[161] Post-Flood UGH // Voice.

[stopthat_destro]

[Rex sounds SUUUUPER agitated. It's not just because he's, well, pissed off about the flood, but also because he's going through V withdrawal now, so he's CRAAANKY. And ranting.]

I'm not him. I'm not him, and I'll never be him.

[He laughs breathlessly.]

Except I am, aren't I? He's the best of me, I'm sure you'll say, just like you said the

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[no_fastolfe]

We were all different. You aren't unique to feel as if that was another person! We were all different!

[Why, Vasilia, it's almost as if you have some sort of disorder that makes non-directional statements seem like a personal attack, especially under stress.

Rhymes with 'faranoia?'

At least she isn't yelling at a child this time.]

[stopthat_destro]

I never said I was. Why don't you pay attention?

[Paranoia versus drug withdrawal? BATTLE OF THE JERKS.]

[no_fastolfe]

Then why broadcast what is already as clear as the vaccuum of space across a wide network unless you wish to convey that your situation is somehow unprecedented and higher priority?

[Would be more withering if her eyes weren't wide and she didn't sound about two seconds from a screaming and/or crying fit.]

[stopthat_destro]

Oh, I don't know, maybe this is because it's the second time this flood has happened to me! Maybe because the last time, people started to treat me differently, because suddenly they thought they knew me! Does that address your righteous indignation sufficiently enough for you?

[no_fastolfe]

You demand psychic ability of me. I was not here. I only have the reaction of others-- others who now might claim to know me, if they were so inclined! and their own horror and betrayal.

[HOW DARE YOU HAVE FEELINGS. HOW VERY DARE YOU]

[stopthat_destro]

I'm simply answering your question! [In a kneejerk douche way because DRUGGGGZ.]

[no_fastolfe]

And we are not in equal danger? Every one who acted abnormally? Who made free of themselves? Who offered--

[She gives a little scream and ducks off camera. There's the sound of something fist-sounding hitting a wall a few times]

[stopthat_destro]

Well, I don't know how many of the rest of you are experiencing drug withdrawal because of their--

[HEY WHERE'D SHE GO.]

...

Are you all right?

[no_fastolfe]

[Thumping stops.]

[...]

[She sits down and her hair has been pulled into a bun again. It got. Undone. In the interim. She's tried to clean up her eyes. She wasn't great at it. They're sort of puffy.]

If you are experiencing physical after effects it would be more efficient to contact the infirmary.

[This is her nothing just happened face. This is her tense-enough-to-stop-a-landing-jet nothing happened face.]

[stopthat_destro]

[He stares at her briefly, feeling a weeeee bit awkward about her obvious attempts at covering up her post-flood feeeeelings.]

I can manage without it. But perhaps you should see... somebody. [LIKE A SHRINK.]

[no_fastolfe]

[NOT ENOUGH COMBAT PAY IN THE WORLD, say shrinks the multiverse over]

To borrow your phrasing; I can manage without it. Nevertheless, since your symptoms are extreme enough that you wish us all to know about them, perhaps the infirmary would be a wise choice.

[stopthat_destro]

I don't care who knows about them. My symptoms would be patently obvious to anybody with a modicum of common sense, regardless of whether I informed you or not.

You're clearly upset about the flood and behaving emotionally as a result. So why don't you take that to your own little corner, as I've done, and leave me alone. I'm not here for you to project your issues onto.

Use 'quotations' for emphasis! Like a 'boss!'

[no_fastolfe]

If I am being burdenfully emotional at least I am only doing so to one person, not some two hundred; I understand, however, that a man of your sensitivity may need a larger 'little corner' than any other thinking being present.

[stopthat_destro]

What the hell is your PROBLEM with me?! I haven't addressed you, nor have I sought you out. YOU sought me out, like I'm some great source of offense, and now you have the nerve to act like you know anything about me and my 'sensitivity' when I've never even had a conversation with you outside of a flood? GO AWAY before I find a way to scramble your mind beyond all recognition! [Withdrawal crankiness leads to nanomite threats, who knew.]

The worst thing about this glass house is the windex bills

[no_fastolfe]

You addressed all of us, sir. Don't object if not everyone hurried to reassure you.

[In some creeping corner of her mind, she's beginning realize that she is being irrational, that just because she felt an attack doesn't mean there was one. This is Rex's fault somehow, she's sure. And he saw her break down and that's his fault somehow too because she's mentally stable dammit because she is motherfucking Vasilia and she is never wrong.]

For what it is worth: I believe implicitly that you are an entirely different variety of mentally unstable and intolerable than your mirror self and will not extrapolate his motivations onto yours.

Never threaten me again.

[Feed cut like an adult]

Tell me about it :c

[stopthat_destro]

I'm so SICK of you people thinking I'm looking for any reassurance from-- [AND cut off.]