week 2 ~*afterparty*~

[escardos]

[ well, after everyone had their encounter either ghostbusting or being ghostbusted, and once returned to the campus, flat thinks that it's a great idea to wind down with-- ]

I FOUND A BOOTLEG COPY OF THE SHREK MOVIE. LET'S WATCH IT @ THE KARAOKE PLACE! BRING YOUR OWN SNACKS!!!!

[ hopefully it's not too cramped, but repurposing a tablet to project estelletube 'jim shrok FULL MOVIE part 1 of 20' is not that difficult of a task for flat.

he's managed to bring some popcorn, but that's about it.

rest up everyone, it's been a long day.

(for ya'll. flat had fun.) ]

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[selfconcept]

[ Having no heart tracks with how he remembers how cold Owen was with no heartbeat. But then. Huh. He wonders if that's a culture thing. ]

You want me to eat it? Is that why you need me?

[sicklysweet]

[Some day Owen will not dig himself holes by refusing to explain his thoughts and feelings but now he'll just get annoyed.]

No, that's not - those are entirely different things. [ugh] All I'm saying is as long as Mithra or Oz don't get my mana stone, who cares.

[He cares?? Probably far too much, honestly.]

[selfconcept]

Dunno who they are, but it's obvious that you care.

[ Bro. ]

[sicklysweet]

I don't.

[he says, sulky]

Mithra and Oz are wizards. They kill me all the time, so it'd piss me off if they were the ones who got to eat my stone. Wouldn't that annoy you, too?

[selfconcept]

I don't understand your culture or mindset about people eating your carcass-turned-stone.

[ Only because he doesn't think Owen thinks of him fondly enough to do such a significant-sounding thing. ]

But if you want me to eat it that bad, I'll go to your world when you die for good and eat it in front of Mithra and Oz.

[ He doesn't know who the heck they are, but it's always fun gloating in front of someone. ]

[sicklysweet]

Would you be able to stand it if someone you hate was able to take your power for themselves after they died?

[...]

Though that would be pretty funny. I'm sure it'd make Mithra pretty angry.

[He wonders how either of them would fare in a fight against someone who's a ???god???... Would Hien actually be able to defeat Oz? He wants to see what would happen.

So it's time to change the topic again to avoid thinking more deeply on his desires.]

So how powerful are you, anyways? In a fight.

cw torture mention, 101 ways to die

[selfconcept]

I think I'm pretty good in a fight. I'd rather do that, but if I have to be honest, I don't even need to fight to win. I can control whatever makes up a person: their personalities, desires, and whatever. What makes them as they are. I can take away their desire and watch them live as a husk who doesn't want anything or do anything--not even maintain their survival, so they eventually shrivel up and die. I can also control memory and life to a certain extent, so I can just have their existence forget how to breathe without me touching them.

[ Hien is better off not fighting, but he loves fighting people, so there's that. ]

The list is endless. It makes torture entertaining when necessary.

[sicklysweet]

[...

Would Hien be able to stop him from coming back to life...?]

Would you do that to Oz if I asked very, very nicely? You don't have to kill him completely, but it sounds like it would be fun to watch and see how scared he gets.

[Or is Owen too incomplete for that? Would it be possible even when he's missing a part of himself...?]

[selfconcept]

Maybe.

[ Because he personally doesn't have anything against Oz. ]

We'll see if it gets to that point. I'm guessing it isn't as fun to watch Mithra squirm?

[sicklysweet]

[yay]

It's hard to know what'll make him squirm. He's unpredictable - and he's not as strong as Oz, anyways, so that's why Oz is a better choice.

[selfconcept]

If you say so.

[ Unfortunately, what Owen says about Mithra makes him more curious about him than Oz. Mithra is unpredictable, so he could take his time getting to know what would make him tick.

That would be fun. ]

You really wanna knock him down a peg, huh?

[sicklysweet]

I think he deserves it.

[Owen does know one fool proof way to infuriate Mithra...!

But he doesn't want to talk about it. It kind of sucked when that got him killed.]

[selfconcept]

[ rip owen, Bullying a Dragon ]

Why is that, princess? Got some grudges?

[sicklysweet]

[huff]

I think Oz has killed me more times than anyone else - and not just me, either. He's killed countless of people. Kind of earned his reputation as the Demon King Oz.

[selfconcept]

Demon King, huh...?

[ Oh. So now Oz is a person of a possibly tyrannical reputation. How he'd like to grind his head to the ground with his foot— ]

Did you deserve it though?

[sicklysweet]

Not every time.

[He's well aware that sometimes he pushes things and deserves to die! He's not that ignorant of his shitheadery!]

But, yeah. The great and powerful Demon King Oz - took over a significant portion of the world with Figaro, don't know how many thousands of people they killed, and now humans are terrified of him. He's kind of the worst.

[selfconcept]

For you to say that he's the worst...

[ It only makes Hien smile a little. ]

Yeah, I think I'd have fun knocking down a peg or two from this guy. Hey, if I win, will all of his territory be mine?

[sicklysweet]

If you win, would anyone be able to stop you from taking it for yourself?

[Owen certainly wouldn't, though he would like to look through Oz's castle and see if there was anything worth taking...]

[selfconcept]

No. If I really wanted to keep it. they shouldn't be able to.

[ hello i am what makes you, you. ]

World domination... isn't really my thing though.

[sicklysweet]

Yeah, I gathered that much.

[Which, admittedly, it’s not much Owen’s thing either. He much prefers toying with people over controlling them outright.]

It’s strange.

[selfconcept]

What's strange?

[ Hien would 100% agree with Owen regarding toying. ]

[sicklysweet]

Having so much power but not wanting to force people to bow to you with it. There’s not a lot of powerful wizards like that, so it’s strange.

[selfconcept]

I see... in my case, it's just a case of being picky. There's nothing fun about getting a random person to submit. It has to have meaning.

[sicklysweet]

So you like things to be personal. Just people you choose, all under your control… I know you want to hurt people and see them hurt. That you like that.

But do you also want them to make you feel good?

[selfconcept]

[ It's been a long night, so when Owen asks him that, he gets a blank stare in return. ]

I'm not into orgies. Anyway, it's getting late. I'm ready to sleep for 18 hours.