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video; un: brickfuckingmaster

So was anyone gonna tell me about the motherfucking dinosaur-shaped food here? Seriously!

[ Ellie sits criss-cross in front of the camera on the floor of her room, a plate of said chicken nuggets in her lap. There's a book about dinosaurs next to her, and her gun sitting on top of it.

As a child of the post-apocalypse, this is the greatest thing she's ever stumbled on. The world must know. ]

This is a...[ she holds up a t-rex. ] Tyrannosaurus rex. And this is a triceratops. [ she holds the next one up before biting its head off. ] Amazing.

Anyway, I'm bored as fuck. So say something and I will give you a fact about the most badass prehistoric dina-mos to ever exist or something.

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Okay, but the question's still relevant.

My friend gave it to me 'cause people and Infected have a nice habit of trying to shoot or bite or tear us to shreds. I didn't - steal it from someone or some shit.

[ which is nowhere near what this dude had actually said, but-- she's used to the assumptions that she's trouble or going to steal. which, she was, normally, but that's not the point. ]

I didn't even say that!

[ He asked who gave it to her! So he kind of has his answer! Now, onto being very sensitive and tactful: ]

What kinda psycho place are you coming from?!

Mushroom zombies ended the world.

[ It's a simple phrase most people seem to understand at this point, so. She's just gonna eat another nugget. ]

Oh.

Well, that sounds like it sucks.

[ Sorry for ragging on your possession of a firearm, kid. ]

It does. Relax, dude, it's just for safety. I know how to use it, and I'm not gonna be just shooting anyone who looks at me wrong.

Still, should you just have it laying around like that? I guess you're kinda babysitting it, but...

Well. Whatever.

[ she's not trying to be pissy with this guy, but-- babysitting is like a knife right over her nerves.

she'd earned this pistol, paid for it in blood, to protect Joel. it's still burned into her memory, that first real glimpse of trust from the biggest asshole whe'd ever met, but who she respected nonetheless. Joel was a survivor, hardened by two decades of the worst humanity had to offer. earning his trust had felt impossible once upon a time. ]

I'm not babysitting it, asshole. It's my gun. I've used it.

Quit telling me things I didn't even say! I meant you're watching it instead of leaving it sitting around somewhere! But fuck me for being concerned about totally normal shit to be concerned about, right?!

[ Like... Come on. Bad enough he's now got some random chick pulling up to call him ugly, but now he's an asshole, too. Because he's worried about a gun-wielding child! How's he supposed to magically know the circumstances?! ]

Eat your stupid nuggets!

[ as soon as the surge of offense has passed, she feels kind of bad. it sucks. she'll never used to people giving a shit, it feels like some days.

she runs her hands over her face in frustration. ]

Listen, just-- I don't need you to be concerned. Okay? I'm not a little kid.

[ she says, sharing dinosaur facts on camera like an adult. ]

Apparently people give a shit here way more than where I'm from. It's fucking bizarre. So like. Sorry for calling for you an asshole. Or something. Jesus christ, I'm shit at this.

Or something? Geez.

I already said it's whatever. Gimme a dinosaur fact and we'll call it good.

The largest dinosaur backbone ever found weighed a ton, or as much as a tank. They were the biggest creatures to ever walk the Earth.

Wild. I guess you see the bones and shit, but mass is still hard to picture. A lotta stuff was really big at some point, right? You got those huge sloths and everything.

Guess everything's been shrinking ever sense. Another hundred-thousand years and we'll all be a foot high.

I mean, we'll be dead, but you know what I mean.

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