mk. 13 (text)

[paraclete]

Who: Kaworu, you!
Broadcast: fleetwide text
Action: N/A initially
When: 6/28, midday

Well,

How long can you hold your breath?

I always forget. Or, I never quite remember. Yeah, definitely the latter.

Comments

[paraclete]

You and I have lots of different answers to lots of different things, I'll bet. That's why I would have questions I could ask you.

[allfight]

And that's stupid. Have some initiative and figure things out on your own.

[paraclete]

I initiated us, you and I, right now and the seconds behind us, too.

Anyway, I don't really have to hold it because I don't really need it, so I was looking to ask the people who do.

[allfight]

You don't need to breathe?

[ good thing, he's pretty sure the guy would forget with the way he's talking. ]

[paraclete]

Sure. It's usually nice to do, though.

[allfight]

"Nice to do?"

[paraclete]

The lungs. The blood. Or a good smell or a good temperature. It can be nice to do.

[allfight]

What kind of easy to please freak are you?

[paraclete]

Yeah, I wonder?

Being pleased is tougher than some people will give dues. Is it a hard thing for you, too?

[allfight]

Well I don't get emotional over breathing.

[paraclete]

Did you want to tell me what sorts of things aren't stupid, then? If this feeling of mine is, what might not be?

[allfight]

Does your quirk make you dense too?

[paraclete]

Everyone has their reasons for living one way or the other. A little is nature, so it's not my quirk, but it is my self. But a little is nurture, too. Some more self, but elsewhere.

[allfight]

I meant your powers, dumbass. Does the lack of air affect your brain?

[paraclete]

It doesn't. I'm saying I'm inclined from birth to not know much, and I'm saying I've learned, after birth, to want to know more. Best to ask.

You're probably a human being, so the inclination is a little different. But humans ask a lot of questions, too, all the time. Right?

[allfight]

You're talking like you aren't one.

[paraclete]

Yes, I'm not.

[allfight]

What, then? Some kind of alien?

[paraclete]

I actually was born on Earth.

I'm an Angel, though. It's fine. When I don't breathe, it doesn't trouble my brain.

[allfight]

An angel?

[ He knows, logically, that things are screwy here and anyone could probably be anything.

But what the fuck. ]

[paraclete]

Yeah. It isn't religious. I've heard about those too. But I'm not a religious figure.

[allfight]

So you have wings and a halo?

[paraclete]

I have neither. I look pretty much like a human boy. Less like high art, though, if that's where you see such creatures.

[allfight]

So if that's not what an angel is what are they actually supposed to be? What are you, other than annoying and brainless?

[paraclete]

Mostly, a pilot and a friend.