[OPEN] How much of it's genetics? How much of it is fate?

[chronomancer]

Characters: jade!Eridan & YOU! 
Setting: Workshop
Format: Starting with action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Eridan emerges from his self-imposed exile for a while to clean his rifles.
Warnings: Eridan's deadpan. Potential violence if he gets pissed; lots and lots of rifles. Gamzee. Gory, ironic death via Gamzee. Goddammit, Gamzee.

[He started off with one. And then he doomed himself a few times. And well. It wasn't like he could just let them go to waste, when they started piling up.

Laser rifles need a different type of maintenance than the usual kind, but it's still maintenance in the end.

So there's a sullen troll, half hidden behind a pile of guns, carefully cleaning one by one. It's a methodical and repetitive process, but it's not like Eridan seems to mind too terribly. He's just minding his business, but hey. Maybe if you ask very nicely, he'll give you one.

Maybe.]

Comments

[moonbound]

[Aya might! Y'all should sit down and talk sometime. Potential vampire angstbucket, actual vampire angstbucket, it'll be great.

...if your definition of 'great' is the exact opposite thereof, of course.]

I dunno, my top tens usually involve living-thing stuff. There's accepting shit that happens to you and then there's that, man.

[chronomancer]

[Them you add the bit about Eridan being a tool with a bias against anything 'undead' and then we've got fireworks in the making.]

A sense of humor is a good thing, in a place like this.

[S H R U G]

[moonbound]

[Oh boy. Lots of fireworks.]

If you say so. Haven't exactly been around long enough to know for myself.

[...still doesn't think that indicates a sense of humor so much as a sense of fatalism. If he could distinguish between them in that manner.]

[chronomancer]

I have.

[He sighs a little.]

You'll get used to it.

[moonbound]

Imagine so. Not exactly the first time my life's been turned upside down.

[You seem to be way more doom and gloom about it than Ken feels is good, though.]

Won't ask if it's really that bad, 'cause I can smell the bad on this place. Obviously it is.

[chronomancer]

Might be the first time it stays that way though, so be careful.

[Despite all the doom and gloom, the wish for wellbeing is actually sincere. Eridan dislikes it when people get hurt for no reason.]

It's all relative, they value a personalized experience apparently.