{ 09 } I feel like a prized asshole, no-one even mentions my casserole

[socoolbrewster]

[VIDEO - public]

[Annoyance. Amusement. Loss. Alone. Hurt. Hungry. Without the structure of more human thoughts they're a jumble, stronger than you'd expect, more raw. Basic.

But outwardly he just looks a combination of irritated and amused.]

Just...stop it. All of you. It's bad enough I can smell you, now I have to see it too? What. the. FUCK.

You look like rainbows. It's kind of ridiculous; if I laugh at you it's because you look like Glenda the Good Witch.

It's like I'm lost in fucking Bath and Body Works.


[A/N: Ed is gloriously Affected, and is currently both a receiver and a transmitter. Have fun!]

Comments

[buildindreemz]

[That's a lot of feelings right there. Ariadne is starting to get a headache, and she's projecting mostly annoyance and frustration, with an undercurrent of tiredness.]

What, did you get high just as the flood was starting?

[socoolbrewster]

[...Tired. Well that's something new, at least. He ignores the other two; they're his too, so nothing interesting there.]

Do you have any idea how difficult that would be?

[buildindreemz]

Well, getting into probabilities, I dunno. Might be tough for you to get drugs?

[socoolbrewster]

More like it might be tough for me to get high, but sure, that too.

[buildindreemz]

Is that a super power of yours?

[flashy_magic]

[Drake feels amused, and is a receiver and transmitter.] I look like rainbows? Well...actually, yeah, I've had people say that to me before.

[socoolbrewster]

Before or after the flood turned everybody into themselves on LSD?

[Teasing, but without the venom; the annoyance tones down, the rest stays constant.]

You look like a Peter Vincent impersonator. Just so you know. Only without the bad wig.

[flashy_magic]

Hey! If anyone's impersonating anyone, he's impersonating me!

...and that would be before. I was wearing a different outfit.

[socoolbrewster]

You serious about that? Why don't you go have a catfight over it, if you're that upset about it. Geez.

[scarlet_discord]

[Well, someone's happy to hear from him, anyway. Or at least that's what she's radiating--a sort of tentative happiness qualified by caution, curiosity, an easygoing and totally non-awkward attraction which mix together to form a sort of Tequila Sunrise coloring. But then she notices what he's going through, and here comes a pale thread of worry and urge-to-distract.]

Hey look! I'm a lava lamp!

[socoolbrewster]

[Absently, though not in reference to anything she's saying out loud.]

Stop that. I'm fine.

[Once she shows up on camera his own mood shifts; more towards amused, toning down on the emptier things. Pleased, reminiscent of a big game cat purring, and the sense of hunger sharpens but expands, fades slightly, the undertone of food dulling and leaning more towards...other things.]

I dunno, I don't think you're oozing enough.

[...Wait. NOT THAT WAY. It's a joke. She knows that, right?]

[scarlet_discord]

[She squashes the concern as best she can, a little embarrassed. But the rest makes her blush and peek at him through her eyelashes.]

[And then...]

[She sporfles and covers her face with her hand.] Dude. I do not ooze. Well, except for that one Flood.

...

[Pardon her, she's having typical eighteen year old dork thoughts for a moment. Empathy Flood. New potential boyfriend in need of distraction. Empathy Flood.]

[Hmmmm...]

[socoolbrewster]

And, you know. Once a month.

[See? Zero filter. He's not even embarrassed by it; hey, it's blood. He can't be embarrassed by blood, it's food. Tasty, delicious food, and...okay, now he's a little embarrassed. Stop thinking about that, Ed, that's weird.

And then...pause. Backtrack, and probing confusion. Curiosity.]

...Why did you ooze during a flood?

[nakesnakecobracobra]

My dear, I'm afraid the problem is your own. Nobody looks colorful to me.

[ Her voice is so respectful, but she is full of disdain and disgust. It's kind of a constant thing for her. ]

[socoolbrewster]

Sounds like that's your problem.

[A spike in annoyance that eases quickly, or at least blends into the regular levels.]

[nakesnakecobracobra]

[ Oh you poor little wretch, you think she cares? ]

I was under the impression you didn't like the colors.

[socoolbrewster]

[Not really. And he wouldn't trust it if she did, anyway.]

Well I can honestly say I've never had anybody color coded for me before, so it's an adjustment.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[Here is...a double dose of annoyance which is somehow directed simultaneously outward and inward. Scrad, who is the only one of...himself...visible on the comm currently asks:]

...you can get smell on this thing?

[socoolbrewster]

[...Well that's obnoxious. And unsettling. But Scrad can have some superiority anyway; that's not a real question, is it?]

Nah, smell-o-vision's in the next version.

No, I get to smell everybody normally, as long as I see them in person. Today I get colors too, that's all.

...You're a Glinda, by the way.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[That was, actually, a real question. You Earthlings and your limited use of senses.]

Was she the green one?

[Is that some kind of space joke? Are you being a space-racist? A spacist?]

[socoolbrewster]

Nope. The pink one who was secretly evil as fuck. And floating in bubble gum.

[Scrad...what? Stop getting offended over nothing, he's just commenting.]

[strangehistorian]

Colors? I hadn't heard that as an effect before...

[Chromie is surrounded in the silver clockwork of perceiving a hundred things at once and quietly balancing them. She's actually quite cheerful, if a little worried at how unhappy he seems.]

Are you alright?

[socoolbrewster]

[...Whoa. Girl you are FUN to look at. It keeps moving, and it's entrancing and...

Right. Words. Don't mind him, easily distracted today. The cheerful reflects back, easing some of his issues, and the distraction helps too. Now he's mostly just curious, like a puppy sniffing your shoes, although he's still hungry. And not for normal food.]

Everything's gotta have a first time, I guess. Yeah, I'm fine. Really.

[So what if the outside doesn't quite match the inside, it's normal for him anyway.]

[strangehistorian]

This flood seems to be largely emotional. Are you sure something else hasn't happened?

[socoolbrewster]

...Yes?

[No?]

Nothing out of the ordinary anyway.

[Suspicious look is suspicious.]

...Why?