KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER FOUR
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a_sporking_ratSid has had this squishy bump on his back forever that I thought was a lipoma (benign tumor made of fatty tissue) but today I had to drain of this horrible substance inside it that was basically brown mush with white bits. I have no idea what the hell it is except it smelled like rot. Dad thinks it's an infected cyst where a bunch of blood got trapped, dried up into this solid-ish mush and mixed with white blood cell pus. Seems likely enough. I cleaned it afterward with hydrogen peroxide and triple antibiotic cream, and will be checking it again today, because it's surely started filling back up already. Sam's lump has grown back bigger than other, and she's got a softer one under her opposite arm too. Rats have really active cell growth, so they're always incubating something it seems. Of course, it also means they're really great at healing wounds and such! They're like Wolverine or real-live therians!
KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER FOUR
"It wasn't just the vampires that watched me as I moved around the room armed to the teeth." Yes, yes, everyone must give Anita all the attention possible...it's clearly because they think she looks like an idiot though because "Someone muttered, "Who does she think she is, Rambo?" which Anita chalks up to "I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing." I don't think I need to point anything out here, it stands on its own. In answer to the Rambo comment, the blond boy vampire Anita saved from getting punched last chapter says that, no, Anita is the Executioner. Stevens says that "They're all Executioners" Now, normally everyone has heard far and wide of Anita, so the only reason Stevens here would be presented as ignorant of her badass nickname is so...you guessed, it, yup, so that it can be explained to him by everyone else just how badass she is and how it got her that nickname!
Blond Vamp explains that Anita is one of the few vampire hunters that the vampire community has given nicknames/titles to, and of course "she was the Executioner, years before the rest." ANITA: BEST *AND* FIRST AT EVERYTHING! "We only give names to the ones that we fear. She is the Executioner, and along with three others she makes up the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Anita points out that none of the horseman are called that, and he says "You are the only one with two earned names." OH, OF FUCKING COURSE SHE IS. OF COURSE. Anita, ever modest, says "Let me guess, I'm Death" even though I think we all know that THAT NAME HAS LONG BEEN TAKEN and so does she. Blond Vamp says nope, she's War. Anita asks why, he says "Because you've killed more of us than Death."
...but...that doesn't make sense. Whether you die of war, famine, or pestilence, you are still dying, you are still ultimately taken by Death, so Death should be the name for the one that kills the most, not War. OH WAIT, SENSE IN AN AB NOVEL? SILLY ME! PERISH THE THOUGHT!
Anita then figures to herself that Death is probably Edward. You're a fuckin' genius, Anita. Another vampire asks why Anita hasn't killed them yet. Anita tells us this vampire "looked more like someone's youngish grandma than a vampire" lest we forget being a vampire and being out of your thirties are somehow mutually exclusive...Anita, surely you couldn't forget Seraphina, given how she fucked with you and your mommy issues so bad? Anita says she hasn't killed them because she didn't have to (I bet it's more because cops who might actually *care* about the law are watching) and the blond boy vamp says the other officers want her to and Anita says they haven't fed so they didn't kill the officers (I believe I've mentioned last spork why this is not necessarily the case) and Blond says that since they watched it done they're therefore as guilty as the perpetrators under the law. Anita asks if he *wants* her to shoot him, he nods, Anita asks why, he shrugs and drops his gaze but "the grandma" says Anita and her master are both evil. Well, I agree! Poor boy is probably expecting to be raped and enslaved and would prefer death.
