restinglichface | Open rp post!

[that... hardly seems fair. Three assignments for a microaggression? Barry has homework of his own too!

But then again, he’s a white cis boy with nowhere near Lup’s level of status - who’s he to tell her what’s fair? That’s definitely misogynistic, the internet has taught him that for sure.]

of course absolutely
consider it done
just email me I’ll get right on it
dynaheir_the_invoker_rp@email.net
I’ll have it on your desk by thurs

Edited 2019-06-25 23:27 (UTC)

slam dunk
happy doing business w u bluejeans!!

[she goes silent on her end for a few minutes, long enough away from her computer for her status to go idle, before popping back in and immediately messaging him again.]

btw
what the fuck does ur email mean?????
do u go larp w those dorks in the park??
ive seen em out there on the weekends just whacking each other w sticks

names not bluejeans but ok

[Yeah, watching her go idle while he sits there trying to figure out what to write to her feels like pins and needles. It feels so weird leaving the convo off like that? He doesn’t have any conversations like these??

When she comes back, he regrets fretting and waiting.]

They’re not dorks ok? That’s mean. And they’re not sticks, they’re polyethylene foam over fiberglass rods, it’s real stuff
That’s not even my LARPing email
That one’s my main for a Forgotten Realms fan forum I frequent

Like I’d give you my school email pffft.

[Barry never pretended to be cool.]

LOL WAT

cmon its not mean to call someone a dork
its just like
yknow
facts

its not mean when someone says im cool or pretty
basically the same thing

also i cant believe u know so much abt all that dorky stuff
do u take a whole class abt nerd culture bluejeans??
are u president of the dork club?
gonna get ur degree in dungeons and dragons?

[Funny how much braver he feels sitting in front of the computer compared to when his path crosses hers in the hallway at school.]

They don’t offer degrees in Dungeons & Dragons.
I have actually considered writing a dissertation on the race- and gender views expressed in novelizations of licensed D&D campaigns and how they differ across campaign settings and their various social systems, but I’m getting the feeling your question was in jest.
Of course you can believe it, your use of hyperbole doesn’t fool me. You and your brother and all your friends don’t let me or my friends forget it. Not ever.

Also, yes it’s mean.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have your ap history presentation to finish.

[Lup doesn't mind if she's hurt his feelings, doesn't care if she's really offended the boy. But for reasons she can't quite explain, she wants to keep the conversation going, no matter how badly he's reacting. She just wants to keep talking to Barry, especially now that AIM gives her the perfect excuse of chatting with him without having her brother all up in her business.]

wait a sec
dont run off yet barry!!
just hang w me for a few

i wanna hear more abt varying gender views across campaigns
that shit legit sounds interesting
im rly into that kinda thing

[He’s about to silence her, already typing up an away message that will hopefully deter her from any further comments about his nerdiness. But then she calls him Barry.

She’s never called him Barry before.

It takes him a solid five minutes to consider what he’s going to write next, while simultaneously avoiding thinking about why his stomach is doing wild nauseating flips at the thought of her genuine interest. He doesn’t care if she likes role play. She’s a mean girl. A bully. That’s all she is.]

Really?
Well er...

How familiar are you with the Dragonlance setting?

[He still spends the next hour explaining the core differences between Dragonlance, Eberron, and Ravenloft as it pertains to gender politics. Doesn’t mean he cares.]

[Nope, doesn't care one bit.

Lup's responses are surprising enthusiastic while he explains, engaging in a way he's likely never seen from her in class, but then as the conversation starts to die down, she just disappears. Clearly she's not a "goodbye, talk to you later!!" type of girl. Instead, she just leaves conversations hanging, leaving them easy to slip right back into them without looking desperate or needing to redo awkward hellos.

Which is exactly what she does.

By the time Barry comes home from school the next day, her profile pic has already been changed to a different picture of her, and it only takes a few moments of him being online before her messages start dinging in.]

did we have a pop quiz in chem today??
i heard from stace half the class failed
but she lies like 99% of the time so im asking u

[It’s a weird way to communicate. Barry is so used to chatting with people many years his senior on forums and BBSes, all with a more formal air over their messages, proper grammar and introductions and goodbyes. But despite sitting in front of his screen for a good twenty minutes waiting for a response that never came, a part of him finds it almost silly how easy it was, IMing with Lup. Literally the most popular girl in school.

