❝So hand me that remote❞

[guiltapalooza]

Characters: Willow (guiltapalooza) and you! OPEN.
Setting: The media level.
Format: Action tags preferably, but I can prose if you wish!
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?]

Comments

[verymuchalive]

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.

[guiltapalooza]

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

Okay, I think we were here?

[verymuchalive]

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]

[guiltapalooza]

[Willow giggles into her hand.]

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

[verymuchalive]

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

[guiltapalooza]

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

Violence in romance is considered abusive.

[verymuchalive]

[She frowns a little]

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

[guiltapalooza]

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.

[verymuchalive]

That's because you're not an inherently violent race, or so I've gathered. It's different for us. Particularly for the higherbloods, it's useful for them to have an outlet for the urges that a moirail can't keep in check.

[guiltapalooza]

I assumed that was the point of having a kismesis, yeah. I've heard of similar things in other species, I've just never... witnessed it before.

But I wanted you to know why humans might have a hard time accepting that. If I hadn't spent so much time researching demons and their ways, I'd think it was abuse, for sure.

[verymuchalive]

Oh no, I get it. I understand completely. I guess it's just...habit, I guess, to defend my culture. Even the parts that aren't so nice.