005 ♒ Video | Day 199

[fishdouche]

Good day, Asgard.

[The violet sea troll offers a surprisingly friendly wave, sitting at the oak desk in his room in the Baldr welcome hall. He twirls a feather quill in his other hand as he speaks.]

I came across a grubdisc I had nearly forgotten, an' it reminded me of a question I'd been dyin' to ask you.

[He pauses for emphasis, leaning in to smirk conspiratorially.]

Has anyone here evver felt personally vvictimized by Sollux Captor?

If the answwer is yes, an' I suspect it wwill be, I havve a proposition that you wwill find mutually beneficial.

An' Sol, if you're fuckin' eavvesdroppin' like the slitherbeast in the grass that you are, you should knoww that I intentionally didn't hide this little message from your repulsivve mutant eyes because I wwanted you to knoww just howw many people wwish you wwere fuckin' dead. Maybe you could do them a favvor an' take care a' that little predicament a' your still bein' alivve all on your owwn.

[Didn't hide it, couldn't hide it. Same difference. Either way, he disconnects the video shortly after with a laugh.]
 

Comments

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[fishdouche]

Then they shouldn't let themselvves get culled. It's simple, actually.

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[extradite]

You think people die because they're... weak? Or willing?

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[fishdouche]

I don't think so, no.

I knoww.

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[extradite]

[ The politest, most frustrated objection he can manage - ]

You don't know as much as you think you do.

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[fishdouche]

An' wwhat makes you say somethin' like that?

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[extradite]

Because you're not right about that. Sometimes, people die because they choose to. Because they have no choice. Or because they never had a reason not to.

Sometimes, people die so you won't do it instead.

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[fishdouche]

And all of those reasons are idiotic! You die because you're wweak. Emotionally or physically.

[He scoffs.]

Believve me, I havve first hand experience.

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[extradite]

You... died?

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[fishdouche]

I wwas wweak.

audio;

[extradite]

In which way?

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[fishdouche]

Emotionally. I let myself get compromised an' I paid for it.

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[extradite]

'Compromised.' Like an... agent of some sort?

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[extradite]

...sorry. This isn't something people like to talk about.

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[fishdouche]

Wwhy. It happened. Talkin' about it isn't goin' to change anythin'.

[He's fairly nonchalant for a dead guy.]

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[extradite]

Isn't it like picking the scab off a wound?

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[fishdouche]

It'd be a pretty fuckin' big wwound. So, no. It's not.

[It is.]

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[extradite]

You can't blame me for asking. It seems a.... sensitive issue for most people.

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[fishdouche]

They're only human. It's expected.

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[extradite]

'Only human.'

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[fishdouche]

You heard me. I didn't fuckin' stutter. Or lisp like that freak Sol.

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[extradite]

I didn't like what I heard.

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[fishdouche]

I don't fuckin' care if you like it or not. Human.

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[extradite]

...I know. Sorry. I won't bring it up again.

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[fishdouche]

Good. Wwait--bring wwhat up?

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[extradite]

This... entire mess.