[voice] un: masayoshi shido

[makejapangreat]

[He doesn't use video bc quite frankly he looks like Shit. So he uses voice. It's Not Much Better?]

How the fuck do you be a decent person...

No, wait.. [Give him a second.] How do you— know who you are? [???] Recently, something in me changed... was changed, forcefully, and...

[He's lost??? He's quiet for a few moments, before he growls. It sounds more like a groan.]

Nevermind. What is there to do around here?

[get some fucking rest shido????]

Comments

text; Jetshard

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ WeLL for a start there's a LittLe hobby I like to call "not bLatantly ignoring avaiLable medicaL care."

o)+ If you haven't been seen to yet, aLLow me to add my voice to the chorus imPLoring you to stoP in at the medicaL bay at Literally any Point.

[makejapangreat]

[guess who is getting tired of being told to go to the medical bay Real Fast

so instead

he's just gonna be a jerk.]

The hell are you typing like that for?

[dubiouslychthonic]

[Oh we're gonna be like that are we.]

o)+ WouLd you Prefer I was the kind of Paranoid asshoLe who cuLtivated a tyPing quirk that actuaLLy serves to obscure my message from imPeriaLLy-sanctioned webcrawLLers?

[makejapangreat]

[The most bewildered:] What?

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ Most PeoPLe in the society I come from cuLtivate styListic fLourishes in their tyPing habits. It's referred to as a "quirk" and it's roughLy anaLogous to handwriting in terms of PersonaL identification.

o)+ Which is to say, I keeP having to doubLe check who's saying what because aLL of you PeoPLe's text Looks the same and it's ridicuLous.

o)+ Mine's actuaLLy fairLy understated, save for the chromatic ambiguity. Some PeoPLe's are comPLex enough to serve as rudimentary encryPtion.

[makejapangreat]

[He's coming back to this later, once he's actually been healed. He definitely sounds much more alert and less like he has one foot in the grave.]

I see... I've never heard of such a thing before. In any case, I got myself seen to.

[And he doesn't intend to let it get that bad again, thanks. Once was enough.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ Good.

o)+ And no, I hadn't gotten the imPression that quirked text was exactLy common among humans.

[makejapangreat]

... so what are you, then?

text -> video

[dubiouslychthonic]

o)+ A troLL. Just a moment.

[And after grabbing a pair of glasses from her sylladex - the ones with the blue-tinted lenses - and briefly finger-combing her hair to reassure herself it's not sticking out in too many different directions, she switches over to video.]

Like so.

[makejapangreat]

[... a troll? Are they trying to be funny—

Oh. No they're not, apparently.]

... for being another species, you're remarkably human-like.

[shido that's speciest]

[dubiouslychthonic]

For being another species, you're remarkably trolliod.

[Her tone is mild, maybe just a touch too much so.]

The similarities are less extensive than you might assume from the broad details of adult morphology.

[makejapangreat]

I— sorry.

[he's... still getting used to... everything.]

In my . . . world, we never had contact with any other sentient species.

[dubiouslychthonic]

Unless you've already developed interstellar flight capabilities of your own, that's probably for the best for your civilization, honestly. Our empire is not particularly given to diplomacy.

[makejapangreat]

[A wry smirk.] We seem to be making a pretty good effort towards destroying ourselves, anyway.

Interstellar flight... I can scarcely imagine it. My own species has yet to send a man farther than our moon.