Ow.

[seventhbullet]

Rude, missy. That hurt.

What's her name, anyway? The one who was being an election observer and isn't Thorne? (You there, by the way? Or was that legit?)

So yeah, I'm dead. Or Bagrat's dead. Whichever. Anyone want a pile of emergency cash while I still remember where he hides it?

And can someone do me a solid and drop by liminal space with some grub? Somehow I get the feeling I shouldn't go back out there anytime soon. Awkward questions.

Comments

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

But that's it? So where do you keep your capacity for emotions and connection and stuff? Liver?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

The brain, actually. I think. Liver's where we keep our ability to drink alcohol.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Really? My liver too! [Fake enthusiasm is super fake.]

Your brain doesn't look any bigger than mine. I wonder how it can do all this extra stuff. I mean, it's magic and metaphysics and whatnot, duh, but then it does exist in a place, so... biology was only my secondary field, really. And I have to admit that no one has answers for a lot of it. Sorry, Even.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Well, aren't they all just functions of the mind anyway? Emotions are mental. So are connections. At least I always thought they were. Do you guys, like, think with your hearts?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Nope, hearts are definitely not where the thinking goes on. It's all, like, instinct and the like. Thinking's a brain thing, or a mind thing, whatever you want to call it, but hearts are...different. And if you separate them out, they get antsy.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Huh. In my world I'm pretty sure that the brain does instinct as well as thinking, just in different parts.

Antsy how?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Antsy like, you know how ants are black and have antennae and move in an inexorable horde devouring everything in its path?

Almost exactly like that.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Wait, wait, what? Hearts do that where you come from? Holy shit.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Sometimes, yeah, when shit goes way off the rails. It's complicated.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, but, like, are they like that in people's chests too or do they mutate somehow?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Nah, they're just hearts. Do I look like a giant black ant to you? But overexposure to Darkness or major trauma can really mess them up. And then they mess more hearts up. It's a recursive thing.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Dude, you could totally have a giant black ant inside you. The size of a regular heart is like giant compared to an ant.

But okay, sure, I'll buy all this. Also, is that capital-D Darkness?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Nah, no giant black ants here right now. And yeah, Darkness, not just being kind of dim. Though I hear being kinda dim helps.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Well yeah, it's kind of dim to be hanging around all that captial-D Darkness when it turns your heart into a giant black ant.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

You gotta take risks for science, as some friends of mine would say.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Sounds like something my sire would say.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

From what you've mentioned about him, six of one half-dozen of the other, really.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Haha, yeah.

... thanks for talking with me. You're helping me not go even more nuts right now.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Noooo problem. Keeping people at an acceptable level of nuts is what conversation is all about.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Thank fuck my current insanity level is acceptable.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

You're not the one on the killspree, so close enough, right?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

I'm pretty sure Melissa's saner than I am. Just a huge jackass.

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

And if you took a poll on that right now, what do you think the results would be?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[thornsofmalkav]

Well, yeah. They'd say I'm the sane one. But I'm not. Malkav's line is given the gift of both prophecy and madness. I'm not sure how I'm crazy--and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't know, because however crazy I am seems normal to me--but as a member of my clan, I have to be?

Re: [private] (cw: gore)

[seventhbullet]

Maybe, but if no one else thinks so, are you?