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]

[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.

[passingthrough]

If you liked that then you'll love Flatscan Lover.

[bb_wolf]

I don't even know what a Flatscan is.

[passingthrough]

Humans. It's a derogatory term for humans.

[bb_wolf]

What's the origin on that? Flatscan for human?

[passingthrough]

Don't know. Maybe some actual scanning equipment for mutants spikes and their scans stay flat. Just the term I always heard. [And sometimes used.]

[bb_wolf]

Huh.

Weird.