A question of perspective [very early week 4]

[razorblade_empress]

So I dunno how many of you I talked to in Questing Country or just after it - or in general, for that matter - but for some reason the place saw fit to make me the Oracle of Perspective. It doesn't let me know everything, but I can still get a general read on someone's perspective at a given time, and given recent events I figured I should try using it on Edward.

Turns out his perspective is a lot more adult than it should be.

Comments

[highsteaks]

... is this a weird sex thing?

[Look, that's one meaning of 'adult' and Edward DOES have his weird Queen obsession.]

[razorblade_empress]

...No, it means he is one.

[highsteaks]

Edward's a weird sex thing?




... oh. Wait. No. You mean he's an adult, right?

Wait. He's an adult?

[razorblade_empress]

He's an adult.

[highsteaks]

Why is he pretending to be a kid?

[razorblade_empress]

That's a very good question that I do not have an answer for. It does explain why he never actually talks about himself, though.

[highsteaks]

Yeah, it would give away that he's old.





... is it just me or is this massively creepy?

[razorblade_empress]

It's not just you.

...I mean, I don't really have room to talk on this Jaunt, but I didn't exactly choose to be de-aged for this shit.

[grimjeaper]

...well shit.

[highsteaks]

Me either. But I mean, presumably Edward's doing this for his own sake? Maybe? There's a difference between the Arcana sticking us into younger bodies and deliberately pretending to be in high school when you're not.

Especially when you're as much of a weirdo as this guy seems to be.

[razorblade_empress]

Well put.

[grimjeaper]

We, uh. We should probably investigate this further, huh.

[fruitknife]

Your last description of him reminded me a little of Ikutsuki. Real earnest and eager to help, as long as you don't ask him the wrong questions, and just weird enough that you don't wanna ask questions.

I think we got a problem here.

[highsteaks]

I wanna help, as much as my stupid ankle will let me.

[helborn]

... So I've got a baseball bat and am totally ready to use it if we need. Or I can just hold him down.

[Casper, no.]

I mean... Yakumo's a decent guy. I'm sure he'd understand.

[Casper, no.]

[razorblade_empress]

...Do I wanna know what you're thinking here?

[helborn]

... Look, that's incredibly suspicious. I'm not going to hurt him if I can help it. I like the guy.

I'm just saying that if we have to... he'll get it.

[highsteaks]

... are you gonna beat him up with a baseball bat? [...] Okay, but if he's pretending to be a teenager for creepy reasons, that might not be a terrible idea. Especially because I'm not allowed to kick things for a while.

[razorblade_empress]

I'm not saying it's not suspicious, but - and what I'm about to say would probably give several of my former teachers heart attacks if they were here - could we maybe put off the assault and battery until we have a better idea of what his deal is?

[finalizes]

If he can mask himself to look like other people, he might not look like this age normally.

[finalizes]

He's a fighter in his home, he'd understand if we have to kill him. [Or at least he's pretty sure that's the case.]

[helborn]

... He is, but we are not going to kill him unless it's absolutely necessary. I have uh. Several ways I can incapacitate someone for a while, ranging between physical melee and... less so.

[helborn]

... Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Just. Too many fantasy books where this stuff goes bad really fast...

[Casper this is not hero behavior.]

[helborn]

If he's here for a creepy or dangerous reason then yeah. I can't do the 'automatic lie detection' thing here - haven't since I started Traveling. I'm still pretty good at listening for fast heartbeat and such, though.

[finalizes]

I'm not saying we should do it [if only because they plain don't know enough about any circumstances yet] but I'm just saying that he would likely not mind if it is necessary.