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Sometimes the best way out of a bad situation is to entirely replace your personality and memories with those of a complete stranger
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"Any illegible ones? Tech nowadays is pretty meh on, like, degrees and stuff if you can show what you can do but if you're, like, into architecture or something then I have no idea."

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"I'm kind of just a generic smart person, unfortunately. I could most likely learn to code if I tried, do you want to recommend me a tutorial?"

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"Do I!"

He's forgotten all his selfconsciousness by now and can cheerfully scoot over to her and show her places online on his laptop, aimed at "doesn't know Python from a hole in the wall" but if she's got any more familiarity than that he can adjust.

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She doesn't know Python from a hole in the wall but she is *such* a generic smart person. Hello, world.

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Cool he can also adjust for that level of ease of acquiring new knowledge, this is actually pretty exciting.

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This is cool! She's not sure how any of this backend stuff turns into shiny apps later but she can make Python do math problems and fizzbuzz and stuff.

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If she expresses a desire to understand this she might accidentally trigger an animated explanation about the high levels of turning this stuff into shiny apps but he is perfectly amenable to being steered back into helping with this stuff again. He's happy to spend the next handful of hours he has of his """"day"""" on this. He has an alarm for four AM telling him to have "dinner", if nothing stops them before that.

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Nothing has to! They can just do programming tutoring till "dinner"time! What is for "dinner"?

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...cup noodles? Is that an acceptable answer?

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...this once, yes. But she is going to peek in the fridge while she's up getting water.

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His fridge contains: ...not much to be honest. Some eggs, two bottles of milk, some cheese, some butter, and a few cans of energy drinks.

His freezer is better equipped, there are some ready-made frozen meals, the kind you pop into a microwave for two minutes and eat.

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Pantry?

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Some dried pasta and canned tomato sauce, some sliced bread, instant mix coffee, hot coca powder, a box of protein shake powder, a bunch of snackish things like peanuts, other nuts, chips, highly-processed sweets like Haribos, and of course lots of cup noodles.

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Erogame, if this boy has managed to forget a box of Bisquick in there, she is going to make him pancakes. Fixing this intention firmly in her mind she moves aside a box of ramen.

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Well what a coincidence!

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She puts the ramen back. It will be a surprise come morning.

Cup noodles are pretty good if it is the first actual meal you have eaten ever in your life though. No complaints.

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Good good he is missing the relevant context but he will die on the cup noodles hill.

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"I'd suggest more coding before bed but I'm not sure we'd get to a good stopping place till sunup. I should get some sleep. Thank you again for taking me in."

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"Yeah, of course. Uh, if you want to take a shower or something before bed you can feel free, too, I got some extra towels."

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"Oh, good thought." She will go ahead and hop in the shower, she kinda doesn't know where she's been.

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His whole house is the kinda house a single insanely well-paid nerd who doesn't care or know anything about decorating or any other elements of a living place other than "containing the objects one needs for their day-to-day life" has in Norville. So his bathroom has a nice comfortable bath and the shower has good temperature control and no issues and his soap and shampoo have completely neutral smells and his towels are fluffy and nice and his bathroom is completely devoid of any personality whatsoever otherwise.

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That's fine! He has a personality and chose to display it principally through his mailbox. Shower is a quick in and out affair and then she'll go to the guest sofabed in a towel rather than redress in the "boyfriend" outfit.

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To be fairer to him now that she's walked into it his not-an-office also has personality! As probably the single room he spends the most time in, it has a handful of posters, a shelf with various figurines (mostly Marvel heroes but it also includes a miniature remote-controlled R2-D2), a couple of shelves with a bunch of manga (mostly shounen but also the original Sailor Moon series as well as a CLAMP section), and his desk which has an impressive-looking computer with two impressive-looking screens and a myriad different fidget toys.

He is, himself, there, actually, doing some last-minute cleaning (apparently he had two cup noodles boxes and a few scattered snack wrappers on the desk, though he's scrupulous about keeping the floor of the room debris-free), and he turns around with a little apologetic expression that gets a lot more apologetic when he spots her with the towel. "Uh, sorry, I realised I forgot to clean my work area, um."

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A skill has been created by a special action! Being spotted wearing only a towel by a boy that's attracted to you has created the skill Naked Towel.

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"Understandable. I don't have another change of clothes is all." What does that skill do. Why are these called "skills".

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