Mask or Menace IC contact

[crassidy]

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

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[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?

[crassidy]

Not dismissin' anythin'.

[Yes he is.]

Just sayin' I've been a vampire three times as long as I've been a human. Whatever I once was, I sure as shite ain't any more. You deal with many immortal folk, doc?

[slightlyoffchilt]

I have, in fact. And I still find humanity within them. But we need not dwell on that, if you don't want to do so.

[crassidy]

Aye, let's not dwell on any of it. Smart choice, there. You're a good man. Way better use of our time is gettin' shit faced, wakin' up in some random folks bathroom and not rememberin' a bloody thing of it, eh? How about it?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Is that an experience you often enjoy, Cassidy? Because I actually do find that. Worrisome.

[crassidy]

Not often. Only days endin' in a Y. Maybe leave the judgement for some fella who needs the help.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Why are you taking concern as judgement?