Catch All II

[cryptsleeper]

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[soulsteal]

think i should ask the church to perform an exorcism?

[ this is a joke ]

[cryptsleeper]

....could be funny to watch.

[soulsteal]

anyway i guess you have a point

i should just ignore it

nothing good comes from listening to that kind of voice

[cryptsleeper]

Let them figure out what they need from each other. No one else need interfere.

[soulsteal]

that's not really what i

[ ... ]

nvm

[cryptsleeper]

If you said that to me in person, I'd be leaning in for further details.

[soulsteal]

it's fine

we can talk about something else

you know, you kinda mentioned it and then i did the math and realized

trevor and sypha were your lovers, right

[cryptsleeper]

They were, yes.

I've not been subtle about it. If anything, it's funny every time each generation of Belmont realizes it.

[soulsteal]

is it weird being around the belmonts now?

[cryptsleeper]

The first two or three generations, yes. But I just became the perpetual uncle, and it has worked quite well over the centuries.

[soulsteal]

i see...

i'm glad, then. if there's a place where you belong.

[cryptsleeper]

It'll change in due course. Nothing lasts forever.

[soulsteal]

when it does, will you find somewhere else to go?

[cryptsleeper]

Possibly.

I've taken breaks before. Spent centuries traveling when too many dead Belmonts became impossible for my heart to bear. Maybe wherever this ends is what demands a reset. Maybe it won't be.

[soulsteal]

[ ... ]

i say this without condescension, but you're an easy man to worry about, alucard.

[cryptsleeper]

Hardly the first time I've heard the comment.

But you should focus on yourself. You've only a lifetime, so far as we know. I have who knows how many left.

[soulsteal]

try spending more time in japan lol

well i'm only being half serious

maybe you have to grow up here to get it but

idk i grew up internalizing enough poetry and shit about the transient beauty of passing seasons that i kinda just accept when shit happens

some kind of buddhist-shintoist acceptance of separation and departure

actual fun fact from nocturne on this one

[cryptsleeper]

I'll have you know I was here during the Edo period.

But yes, cultural perspective being what it is. Why you'd worry about me when six centuries prove I'm going to be fine though...

the poetry got better okay

[soulsteal]

you don't really come off as fine to me idk

but i'm a sensitive and caring guy in general, obviously

[cryptsleeper]

With knowledge I may regret asking this: how DO I come off?

[soulsteal]

tortured.

[cryptsleeper]

I mean, obviously.

[soulsteal]

as long as you're aware

but yeah

i dunno, maybe i shouldn't say

ultimately i've only known you for so long and all

and i'm just some kid

i guess if i had to describe it

you feel really... half-in, half-out on a lot of things

sort of here, and sort of stuck in the past, too

but from your perspective maybe you feel like you put too much of yourself in everything you do

that sort of feels like it's true too

i think you probably need to put less of yourself in things

but what do i know, you know

[cryptsleeper]

I invited the critique, so I can handle it.

But it is interesting to know that you have more awareness than most that I have one foot in the present and one in the past, if only due to my age and work.

Unfortunately for your comment about putting too much of myself into things, I come from a line of extremely dramatic, over the top people who put all of themselves into their actions. I cannot break with my nature.

[soulsteal]

[ let it be known that soma starts a message with the words "see, this is why i'm different," realizes he is also a dramatic and over-the-top person who puts all of himself into what he does, and then deletes the whole sentence. ]

take a vacation at some point within the next 20 years

pretty sure julius and i can handle whatever world-ending emergency would have your attention otherwise

give it another 40 and it'll be me and whatever magic baby he has with yoko instead