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[There is a golden eyed man with a large nose staring at you. The expression he's going for is neutral, but the way he purses his lips gives away his unease.]

I do not know who can hear me, but I was instructed to put a set of numbers into my computer, which...has led me here. I was told to do this by a young man who was convinced that he knew me...

[His voice is low and his accent is obvious, with wide, nasal vowels and 'd' replacing most 'th' sounds. His eyes start to roam around the edges of the screen as he considers how to continue.]

It was not a pleasant conversation. I was accused of being a danger to children. This is very insulting; I work with children. It is my job to treat them and make them well. I don't know who is listening, but I will not stand to be insulted again. I am here for answers, not for being told I should not be allowed to do my job, or that I am 'evil'.

[Now that he's made that point, he shifts, picking up something metal off screen. When he lifts it to the camera, the large, heavy amulet spins on its chain. It's almost as big as his fist, with an eye-sized orange jewel at the top of it and several smaller, similar stones embellishing both sides.] This appeared a week ago. I have no idea what it is, or where it came from, but I can't...shake the feeling that it is mine.

[He sets it back down, out of frame.]

Can you tell me what this means? Can you tell me what's happening to me?

((ooc: Ghannam ran into Luke, who recognized him and told him about the Number's Club. Sorta.))

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[Adult if not entirely grown up always. He frowns at that, shaking his head a little bit.]

That sure sounds real unreasonable, especially taking into account that all of us going into this have maybe one or two memories of the past at most - he probably started that way too.

[He smiles a bit wryly.] Sorry to say you most likely will get memories of the things he talked about, but that ain't the same as responsibility to my mind.

That is...Unfortunate. [Is he really gonna get memories of doing evil stuff? That's not gonna be pleasant.]

...Before, you. You gestured to your eye-patch when mentioning your past life... [He motions to his own face.] Did you receive a similar injury then?

Unfortunate and depressing. Hopefully you won't be getting any character traits in a hurry, at least. [For all that he's still smiling and sympathetic, he sure is rather terrible at the cheering up business.]

And... well, it's more accurate to say I got injured like this in my past life, and that was passed on to me here. I never actually did anything to lose my eye in this life, it just... disappeared. [He grimaces and then laughs.] Still better than losing it the way I did in my last life, I guess.

[...THIS IS REALLY FREAKED UP YOU REALIZE. LIKE. IT JUST FREAKING DISAPPEARED???? WHY WOULD THAT HAPPEN WHY DID THAt--oh my god THERE ARE CHILDREN WHO THIS COULD HAPPEN TO.

Ghannam looks, well, a tad-bit stunned.]

I...I am sorry.

[what the frick else do you say to that I mean seriously???]

Edited 2014-02-17 05:09 (UTC)

[It was super freaky and also incredibly unpleasant and painful. He spent several hours after it happened throwing up and trying not to hyperventilate himself into a faint. But right now he's just going to smile lightly and shrug a bit, as if he's talking about spraining his ankle at work.]

You don't have to be, it ain't your fault. Ain't no-one's fault, really, except the creepy kid that ate my eye in my past life. And from what I've heard, this ain't even the worst thing that's happened to someone in the Numbers club, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

[...WELL YIPPEE.]

You seem to be handling it well.

[He grins then, with more than a bit of amusement on his own behalf.]

You only say that because you didn't see me freaking out when it happened. But the thing is... my eye is gone, and it ain't hurting me anymore, and it's still pretty to pass off as normal. Being upset about it ain't gonna help me much.

Besides, the powers I've gotten back kind of compensate for it, so at least there's that.

Should everyone expect to receive 'powers'? And, if I may ask, what are yours?

[Yeah lets just. Leave that nasty-ass eye business behind us.]

[Please lets, it's gross and kind of scary to think about, even if he doesn't show it much.]

I'm not quite sure - though most people seem to be getting somehting of the sort. And I'm... well, I'm some kind of a vampire, apparently. Stronger, faster, more limber than most people, better senses, and I grow claws. It's come in rather handy at times this last year.

[He is so sorry he brought it up.

...also wait what.]

...You are 'some kind' of vampire. That is...That is different.

[Holy shit how does this guy keep surprising him. If he weren't playing it so straight he'd be SURE this guy is trying to pull a fast one. That, plus all the other crazy shit happening, but no seriously a vampire? Holy moley don't prove it to him he really doesn't need to see your claws, guy. SUBJECT CHANGE~]

I. Just realized we haven't even been introduced. My name is Dr. Ghannam Demir.

[And let's NOT talk about how you're a freaking vampire]

Well, I ain't never heard of my kind of vampire before, is what I mean. But since I need to drink blood to survive, I have to assume that's what I am.

