/takes the huntress out back and buries it (jan mingle pt. II)

[scrubscrub]

Who: Anyone on the SS Huntress! Crew and visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Huntress
When: More of January! We got three new crew mates and it will be messy.

IT'S ANOTHER MINGLE FOR OUR EVER-EXPANDING SHIP.

Also, we need an update on how well Koala is doing at pinball.

God, help this ship.

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[eyeforaneye]

You don't need to eat either?

[avaricious]

I wish. This body doesn't ever seem to be full.

[Freaking Ling and his appetite. Every time.]

[eyeforaneye]

Your wording seems detached. 'This body'?

[avaricious]

[He shrugs.]

I guess you could say I'm squatting here. The old bod was a significantly better model, but this one gets me where I need to go.

[I'm pleased you have such a high opinion of my being, Greed.]

[eyeforaneye]

So you inhabit others whenever it's convenient for you to do so. [ BAD MEMORIES ]

[avaricious]

Wasn't of my choosing. But if it makes you feel any better, I was invited.

[eyeforaneye]

It helps. [ Minutely. ]

What happened to your original body that this was necessary?

[avaricious]

Family reunions are a bitch.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Don't I fucking know it. ]

It sounds as if you're not particularly well-liked.

[avaricious]

Maybe. Maybe not. But why go digging at ancient history, right? Unless you want to start talking about your own.

[eyeforaneye]

You're the one that volunteered the answer. I thought I would kindly give you the opportunity to get it off your chest.

[avaricious]

Much appreciated, but leave that to when we get a ship counselor.

[He turns towards the door.]

Mind the buttons you're pressing. I'd hate to scrape you off someone else's ship.

[eyeforaneye]

I'm sure you wouldn't actually trouble yourself to retrieve my corpse.

[ Here he gestures to his left arm... or rather, where it used to be. ] I doubt you'd want a damaged vessel.

[avaricious]

You'd only be so lucky. I've lost an arm or two with this vessel already.

[But he's not about to go wasting his philosopher's stone on someone else's body. Not that he knew any alchemy to even do that.]

[eyeforaneye]

Even less reason, then. So you're careless as well as unpopular?

[avaricious]

[Eyebrow.] That's what you managed to get from that?

[eyeforaneye]

I've found that assuming an insulting option first encourages people to be honest.

[avaricious]

Is that so? With an attitude like that, you must be at your own height of popularity.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Well. Definitely more weirdly popular within canon than he should be. ]

I don't mind being disliked. It's part of having the personality that I do.

[avaricious]

Oh? You have one?

[He thought he was talking to a slightly less interesting wall.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ ... okay, that was a good one, but he's not going to give him the satisfaction of saying so. ]

Aa, one nearly universally agreed to be bad. I never tricked anyone into killing themselves -- [ a gesture towards the door ] -- but I have a penchant for disliking everything.

[avaricious]

That would make us opposites. Greedy person that I have, I want everything you could possibly imagine. I suppose you could say I was just made that way.

[As for trying to space Sasuke, well... that was more of a psychology thing. Or maybe it would've been funny. Or both.]

[eyeforaneye]

[ Or a public service. ]

If you actually include the people on this ship in that, I'll be impressed. There doesn't seem to be much worth wanting.

[ And he is including himself in that, honestly, not entirely self-deluded. ]

[avaricious]

Everyone on this ship has value. Even you, sulky as you are.

[Because hey, they can have shit personalities, but a soul is still a soul.]

[eyeforaneye]

Perhaps it's just the teamwork that's lacking, then.

[ He's gotten a sort of vague sense of camaraderie but is this the ship of walking individual disasters because it really feels that way. No wonder he's at home. ]