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“No,” said Dash. His pale hair was plastered to his face, the dripping ends turning slate grey beneath the downpour. Around his feet, a pool of rainwater was streaked with whorls of darkness where the black dye from his coat had run.
Marshall let out an exasperated sigh that blew his own sodden bangs from his rain-streaked forehead.
“Are you seriously going to catch pneumonia just so you can try to look cool?” Marshall demanded.
Dash said nothing, but his scowl deepened, black eye brows drawing tighter together in a frown that was visible even through the driving rain. Marshall frowned back.
“Look, stop being an idiot and put it on!” he snapped, shoving the rustling, rain-beaded bundle towards Dash’s chest. Dash smacked it away, stepping back and shaking his hand like someone whose fingers had just grazed something distasteful.
For a moment, Marshall felt sure that Dash was going to wipe his hands on the soaked and streaming front of his trench-coat. He felt equally sure that, if that happened, he would throw something at Dash's head.
“It’s blue,” said Dash, spitting out the word as if it were poison.
The crumpled mass currently bunched in Marshall’s white-knuckled fist was, indeed, blue. A bright and vibrant shade of cobalt blue, with cheery yellow safety strips that gleamed in the reflected headlights of passing cars.
“So?” said Marshall. “What’s wrong with blue? I wear blue. I’m wearing blue right now. I’m wearing this same exact jacket.”
“Exactly,” said Dash. “It’s the same as yours. It’s like a stupid uniform for the world’s lamest club. I’m not wandering around looking like I'm part of a team building exercise for losers gone insane from loserdom.”
His voice was shaking. Rain water dripped from the nape of his neck, darkening the deep red of his shirt collar, and he shivered despite himself.
“My mom bought it for you,” said Marshall, going straight for the nuclear option.
Dash snatched the raincoat from his outstretched hand.
“Just give me that thing,” he said.
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Date: 2017-09-20 01:31 am (UTC)Also, as a Leonard Cohen fan, the fact that it's a blue raincoat fills me with joy.
As the person who spent way too much in-game money because I Could Not Deal with even my Pokemon GO avatars wearing too much color, I gotta sympathize with Dash here.
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Date: 2017-09-20 08:18 pm (UTC)And yes, I spent far too much time on Digimon Cybersleuth being inordinately upset about being forced to wear black and yellow because "I look like a stupid bumblebee". If in game purchase had allowed me to change it, fuuuuccckkk that stupid yellow baseball tee.
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Date: 2017-09-20 08:35 pm (UTC)At least I know I'm not alone. I was in a raid group the other day where all of us were talking about how much we spent on customizing our avatars' wardrobes. Including the guy who really wants to wear the pink and red and yellow pants, but not quite enough to play as the "girl" style avatar, which is the only menu on which they're available. Whereas I body swap all the time in this stupid game making clothes buying extra expensive, but refuse to run around in anything but black pants, even in pixelated form.
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Date: 2017-09-21 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-20 02:16 pm (UTC)followed so closely by Marilyn Teller's influence ♥
this is so great. it's both hilarious and full of feels.
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Date: 2017-09-20 06:33 pm (UTC)