(oo2) (video) ♐ a letter with an explanation of why i left and the things you don't want to hear

[slayerdom]

Yeah. Hi. [ A prompt wave. ] Buffy here, this time doing a better job of being all dressed during the addressing dozens of people thing. Which, you know, is an accomplishment all its own, but totally not the point

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[notthatnormal]

Since I'm the only one here, no spoilers.

And 'Slaying of evil type things'?

[slayerdom]

Leme guess: you missed the zombie and monster invasion?

[notthatnormal]

Came just after. Not all that new, though.

[slayerdom]

Just after is ... pretty new. I mean, I got here right as it started and I'm still pretty new.

[notthatnormal]

I meant the zombies and the monsters.

[slayerdom]

... Oh! No, I -- I totally knew that. [ There's a sheepish laugh in there, but after a moment it stops completely and she settles on perplexed. ] ... How many people here do the freelance-y demon-killing thing? I feel like we're hitting newsletter numbers.

[notthatnormal]

Difference is I don't tend to kill them [ usually ] and they're not demons.

[slayerdom]

... Then, what kind of monsters are we talking and what do you do with them? [ Suddenly, she's getting massive Initiative vibes. ]

[notthatnormal]

We tend to start by not calling them monsters. And we protect them. [ Or protect the world from them but mostly they protected the abnormals ]

[slayerdom]

Wait. Don't tell me. I've totally be down this road before -- Unidentified Sub-Terrestrial, right?

[notthatnormal]

Abnormal.

A lot of them are people, some are creatures from myths.

[slayerdom]

Okay, first of all? King-sized understatement. Second of all, if you're protecting werewolves, that's one thing. The kind that aren't trying to perform whatever ritual of the week to bring about the Apocalypse or eat or kill or sacrifice lots of people? Go for it.

Protecting vampires and other generally non-soul-y demon types? Not as okay. They look like people, but they're not people people.

[notthatnormal]

Maybe not in your world but ours are pretty different. And considering one of my mom's oldest friends is a vampire, she'd have something to say about that.

[slayerdom]

It's not about this obsession with worlds! Why are you not the first person to try and sell me that? It's about good and evil, and unless you've got a spare soul lying around to shove inside of one, vampires are evil. I've dusted enough of them to know.

[notthatnormal]

Considering vampires are extinct, maybe it is about the worlds.

[slayerdom]

... What do you mean extinct? I thought you just said your mom's friend was one of them.