Anita retorts that she's not the one who killed a man that was trying to stop a teen girl from being turned against her will. Granny Vamp looks hesitant for a moment, then says the girl wanted to be turned. Anita says that the girl changed her mind. How does she know that? Because the woman hesitated? Of course, Anita is right, because Granny argues that "There was no going back" and Anita says that's what date rapists say, the Granny Vamp looks shocked and is offended Anita would "compare us to that" and Anita says that "Forcing someone to be a vampire against their will is rape and murder all rolled into one" and I don't really know how I feel about that. Blond Vamp says Anita really believes that, Anita says yes, and he says "And yet, you cohabitate with the master vampire of this city." My first instinct would be to say that I don't see why those things cancel each other out, since being a vampire doesn't mean JC turns anyone against their will. It's like if she just said date rape was wrong and someone was like but you live with a man, it doesn't make sense. But then I thought, wait, maybe is he implying/saying JC has forcibly turned people? Given how he manipulated Anita into the vampire marks, it would not surprise me. Anita, however, just says he must be older than he looks to be using words like "cohabitate" and he asks if she can't tell his age, she says he's "Twenty years dead, that's why the eighties haircut." Yeah, people were totally saying "cohabitate" to everybody in the 80s, and no one ever uses the term now *sarcasm*
Now that hair has been brought up, the kid has a chance to tell her that "I don't have enough power to grow my hair long after death like the vampires closest to you. Your master steals energy from me, from all of us, and uses it to heal his people, and grow his long, black curls out for you." Okay, see, LKH, if you want this bunch to be angry rebels who are making scathing remarks about JC using his abilities for frivolity at the expense of others...you probably shouldn't have him include the "heal his people" bit, because that's not what this character would probably say or be thinking about. It comes off as the author just wanting everyone to note how great the good guys are even while talking smack about them...which is exactly what it most likely is, unless he's a particularly fair-minded "well, he does some good stuff too I guess" sort of milquetoast even-headed rebel, which could be interesting. But if he's supposed to be a total anti-JC zealot making an impassioned accusation, it really doesn't work. We'll have to see.
Anita thinks how she knew that "Jean-Claude took power from his followers, and gave power to them, but I hadn't thought how that exchange of power might affect the other side of the equation." Anita has had HOW many years now of living at the Circus and having a hand in vampire politics? And she never considered this or learned of it? If it were anyone else, I'd think JC must have been deliberately hiding the issue from her, but Anita is the sort I think anything could get by as long as it doesn't have long hair and a giant schlong. Especially since this is something that only affects the little people of the vampire community, not her top-tier boyfriends like Jean-Claude and Asher. "Did Jean-Claude steal power from them just to grow his hair long for me, when they could have used it to heal their wounds, grow their own hair?" It is so, so hilarious to me how she puts growing hair out on the same level as HEALING WOUNDS THAT WILL OTHERWISE POSSIBLY LAST AN ETERNITY.
Blond Vamp guesses that Anita didn't know, but Granny Vamp angrily proclaims that Anita does know, and "under the anger was a thread of fear like a hint of spice in a piece of cake." Yeah, having fear under anger is officially one of the ways to discredit and villainize someone in AB-world. Anita looks at her, and the woman becomes more afraid, and Anita wonders why. Uh, duh, they obviously know what you're capable of, hence why the boy was eager to take death before you could do worse to him. Zerbrowski returns and tells Anita that the bus is here to move the prisoners. Anita nods and thinks that she has made a "rookie mistake. I'd let the bad guys talk me into doubting people I trusted." You know, this could be a good line to show how blind Anita's faith in the very-undeserving Jean-Claude had become, setting this up as the novel that will reveal that he's just been using and manipulating her all along like in the beginning. Oh, if only! "They say if you listen to the devil he won't lie, but he won't exactly tell the truth either." I guess she missed the bit where one of the devil's many titles is THE FATHER OF LIES?! She decides to ask JC just in case when she gets home. Wow, that is just precious.
Anita tells the prisoners that if they try to escape, they'll be shot. Blond vamp says that's cuz of the PEA, aka "lethal force against vampires without a warrant is permitted to save human lives" aka LKH's apparent obsession for this book. Anita says yes, plus the fact that they're still technically suspect in the deaths of the two officers and "vampires suspected of murder can be killed if they try to escape" and Blond says "If we were people, it wouldn't work like that" and she says it might with two cops dead and he says not legally. I just think it's sad that he apparently doesn't think of himself and his fellows as people. As with previous novels, LKH has clearly not thought about the fact that "people" and "human" mean different things in a world that has therians, vampires, fairies, and merfolk, and the result of this lack of thought has made for a lot of Unfortunate Implications, as well as counting as a World-Building Fail in my opinion.
