XXVI -- video

[breakmychest]

Normally it's annoying as hell giving all the new people the tedious "Welcome to the Barge, try not to break anything" speech, but I didn't mind as much this time around. [He's still enjoying having Buffy around. Oh, and Andrew's here too. Which is... better than some people who could have shown up.]

Hello, new people I haven't already spoken to, I'm Spike. Vampire warden, got a soul, won't bite unless you really annoy me... I lied, it's still boring.

[Elphaba]

So, did you do your homework this week, love?

Also, there's someone I'd like you to meet.

[/Elphaba]

[Buffy]

Want to meet my inmate?

[/Buffy]

Comments

[bigbad]

You haven't been here very long, have you?

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Maybe not. Does it matter?

[bigbad]

You're still too new to have accepted that there are dimensions other than your own, and creatures outside what you think is real.

[He shifts back to his human features.]

I could probably prove it to you. Come meet you in person. Show you that the shift is not just a trick, but something that actually happens, Show you how I don't have a pulse or a reflection. But honestly I don't care enough to bother.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

You're right. I also might not have accepted it because it's pretty insane. Just putting that out there.

Yeah, I'm sure you could. You don't pull a trick like the one you just did without some follow through. That just makes you good at what you do, not a vampire. I can still respect it though.

[bigbad]

There's also the part where I'm stronger and faster than most humans, drink blood every day, and have been alive over a century and a half.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Nice backstory. Can you even pick the year that you were born in?

[bigbad]

1863. I'm not so old that my memory's going.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Did you pick that year for any particular reason or did it just sound suitably old?

[bigbad]

Well, I struggled for a while, but then I decided to pick it because it's when I was born.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I can see how that must have been quite a battle for you.

[bigbad]

You're on an interdimensional prison ship. I don't see why vampires are such a stretch after that.

Unless you haven't accepted that either.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

[Pause, because lol, he hasn't.]

Huh. So even smart guys like yourself are buying that story.

[bigbad]

Smart? I thought I was delusional for thinking I was a vampire.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I changed my mind. It's a pretty good con. Making all the people around here think that you're some kind of all powerful monster. It's a good way to get influence very quickly.

[bigbad]

Yeah, I'm brilliant like that. So're all the other vampires on board. And the other nasties we sometimes get.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

An idea can spread very quickly, sometimes. Do you guys have your own special club?

[bigbad]

Not really. I mean, I think some of the others'd like to have one, bloodsucker solidarity and whatnot, but I've never been one for playing nice with others. Anyway, these days I get on much better with humans than other vampires. Long story. Ends with me not being evil anymore.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

What does a 'vampire' do to be evil anyway? It's not like you can actually drink blood.

[bigbad]

Well, yeah, actually, we can.

Generally speaking, the evil ones kill humans and the good ones don't.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

Humans kill humans and that doesn't always make them 'evil'. Sometimes it just makes them practical.

[bigbad]

Non-evil humans don't generally do it in bulk, and they generally have more reason besides it's fun, and they generally don't eat their victims.

Humans also have souls.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

A 'soul'. How poetic. You're a philosopher vampire now as well?

[bigbad]

Not really. I'm not one for deep thoughts and pondering the nature of reality and whatnot. As it happens, I've experienced life with and without a soul, so I know that exists.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I like you. You're kind of hilarious. It's fun how you've worked all this stuff out like it really could exist.

[bigbad]

Yeah, real mind for details, that's me. Story like I've got could take a good century and a half just to map out, right?