Editing Sidepiece (section)

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The two were long-term sweethearts, and one of the most serious relationships Sidepiece has ever had. Though Sidepiece is unsure, that DJ can keep up with her long term.<ref name=Ship>She’d never known a guy like Disjoint, and she had known a lot of guys.  When she had been fourteen she’d dated sixteen year olds.  They’d wanted one thing.  That hadn’t changed when she’d been sixteen and dating eighteen year olds.<br/><br/>It might have continued as a pattern, except shit had gone down when she was eighteen, and she hadn’t come away in one piece.  It had taken her a while to try again.  When she had, she’d been twenty, offering herself to thirty year olds to see if they’d bite.  Some bit.<br/><br/>She hadn’t realized what she’d been looking for until she stumbled into it.  A guy her age, who’d been hurt when she’d been hurt.  She could offer him the sort of thing that other guys wanted, and he liked it, but it wasn’t why he stuck by her.<br/><br/>No.  It was fucked up, but he stuck by her because he liked it when she was nice to him.  It revved his engines and it made him happy in a day to day way.<br/><br/>She wasn’t good at being nice. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/29 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.a II]]</ref> He does call her on her puns and refusal to admit her faults,<ref name=Snow>'''‘…between my teeth and cheek.  For an hour, hunh?  Whaddyasay?’'''  Sidepiece.<br/>[...]<br/>''‘What if I tucked it somewhere safe and warm instead, hmmm?  We could go catch a movie, and then I’ll give it back.  How fun would that be?’''<br/><br/>On the screen, Sidepiece cozied up to D.J.  He seemed to accept the cozying, but said, ''‘Safe and warm for you is an inch from nitroglycerin for me. [...] I’m attached to it,’'' D.J. said.<br/><br/>''‘Detach it.  I want it to play with for a while.  We could have so much fun.’''<br/><br/>On the other window, Kenzie was marked as away, a candy emote over her head.  Going to get snacks, while Sidepiece and D.J. potentially got R-rated?  Tristan was with her.<br/>[...]<br/>''‘You’ll lose it.’<br/><br/>‘Nuh uh.’<br/><br/>‘I’ve seen you lose your keys, your favorite top-‘<br/><br/>‘That shit was stolen, no fair.’<br/><br/>‘-your phone, twice, your banking card-‘<br/><br/>‘I was really drunk when I lost the card.’<br/><br/>‘-your pancreas.’<br/><br/>‘Grows back!’<br/><br/>‘Slowly!’<br/><br/>‘But it grows back!  And I didn’t lose it exactly, okay!?  I had a snowfort pile going, y’know?’<br/><br/>‘What the fuck is a snowfort pile?’<br/><br/>‘What the kids do with snowballs, all stacked up neat and ready to throw?  And then the ground shook and rattled the table, and it all blew.  Ovaries are such cluster-fuckers, all loaded up with those eggs.  I did pretty fuckin’ good finding as many of the pieces as I did.’<br/><br/>‘You lose shit, Side.  Admit it!’<br/><br/>‘No!  I had reasons and other shit going on!  I’m not going to get carelessly drunk if you give me a toy to play with!’<br/><br/>‘That’s what you do every day!  Toys and drugs and drunk!’'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/13 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.7]]</ref> they are openly affectionate with each other.

Despite initial reluctance on his part,<ref name=Snow/> she was able to convince him to let her carry pieces of him along with her when he was recovering.<ref>“Precog said it improved the numbers.  We’ve had a few run-ins with Damsel, Sidepiece, Hookline, and Nailbiter.  Disjoint’s not around?”<br/><br/>Snow White answered, “Recovering from an injury.  Sidepiece has a few parts of him with her, from what she said.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/24 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.4]]</ref>