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[comparative_insanity]

 [Hello, this is Fay, and he's not looking very happy about life right now.]

Okay y'all, I ain't the only one who's a little freaked out by what kind of person they're getting memories from, right? I mean, all of mine don't really fit together at all, but some are more than a little fucked up.

Firstly, I want to taste someone's blood. Like, badly. And no, I ain't got any freaky fetishes for that or anything, because ew.

I've also got a memory of everything around me being torn apart by some black... stuff coming out of me? Snaking stuff, like ribbons of tar or something. Ain't got a clue what that's all about, but I don't like it.

[He takes a deep breath, plunging on.]

Thirdly, I just saw a cockroach in my kitchen - ain't nothing weird about that, in this flat - but instead of just grabbing something and going to squash it? I picked up a freaking tube of mayonnaise and threw it, alright? Cut the little fucker right in two, and the tube's still stuck in the floor.

[No, really. He pans the mirror so that the audience can see a tube of mayonnaise stuck in what is now a crack in the floor. He turns it back on himself, and he's really looking kind of pale.]

And finally, ever since replying to that forum... I can't stop thinking about bringing back the dead. Creepy, right? But I can't stop feeling like it's the most important thing ever, and if that ain't fucked seven ways from Sunday, I don't know what.

So between that creepy web forum talking about invasions and calling us "humans" like some hammy sci-fi flick, and getting all these memories and stuff from someone I'd really not wanna meet, I'm starting to feel like the body-snatchers are taking me, y'know?

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Voice | Cellphone

[icy_heavens]

... How the hell did that even happen? [Yeah, he means the mayonnaise tube.]

Voice

[comparative_insanity]

[At least he figures that much.] Ain't got the faintest clue. I just sort of... made it spin in the air and somehow threw hard enough for it to do that? And I hit the damn thing, that's the weirdest part.

Voice

[icy_heavens]

That's got to be pretty much the weirdest ability I've seen anybody get so far.

[Frost powers? Super senses? Summoning a giant ghostly creature? For some reason, those all seem to make more sense. Because what kind of power lets you cut a cockroach in half with a mayonnaise tube?]

Voice

[comparative_insanity]

It's pretty hinky, huh? Wait, I should...

[There is a moment of silence, and when he replies he sounds a bit thoughtful.]

Okay, just tried that shit with a bread knife. In hindsight, I shouldn't've thrown it at my lamp. I kinda need a new lamp now.

Voice

[icy_heavens]

[... What.]

You couldn't figure out that trying that again by throwing something at your lamp was a bad idea before you did it? [Why are adults such morons?]

video, webcam

[solfage]

...oh, wow. Um. Can you do that with things that aren't mayonnaise?

video, webcam

[comparative_insanity]

[He's experimenting a bit still. He flings a spatula off-screen and there is a clatter as he knocks a mug off the TV.]

Seems like it. I ain't doing the knife thing again, but that might actually be useful.

[solfage]

That sounded like a good shot!

[Golf claps.]

...it does make me wonder, though. What the ratios are...useful to useless, normal stuff to creepy.

[comparative_insanity]

Mmm. [He looks a bit pensive and worried again.] Some things I've gotten are more useless than a screen door in a submarine, but I don't mind that much. But being all kinds of necromancy-inclined all of a sudden, and the blood thing... [He shudders, shaking his head.]

vidya; whee AU!verse issues!

[earnedmystripes]

...Bringing back the dead, huh.

[Good job, Fay, now you've got him thinking about it. Not that he thinks it should be done, necessarily--messing with the natural order of things like that could ever end well--but...

Well. Death has been the enemy to Kotetsu for so long, it's hard for the thought not to be tempting.]

vidya; oh nooooooo

[comparative_insanity]

Yes. [He makes a frustrated little noise, pulling at his hair.] I mean, I guess I can understand why someone'd want that, if they'd lost someone they care about, you know? I guess that's the thing you'd want more than anything. But apart from Granny - and I didn't really know her much - there's no one. The- The only dead person I've ever seen was... well, that boy.

vidya; cries cries

[earnedmystripes]

...

Aa.

