haganenomore

Ed's currently perched on a barstool, not wanting the comfort of one of the armchairs scattered about the Nexus. For awhile, he's perfectly content to watch people pass by as he mulls over what he wants to ask and how to word it. Eventually, he gives up on trying to word things delicately and decides to go with blunt.

"Okay. Suppose you and a friend had apparently been flirting with each other without even knowing you were doing it until someone else points it out. Possibly embarrassing yes, but not a problem, right? Wrong. Because said friend is already involved with someone else. That someone happening to be an alt." He sighs. "There's also the problem that we're probably better friends than we should be, and I, at least, have been trying to put a little distance back into things. Not terribly much--just enough to try to get things back to the proper levels or something."

Now he rubs at the back of his neck. "It doesn't help that we've already found out relatively soon after we first met that we were interested in each other in the 'more than friends' sense although a certain amount of that could have been brought on by personal stuff we've both been going through at the time that I don't feel like going into. Anyway, she recently realized that she's still interested in me. And before someone suggests the polygamy thing, the alt and I don't like each other and would probably spend entirely too much time sniping at each other or getting into outright fights if we had to live in the same apartment together."

Now he smiles weakly. "I guess my question is: thoughts on this?"

haganenomore

Ed's sitting sideways on a Nexus-couch, legs drawn up to her chest and arms wrapped around them. She'd been mulling over a question for a while, trying to put her thoughts into some sort of order so she'd actually be coherant instead of producing some sort of mixed up babble.

"Has the Nexus affected your relationships? And if so, how? I don't mean in terms of the ones developed in the Nexus so much as the ones you've already had," she clarifies, in case anyone has somehow misunderstood.

"And assuming you don't feel like dealing with the first question, ever have one of those moments when you realize that you could probably do something useful and feel stupid for not figuring it out sooner?"

((x-posted))

haganenomore

Ed's sprawled on a Nexus Couch, taking up most of the space. "Got a question that would have worked better back when it was still actually winter. Well, in the parts of the Nexus that felt like doing the winter thing. That being, is it the Nexus that decides on the temperature, or people subconsciously agreeing on it? My heating bills for the winter and annoyance with having to be bundled up in some areas, resulting in me being rather over-dressed for others, is what's prompted the question."

He looks lost in thought for a few minutes. "How do you deal with homesickness when going back home for extended amounts of time isn't a very good idea? And what visits you do make apparently just makes it worse?" he finally asks quietly.

Meanwhile, apparently completely unrelated to him, there's a small table with name tags that say 'My name is ___________ and I like/don't like ___________________________.' There are also pens available with a sign saying 'Tired of having to introduce yourself to people? Or possibly even just want a break from being mistaken for an alt? Take one of these name tags!'

((Needless to say, the name tags are LOL'd. Once they're on, they stay on the pup for twenty-four hours or until the mun takes pity on them. They also announce some random minor embarrassing thing in the second blank, regardless of what's originally written there.))

haganenomore

"Am I the only one who thinks this is a particularly sucky time of year to deliberately LOL people?" A freshly two-inch tall Ed sits sulkily on a chair arm, where he climbed to avoid being stepped or sat on.

"For those who don't care about the previous question, I guess I should ask something else. Um, what do you like about winter?"

((It's three in the morning. Will respond to tags after I sleep. Back.))