04 - still the stars will find a way | Video

[innercactus]

Who: Asteffiel
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist if they want
When: sometime 9/29

I need help. [ There's a little bit of a whine to his voice today. He is holding up a pair of small-ish apples. They're definitely ripe, just on the small side. One has a bite taken out of it- ]

I grew them, but they don't taste good at all... Does someone want to make sure it isn't just me?

[ HE WANTED TO GROW THESE SO FENRIS WOULDN'T HATE HIM, but.. giving him gross apples would make it worse, wouldn't it. ]

Also, how do you know it is your birthday? I feel like it ought to be, because the date says so, but... Are you supposed to feel any different? How do you count, after you reach one year? Do you keep adding months?

[ Yes, Asteffiel the adult looking plant hasn't had a birthday before. Sylvari. ]

Comments

[innercactus]

We have sap. [ So, yes they do, and it doesn't work the way it does for humans because.. of reasons. ]

... If you're asking if we have babies by having flowers and the other person gives off pollen and tada! Saplings! [ Complete with a little rustling of his hair - and a bit of a dusting of pollen- and arms thrown wide to indicate Suddenly Tiny Sylvari. ]

No. Sylvari do not make more Sylvari. Mother is Mother to all Sylvari and that is how it works.

... and I do not know. I have not gotten sneeze-y from any plants I have been around?

[nextlineis]

[Gross, dude. Control your dandruff! Joseph does make a slight face.]

What about animal allergies? Wait. Do you even have organs like animals do? Or are you just...like a small, walking, talking, tree?

[innercactus]

There's a sylvari somewhere who is allergic to cats. I haven't met him, but I know he sneezes around them. [ He's about to comment that he isn't small, he's rather tall, but then he realizes that small is for trees. Yes, he is small for a tree. ]

I don't have organs like humans. But I have things that make it so I breathe... in the same way? [ His chest is totally moving as he's breathing, that sort of thing. Only he's exhaling the oxygen. ]

... I eat too. [ How dare you forget that, that's what started the conversation- ] I think it is a little of the two. I am a plant, but I have some things that make me work... kind of like a human. But not all the things humans have.

[nextlineis]

[There is no delicate way of putting this and even if there were, Joseph wouldn't know it. He's just going to come right out and ask it.]

So uh... Do you poop?

[innercactus]

[ Asteffiel stares blankly for a moment. ]

... Is that what you use the swirly water things for?

[ No. The answer is no. ]

[nextlineis]

[Well, that answers that.]

Then what happens with the food you eat if you never take a shit?

[innercactus]

[ Thinking... thinking- ]

... Do you eat too much, and that's why it comes back out? Because it's used, obviously!

[nextlineis]

What? No!

[Joseph, are you seriously now perturbed by that question? After everything? Well, okay. He's making a face.]

It's used, I guess, but that's not 'cause we eat too much.

[innercactus]

If you're sure. [ It's said with that tone of a child doubting an adult.

He's still pretty sure the only reason stuff would come out after someone eats is if they ate too much. ]