ϡ - Appointments Post

[folklorist]

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Helios anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

When replying to this post please mark in the subject line when and how it is taking place EX:
[Action, March 11th]
[Voice, September 8th]
[Written, June 10th]

Comments

[Action]

[folklorist]

No it certainly is not. [ And he hates them for it sometimes. ]

You don't have...a soul? [ Helios' eyes widen at that prospect. He might look away from Robert and down at his own hands. No soul would mean no more pain, no more feeling of this horribly overbearing weight on his shoulders that threatens to consume him at times. It would mean no more cold skin, and the ability to lov-no he can't think like that. Helios will shake his head eyes closing for a few brief moments. Thoughtfully: ]

No soul...

[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

Not as far as I would know... [Robert gnaws his lip gently at Helios' reaction. It seems, for all intents and purposes, negative to Robert, and he obviously doesn't know what that makes Helios feel about his own.

All he knows is that Helios looked away from him when he said that.]

...

I-Is that bad? I mean... it's nothing I can help, I don't think...

[A wary frown flicks across Robert's face. Don't go all Mike on him, Helios.]

[Action]

[folklorist]

Oh! Heaven's no, Robert! It's just...many cultures and beliefs generally view soulless things as being well...not normal I suppose. [ More like evil, or dead. ]

But that's not the point. The point is that your worldly mechanics differ from others and people will just have to acknowledge that. It might take some time, as does most coming to terms with things, but...I do wonder what it would feel like without one. It must feel very...freeing.

[ Helios will purse his lips not saying much after that. The silence will blanket the two of them until one of them decides to talk again. ]

[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

[Helios won't have to wait long.

Robert raises an eyebrow a bit.]

... Freeing?

I have... never felt what it was like to have a soul, so it is simply the usual state of affairs... ... are they burdensome, then, in your world?

[Robert has no idea what kind of nerve he's hitting.]

[Action]

[folklorist]

Ah-well I didn't...that came out wrong. [ Because he's feeling guilt for even thinking that let alone saying it.

That does strike something in Helios and Robert can see by his all too blatant wince. ] N-No, not burdensome. Not at all it's just...the mechanics of things in my world make them-make them tricky t-to handle. [ To have in all honesty. ]

[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

Oh? Is there any particular reason for that? [Robert's questioning is gentle; it isn't meant to hurt Helios, and though he sees that wince, he doesn't compute what it means.]

...

[Though, it does make him murmur awkwardly, after the pause:] B-But you don't need to answer this. Just... I'm curious. It is something outside of my... jurisdiction, so to speak.