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[batricide]

You know, I've been at this a long time, and the fact that so-called heroes are incapable of basic pattern recognition blows my mind.

[ Damian clicks his tongue, a sharp little tt. Thanks to a brush with some Red Kryptonite he's not being shy about his utter disdain for your average kind of superheroing. ]

How many times does someone have to let monsters go free to service their own conscience and keep this little heroc farce going before they're just as culpable for their crimes? Throw them in the same prison they just busted out of, that's basically just a slap on the wrist. Why is anyone surprised when they just turn around and start killing agan? Anybody could solve the problem at the root, but they don't because that'd just kill their little ego trip.

Really, if you ask me? Some people just deserve to die.

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[dragony]

Humans really are the same everywhere.

[crassidy]

There's one constant in the multiple universes, I guess.

[dragony]

Ugh.

[crassidy]

They aren't happy unless they got some other folk to blame, I know that much.

[hatestrashcans]

What, do you expect us to be introspective?

[crassidy]

I know better than to expect anything from people.

[hatestrashcans]

Can't be disappointed in not having your expectations met if you have no expectations!

[crassidy]

Ain't that the truth, and I learned long ago to never have expectations for anythin'. Especially from your lot.

[hatestrashcans]

I'd say ouch but you're not wrong, dude.

[crassidy]

I know, eh? Funny how livin' around folk for over a century lets you learn a lot about 'em.

[hatestrashcans]

Look at it this way: It could be worse! At least things have happened in the last century.

Imagine living that long in like... cave-person times. Booooriiing. Like oooh, Oog found some blue berries this year YAY.

[crassidy]

Oh, christ, yeah I got the good century, that's for sure. I seen the rise of cars, good drugs, computers, phones, internet. All that shite.

[hatestrashcans]

You mind if I ask what you are, or is that like asking a woman how old she is?

[ He's honestly just curious. He's met plenty of non-humans, so he's not going to freak or anything. ]

[crassidy]

Hah, it's fine, lad, not a secret 'round here. I'm a vampire, 120 years old. Right bleedin' monster, I am.

[hatestrashcans]

Is it terrible that I just want to know if blood tastes different or if it all tastes the same?

I'm sorry, but immortality with the same food every day sounds terrible.

I get why you'd freak people out. Oh no, we're not the apex predator, shock horror.

[dragony]

It's a little scary, how much satisfaction some people draw from hatred, and persecution. Sickening, too.

You must have seen a lot of it, too.

[crassidy]

Oh yeah, seen plenty of it in the last century. Once that sorta hatred starts, it's hard to stop, i-it's ingrained. Christ, you look at all the fiction making vampires look like blood lusting psychopaths. Hard to break that sorta typing once it's in the media, y'know?

[dragony]

Yeah. ... A few of my friends have been vampires, but I... mm, I used to live with a werewolf, and he... had a hard time, when regular humans would find out. Even the ones who'd already known him, and been his friend.

I imagine it's something similar, considering how stories go.

[crassidy]

For sure, it ain't easy. Best to tell people up front what y'are these days. Shouldn't have to, like, but it saves all that shite. Wassit Derek?

[dragony]

Oh— no. Remus. [ There's a brief pause before she says the name, but she continues on at a steady clip. ] This was a long time ago. I don't think there's anyone left, from back then.

As for me, most regular people here assume I'm a monster. The ones who aren't imPorts, I mean. I'm not, but I grew up with them, where I'm from originally — and that didn't change too much when I left that world.

[ She's always preferred monsters to people. ]

[crassidy]

Oh. [He half assumed he just didn't know that name because of his absolutely terrible memory for them, but turns out he probably didn't meet them.]

So you're a human, like? No weird coloured skin? No strange limbs? No "unusual" looks to yeh?

[dragony]

Human, yeah.

[ But "unusual" looks does apply, so only here does she switch to a brief blip of video. A young Asian woman, college-age, with an eye patch fastened over one eye; the visible one is a greenish-amber in color. And, of course, the bright pastel shock of hair, a mintish seafoam green, with eyebrows to match.

That'd do it.

She swipes gloved fingers through her bangs, drawing attention (as if it needed it. ] It's not my fault humans everywhere else only get hair in shades of brown.

[crassidy]

Huh, yeah, just looks like a good dye job to me.

[dragony]

Yeah. It's natural, though. The tabloids spent a lot of time trying to catch pictures of me "showing my roots," but... can't reveal something that doesn't exist.

[crassidy]

Dye yer roots pink, really confuse 'em all.