Anita "helped him to his feet hard enough that he stumbled and I had to catch him." That sounds less like helping and more like tossing him around to be a bully because you can. He whispers to her that "You're as strong as we are, and I felt you feed on the other officer. You're not human either." Well, I think he should blow the whistle on her! She shoves him, and because he's wearing shackles he nearly falls and she "had to catch him again. No one else in the room could have moved fast enough to catch him with barely a pause between the push, the start of the fall, and the catch--no human in the room." Unless you pushed him like five feet or more away, I don't see why not. Blond Vamp is like lol see and Anita "got him shuffling along with the others" and thinks that his remarks got on her nerves because "I believed what he just said" and that "I was one of the monsters" but instead of citing, say, her panwere status or vampire abilities as reason for why she's a monster, she brings up her ability to raise the dead.
Um, what?
She just said only a chapter or so ago that her necromancy was a psychic ability. She didn't think that "supernormal" Smith was a monster, so why is she? And even if necromancy is viewed by Anita and/or people in general as somehow different/worse than other psychic abilities (which I could see, since making dead bodies get up and walk around is a lot darker and ickier than just moving objects with your mind or having premonitions) and does classify her as "one of the monsters" along with therians and vampires...so what? She's clearly viewing it as a bad thing, but she's said repeatedly that she sees the monsters as people like anyone else, some of her best friends are vampires, etc., so why should it bother her to be in the same category as they are? It's true that shame and guilt are not always things that make sense, but this is too nonsensical. Either she sees monsters as people like everyone else, or it's something to feel shame and grossness and angst for. You can't have it both ways. About the closest you could get is to have it be like, say, someone who is in the closet because they have just the right amount of internalized homophobia where they're consciously (though perhaps not subconsciously) okay with OTHER people being gay but god forbid they be like that themselves, ew! Of course, that would mean that Anita isn't as accepting of the monsters as she consciously thinks and proclaims that she is, so that won't be the case, I'm sure. It's just another case of Anita having her Mary Sue angst cake and eating it too, no matter how little sense it makes or what implications it has.
I mean, she's right that she's a monster, just not the kind she's referring to or that's being discussed here. Which goes back to the point I've made repeatedly in the past: IN A WORLD LIKE THIS, THE WORD "MONSTER" CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED TO DESIGNATE BOTH "NON-HUMAN PEOPLE" AND "ABHORRENT MORALITY/ACTIONS"
A girl stumbles in her shackles, Anita grabs her to steady her, the girl freaks out when she sees it's Anita, and Anita holds on to her for just an extra moment because "I could taste her fear the way I could taste it on a shapeshifter or a human. Anything that's afraid of you is food." That is so dumb. Remember how she saw Julia as food because she was afraid? What tiger sees another tiger as food? Anita lets go of the girl and she falls the floor. The other vampires try to help her but can't because of their own cuffs and shackles, so Zerbrowski does. Man, this is all just sad. "The vampires watched me and even behind the sullenness, the anger, there was fear." Yeah, yeah, people being afraid makes them bad or deserving of abuse and violence or whatever the argument is here, we get it. "What do the monsters fear? Other monsters, of course." Yeah, there's nothing else vampires would fear...silver, holy objects, sunlight, the fact they can be executed for the most minor of infractions and it doesn't actually take another monster to do that. Not to mention I bet many keep personal fears such as loneliness and rejection, as well as phobias like being afraid of dogs and bugs even though as vampires they're not in danger from maulings or poison anymore (since, well, phobias are be definition irrational)
Right on cue, Granny Vamp calls Anita a monster, Anita retorts that "That's Marshal Monster to you, Grandma" and Zerbrowski asks why he doesn't have cool nicknames and Anita tells him no one is afraid of him. Zerbrowski jokes how he can't compete wit how badass she is, Anita says that's what his wife says, Smith ooohs according, Zerbrowski grins that "I don't have a problem with you being the better man, Anita; I never have." UGH GONNA PUKE. "If I hadn't been armed to the teeth, surrounded by murderous vampires" yes, we've seen how ~murderous~ they are oh wait they're utterly not "in view of way too many other cops, I'd have hugged Zerbrowski." BEING CALLED A ~MAN~ MEANS THAT MUCH TO HER. She thanks him and "tried to show him in my eyes how much it had meant to me, that guy moment where you can't actually say how many emotions you've got running through your brain" and Zerbrowksi gives her a "gentle" and "tender" smile "and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod--with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy."
