the metacarpals and phalanges of Khonshu? Sounds *real* threatening. Be scarier if you controlled gravity and the ebb and flow of water, y'know, like the moon

> Ugh, don't you know anything? The God Particle? Higgs Boson? It is all gods and no gods all at once. It is everything and nothing. It permeates ALL existence, it's the reason everything has mass

> Also, skeletal dude with bird head definitely doesn't equal fists, it equals bones. So you're, what

think moons or birds have fists, so. . .

> 😬🫢

Oh no, would they *have* to?

> Will we have to do the whole introducing thing again?
> Cause like, mine's scientific and stuff, and yours sounds dumb and that's really embarrassing for you

Wow, petty.
And definitely not the mature thing to say here.

> I mean-- Khonshu is a moon bird and I don't

world after he fell into mine first.
> Anyway the name's Higgs. Particle of God that permeates all existence

> That's the one! So you're a little smart, even though you're totally dumb

For ditching JP, obviously. For not absolutely falling in love with him, obviously. Which, for the record, Higgs is definitely not in love.
Probably.

> I'm not his boyfriend, for the record, just the guy that fell into his

> Well obviously. Can't go around yelling at you like an asshole and then turn around and be an asshole now can I?

> That's called something. I don't remember the word though

If he thinks this is strange, wait for the off-chance they ever have to meet.

> Sure, sure.

> Well, anyway, I'll leave you alone now. I think I got my point across.

Because there was definitely a point to this, and it was definitely clearly articulated.
Definitely.

I do hate you. (I think) so

> 😝

> Well, good
> He's a good person, by the way. Really good. So be good to him or I won't be good to you

Was that a good level of threatening? What could he even do in this world, really? He didn't have any powers to speak of, at least not that he'd been able to call on so far.

> And yeah, actually

> The sort of roommate that was apparently a lover in another world and is just trying to keep the guy I care about safe from dangerous adventures with a 'friend' who calls but doesn't answer?

> Yeah, guess I am

Too far. He's pretty sure he's gone too far.
No taking it back now though.

> The person living with him

Now now, he really should try to reign himself in. He doesn't even fully remember why he's holding some sort of deep resentment towards this friend of JP's.

> So don't call on him for any dangerous shit

A couple dark tears slipped down his cheeks as he glanced to the other man, not knowing that they were stopped because they had arrived at their destination.

"What do I do now? How do I go on living?"

I somehow broke free from the Beach, I'd go after the people that left me there to rot. I'd hunt them all down and make them pay for leaving me there, for not just killing me and getting it all over with. That I'd try to find out how to bring about the End that I had been taught to fight for. . ."

supposed life before Amelie before he'd been trapped on the Beach, he would have wanted to forget it so that being trapped for so long wouldn't feel even more unbearable.
Probably.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore," he admitted, his voice a little broken. "I kept telling myself that if

into the stale air until his throat was horse, until he could hardly make another sound.
Had tried walking into the waters, only for the cold surface to spit him back out onto the rocky sand.

Everything was gray and lifeless, everything was cold and lonely.

Even if he could have remembered this

and spiritually drained.

Everything in his life before Amelie was gone, and everything after he wished would leave him be.
He'd done everything she had asked of him, had been a good little pawn in her malicious game, and yet he'd been left on that Beach to rot away, forgotten and alone. Screaming