Application for Dr. Horrible from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

[everythinguever]

((How do we not have a Dr. Horrible yet? I've looked a dozen times, and I'm still convinced I'm just missing his name somehow.))He was the youngest member of the illustrious Evil League of Evil. He was possibly the most feared supervillain in the world, next to Bad Horse, or course. (At least until the novelty wore off.) He was a great mad

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[ringo_raver]

"You'd have to kill yourself first, Billy."

[[In case you don't know, he has shinigami eyes, lets you see a person's name and lifespan.]]

[everythinguever]

He glanced around uneasily, almost expecting to see the Candid Camera crew, or maybe Captain Hammer bursting through a wall to pummel (not that he'd let that happen anymore). "Kill myself over what?" he asked dully. "And how do you know my name?"

[ringo_raver]

"You know, to come back from the dead and start your own religion. And I can see your name. That's what I do. I see names, write them down, and claim their lifespan as my own."

[everythinguever]

"Oh...yeah, I wouldn't actually want to die..." He was uncertain, to put it mildly. But he was also a scientist, and curiosity always won out in the end. "You can do that? Really?"

[ringo_raver]

"Yes. It's how I stay alive. I'm a shinigami, you see."

[everythinguever]

"Oh, right. Shinigami." Billy nodded. "What does that mean?"

[ringo_raver]

Ryuk leaned even closer so he could see the grin. "God of death."

[everythinguever]

If anyone else had made that claim, he probably wouldn't have believed it. But looking at Ryuk, he found he couldn't disbelieve. He grinned. "Cool."

[ringo_raver]

"Well, I'm impressed. Most people freak when I tell them that."

[everythinguever]

Billy scoffed. "That seems kind of pointless. I mean, if you're telling the truth, what good is screaming going to do? Might as well be acedemic about it." Plus, talking to an actual god of death was just really cool.

[ringo_raver]

"Well, it's amusing. Unless they just faint flat out. That's no fun."

[everythinguever]

Billy grinned and shook his head. "Yeah, I know what you mean. It's still better than being attacked, though. That's what I get, all the time."

[ringo_raver]

"Nah. I wouldn't attack you. It's much more amusing to watch you."

[everythinguever]

He snickered. "You must be pretty bored, then. The highlight of most people's week is doing laundry." He was assuming Ryuk meant humans in general, not him specifically. Although really, it worked either way.

[ringo_raver]

"Yeah. That's why I threw a Death Note to Earth. Just to see what happens."

[everythinguever]

"What happened?" He was enjoying this conversation immensely, even if he didn't know what a Death Note was exactly. Presumably something to kill people with. Whatever; it wasn't every day you got to talk to a god of death. People who thought they were, on the other hand...