OH I GIVE THE FUCK UP WITH THIS SHIT
KISS THE DEAD, CHAPTER FOUR
"It wasn't just the vampires that watched me as I moved around the room armed to the teeth." Yes, yes, everyone must give Anita all the attention possible...it's clearly because they think she looks like an idiot though because "Someone muttered, "Who does she think she is, Rambo?" which Anita chalks up to "I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing." I don't think I need to point anything out here, it stands on its own. In answer to the Rambo comment, the blond boy vampire Anita saved from getting punched last chapter says that, no, Anita is the Executioner. Stevens says that "They're all Executioners" Now, normally everyone has heard far and wide of Anita, so the only reason Stevens here would be presented as ignorant of her badass nickname is so...you guessed, it, yup, so that it can be explained to him by everyone else just how badass she is and how it got her that nickname!
Blond Vamp explains that Anita is one of the few vampire hunters that the vampire community has given nicknames/titles to, and of course "she was the Executioner, years before the rest." ANITA: BEST *AND* FIRST AT EVERYTHING! "We only give names to the ones that we fear. She is the Executioner, and along with three others she makes up the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Anita points out that none of the horseman are called that, and he says "You are the only one with two earned names." OH, OF FUCKING COURSE SHE IS. OF COURSE. Anita, ever modest, says "Let me guess, I'm Death" even though I think we all know that THAT NAME HAS LONG BEEN TAKEN and so does she. Blond Vamp says nope, she's War. Anita asks why, he says "Because you've killed more of us than Death."
...but...that doesn't make sense. Whether you die of war, famine, or pestilence, you are still dying, you are still ultimately taken by Death, so Death should be the name for the one that kills the most, not War. OH WAIT, SENSE IN AN AB NOVEL? SILLY ME! PERISH THE THOUGHT!
Anita then figures to herself that Death is probably Edward. You're a fuckin' genius, Anita. Another vampire asks why Anita hasn't killed them yet. Anita tells us this vampire "looked more like someone's youngish grandma than a vampire" lest we forget being a vampire and being out of your thirties are somehow mutually exclusive...Anita, surely you couldn't forget Seraphina, given how she fucked with you and your mommy issues so bad? Anita says she hasn't killed them because she didn't have to (I bet it's more because cops who might actually *care* about the law are watching) and the blond boy vamp says the other officers want her to and Anita says they haven't fed so they didn't kill the officers (I believe I've mentioned last spork why this is not necessarily the case) and Blond says that since they watched it done they're therefore as guilty as the perpetrators under the law. Anita asks if he *wants* her to shoot him, he nods, Anita asks why, he shrugs and drops his gaze but "the grandma" says Anita and her master are both evil. Well, I agree! Poor boy is probably expecting to be raped and enslaved and would prefer death.
