Waking the Dead 2.0 || August 19, 2063 || Friday

[icarusalsoflew]

[This one disappears for about thirty minutes, and returns as quietly as he left with two briefcases. He doesn't explain where he went, but from how he ducks into Hikaru's room for about fifteen minutes after that, it can probably be inferred that he fetched a few things from Falner.

Looks like he'll be staying at the Tower while he has taken control of his Brother's body. You're usually going to spot him hovering around, smoking, working through a glass of rum, eyes crimson-ringed and glowing oddly in all lights (or lack thereof) watching... who knows what he's watching? And that suit he's wearing - three-piece, black, pin-striped, with ghostly faces and smoke occasionally moving over the "fabric" - is pretty nice, creepiness aside.

Please excuse him if you find him suddenly popping in on you. It's just what he does.]


OOC Notes:
+ Drop starters as you please! I'll have Death haunt you accordingly. ♥
+ Feel free to do other stuff among yourselves here as well.
+ Do note that Makoto's out and solid for this evening too, so you can bug him or ping me if you want him to come around and bother you.

Comments

[icarusalsoflew]

Preferences imply emotion, and emotion in itself is a new phenomenon to me.

[He is often unaware, in fact, of when he is actually feeling something.]

[ktotheatothez]

Ohhhh. Well, awareness of emotions, then.

[ Like when he gets sudden feels from watching something, maybe? Thinky face, looking at you. ]

Can you tell me how you feel at the moment?

[icarusalsoflew]

Hm.

[Thinking on that for a moment.]

Intrigued. Pensive.

[...He's not sure about the rest just yet.]

[ktotheatothez]

That works. I don't really think the saying "curiosity killed the cat" applies in your case, and it's okay to ask when you don't get something, right?

[ He tosses a smile your way, easy and casual. He's totally okay with you asking him anything, and he'll try to answer as best he can. ]

[icarusalsoflew]

I have been told that before.

[Tilts head.]

Nevertheless, many of my queries appear to have bothered some of your kind in the past.

[ktotheatothez]

I guess it could unnerve some people. Not so much me, my squick trigger's kind of low.

[icarusalsoflew]

"Squick"?

[Yes, that is a new word to him. Please to be teaching Death, Karlo Antonio Zobel de Ayala.]

[ktotheatothez]

Well, it basically means the relative discomfort that someone feels in a situation.

[ Shrug, smile, smoke. ]

It takes a lot to make me squick-y.

[icarusalsoflew]

Ah.

[Hum. You learn something new every day.]

Why "squick"?

[ktotheatothez]

Y'know I don't actually know? I just heard it once from one of my former instructors at Quincy's. One of those carry-over slang words from the 2010s, I guess... Kinda like YOLO, but not as silly.

[icarusalsoflew]

YOLO...

[Where has he heard that before.

Enlighten him, plz.]

[ktotheatothez]

"You only live once", or so the expression went. I don't think it applies to most people anymore.

[icarusalsoflew]

Ah.

[...Huh.]

No, it does not. Why does it carry on, then?

[ktotheatothez]

[ He scratches at the back of his head, because it doesn't anymore. ]

Um... I don't think people say it anymore. It's the first time I've said it since pop-history 102 and St. Quincy's. Fifty years and even street-slang's evolved I guess.

[icarusalsoflew]

Then what do people say often now, in your country?

[You appear to know much about this thing. That makes sense to Death: you are rather young in comparison to your blade mates, both in mannerisms and in thinking.]

[ktotheatothez]

[ And he has to think on that. Most of his preferred slang actually comes from way before he was born. ]

I think that the slang from the 2010s lives on. I hear a lot of adults saying 'Medj' or 'Deins' the same way we use it so...

[icarusalsoflew]

[Hm.]

I am starting to get the impression that Keepers of the Vigil tend to be creatures who fixate on the past.

[ktotheatothez]

Hmm. Why's that?

[icarusalsoflew]

In spite of the presence of new technology, many of your kind appear to prefer using older techniques of disposing of your marks. Many of you also display nostalgia for things that have come to past.

[ktotheatothez]

Ah. Nostalgia. Have you ever heard the phrase "they don't make 'em like they used to"? We tend to apply that depending on preferences. Some people like older stuff because newer things may be shiny, but they're not always as good to some people because of those preferences.

[ He lifts his lighter to you. ]

This is a classic Zippo from the late two-thousands. It was treated the same way as newer lighters are now. Again, preference.

[icarusalsoflew]

[Hmm.]

Is it not, as well, grounded for many on practicality? We have, after all, spoken about tradition. Conventions. I simply find it interesting how the majority of the Keepers have such common preferences for "old things", as Brother Wolf likes to put it.

[ktotheatothez]

That too. I'm young, as far as Hunter standards go... Lots of things are old to me, and everything I've learned so far kind of points to the fact that sometimes, you'll have an easier time doing it old school.

[ Unless it's traveling. There isn't anything more convenient than a 'port. ]

[icarusalsoflew]

Ah.

[Nodding, looking satisfied.]

Thank you for explaining these matters to me.

[ktotheatothez]

Of course, brother.

[ He really doesn't mind you two talking. ]