{Video | Crescent Moon}

[prince_of_the_moon]

Type: Video
Sender ID: crescentmoon (Sesshomaru)
To: Public
Subject: Answers. He seeks them.
Warnings: Sesshomaru being a grump.

{Silver hair flies in the wind and soft white fur is gently ruffled against a pale cheek. Sesshomaru is quite a striking presence wherever he goes, bearing the signs of his good breeding in the form of two crimson stripes on his cheeks and a purple crescent moon on his forehead. His ears taper into delicate points, too, and his eyes are the color of rich amber. When he speaks, he is accustomed to being listened to and obeyed.

Thus his first appearance on the network is dramatic, yet brief.}

Speak.

{His low voice brooks no argument and his expression is cold. He is difficult to read in the best of circumstances and his current predicament doesn't necessarily signify anything good.}

I am Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands. What have you discovered about this world and the rifts?

Comments

[telepathicignorance]

Bit over six months. Other people have been here longer though. Not sure what the limit is.

[prince_of_the_moon]

Are you certain there is a limit?

[telepathicignorance]

I haven't met anyone who has been here for longer than a year or two. But that could just mean that everyone who was here longer died.

(They hope that there's a limit.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Your optimism is overwhelming.

{Dry sarcasm isn't something he gets to enjoy usually.}

[telepathicignorance]

Someone's gotta look on the bright side.

(Certain individuals are too naively positive, they need Sidestep to consider the possible bad outcomes.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

I prefer honesty. Forget optimism or pessimism; they are a waste of time.

[telepathicignorance]

It's better to be overprepared for a bad outcome that doesn't happen than hoping for a good outcome that doesn't.

[prince_of_the_moon]

Is that your defense for pessimism?

[telepathicignorance]

You gonna tell me I'm wrong?

[prince_of_the_moon]

You are wasting your time. Look at what is before you and rectify what you can.

[telepathicignorance]

Not everything can be fixed after the fact.

(Their death. The deaths of their friends. If it's a risk, they want to try and prevent it.

And no amount of freedom is gonna undo what happened at the farm.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Excuses. {Find a way.}

[telepathicignorance]

I'm not changing.

(Not because some guy they just met says they're being stupid.

They've earned the right to be stupid anyway.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

Failure is common. {And Sesshomaru is just...bitchy. Sometimes. Apologies.}

[telepathicignorance]

Not sure if I'd count 'repeatedly outsmarting other people' as failure, but sure.

(If they failed, it was from a lack of preparedness, not being too prepared.)

(...Sidestep your friends didn't know you needed saving because you hid the truth from them out of fear.)

(But they're not admitting that.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

People are foolish. {He is unimpressed. Outsmarting men is easy to do in his experience.}

[telepathicignorance]

Doesn't change that I'm winning.

(Sorry Sesshomaru.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

For now.

[telepathicignorance]

That a challenge?

(Chris, no.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

It is a fact.

[telepathicignorance]

Sure, whatever.

(Chris is, unfortunately, an irreverent little ass.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

You will learn or die trying.

[telepathicignorance]

Been there, done that.

(Where do you think they picked up the paranoia and pessimism? It's all personal experience.

Personal experience they died for.)

[prince_of_the_moon]

And yet nothing was learned.

{Shaaaaame.}

[telepathicignorance]

For you, maybe.

(They learned a lot. Clearly, it's Sesshomaru who needs to experience just how bad things can get.)