[video]

[pheromonecoffee]

[TODAY EVERYONE IS TREATED TO A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO OF MATT WITH incredibly blue hair. He is relaxing at his desk and is completely serious looking.]

I am now a member of the cool hair club. If you wish to join, I will help with the dye. The drugstore down the street sells hair dye in blue, pink, purple, orange and green.

[He looks like he's going to say something else. Decides against it. Leans forward as if he's going to turn off the video.

Pauses. Leans back a little again. Looks kind of uncomfortable.]

Advice on not becoming a human sacrifice. Go. [And then he turns off the video feed.]

Comments

[Video]

[pheromonecoffee]

Your guess is as good as mine? Someone said it might be a Greek goddess, and I guess that fits the theme so far, with Orpheus and Nemesis and Thanatos.

[Video]

[dyingtohealyou]

[This is what smartphones are for, yo. He'll just go and Google that real quick--]

..."Nyx, or Nox, is the Greek goddess or personification of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death). Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power and beauty. She is found in the shadows of the world and only ever seen in glimpses."

Is that ringing any bells?

Re: [Video]

[pheromonecoffee]

Well, we were fighting shadows, and a kid I know can turn into a monster called Thanatos, so yeah, like I said, it fits the theme.

[He kind of didn't want more information on it than he was already getting but okay.]

[dyingtohealyou]

[Hey, he's just trying to help man.]

...He turns into a monster?

[Yeeeesh. That's not a good mental image.]

[pheromonecoffee]

The weird thing about it is it's the same monster I can summon.

[dyingtohealyou]

...What do you mean by "summon"?

[pheromonecoffee]

I put a fake gun to my head, pull the trigger, and a monster comes out. [He's surprised this isn't common knowledge by now.]

[dyingtohealyou]

[That's... definitely a thing.]

...Not really your conventional summoning system, huh?

[Ha. Ha. Ha.]

So wait though... Did the thing your other self summon have a personality of its own or something?

[pheromonecoffee]

Sort of I guess? They talk. To me, I mean. One told me it was Orpheus, Master of Strings.

[dyingtohealyou]

So... maybe he's a reincarnation of one of those?

[If they had personalities, that would indicate that they had a sense of self, wouldn't it? Assuming that was among the prerequisites for all of this reincarnation business in the first place.]

[pheromonecoffee]

Of other ones, too? The other is Thanatos. [So he's either a musician or death. Plus Phillip is Thanatos, too. It's complicated.]

[dyingtohealyou]

How should I know? You're the one with the memories. Does it seem like it could be possible, at least?

[pheromonecoffee]

Probably not. I don't know all the details, though. [He laughs a little, trying to break his own tension.]

My life's kind of a mess.

[dyingtohealyou]

Sounds like it.

[And he thought he had it bad... At least he wasn't used as a sacrifice.

...In the same way, at any rate.]

Anyway, sorry. About all [vague handwave.] that.

[pheromonecoffee]

It's not your fault. [He shrugs.] It's easier having other people to laugh with it about.

[dyingtohealyou]

Guess so. Seems like a hard thing to laugh about, but if you can do it...

[Maybe he should start asking for tips.]

[pheromonecoffee]

It's harder to stress about it. [If it's going to kill him, it's going to kill him.

Of course, he's stressing anyway.

[dyingtohealyou]

I find it harder not to.

[He doesn't really want to or anything, but it's kind of tough to keep your mind off of.]

[pheromonecoffee]

Worrying about it all the time is just going to kill us anyway, right?

[dyingtohealyou]

Actually, I've got a pretty good idea of what might kill me at this point.

If I could stop worrying about it, I'd love to. To be honest, I don't really get how you do it.

[pheromonecoffee]

Pretending you're okay does wonders, most of the time.

[dyingtohealyou]

Is that how it works?

[pheromonecoffee]

If you pretend long enough, you forget you're not.

[dyingtohealyou]

Somehow, that sounds a little too easy to be believable.

[pheromonecoffee]

... Hypnotism?