Give A Bitch A Break [October Open]

[crushed_pearls]

Who: Erin Peters and YOU
What: AAAAAAAAA
When: Mid October Forward
Where: Library, Bobby's, possibly elsewhere
Warnings: Tiamat fallout, suicide discussion, depression & stress


There Is No Silver Bullet [Closed To Valdis | Library]

Finding Erin won't be hard, once Valdis is herself again; she's the only soul on the ship currently meditating into a killing trance, a state of no-mind she's hoping will be effective against Tiamat. She's...

Having obstacles. Intrusive thoughts, feelings, anxieties, these impede her meditation, but she's getting there. This has gone on long enough.

Maybe tell her the good news?

Grade A Hypocrisy [Library | After the Previous]

Erin keeps coming to the library to read, on the theory that she's definitely not isolating, look, it's a public space. What actually keeps happening is she gets three chapters in and passes out, drooling on the comfy chair. Coffee? No help. Tea? No help. Turning into a toy robot? The toy robot snores and turns back into Erin after an hour, leaving her sprawled on the table.

The Smoking Prompt [Bobby B's]

I'm writing this on a phone, Erin smokes multiple times a day, find her here. She's still drinking pretty heavily too.

Wildcard

It warm in Hell.

Comments

[crushed_pearls]

"It came up," Erin murmurs. "...and given our interlocutor here it was sorta hard for it not to come up."

(IT'S HARD TO KEEP SECRETS FROM THIS GUY)

Valdis can't hear you

(GOD DAMN IT)

[redlightgreenlight]

"I have very little in common with either you or Tiamat, Sheogorath. You are a god and I hate gods."

Yato was an exception.

[blindwatchersees]

"Oh, I completely understand. My husband's not much of a fan either. But... well, take a bite of the biscuit, first, this might be a bit much on an empty stomach. Would you like some butter? Honey packet?"

[redlightgreenlight]

Her eyes narrow. "Thank you for the offer, but I'm not interested in your biscuits. Just say what you came to say and maybe I will have something to say back."

[blindwatchersees]

"Fair enough." He settles into the usual kitty position of a cat that is anchoring itself to its spot.

"I didn't like being a prison for an antagonistic god. I assume you don't like it, either. For ages upon ages, we would rip out of one another and destroy everything the one had built to cover up the works of the other. Our people, our realms, all would be wiped away and ruined as soon as the balance of control shifted. We were both left to mourn, to suffer, in an infinite cycle, futilely trying to stop one another and never succeeding. At least, not until we managed the impossible."

"I found a way to scoot that other god into his own set of bones, and it's not entirely impossible that the same might be possible for you. Or at the very least, I'm willing to do whatever I can to make such an impossibility a reality. Because I've wished plenty of horrible tortures upon the gods that created me to suffer, but I wouldn't wish that particular torment on anyone. Not even them."

[redlightgreenlight]

"I am sorry for your circumstance, and glad you found a solution, but I am not inclined to leave my fate up to anyone else. My body and soul are mine and I will not subject either to further experimentation."

Something Erin should know.

[blindwatchersees]

"Well, it was worth a shot. Glad you at least know you have the option."

He takes a bite of a biscuit, and continues, mouth full.

"'s a' 'n'r'es'ng s'ry 'f 'ou e'er wa'a 'ea i'"

[redlightgreenlight]

"You certainly seem a little more sane than when I last saw you."

Which is odd in and of itself.

[blindwatchersees]

"Oh, no, I'm not particularly sane. Just speaking to someone who's a little more sane. Or unsane in a different sort of way. I'm a different Sheogorath with everyone I meet, you know."

[redlightgreenlight]

"Are you calling me insane?"

Or is he speaking of Erin. She won't vouch for Erin's sanity, but she does love the woman.

[blindwatchersees]

"I wouldn't make the mistake of calling anyone sane, my dear. It's unfortunately a common misconception that sanity is a far, far more common affliction than it actually is."

[redlightgreenlight]

Sheo isn't in any way wrong.

"What is sanity except the average of all the insanity."

She does occasionally have a goddess in her head, so sanity is by default out of the question.

[blindwatchersees]

"Depends on who you ask, really. Now, my unbrother, he'd love to calculate what the average of all insanity is. Bit odd that way, and I keep him on his toes to see to it that he never finds the answer. Because, well... last time he found an answer like that, he turned into me, and neither of us liked that very much at all."

[redlightgreenlight]

"Sounds inconvenient."

[blindwatchersees]

"Oh, it was! It was terribly, TERRIBLY inconvenient. That's why I set about making it so that Jyggy and I wouldn't have to be the same person anymore. Of course, that wasn't the first plan I tried on him. I..."

He pauses, then continues, "Ah, but I don't think your troubled mind would find much uplift in my silly old stories. I won't weigh you down with heaps of unwanted sweetness."