That thought doesn’t strike him until halfway through the school day. It makes it very hard to concentrate on his work.

He certainly hasn’t expected her to be messaging him the moment he logs back on, the new message chime going off one after the other.]

I don’t think Stacy was even in chem today, so...
We did have a pop quiz, but only five or six failed. Mrs Kawahara wasn’t impressed still
She asked where you were?

Edited 2019-06-26 00:49 (UTC)

ugh that bitch i fucking knew it
im gonna switch out her diet coke for the real deal
gl fitting into ur prom dress stace <3

and i was around
just didnt feel like showing up
but i guess i need to be there tomorrow to make up the quiz
hey can i get ur answers????
guessing u aced it like usual

um I did okay
A-, messed up a couple formulas
I’ll send you them, hang on

[... hang on. Since when does he just give away pop quiz answers? Yes, he agreed to do Lup’s assignments for her, but only because he’d been kind of a dick to her - although the more he thinks about it, she might have juked him on that one - but he’s never been the kinda guy that cute girls wanna copy homework from. Too stubborn and nerdy even for that. Plus, he’s on the student council. People know not to go through him.

But here he is, ready and willing to type up his pop quiz answers to a girl who just blatantly threatened to screw over another girl’s diet regimen.

He hesitates. Reads through their chat log. For once in his life, Barry takes a risk.]

What’s it get me?
If you want the answers, it’s going to cost you

[Well, well, well. Lup's eternally grateful for the screens between them, because she's not sure she could have kept the surprise from her face at Barry J. Bluejean's sudden boldness. It's a new look on him, one she absolutely wasn't expecting, but not one that gives the young woman any pause.

Barry's only left sweating and feeling sick for just a few seconds, before xXxFlAmInGdEm0n69xXx is typing... pops up.]

fair enough
name ur price

are u secretly a huge perv
u gonna ask for special pics
gonna beg to feel me up
gonna trade ur answers to see my tits??
is that what u want

[hes gonna puke hes gonna puke holy shit shes going to out him as some sleazy manipulative weirdo to everyone in school—]

what????

[Barry can’t tell if she’s being serious - he certainly hopes she’s not serious!! he’s not some kinda perv!!! nope!!!! doesn’t get him all excited or nothing!!!!!! not at all!!!!!!! - but his reaction is immediate and incredulous and virginal.]

I would never do that to you!
I’m not that kinda guy!!
I was gonna say like
stop your brother from stealing my lunch money all the time
Not inappropriate pictures good lord

Edited 2019-06-26 01:42 (UTC)

oh

[Thrown for two loops in the last few minutes? That's quite the accomplishment, Barry. To be honest, Lup's not sure whether to be offended that he doesn't want her pictures, flattered he's enough of a gentleman to not need to stoop to that level, or amused at his over-the-top reaction. The guy's absolutely a total virgin, of course the offer of seeing the best pair of tits in the school would make him totally lose it, but it still makes her think.

She was kind of hoping for at least a little more out of him in this request.]

cant make any promises about taako
hes kind of his own guy
and he isnt take chem this year

but i can put in a good word for u
try and get him to chill for awhile

[It’s not that he would mind seeing her topless pictures - virginal and nerdy though he may be, he’s still a boy through and through. And there’s no doubt in his mind Lup is one of the hottest girls in school. The Internet has taught him to be careful not to fetishize trans girls, and he would never ever put any gross labels on her, but... he can’t deny that’s part of what makes her so insanely attractive to him. She knows she’s pretty, she’s comfortable in her own skin, she owns her hotness wholly and completely. She’s just crazy hot, okay?

But Barry is a nervous little gentleman. He would never ask for nudes from someone ever.]

I guess beggars can’t be choosers huh
It’s a deal
If you can like... also make him not shove me into lockers, that’d be just swell.

