"It was fun," she agrees. "And it was easy fun. You didn't have to hunt it down. It was just everywhere, on TV and the internet and at the mall and at parties. You didn't even need money half the time, if you could sneak in."
When you're nineteen especially, when your very presence is against the rules in some places but juuuust socially acceptable enough that you can squeak by anyway.
She always liked the challenge of not getting caught. Maybe that was where all this smuggling business got started. Some things don't change. She smiles despite herself, letting herself relax in the seat a little. The road is straight, she can stay steady. Driving without a license.
She wonders, idly, if the kid has considered Marlene lied to her. Marlene probably wouldn't even think of it as a lie: when you have that kind of conviction, that kind of delusion about your own causes, anything can be the truth, if it's yours. If you can convince others.
Tess's smile fades out again a little.
"No dad in the picture?"
[ooc: pre-timeskip is the DREAM, I hope it happens someday, people have been asking for it since the OG game came out... tho I guess it'll have to if they want to do more with Joel... but for now I am hoping they end the season on David instead of the hospital so they can eke out more content before that! (also lol Alberta's stupid-ass premier is claiming HBO TLOU's going to get 7 seasons, so if that ends up coming true, Druckmann better milk every minute he can.]
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When you're nineteen especially, when your very presence is against the rules in some places but juuuust socially acceptable enough that you can squeak by anyway.
She always liked the challenge of not getting caught. Maybe that was where all this smuggling business got started. Some things don't change. She smiles despite herself, letting herself relax in the seat a little. The road is straight, she can stay steady. Driving without a license.
She wonders, idly, if the kid has considered Marlene lied to her. Marlene probably wouldn't even think of it as a lie: when you have that kind of conviction, that kind of delusion about your own causes, anything can be the truth, if it's yours. If you can convince others.
Tess's smile fades out again a little.
"No dad in the picture?"
[ooc: pre-timeskip is the DREAM, I hope it happens someday, people have been asking for it since the OG game came out... tho I guess it'll have to if they want to do more with Joel... but for now I am hoping they end the season on David instead of the hospital so they can eke out more content before that! (also lol Alberta's stupid-ass premier is claiming HBO TLOU's going to get 7 seasons, so if that ends up coming true, Druckmann better milk every minute he can.]