Dear Azrael,
Don't apologize for the bluntness! I really appreciate people getting straight to the point, mostly because I tend to get caught up with exposition to the point where I forget what I originally intended to talk about. Congratulations on moving, that's great! Visit a ghost town for me.
That's good that people accept gay marriage where you are. I don't know anyone homophobic personally, but they're all over the news. To those people, look, it's not my business who you're into. I'm actually asexual and aromantic, so it really doesn't matter to me. If you love someone, good for you.
And yeah, periods suck. I wouldn't wish that pain on anybody. And my parents won't let me miss school for even the first day of my period, so I usually just have a crappy day when that happens.
I'm glad you like wordplay as well. I like puns, except when my dad makes them. I know that puns are typically a little cheesy, but my dad's jokes are usually just terrible. Theo and I have to fake laugh through it at the dinner table so he doesn't feel bad. Now that I think of it, that's probably how my friends think of me. Well, they put up with me, so I guess I'm doing something right. My really close friends are named Cody and Meryn. There's also Aysen, who got roped into my friend group by Theo, but I feel like something's shady about Aysen. Cody is my voice of reason, but believes that actions speak louder than words. He usually ends up bailing me out of detention (I'm not a bad kid, it's just that some kids in my classes, and this one teacher, consistently try and get me in trouble. I have no idea why). He also makes jokes about my "nemeses" (I don't think of them like that, but it's shorter than saying 'negative acquaintances'). I'll get back to them. Anyway, Meryn is really pretty, but she hates makeup. She's also really smart about biology, and she likes studying plants and architecture, which is an interesting combination. She also seems to glow, but that's probably my terrible eyesight. And it always smells like syrup when she's around, but she doesn't use perfume. Maybe she has pancakes with extra maple every day, I don't know. I also think Theo likes her, but I don't want to make him uncomfortable, and even if he does, it's not my business. Aysen seems nice and we also share the same taste in books and TV shows, but I feel like something's wrong. He's always typing on his laptop and I once found him rifling through the recycling bin of the principal. I'm sure it's nothing, though, and I'm just being paranoid. Maybe he has a blog, or he accidentally threw away a paper he needed or something. But I guess there's nothing he's done wrong, and I'm the problem here. I'm sure I'll keep warming up to him. Theo and I actually started this Friday dinner thing where every Friday, we go to a different person's house to have dinner, so we can try each other's cooking and meet each other's parents and stuff. Last Friday, Theo and I made dinner for everyone and we all watched an episode of Paragon Chronicles, which is a high-fantasy show about… some hero, I was a little confused by the plot. Cody was the only one who wanted to watch it, but Theo and I have been friends with Cody since kindergarten and he's always stuck by our sides even when he got fun of for hanging out with us, so I didn't want to say no. Apparently there's a lot of lore, so if you're not familiar with it, it's really confusing. But Cody said that episode wasn't that good, so maybe it wasn't just me.
I'm more into sci-fi, so I wanted to watch Chronopoint, which is this mystery where two interdimensional detectives travel through time and space, trying to crack down on multidimensional black markets and also trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. The comedy also really resonates with me (it's like hyperbolic metacommentary, science jokes, satire, and ironic juxtaposition combined. It's nerdy, but I enjoy it). Also, I found out Aysen likes this show, so that's something we bonded over.
Cody wears flannel all the time. I swear, it's like he's a cartoon character or something. But I guess the same could be said about anyone I know. What color flannel? Black, or red/black checks, or something else?
I wish I could be six feet tall, but I've come to accept that it's just not going to happen. My brother is 5'6 and he's a little under a year younger than me, but we're in the same grade. People used to think that we were twins because we're in the same grade, but I guess "Irish twins" (we're actually of Scottish and German descent, but that's besides the point) was just too long, so some people refer to us as twins due to our similar facial structure and hair color. We both have brown right eyes, but Theo's left eye is green. It's hereditary.
Also, if people look into your eyes and find out when/how they die, is it possible for the incident to be avoided or is it inevitable? Has anyone ever tried? I feel like that's the kind of stuff that would end horribly. I mean, dying is the part of life that all mortals share, right?
How does collecting souls work?
Other than time traveling and building stuff, Theo and I do some other stuff. We're both geeks when it comes to TV shows, and we're planning to go to a convention dressed up as those two guys from Chronopoint. Cody's coming dressed as the hero of Paragon Chronicles, Meryn is going to be dressed as an evil plant scientist, and Aysen is also coming dressed as someone from Chronopoint. Theo and I both also play instruments. We're both in jazz band, marching band, and chorus (we're both music nerds). I collect bookmarks, which I guess some people think is weird. Theo collects coins from other countries (other than interdimensional travel, our family likes to travel internationally). Relating to the coin thing, this one time in a restaurant, some dude just came up to us with two closed fists and asked each of us to pick a hand. In each hand, he had a coin from a different country! I got a coin with a platypus on it, which was from Australia. The males have poisonous spurs, which has venom toxic enough to cause a human's limb to swell and be useless for an average of three months. Oh, I also like trivia. I have lots of other hobbies, but this letter is really dragging on, sorry. Also, the name Vozreal sounds familiar, but it might be because the ending of the name is similar to your own.
Sincerely,
Chelsea Porter