And Now, The Moment You've All Been Waiting For... (aka Preview of the Next Arc of Be Human) · 11:35pm Mar 15th, 2014
Button Mash's BH Story.
“Layne! Layne! Wake up, you bakehead!” The pony gingerly stepped around the collection of pizza boxes, cans of beer, piles of laundry and assorted other things he couldn’t identify. The room was filled with the typical stench of fast food leftovers, incense and patchouli – and one particular smell he associated with his roommate. “You’re going to be late to work, you moron!”
The guy lying on the bed, groggily opened his eyes. “Oh, hey, B-Man! What’s up, bro?”
“We got twenty minutes to get to work!”
The man blinked twice before sitting up straight with the speed of a rocket. “Oh, shi…Rider’s gonna have my friggin’ head!” The man scrambled out of bed, leaving the clump of bedsheets that looked like they hadn’t been washed in over a month.
“B-Man” turned his head away, embarrassed. “Jeez, Layne, put some clothes on!”
Layne looked down at his well-toned piece of masculine perfection…which to the average person would be another thin stoner in the buff. “Aww, c’mon, B,” he said, as a grin slid onto his face. “You know you and I are made the same, bro – you’re just a little fuzzier down there—”
The pony rolled his eyes. “Dude, just get dressed! We gotta go!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, don’t get your tail in a knot, homie,” Layne said, throwing on his finest pair of ripped jeans and a surprisingly clean HUFSTOMPR jersey. “Dude, find my shoes for me while I go run a comb through my hair quickly.”
“Yeah, okay.” As his roommate rushed to the bathroom, Button Mash shook his head. Yeah, Layne was a stoner and a slob, but they were the best of friends, since they met when they were kids. Back then, Button was just a wide-eyed colt amazed that worlds not unlike that which he’d dreamed of in his games actually existed, and Layne just a kid in absolute wonder that aliens were truly real. The two bonded over videogames – with strict parents, Layne wasn’t allowed to play them until he was ten and the videogames that Button had seen on Human-Earth were light-years beyond the then-latest magiscreen games like Ping, Giant Flying Rocks Coming at You, and Celestia’s Chariot Racers – and as Layne’s and Button’s parents became close friends, the two became completely inseparable. When it came time for Button to attend college, there was only one place he wanted to go…but they wouldn’t accept him due to the sketchy standards of the Equestriani school system, pre-modernization. Fortunately for him, the University of New Mexico was starting up a program in videogames creation…and they were all too willing to accept such a mathematically-inclined pony. Even better, Layne decided to hang with his best buddy and majored in graphic arts there…
…even if Layne picked up a few bad habits while at the university, Button groaned.
"Bakehead"? Have computer I/O's moved into the territory of direct neural stimulation? Cool!