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[timelysteward]

[Does this look like a harassed clock with a human face? Does it? Good, because it's Cogsworth, sitting in front of a window on the Marvisa and he looks like he just swallowed about a half a dozen lemons. In his tiny brass hands he is holding a piece of paper, and he keeps fiddling with it, shifting it between his two hands.

He puts one brass hand up to his mouth, clears his throat, and then fumbles with the paper for a moment. Could he be ... nervous? It's possible.

Lips pressed together, the time hands on his face twitching, he states flatly.]

Hello. My name is Cogsworth and I am a ... [now he has to look at the word.] Ho-mo-sexual. I realize that I am a ... clock, but I assure you that I am not a ho-mo-sex-ual clock, but a ho-mo-sex-ual man. I have been ... told. Rigorously.

[Here he is glowering.]

That I need to ... 'embrace' this. So. If there are any ... individual males who would not mind ... being complimented by a ... human clock, then, ah. Please! Come forward.

[Okay he'll try a smile but it's more of a sheepish grimace at this point. God help him.]

Comments

[spacebro]

You're welcome.

[Doing great. Totally not lessened at all by the fact Mon-El has a girlfriend.]

So, you weren't embracing liking other men? [Curious. Daxam doesn't really have any such reluctance or stigma.]

[timelysteward]

...Well, from what I have been reading, things have changed considerably from my time period. When I am from, where I am from, men with men is .... considered a very grave sin punished by the Catholic Church most severely.

[He is still looking warily up at the sky - or at least the ceiling - like he expects to get electrocuted.]

My ... [sigh] Friend Lumiere told me that it was time, especially now, to embrace life. My life. So I am embracing it. Gingerly.

[spacebro]

Oh. That sounds intense and strange in the bad way. [Pausing.] What is a Catholic church?

[timelysteward]

[And now ... Cogsworth is going to. Ah. Blink. A few times.]

It is ... the spiritual home on earth for our Lord and his Son Jesus, who are in heaven, and ... all the ... saints?

[spacebro]

[Nodding slowly, but no, he's not following.] I am not sure what heaven or saints are, but I did see a commercial that mentioned Jesus. Apparently he's been seeking acceptance. I'm not sure what he did wrong though.

[timelysteward]

[....] What is a ... commercial, and was ... Jesus actually there?

[Because if that was the case they were in more trouble than he realized.]

[spacebro]

Oh, it's an advertisement for selling things to people that you see on television. I don't think he was actually in it.

[timelysteward]

Ah! ... well. Then. I suppose Jesus could also in this commercial. Usually he is up about in heaven, saving our souls.

[spacebro]

Saving your... Oh! This is one of your gods?

[timelysteward]

Er, well, he is my Only God, if that's what you mean.

[spacebro]

Oh, one god? Sure, that's another way to go. [Surprise! Daxam is polytheistic.]

[timelysteward]

I. Ah. You're ... you're what now? [Now that was something he hadn't been expecting.] One god ... only?

[spacebro]

Me? I'm a Daxamite. [Does that answer the question he asked or meant to ask? Probably not, but hey, it's a statement of fact.]

[timelysteward]

What .... is that?

[spacebro]

It's a person from the planet Daxam. [Naturally. Also, you're a clock. Can you really be this surprised?]

[timelysteward]

And you believe in many gods. Ah, which gods are these?

[spacebro]

[That's such a good question that canon has given no answers for.] I'm not sure how much I believe in them. But, you know, the usual kinds. God of war and love and sex and drunkeness and those kinds of things.

[timelysteward]

Gracious -- do you ever feel at a loss, not being able to, you know, feel what other people are feeling about their faith?

[This would be a good comparison test for Lumiere honestly.]