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Who: Eithan and YOU!
Broadcast: YES! Fleetwide
Action: Blue Fish cargo bay, if you want.
When: RIGHT NOW. (4/7)

[ Hey, another Eithan broadcast! Selfie-style again~ Why not. He's in the cargo area on the Blue Fish, and there's a box next to him. Uh oh, looks like someone got a sponsor drop. ]

So... I got a box. [ He jerks his head toward it, as if it needs pointing out. ] And I don't know why, and I don't know what's in it. And hell, I'm bored enough, probably don't really have that much to lose, so! What the hell - why not open it on camera? Let's see what the hell's in this thing.

[ He nods at the camera on his device, before setting it down and angling it so that he can properly show off this thing's contents when its open. Which just so happens to be... a bunch of coffee mugs! ]

... Huh. Well, that's cool, I mean, I do kinda live off coffee most of the time, so sure.

[ He picks one up, and his eyebrows immediately raise when he reads what's on the side. ]

'Number One Sire'...? What the f--...

[ He trails off as he picks up the note sitting beside the box full of mugs, reads it... and then, he prompltly bursts into laughter. He holds the note up to the camera, for all the world to see: "Eithan is Stefan's sire!"

He drops the note, now that he's pretty much doubled over laughing. But he eventually collects himself long enough to address the camera again, red eyes practically shining with mischief and a fiendish smirk on his face. Oh, he's gonna have fun with this one. ]

Hey, Stefan... looks like someone thinks I bit you at some point.

[ He grins, clearly far too amused by this. Of course, having literally just pointed out the whole vampire thing himself, those fangs of his are probably all the more noticeable. ]

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[For once, Fie's actually doing a video reply, for who knows what reason. Either way, she looks pretty interested.]

Can I have one of those?

Yeah, sure! Not like I need all of 'em. [ Beat. ] You actually a sire, or just want a decent mug?

[ Yep, still grinning. ]

Who knows? [It's said casually like she doesn't really care, not like she's trying to be mysterious.]

But thanks.

No problem. I'm on the Blue Fish, not goin' anywhere for a while. Come on over and get it whenever, yeah?

Sure, I've got nothing else to do right now anyway.

[Or ever at all.]

...

Uh oh.

[ we're still waiting for the "oh, crap" realization moment on Eithan's end. please stay on the line. thank you. ]

Right? These rumors are really stupid.

[oh Eithan...]

Yes, but it's not the only thing stupid here...

Did I miss somethin' else?

[ waaait for it... ]

[ aaaand there it is, about a minute later, once Stefan chimes in. ]

fuck. me. the other stupid thing. it's me.

[ YEP. THERE IT IS. ]

Mm...

He tends to be very private about what he is. I think he's pretty sensitive about it.

yeah i didn't really know how much. until just now...

[ Yeah, he feels bad. Time to figure out how make this better - aside from the obvious backpedaling. ]

Good luck sorting it out, I suppose.

thanks man. i'd rather not lose a good friend just 'cause i ran my fucking mouth
but i'm definitely not gonna let it happen again.

You'll be all right, Stefan's a good man. He can understand people make mistakes.

It's just...well unlike you, I don't think Stefan's very comfortable about being a vampire himself, so he tends to be very secretive about it. He didn't even tell me that he was one.

Stefan is definitely a good man that's true.

yeah like our circumstances and shit are just so different and i totally forgot. but if he didn't tell you then how'd you find out?

I figured it out. I am an Exorcist, after all.

oh right! that's like a sixth sense for pretty much everything not human? or something more complicated than that?

Ah, well, I sort of have a sixth sense with demons, but it doesn't always work on vampires.

It was more...behaviour observations, really. Little hints. You do the job as long as I have, and you learn to pick up on those things.

[He can't even give Eithan the dignity of a video reply. Paisley crew: that definitely was the sound of a door being slammed.]

As if.

It's impossible for me to even have a sire.

