[watching someone introduce themselves as war sure was a fucking trip!]
Pretty literally. She's... mankind's fear of war, personified. [and she doesn't think she's talked to him about this before, so.] All devils are like that.
... Yeah. There's a reason unauthorized contracts are illegal, anyway.
[but sometimes you are a teenager and dying, and accidentally accept a contract from a spooky bird. also, it's late but i want a mem if you don't mind backtagging.]
[ I do not mind backtagging if you don't, pikayay. ]
At the least, probably not in the same sense as yours. Magic and the otherworldly are actually exceedingly rare, although they do exist -- but a majority think they're nothing more than myths and parlour tricks.
It's better that way, too. The costs of those kinds of things are --
[ And then conveniently they can get shadowed where Asa gets to see this! I really looked at my mems like hmm what's a good one and then remembered I literally have this. ]
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[ Since everyone's worlds are so... different and the lore is so fucking buck-wild. He realises the overseer might be weird to Asa in that case. ]
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Pretty literally. She's... mankind's fear of war, personified. [and she doesn't think she's talked to him about this before, so.] All devils are like that.
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My... that sure is something.
Is it normal for these devils to attach themselves to you like that? And... become you?
[ Is he interpreting what he saw correctly? ]
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but that is a very funny question? she looks away.]
It's not. Normally, they just take over a corpse.
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a slight pause here.]
I'm alive right now.
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[she trails off, visibly debating whether or not to say something, but--]
I did die last year. She... brought me back in exchange for my body.
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[but sometimes you are a teenager and dying, and accidentally accept a contract from a spooky bird. also, it's late but i want a mem if you don't mind backtagging.]
I guess you don't have devils in your world?
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At the least, probably not in the same sense as yours. Magic and the otherworldly are actually exceedingly rare, although they do exist -- but a majority think they're nothing more than myths and parlour tricks.
It's better that way, too. The costs of those kinds of things are --
[ And then conveniently they can get shadowed where Asa gets to see this! I really looked at my mems like hmm what's a good one and then remembered I literally have this. ]
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ah.
WELL.
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF AMPUTEES, APPARENTLY.]
You... You cut it off yourself?!
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...
It's as you saw...
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[just staring back at him for a second, then, like. i hope that wasn't a pun.
and then she glaces at his eyepatch and away.]
So that a power you have? You can sacrifice parts of yourself to... revive somebody?
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He just sighs. ]
And a number of other things. An eye for blindness... thymus for infection, heart for bleeding...
I wouldn't call it a power though. Kind of makes it sound like something I can just intrinsically do.
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she nods in understanding, though, eyebrows furrowing in confusion.]
A ritual you learned, then. But you don't know who you sacrificed your arm to?
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Sylvian. Her lesser lord, Vitruvia. In that realm -- it doesn't really matter does it.
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[imagine if he makes it home and the arm just pops off.]
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I wasn't exactly expecting to get it back, especially not like this... but I can only complain so much. Works out in a place like this.
[ Though that being said. Again he is very sorry about yours Asa. ]
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[trying not to be mad (she is mad)]
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[ He's not seriously but like. Understandable. And also very funny. ]
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[who did this to her... who decided this... she does not understand rule of funny.]