1. TEXT ➳ UN: ALIGHT

[risers]

[ it comes in the middle of the night: ]

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

[ though he could easily write a post to engage with the network at large, doing that is too simple. alec isn't too interested in placing more of his personal information online for anyone to find — privacy is key, and being in the shadows is literally what he does best. ]

[ in other words: alec's bored but doesn't want to be clary levels of social. ]

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[viber]

See, now you get it.
The beautiful logic of Cisco Ramon.
You're so lucky.

I would give you a riddle but I think that'd just create a bigger mess

and I'm tentatively afraid at this rate, you'll kill me in my sleep with a bag of bread and a jar of peanut butter.

[risers]

I wouldn't kill you with a bag of bread and a jar of peanut butter. I'd kill you with gluten free and wholemeal bread with a jar of peanut butter.

You seem to have issues with breads that aren't white. What happened?

[ ftr, he only asks because this cisco ramon seems to be high on angel blood, which means his answer is bound to be insanely interesting. ]

[viber]

I don't think I have to explain why gluten free bread sucks cause it just really does. And wholemeal?

Okay, so, you know what sucks?
Going to school when you're like, you know, a tiny kid
and it's lunch time and everyone has fun food like snack packs and pudding cups
SANDWICHES ON WHITE BREAD WITH NO CRUSTS
Dope stuff, you know?

Then your mom made you some weird healthy wholemeal bread sandwich.
With crusts.
And it tastes like adulthood and you're still so young and

Look, it just sucks, okay?

[Let's just not go there, okay? There's a lot of bread based trauma here.]

Also the ultimate PB&J is made with white bread and everyone knows it.

[risers]

[ fry squint. ]

How can bread taste like adulthood? It either tastes like wheat, butter, or whatever you put on it.

[ that's not the point, alec, and you know it. ]

Your mother did really rough by you. But you have to grow up and face the facts: Bread is bread, and you should eat it if you want to continue growing.

[viber]

When it tastes like wholemeal.
Dante always got white bread. Sucked.

[Not that Dante doesn't bring up incredible sadness in him but ... yeah. More favouritism in the Ramon family - this time in the form of bread.]

Breads it not just --
huh
dude
was that a short joke? Or...
How old do you think I am???

[risers]

By the sounds of it, 15.

I used to give my little sister my white bread. Nothing wrong with wholemeal if she was enjoying herself.

[ in this scenario, it's white bread. in reality, it's anything and everything. if max wanted his ice-cream, he'd give it to him on the promise he enjoy it. ]

[viber]

DUDE.
I do not sound fifteen.
That hurts.

Everyone smart gives out white bread. White bread is the BEST.
Good brothers give their siblings white bread sandwiches.
Kudos.

My brother never gave me a sandwich.
He did once give me a dead leg that lasted two days.

[risers]

Fifteen and a half.

[ that's as nice as he's going to be. ]

Why did he give you a dead leg? Figured you'd talk him out of giving you one. You seem good at that.

[viber]

You are the worst, friend. WORST.

I can't remember but he was always big on the pain. Brothers, amirite??? Whatever. No biggie cause it doesn't matter and it's just like

so

hey, you like the way I talk?

[Yep, he's gonna get his ass out of this conversation about Dante before it gets to real and he has to have feelings about his butthead older brother. Soul crushing feelings. Stupid family.]

[risers]

[ alec thinks he can see what this cisco ramon's doing. he's blabbering, as one who likes to overshare does — and like one who wishes to overcompensate and distracts does, too. a part of him thinks to pursue this path of wholemeal bread vs white bread and what it truly means if someone gives you a certain slice, but alec isn't cruel. he doesn't need to know whether or not this "dante" is dead. sometimes childhood trauma is just too traumatic ... like not being given white bread can scar a kid. ]

We're not friends.

[viber]

WELL.
That hurts
I thought we had something special :(

Bro 💔💔💔

[risers]

Did you really just use broken heart emojis to try and emotionally blackmail me?

[ joke's on you, cisco, alec has no emotions. ]

[viber]

Just trying to convey how much you hurt me. FOR NO REASON.
Bros don't do that to bros.

[risers]

Do you even know my name?

[viber]

What does a name matter between friends?

You're like... you know
I mean
Name wise?
You're Alight.

Alight McRiddlepants.

[risers]

I'm like you know.

[ tf. ]

You're Cisco Ramon and I'm Alight McRiddlepants. That seems believable to you?

[ the main question is: who would name their kid "alight"? mcriddlepants, though, is a neat surname. ]

[viber]

I'm C-Dog, dude.
And we could totally solve crime with those kickass names.

🎵 C-Dog and Alight McRiddlepants
Solving riddles and kicking buttttttt 🎵

... I mean I'll work on our theme but that's the gist right there.

[risers]

I'm not going by Alight McRiddlepants for my crime-solving name. No one would even talk to me. Come up with something better.

[ does that mean you're not opposed to solving crime, alec? hmm. ]

[viber]

Well, then.

Tell me your real name and I'll see what I can do.

[risers]

[ he's going to regret this, isn't he? ]

Alec Lightwood.

You'd have known that before if we were truly friends.

[viber]

And now I know it so we are friends.

See.
I won.
No takesies-backsies.

[risers]

We're still not friends. And we won't be friends if you say "takesies-backsies" again.

[ that's just embarrassing, man. he spares a second to wonder who would survive out of simon and cisco if they were stuck in a room together. ]

[viber]

You're so strict about friendship. It's ridic, dude.

Also I came up with your crime fighting name.
So I'm thinking
'Smart Alec' cause, well, google it.

Did i deliver or did I deliver?

[risers]

[ the sad thing is, max would like that superhero name for his big brother, and he'd push for him to adopt it until the ends of his days. however, this isn't something cisco needs to know about. ]

It's not exactly original. My younger brother can do better than that, and he's 12.

[ will alec ever accept anything cisco says to him? we'll just have to wait and see. ]

[viber]

Yeah but your younger brother doesn't have my swag or my ability to make you a super badass crime fighting suit with the name perfectly stitched into it.

[Take that 12 year old child.]

Not to brag but I sew like a champ.