11 ⚜ Anonymous Text

[restingstitchface]

[It's been almost half a day since his release from jail, yet Crane's burying himself in research. His message is posted to the network in the evening. Oh, they may not like it, but they'll all give him an answer - one way or another - all they have to do is respond.]

Since the day you are born, you are taught not to fear. Verily, you are taught to gain wisdom you must conquer fear. There are those who like to point out that, in the face of courage, fear holds no power. There are those who like to say much about how he who hath overcome his fears is truly free. They don't say much in simple terms about the true nature of horror. They make assertions. Simple statements. Declare things to be so. You can believe in fear or you can reject it. But fear is not something you can outrun. It is within you, and nowhere at all.

You can say there is no fear. You can say there is no fear until you turn blue in the face. Your words will not change the feelings within you upon reading this message. They won't change the fact that you stand uneasy before your own terrified thoughts. And those thoughts make no difference to me. You can deny that fear exists, but that doesn't change it. Fear came into this world to teach you things. It came to keep you safe. Your own minds are wiser than you know. They know that fear is always with us; yet you never think it is an emotion you must deal with one day. You send down your eyes. You deny yourselves an awareness of its power.

There's no salvation in ignorance. There's no strength in ignorance. There's no wisdom in ignorance. Whatever fault you believe is rotting you to the core, the cause is fear. Fear does not cease to exist because it is ignored. It's settled. It's living. It's changing. What you believe of fear in this life doesn't determine how it affects you. When you all open your eyes, you live in fear. Fear is an emotion, my friends, that has plenty of patience. It awaits you. It awaits you in the morning when you open your eyes. It awaits when you close them at night. It doesn't matter if you deny it for a hundred years. It won't bother fear one bit.

Now I say unto you; the real tragedy is when men are afraid to accept their fears! For whosoever accepts their fears awakens in a place beyond his wildest imagination.

So tell me, imports. What is it like knowing I am out here? Are you frightened? Scared?

What terrifies you, I wonder. What are you scared of?

[He is the worst anon. He doesn't care. He wants reactions. Their reactions.]

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[timecapture]

Are you cereal?

[She's only spoken to one person who wanted to talk about fear before, but she doesn't want to assume...]

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[restingstitchface]

Are you?

[Put up or shut up, child.]

Video!

[unbreaker]

[This again? Already?!

Josuke stabs a finger at the camera.]

You do an awful lot of pryin' for somebody so tight lipped, anybody ever tell you that?

Re: Video!

[restingstitchface]

[You children all needed a good lecture about the power of FEAR. Blame Robert Callaghan for riling him up.]

Yes they have. You for a start.

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[112ounces]

If you are going to be that obvious, you might as well give up using anon.

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[restingstitchface]

Truly? But if I do that, you might give up breathing.

[Have you ever had a heart attack, Carl? But that jab of his? It's totally aimed at the walkers of his world and the fear they represent.]

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[countdone]

Don't you ever get tired of saying the same things?

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[restingstitchface]

I get tired of people's inability to listen, if that's what you mean.

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[moneylogues]

so do you actually read the shit you type? that's an honest question, really, level with me here.

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[restingstitchface]

Well, considering this is a written medium and all... One would tend to read their work, yes.

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[deadtective]

I'm absolutely terrified that either you're never going to get your hands on a thesaurus or the network's spam function is going to keep shitting out.

[seriously, how many posts saying almost literally the same thing is this network going to let him make before they start hassling him with captcha or something.]

[restingstitchface]

[Hey, so long as it keeps getting a reaction...]

Aw, how terrible that must be for you. But who really cares about what you think?

[akito]

TL;DR

[restingstitchface]

In short, "I'm too lazy to read what you said, but will say something anyway because I need to feel important." Your inability to pay attention is not my problem. I'm not your teacher.

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[daimeinashi]

[So Sai never actually gave a shit about you before, but now he knows you're affiliated with Naruto, and that makes you a Problem.]

what makes you think anyone would tell you, considering your past actions?

at this point, even those perfectly accepting of their fears would not tell you out of spite

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[restingstitchface]

Ignorance. Some people are unfamiliar with who I am and what I do.

Bravado. They believe they are eliminating their fear by avoiding me.

Idealism. Others want to understand my motives and turn their enemies into friends.

Loneliness. Semi-related to the above.

Take your pick.

Not here

[maglevflash]

[She's not surprised, she really isn't. That style of, well, fear mongering just screams 'Crane', and he just got out today. Of COURSE he's going to post to the network and try to start shit.

As upsetting as it was, Gogo just doesn't have the energy to get mad at him anymore. She'd been angry, and got into fights she shouldn't have and she's just done with his bullshit.

But that doesn't stop her from being frustrated at how stupid this all is. The helplessness is the worst. Huffing at the comm, she closes the post and bring up her contacts, calling up Kaneda.]

