3rd Performance | The Gods must be crazy

[with_the_big_top]

[Video]

Y'know, I haven't been here for very long and I'm still trying to figure this place out. I know it's really jarring to be pulled out of your own world and into another without any warning. Heck, it's even downright scary! I can totally understand being angry at the people responsible for it, too. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.

I saw the cute little thing one of the Gods posted for someone, and it kind of explained a lot! Even before I saw that, though, I noticed a little bit of a trend.

Every time one of the Gods posts something a lot of people treat them pretty rudely. Like I said, I can understand being angry and scared...but is it really a good idea to act that way toward the most powerful people here? Sure, it would have been better if they had asked for our help before just pulling us here...but would anyone have said yes to their request?

I don't know if anyone else here has ever been in a situation where they had a chance to do something to save an entire world, but even despite the circumstances it's a chance to do something really cool and incredible! We can help save an entire world, and if what that God posted is true, a whole bunch of other worlds too...even our own.

I dunno, I kind of feel like I'm rambling. I guess I'm just saying we should probably try to cooperate with the Gods and do something to help. We're here anyway, right? I bet the quicker we get it done the quicker we can go home. Plus, it'll probably end in some kind of grand show! A final battle with the evil bosses! It's like something out of a video game, and will probably be something really cool to be a part of.

Besides, they're Gods. That demands some kind of respect, right? I'm not trying to suck up or anything, and I'm really not even sure why I decided to do this. I just figure we should be more cooperative since we're here anyway, and we might even become some kind of mythical heroes in the process! Even if you don't like the Gods, we should definitely all work together ourselves. We're going to have to fight for our lives, right?

I'm just a circus performer, though...so I guess I might be a little naive or something?

[Cerebella thinks about that for a moment, before the video feed mercifully shuts off.]

Comments

[with_the_big_top]

I'm not someone who likes making people angry on purpose.

Still...we need to talk about this. Don't worry, I can take care of myself too.

[fishdouche]

I wwasn't wworried. If he snaps your head off, wwell, that's none a' my business.

[with_the_big_top]

See, that's not what circus people are supposed to do!

[fishdouche]

Maybe on your planet.

[with_the_big_top]

That's not how it should be on any planet!

[fishdouche]

Wwell, that's your opinion. It's wwrong, a' course.

[with_the_big_top]

So you prefer a place of magic and childish wonder like the circus to be a place of murder and fear?

[fishdouche]

All a matter a personal choice, ain't it? Maybe I like murder.

[with_the_big_top]

Well that's just horrible by itself!

[fishdouche]

Says you. That's vvery fuckin' culturally insensitivve, by the wway!

A little bit a vviolence is perfectly acceptable, evven good for you.

[with_the_big_top]

That's not even remotely true.

I bet you haven't even experienced anything like that.

[fishdouche]

Fuck you, human! I had a perfectly good kismesis!! I'm not completely romantically bankrupt!

[He snarls, baring his fangs.]

[with_the_big_top]

I don't know what a "kiss-me-sis" is, but you kinda sound like you might be.

[fishdouche]

If you don't evven know-w w-what a kismesis is then you can't judge me, peasant!

Humans are too sensitivve about vviolence anyw-way. So fuckin' squeamish. An' w-whiney.

lol sorry about that double-tag...my internet is stupid.

[with_the_big_top]

Maybe that's because hurting other people is wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I can take down anyone in a fight, but enjoying violence is stupid.

What is a kiss-me-sis anyway?

Re: lol sorry about that double-tag...my internet is stupid.

[fishdouche]

It's only wwrong if you get fuckin' caught.

[Eridan shrugs noncommittally.]

A kismesis is a troll's rivval. The troll you hate abovve all other trolls, the one that makes your blood pusher pound wwith matin' rage. It's all rather romantic, actually. A shame your culture sticks to the lighter side a' things--you really are missin' out on the best quadrant.

[with_the_big_top]

You sound...absolutely insane!

[fishdouche]

Maybe to a fuckin' wweak filthblood human!!!

[with_the_big_top]

I bet I could take you on, if you think I'm so weak!

[fishdouche]

You wwouldn't be wworth my time, human. [Human. It's Eridan's favorite curse word.]

Wwhy don't you go back to doin' somersaults an' handstands or wwhatevver it is you "circus" folk do that keeps your bloodpusher from properly keepin' your think pan wworkin'.

[with_the_big_top]

You have a really weird way of talking.

I can't even be mad at you when you talk like that.

[fishdouche]

I'm not the one that talks, wweird! You the fuckin' aliens, not me!

An' my accent is a mark a' nobility.

[with_the_big_top]

[Cerebella just laughs.]

It's kinda cute!

[fishdouche]

Wwell, no one's evver said that before. Usually people think it's annoyin'.

[Eridan uses flirt! It's... probably not so effective.]

You knoww, you're not so bad yourself, for a human.

[with_the_big_top]

[Eridan, you're flirting with a woman who's used to flirting with all of her fans just to be polite. I don't think you can handle this.]

Really? You reaaaaaaally mean it?

[Have those puppy dog eyes, Eridan.]