ACTION! Meeting people!

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone who stands still long enough to be talked to
Broadcast: No.
Action: One ALL fleet ships except The Tourist and The Three Twins
When: During the week.

Cole doesn't like the communicators. He finds it too disorientating to talk to people and have that vast distance between them.

Instead, he's setting out to visit each of the ships and meet the people on board. He likes people and he likes meeting and talking with people and he'd far rather do that face to face.

Don't worry. He doesn't take up much space and he takes up no supplies. He just wants to meet people.

But... he gives The Tourist and The Three Twins a wide berth. Fenris had been very clear that he was not to see Cole again and Cole will respect that by avoiding the places he seems to be.

Anyone from those ships will have to be visitors somewhere else to run into Cole.

Comments

[killedwithlove]

[Cole tilts his head, regarding the man briefly.]

Hello. Is that a musical instrument?

[puro]

[Manolo glances at his guitar, before raising it a little. ]

Yes, it's called a guitar.

if this insight isn't okay, I can change it.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole looks at it and then back to Manolo.]

Help, soothe, protect, take away the hurt... Compassion! You're Compassion too! You found a different body!

[He looks so excited at this revelation.]

this is totally ok!

[puro]

[Manolo isn't completely sure what Cole is getting at, but he looks so excited he can't ruin that for him.]

Well...yes I have a lot of compassion. And the Gods gave me a new body...I think?

[Given his old one was full of snake venom and probably riddled with rigour mortis at that point. Thanks Gods.]

[killedwithlove]

I don't know anything about Gods, but if something gave you a new body you must have been-!

[He trails off, looking at him more closely.] Oh. No. You're not a spirit.

[He comes closer and as he does he stands a bit straighter, seems almost a little more... real and unearthly at once.]

You're a good person. Maybe the best person.

[He reaches out to touch Manolo's chest unless he's stopped.]

[puro]

Sorry, just a regular human being.

[Manolo has zero concept of personal space, so he doesn't mind. Still, ever humble, he just smiles and shrugs. ]

Oh, I don't know about that. I just do what I can.

[killedwithlove]

I know.

[Not just a spirit, but he is a spirit and he's drawn to the things which made him when he was. Manolo's compassion is like a flame to him, he can't help but be drawn in and want to stay close.]

You're so good I can barely see through it.

[This clearly makes him very happy.]

[puro]

[Maybe he really DOES have a smell that attracts otherworldly beings to him. That has to be a thing. He smiles, ducking his head a little. ]

Well...thank you?

[killedwithlove]

What for?

[puro]

For the compliment.

[killedwithlove]

It wasn't a compliment. It's just a fact.

[puro]

Oh, well thank you, all the same. It's something everyone likes to hear.

[killedwithlove]

Is it? Hm. [He will clearly need to think on this.]

But... it isn't true for a lot of people.

[puro]

Well...no. It's not. Some people are out to hurt others.

[killedwithlove]

I know they are. I have to stop them when they want to hurt others. I can see it, in them, twisting like a dying snake.

[puro]

...You stop them? Before they hurt others?

[killedwithlove]

No, not before. I hear the suffering of their victims and I come. I stop them hurting anyone else.

[puro]

Oh.

Well, that's good, at least. That they're stopped before hurting someone else. What do you do, talk to them?

[Ahahah no, Manolo.]

[killedwithlove]

Sometimes. It depends. Some people hurt others to try and feel better, so I can try and unpick what makes them feel that way.

Some people just like hurting others. It's fun to them.

I stop them. I kill them. I make it quick and clean, no suffering.

[puro]

...Oh.

Well that's...something.

[Awkwardly hunching his shoulders a little. He realises, of course, that once he gets home, he will have to face this. Chakal won't just...let the people of San Angel go. He's going to have to neutralise the threat. Permanently.

He doesn't know if he has it in him, and that worries him. ]

[killedwithlove]

[Cole's face softens with empathy and he comes closer, not touching and making himself smaller by crouching, non-threatening.]

I know it's frightening, but sometimes... there isn't a better way to stop the hurt. The important thing to be clean and quick. Know what you're doing, so there's no suffering. Be kind in killing, like you would for your food. And only do it when other ways don't work.

It's all right to scared, and not want to do it.

[puro]

[His heart sinks to his stomach. Clean and quick. That's what his father kept telling him, to finish a bull. Make sure it isn't a mess, and the crowd will love you for it. ]

It's better not to kill at all.

[killedwithlove]

Yes. It is.

[He closes his eyes briefly.]

The bull has done nothing. It shouldn't be tormented and killed for the amusement of others. It's not the same.

I wouldn't want to hurt the bull either.

[puro]

[He really...should have expected that, but surprise still registers across his features, before relaxing into a strange mix of sadness and relief. ]

I'm glad to hear that, amigo.

Maybe one day everyone will know that.

[killedwithlove]

I don't understand people who hurt animals. I know you have to kill animals, that's part of life. People need to eat. Animals kill each other to eat.

But hurting them... I don't understand it.