7th Trick - Text

[vengefulshades]

I always liked the fall. Nice scenery, good food, cool nights and mild days. Holidays right around the corner. Things always feel a little cozy in the fall. I died in the fall, too, so I guess I've got a special attachment to it.

I think people are getting a little out of control with the pumpkin spice thing, though. Was it really that good?

[That's your Manipulator: your occasionally poetic villain who occasionally makes thoroughly pointless network posts because he's eternally bored.]

I was a big fan of Halloween too. Nothing more fun than dressing up in costume and eating candy until you puke. Of course, that was a long time before I knew that ghosts were real.

By the way, you should probably keep that in mind before you cut holes in sheets and start running around making oooooo-noises, jerks.

In any case, I had a conversation the other day that got me thinking. Do ghosts exist where you come from? And if they do, what are they like?

If there's not ghosts, maybe there are monsters or something kind of like that. Whatever kind of spooky-type creatures you might have in your own dimensions. I'd kind of like to hear about what they're like in other places.

[You know, just in case someone has an idea he hasn't thought of yet.]

In before "ghosts don't exist anywhere." You're going to have a hard time convincing me of that.



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[vengefulshades]

I don't care about sloppy. Death is the only result I'm after.

[viced]

Maybe that's why you're so shitty at accomplishing it.

[vengefulshades]

The sooner I get the right person's attention, the sooner I'll be out of your hair, Mr. Hundred.

[viced]

And if they don't fucking exist? You're just going to keep throwing your tantrum for eternity?

[vengefulshades]

Let's both hope it doesn't come to that.

[viced]

Or else we're shit out of luck, huh? That's it? Our fault for not being exactly what you want?

[vengefulshades]

Is it my fault I'm trapped in this hell of an existence? Am I supposed to just shrug it off and say "oh well!" and go on with an eternity of nothing?

[viced]

What so you're going to make us miserable for what's happening to you?

[ That, hits a little close to home, for him. Mitchell is normally pretty level, but there's a tone there, a sharp edge. ]

All of us go through some shit, but you don't see us lashing out.

[vengefulshades]

At least the rest of you can die to get away from it. [He's never quite been level-headed when it comes to this... topic.

But in short, yes.]

What am I supposed to do?

[viced]

Maybe figure out why on your own? Or hell, use what you're given to make sure nothing else goes wrong.

Shit, for all I care, you could be a goddamn superhero. Solving your problem and not shitting on other people isn't exactly mutually exclusive.

[vengefulshades]

You don't think I didn't try that already? That I haven't exhausted every possible option for a way to undo this? That I didn't spend years trying to figure out something to do with myself aside from this?

My powers can't help anybody. All they can do is make people miserable. I'm a monster and I need to be put down.

[viced]

Sometimes it takes more than that. You've got a goddamn eternity, don't you? Maybe there's a reason it hasn't fucking happened yet. Maybe there's something that's waiting.

Or who knows, maybe you could turn around and stop being a monster. Just because you have a shit power doesn't mean you have to let it control you. [ Says the guy who's supposed to be an interdimensional weapon. ]

[vengefulshades]

The only thing that's waiting for me is on the other side.

It's too late. I don't care what I have to do to get the death that was stolen away from me. Maybe I did, once, but that was before I was a murderer.

[viced]

That's probably why you're not getting what you fucking want, you know. You gave up.

[vengefulshades]

I gave up on what? Please, enlighten me.

[viced]

Getting the results you want/ Why else would you act out?

[vengefulshades]

If you've got any brilliant ideas on ways I can kill myself when I'm already dead, I'm all ears. Otherwise, you're talking about something you don't even understand.

[viced]

Yeah, because nobody has it as shitty as you, right? Give me a fucking break.

[vengefulshades]

Next time, I'll do myself a favor and make you finish yourself off, Hundred. You're really starting to get on my nerves.

[viced]

Shit, if I had a dollar for every death threat I've gotten, I'd have enough to run for president by now.