QUESTION MEME

[lightningfield]

I have yet to hit 1k, but given how much I tl;dr'd at Haru earlier, and the amount of time I have on my hands, I figure I might as well do one anyway.

If you have any questions about Hei/Li Shengshun, or DtB, or trees, or pretty much anything, I guess, I will be glad to answer them. I will then proceed to ask you a question in return. Then, hopefully, we will build nice towers of tealdeer together until one of us gives up or forgets to answer!

(Come at me, bros.)

Comments

[rootless]

LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER. But somehow it's better than if he was SUDDENLY SEXUALLY ACTIVE... WITH SOMEONE SANE.... Any sort of meaningful interaction with functional/stable people kind of just. Wigs him out. So Slick being a crazy sadomasochistic murderer somehow makes it all better, and the new connection between fighting/sex also leaves him a little less confused.

Heaven forbid anyone tries to get him in bed in a sane and functional and nonsadistic manner that doesn't involve material gain. and even if it does. he'd be flipping the fuck out WHAT IS THIS NONVIOLENT TOUCHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND :x

Does Slick have an opinion on Hei's whole... AVOIDS SEMI-FORMER ENEMY, STARTS TALKING ABOUT WHITE SIDE STOPS TALKING ABOUT HER bullshit?

[ticking]

Not really, he picked Hei out as a kind of awkward kid pretty quickly. He can tell that Hei's black/white lives are out of necessity far more than pleasure. Slick's was partly out of necessity (it was the best way to stay even marginally sane and humane) but mostly out of pleasure (couldn't let go of his white side). To him they were both equally True and he embraced both wholly. Hei's is more... purposeful? I have to live THIS sort of life to do THESE sorts of things to make it in THIS kind of world. And now that that is no longer true he's clearly at a bit of a loss. Slick doesn't necessarily think this is mm... bad in any way? Or 'less' because Hei's motives for splitting his life are different? But it also results in a lot more cross over because he doesn't think Hei is naturally all that divided a person.

ANYWAY WHAT THIS AMOUNTS TO is he aware that Hei is kind of floundering in various ways, with his identity, personal expectations/world expectations etc, so when Hei kind of... rolls around doing awkward things like I DON'T TALK ABOUT MYSELF >> proceeds to talk about self, etc. Slick just sort of sees it as the extension of those problems with his personhood and figures it will eventually smooth out and whatever.

How does Hei feel about his situation re: Bai?

[rootless]

MY LITTLE SISTER FUSED WITH ME WHEN I THOUGHT SHE WENT MISSING AND IS THE REASON I HAVE THESE POWERS AND DELUSIONS AND oh god bai why couldn't you just tell meeeeee ;;

BASICALLY. CONFLICTED AS HELL. Because ridiculous amounts of Baidere weren't even perturbed by this realization, and he knows she did it because she loved him, but. But he tried really hard to be there for her and she hid THE ENTIRE HEAVEN'S GATE thing from him. For YEARS. and then DISAPPEARED. So then there was FIVE YEARS OF SUFFERING AND OBSESSION AND BAI WHERE ARE YOU WHAT HAPPENED FEELINGS. And then he died. And Bai was apparently with him all along. So there's that.

Yeah he's caught between 'i love you too' and 'FUCK YOU FOR HIDING THAT FROM ME'. And also sads because if she's fused with him and he's dead, then she's also dead. And therefore not going to show up here because she's already here and he's lonely and it sucks that he saw her only to get thrown to Thusia. ;;

TELL ME ABOUT ALLEN AND SLICK AND MARRIAGE.

[ticking]

Can I just link you to my response to Haru or is this question on top of that... in which case you have to be more specific.

[rootless]

...go ahead and link.

[ticking]

I WASN'T SURE BECAUSE I ACTUALLY END IT WITH 'BASICALLY THEY ARE MARRIED' SO 8D;

=Db

SO WHY ARE YOU APPING COBRA OTHER THAN BECAUSE I TOLD YOU TO

[rootless]

BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO....

Because he's a secretly moe bad decision dino who has LOTS OF FEELINGS and is thus basically My Type. Yes.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FIRE WITCH'S NEED FOR VAMPIRE SECURITY BLANKETS...

[ticking]

I have all kind of world info up in her journal, but what it basically amounts to is Sagauro was raised a society where vampires socially dominate and in a sector where vampire/human relations where extremely friendly! The orphanage she was raised in was mostly manned by vampires, Eli, her adopted father/true love (who is basically Rayflo... s-somehow) is a vampire. Her surrogate older brother is a vampire, her only major sexual relationship was with a vampire, and the last five years of her life were spent with vampires who she became to be friends with and very fond of before she had to murder them all for the sake of humanity.

What it AMOUNTS TO is while she is okay with humans and has had important relationships with humans, vampires have been MUCH more constant and reliable in her life (of her two major import human relationships, one turned out to be spying on Eli and the other sort of was the person Eli was really in love with), when she was growing up, she was burn scarred and aggressive and Did Not Make Friends Well with the other kids aaand in the end she was just always more comfortable with them.

Which isn't to say that she can't live with humans okay, but she has literally ALWAYS had vampires in her life ALL her life and they have been major players, both personally and socially, and living in a place with NO VAMPIRES is really fucking weird and uncomfortable '-';

Also I only just realized i called rayflo cobra above SOB. God that is such a hard habit to break. *coversface*

THINGS YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING WITH RAYFLO OTHER THAN SUCCUMBING TO MY WHIMS?

