Work Text:
"You know Pomni, I wasn't lying about my past at the bar." Jax started randomly as they walked down the hall.
"Huh?" Pomni hummed with a spike of interest. She remembered that they talked about their pasts, Zooble shut Jax down quickly when he tried to talk about his backstory. After all, he was acting as if he was Walter White, so of course they did.
"Zooble was right I did lie about some stuff, and most of what I said was a lie, but I still kept some truth in what I said. No, I wasn't a lame chemist." Jax state in a somber-ish tone, looking down but adding the last part to seem like he wasn't as bothered as he stood out to be.
"What do you mean? I thought you was referencing to Breaking Bad when you said all that stuff?" Pomni bit on the inner of her mouth, a habit she had when she was in the human world.
"I was referencing Breaking Bad when I was talking about my 'past' but I did get diagnosed with lung cancer at 21," Jax looked up into the pale ceiling as they kept walking.
"My Jesse Pinkman, or my friend, got me into smoking at... 15-16 when vapes were becoming popular. My ma told me to quit after my doctors started to see holes at the bottom- top? of my lungs but I didn't." Jax paused and stopped walking, he turned to look at Pomni.
Pomni was staring back at him with an expression that to anyone else it would have been sympathic, or even pitiful, but to Jax, it was mocking and insulting. "How... do you remember things like that? I mean you've been here a while and remember your life so... vividly."
"Well, its hard not too. Memories of your human life are the one of the only thing that keeps most of us from going abstract." Jax said boredly as if he wanted to now move on from the subject he brought up.
"You said you was a youtuber, yeah? what was that like?" Jax steered randomly. Pomni's face contorted into an uncomfortable gaze, she didn't like talking about it.
"Well, not exactly the youtuber life you'd expect, I mean I didn't get a lot from making them, a couple hundred but nothing to make a severe difference." Pomni quickly explained, in a rushed voice as if embarrassed.
"What kind of videos did you make?" Jax looked down at her, this of which made her pause.
"pfft! you know, the usual content youtubers make, like vlogs and unboxing!" Pomni ranted, clearly hiding something. Jax ooo'd at the implication Pomni was posting inappropriate content.
"Dude, do you post like japanese forest videos or did you put on a mask and tail?" Jax chuckled as if making fun of a suicidal person was something to have dinner and giggle about, it made Pomni's stomach turn with disgust.
"No I didn't... I um.. I made exploration videos-" "oh like exploring japanese forests?" Pomni scoffed, "That's really insensitive Jax. That was someone's loved one, that was someone. Don't make fun of things like that." Pomni looked away from Jax to the ground.
A silence broke out between the two before Jax stopped walking.
"Oh uh, thats the thing I was talking about."
"I don't think I want to see it anymore,"