to do right by her, but still.
it’s not awkward exactly, though something feels off now. he can’t tell if she’s upset with him because she hasn’t said she is and frankly, he’s bad at subtext. if he’s learned anything from growing up next door to betty cooper and having her as a best friend, it’s the not talking that tells him when he said something dumb again. they all sit together at lunch and before classes in the lounge room, so neither one of them is ignoring the other. he’s also not so self-obsessed that he can’t imagine it having to do with something else.
when the last bell rings for the day, he’s practically jumping out of his seat and jogging out of the hall and down the steps to find her. archie slows to walk, trying for casual ( he isn’t fooling anyone ). ) Hey, Penny! Wait up. Can we-? Can I walk with you?
archie gets up in the morning with the giddy confirmation that the girl he has a crush on likes him back and he takes her for milkshakes after school like he promised, and he even walks her up to her front door because it’s the gentlemanly thing to do. he regrets not kissing her. he hates being the guy giving mixed signals because he has been that guy before. has said he wanted one thing and did another. of course, fred and val were both right. they were speaking volumes about separate aspects of his life, sure, but he overcommitted to both of them at one point or another. and he doesn’t want to do that with penny, it’s just. you know, a thing. a thing he didn’t want to start because he was trying to respect her insistence that he heal first. only now it feels like maybe he’s an idiot?
so he’s trying to ride this line between friendship and dating because, as mentioned, maybe he’s an idiot. an idiot who means well and is trying to do right by her, but still.
it’s not awkward exactly, though something feels off now. he can’t tell if she’s upset with him because she hasn’t said she is and frankly, he’s bad at subtext. if he’s learned anything from growing up next door to betty cooper and having her as a best friend, it’s the not talking that tells him when he said something dumb again. they all sit together at lunch and before classes in the lounge room, so neither one of them is ignoring the other. he’s also not so self-obsessed that he can’t imagine it having to do with something else.
when the last bell rings for the day, he’s practically jumping out of his seat and jogging out of the hall and down the steps to find her. archie slows to walk, trying for casual ( he isn’t fooling anyone ). ) Hey, Penny! Wait up. Can we-? Can I walk with you?
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