[ Aradia's usually been interested in breakfast. Sometimes she's been interested in watching breakfast being cooked, for no other reason than learning new things and/or getting it faster (hey, it's a good strategy!) and it's become habitual to wait for Jake to collect everyone who cares to eat in the mornings.
So when he doesn't show up she ends up going looking. It's disconcerting not to be able to find Jake, but his gear is still listed...good lord, they lost Jake. He wandered off when they weren't looking, and he was going to show back up with another concussion or something, wasn't he?
That line of thought led to maybe I should call Dirk, maybe he knows if we lost Jake (because really, Sollux and Kanaya didn't actually make keeping tabs on Jake English a priority in all liklihood) which led to oh no which led to oh.
Finding Jake wasn't a thing that happened for a while, although she did look around. No, the only thing she found was Gauss the Metang (another nail in the well drat coffin of realization), whom she collected to continue searching, although in this case two heads didn't make much more progress than one did. Until Aradia checked her gear for the umpteenth time. Jake was posting, so...
Try his room again? ...Wait, no. Try Dirk's room, this time. She'll just rap on the door, perfectly prepared to bury him in texts if there wasn't an answer and he was, in fact, lost once again. ]
Jake? Are you there? [ A beat. Before she spoke to her companions - Dirk's Metang and her own Gengar. ] Indy, perhaps...?
[ If you don't answer, she'll just have Indy phase in and check personally, Jake. ]
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So when he doesn't show up she ends up going looking. It's disconcerting not to be able to find Jake, but his gear is still listed...good lord, they lost Jake. He wandered off when they weren't looking, and he was going to show back up with another concussion or something, wasn't he?
That line of thought led to maybe I should call Dirk, maybe he knows if we lost Jake (because really, Sollux and Kanaya didn't actually make keeping tabs on Jake English a priority in all liklihood) which led to oh no which led to oh.
Finding Jake wasn't a thing that happened for a while, although she did look around. No, the only thing she found was Gauss the Metang (another nail in the well drat coffin of realization), whom she collected to continue searching, although in this case two heads didn't make much more progress than one did. Until Aradia checked her gear for the umpteenth time. Jake was posting, so...
Try his room again? ...Wait, no. Try Dirk's room, this time. She'll just rap on the door, perfectly prepared to bury him in texts if there wasn't an answer and he was, in fact, lost once again. ]
Jake? Are you there? [ A beat. Before she spoke to her companions - Dirk's Metang and her own Gengar. ] Indy, perhaps...?
[ If you don't answer, she'll just have Indy phase in and check personally, Jake. ]