TEST POST

[rawchicken]

[you are now in a team game situation and on the same team as this DEFINITELY VERY NORMAL teen. or maybe on a different team i can't tell you what to do

possible scenarios off the top of my head:
-war room game type situation. make decisions about getting people killed!
-aftermath of some kind of trauma game, everyone is sad and in pain
-any kind of silly bingo game thing with silly activities
-bring your own]

Comments

[rawchicken]

[sorry he's not going to stop tapping. tappatappatappa]

I couldn't see yer soul. But some people here are just kinda hard to see for some reason, so I thought maybe you were like that too?

[lightinthestorm]

How curious. Did you see it in my true self?

[the lantern, which has always been at his side, but like, that would have been Weird,]

Also, could you carry me home?

[rawchicken]

I didn't see it at all. I think humans are the only ones whose souls really show up for me? Like, there's animals too but they're not as bright?

[don't worry about why it's definitely not because he eats human souls

anyway picking up the lantern]

So what about your body? You gonna be able to get that back?

[lightinthestorm]

Intriguing...

[Let's Not Worry About That]

I should be able to. This is my true form, after all. Once I regain my strength, that body will be simple enough to reconstruct.

[rawchicken]

Huh? You can just construct a body? Like, outta nothing?

[shakes the lantern in shock shakashaka]

[lightinthestorm]

Please refrain from making me dizzy.

[flame wavering a little]

[rawchicken]

Whoops. Sorry.

[making an effort to keep the lantern very steady the rest of the way to team housing!!]

[lightinthestorm]

Thank you.

[good boy]

As for your question, not out of nothing, per se, but out of flame.

[rawchicken]

Ehhhh, that's still crazy. I don't think I could do that.

[lightinthestorm]

That would be because you aren't made of fire, correct? Would "flesh" seem more reasonable?

[rawchicken]

That just make me think of like... takin' a pile of meat and shaping it into a body? Which is pretty creepy?

[lightinthestorm]

[a beat,]

I suppose.

[rawchicken]

Maybe it's just different when you're made of fire and I don't get it.

[lightinthestorm]

Flames come off much less grisly in general, perhaps. Fewer... connotations, let's say.

[rawchicken]

...Maybe there would be more connotations if humans knew that's what their souls look like.

[lightinthestorm]

Oh! You did mention. Souls come across as flames?

[rawchicken]

Yeah. Or like, sparks? It depends.

But they're all really bright and warm.

[lightinthestorm]

[a thoughtful little hum.]

That does feel correct for humans. I'm glad you can see that nature of theirs.

[rawchicken]

Mm. It's nice. A little distracting sometimes.

[lightinthestorm]

I suppose it would be. Speaking of which, from one non-human to another, may I ask what you are?

[rawchicken]

Don't really know. Some kinda monster.

[lightinthestorm]

What makes you say that?

[rawchicken]

I'm... kinda dangerous to people? Sometimes?

[lightinthestorm]

I can most certainly be dangerous if I wish, but I would not call myself a monster. Is it beyond your control?

[rawchicken]

Sometimes? But it's more that I don't really get stuff like the value of a life.

[there have probably been some trauma game decisions made that make more sense with this information]

[lightinthestorm]

Ahh. This contextualizes a few things.

[rawchicken]

I try not to upset people with it or anything! But it's just... really complicated?

Like, I thought the big problem with death was that it's permanent and you can't do things with people anymore? But nobody stays dead here and everybody still treats it as a big deal!

[lightinthestorm]

It hurts, doesn't it?

[rawchicken]

Well, yeah. Lots of things hurt. But it doesn't matter whether you die from it or not, does it?

[lightinthestorm]

Hmm. There are many things that could be said for holding onto the traditional weight of such things, even in circumstances like these.

[rawchicken]

Such as?

[lightinthestorm]

We may not be here forever. Ideally we won't.

[rawchicken]

...Right.

[does not get it]