Anita retorts that she's not the one who killed a man that was trying to stop a teen girl from being turned against her will. Granny Vamp looks hesitant for a moment, then says the girl wanted to be turned. Anita says that the girl changed her mind. How does she know that? Because the woman hesitated? Of course, Anita is right, because Granny argues that "There was no going back" and Anita says that's what date rapists say, the Granny Vamp looks shocked and is offended Anita would "compare us to that" and Anita says that "Forcing someone to be a vampire against their will is rape and murder all rolled into one" and I don't really know how I feel about that. Blond Vamp says Anita really believes that, Anita says yes, and he says "And yet, you cohabitate with the master vampire of this city." My first instinct would be to say that I don't see why those things cancel each other out, since being a vampire doesn't mean JC turns anyone against their will. It's like if she just said date rape was wrong and someone was like but you live with a man, it doesn't make sense. But then I thought, wait, maybe is he implying/saying JC has forcibly turned people? Given how he manipulated Anita into the vampire marks, it would not surprise me. Anita, however, just says he must be older than he looks to be using words like "cohabitate" and he asks if she can't tell his age, she says he's "Twenty years dead, that's why the eighties haircut." Yeah, people were totally saying "cohabitate" to everybody in the 80s, and no one ever uses the term now *sarcasm*
Now that hair has been brought up, the kid has a chance to tell her that "I don't have enough power to grow my hair long after death like the vampires closest to you. Your master steals energy from me, from all of us, and uses it to heal his people, and grow his long, black curls out for you." Okay, see, LKH, if you want this bunch to be angry rebels who are making scathing remarks about JC using his abilities for frivolity at the expense of others...you probably shouldn't have him include the "heal his people" bit, because that's not what this character would probably say or be thinking about. It comes off as the author just wanting everyone to note how great the good guys are even while talking smack about them...which is exactly what it most likely is, unless he's a particularly fair-minded "well, he does some good stuff too I guess" sort of milquetoast even-headed rebel, which could be interesting. But if he's supposed to be a total anti-JC zealot making an impassioned accusation, it really doesn't work. We'll have to see.
Anita thinks how she knew that "Jean-Claude took power from his followers, and gave power to them, but I hadn't thought how that exchange of power might affect the other side of the equation." Anita has had HOW many years now of living at the Circus and having a hand in vampire politics? And she never considered this or learned of it? If it were anyone else, I'd think JC must have been deliberately hiding the issue from her, but Anita is the sort I think anything could get by as long as it doesn't have long hair and a giant schlong. Especially since this is something that only affects the little people of the vampire community, not her top-tier boyfriends like Jean-Claude and Asher. "Did Jean-Claude steal power from them just to grow his hair long for me, when they could have used it to heal their wounds, grow their own hair?" It is so, so hilarious to me how she puts growing hair out on the same level as HEALING WOUNDS THAT WILL OTHERWISE POSSIBLY LAST AN ETERNITY.
Blond Vamp guesses that Anita didn't know, but Granny Vamp angrily proclaims that Anita does know, and "under the anger was a thread of fear like a hint of spice in a piece of cake." Yeah, having fear under anger is officially one of the ways to discredit and villainize someone in AB-world. Anita looks at her, and the woman becomes more afraid, and Anita wonders why. Uh, duh, they obviously know what you're capable of, hence why the boy was eager to take death before you could do worse to him. Zerbrowski returns and tells Anita that the bus is here to move the prisoners. Anita nods and thinks that she has made a "rookie mistake. I'd let the bad guys talk me into doubting people I trusted." You know, this could be a good line to show how blind Anita's faith in the very-undeserving Jean-Claude had become, setting this up as the novel that will reveal that he's just been using and manipulating her all along like in the beginning. Oh, if only! "They say if you listen to the devil he won't lie, but he won't exactly tell the truth either." I guess she missed the bit where one of the devil's many titles is THE FATHER OF LIES?! She decides to ask JC just in case when she gets home. Wow, that is just precious.
Anita tells the prisoners that if they try to escape, they'll be shot. Blond vamp says that's cuz of the PEA, aka "lethal force against vampires without a warrant is permitted to save human lives" aka LKH's apparent obsession for this book. Anita says yes, plus the fact that they're still technically suspect in the deaths of the two officers and "vampires suspected of murder can be killed if they try to escape" and Blond says "If we were people, it wouldn't work like that" and she says it might with two cops dead and he says not legally. I just think it's sad that he apparently doesn't think of himself and his fellows as people. As with previous novels, LKH has clearly not thought about the fact that "people" and "human" mean different things in a world that has therians, vampires, fairies, and merfolk, and the result of this lack of thought has made for a lot of Unfortunate Implications, as well as counting as a World-Building Fail in my opinion.
