[ He genuinely needs to make a “Welcome to the Fears Being Assholes” Ted Talk on tape to hand out to people but that would include tape recorders. He thinks if he caught one in the market, or one of these zones, he’d be tempted to destroy it rather than coo at it like the ones back home.
Her question makes him grimace a bit, but he tries to taper it into a rather (unsure) grin. ] Mhmm… [ He does, however, quickly elaborate. ] I mean, it wasn’t that way for the majority of my world’s history. Most of it. Worked for this spooky library for years before getting transferred to the archives. I found out that there were spooky, fear-based entities that fed on things that feared them.
And sometimes people were more attuned to serving them. Intentionally or not.
[ And so begins the bulk of an explanation as they poke around. Oh, yes, the fear of the dark can be fatal. So can being Seen – which is where he gets sups awkward. ]
Our old boss was a major prick who wanted to be immortal, so he might’ve molded John into an all-seeing being who kicked off the apocalypse. Very unintentionally. Tricked him into a ritual that brought them all into our plane of existence. [ He blames himself for John’s involvement, but Martin blames himself for a lot of shit. John, his mom… the incorrect takeout order someone received after putting his own in (didn’t matter that his order was wrong as well). Pathetic. ] Neither of us wanted that. We weren’t even tortured like the rest and it was pretty bad.
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Her question makes him grimace a bit, but he tries to taper it into a rather (unsure) grin. ] Mhmm… [ He does, however, quickly elaborate. ] I mean, it wasn’t that way for the majority of my world’s history. Most of it. Worked for this spooky library for years before getting transferred to the archives. I found out that there were spooky, fear-based entities that fed on things that feared them.
And sometimes people were more attuned to serving them. Intentionally or not.
[ And so begins the bulk of an explanation as they poke around. Oh, yes, the fear of the dark can be fatal. So can being Seen – which is where he gets sups awkward. ]
Our old boss was a major prick who wanted to be immortal, so he might’ve molded John into an all-seeing being who kicked off the apocalypse. Very unintentionally. Tricked him into a ritual that brought them all into our plane of existence. [ He blames himself for John’s involvement, but Martin blames himself for a lot of shit. John, his mom… the incorrect takeout order someone received after putting his own in (didn’t matter that his order was wrong as well). Pathetic. ] Neither of us wanted that. We weren’t even tortured like the rest and it was pretty bad.