pc catchall for wei wuxian (givethemhell)

[uncurtained]

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[givethemhell]

[ESPECIALLY NOW. He's already uncorking the bottle while he talks, though he'll hold it out to her to offer first sip. Not even bothering with the pretense of cups this time...]

Much better than I could be! [Like he could be dead or possessed so hey, this is fine enough for him. IT'S FINE.

Though, with less flippancy:] What about you?

[uncurtained]

...I'll be okay. It isn't really me that I'm worried about, you know?

[That poor girl...]

[givethemhell]

[Escha absolutely did not deserve this fate And Yet...

His expression ends up souring, albeit briefly and just barely noticeable.]

Can't say this was the outcome I expected, honestly.

[uncurtained]

[She tilts her head.]

Yeah? What did you expect?

[givethemhell]

Something more straightforward, for one. [Though he laughs a wry little laugh at that because why would he ever assume anything is straightforward!!]

Didn't really expect this to be the type of tactic our demonic friend would take, either.

[uncurtained]

I kind of have to wonder what happened to it. Like, if she killed the person it was inhabiting, is it just waiting to take someone else now?

[givethemhell]

They did warn against dispatching a host using improper methods, but I don't have a good guess as to why exactly that might be. For all we know - and it's possible, given how crafty our friend is - it may have intentionally allowed its host to be killed for this or that reason.

[To inspire mistrust among them, maybe, or to trigger whatever the hell it is that happens if an exorcism doesn't separate the host from the demon.]

[uncurtained]

It's too bad we can't ask it, huh?

[She says, as if it would give an answer even if they could.]

[givethemhell]

[HE WISHES IT WAS THAT SIMPLE and just sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.]

If only! I'd love to be dealing with a more helpful entity, but it's rare to be that lucky.

[uncurtained]

[She nods, but then—]

Hey, let's talk about something happier, okay?

[givethemhell]

[He glances over, but is quick to hum out his acquiescence.]

Of course. [What to talk about, though... Hm, hm. After a couple beats of silence:] Will you tell me more about where you come from? Just the Costco alone was fascinating; I'm sure there are plenty of other things you have that I've never even heard of before! Tell me - what are your favorite things to do there? What's the world like back home for you?

[uncurtained]

...Twitter, honestly.

[Which is probably going to take Some Explaining.]

Has anyone told you what the internet is?

[givethemhell]

[Yeah congrats roomie YOU GET TO BE THE ONE TO EXPLAIN THE INTERNET.]

Hm? No, I don't - is it like Costco? What about Twitter - are they the same thing?

[BOY...]

[uncurtained]

No, all three are pretty different. The internet is, um, like...

[Explaining this from scratch may be more Difficult than she anticipated.]

It's like, a database where you can go to get all kinds of information from different places.

[givethemhell]

[Can you believe this is the second one of your moderns to explain the internet to my ye oldes.]

I see...! So, like a library? Something like that? What's a Twitter, then?

[uncurtained]

Kind of like a library, but... It isn't a physical space, like a library would be.

[She pauses again. Social media seems almost tougher.]

Twitter's like... A place you can share your thoughts with your friends, even if you aren't around each other. It's like sending a really short letter, but they can see it instantly.

[givethemhell]

[Fortunately Wei Wuxian is much better at adapting than Souji is, so her explanations seem to suit him just fine.]

I see! So it's a bit like what we do with the clamshells to contact our hosts, but without the bits where you strip first, I'd imagine? Is the internet in that same space?

[uncurtained]

[Well, mostly without the stripping... Either way, she just nods.]

Yeah, exactly! You know how there are the different apps on the clamshell? That's sort of how the internet works. You can go to different areas through devices kind of like that, and the different places have different things you can do or see.

[givethemhell]

I see...! What kinds of places can you visit? What can you do? Do they have an app for visiting Costco?

[He's so close and yet just barely misses...]

[uncurtained]

Pretty much anything. You can listen to music, you can read books, you can learn new skills...

[She's trying to make it sound Nice, at least.]

...Yeah, actually. You can shop there online, and if you wanted to go to the actual store, there's this app called Uber you can use to pay other people to drive you places.

[givethemhell]

[He comes from an era where other people drive you around anyway via horse and cart and shit like that so tragically, he isn't as excited as he could be...]

Huh! That sounds convenient. So you can just do your shopping from something like this? No need to go into town at all? Ah, do they deliver things to you, then?

[ONLINE SHOPPING ON THE OTHER HAND he is super here for.]

[uncurtained]

Some of them will, depending on what you're ordering and where you live... For something like food, it's usually not much longer than an hour, if that.

[givethemhell]

An hour! Really, you all get the best of things in your time. I'm so jealous - we'll have to work so hard to catch up.

[He says this with a sigh, but it's a big ol overdramatic one.]

[uncurtained]

There are issues, but... There are in every time. I'd take a time with problems and also modern technology over anything else, honestly.

[She flashes him a smile.]

And for now, you get to live vicariously through me.

[givethemhell]

For now, I suppose that's good enough... But! Once this is all said and done, how about I come visit and you show me the way things are in person?

[IMAGINE THIS TERROR CRASHING THROUGH A COSTCO.]