Suite 115 | Banyan Tree Resort, Seychelles | Friday Evening

[dollpocalypse]

Well, it had been a pretty slow week for Topher so far, leaving out the safari with Billy and Ace and that weird conversation with Natalie the other day, and maybe a tiny part of him was scandalized and appalled by the fact that some kid he didn't know on the radio had accused him of not being a partier. He was totally capable of partying, okay? Just with people he liked. That was critical.

So what was his solution? That's right. A movie night with some bros.

Well, two bros and a boyfriend. Whatever.

So the beds got pushed together, a thoroughly unreasonable amount of room service was ordered even considering they were four teenage boys, and a really bad movie was on. There were dinosaurs in it, and the dinosaurs had laser guns. That probably said it all.

"I'm sending a copy of this to Ben for whenever he gets to be a person again," Topher declared, leaning forward to grab another handful of Cheetos. "This is gold."

[[for the bros!]]

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[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty sure he hasn't stopped being a person," Tony said lazily.

[ultron_junior]

"Technically I think he's an alien," Victor put in, not sounding too bothered by it as he selected half a Reuben from a tray and licked Thousand Island from the crust.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Dude. Species-ism from the cyborg."

[ultron_junior]

"It's not an ism unless I say there's something wrong with it," Victor said, a bit defensively. "He's from another planet. Makes him an alien."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony snickered, tossing a sliver of cold cut at him. "But they're a multiple planet governmental system. Do they still get called aliens then?"

[ultron_junior]

Victor dropped the cold cut into his mouth and tossed a potato chip back at Tony. "Yes," he said definitively. "Born on another planet makes you an alien no matter what the form of government is."

He was making this up as he went along.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Go on, oh master of all things alien," Tony replied with a grin.

[dollpocalypse]

"He has no internet," Topher pointed out. So...

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Still a person even without internet," Tony shot back.

[dollpocalypse]

"Are we sure that's possible?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...pretty sure."

[dollpocalypse]

Topher did the mental equivalent of a comedian tapping a microphone to verify that it was, in fact, on.

Hmm.

"Well, not a person who can appreciate fine cinematic classics," he said. "Which was my point."

[ultron_junior]

"That's like philosophy," Victor observed. "If a geek doesn't have internet, is he still a geek?"

[dollpocalypse]

Huh. "Well, even without internet, he does have a spaceship, so that qualifies him, I guess," Topher said thoughtfully. "But if he was some random kid in, like, Montana or something whose parents had never heard of routers, then I'd have to say no."

Profound.

"Thoughts?"

[ultron_junior]

"Oh, wow, you're making me think," Victor groaned, not really minding it in the least. "Um, okay, kid in Montana can still be a geek if he says he's a geek. But he might sort of be a geek on probation."

[dollpocalypse]

"First sports game he watches, it's over?" Topher guessed.

[selfhelphero]

"Maybe he has! Who knows what crazy things can happen in spaaaace," Billy said. Yes, the extra emphasis was necessary.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"In where?" Because everyone needed to say 'spaaaaaaace' when it was mentioned.

[selfhelphero]

"Spaaaaace. I just hope we get to visit at some point," Billy said. "It might be weird to bug Ben and Ender though."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Ender will be the governor of the entire planet," Tony pointed out. "It might be cool."

[selfhelphero]

"Wouldn't it be nice to be somewhere where you weren't the most talked-about person?" At least, that was how Billy imagined Tony's life was outside of Fandom.

[ultron_junior]

"Maybe he's on a whole planet of dinosaurs right now," Victor suggested. "It could happen."

[selfhelphero]

"Oh, come on, that'd be awesome! You know, assuming you were like Ben and had a lightsaber and could just chop up anything that tried to eat you," Billy said. "You'd probably be safe among dinosaurs too."

[ultron_junior]

"You'd be safe too, right?" Victor asked, nodding in agreement. "You could magic them frozen in place and run, or something like that."

[selfhelphero]

Billy thought about it for a moment. "I have to admit, I'd probably freeze them and then stare at them and check them out," he said. "It'd probably take me a while to think to run. Preservation instincts aren't my strong suit."