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[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.

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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.

Edited 2017-10-03 22:37 (UTC)

[ 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.

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

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

i dunno. why do YOU celebrate it?

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

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

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.]

Halloween is my birthday. Of course I celebrate!

[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.

Not planning on Trick or Treating this year?

Edited 2017-10-04 16:45 (UTC)

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

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.]

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?

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.

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