>Vriska: Go to the library.

[fabricates]

Characters: Vriska Serket and Dave Strider [AU] and then Vriska Serket and you!
Format: Action
This log is: Open
Location: Black 2-A and then the libary
Summary: Vriska has to ask permission to go to the library, but once she gets there she's looking for books. Feel free to bother her!
Warnings: Language, Vriska being a bitch?

[Black 2-A - Closed to Dave]

[Okay this rights thing? Complete and total bull shit. It hadn't bothered her at first, because she didn't care what kind of food she was eating because it was all human food. But when she tries to go to the library and is turned away because she doesn't have permission? Fuck that. It had taken almost all of her resistance to not curb stomp the person that had denied her entrance. She's trying to be less of a terrible person. So instead she'd stormed back to rap on Dave's door loudly and undoubtedly obnoxiously.]

[Library - Open to All]

[After getting Dave's permission, she's holed herself up in the library with a stack of books on what she hopes is the right thing. She has absolutely no idea what she's looking for, honestly. She's pretty sure half the books she's grabbed are useless. Well, whatever. She'll check them out anyway. She just refuses to ask Dave or John to teach her this whole sign language business. Especially after John had assumed she wouldn't want to learn it. The nerve.

Okay, this book is useless. She tosses it to the side, onto another pile of books that haven't been helpful at all. Ugh, this is annoying. She picks up another book, flipping it open and burying her face in it.]

Comments

[fabricates]

[She stares at him for a while, brows furrowing. She's really not used to offers of help from anyone. It's not a troll thing.]

You want to help me. Why? What's in it for you?

[knightime]

hes my best fucking friend???
one of them at least
i like my bros being happy
and i guess having other people knowing asl
especially you
would make him happier
he doesnt exactly have the typing expertise i have acquired

[fabricates]

[She doesn't like Dave, and she really doesn't want to take him up on the offer. She considers turning him down but when she considers John's happiness into the equation it changes things. If learning from Dave could help her learn quicker... But does she really want to put up with Dave for any longer than she needs to?]

How long would it take?

[knightime]

[God, what was he signing himself up for? Probably a lot of back and forth sass and being around Vriska more then he needed to be around her for.]

that depends on you
how fast can you memorize everything
the alphabet should be easy to learn if you can remember shit easily
a book can teach you that
but then we need to get into more then just the alphabet
there are certain gestures that mean entire sentences
etc

[fabricates]

[This sounds complicated and annoying but she's not just going to back down from it now. It's pretty much a challenge at this point and Vriska Serket doesn't say no to a challenge. Even if it means putting up with a jackass for an unknown amount of time.]

Memorization won't be a problem. I already know two languages anyway. Learning a third isn't going to be hard.

[She drops the books she's holding on a table nearby.]

Fine. You can help, I guess.

[knightime]

[You're his Weapon anyways. You're going to be at least stuck with him for a week.]

just keep a book for the alphabet
idk where you want to go to learn
but i can go through the alphabet for you right now so you know what it looks like
and we can go from there

[The shit they do for John. God. And here he was hoping he didn't have to extensively be around Vriska so much.]

[fabricates]

[This is a recipe for disaster. She's already dreading it with every fiber in her being.]

Whatever. Just show me here. It'd be pointless to go somewhere else at this point.

[She sits down and waits.]

[knightime]

[He puts the PDA on the table, where she put the book down. On the screen was the entire alphabet in order.

He holds his arms up and slowly goes through each letter for her. Pausing between each letter before continuing to the next.]

[fabricates]

[She copies them and she feels stupid. This looks ridiculous. She'll have to practice in the privacy of her own room later too. She glances between his hands and the PDA, trying to commit the letters to memory.]

[knightime]

[Yeah, well. At least you're signing to someone who knows what it is. You haven't had the misfortune of signing to people who just think you're flailing around stupidly.

He folds his arms for a moment to let her copy a bit before he goes through the alphabet a second time. He'll probably hold off on going too far. He might teach her simple things like saying 'hey' or other greetings that people usually do to start small talk.]