[ On the list of things Eithan still needs to learn: not everyone can just laugh off shit like this! Sorry, Stefan. ~~why are you friends with this idiot again?~~

The switch to text is a big clue that something's wrong, though. So he opts for text back, and tones it down. ]

And I've never actually turned anyone. so it's a pretty stupid rumor, obviously.

Clearly. Hard to have a sire if I've never been bitten.

Edited 2017-04-08 05:17 (UTC)

[ But he'll send another text, in private, to clarify why his rage could probably be heard (or seen) across an endless void: ]

Look, it's not the rumor OR the mugs. We've both heard weirder.

It's more that I haven't told the whole Fleet, and I'm not sure when I'm going to.

Edited (changed up dialogue ;;) 2017-04-08 05:18 (UTC)

[ Ah. Right. Crap. It doesn't come up often enough for him to remember just how hush-hush Stefan is about it. ]

ah. fuck. shit sorry.

[ WELL, at least this could have been worse - there's nothing outright outing Stefan. Just himself, and he doesn't care about himself. But he's not asshole enough to try and dig himself out of this hole that way. ]

i was too busy laughing my ass off at how fuckin absurd it is

["It's not really okay," he wants to say, but Eithan's trying. Best to acknowledge that, rather than his own (anti-vampire) fears.]

It'll smooth over eventually.
tbh I can't blame you. Of all the rumors I've heard, this is the least likely.

How many of those did you get?? 100? 150??

Edited 2017-04-10 22:54 (UTC)

yeah somewhere around 100 it's RIDICULOUS! Want one? ha.

[ Yeah, Eithan can tell it's not really all right. And he does feel bad. So before they completely move on, he has to fire off another text: ]

hey. i swear i won't fuck up like this again ok?

Sure. The Center could always use a few more, and between us? It's actually kind of funny.

[ It would be funnier if it hadn't been coupled with an accidental outing, but he's sure he'll laugh about this later. Maybe. ]

Thanks.
For what it's worth, I'm glad that you can be open about who you are.

i'll save you a few then... i think i'm gonna blow the rest up or conveniently leave 'em on a waystation or something

[ Yeeeaahh... Eithan will laugh about it again later. Right now, he feels too much like an idiot. ]

yeah - entirely different worlds after all... i'm glad that even though it's still a secret for you, you've got people here you can trust. i mean, sorry i broke that, but you've got a lot of people on your side.

And let perfectly good mugs go to waste? I'm sure Alex could turn them into an art project.

[ The sad part is, he's completely serious. Very little can get between a vampire and his quest for tea. ]

No, I get it. When you're comfortable with who you are, then there's no need to hide.
Plus it's not like you were the resident Slayer or Exorcist.
I may not trust you with my hair care secrets for a while, jsyk, but you're still good people.

-- These rumours are only getting more and more preposterous.

[ sorry, eithan. she doesn't know you from adam. but stefan is important to her, and therefore his secret is her secret. she'll do what she can to help play it off like yet another classic atroma goof. ]

[ GOOD CALL. Now that Stefan's told him to be more careful, he's working on laughing it off and smoothing it over, too. ]

Damn right they are. Like seriously, where do people get this stuff?

A bunch of first rate fantasists, that's what they are.

you know not a lot of things surprise me anymore but i have to say i've never met a coffee addicted vampire before

well now you have!
want a coffee mug?
please
there's like 100 of them

do all of them say that

because if so no dice

what if we scratched it out or like painted over it.....

that sounds like a lot more effort than throwing them out

also i would still know what lurks beneath the paint

i mean that's the plan, yeah. throwing them out. but hey, one person asked for one so far, maybe someone else wants one? I don't know.

giving them away isn't the same thing as throwing them out

like 95% of those monstrosities must be destroyed

i could just blow 'em up... probably somewhere not on the blue fish so i don't piss anyone off again

[ Explosions are always fun! ]

i'm really concerned about the use of the word "again" in that sentence

do i want to know

oh nothin' specific! just usually things going boom and spaceships don't mix so that worries people. especially when i forget to say something first. but hey it happens.

[ Eithan, who lets you do anything ]

so

you need constant supervision, basically

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