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Spike ([personal profile] allbloodyhail) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2013-09-22 06:29 pm

voice, the second } crack kills

[ THIS IS FORWARD DATED spike would usually do this up on video but given the chaos and just how shitty he looks-- oh, yeah, if you haven't seen spike in a bit there's a reason for it. he looks like death. literally. skinny, sallow, low-energy. he's not even quipping like he should be. he's scarcely been here ninety days, but without blood, he's not healing like he should. these demons are giving him the go around and he doesn't like it. so have a raspy english voice, sounding much tireder than usual, which really everyone should expect given the theme around here. ]

I'll tell you all, I've seen an apocalypse or two in my day. And this? This is a bloody disaster.

Floor 22, Room 17. I've got some weapons and hiding spots, but that's not what I'm on about. I'll see you all in the trenches anyway. [ he takes a breath, he might be smoking. ]

...This blood situation, yeah? For us vamps. [ pauuuuuse ] It's wrong, and I'll tell you why it's wrong. This might be a bloody big ship, but it's going to start seeming a whole hell of a lot smaller if we keep handing over human to them--us. To us.

I don't drink human blood, it's a life choice. Let's use an analogy. Now, I talked to an expert on the subject so let's call 'blood' ... 'heroin.' And let's call bagged blood something they call 'methadone.' That's a drug used to bring someone down off scag, if you didn't know. But it doesn't work, and neither does this. Drinking it from a bag? Well. Just makes someone want the real thing.

Over on the Cyllene, guy name of Jayne told me to look for Dr. Tam up in the med bay? But I'm sorry, doc, and anyone else who might have a hand in that concoction -- I don't trust it. Don't ruddy well trust anyone with a beaker and I've got good reason.

There's got to be another way.

[ he hangs up rather abruptly, it takes a lot to get a rise out of him like this. it took the perfect cocktail of starvation, sleeplessness, nightmares and demons from his homeworld but now he's here and he's mad. and yeah, no that's basically it. ]
humanistic: (listen - we all know rats like cheese)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-23 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Your other way is goin' clean.

[yo same level of tired here. tired-tired, as in sleep-deprived tired, and also tired as in totally over this conversation of blood and being on the wagon and off the wagon and bags and synthetic and live feedings and still being hungry and just

tired of vampire problems basically. but unfortunately you are just irritating enough to be likable, Spike, so here you go]
humanistic: (suspicious - manipedis. guy stuff.)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-24 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He huffs a laugh at that, a little bitter.]

Right. Not to get all Vampires 101, but--is that theatrics, or are we really talking starvation or-- mummification, or whatever you want t' call it.
humanistic: (stand - you never want to have no chicks)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-24 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
So what'd you do at home?
humanistic: (whaaa - you have no game at all)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-24 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus.

[He mumbles that to himself, though, mildly disgusted and judgey all at once because--the butcher, man, gross. Reluctantly, though, he goes on:]

So, what, this is just about missin' that gamy taste of cow's blood?
Edited (i changed my mind this is going to be significantly less helpful and i'm not sorry ) 2013-09-24 19:45 (UTC)
humanistic: (riiiiight - take dead animals to the vet)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-24 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[...no okay that is actually weird enough that it startles a laugh out of him.]

Otter.
humanistic: (ri-ight - literally too stupid to insult)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-25 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[okay so the last conversation he should be having is one that is anything to do with blood but this is just-- weird.]

Why?
humanistic: (listen - we all know rats like cheese)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-25 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Noble of you.

[And weird.]

How's your fitness, there were those-- vicious manticore things that they found in the labs. You could take on one of those.
humanistic: (sad - if you weren't real)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-27 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, yeah, really excellent topic shift there. Vampire small talk.]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm clean. I've been clean for-- [not counting the slip-ups; he deliberately puts the slip-ups out of mind.] --for awhile, now. Seems like the sort of thing that's more possible for us than for everyone else.

[Yeah right ha ha. And--Jesus. Us. He hates that he's said us, that includes him in a group he's tried like hell to distance himself from--but it always comes back around again. And he hate, too, that he feels anything like sympathy, that he's even considering giving advice--]

Look. There's animals that they keep in the gardens--there's a cow, at least. Go there for now, till you work something else out. There's no sense in dying t' one of these-- things.
humanistic: (sulk - i hate the ocean)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-09-30 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. That us.

[He's reluctant to even confirm that much, or to go on talking about this... and yet he goes on talking about it.]

We don't die, if we don't feed. We can go for years, without it. With the right circumstances, the right--influences, any vampire can go clean.
humanistic: (listen - we all know rats like cheese)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-10-02 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[He huffs a laugh, quietly.]

Don't really think now's the time to experiment. What-- [A pause, but fuck it, he'll ask--]

You don't know what happens, if you don't? Has any one of yours tried it?
humanistic: (stare - are the hermit crabs still here?)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-10-03 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucky isn't the word for that--but maybe he's biased, considering his whole raison d'etre right now is not being killed.]

They were they starving themselves by choice? Or was it something else?

[Because come on it's not like there's famines, for vampires.]
humanistic: (hm - thinking how we're not here)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-10-03 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? So why, then?
humanistic: (glare - it's not Saved by the Bell)

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[personal profile] humanistic 2013-10-03 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus.

[Because, okay, fear, he can identify with fear, maybe, but captivity sounds like a fucking horror show option. Prison, but at least prison is escapable, right--so does that mean something worse, something bleaker--]

How long--?

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