[fabricates]

[She goes through it again and it feels no less silly this time than last time. And her eyes flick around the room to make sure no one else is staring.]

This is so inefficient.

[knightime]

[He shrugs a bit. He hasn't even gotten to words and phrases yet.

Welcome to the life of those who can't talk and hear and what they go through to get around. He points at Vriska. He's expecting you to sign him the alphabet. He'll correct her if she screws up.]

[fabricates]

[Really? Way to put her on the spot, Dave. She sort of fumbles through it, and definitely gets a few letters wrong.]

[knightime]

[Dave surprisingly doesn't do anything douchebag like. He just signs the letters she signs wrong and points out when her signs get a little hard to understand.

Other then that, it was surprisingly...well he isn't being an ass.

He grabs his PDA though.]

that was pretty good for your first time without my help

[fabricates]

[Even if he isn't being an ass about it, she still hates being corrected because she hates not getting things right on the first try. Her eyes read over the PDA and what. Is that actually a compliment? Weird. She's starting to consider that maybe she should have pestered Dave back when she was in the Veil. A pointless thought because it's too little too late for any of that.]

Of course it was. Like I said, this will be a piece of cake.

[knightime]

dont be cocky
or ill dive straight into words and entire phrases
wouldnt you love that???
pretty sure you wouldnt

[Yeah, good luck with that then. He can sign pretty fast and you don't always rely on the alphabet to sign certain things.]

[fabricates]

Whatever! Are you going to show me anything else or is that it??

[She can be cocky if she wants to and she is. But that's a state of being for Vriska.]

[knightime]

[If you really want him too.

Dave starts going through a series of different signs. He shows Vriska Mom, Dad, Boy(male), Girl(female), and other things that should be known at a basic level. After each sign, he also uses the alphabet to spell out what he just signed. Hopefully, you can keep up with those. These are just the basics.]

[fabricates]

[She repeats them, though her brows are a little furrowed. Maybe it was basic human words to learn but trolls didn't have parents so two of those words are basically useless to her. She guesses maybe they'll come in handy for talking to humans though, so she shrugs it off. But not before she gives him shit for it.]

You do realize trolls don't have guardians like humans do, right?? Pretty rude to teach me your human terms! Whatever happened to being culturally senstive?

[knightime]

[You can't see the eye roll that he makes before he quickly types into his PDA.]

assuming i am usually culturally sensitive
youre in a place where most people do
plus
...
nevermind that thought
whatever
youll probably have to use a few of those words eventually
so shut up
jegus
its not like we have a sign
for your troll terms

[fabricates]

No word for Spidermom? Laaaaaaaame.

[But after she finishes signing those for words a few times, she spells out 'lusus' just to be catty.]

Well, I guess it's fine.

[knightime]

[At the mention of Spidermom, Dave does two gestures. He first holds his hands out and wriggles his fingers, doing the sign for 'spider' then does the sign for 'mom' for her. There you go, Spidermom. Bitch.

If you want spidermom, you fucking got it.]

[fabricates]

[Oh, okay. She can roll with that. She repeats the gestures. Not that she thinks she'll be talking much about Spidermom ever. But at least she knows the sign for it now. Yeah, she can do this sign language thing.]

How culturally sensitive of you.

[knightime]

[This is stupid. Why is he teaching you again?

Whatever. He goes through some more nouns and what not. He shows her the signs for you and me so she can start some type of half assed conversation with people. He idly wonders what he can trick Vriska into signing. He'll keep some things in mind later when she can start doing entire sentences.]

[fabricates]

[Because of her sparkling personality, asshole.

Vriska's doing her best to try to memorize what he's showing her so she doesn't have to relearn later. Which means repeating it half a dozen times. And if she did forget, hopefully some of these books would have the standard stuff so Dave wouldn't have to teach it to her again. She really doesn't want to give Dave the satisfaction of her forgetting something.]