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[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

[Locked from anyone in Angel Investigations]

So there's awkward moments, and then there's... awkward moments.

Have any of you ever lived in the same city as an ex? Like not just an ex ex, but like a really... serious sort of ex, with the heartbreak and the horrible crushing sense of starcrossed-ed-ness, and the Hell dimensions and...

Ok, not necessarily the Hell dimensions part.



But how do you deal with it? How do you deal with going to the store and just running into them in the middle of the street? I mean you can't just pretend you don't see them and keep walking, and then when you don't, it quickly turns into awkward small talk and fake smiles and not knowing what to do with your hands, and looking for excuses to leave without ever really wanting to leave....


And then what if they do leave? All... abrupt... y.  And not like they were just uncomfortable too, because that would make sense, but like something was honestly off.  

I guess asking for a normal old Yuletide is packing the wish list a little too tight, huh?

Should've stuck with asking for a pony.

Comments

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[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

It'd be a kind of bizarre thing for someone with god-like powers to do with their Saturday afternoon.

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[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Its rather difficult to understand the logic of creatures who can think in ten dimensions. What they do for kicks is often 'bizarre' indeed.

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[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

This is why I usually don't make with the analyzing and skip to the beating up.

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[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

I have always preferred to become allies with the powerful, rather than enemies. It seems safer in the long run.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

That depends on how evil they are.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Evil and strange are not always the same things.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

But they have a surprisingly high evil:strange ratio.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in your universe. In mine, it is best to be wary of the 'normal' more often than the strange.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the 'strange' just be called 'normal' there then?

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. The people who are willing to break the social norms publicly often have much less to hide than those who stick to the 'rules'.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

To hide like what?

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Killing off all people over the age of eighty. There was a false utopia like that, once. Selling their children into slavery - I have seen that often. Killing business rivals, stealing others homes...'normal' people can do the cruelest things, all the while proclaiming themselves better than those who admit to their eccentricities.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Wow, someone really didn't pay attention when they read "The Giver" in Junior High.

But I think that can be the case in any world. That doesn't make them normal - they're just evil in a suit and tie.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid the reference means little to me. "The Giver" is a book about a False Utopia of some sort?

Even those who do evil not because they believe in it, but because it is easier than doing what is right and 'weird'?

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Something like that. I guess I didn't pay the greatest attention to it either, come to think of it.

I'm pretty sure institutionalized evil is still evil. Like lunch meat in school cafeterias.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

My people once made a point of hunting such worlds.

Even if people preform evil and believe it to be for the greater good?

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that kind is even worse. It's not as easy to fight as just stakey stakey slay-y slay-y.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

I have found that there is little true evil that can be ended with death. Someone will always arise to continue the crime, except in very rare cases.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it does wonders in the short term.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Oh? When the system is broken, even the removal of a key player will have little impact even on the short term.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

Well, see, that's one of the inherent problems in living on a Hellmouth.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

It seems to be one of the inherent problems with being human as well.

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

There a bunch of those. At least we have perks, like apple pie.

[hok-ton.livejournal.com]

Apple pie?

[cuzitswrong.livejournal.com]

What, they don't have that in your world?