UN: Twilight Sparkles | @Everyone

[thegreatexperiment]

[Sam's taken to using the voice setting. Less obnoxious than text. And anyway, vampires don't show up in video. So her lovely, Midwestern voice rings out over the network.]

So, just wondering. Is anyone else in this clown rodeo as skeeved out by this "Secret Santa" missive as I am? I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm bored as fuck. I'm gonna do it. Way more entertaining than counting the cracks in my ceiling. But seriously...what the hell are the Overlords going for here?

[She will never call them "Observers."]

A shitty morale boost? What the actual?

Or is it just me? Am I the only one being bombarded with this crap?

...just wondering.

[A pause.]

And, I mean, if people are jonesing to do Etsy nonsense, my birthday is January 8. Just saying.

((ooc: This post will not reveal who Sam got. Please warn in your header if your muse is revealing who they got, in case anyone wants to be surprised.))

Comments

[skyward_eyes]

No. You’re not. People aren’t monsters. People can do monsterous things. But they aren’t monsters. Those fall from the moon or are animals mutated by magic.

You don’t qualify.

[thegreatexperiment]

Uh...Okay, so you're kinda new around here, I guess.

[She's pretty good at remembering faces.]

It's sort of common knowledge. I'm not exactly a person. Not human. "Person" is debatable.

I'm a vampire. That's...kinda why I can't do video.

[skyward_eyes]

What’s that? 

[thegreatexperiment]

Oh. Um. Well. I mean, monstrous, kinda. An animate dead body, possessed by a parasite, that requires blood to survive.

[Sam is the best at explaining things.]

I've got fun fangs.

[skyward_eyes]

So... Okay, that's a bit different, but that doesn't make you a monster. Just makes you a human with different powers from a source that lasted here.

Still not a monster.

[thegreatexperiment]

You're far too generous to someone you just met.

[skyward_eyes]

Not really. We have definitions for it back home. We've got really terrible people too. But that doesn't make you a monster.

Especially if you're in control of yourself.

[thegreatexperiment]

Control is generally an illusion.

Especially when you're an experiment.

[She sighs.]

But thank you.

[skyward_eyes]

Control is what you make of it, when it's you. I wish you luck, Sam. And I still intend to tell you about dragons.

[thegreatexperiment]

Well. I'll look forward to it.