day 15 mingle

[terraria]

WHO: all
WHERE: here there everywhere
WHEN: day 15
WHAT: mingleeeeee

( so how are you?

good? bad? hungover? sugarcrashed?

tired from a long day as a barista/bartender/bouncer/emotional wreck?

maybe in your semi-not-really lucidity/exhaustion you notice that the grass in the middle of all the barns, next to one of the rivers, is pretty soft. good for a nap.

maybe rest a while.

don't die though. lily is watching and will bring you back to kick your ass. )

Comments

[terraria]

You're the second human to not only not defend humans, but actively say they're worse.

[ohlord]

Humans have not just instinct but the ability to rationalize.

They just refuse to rationalize when they should and then rationalize things they shouldn't.

Humans can make anything okay so long as they can rationalize it to themselves.

[there's no real inflection in his tone. he's just flatly telling it like he sees it.

like he's experienced it.]

[terraria]

Well... yes. But I do not think that's specific to humans.

[ohlord]

Don't got a lot of other experiences with beings able to rationalize.

[terraria]

I suppose it'd be difficult to take Minuet as the speaker for his... people? You'd need at least one more...

[ohlord]

[pauses. hesitates.]

... there's plenty of his people. The problem is that they're not exactly able to communicate with humans or vice-versa. That's probably why he came about, anyway.

Him and his brother.

I don't got a lot of nice things to say 'bout his brother, and he's dead anyway, so. No reason to get into that.

[definitely more the kind of quick sweep tone of This Is A Painful Topic For Minuet, Please Note]

Either way, their... type of their people isn't common, either. Pretty rare, actually. Never heard of any others and it's been a long time.

[terraria]

Mm. I see... so he's alone in the world, in a way. I understand.

( that isn't a sympathetic "i understand" - it's empathic, understanding too well. )

Just means we'll have to keep him company all the more stubbornly. Bluebell as well, but I feel as if they may not be as close.

[ohlord]

[welp. things he has actually failed miserably at before due to. running off and getting beaten to hell, so quiet again for a long moment.]

The majority of humans tends to react badly when they don't understand somethin'. Tend to disregard, trivialize, or worst of all, become afraid. And then if it's that last one, it's easier to act if ya turn that fear into anger, anger into violent action.

Minuet's seen countless humans go through it with him. 'Cause how would they know what to do with someone like him, anyway? There's not much else we got to work with. And when the only other of his kind in the world is the one who wants to kill humans for bein' how they are, it gets harder.

... but people here aren't like the people back home. A bunch've people have more experience outside their own species. They're used to it. It's not frightenin'.

He just hasta see and experience that more, first. He wants to be closer--man even wants to make friends with gatordogs. [THE MOST EXASPERATED TONES.] But experience goes a long way with that. Think most've Bluebell's a little like that in some way.

[terraria]

( he's quiet, if only because he knows... all too well what all of that feels like. )

Gatordogs aren't friends, they're food. ( simply said, as he threads his fingers through his hair. ) I think everyone's thrown off because he doesn't act like I do. ... granted, he and I are very different despite our similarities. We may have similar experiences, but simply because he's not as fragile or small or polite as I am...

Well. Physically speaking, you seem more gentle with me than you are with him, as far as I've seen. Is that true?

[ohlord]

[mmm we love guilt and shame in this household but pushing some hair out of the way of some smaller feathers near the base of the wings.]

To be fair, I wouldn't be gentle with you, either, if circumstances were different.

I'm not a gentle guy.

And he'd probably think I was dyin' again if I suddenly went easy with 'im.

[terraria]

Mmm. Like if I wasn't so small and my bones hollow?

[ohlord]

Like if you weren't on my flock.

[though admittedly, he probably wouldn't flat-out punch him either because of the size thing, but why clarify that?

he terribbad human, Perci. please understand.]

[terraria]

( he hums. )

Is that right...?

[ohlord]

Lookin' small n' helpless ain't the same as being small n' helpless.

Y'ain't helpless, that's for sure.

[terraria]

Aha. I'm glad we see each other for what we are, then.

Not-helpless, and good-human.

[ohlord]

Way wrong.

[knocks against the back of his head with a knuckle. not hard. but not baby light, either.]

Not bein' the worst doesn't mean I'm good. You and Minuet got the same issue of havin' the bar so low, ya let close even the types who shouldn't be.

[terraria]

( the little knock against his head actually makes him laugh - he even sticks his tongue out playfully.

but he listens, and blinks with surprise. )

I... I don't think I've let people close that shouldn't be close...? Not here, anyway.

[ohlord]

If ya gotta qualify it...

[sighs, but brushing at the short feathers with his fingers one last time before poking a finger against his back. like a gun. a fingergun. it's funny.]

Seriously, though. Don't call a guy who participated in a mass killing event "good", it's kinda gross.

[terraria]

( a soft huff, and then he smacks styx lightly with his wing, mostly in order to surprise him so he can turn around, reach up, and bend styx's arm so his finger is pointed at himself. )

You don't get to decide what you deserve. If I think you deserve to be called good, that's what I'll call you.

( buuuuut he also lets go. )

You should know I was ranked 0/15 for obedience back home. It's the only thing I was ranked low on. You can tell me not to do something, but there is absolutely no telling what I'll do if you do.

1/2

[ohlord]

[smacked in the face and yep. that's his own fingergun being pointed at him.

damn it. he's too soft, actually.]

2/2

[ohlord]

[but he doesn't say anything about that when he's let go, just shakes out his arm once it's released.]

Yeah, that seems to be a theme for Lily. None of us are good at followin' orders unless we wanna.

[terraria]

Isn't it funny that we follow Charon when we're all so difficult to handle? We have our disagreements, certainly, but...

[ohlord]

See it more as him usually just doin' what I'd want to do anyway.

[except that ONE TIME... WITH THE BOOK.]

[terraria]

I like to think of it as... "he's also difficult to handle, so we just fit".

In essence, I agree.

[ohlord]

Apparently, I'm the worst at rilin' him up.

[said dryly. by "worst", he means "most successful"]