voice;

[amoray]

So what are you gonna do when they outlaw all that superheroin' nonsense you all lowe so damn much?

[to his credit, he's trying to sound grave. (it isn't working.)]

We take this - and we're goin' to, since we got such big pushers for mustard-bellied diplomacy in charge around here - they ain't gonna be satisfied 'til they got us all on leashes. And at the first signs a dissent, they're gonna hang us by 'em. I sure hope you lot can handle the usage a our powers bein' a criminal offense, since that's the next thing to go. A Wulcanus gun in ewery Natiwe hand and a trackin' chip in ewery filthy imPort, right?

[a theatrical pause. contrary to his usual habit of getting worked up in his tirades, eridan's been very calm (albeit smug in his "my unreasonable paranoia was entirely justified" kind of way) but no less intense throughout.]

We start goin quietly into that good fuckin' nocturnal phase and we aint newer gonna stop.

Comments

[voice]

[superspeeds]

Yes, well. I'm afraid the latter half of that statement isn't exclusive to humans. Mutants are just as capable of ignoring their survival instincts due to some highhanded and extremely unnecessary moral agenda.

[voice]

[amoray]

A course. You get that with trolls too, ewen; mostly in the worthless colors, a course, but it happens.

I guess I just kinda mean the culture around here in general, compared to where I come from. How ewerybody can just fuckin' lie down and take this kinda abuse without guttin' the people who done it to 'em is way the fuck beyond me.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

Worthless colors?

Fear of the law, or other sorts of retribution, I imagine.

[voice]

[amoray]

Hemospectrum. Blood colors are kinda what my society ran on, back when people gawe a shit about it. You start with reds and browns and yellows - the garbage colors - and work your way up to the blues and purples, where all a us royalty are.

It ain't a bad system, really.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

Apart from where it implies that some biological predisposition makes one person better than another and thus, more worthy of societal acceptance?

No, I suppose it isn't.

[voice]

[amoray]

Hey, we let 'em liwe. They die off way sooner than us highbloods do anyway; they ain't exactly sufferin' or nothin'.

[WHICH EXCUSES EVERYTHING ELSE.]

[voice]

[superspeeds]

How generous of you to afford them their existence.

[voice]

[amoray]

Well, not me personally. I was kinda marchin' to the beat of a different drum, if you get my meanin', but the idea's the same.

["i was a genocidal maniac"]

[voice]

[superspeeds]

I'm certain that you were a progressive for your people.

[voice]

[amoray]

I was. In fact, I toiled for sweeps on methods for betterin' the Alternian race as a whole.

Nobody fuckin' appreciated 'em, but that don't change the fact that I worked at it.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

Let racism and unreasonable hatred truly never go unappreciated. However shall your people hope to make it up to you.

[voice]

[amoray]

Considerin' they either hate me or they murdered the fuck outta me, they got a tall order to fill.

I should know. Hope is basically my domain and all.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

If that's a fact, I hope whatever gods you believe in have mercy on your people.

[voice]

[amoray]

We had Death and his foxy handmaid, sowin' discord and hate across the Alternian timeline.

If that giwes you any sorta idea.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

It does, actually. Although that comment was intended to be facetious.

[voice]

[amoray]

...Oh.

[UGH HUMAN SARCASM]

Well, there you go anyhow. We don't got any a that fuckin' religion horseshit to distract us from our duties back where I come from. Came from, whatewer.

[well they have troll jesus and juggalo cults but we don't talk about those]

[voice]

[superspeeds]

How fortunate. Though it's almost as though you believe that religion has never been the direct cause of a genocide.

[voice]

[amoray]

A course not. We had some... upstarts ower our long and celebrated history, naturally. Couple cults. Nothin' a note.

Basically, all that shit just distracts folk from their duties to the Empress. It ain't a necessary thing.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

And your Empress has yet to see the merit in creating a religion in her honor. Well, that is, at least, original.