[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

[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?

[dyingtohealyou]

...That's even less believable.

[But still slightly, if only because he's seen some weird shit on the Network.]

[pheromonecoffee]

Extended drug use. [That's a lie please don't believe him.]

[dyingtohealyou]

[Flatly:] No thanks.

[pheromonecoffee]

I'm out of lies to tell you, then.

[dyingtohealyou]

Good. I was kinda getting scared to hear what you'd come up with next.

[pheromonecoffee]

Oh wait, there's another good one: I'm a robot.

[dyingtohealyou]

Really? You're pretty lifelike for a robot.

[Listen to that mock surprise!]

[pheromonecoffee]

Top secret government project to infiltrate the Numbered?

[dyingtohealyou]

As long as you help fight off the weirdass aliens too? I don't think I'd actually mind that much.