10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

[menial]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.



Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

Comments

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

If you ask me? It's creepy.

[ she's passing the time until she later stops by the bridge to greet a certain pirate for his birthday. ]

[ voice ]

[menial]

Well, yeah, you wouldn't want a face looming out of a picture at you at night, I guess.

Still, it can be both cool and creepy, right, Buffy?

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

You realize who you're asking, right?

[ voice ]

[menial]

Someone who knows both what it's like to be cool and creepy?

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

...Yeah. Okay. I can handle that without feeling too offended.

[ voice ]

[menial]

But you don't think this one is cool, just creepy, huh? So much for magnanimity.

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

The big face is too...thin. Yeugh. Stretched.

[ like the gentlemen. ]

[ voice ]

[menial]

Well, ... I mean... It's gotta be hard to make it look even moderately accurate, right?

Hold on, there's another one in the book. What do you think of this one?

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

...I think I once knew a guy who looked like that.

[ voice ]

[menial]

.....

In what sense.

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

He had a moustache. Just like that one. Only not quite as white.

[ voice ]

[menial]

Who was "he"?

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

Quentin Travers. Head of the Watchers' Council.

[ voice ]

[menial]

Huh. Well, that's definitely a pretty representative look for what I think you described as a bunch of old guys with rules that you ['predictably'] weren't too interested in.

[ voice ]

[herotypical]

So, what? Are you big into optical illusions normally or is this a one time thing?

[menial]

Huh, is that a thing? Being big into optical illusions? I always figured it was something that everyone searched for once in a while when they were bored.

[herotypical]

Name anything and someone, somewhere, is big into it.

[menial]

You think? Does anyone really like vampires who isn't one, in your experience?

[herotypical]

Do you want me to answer that honestly? Because I can. But you might never look at me the same way again.

[menial]

.......

Well, I'm not going to say no now that you've set up the teaser trailer.

[herotypical]

My first serious boyfriend? Vampire.

[menial]

Hm.



No, I can buy that. Although it does shed new light on your character.

[herotypical]

W-wait. Shed new light like what?

[menial]

Just... general new light!

Uh, for example, if you had asked me, "Is Buffy Summers the kind of girl who could date a kind-of-sworn enemy," I probably would've said yes before, but now I know for sure. And...

['... Likes "exciting" guys? Yeah. More confirmation there.']

...Other stuff.

[herotypical]

Well. It's not a thing I'm particularly proud of. But...he was a good man. Still is! Just -- he has a soul.