video; spooky halloween psa

[restingstitchface]

[Crane's staring into the camera with an intensity that doesn't dwell well under his skin. Though the clean suit he wears does a good job of hiding it well, nothing can conceal the irritation he feels under it. He clasps his hands together under the table then rests them imperiously on his desk.]

Why do you celebrate Halloween?

I'm just curious.

[He kicks back against his chair and plonks his feet on the wood. Whatever he was irritated by - rather, what he was disregarding - seems to have taken on better shape. He feels it draped over his face, coarse but warm and intimately familiar. It takes most of his energy to play a weak smile for the gallery.]

Don't worry about tainted candy, by the way. Razer bladed taffy apples? Lye-coated bubblegum? Cyanide-laced Pixy Stixs? They're just legends. Informal whisperings of unsubstantiated reports of contaminated sweets picked up in the course of trick-or-treating. Now, for clarification; I don't intend to claim poisonings never happen. A father laced his own son's candy with cyanide in order to reap the benefits of his life insurance, yes, but it certainly isn't a problem. As a matter of fact, the absence of personal stories highlights that clearly.

[He scratches under his chin.]

Here, of course, the bogeyman isn't even cyanide or toxic chocolate - though Hershey's deserves labelling as poison, honestly - but collective fear of a different sort.

[That's a topic he isn't acknowledging right now. He has every intention of discussing it with the class, but carries on.]

Has anyone here been poisoned by Halloween candy? I doubt it. And if you're scared of the possibility? Well, take it from an expert, October 31st is the most extraordinary day of the year you can be terrified of. You'll never experience another one like it till the next cycles round. So dare yourselves and do something special - be bold, knock on some doors when the day arrives. Eat some candy and-

[He tips his chin.]

Enjoy yourselves.

Comments

video

[pummelgranite]

As always, this is some long-winded sanctimonious bullshit.


A strange man once gave me six red skittles and now I've been married to him against my will for three thousand years.

[restingstitchface]

Oh, right. You're married to Hades. I never would have known.

[U want sass? He can sass.]

You know, one of these days, you're going to tell that story to someone who's never heard it before.

[Video]

[sleight_of_hand]

[ Oh yes, another Crane video post of utter joy. Adachi had to fight to keep himself from rolling his eyes out of his head. What, first he says that poisonings like he described almost never happen, and then... basically threatened everyone with a "collective fear"? Is he even processing this right? ]

[ Crane, what the hell. ]

...please tell me that wasn't a warning you're going to try gassing everyone again.

[restingstitchface]

If it were, detective, you'd never know it.

[Bitch. Please.]

Good news, though! That isn't what I meant at all.

video

[h2no]

I don't know what Halloween is but by the way you described it, it sounds horrific.

[restingstitchface]

Yes. It's horrific. It's also beautiful in its ability to delight us with the macabre. You've seen horror movies, haven't you?

permatext

[deadtective]

I just like getting to make people cry and then telling them they asked for it, honestly. Poison candy's kinda low tier.

[restingstitchface]

So. You're a Halloween sadist?

text; username: warlock

[secondscythe]

i dunno. why do YOU celebrate it?

and i thought i had a shitty old man, yikes.

[restingstitchface]

Well, I suppose it hardly gets worse than filicide.

Oh, and I celebrate just because I want to.

[locked / text]

[hellrisen02]

Does April 7th have meaning to you?

[For the love of god, Duo, please remember your history lessons.]

[voice]

[hellrisen02]

Yeah, poison candy seems a little light-hearted for you, honestly. A bit gauche.

[restingstitchface]

Oh, I wouldn't say that's true. It's a classic.

[morethan084]

I guess you could say last Halloween was special for me. What about you? What did you get up to last Halloween?

[Besides almost killing her that is.]

[restingstitchface]

Oh, I visited a few places with colleagues. It was quite boring. I don't enjoy remembering it.

[He's talking about what he knows you're talking about, girl.]

video;

[idesof]

Halloween is my birthday. Of course I celebrate!

[restingstitchface]

Ah yes. I suppose it feels like you're killing two birds with one stone?

[Literally, even? Jokes between bros. That's what this is.]

Re: video;

[pummelgranite]

Classy.

voice;

[slightlyoffchilt]

Is it now? Oh! We will absolutely celebrate.

Video

[exceptionalthief]

[Well now, this is a side of Dr. Crane Hans hasn't seen before, but given what he's found out about a certain fear gassing incident, he's not as surprised as he might have been otherwise. It would seem that the underlying intensity he'd noticed back when they had tea together comes to the surface on occasion.

He holds off responding for a while, listening to the various conversations, amused by some of the reactions.]

I don't celebrate it. It isn't a thing in Germany. [Not yet anyway, in 1988.] There is however, something similar; Walpurgisnacht, which happens on May Day's eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain and hold revels with the Devil. It's more bonfires and pranks than candy and costumes.

[restingstitchface]

Not a bad night, then. Not that I would endorse such a thing.

[Fear toxin is one of his experimental tools. Not a prankster's joke. He shifts in his chair, arranging himself for maximum theatrical impact.]

[acclimatized]

Not planning on Trick or Treating this year?

[restingstitchface]

No. I'm letting someone else take the reins; I don't intend on being greedy.

video

[heckblazer]

Halloween is what I like to call "amateur night", mate.

[restingstitchface]

Halloween in it's commercialized form? Yes, yes, I agree.

Samhain? Not at all.

voice;

[andtherevolution]

Wait a minute - he did that to his own kids?! What kind of person would do something like that?

[She has no strong opinions on Halloween. If she had been born a decade later she might have actual feelings on the holiday, but her own generation barely paid attention to it. The tale of parental betrayal certainly strikes a chord, though, if her disgust and outrage is any indication.]

[restingstitchface]

[Crane acknowledges Utena with a smile, looking more focused in his manner and gaze than he had been towards other people who'd replied.]

A deacon and a pillar of the community. A straight-laced, square-shouldered man who maintains innocence. A father tolerating an unwanted child - in this case because of debt. An ordinary person, really. [Shrug.] You'd be disgusted by some of the patients I've ended up treating.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Most people enjoy the sanctioned night to assume another identity. The liberation of a new name, a new purpose -- something that was kept tightly clenched within, finally allowed to breathe. You have a little more experience than average regarding that, don't you?

[restingstitchface]

[Frederick is the first to respond to the actual question. Crane is thankful for such a small mercy and responds in a calm and polite manner.]

Yes, I suppose I do. Sanctioning aside, I find it rather liberating.

video

[am_i_a_monster]

I like the idea of being someone else for a night. That's a reason to celebrate.

You know, as soon as someone gets sick from eating too much candy - they'll wonder if you did something.

[restingstitchface]

Well of course, they probably wouldn't have the nuanced reasoning to fathom such nausea was a result of their own poor decisions.

[He returns to the original topic.]

Now. Is there any preference for costume?