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MISFIRES

a rambunctious duo in salt has stuck their nose where they shouldn't and now you can all reap the rewards! this is a MISFIRES meme. post a header for your character, and receive accidental texts from your local saltburntian guests. nudes, nasties, confessions of a certain persuasion? things you'd otherwise never write or send? they're all on the table. (meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

Comments

[homosexuals]

Cold, huh? That's - that's odd. Think you lived somewhere frigid in a past life? Or went for a swim and misjudged the temperature?

That's kind of you to say. I don't know - sometimes the idea of a suit feels like it'd be easier to move around in. If things are going the way they are with my career - I might need one sooner rather than later.

Guilty as charged. Will you at least think about it?

[mygoodsir]

I don't know. But it frightens me.

What do you mean?

Hawkins, is it not enough that I have to deal with my ex husband, now I have to go out with Stephen Strange too?

[homosexuals]

I know what you mean. It feels - constricting, almost, when I think about it. But almost like...everything now is what's wrong. Sorry - I probably sound like I'm still on whatever they were passing around the other night.

Well, ever since I started creeping towards forty and fucked up my knee...they think I'd be better served on the sidelines. Coaching. Retiring. Basically the same damn thing, isn't it?

Look, I know you don't want to hear it - but you both have a lot in common. Doctors, talented in your fields, kind, friends of mine...

I know you both pretend to hate each other, but it's a fine line. And whether you believe it or not...he's changed since the accident.

If nothing else - maybe you can both get one good punch in and end the feud. Miracles happen, so they say.

[mygoodsir]

No, no you're making perfect sense. I've thought I was going mad but
Hawkins sometimes I truly feel like there is another me in the mirror. A better me.

I don't believe so. Retiring, to me, indicates leaving it all behind entirely. Coaching is still in the field, but as a teacher. Which might be more painful?

Oh, I wasn't pretending. I loathed him for years. He was so brilliant, and yes handsome, and I was so honoured to work with him. He treated me like an incompetent idiot and I never got over it.

We might have mended things. But don't you DARE get your hopes up about us making out, Hawk.

[homosexuals]

That's what scares me too, Harry. What if mine...is worse?

It's been my life for - well, since I was five, almost. The thought of not having it at all is monumental. But then I think about what some kid would care about anything I have to say when their talent is just getting started. I don't know. I guess I've got a few weeks to try and figure it out.

He did that to everyone. If you ask him, I probably annoyed myself into his life with politeness when I first met him. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm pretty persistent ;)

...Mended things? Oh, Harry! Tell me everything.

[mygoodsir]

Hawkins Fuller, you listen to me: there is not a world that exists in which you are not a man with a good heart.

You do. I can't say which path I would take in your situation. But I will say that you'd teach that hypothetical kid much.

Perhaps. But I took it very personally. I was young, and I was trying so hard to do well. Part of me had fantasies of impressing him. It crushed me, to have him look at me and say things like I ought to consider transferring to the janitorial staff where I might be more useful.

I got drunk and passed out in front of Teo's room after begging him to give me a chance. Strange helped me back to my room. But we talked about what a prick he was. That's the funny part, you know - he had no idea why I hated him.