tapestodiane | 019

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I imagine quite a number of you are taking the gym challenge, but I'm curious as to what reason. Boredom? Some kind of obligation? That it just might lead to a way home?

I'm not sure. Either way I recently earned my second badge and expect to head back to Goldenrod in the near future. [A small pause here and his voice takes on a wistful little note.] Am quite excited to return to Ilex Forest. I believe it will be a beautiful sight and an invigorating hike.

[Click! Both badges are obviously mod-approved. And action for anyone in Azalea - if you find him, he's hanging from a tree by his knees, kid-style, browsing his pokégear while doing so and ... looking quite comfortable. Any gear-replies will be done in this fashion, too. Have fun with that!]

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_{[Yeah, he figures that much - and doesn't take it personally at all. But just the fact that he's even engaged in a conversation on such an irrelevant topic with an air of banter for more than thirty seconds. He normally has no staying power in this kind of thing at all, or people just don't latch on because hello serious line of work.]}

It's a fourth of your expected lifespan.

_{[See, he's like, totally turning the tables. Are you feeling old yet Heather?]}

_{[INDEED. Heather's pretty good at goading other people into bantering, serious line of work or not.]}

Yeah, well, three fourths is still a LOT bigger than one fourth.

_{[A LITTLE. But like hell she'll admit it!]}

_{[Slow growing grin. Like that was the right answer and he approves immensely.]}

Like I just said, Heather. Perspective.

_{[Grinning right back.]}

I like to think I've got a pretty good perspective, overall.

I imagine you do.

_{[YOU GET A LOT OF PERSPECTIVE WHEN YOU DIE AND COME BACK A FEW TIMES.]}

I've been told I'm wise beyond my years. ... Of course, I've also been called a fool, so, y'know. Maybe they're connected.

_{[YEAH. Coop's only done that once and not with magical resurrection, BUT HE CAN STILL RELATE A BIT.]}

The Tibethan buddhists believe that everything is connected - every object, being or concept, to what is around it and what caused it. If being wise and a fool are both traits of yours, they're connected by default.

_{[He lays it out simply, but is obviously into what he's saying. Ah, Tibet.]}

Of course, if these traits developed during the same or similar experiences, the connection would be even stronger.

_{[DID THEY COME FROM SILENT HILL. actually he sort of assumes they did. at least the first one.]}

Tibetan Buddhists, huh?

_{[Pretty much every trait Heather had period could be traced back to Silent Hill one way or another... it was her roots, after all.]}

Do they recommend hanging upside-down, too?

No, meditation. In order to learn concentration, truth and love.

_{[The hanging upside-down thing was just to kickstart the day. But he does meditate frequently.]}

But upside-down meditation should be like, twice as powerful or something, right?

_{[Yeah so he's just gonna do a variation on the adult-agree-but-not-really-thing, cause he suspects she might not appreciate a full mini-lecture on the fine arts of meditation.]} For some, maybe. I haven't had the pleasure of knowing anyone who's tried it.

_{[YEAH THAT'S RIGHT YOU'D BETTER AGREE-BUT-NOT-REALLY.]}

I bet I could.

I was champion of the monkey bars when I was little. One time I hung upside-down for an hour.

_{[Oh Heather. He's just... again, the fact that he's having this conversation. IT IS BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE.]} I only started that recently. I liked pretending I was on stakeouts or investigations when I was a kid. Lots of climbing and sneaking around ... hanging upside-down didn't serve a lot of purpose at the time.

_{[THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TEENAGER AND AN FBI AGENT FROM TWO HORROR SERIES TALK ABOUT THINGS.]}

... Pfft, really?

_{[She's now trying to picture Cooper snooping around as a little kid. It's surprisingly easy.]}

I dunno, I can think of a LOT of sneaking scenarios where hanging upside-down could be handy.

I found being able to climb air vents more useful. I solved my first big mystery that way.

_{[THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR A STORY.]}

_{[Heather recognizes an 'ASK ME TO ELABORATE' prompt when she sees one. Fortunately, she's curious. So she arches a brow.]}

Big mystery?

The biggest. At least for a thirteen-year-old.

_{[He pauses briefly to change position somewhat, what with branches quickly getting uncomfortable, but then continues with a halfway smile. He's clearly amused at his past self.]}

In my school, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, every girl in the eighth grade had Health Class in room eleven. Now what went on in there was a sworn secret that none of the girls would talk about. I decided to crack the case by climbing the air vents and record the class with my tape recorder. I had a friend who thought it was a great idea.

_{[Smile sort of crooked at this point, he goes on with an air of 'you can probably guess what's coming'.]} As destiny had it, it was a sex education class. When I got back from that little adventure and climbed out in the janitor's office I tried to convince him I'd been studying the air flow in there. He didn't believe me, of course, so in the end I just turned and ran. Not a great back-up plan.

I was called into the headmaster's office the next day, was forced to write a 500-word-essay on personal privacy, the tape was erased and my recorder was banned from school grounds for the rest of the year.

_[...YEP.]

_{[Heather listens, with limited interest at first-- and then her expression turns to one of incredulous amusement.]

[Between the morning routine and THIS, consider her impression of Cooper turned upside-down. No pun intended.]}

Seriously?

_{[Imagining itty-bitty barely-a-teenager Cooper pulling shenanigans like that was so ridiculous in contrast to her impression of him as a police officer it was hilarious.]

[She's totally laughing.]}

Seriously.

_{[It is a funny story and he's going to offer it as such, but he still looks almost surprised at her laughing - he doesn't normally get people to laugh - but in the end, that's not at all a bad reaction, and he can only grin with her.]}

_{[Admittedly, it's not too hard to make Heather laugh-- but seriously it is a funny story.]}

That is KINDA amazing, I will not lie.

_{[His grin can only grow at that.]}

I was sure it would go on some kind of record. Actually mentioned it in a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, but he wrote me back congratulating me on my "esprit de corps". Now that was amazing.

You wrote to the head of the FBI about your sex-ed. eavesdropping escapades?

_{[COOPER YOU ARE JUST FULL OF SURPRISES.]}

_{[WASN'T HE THE MOST AMAZING KID? But yeah, that brings a sort of chuckle. When she puts it like that ...]}

I wrote to him expressing my wish to become an Agent and some worry that my behaviour would be considered inappropriate, making me unable to apply. Keep in mind I was thirteen at the time. That was the biggest thing I had to worry about right then.

_{[HE REALLY WAS. Of course, had Heather been a girl at his school she might have thought differently, but as an anecdote from someone she'd thought was totally some stiff-upper-lip hardass with a badge? COMEDIC GOLD.]}

Wow.

That is EPIC.

That might be an overstatement, but I'm glad I could amuse you.

_{[And hang on - hopping down from the branch, straightening up and stretching for a moment, looking just about perfectly content with life and everything in it.]}

Anyway, time for that coffee, don't you think?

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[Video] fff that reminds me of how I used to play 'SPIES' all the time when I was little XD

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