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[featherbeaned]

Who: Idols! Monsters! Monstrous idols ...?
Where: Anywhere, everywhere
When: 298. early morning

[What are you up to?]

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[widenessofthesea]

[ also it's legal for me to tag you with both. you can't stop me

she twigs to the fact that Something Is Happening just before Amaranth descends and is therefore in the slightly awkward position of just barely managing to not deck the leader of an allied unit when Amaranth transforms back into a person. ]

...oh.

[worthathousand]

[ i can't stop you. ]

"Oh?"
...I'm sorry, Hope— [ attempting to collect herself ]

This is much more interesting than the last time this game took place; I got a bit...

[ actually she had better stop also circling around this woman like some kind of prowling predator, whoops ]

...Ah. Swept up in things.

[widenessofthesea]

[ for a hot second, she looked like a practiced combatant—but back into relatively prim, put-together form.

she also just looks... a smidgen less pale than usual? hard to notice. ]

Ah, is that so. Honestly, I haven't been paying terribly much attention to it, apart from helping others with a task or two.

[worthathousand]

Well.. last time I was a vampire. There were some enjoyable experiences, but it was... hard, too, to visit death, even with none of its drawbacks.

It's not how I would have wanted my sons to see me.

[ a pause, then she clears her throat ]
—So, you know. Flight and voluntary transformation are a pleasant change of pace.

1/2

[widenessofthesea]

...ah.

Yes. I can... certainly imagine how that would be.

[widenessofthesea]

But, ah—I'm glad it's been a much more enjoyable time.

Honestly, being a vampire would be somewhat distasteful, I think.

[worthathousand]

I would not choose it, no—but I do not get the impression that anyone really does.

...You have not said what your own history is with mortality, though. Do I overstep if I ask whether you speak from experience...?

[widenessofthesea]

...mm. It's experience.

Ordinarily, I'm a vampire—or "kindred," if you're being delicate about it, which I prefer not to be, since I am of no order as ostensibly noble and benevolent as some of the others here claim to be from.

[worthathousand]

Are there noble and benevolent orders?
Requiem... certainly does not view the condition that way. Nor did Dahlia, when LiliS had her.

[widenessofthesea]

The lineage that Kaguya and her husband and daughter belong to... at least advertises as one.

[ it is clear from her phrasing that she does not believe that, at all. ]

I didn't realize—I'd heard Dahlia's name mentioned, but not her unit.

[worthathousand]

[ her expression goes a bit melancholy ]

We've had her taken away twice now. But I know she'll fight her way back again.

[widenessofthesea]

She seems like... she was well-beloved, so she must have been a credit to your unit, regardless of anything else, so—in that case, I hope so.

But, ah—I did notice Requiem was rather exasperated to find another vampire here.

[worthathousand]

[ a brief, grateful smile for the the well-wishing, but— ]

Well... she considers vampires monsters.

Personally, I can't say how much I agree with the description. There is much cruelty in this place—truly heinous acts, committed freely... but of the non-mortals here, vampires have never been to blame. It is spirits and their ilk who worry me more.

[widenessofthesea]

I couldn't speak to spirits, but—there are plenty of those who are well-behaved until given the opportunity afforded by dread powers to be predators.

Which is to say: I'd agree with her.

[worthathousand]

...In that case, I hope you will at least treat yourself with more patience than she does.

At least vampires seem very close to humanity to me. Spirits... well, that sort of thing is how you get power-mad lesser gods running torture-and-execution games.

[ if you know what she means. ]

[widenessofthesea]

Oh, the blasphemer.

Well, she's a monster, too; I'll readily agree to that.

[worthathousand]

"Blasphemer"?

[ is this foreign vampire woman really into the Immaculate Philosophy or something, ]

[widenessofthesea]

To claim to be the one true God, worthy of pardoning or punishing sin, is really the height of narcissism and hubris. Which is to say she's roleplaying from the religion I subscribe to and I'm not really a fan of it.

[worthathousand]

Ah, you're one of those who believe in a singular god.

Apparently, in her own world, she was the god of some city—which to her, might as well have been the whole world.
...And in my world, mad gods like her would be put down.

[widenessofthesea]

...would you know, the name label on my profile just says "ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD"?

[worthathousand]

Does it?

[ incredible. ]

Clearly fate denied the gods their chance to offer you Exaltation.
—Ah, I hope that's not inappropriate to say, given your faith.

[widenessofthesea]

I'll take it in the spirit it was intended.

I wondered about my history with faith, honestly, since there's quite a bit of mismatched sentiment regarding religion on my profile. But perhaps in this particular case I can take it as a mandate.

[worthathousand]

Well, I suppose you know my own proclivities well enough by now to guess what I'd suggest, between the options.

[widenessofthesea]

Well, if we hadn't been indisposed, I think all of BAD END would have been ready to deliver quite the rebuke.

[worthathousand]

Yes...

[ She smiles, though it goes a bit thin. ]

It was... hard to spare the concentration, but... I do remember seeing Thorn making the prison bars ring as he struck them with a blade. I don't know how he even brought one in.

[ fushigi mystery. ]