[It's a hollow, tinny sort of sound, more meaningless than anything, and Fay might catch the a hint of a grimace before the phone camera is "accidentally" occluded by a thumb. Pull it together, Kaburagi. Out of sight of the camera, he shakes his head, wresting his features under control...but doesn't quite move his thumb. It'll look less like he was deliberately hiding something that way. "Dumbass old man" and all.]

Mm, that might be for the best, anyway. People aren't meant to have that kinda power.

[So stop thinking about it, damn it.]

vidya; everything hurts ;-;

[comparative_insanity]

[It worries him when the other man disappears from the picture, because he caught something on his face there which makes it seem to him as if he might be hiding. But he doesn't quite know what to do about it.]

I tell myself that, but...

[He shudders, as if trying to rid himself of something clinging to his skin.]

I can't make myself listen. It's like suddenly I just can't- I can't accept that this is how things should be, you know? Because people die and I can't make it fit in my head that it's okay that way. And nothing will be okay unless I learn how to make it right. And I don't understand why.

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

So you're a vampire ninja or about the bring on the zombie apocalypse.

Could be worse.

[voice]

[comparative_insanity]

Or both, I guess, yeah. But I kinda would prefer to be neither. I'm pretty sure the dead are supposed to stay that way, really.

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. Gets awful messy otherwise.

The ninja trick's pretty awesome, though.

[comparative_insanity]

Exactly. I'm pretty sure if I called my granny back to life, she'd give me a good ol' smack. [He laughs, although something is telling him that this overwhelming wish to bring the dead back is impossible, and that makes him inexplicably sad.]

But it is a bit, huh? I mean, I could probably use it on other things than cockroaches if I have to, so there's that.

[Video | Webcam]

[shut_up_idiot]

[ Sorry Fay, how awesome and spectacular your mayonnaise fighting skills are Youou is still a bit too hung up on the blood drinking part to fully appreciate it. ]

...You want to drink people's blood?

[Video | Webcam]

[comparative_insanity]

[HFDKJSHGFJKDLGHDFJKL mental flail oh god what do...]

Well, not- not people as such. Just one person's blood, really. And not so much drink as just... at least taste it?

[Video | Webcam]

[shut_up_idiot]

[ Is it weird to feel potentially jealous about the possibility of Fay drinking someone else's blood. Either way, Youou is not quite sure what to do with it, and he really hopes that none if it can be heard in his voice. ]

Whose? I mean... hell, I don't even know what I mean.

[Video]

[comparative_insanity]

[Wincing like a boss here, and blushing pretty hard too, because he's pretty sure Youou will think it's fucked up no matter what he says. He stares down at his hands a bit defensively.]

Uhm... yours. Since the moment I met you. I don't know why, I just keep thinking that I should.

[Text]

[chalicejoker]

Yeah, nothing about this is making much sense. I've had visions of rampaging monsters out to kill everyone. So reassuring.

You think that ability's just for killing roaches, or you think you'd at least be able to put it to good use if anything else crazy goes down?

[Because it's not like he thinks he's turning into a giant roach-man or anything. Not like this might make him wonder if he should be concerned. At least he figures his green blood should make him not very appetizing. He's not even touching that part of it yet.]

[voice]

[comparative_insanity]

Huh. Yeah, I feel you on the monsters thing, I don't appreciate knowing there are things somewhere that can eat whole buildings and spit energy blasts or things like that.

[No really, fuck all the nightmares he's been having.]

And I think so. I seem to be able to hit any target I want with more or less anything, as long as it's not completely impossible to throw. And I have a feeling it goes for more than just throwing.

[voice]

[chalicejoker]

Can't say any of mine could eat whole buildings, though they could probably bring them down if given enough time. They were all fairly man-sized, at least. Still nothing anyone would want to run into at any time.

[Hajime has also been having monster-related nightmares, though his mostly concern being the monster...not that he'd ever admit this.]

Could be useful, then, if you get into trouble.

[voice]

[comparative_insanity]

Well, at least that's something to be positive about? [He sounds wryly amused about it, though. Some of the monsters he'd dreamed about probably couldn't swallow entire buildings wither, but that didn't really make them much better. But he would feel Hajime on the 'turning into a monster'-thing.] Hopefully those won't start turning up.

And yeah, at least it's something. I think there's probably a difference between knowing how to defend yourself and knowing how to properly fight, at least a little bit.