Emailing you the pop quiz answers now

By the way, the history presentation should be done sometime tonight

my tits are great btw
in case u were wondering

[Just in case he needed the reminder...]

fuck ur fast
thanks bluejeans :)))
not 100% i can talk taako out of taking ur money
but i can def get him to lay off on the locker shoves
that one i can do
can keep the jocks off of u too if u want
everyone cept like me ;)
i get special locker shoving privileges since ur my nerd now

[MMMMMM HE DOESN’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT HER TITS MORE THAN HE ALREADY DOES THANK YOU—]

name’s still not bluejeans
But yeah, of course. I work fast

... You can actually do that?
Keep all the jocks off my back..?
And what’s that mean... “my nerd”?

[He’d be lying if he said he didn’t love the sound of that, being her nerd now.]

[sounds fake]

uuuuuh natch?
ofc i can
what u think i cant bully the jocks into doing whatever i say
those idiots all know whos at the top of the food chain at school boyo

and u know
if im gonna tell them to back off its cuz ur one of mine
like
my go to schoolwork guy

Yes of course
Schoolwork guy
Yes that
that makes sense

[Right. Like he even has a chance of being more than Lup’s homework slave until graduation. Suppose it’s better than nothing. Maybe he imagined the connection he felt with her last night, talking about the sociopolitical climates of D&D settings. Of course he did. Idiot.]

I don’t know how you manage
Standing up to the jocks and stuff?
Isn’t it scary?

[If lup feels even a hint of his disappointment over their messenger conversation, she doesn't bring it up, doesn't bat an eye on her end.]

those fucks?
not really much to be scared abt with them my guy
they are all total wussies
no matter how tough they act

all u gotta do is get em alone and they totes crumble
thats why they travel in packs
they aint shit

Not in my experience, sadly
But of course, I don’t have your kind of status

[~~or tits~~]

I think I will just continue keeping to myself
Although I want you to know I really appreciate you keeping them off my back
Honestly, Lup
Not having to worry going down the hallway anymore is going to feel very nice
:-)

[he turns on the sweetness out of nowhere, throwing out that smilie face with surprising sincerity, that it makes something in the girl's chest flutter. oh.]

for sure barry
ill keep em off ya
not a prob
u can strut up and down the hallway w/o worry

but like if u ever wanna learn
ill give u some lessons on standing up for urself
betcha got some tough under all that nerd

Ha ha ha
I sincerely doubt it
I don’t think I was made tough

But thank you for the offer, Lup

[it’s distressingly hard to type anything smart or witty or profound when your stomach is full of butterflies and your head feels like it’s full of wet cotton. Barry’s face feels like it’s burning red.

Stupid. She’s probably just teasing him, alluding to some time or another she cornered him and made him feel small and weak, and Barry’s just having a hard time reading her tone over instant messaging. She doesn’t mean anything nice about it. This is Lup we’re talking about. A bully and a mean girl. Probably laughing her ass off on the other end of the screen. Snap out of it, Barry.

It’s not enough to convince the butterflies to die down.]

Should finish up the history presentation in a bit, then starting your lit essay.
Just so you know.

wouldnt bet on it
i always end up surprising people
bet u would too if u let urself

[she's ready to keep flirting with him, to keep barry online with her and talking for as long as she can keep him there. to follow whatever this is as far as she can, to keep the wonderful fluttery feeling going. but barry is trying to slip away to finish her own homework and there's not much lup can say against that.

she wants that assignment done, alright, but she also wants to talk to him. this has to be the worst thing to ever happen in her life.]

dunk
cant wait to see

[and then a few seconds later, before he can reply]

what r u doing tomorrow????

Hm

[Spoken like a boy who thinks the girl on the other end is full of shit.

That seems to be the end of it for now, Lup conceding to letting him return to her homework, leaving Barry to stew on his own and ignore how weird his body feels from talking to her. He’s not sure if it’s a nice feeling - it feels like he’s being tickled and experiencing vertigo at the same time, a nauseating panicked sucking sensation right in his gut pulling him closer to a cliff’s edge, even as his skin feels all tingly and nice. It’s confusing. Barry doesn’t like confusing.

At least it’s over... he thinks, for maybe seven blissful seconds, before the chime of a new message pulls him right back in again. What’s with her?? Can’t she take a vague conversation ender for what it is???]

Um?
Finishing up your essay? And
getting started on our bio project?
Why?

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