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[firewalled]

Yo! Needed you all to know something important, so listen up, train!

[Rich is standing in front of the monitor in the music room, hands on his hips, looking very stern and serious... but then he smirks.]

Have you ever gotten ads online promising hot bisexual singles in your area?

[...Is he actually shooting fingerguns?]

It's me. I'm the hot bisexual single in your area. Just thought you all needed to know I am currently on the market.

Please field all date inquiries to my mailbox. Or my sleeper car, whatever. I'm rooming with Alice, but we are not an item.

[She would pretty much laugh in his face if he even implied they were.]

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[firewalled]

Hey, I'm not joking, really. I am honestly interested in dating people, if anyone wants to.

[Rich doesn't quite get what Eight is embarrassed about, and even if he has a guess, he's not going to jump to conclusions.]

The most important point, to me, was making sure people knew what I was into, but looking for a date would be an added bonus.

[consider8]

[She's a repressed Octarian demisexual born into a dictatorial society where female Octolings take some of the highest positions of military office. She's not used to being seen as "attractive," no.]

So you are saying you'd find me... [She trails... finding it hard to even say.]

...a potential candidate of affection...?

[Close enough.]

Even though I'm an Octarian and you're a human?

[firewalled]

Hey, I'm not going to be... speciesist or whatever you'd call it. If you're cute, you're cute. I mean, there might be biological stuff I don't exactly get, but that doesn't mean dates are out of the question.

[He gives her a very careful smile.]

You don't have to be down on yourself. But you also don't have to think I'm cute back or whatever. Just thought I'd give you a compliment.

[consider8]

[She's looking red in the face and she's nowhere near a steam pot!!]

W-Well... I think... you're f-fresh...

[firewalled]

[Rich muffles a bit of laughter. It's not like he's laughing at her! He's just not used to her slang.]

That's sweet of you to say. Pretty sure you're way more fresh than me, though!

[consider8]

[If possible she gets a bit redder still, but instead manages to laugh.]

Y-you don't even know what that means!

[firewalled]

Maybe I don't! It sounded like cool, so I kind of went with that. Am I totally off base?

[consider8]

Yeah, its cool. You want to be fresh. [She can't really fight him on this. And maybe this can be a learning moment for her, too.]

What word means something that is good or the best. Something that you want to be or that you think is cool.

[firewalled]

Okay, good! Then I'm glad that you think I'm fresh.

In my world, I'm not sure what we'd use to say something is the absolute best. Sweet, maybe? Hype? Fuckin' A? There's lots of different slang to use!

[consider8]

[Those all sound good, but one stands out.]

Fuckin' A?

[That was surprisingly fun to say!]

[firewalled]

Yeah! Like when you get an A grade, that's a really good grade? But maybe it's just short for fucking awesome. I don't know. Either way, it really emphasizes that something's the best!

[consider8]

VEEMO!!! FUCKIN' A!!

[Congratulations, Rich, you taught an innocent Octochild how to curse in human.]

[firewalled]

[His life's work, finally realized.]

Hell yeah! Fuckin' A, you've got it!

[He can't wait to see her tell someone that they're 'fuckin A'. Rich should maybe feel a little bit bad about trolling.]

[consider8]

FUCKIN' A! FUCKIN'A! FUCKIN' A!!!!

[She's so happy she's hopping up and down with her hands tucked in tight to her chest she was given a magic new word that means something truly special. Because Rich would never lead her astray, right? :)]

[firewalled]

[To be fair, he's not intentionally leading her astray! He just thinks swearing is fun and funny!]

Fuckin' A! Fuckin' A! Fuckin' A!

[Which means there are now two absolute gremlin children chanting curses over the intercom. Enjoy that, train.]

[consider8]

[This was fun! After a full fifteen seconds or so of 'Fuckin' A's' until she burst into a fit of giggles.]

That started to sound funny at the end!

[firewalled]

Heh! Most words do start to sound kind of funny if you say them enough times. If I say my name enough times, I start to trip over it.

[consider8]

[Oh?]

Rich! Rich! Rich! Rich! Rich! Rich! Rich!

[firewalled]

[Oh, are they back at this again? Rich joins in the chanting, but with his lisp, even 'ch' is a little hard to say, so sure enough, he starts stumbling in his own words.]

Rich, Ricsh, bluh, bitch- see?

[At least he didn't intentionally teach her another swear!]

[consider8]

[Not YET. :E]

[The attempt made Eight laugh, noticing of course that he does, indeed, have quite the lisp. And hey, since they're being silly, that means that he would be open to silly questions, right?]

Mmm! I guess your parents didn't know that 'Rich' would be hard for you to say when you were little. Hmn...

I have always wondered, is your name supposed to have something to do with money or having a lot of valuable things...?

[firewalled]

[Rich actually doesn't find these questions as silly, but poor Eight couldn't have known that before she asked. His smile becomes a little sadder and he shakes his head.]

I was actually named something else when I was little... I chose Rich myself. I don't know why I went with it... I mean, it's short for Richard, but I'm definitely not rolling in dough.

[He tries to lighten the mood by adding,] Hey, maybe the longer I use this name, the closer I'll be to winning the lottery!

[consider8]

Oh. [She wants to ask what his original name was but... stops. There was a reason for the change of the name and she wanted to respect that.]

...my first name was not Eight too.

[She gets it.]

[firewalled]

...Sometimes the name you get when you're born just doesn't match who you really are. It's okay. I just, uh, don't talk about it much. Get nervous people might look at me differently.

[He doesn't exactly want to get into details, unless Eight really wants to know... but then how would she feel about him flirting with her?]

[consider8]

[She is being respectful, but is a little curious.]

What do you mean look at you differently?

[That is safe, right?]

cw implied transphobia

[firewalled]

[Rich lets out a quiet sigh, but even if he wanted to avoid it, it wouldn't be right to not talk about it.]

People would think I was going through a phase. Based on my old name... people would think I wasn't really a guy.