Anita "helped him to his feet hard enough that he stumbled and I had to catch him." That sounds less like helping and more like tossing him around to be a bully because you can. He whispers to her that "You're as strong as we are, and I felt you feed on the other officer. You're not human either." Well, I think he should blow the whistle on her! She shoves him, and because he's wearing shackles he nearly falls and she "had to catch him again. No one else in the room could have moved fast enough to catch him with barely a pause between the push, the start of the fall, and the catch--no human in the room." Unless you pushed him like five feet or more away, I don't see why not. Blond Vamp is like lol see and Anita "got him shuffling along with the others" and thinks that his remarks got on her nerves because "I believed what he just said" and that "I was one of the monsters" but instead of citing, say, her panwere status or vampire abilities as reason for why she's a monster, she brings up her ability to raise the dead.
Um, what?
She just said only a chapter or so ago that her necromancy was a psychic ability. She didn't think that "supernormal" Smith was a monster, so why is she? And even if necromancy is viewed by Anita and/or people in general as somehow different/worse than other psychic abilities (which I could see, since making dead bodies get up and walk around is a lot darker and ickier than just moving objects with your mind or having premonitions) and does classify her as "one of the monsters" along with therians and vampires...so what? She's clearly viewing it as a bad thing, but she's said repeatedly that she sees the monsters as people like anyone else, some of her best friends are vampires, etc., so why should it bother her to be in the same category as they are? It's true that shame and guilt are not always things that make sense, but this is too nonsensical. Either she sees monsters as people like everyone else, or it's something to feel shame and grossness and angst for. You can't have it both ways. About the closest you could get is to have it be like, say, someone who is in the closet because they have just the right amount of internalized homophobia where they're consciously (though perhaps not subconsciously) okay with OTHER people being gay but god forbid they be like that themselves, ew! Of course, that would mean that Anita isn't as accepting of the monsters as she consciously thinks and proclaims that she is, so that won't be the case, I'm sure. It's just another case of Anita having her Mary Sue angst cake and eating it too, no matter how little sense it makes or what implications it has.
I mean, she's right that she's a monster, just not the kind she's referring to or that's being discussed here. Which goes back to the point I've made repeatedly in the past: IN A WORLD LIKE THIS, THE WORD "MONSTER" CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE USED TO DESIGNATE BOTH "NON-HUMAN PEOPLE" AND "ABHORRENT MORALITY/ACTIONS"
A girl stumbles in her shackles, Anita grabs her to steady her, the girl freaks out when she sees it's Anita, and Anita holds on to her for just an extra moment because "I could taste her fear the way I could taste it on a shapeshifter or a human. Anything that's afraid of you is food." That is so dumb. Remember how she saw Julia as food because she was afraid? What tiger sees another tiger as food? Anita lets go of the girl and she falls the floor. The other vampires try to help her but can't because of their own cuffs and shackles, so Zerbrowski does. Man, this is all just sad. "The vampires watched me and even behind the sullenness, the anger, there was fear." Yeah, yeah, people being afraid makes them bad or deserving of abuse and violence or whatever the argument is here, we get it. "What do the monsters fear? Other monsters, of course." Yeah, there's nothing else vampires would fear...silver, holy objects, sunlight, the fact they can be executed for the most minor of infractions and it doesn't actually take another monster to do that. Not to mention I bet many keep personal fears such as loneliness and rejection, as well as phobias like being afraid of dogs and bugs even though as vampires they're not in danger from maulings or poison anymore (since, well, phobias are be definition irrational)
Right on cue, Granny Vamp calls Anita a monster, Anita retorts that "That's Marshal Monster to you, Grandma" and Zerbrowski asks why he doesn't have cool nicknames and Anita tells him no one is afraid of him. Zerbrowski jokes how he can't compete wit how badass she is, Anita says that's what his wife says, Smith ooohs according, Zerbrowski grins that "I don't have a problem with you being the better man, Anita; I never have." UGH GONNA PUKE. "If I hadn't been armed to the teeth, surrounded by murderous vampires" yes, we've seen how ~murderous~ they are oh wait they're utterly not "in view of way too many other cops, I'd have hugged Zerbrowski." BEING CALLED A ~MAN~ MEANS THAT MUCH TO HER. She thanks him and "tried to show him in my eyes how much it had meant to me, that guy moment where you can't actually say how many emotions you've got running through your brain" and Zerbrowksi gives her a "gentle" and "tender" smile "and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod--with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy."