[I am sorry, was that a gross example of oversharing? Fay isn't too good at telling when there is just Too Much Information in whatever he's saying. And he says it rather cheerfully too, like someone talking about their grocery shopping list - which, in a morbid way, you could almost say that he is.]

A pleasure to meet you, doctor. My name's Fenn Forster, but most people just call me Fay, on account of the faces I make when they don't.

Edited (Gosh nitpicking) 2014-02-17 06:00 (UTC)

[Is the barely-contained stink-face a good indicator of if you've overshared? Cuz you've overshared.]

Yes, it. It is a pleasure, Fay.

[He'll blink in incomprehension for a moment at first, and then it seems to hit him.]

Ah, oh dear, that... that's not really something you want to hear about someone, huh? [He actually giggles, pushing a hand through his hair.] For what it's worth, the blood is freely given by a fully consensual donor. [A beat.] Though when I say it like that, it sounds like some weird sexual fetish, so maybe that's not a whole lot better. [The diet he actually thrives on is blood and his own feet, clearly.]

I am getting the feeling you do not often talk about this, as it seems you're having trouble explaining it properly.

[He'd be happy to help you find those boundaries you've wandered right on past.]

We~ell, it's happened that I've had to once or twice on the network, but it ain't exactly the first thing I usually say to people, no. 'Hello, my name's Fay and since a while back I have to feed off my boyfriend to stay alive' is one hell of a bad ice breaker.

[...]

I ain't making this any better, huh?

[Excuse him while he rubs the bridge of his big-ass nose. Oh dear sweet crap this man. This man.]

Not really.

[ He lets his hand drop.] Should we stop while we're ahead?

[This man has very few filters and those he has aren't exactly conventional. Now he grins a bit ruefully, shaking his head.]

I ain't saying another word about vampirism, Scout's honor. [...he got kicked out of the Scouts for being inattentive and hyperactive, and for almost starting a bushfire. Twice.]

So the medallion's the only thing you've gotten so far? No memories at all, nothing like that?

[For the sake of bullshit continuing to be bullshit, lets say this is before Luke called him back on his little flute thing.]

None, for the moment. I think my previous name was...Oh, what did he say...? Gandamdorf? No, that--that is wrong...[Shit, he didn't want to think of that as his name so he kinda actively tried to forget it...]

[Bullshit continuing to be bullshit is usually the best reason for things ever.]

Mmm, a lot of us seem to have had different names, though I personally haven't gotten anything like that back. And, well... you should probably be prepared for getting memories back, 'cause that seems like the one thing that we all have in common here. [He sighs, shaking his head a bit.] I can only imagine remembering doing awful things- [...so far.] -but as long as you remember that it was basically a different person doing it, that's the important part.

Yes, that is what I plan to do. I know what life I've lived, surely that is more important than a life that's already been--a life I cannot go back and change.

I only plan on helping this community, not adding to their problems.

Good. [That gets a beaming smile and a nod.] Sorry, I've been putting up with someone who was convinced he was going to turn into some kind of a monster, so it's nice to hear you being so sensible about this.

No matter what we get back, all of us here on the network will probably be in a position to help people with what we know and what we can do at some point, and that's the important part.

Perhaps he and I should speak, if we are following down similar roads. Though I know very little about the monster I may become, it is as you say, being in a position to help people.

[And he won't say it but he'd kinda like the support himself. Shit kinda stresses him out.]

You should, and I'll tell him as much. [His smile is more sombre now.] I know for a fact that he remembers killing people, and that he also got a kind of... problem with his temper back, so I understand why he would feel like that - and why you might too, in the future.

So don't think I ain't sympathetic. I just don't believe for a second that anyone can turn into some kind of horrible villain unless they allow themselves to. [So very idealistic in some ways, this one.]

Edited 2014-02-17 07:10 (UTC)

I agree. There is a choice; how you act, how you treat others; always a choice.

As for big tempers, they don't frighten me. I grew up surrounded by big tempers. All they do is make conversations longer than they need to be. You must count on the conversations being longer.

[You know for an oversharing vampire, you're pretty easy to talk to!]

Exactly how I feel. I'm not so sure if I used to be completely nice either, what with a lot of things, but I know I ain't a bad person now. That's all that matters.

[A pause, and a sigh.] I don't think he's afraid of tempers in others either. He's afraid of his own temper, because it made him raise his hand toward me, and I... can understand that.

[Fay is a very sympathetic and kind soul, he is just also an occasionally extremely obnoxious and silly one.]

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