Room 401, Thursday Noonish

[ultron_junior]

It seemed to be a relatively quiet day -- no work, no classes, and no island drama to take up Victor's time.

Obviously, this meant he needed to sleep in. Once he'd finally gotten up, showered and dressed, it was late in the morning. Like the geek he was, he decided a good way to make use of the rest of his day was to organize his stockpile of comic books chronologically by title. They were jumbled together in a milk crate near his bed, which wasn't exactly the best solution.

If taking the comics out of the milk crate to sort them had turned into a marathon Ratman back issue reading session, well ... it wasn't like the project had a deadline.

[OOC: Open post, cracked door.]

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"Oh! I am sorry," Liara said quickly. "I-- did not mean to pry into the details. It is just that I have been concerned-- irrationally-- and you seemed to know about, well-- issues, and..."

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"No, no, it's fine," Victor reassured her, just as quickly. "If it were my friend telling me what Kar's telling you, I'd be worried too. But, this may be me being thick, but -- what kind of issues do we mean?"

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"Being in California," Liara said, "Fighting criminals."

Those were pretty big Issues.

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[ultron_junior]

"California's not scary."

Victor couldn't say the same about the other Issue, though.

"And the criminals --- she's good at it. Really."

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Liara rubbed at her forehead.

"Did you join them?" she asked.

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"Yeah," Victor said, surprised it was even a question. "They wanted me to, and I wasn't in any shape to think about other choices. If there even were any."

He still wasn't sure there had been.

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"And... then you came here," she plowed on carefully.

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"Right, but not the next day or anything," Victor clarified. "I was with them most of a year before some personal stuff went kerflooey and I needed some space."

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[fewer_explosions]

"I see."

An awkward silence ensued on Liara's end. She was terrified of somehow offending him.

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If there was an awkward silence, Victor was going to be generous and fill it with babbling. "Not -- evil supervillain kind of kerflooey," he said. "The ... boring, normal, 'I like this girl but I'm dating someone else and then they both dump me' kind of kerflooey. Anyhow. I needed a change."

He looked sheepish as he spoke; he was fairly certain Liara didn't care about his girl drama.

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[fewer_explosions]

Liara tilted her head. "Ah," she said, with a vague hint of distance. "Human dating practices are-- interesting. In some respects."

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[ultron_junior]

"You guys figured out a way around relationship drama?"

They were getting a little far from the topic of Victorious, but Victor wasn't exactly eager to dive back into those waters.

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[fewer_explosions]

There was not terribly much to ask about Victorious, was there? She did not know Victor terribly well, and the whole concept still seemed-- outrageous.

As for this concept - Liara just blinked. "Should there be drama?"

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"I think you're really lucky if there isn't," Victor said hesitantly. There hadn't been a whole lot of drama with Olive once they got started, but that was -- special. "It's emotional. Sometimes people do dumb stuff. Not so much where you're from?"

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"I would not know," Liara admitted. "I have never dated anyone before."

And she wasn't exactly a social superstar even on Thessia.

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"Oh." So ... that was awkward.

Victor shuffled his feet along the ground, looking for something more to say. "Well ... maybe it's easy for some people."