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

[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.

[menial]

Well, that's what really matters more, I guess. That and open communication for resolving conflicts of interest. Guess it's more questionable why it began than how it kept going for a while.

So wait, vampires don't have souls, is that it?

[herotypical]

Only two have ever managed to get ensouled, afterwards. It makes all the difference.

[menial]

Who's the other one? And what's the difference?

[herotypical]

Guilt. Conscience. That feeling of horror at yourself when you do something you shouldn't have done. That seems to be the difference...

As for the other? He's...recently arrived. Spike. His name's Spike.

[menial]

... Ah. Well, that's... grim. Seems like you might be better off without one, right?

[He pauses.]

Spike, huh? Pretty... descriptive name. Do you all have names like that in your world?

[herotypical]

N-no. That's not, like, his real name. Just the name he goes by.

[menial]

... So he voluntarily chose to call himself "Spike."

['I guess "Kyon" isn't that bad.']

[herotypical]

...That was my reaction, too.

[menial]

Right.

Uh, so who's the one you dated?

[herotypical]

[ oh jeez kyon.

buffy sucks in a very audible breath. ]

T-technically? Both.

[menial]

......




So this is really more of a pattern than an exception.

[herotypical]

It's not exactly that simple. But I do promise that I've dated more humans than vampires.

[menial]

...

You've dated quite a bit, huh?

[herotypical]

[ sputter! ]

Hello. Almost-twenty-seven-year-old here. 'Quite a bit' for you is...'modestly appropriate' for me.

[menial]

Oh... Right, right. I --

Well, you know, I just keep thinking of you as, like, twenty or so.

['Turn it around! That's a compliment, right?']

[herotypical]

...Smooth move, Don Juan. But -- in all serious -- five serious boyfriends over twenty-seven years. That's not that despicable. Surely.

That's counting the current and extremely non-ex one, of course.

[ and not the guy who left her in vegas. or that one-night-stand in college. ]

[menial]

['Damn. Seen through.']

... You're really going to count all twenty-seven years in there?

[herotypical]

Fine. Since I was...sixteen. Fifteen? No -- sixteen.