OH I GIVE THE FUCK UP WITH THIS SHIT
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Date: 2013-12-13 12:29 am (UTC)Later retconned in Affliction as meaning that Death kills people up close and personal, whereas War slaughters indiscriminately. Which does say something about Anita's murderous reputation.
/"Did Jean-Claude steal power from them just to grow his hair long for me, when they could have used it to heal their wounds, grow their own hair?" It is so, so hilarious to me how she puts growing hair out on the same level as HEALING WOUNDS THAT WILL OTHERWISE POSSIBLY LAST AN ETERNITY./
I honestly have to wonder if she originally put "Did Jean-Claude steal power from them just to grow his hair long for me, when they could have used it to grow their own hair?" as that sentence, then realized it needed SLIGHTLY more gravitas in order to be taken seriously.
/ I just think it's sad that he apparently doesn't think of himself and his fellows as people./
They aren't, in this world. He's just unusually aware of the meta aspects of the universe.
/ BEING CALLED A ~MAN~ MEANS THAT MUCH TO HER./
This is like an exaggerated trans!fic on AO3, only with teary emotional moments replaced by rank misogyny, sociopathy, and stupidity. And tweeness. Can't forget the tweeness.
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Date: 2013-12-13 01:12 am (UTC)Buuuuutttt... famine and pestilence slaughter even more indiscriminately. War is the most ordered killing, among the three. LKH is nonsensical.
And tweeness. Can't forget the tweeness.
Sometimes I think that the tweeness is the worst, for me personally anyway. Blood and rape and slaughter and mind control and I love you bestest and hand-holding and FUCKING "SWEETIES" HULK SMASH NOW.
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Date: 2013-12-13 02:14 am (UTC)LKH's vore fetish is showing.
The tweeness is worst for the writing. I could almost appreciate Anitaverse as a study in sociopathy and narcissism if not for the AWFUL writing. And the pet phrases are tolerable compared to all the damnable smug cutesyness.
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Date: 2013-12-13 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-13 04:31 am (UTC)She looked sullen. ‘Yeah, I know she has two pet names.'
‘I don't,' Jonas said. ‘Enlighten me.'
We both looked at Hatfield. She glared at both of us, then finally back at Jonas. ‘Forrester is Death and Blake is War.'
‘Who are the other two Horsemen?'
‘Otto Jeffries is Pestilence, and Bernardo Spotted-Horse is Hunger.'
‘I've met Spotted-Horse and I know Jeffries by reputation; they're both ex-military, and so are you, right, Forrester?'
‘Yes, sir.'
‘Then why is Blake "War"? She's never been military.'
‘She has a higher kill count than I do,' Edward said, ‘and the vampires see Death as a one-on-one killer, whereas War kills a lot all at one time.'
‘You asked the vampires,' Jonas said.
‘I did.'
‘But why not Jeffries, or Spotted-Horse?'
‘You've met Bernardo, right?' I asked.
‘I've met him, too,' Hatfield said. ‘He didn't seem that scary.'
‘He's Hunger,' Edward said.
‘I don't get it,' Hatfield said.
‘The vampires said Bernardo looks good enough to eat, but no one's ever tasted him, so he leaves them hungry.'
She frowned.
Jonas seemed to think about it, and then he grinned wide and happy. He laughed. ‘He's tasty like food, I get it.'
‘Dangerous food,' Edward said. ‘He has the fifth highest kill count of any marshal.'
(Note: I have a legitimate iBooks copy. However, I don't have my iPad right now, so here's a link (http://www.rulit.net/books/affliction-read-296852-80.html) to where I got this so you can check out some of the Affliction text yourself. Needs to be read to be believed!)
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Date: 2013-12-13 08:03 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD
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