[rootless]

I WAS WONDERING WHY YOU CALLED HIM COBRA but i knew who you meant so whatever.

B-being really gay. And out-slutting Slick. Or trying to.

BEMOAN NOT BEING ABLE TO GO KILL NATURE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING DURING THE DAY...

Tell me more about Eli.

[ticking]

BECAUSE IT'S HIS SABRA NAME AND WHAT I'VE CALLED HIM FOR LIKE A YEAR

Eli, short for Helio Phobia, who normally goes by Hel, was a young vampire when his really crazy high charm ability, which was so strong that he could just completely and utterly make people love him to the point where they would work tirelessly to do ANYTHING, was used by an organization he joined with the intent of making vampires socially equal to humans (who at the time largely didn't even believe vampires existed). It worked, and as a result, about 70% of humanity was wiped out, either dead or become vampires. Eli was kind of understandably traumatized by the aftermath, that he manipulated someone into doing this, and for the next 250ish years was pretty much incapable of expressing any real desires of his own, because his natural charisma/an offshoot of his crazy mind manipulation skills, means people tend to fall in love with him. Soo while he unconditionally accepts their love (and loves them in turn) he sort of avoids ever saying or doing anything that would lead to them doing things FOR him.

However, 250ish years from that time he sort of helped commit genocide, Eli appears to be emotionally recovered and overall competent, kind of free spirited and unreliable in the sense that he won't push his way into anyone's life, but is charming and poly and highly sexual so that a lot of women and men tend to take him up on his flirtatious side, usually not for very long. He heads a rather large commune of about six other people (at the moment) and has for the last 100+ years pretty much ALWAYS had people (Vampires and humans alike) living with him for various periods of time. Sometimes as lovers, sometimes as friends, sometimes as temporary adoption measures.

Overally he is a nice, sexual, sexy guy with a strong moral code and a lot of awareness of the effect he has on others, a thing he tries to limit overall. But his paranoia over WHY people love him and just how far they will go for him without perhaps truly meaning it leads to him being rather aloof, and at times utterly helpless to stop those around him from making bad choices.

Will you still have sex with Slick after Bai shows up...

[rootless]

.....poor eli ;;

P-PROBABLY... UNTIL SHE CONFRONTS HIM OVER IT which may or may not happen at all so. :x Bai's arrival will do little to put a damper on his bad decisions as they relate to himself, though he'll generally have better judgment...

SLICK IS SUDDENLY RANDOMLY PRIVY TO HEI'S BAI FLASHBACKS, what does he think?

[ticking]

I WATCHED DTB LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO AND DON'T REALLY REMEMBER ANYTHING SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE CLEARER....

[rootless]

1) Little girl standing in a lake talking to Hei about the stars as he looks at them through a telescope. I think they might have been talking about falling stars granting wishes, idk. PRE-CONTRACTORSHIT.

2) Hei catching up to Bai to see a LAKE FULL OF CORPSES. Bai cracking a joke about how she made the stars fall ~all night long~ and then passing the fuck out. Trying to make himself strangle her while she's unconscious. Failing.

3) Amber coming across Hei being a human pillow for Bai paying her price for the ELECTRIC POWERSSSS, cracking jokes about them always being together 'like lovers'.

4) Bai topping the hell out of him in his post-death headspace. "You hate it. Every time you kill it takes you further away from the person you want to be." "You're my brother and you love me. It's okay."

I am vaguely horrified by how well i remember the in-headpace topping, to be perfectly honest.

[ticking]

Baassically not a lot =|a It's outside of Ticky's personal range of experience and he's not very empathic with things he doesn't understand. Maybe a faint sort of hint toward 'oh she's kind of like his Rhode' except Ticky's feelings toward Rhode aren't much like Hei's feelings toward Bai. Probably just a sort of lol i guess you lost something you love, that sucks but that's also life. LE SHRUG.

Did I ask you about apping plans yet =|a

[rootless]

No but you already know what they are.

8|a

[ticking]

No one other than Rayflo =|a?

[rootless]

I AM NOT THAT PERSON WHO SUCCESSFULLY PLAYS FIVE PEOPLE IN THE SAME GAME, OKAY...

[ticking]

IT'S OKAY!!

PEOPLE USUALLY THINK ABOUT APPING A LOT THO I WAS JUST WONDERINGGG

I think i am out of questions tho

[rootless]

I AM WEIRD OKAYYYYY

if you played rayflo at sabra does that mean i can hijack icons without having to expend actual effort....?

[ticking]

Yes of course.

Are you apping Rayflo realizing that I am eventually going to app Cobra...

[rootless]

thank you.

NO I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT, BUT. STILL GOING TO TRY. even though i'm kind of neurotic. '^'

[ticking]

8D sorry i wasn't aware that you didn't know who Cobra was. This is why Allen was saying he would have all the feelings, cuz Cobra adopted Allen, and Razzy, and he's going to look like Aerta's father... 8D;


YOU SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT IT THO SINCE *I* KNEW I WAS GOING TO APP COBRA WHEN I TOLD YOU TO APP RAYFLO 8D

[rootless]

.......YOU'RE LUCKY ILU, AVIY.

BUT YEAH SO I'LL PROBABLY WORRY ABOUT IT, but i'll try not to worry too hard. And you can swat me if I suck. '-'

[ticking]

You have never sucked at anything ever so I am not terribly concerned.

[rootless]

........man you have yet to see me try to play people that aren't moe.