[rassera]

[It doesn't take him long to pick up. He's waiting for Ken after school, so he's got some time to kill.]

Oi, it's me.


[Because...that's how you should answer a phone.]

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[pyrolock]

Why are you even bothering being anonymous? No one is going to think it's anyone but you, Scarecrow.

[She didn't even bother reading what he wrote. And she shouldn't be answering, but the thought of someone like him out makes her blood boil.

(Her mother, troubled but innocent, died in an asylum. Yet he walks.)]

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[restingstitchface]

Aw, well, I was worried people would notice me.

But then I felt lonely. Oh, that's so amusing that I'm considering laughing aloud. Fancy that.

[He won't.]

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[infomodder]

You have to be aware of the power inherent to properly deny fear. That is not ignorance. Refusing to give away your power to anything that does not deserve it, like fear, is strength. An advantage. Just like the knowledge you're out there.

[Hey, buddy c:]

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[restingstitchface]

[Hello, curious friend.]

Funny words.

Knowing something is out there doesn't remove the stomach-sickening fear of inevitability. The knowledge I am here affords no comfort. Seeing me here doesn't mean I lose any of my power. You should know that better than anyone.

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[disorder_heaven]

You have a seriously weird fetish, man. Do you ever talk about anything but fear, its benefits, its drawbacks... Its existence? Like, seriously?

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[hypnotherapy]

To be honest, this is kind of his thing. I think he bases his entire identity around it wwwwww if you took it away from him there'd be nothing left

It's kind of sad to watch.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Are you seriously THAT afraid we're going to forget you that you have to go on these "WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF?" binges every month or whatever? Wow. Poor Crane. So afraid of being forgotten. So afraid of not being the Fear in everyone's mind that he has to throw a tantrum and go FEAR ME.

You keep doing this and you'll look more and more like a monologuing comic book villain. It's still (NoShave)November. You still have time to grow out a twirly mustache.

[restingstitchface]

[Hrm.

This is disrespectful, yes. The other man shall pay for his impudence. But his aggression is beautiful. It doesn't lance him deeply; he enjoys books and cultural products with similar aesthetics, but feels no need to share. This anger right here? It's enough. He wants to pick it apart and play with the fear at the root of it all.]

Your speech is petty and offensive and lacks emotional control. It reads like a child struggling to be taken seriously.

You're trying too hard.

[justimprobable]

[Oh it's this asshole. She's heard about him.]

You've got a big head on your shoulders, mate. Whatever you're scared of, it's only made you cruel. I feel a bit sorry for you.

[restingstitchface]

Of course you do.

Though I'm certain your opinion would matter were I to possess an inkling of who you are. Who are you?

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[dogsled]

This repetition is tiring; even you must be exhausted by it by now.

In any case, I was never taught not to fear. In the Yukon, you are taught in no uncertain terms that everything in the world around you is predetermined in its efforts to try and kill you. Fear is the only way to stay alive.

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[restingstitchface]

It stands to reason that were I fatigued by my line of questioning, I would not field this question.

Anyway, I disbelieve your statement. As humans, we are taught not to fear. Fire. Spiders. Reflections. We learn to control fire itself and learn to control whatever phobias push us to avoid a particular source of terror. But it is pleasant to see somebody acknowledges fear and everything it has done for us.

[text]

[tactile_telekinesis]

ur a broken record

[And after clicking on send, he instantly regrets it. Why the heck is he talking to him?]

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[restingstitchface]

I imagine to you it appears such.

But we have new guests.

[Text]

[insatiableinappetite]

[He's got some free time. He'll bite.]

Personally? I fear missing lunch.

Permatext

[restingstitchface]

Well, don't starve yourself on my account.

[Wow. Your answer isn't serious. How rude.]

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[alcheregis]

I think anyone who says fear doesn't exist has probably never taken a biology lesson, and I don't hold someone being uneducated against them, that'd just be awfully snooty to do, but there's a difference between not knowing something and making a statement about it simply because they don't know any better, to making a statement because they refuse to be educated in the subject! Those people I haven't the patience for at all, and let me tell you, a disproportionate number of them seem to want a genessi's services, and with the way work in Riesling has been, everyone's trying to get any client they can. Not that I would take advantage of someone just because they were uneducated about something, but at some point they're really just asking to be swindled, you have to admit. And experience is the best teacher, that's been proven many a time over, like letting a child touch a glowplug, they'll remember that in the future! It's not like glowplugs are lethal anyway-- well, all right, I suppose if you ate one it would be, but that would be quite a feat in itself.

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[restingstitchface]

[Ugh. Chatterboxes.]

It would be, wouldn't it? I hear breathing is just as difficult, for some people.

[Does this person assume he knows what a glowpug is? Or that he cares?]