Llama Day 20- Video

[acapriciousthing]

For those of you who were busy during Della's get to know you session, I'm Death. Not a god thereof, just... Death.

Apparently it's not always common but life also falls under my domain. And Entrapta tells me there are a surprising number of people with soul location issues.

I might be able to help, if you're willing to talk to me about it. I'll be in the rock garden if you want to talk about it.

[Feel free to action on over to the gardens to discuss the matter in a less public venue]

Comments

[killer_rhythm]

[Haneul had kind of figured. Not that nothing affects her, but her perspective is vastly different for a variety of reasons.]

You've seen a lot more than most of us have, probably.

[acapriciousthing]

Probably.

[So far not even the other death associated type seemed to quite look at things her way]

It means I'm in better shape to help.

[killer_rhythm]

There's that.

[Though he wonders who helps her on those occasions where she does need it.]

[acapriciousthing]

It's... well, nice isn't the word. But it's different, helping people with something other than the usual.

[killer_rhythm]

Does "the usual" get wearing sometimes?

[acapriciousthing]

I get to meet new people all the time. I could never get tired of that.

[She's a people personification.]

[killer_rhythm]

Even when they're newly dead and freaked out?

[He pauses.]

Though that's when they'd need you the most, so you being tired of it wouldn't be good, especially if they picked up on that.

[So yeah, stupid question.]

[acapriciousthing]

That's when I usually see people.

[Not at their best, but that's okay]

It took longer than it should have to realize what people need most then is a friendly face.

[killer_rhythm]

Yeah, that was kind of a stupid question on my part.

[He can admit it.]

You had to learn that.

[Which makes a lot of sense, and also makes him wonder how much else she and her siblings had to learn about their roles.

And then he's quiet for a moment.]

There are ghosts back home. Most humans can't see them, and spirits don't generally care for them, and they're often desperate for some kind of contact, to the point where they'll approach any human who might be able to see them. Problem being that the humans they approach are generally not remotely prepared for it, especially when their appearances... make it really obvious how they died.

[acapriciousthing]

I could do the job just fine without learning it, but it's better for everyone that I did.

[Technically she was still good at her job, in that everyone wound up where they needed to be. It was just less pleasant for all involved.]

That... could definitely be unsettling for the average mortal. Has it been going on long enough that anyone has started to be ready for it?

[killer_rhythm]

Yeah...

I honestly don't know. When I first started seeing them, there was nobody around I could tell. I started getting used to it eventually, but it took a long time.

[Granted, he'd been about five years old at the time, but still.]

[acapriciousthing]

So now real option for sending all the spirits the way of the people who are used to them.

[It was worth a shot]

[killer_rhythm]

The spirits are their own thing. They have their own realm that they can go back and forth between, and most of the ones in the human realm don't really interact with humans unless they have a reason for it, even if that reason is "screw around with the spirit-blind." They don't tend to take being seen by humans all that well unless they're making themselves seen deliberately.

[Ask him how he knows.]

But no, if there's a good way to send the ghosts to people used to them, or to send them on, I don't know about it. Then again, I wouldn't.

[acapriciousthing]

So no option to really ease their way, you have to let them muddle along.

[It would be simpler, but simple doesn't always happen]

[killer_rhythm]

As far as I know, yeah. I don't really know what causes a ghost to move on, or even if they do. There was a ghost in the old dance studio I taught in back in New York who seemed to hate all the living people, or at least found us actively annoying - I think he mostly stuck around out of spite. On the other hand, there's a little girl ghost in the dance studio I currently teach at - or taught at, before this - who used to have some nasty ghost tantrums until I started giving her dance lessons after hours. She hasn't shown any signs of wanting to move on either, but she also... died very young.

[And then there's a long pause, as something else occurs to him.]

Is time still moving, back home? Or do they just stick us back where they took us from when they decide to send us back?

[Assuming they're actually going back.]

[acapriciousthing]

That sounds like there's something to be done at least.

[Ghosting about and not causing trouble is a form of peace, in the end]

That's a question for people who have been here longer than me. I'm so completely cut off from the rest of me that I can't tell.