andexecutioner | PRIVATE MEETINGS

What do you get out of this, exactly? Payment? Power? I'm only curious, lovely host of mine, considering I would run this simply to kill some time. I might even do as you do and live among everyone. It's easy to hate those they don't see, after all.

[But people they can have a much more tangible form. Especially in regards to hobbies and the like.]

[He tips his head a bit.]

I like giving them a person to focus all their anger on; it's harder to do it blindly when you can get to know them, sure, but seeing how people treat their captors is an interesting pastime for me.

It's not something I'm doing out of boredom, though. What I get out of it doesn't really matter, but it's not boredom. I'm closer to you than I am to them in a lot of ways, but I'm not really like you, either.

[Their main difference is motivation, clearly. And what they find fun. And other things, probably, but he hasn't asked very much on the... species side, only a few times here and there.]

Does your kind live a long time, or is it more like a human's lifespan? I will say, my wonderful host, if you're simply a human who's tampered in things he shouldn't have, it wouldn't make you much different than someone else I know here.

...I actually don't know.

[And from the sound if it, he genuinely doesn't; it's not an attempt at deflecting the question or feigning ignorance.]

We're around for as long as we need to be. How long that is on average, I can't really tell you.

And you've been needed for twenty-five years now. My, how short a time~.

[...]

Needed for what, exactly? I don't expect an answer for you specifically, but you certainly can't blame me for asking in general.

You'll have to ask someone else about that one, if you ever get the chance.

[...]

Twenty-five years is a rough guess at my age. Not how long I've been needed. That one's harder to keep track of.

[Oh, he certainly will.]

My age is what's hard to keep track of for me. I know I'm roughly in that area... but I couldn't say if it's any more or any less. We don't exactly celebrate birthdays.

[Even if he knows when his is!!! Maybe he is two thousand on the dot. The big two-oh... oh-oh.]

Does time move... oddly, I suppose it is, for you as well?

...Something like that, yeah.

There isn't a very good way to describe it, is there. Nothing one thinks on for long.

[... Because, you know. It's normalized someway or another.]

Setting that aside, my dear host, I'd like to get to know you more in a different way~. Do you like movies?

I don't know.

[Again, he sounds as though he genuinely doesn't.]

I've never really watched any.

[NANI THE FUCK, JURI]

Really? [He's genuinely surprised.] Well, I was asking because I thought you'd agree that it's criminal that Aligula's never seen Little Shop of Horrors before, but now it's criminal you haven't watched any!

[Brady might've asked for a TV, but who cares. This is something a little more #aesthetic.]

They're one of the more interesting things humans have invented, I'll admit, and I'm positive you'd agree! Won't you see if you can get your hands on a projector of some kind? As well as a few old reels -- I can handle everything else, you'd just need to enjoy the show.

...I'll think about it.

[That's the sort of "I'll think about it" that implies a "probably not", but at least it's not a straight-up rejection.]

I know about them, and I've known some people who like them. I could probably get my hands on them if I felt like it. At the same time, I don't have a lot of reason to watch them.

You can't think of a single reason why you might want to watch them?

[Because, like... Ferid has a whole list of reasons.]

...That sounds like you're about to give me a list of reasons if I can't provide any.

Are you ready~?

[...siiiigh.]

Go ahead, let's hear it.

[This is why you're his... you're his something.]

Movies are an art form, and art has always delved into the minds of humans, how society has affected them, and the experiences they had growing up -- it's from these sources they draw inspiration and therefore creativity. Much like music, it's an experience that is built on what the people performing can offer: an actor throwing their heart and soul into the role may not win an Oscar no matter the increasingly dangerous things they do, but there's no doubt to the audience's mind that they're doing something they love and want recognition for.

[... And in Ferid's world, Leonardo DiCaprio will never sleep inside a bear or whatever to win that Oscar, because he's dead.]

Secondly, they're a wonderful time waster! A good movie will make the hours pass like nothing at all. A bad one, if it's bad enough, will do the same thing, but one that's just mediocre is best viewed with company to get you through such hard times.

They also come in all genres, much more varied than books I would say, and there's certainly a niche for everyone. Even someone like you. They're not as droll as books either, in my opinion, since books require you to imagine things and movies put it in front of you.

Lastly, you'd be able to experience the splendor of David Bowie. I think you'd rather like Labyrinth.

[...

dios mio, Ferid.]

I actually know who David Bowie is. Not familiar with too much of his work, but I know who he is. Space Oddity, right? Major Tom and all that. I'd probably like him, from what I do know.

[...Well, okay, then.]

What sort of movies are you into, then?

[He was ready.

... Also that is. A little surprising, but if there's going to be someone that can cross dimensions and be known across any species, it's going to be David Bowie, so you know what. Good.]

It changes through the eras. I used to be entertained by horror until it got droll, romance is always the same, pulp fiction held my interest the longest... I rather like mysteries and suspense, though, and movies that take place after the fall of civilization. It's interesting to see how society's views on the future have changed, too, from something filled with hope and dreams to a world that's on its last breath.

[Look, some people are just straight-up universal. Freddie Mercury is another one.

That said, he's going to look at you kind of weirdly for all of that, good lord.]

People tend to see it as one of those two extremes anyway, don't they? There's some sort of ridiculous hope/despair dichotomy that I've seen in people - either nothing shakes their resolve or the world's going to end in ten minutes.

It's kind of pointless, if you ask me. Thinking about things like that in too much detail.

[God bless, honestly.]

For them, certainly. It isn't like it's going to change the outcome no matter what they try... but I think it's interesting because one day everyone was dreaming of futuristic worlds with battles in space and narrowly escaping the Earth's destruction by playing Indian Love Call into the helmets of Martians, and the next it was humanity's fault entirely with no hope to be seen, government experiments gone wrong or war finally taking its toll. The current ones are boring in comparison to how things used to be.

[Give him alien invasions any day.]

I'd advise you stay away from romcoms, in any case. Those are the most pointless movies of all.

Don't let Aligula hear you say that; she'd probably take some sort of personal offense at it.

[...]

That said, I know better than to watch anything she'd like, so...

... Yes, I'll refrain. I've learned my lesson in crossing her.

[As long as she doesn't find out he got a wine bottle of blood from the machine recently, he has another thing to treat himself with. Sweet, sweet children's blood.]

Have I provided a good enough argument for you yet? To at least see a few.

Maybe. But if this is some roundabout way of trying to get me to give you a television, it's not going to happen.

I'd rather have washing machines first, thank you! As I said -- a projector will be enough. You can show movies on pretty much any flat surface using those.

[who the hell needs a tellie here]

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