un: willthewise | 001

[deadboywalking]

[Will's been here for a hot second, and he's paid careful attention to...things that are going on. And he's more than ready to hit y'all with a whammy of a moral conundrum. Forgive his slow typing; he's from the 80's and texting isn't really a thing.]

if you do something bad -- like really bad, like unforgivable -- in your life before here

are you allowed to not tell anyone about it? or try to be better here? are you allowed to start over entirely?

is that bad too?

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[underachievement]

[ OCEAN SECRETS this kid is a trip ]

Technically my job is Full Time Quiet Maintenance. [ lie, it's patrol but she's not ready to share that with anyone ]

[deadboywalking]

[Well obvs fish aren't gonna have Land Secrets now are they.]

ohhhhhh. that's pretty close. vigilantes are quiet.

mine is supposed to be teacher but....I'm in eighth grade. I don't know anything to teach.

[underachievement]

[ he's in wh- oh MOTHERFUCKER how does she keep accidentally talking to kids, why are there so many kids here, what kind of Neverland bullshit, she's so mad at the situation she needs a few minutes away from her device before she takes it out on him. sounds like he's got it plenty hard already ]

You're a kid. You shouldn't have a job.

[deadboywalking]

[It's a damn child epidemic call the fire department.]

i mean i don't really mind. I want to help, but it's probably be better if I had a job I could actually do like...i dunno. sanitation? or something.

[underachievement]

[ or how about a mine, ooh or he could sew everyone name-brand sneakers ]

Don't tell anyone but if you just ask the people outside the reset room, they'll give you a new one.

[deadboywalking]

[In between his 15-hour shifts at the factory, ofc.]

really? isn't that sort of...dishonest?

[underachievement]

[ sort of dishonest is her favourite kind of dishonest ]

Maybe if anyone had ever asked me about it before.

[deadboywalking]

did you ask to get changed to...quiet-keeper?

[underachievement]

Yes. [ Okay now she's being whole hog dishonest but whatever who doesn't lie to kids ]

[deadboywalking]

wow. what were you before? i mean, before you asked to change.

[underachievement]

[ a sandwich ]

Tailor.
I can't sew for sh to save my life.

[deadboywalking]

huh
i guess the jumpsuit things have to come from somewhere



mine's tan. it's sort of boring but also sort of ghostbuster.

[underachievement]

Sounds like you're from an Earth that's a lot like mine.

[deadboywalking]

there are worlds WITHOUT ghostbusters??

[underachievement]

Some people are from outer space apparently.

[deadboywalking]

outer space sucks if there aren't any ghostbusters there.

i was one for halloween. which is dumb, i'm way too old, but it was fun until people started laughing at us.

[underachievement]

[ Right where it hurts, much. All Jess's childhood memories of Halloween are fond, even the harder ones: Wanting to go with her friends instead of her brother and catalysing a whole family meltdown. Heeeey, that's a good sign she's getting too chummy. ]

Well this place is lousy with kids in jumpsuits. No one's going to laugh at you here.
But I see some quiet that needs maintaining so I have to go. [ She should tell him she hopes it gets easier to live with, whatever he feels he did, but she already said something nice. Any more is overkill. And she sucks at goodbyes. So. .... Bye! ]

[deadboywalking]

[Good talk dad he feels supported.]