video/action: Bloodsport OTA

[bb_wolf]

Who: Bigby and anyone listening
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Bloodsport
When: Now

[Having been unconscious for two weeks, when Bigby woke up he had promptly decided to take a couple of days to sleep it off. It's only now, after a shower and some food that he bothers to take to the comm.

He's in the shuttle bay, where his massive bulk fits best.]

I was thinking about starting some kind of immortals evening. Get together. Bitch about how things have changed over the last couple of centuries. Commiserate with others who get the whole 'living for fucking ages' thing, if that's what floats your boat.

Just finding it weird, being surrounded by so many mortals. Fables keep themselves to themselves. No point making friends with mortals for us. Anyone interested?

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[bb_wolf]

We hide from mortals all the time. They can't know about us. We've stayed hidden for four or five hundred years.

I don't get tiny and furless for the shits and giggles. It's a condition of my participation in the community. They arranged a way for me to join them, I police the community because I'm the only one everyone is scared of.

[passingthrough]

I've never actually seen you furless. [Is that anything like being naked?]

What happens if they find out about you?

[bb_wolf]

... you haven't?

Huh. I can shapeshift. I'm a wereman.

What happens?

[He still smells Salem in his dreams sometimes.]

Nothing good happens to us. That's what. Can you imagine if the mundane world discovered there were immortal, magical creatures? We'd have to pick up and flee before they came for us.

[passingthrough]

Nope, but now I'm curious.

[She tilts her head.] Yeah, they weren't the biggest fan of mutants in my world. But if you're immortal and magical how much of a threat are they?

[bb_wolf]

Huh.

Hang on.

[He vanishes from screen and then comes back a few moments later, all human and scruffy. He's not wearing a shirt that's visible, but it is just his head and neck on screen.]

There. One furless Bigby Wolf.

And plenty. I'm immortal. I still feel pain. Being boiled alive still hurt like fuck. I can still be held in a cell and experimented on. Lots of us can.

[passingthrough]

[Yep, nakedness. Well, maybe.]

Huh. [She looks at him curiously, but it's also not like she's never seen a transformation before between Mystique and Morph.]

Um, right. That sounds bad. [No, it does.] Experimenting was a big thing back home. [She narrowly escaped it herself.]

Boiling someone alive sounds like they were just after causing pain. [Or having poached wolf?] Not a very efficient way to kill.

[bb_wolf]

[Maybe. It's hard to know with Bigby.

He shrugs, which definitely works better with human shoulders than wolf ones.]

They were. I was climbing down a chimney. Dun set up a pot of boiling water for me to fall in to. They were trying to boil me to death but I don't die.

[passingthrough]

I'm sorry. [And she means it, but she also can't let it go without questions because what?]

Do you moonlight as Santa? Why were you climbing down a chimney?

[bb_wolf]

... I was trying to get in to eat the pigs inside.

[passingthrough]

Well... [Things to never mention to Winn. Not that he was unaware of the fairy tails.]

Still more civil to kill someone efficiently.

[bb_wolf]

I was hungry.

[And still sort of unapologetic.]

[passingthrough]

Hmm. I can't say I know what it's like in your world or in your paws. [Which isn't entirely a "off the hook" message. She might learn more and not like what she sees. Or maybe she'll understand it better. His actions here on the fleet concern her more than his past and as far as she knows no one has been eaten or attacked. She hopes it stays that way for the sake of anyone who could get attacked but also because she knows how very much he means to Sascha.]

I used to steal for food sometimes.

[bb_wolf]

[For all his grumbling, he doesn't eat sentient things anymore. Unless someone gives him a free shot at Bluebeard, he would definitely eat Bluebeard.]

Survival.

[passingthrough]

Sure didn't do it for fun. Not bad training all things considered though.

[She tilts her head.] From things Sascha's mentioned it sounds like you stock up on meat when we're at planets now.

[bb_wolf]

Yeah. I try to. He needs a regular supply of food to stay healthy and frankly, I'd sooner starve than eat that bullshit they try to pass off as nutrition.

[passingthrough]

You'd be surprised what you'd eat before you'd starve. Then again, maybe you've been there. [She has been close. She's seen it in others too. They'd rescue people from Apocalypse but they couldn't rescue them all from hunger or the epidemics or the radiation poisoning.] I'm glad he has someone watching out for him like that.

[bb_wolf]

No.

I wouldn't be.

[Bigby had been the runt. Too small to hunt effectively.]

The first prey I ever killed was a grasshopper. Nothing ever tasted that sweet again.

[She'd seen what a tiny pup he was. A grasshopper had been about the limits of what he could take then].

[passingthrough]

[Tiny and adorable.]

I have never felt that way about grasshoppers, but I think I know what you mean. [Like finding an intact can of soup and drinking it cold out of the can.]

[bb_wolf]

[He had killed it. He had hunted it, caught it, killed it and eaten it and that was the satisfaction of it.]

Well, wolves have very different taste from humans.

[passingthrough]

Still a mutant. [Not that it has anything to do with her tastes being different from humans.]

[bb_wolf]

You're a sub species of human, not a distinct species of your own, taxonomically. As I understand it. But point taken. I don't like being called a dog.

[passingthrough]

I wouldn't dream of calling you that. Wolf? I mean, when it isn't just Bigby.

[bb_wolf]

Well, yeah. Wolf is my name. But a lot of people back home make dog jokes to me.

[He never laughs. He never complains. He doesn't want them to know it bugs him. If they know, they won't fucking stop.]

[passingthrough]

I usually got mutie, freak, or gene traitor. [No one ever called her human as an insult. She just doesn't like anything that makes her feel like she's denying what she really is.]

[bb_wolf]

Gene... traitor...

People in your world are weird.