[Sometime during AU week]

[the_ex_in_xp]

[meanwhile at the dorms, a half-pirate and some girl who managed a +3 lockpicking skill in her bag of tricks are trying to break in to "their" room]

This lock is way more sophisticated than the others. You'd think they were worried about unsavory people trying to break in...

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[the_ex_in_excessive]

[but I'm beaming at you in appreciation and everything and reaching out to take them]

Thanks, Ramona. Here, let me get their stuff set up and they'll probably settle down.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[yep, handing them off and going back to using her hands for productive things, like idly twisting a bracelet on one wrist]

Probably. They look pretty wound up.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[finding the rabbits water bowl and filling it up, placing it and the food by a corner and actually taking the dorm room in]

... so, uh...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[it's unmistakably a room of cohabitation...awkward]

...you think the mess is the rabbits' fault or are we slobs?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

It could be both? But from the way Sarah described this me she's probably my opposite on a lot of stuff. Maybe it carries over to cleanliness too...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[looks to where there are obviously paint tubes scattered around]

I think the messy artist stereotype overrides your differences. But I don't see any katanas lying around, so...

[picking up a striped shirt her other self probably forgot to put in the laundry]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Hey, I have an entire system now. I'm way less messy than I was in college.

Is that yours? Or, I mean, hers?

[the_ex_in_xp]

[smirking in a "uh-huh sure" indulgent way before holding the shirt against herself]

It's my size anyway. Not really my style, but that doesn't mean much, right?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Probably not. I guess I wasn't told anything about that, just about your hair and the fact that you do deliveries for Amazon...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[raises her eyebrows a little, tossing the shirt on a bed corner]

I work for Amazon? Huh. Sounds okay, I bet their employee discounts are nice...

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Probably. But still, that's not a huge change or anything.

[picking up an eyeblack container]

Whereas I'm starting to think I'm waaaaay different...

[the_ex_in_xp]

Right, yeah, seems pretty similar...

[except for the part where she's in a stable long-term relationship, that's definitely Bizarro world]

Is that paint for art or paint for your face?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

It's eye black. Like, as in the stuff football players wear.

[the_ex_in_xp]

Maybe it's a ninja thing? Or a football thing. You could be into sports, or roller derby. Like that match I took you to before, you sort of liked it, right?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[looking under the bed and pulling out a stray roller skate]

Wow, maybe I do do roller derby. I wonder if I have one of those cool names...

[the_ex_in_xp]

You've got a lot to work with a name like Roxie Richter. Rox and Roll, Richter Scale, something involving ninjas..

[the_ex_in_excessive]

I bet it's an art thing. Like Francisco de Gore-Ya!

[the_ex_in_xp]

[the enthusiasm for such a silly name makes her smile, even if it was an awful pun]

Or that. It sounds like something that would fit an angry eyeblack version of you.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

That or like a play on Warhol. I know she's a serious artist or something. I wonder if she has a sketchbook of her own around here...

[the_ex_in_xp]

She's probably got seven, with all the spare time she has.

[looking around for any sketch books, but more interested in the laptops]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Yeah, if I lived here I'd basically be drawing all the time.

[finding a sketch book! there are laptops lying around but Roxie's is for sure password protected]

[the_ex_in_xp]

If you weren't doing...whatever it is ninjas do in their downtime. Sharpen shurikens?

[not interested in anything but her other self's laptop because that's where she'd find the most information, you can tell a lot about a girl from her music library, but her attempts at password hacking also give her a chance to glance over at you without seeming too obvious about it]

Found anything?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

It's a lot of self-portraits in the section I'm on. There is one of you, though...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[raising her eyebrows a little]

Oh?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[turning the book around to show you; it's a photorealistic sketch of Ramona reading a book, likely done while hanging out within the last month, not that either of them would be able to tell that specifically]

Pretty impressive technique...