Mask or Menace IC contact

[crassidy]

"Probably out gettin' shit faced! I'll get back to yez."

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[slightlyoffchilt]

Why do you think you'll disappoint me?

[He sniffs that out quickly.]

[crassidy]

Runnin' theme. Look, like I said doc, you're a good bloke for doin' what you did, but I'm not here for all this manipulative shite, right? All these... questions and that, it's not right.

[Asking him about his feelings! It's disgusting.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

All these questions... You mean therapy?

[crassidy]

Whatever way you wanna spin it, man, it's still a buncha questions. Got better shite to talk about than disappointin' everyone.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Tell me what you want to talk about, then. I'm open to suggestions.

[crassidy]

What about you, fella? Don't know much 'bout you beyond being a doctor for crazy folk.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You'll have to be more specific. What about me do you want to discuss?

[crassidy]

Deep bloody question. Likes? Dislikes? Fears? Best mates? Favourite movie? Kinks? Intricate details of what happened with Starr? I don't bleedin' know.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You're mixing in kinks on a list sporting who I consider to be my friend?

Interesting.

Well, you, for starters. You're a friend. So is Lestat, have you met him? So is -- well, David Klein was. David Blake almost was, and then turned out to be Woden.

[crassidy]

Oh, I know Lestat! Weird fella, overdramatic, lil' poncey. I can see why you'd get on.

[slightlyoffchilt]

We more or less get on, yes. I take your meaning and choose to ignore the subtext.

[crassidy]

Hah, ignore all you want, mate, you know it's true. He's a good lad though. Funny that you pick friendship outta all those possible questions to answer.

[slightlyoffchilt]

What would you have expected me to pick?

[crassidy]

It was either that or kinks. But the mates option checks out, bit of a status thing.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Would you be saying that if you yourself hadn't a lot of friends?

[He assumes Cassidy has loads of friends.]

[crassidy]

I'd say it no matter what, doc. They come and go pretty bleedin' quickly, it's not about the people you know, right?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Why can't it be about the people you know?

[crassidy]

This was meant to be about you, here. Like, uh. Why friends above all else, eh?

[slightlyoffchilt]

I greatly value my friends. Is why.

[crassidy]

Huh. I'd think that's a bad thing, there, is it not? Like from one of them fancy psychological stand points? Relyin' on others?

[He literally has no idea how any of this works. Doesn't really help when he just got dumped by his supposed best friends back home.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

We are social beings, Cassidy. We're evolved that way. I would consider it to be more unhealthy to shun and disdain the interpersonal connection that other people have to offer.

Don't you think so?

[crassidy]

[A few seconds of silence as the cogs slowly turn.]

I dunno, mate... Maybe it's different for vampires. Maybe we evolved to shun, yknow? Like that Dracula bloke hidin' off in some castle.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You might have a vampiric condition, sure. And that gives you a survivalistic advantage, definitely. But you were born a human being.

You're still a human being to me, psychologically.

[More or less.]

[crassidy]

Doc, I haven't been that in eighty nine years. Maybe you gotta find yourself a more vampire friendly approach.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Why do you dismiss yourself so readily?