[Call | All | Day 52]

[itsjawsbitch]

[If she's irritated on behalf of her fellow... dead things, or perhaps just at how many calls are going on, she doesn't show it. Her voice is still level.]

Is it because they are dead that your sense of ease is so shattered?

Comments

[straightupchief]

Straight up, they're just used to how they think the dead work.

Really, there's no real rules to it.

[itsjawsbitch]

The living presume to know much of what their weak eyes cannot see. It's unsurprising that they're wrong.

[straightupchief]

Girl, gonna give 'em shit for not being blessed with the third eye? Little much, don't you think? They can't help their bloodline.

Hell, I didn't know two things about death till I got plunged into it myself.

[itsjawsbitch]

An observation, even of their weakness, is only that. I lived once, just like any hollow.

[isoalgorithm]

I don't see why everyone is so upset...

Where I come from, programs - people - who die just dissolve into a little pile of pixels. At least these ones are doing something useful even after they've been derezzed.

[itsjawsbitch]

Hollows fade when they die. Though the living would not call us useful.

[isoalgorithm]

Users...the living, I mean...have a funny way of not seeing the good things in what's right in front of them.

[itsjawsbitch]

They see no merit in what they cannot understand. It is a further weakness among many, and only obscures their strengths.

[caladcholg]

I think their appearance is the result of a shattered ease. There are people who are supposed to be dead here and do not look like a rotted corpse.

[itsjawsbitch]

There are many here like that.

[caladcholg]

I know. And even then, if you have seen someone after so many years after witnessing their death, that is just as unnerving. Mortality isn't an accepting concept for a lot, even my kind.

[itsjawsbitch]

Life is not a thing that ends. It ebbs and flows into death. But nothing gained is lost in that current.

[coffeecoffeetea]

To be frank? Yes. The dead are supposed to remain as such, or we would be long used to this idea.

[itsjawsbitch]

They remain dead. That they move does not change this.

[coffeecoffeetea]

Then let me rephrase.

That they are dead and yet are capable of movement and action is what unnerves us. Biologically, when the brain has ceased function, there should be no activity amongst the nerves, muscles, or anything. They should be incapable of movement.

[itsjawsbitch]

[The laugh is dark and bemused]

They are not the only dead things that walk your streets.

[aen_6_126]

It is because humans are irrationally afraid of what they do not understand.

[itsjawsbitch]

Those more than human often hold the same fears.

[aen_6_126]

Do you?

[itsjawsbitch]

What is not understood should not be feared. It should be understood. If it could be useful it should be made useful. If it is harmful, it should be dealt with.