this all sounds harmless

[playdolls]

Pitou Blythe 9/4 near Recolle

A.) Anyone got recommendations on where a creep could get some carrion beetles? I have some bones that need cleaning and after doing my due diligence, this seems to be the best way to clean out all those nooks and crannies. Money is no object :3 B.) You can find ANYTHING on youtube! Anyone want to lend me some power tools while I work on my bone sword? C.) Maybe some leather for the hilt too, hmmmm?

Comments

[moneymoneymoney666]

Indeed. Of course, letting traumatic experiences go unaddressed for too long can also be quite harmful.

[playdolls]

[ Pitou Blythe's life starts with the bloody murder of a family they don't remember. Every footstep prior to coming to Reco had been haunted by what everyone found extremely traumatic, and assumed should be traumatic to them. Pitou has little understanding of or respect for the idea of 'trauma', over saturated with the concept and finding it stifling. ]

I'm a mortician. I don't find much traumatic.

[moneymoneymoney666]

[And Gallagher has seen many cases like her. He himself was a case. His mother, his father, his wife and his daughter were all dead. Gallagher had only truly been upset by the latter two, and yet he stood here now without their ghosts haunting him and controlling his life. He has seen many horrible things in his profession, heard of crimes that would cause horror and shock in others. Faced down some of the truest scum of society. And he had been the one to sentence them, using his intelligence and rationality. He knew what trauma did to people, from his line of work. Which is why he steeled himself, keeping his moral sense separate from his personal sense. Why if anything did affect him, he dealt with it as quickly as possible. He couldn't let his judgement be compromised.]

And I am a judge. Neither do I.

[playdolls]

Ugh another one of you law bag types. I'm honestly surprised you weren't the judge at my fuckin' assault hearing.

[moneymoneymoney666]

...I was not. But wait, what assault hearing?

[playdolls]

I was being stalked by this stupid tabloid jerkass so I smashed his camera and punched him in the face, so of course I'm the one who ends up arrested.

[moneymoneymoney666]

Maybe you should have thought things through more, then.

[playdolls]

Yes mother?!

[moneymoneymoney666]

That was serious. Assault is not a trivial matter, and if you were honestly being stalked by it there are far less reckless ways of dealing with it.

[playdolls]

Or I punched him in the face and never saw him again. I can take care of my own problems.

[ This is why they hate the law types. ]

[moneymoneymoney666]

[I'm sorry you have to deal with Gallagher being his Lawful Good self Pitou.]

...You do have a point. But did you try anything before you punched him in the face?

[playdolls]

Aside from telling him to fuck off? Verbal warning!

[moneymoneymoney666]

[Sigh.]

Well, I doubt I will be able to stop you from doing this again. Just, next time you punch someone, do try not to make a scene of it and get caught.

[playdolls]

Very reasonable advice, can't you lose your judge license or something for that?

[moneymoneymoney666]

From making comments on a network my superiors will never see? No.

If I can't stop you from carrying out a course of action I do not approve of, I at least have to make sure you'll do that course of action in the correct manner.

[playdolls]

People get fired for shit they say on the Internet all the time, but maybe you're too good for judicial review, huh?

[moneymoneymoney666]

Not on a network that is invisible to all my superiors. I can't be held liable for what they are unable to see.

[playdolls]

That's right, we're the Reco illuminati ruling class.

[moneymoneymoney666]

That's, one way of looking at things, I suppose.

[playdolls]

Or they select us at random. I prefer to flatter myself though.

[moneymoneymoney666]

Yes... their selection process. That is one thing I have been wondering about, and one of many questions we have little to go off of on.

[playdolls]

What, you can't think of anything special about you they might be interested in?

[moneymoneymoney666]

...Not particularly. Sure, I have been regarded as something of a prodigy in the past but, there is nothing particularly special about me overall.

[playdolls]

Holy crap you're boring.

[moneymoneymoney666]

[Wow rude.]

Exactly my point. Hence why I am curious about their selection process.