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[groupiedrifter]

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[groupiedrifter]

why

[hatejakku]

Because you were asking to marry it?

[groupiedrifter]

WhY did you tell it Hermann and I were together???

[hatejakku]

[ Is his earpiece broken? ]

When two people get married, they usually want to know who else they might be getting married to.

[groupiedrifter]

Holy shit, Finn, Hermann and I aren't a couple.

1/2

[hatejakku]

[hatejakku]

that explains a lot

[groupiedrifter]

[oh my god, finn...........]

A lot, huh?

[hatejakku]

[ ... ]

Actually, it just explains why Hermann wasn't mentioned when I heard about you and James. I sort of thought the proposal was just an elaborate joke.

[ If anything, this raises more questions. ]

Don't worry, I didn't tell the castle that. I really tried to sell you and Hermann and marriage as a whole.

[groupiedrifter]

Well, you can tell the castle that I was joking, and I appreciate the message, and I respect its choices, and I hope we can still be friends.

Me and Jim's uh!!!!
That's friend stuff! I mean, not NORMAL friend stuff, but you know what I mean.
We're not a couple or anything, it's... like... a comfort thing. And for fun!
Jim's awesome, he's a great pal.

[THIS IS ALL TURNING ON HIM SO QUICKLY

S.O.S., S.O.S.!

... God, but now he's so curious.]

Just out of curiosity
What exactly made you assume me and Hermann are a thing?
Because I'm always pestering him, or what?

[hatejakku]

Will do. No problem.

[ Minus the joking part, anyway. ]

Oh, I know. James explained it to me. It's okay. I'm completely fine with it.

Sort of? You two spend a lot of time together and you seem really close. Then there was that message I was locked out of, so I don't know the details. Rumor was that you and Hermann

y'know, had a thing

[ That was not the rumor. Finn assumed that was the rumor because no one would use their words or name names. ]

[groupiedrifter]

Oh! Cool!
But if you're ever not
y'know
you can always say, it won't hurt my feelings.


RUMOR???? Ha! Hahaha, no, noooo. Hermann's not like that.
He's married to his math. I mean, good on him if he ever does decide to branch out to significant others that aren't composed entirely of equations. ;)
We're best friends though. After a nice rocky friendship full of yelling and complaining to higher-ups. Having our brains hooked to the same machine together helped I think.

But no
nope
no thing!

[hatejakku]

[ Bro, he's fine, don't worry about it... But if he wasn't fine with it, he would steam roll right over anybody's feelings in this situation, so don't worry about that either! ]

Ah. Sorry, then. I must have misunderstood at some point. The castle was the only one I talked about it with, though, if that helps.






"brains hooked to the same machine" that's a metaphor for something, right?

[ He sounds dumb even double checking. ]

[groupiedrifter]

It's cool.
Honestly, it's kind of cute.
Being that close with my pals that people get the wrong idea!




But nah, that isn't a metaphor, our brains were hooked up to a machine that let us drift through a dying kaiju's brain.

👍👍👍👍👍

[hatejakku]

I can't tell if you're serious or not

[groupiedrifter]

???? Why wouldn't I be serious?

I'm 100% serious!

[hatejakku]

And I'm going to need you to explain how that happened please

[ It's been a trying day and you're pulling this on him. ]

[groupiedrifter]

Oof, okay, uh.

Shorthand version:

1. Giant alien monsters stomped around trying to destroy humans.
2. They were getting reaaaally close to actually succeeding at this.
3. I worked on the team that was stopping them from succeeding at this!
4. We needed information about how these monsters worked, so I used a drift machine to link my mind up to a piece of monster brain so I could gather information from its dying mind but it was very overwhelming and almost killed me but I got the information we needed for the next step of the plan.
5. Needed more information, so did it again! But this time with back-up so my mind wouldn't get fried!
6. That back-up was Hermann
7. We used that info to help save the planet



There you go! Easy peasy.

[hatejakku]

[ That- What? ]

That didn't answer

What's a drift machine? How do you link minds via a machine?

[groupiedrifter]

With special devices you put on your head, obviously. :)

These machines are usually used in our giant robots, because one human brain can't pilot them solo. It'd be too much on the mind, they'd be neurologically damaged doing it by themselves. So a system was created so that two minds could pilot the robot together. They connect. Share each other's thoughts, feelings, memories. It helps them pilot in unison.

I just used that method for, uh

looking through an alien's memories for information.

[hatejakku]

and that's healthy?

[ It doesn't sound healthy in the "normal" way, and this is from a guy that has done this without the need for a machine to get involved. ]

[groupiedrifter]

What, hooking up to an alien's memories for information?

Nah probably not, I almost died the first time.

But wouldn't you take that risk, if it meant stopping the destruction of humankind?

[hatejakku]

the first time

[ NEWTON ]

Well. Yes. Of course. But. How many times did you do this?

[groupiedrifter]

Don't repeat it at me like a disappointed mom!

Only twice, for the record.
The first time, I made the mistake of drifting alone.
But I'm good now.

The second time, I did it right. Had a secondary drifter, too, so the drift itself didn't overwhelm to the point of severe symptoms. That's when we got the information we needed and relayed it to our team. Totally the last piece of the puzzle in taking down the kaiju.

[hatejakku]

[ It's amazing. Everything Newt says makes Finn's anxiety worse. ]

Wait, go back, severe symptoms? Are you okay?