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Vriska Serket ([personal profile] dicey) wrote2012-01-16 11:37 am

☣ 021 | video

[Vriska's PCD is filming from the front lawn of Athel House! she doesn't exactly treat it with the utmost care, and so it just kind of got... tossed there when she was bored with it; she'd planned to retrieve it when she felt like using it again]

[Vriska can be seen exiting the house this fine morning (yes, trolls are nocturnal, but a) she's halfway adjusted to the sleep schedule of the rest of the city by now, and b) she's a kid, so staying up all day still strikes her as a cool and novel idea)-- and thanks to where she left her PCD last night, everyone is getting a great view of a big glop of rabbit guts falling off the roof and right onto her head]

[because, as it happens, the entire roof is covered with rabbit guts]

[Killuaaaaaaaa o9]


[OOC: Anyone that's told me here that they don't mind Vriska's typing quirk will be getting her hiding behind text. If you reply to this and don't mind text responses, please let me know via that link! ♥]

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[...]






Can I tell you something?
capuletnomore: (prim and proper lady)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
You may tell me anything you like, Vriska.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm like that. A properly murderous ruthless blueblooded troll. Or at least I always tried to be!

It's just not really a thing I have much reason to be here. That's why no one knows.
capuletnomore: (oh I see)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[She is silent for a moment as she digests these words. Tried to be. In the past. That is like Lord Saxon, in a way. One who had done terrible things in the past, but no longer. And a person must be judged on merit, must they not?]

If - If that is how trolls are meant to act among other trolls, where you are from, then that is how you are meant to be when there. I shall not hold it against you, Vriska.

You have done nothing of the sort here, to my knowledge. You have adapted to your surroundings, as have we all.

Such behavior...it is not something I am able to condone, but nor will I condemn you for it, as it is customary among your people, and they are different to humans. And knowing you have made the choice not to engage in such behavior here - I think it shows great maturity and strength on your part to have abstained from it. There is a time and a place for any sort of behavior, after all.
Edited 2012-01-19 01:13 (UTC)

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
A couple sweeps ago I made Tavros jump off a cliff while we were FLARPing, and he was paralyzed.
capuletnomore: (concern)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes widen at that.]

That happened here? Is he - is he all right, now? And is that the cause of the trouble between you and the others of late?

...

And, forgive me, what is FLARPing? I know not the word.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Not here! Like I said, it was a long time ago.

Then right after that, his gaming partner Aradia got revenge by sending a bunch of ghosts after me, and this... guy convinced me that I should get revenge on her. So I made her boyfriend blow up her hive and kill her and her lusus.
capuletnomore: (looking down with interest)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, listening, her expression sad.]

It...sounds very like home. One of the Monatuges would spit at one of my cousins, and then one of the cousins would throw a rock. In turn, there would be insults traded until someone's temper snapped, and it turned to blows instead. Or one of ours would spit, and begin the cycle.

The feud between the Capulets and Montagues escalated to the point where the Prince swore that if anyone shed blood in the streets, they would be put to death. And even then, it did not stop. Such things do not, not until some tragedy happens to make them stop.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
... Huh. I guess I never thought that revenge cycles might be a big thing for some humans, too.

I've also killed a lot of other people-- people that I didn't know at all, or at least not very well. That wasn't about revenge, it was about surviving.
capuletnomore: (i'm coming to a realization)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
They can be a very great thing for humans. I do not understand entirely - Father wished to protect me from this as much as he was able - but I know that for Tybalt, the feud meant a great deal. You were not here when he discovered I had married in secret - he - to say he did not take the news well would be an understatement.

Survival - that is an entirely different matter to revenge. You must do what you must in order to survive.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
That's what trolls think, but I bet a lot of people here wouldn't. I killed thousands of other kids because I had to feed my lusus. On Alternia that meant that I had the honor of being chosen for being strong, but in Adstringéndum it'd just make me a monster, wouldn't it?
capuletnomore: (mildly ill or disgusted)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

It makes your lusus a monster, Vriska. Children do not always know right from wrong, and it falls to the elders to teach them such. If that is what you were taught, how were you to know it was not the way of things?

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
It is the way of things, though. There, at least. It's normal.
capuletnomore: (looking down with interest)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
And the feud is normal for Verona. That does not make it right. As I said, I cannot condone such things. But, I cannot blame you for doing what society wished of you. It enabled you to survive, and to find yourself here. And we are friends because of this.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
... Hahaha. I thought you might hate me if I told you.
capuletnomore: (i'm coming to a realization)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, Vriska....]

You have never done me harm, Vriska. You have been patient with me as I have tried to understand the differences between trolls and humans. You have been my friend, and I have been yours.

[She hesitates a moment. Lord Saxon's deeds are his own to explain, but she can speak generally, to help the girl understand.]

There is another here who has experienced things similar to you. One who has done what would be considered horrible things in the past. But here, this person has been good and helpful, and has been a dear friend. I do not hold this person's past behavior against them, and I do not hold yours against you.
capuletnomore: (proud on balcony)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
You trusted me enough to tell me of your true nature. I would be a poor friend indeed if I turned away from you after such a display of faith.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
... Thanks. And. Y'know, stuff. It reeeeeeeeally weird how nice you are, but it's not like I mind it!
capuletnomore: (sharing a private joke)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives Vriska a wide smile.]

You are most welcome.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Next I guess I have to tell Jo and Morgana. Man, that conversation's going to be a drag.

[flippancy to cover up the fact that she's kind of scared shitless yeahhhh]
capuletnomore: (Default)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[More friends, Juliet assumes. That's a good thing for Vriska. She's spoken briefly to both ladies, and they have seemed kind, even if Jo has an attachment to those gun things she dislikes.]

I am certain they will be understanding of such things, Vriska. They are both sensible women, from what I know of them.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 03:07 am (UTC)(link)





Jo kiiiiiiiind of hunts people like me. People that kill or have killed other people.
capuletnomore: (serious face)

[personal profile] capuletnomore 2012-01-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Your past deeds should not reflect on your deeds here. And you have killed no one here. If she cannot understand what you have told me, I will have words with her. I do not take kindly to those who hurt my friends and family.

[identity profile] eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com 2012-01-19 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
She couldn't hurt me.

[completely not true; she could probably kick Vriska's ass, especially since Vriska doesn't have her weapons, and as far as emotional hurting goes Vriska has a little hero worship thing going on there]