[Rose half turns, quietly delighted to not be alone here after all, and--
Huh. Right. Dave's teenage alt-universe Bro. Not anyone she might have expected to see. And technically her genetic father. That last part is kind of a weird thing to think about when she considers her lack of interaction with this person. She'd...waved at him, she thinks, in the midst of all the lotus pad reunions just a little while ago? But that's it. There hadn't really been a chance before the fighting, of course, with how quickly Dave and him had scurried off to go deal with their shit, and after she'd been a bit distracted greeting the people she actually knew and getting dragged around by Kanaya.
Was it weirder that she hadn't gone out of her way to make time for her technical-dad? It's not like she was never planning on it, she'd at least expected there to be time for that sort of thing once everything had settled down... But then, Dave had been pretty quick to shove himself in Roxy's face and make a connection with his kinda-mom. Does that make her kind of distant, that she hadn't done the equivalent? Or was that just Dave being his normal needy self?
This probably isn't the time to analyze her own behavior, with the ectodad right there waiting on a response from her. Right.]
Where is Dave when I need him? I would have liked to welcome him home.
[There. Their point of connection, other than shared genetics. That's a tactful choice of subject with a near-stranger, right?]
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Huh. Right. Dave's teenage alt-universe Bro. Not anyone she might have expected to see. And technically her genetic father. That last part is kind of a weird thing to think about when she considers her lack of interaction with this person. She'd...waved at him, she thinks, in the midst of all the lotus pad reunions just a little while ago? But that's it. There hadn't really been a chance before the fighting, of course, with how quickly Dave and him had scurried off to go deal with their shit, and after she'd been a bit distracted greeting the people she actually knew and getting dragged around by Kanaya.
Was it weirder that she hadn't gone out of her way to make time for her technical-dad? It's not like she was never planning on it, she'd at least expected there to be time for that sort of thing once everything had settled down... But then, Dave had been pretty quick to shove himself in Roxy's face and make a connection with his kinda-mom. Does that make her kind of distant, that she hadn't done the equivalent? Or was that just Dave being his normal needy self?
This probably isn't the time to analyze her own behavior, with the ectodad right there waiting on a response from her. Right.]
Where is Dave when I need him? I would have liked to welcome him home.
[There. Their point of connection, other than shared genetics. That's a tactful choice of subject with a near-stranger, right?]