towerofanimus | ❝So hand me that remote❞

Characters: Willow (

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Summary: Willow has way more free time than she's used to, especially without school to be a perfectionist over. She finds herself watching a lot of movies. Feel free to make multi-character threads and join existing ones, by the way!
Warnings: None.

[At the moment Willow is watching Zombieland, a movie right up her alley but from several years past her time, so she'd never had a chance to see it before. She's sitting on a couch across from the TV, hand in a bowl of chips and giggling periodically.

On the screen, there's a college-aged boy with poofy, curly hair running hurriedly away from a zombie co-ed with a broken ankle.] You just can't trust anyone, [says the narration.] The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me.

[Goddess, does that remind her of Xander. For once it's a happy reminder, though, and she practically chokes on some chips laughing at it. Him and that preying mantis teacher...

Follow the sounds of giggling and come interrupt her?]

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We are old hats at apocalypting, so I guess I shouldn't be too worried.

--Oh, Anya is Xander's... [Wait.] She's his something. I don't actually know if they're dating right now or not. I guess in troll terms you could say that she's my moirail's ex-matesprit who used to be a vengeance demon, and then was a human, and now I think she's a vengeance demon again.

[And trolls kept telling her that human romance was simple. Sheesh, they'd clearly never been to Sunnydale.]

[Yeah, Aradia's going to just stare a little here. She gets the moirail's ex-matesprit, that's not the problem, it's the rest of that sentence]

What's a vengeance demon?

[Whoops, forgot for a second that Aradia wasn't used to Hellmouth-level shenanigans. It was a special kind of soap opera.]

It's someone that used to be human a long time ago, but got offered a job as an immortal demon to carry out vengeance wishes. So like, if I was wronged somehow and I wanted revenge, and I said "I wish he would blah blah blah", a vengeance demon that thought I was in the right would go carry it out.

It's a little, uh, graphic.

Oh. I guess it's probably a good job we don't have those. We get into enough trouble getting revenge on each other without getting demons involved.

[Most matter of fact delivery possible]

Well, humans aren't supposed to get revenge on each other. Perpetuating that much negativity does bad things to us, and it ends up kinda... twisted and not of the good.

So vengeance demons are morally ambiguous by human standards, because they help that along, but they also prevent them from doing it themselves in the first place.

Huh. Then perhaps they would have been useful after all. It's not as though the cycle of revenge we had led to much that could be considered good.

I'm not surprised. I didn't want to say anything, cause, I think it's a cultural thing? But I can't imagine anything good comes of revenge. However satisfying it is at the time.

Well, for something that started with Tavros being manipulated into jumping off a cliff, it ended up with one haunting, one half-blinding and lost limb, one full blinding and two deaths so I think it's fair to say there was plenty of bad. But then...I don't know. Terezi seems happy enough and Vriska's death led to her becoming God Tier so maybe there was some good.

What? [Horrified look.]

Maybe it's short-sighted of me, but I don't think the good makes up for the bad, there. Can't we just have-- good and no bad? Can't that ever happen?

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That would be nice, but I think the bad has to happen to make way for the good. Kind of like how Alternia had to be destroyed so we could make the new world.

... I guess. [She looks reluctant, though.]

I still prefer my way of doing things. I'm tired of having to go through all the, the death and mayhem in order to come out the other side. Sometimes I want to go on the tea cups instead of through the haunted house, you know?

[She shakes her head]

Not really, but I think I get it. Sometimes it would be nice for things to just be straightforward and less imminent death all the time. Which I guess is something for this place.

Yeah, we still have imminent death, but it's a lot less... imminent. Which, hey, I'll take and be happy with! Improvement by degrees is still improvement.

Back when I left the death was very imminent.

Oh, really? I'm not sure how imminent it was when I left...but this seems a lot more interesting than waiting around by the Green Sun.

It must be, because we have movies!

... Which we've been ignoring. Maybe I should rewind it, [she suggests sheepishly.]

[She shrugs]

Only if you want to. I really don't mind.

I think I want to see what happened to Columbus in zombie-infested America. It looks like he's found love, and we need context!

[Picking up the remote and rewinding~]

Oh, yes. We should definitely find out how that happened...I don't remember any screaming matches that didn't end in death so it must have been a red quadrant.

He doesn't seem like a black quadrant kind of guy, anyway, [she says jokingly.]

Okay, I think we were here?

You don't think so? I don't know, I think maybe he just hasn't found the right kismesis-to-be yet.

[But she turns back to pay attention to the screen]

[Willow giggles into her hand.]

You know we don't have kismesis, right? Like, at all. See how awkward he is?

Really? You don't even have something that's like it by another word?

Noooo. Hatesex sometimes, but that doesn't happen all that much.

Violence in romance is considered abusive.

[She frowns a little]

Well...yeah. That's kind of the point.

Humans don't need a violent outlet like that, [she presses.] Hurting someone else is a crime unless it's self-defense.

It's a complicated situation because there's so many countries on Earth, but most people go their whole lives without killing anyone.

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