beholdmydemons | seventh fusion

[Walter starts talking almost immediately after turning on the recording, sounding tired but as though his message was prepared ahead of time.]

You're the king of a country, and you hold a great contest - or a game. One man who comes to participate is very tall, and strong. Would you let him compete as any other, or bar him from the game to even those others' chances?

A man comes to a remote village, one that's remained as it is for a thousand years. He brings with him technology that would change life as the people know it, bringing them comfort and luxury. Should the village send that man away, or accept his gifts?

The person you love is gravely ill, doomed to sleep and never wake...you've tried every remedy you can imagine, and there's nothing left at your disposal. Would you tend to them for the rest of your life, or let them die naturally?

[He goes quiet, not sure what to follow that up with. The radio, playing tinnily in the background, switches to a holiday song that's been on at least five times already today.

...Yeah, that bears asking about. In just as tired a voice, but a much less rehearsed one:]

What the hell is Christmas?

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[Well! Now that the pleasantries are out of the way!

...siiiiiiiigh.]

Well, in that case I say to allow the behemoth to compete because it's hardly his fault that everyone else is a pathetic excuse for a person, and if the village ends up sending away that individual with technology then they deserve to stagnate and spend the rest of their wretched lives as inbred wastes of space.

As for Christmas, do you want the secular or the religious explanation, because there are both.

[........NO FUCK YOU YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE CHAOS

PEOPLE LIKE YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE CHAOS

Oh I hope you're one of the ones that gets eaten by demons in a completely undignified way.]

Ghh.

I...I don't know. Whichever explains what's going on and whether I should be doing something about it.

[...you are so mad. Surely you didn't think he'd be law, that's no fun whatsoever.]

Basically, just buy something nice for the people you can actually bring yourself to spend money on and give it to them on that day if you don't want to look like a socially inept idiot. There's a lot of lore behind it, but that's what it boils down to.

[fuck off]

Is that all? There's a lot of hubbub about for something that's yet a month away.

Mhmm...as one of our religions goes, it's celebrating the day when humanity's savior was born. The Son of God supposedly became a human for the sake of dying for our sins, in a way that was overly dramatic and intended to guilt humanity for the rest of their existence, and entirely unnecessary, when you think about it. Something like that. I...think it might be based on some sort of pagan holidays, but I've never looked into that.

[Like he celebrates Christmas, Walter. He finds the whole thing ridiculous, really.]

On a more secular level...just trust me on the "give people things if you don't want to look like a socially inept idiot."

[...Absolutely fucking none of that made sense to him. Except for the last part.]

As I've heard it told, God could be a king of thieves if he weren't so determined to rule all men. [...yeah.] A holiday for gifts doesn't sound bad at all, though.

[Well, in fairness, The World According to Alfred Ashford very rarely makes sense to anyone...and when it comes to scripture whatnot, you're just going to have to deal with his lazy descriptions, man.]

I've never really cared for stories like that in the first place; if I'm going to be sent to Hell for what I do, then I wouldn't want Heaven to begin with.

But I suppose the excuses to celebrate inane things are acceptable. I don't know, that's never been anything I've done, either.

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[Why not neither? There's other afterlives out there...but, well, fuck if he's letting you in on any part of his beliefs.

More importantly, did you just admit to being a huge friendless loser?]

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me in the least.

[...well, more like "everyone I actually give a fuck about is dead or in a stasis coma and I'm sure as fuck not going to hand out gifts to the zombies," but sure.

That said, he's not following, um.]

I...well, if you say so?

What has you so convinced you're bound for Hell, then? Not that it's a difficult thing to be.

[If they can commisserate about God being stupid between verbal slapfight bouts, he would not complain at all.]

Because apparently God sends people to Hell for simple transgressions like "not believing in him" - rather insecure all around, if you ask me.

Heh. It's true enough, and not even the least of things.

[...] I wonder at what gods governed this world. [Because they did a bang-up job of it.]

Well, there's a question if I've ever heard one. Hopefully they're more competent than ours; if nothing else, their creations are just enough of a total mess to be interesting.

A "mess"? [Pleasant of you.] Hardly a mess, if the people here are as well as they seem.

I'm more concerned about the shrews that spit poison, or did you think your hypothetical gods didn't create those, too?

[...shrugs?] They're fair docile, and there's means to keep them at bay.

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