nothing is perfect, but your imperfections are quaint

[diomedea]

Who: AN ENTIRE BLOODSPORT AND ANY VISITORS
Broadcast: Nope!
Action: On the Bloodsport!
When: 6/14-6/21

[WELCOME TO THE BLOODSPORT HICCUP don't mind the crew. They're. Uhh. Unique.

Enjoy your pudding! What's the crew up to this week?]

Comments

[pompous_today]

[Simon nodded.]

I've been through something similar before... when we came across a ship full of people who had been killed by Reavers. [An image comes clear in his mind- beings who are clearly humans, but have heavy piercings and facial modifications, who are dressed in rags and sewn-together pieces, carrying all manner of nasty weaponry.] They were all dead by that time, but I still stayed to help give them a proper funeral of sorts, to ease their passage into wherever they may have gone next.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole doesn't understand why funeral rites matter. But then he feels the comfort they get from it.]

It... helps. To know someone cared.

[Not them. They're gone. But it helps the living.]

[pompous_today]

Yes- and to give people dignity they may have been denied in life. My job is to help the living, but we were taught to respect the dead, too- because they once had a life.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole might never understand that, but he understands it matters to the living.]

In Thedas, we burn the dead. So demons don't get into them.

[pompous_today]

[Simon bowed his head.]

Can the demons bring them back to life? Or some semblance of it? [It seemed wrong, to Simon. The dead should have stayed that way. For all their advances in techology and medicine, by his time, they still had not found a way to conquer death- and as far as he was concerned, he was just fine with keeping things that way.]

[killedwithlove]

Demons can get into bodies, puppet them. It's not like a living body, they can't reshape it properly, but they can interact with the world through it.

It's not... life. The body is dead. The person is gone.

[pompous_today]

Still... that is very unsettling. I would prefer my remains to be burned if that were the case.

[killedwithlove]

So the dead are burned, to stop spirits coming across and using them.

Mortalitasi also use them, reanimate them.

[pompous_today]

That... just seems unnatural to me. The dead should stay as they are. Not even our technology can make that not so. [He shook his head.] Not that I mean to disparage your world, of course.

[killedwithlove]

They stay dead.

But they're not still.

I don't really like necromancy, but don't tell Dorian I said that. I don't want to hurt his feelings.

[pompous_today]

I will keep that in mind. Is Dorian someone from your world? I don't believe I've spoken to him yet.

[killedwithlove]

Yes. Dorian was in the Inquisition too. But not my Inquisition. Jove was his Inquisitor, but she wasn't mine.