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]

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.

[menial]

So let's say eleven years...? Switching out once every two years?

I mean, a laptop usually lasts, what, four or five, but...

[herotypical]

Sure. But when you account for how often ex-boyfriends either go evil or get sent home...?

[ A VERBAL SHRUG. ]

[menial]

...she said, as if "going evil" was a thing that regular people did.

[herotypical]

...Regular people? Maybe not. But I guess I should've expected it from a vampire.

[menial]

... Does that go for both vampires?

[herotypical]

[ yes. absolutely. wholly. entirely. completely. because spike... ]

N-no.

[menial]

"N-no."

['Could I get a translation of that into English or Lucetinese or whatever, from the original "lying"?']

[herotypical]

It's...complicated?

[menial]

It always is, isn't it?

[herotypical]

The important part is that he's no longer a threat. Ideally. As long as he keeps his soul a-and...even then...

[ he's usually alright.

kinda.

sorta. ]