capeandcowl | 018 ♍ video ♍ backdated to this afternoon

[ feed cuts on to kanaya sitting at a desk in her room. her eyes are closed and lips pursed with her thumb and forefinger pinched above them, not parting very widely when she speaks, as if she's under some discomfort.

toothaches are awful. growing your fangs back in over the course of a day is worse. ]

This is likely already common knowledge to any who are familiar with him, but at this point I think it would be safe to conclude that Ron Weasley has returned home. To any who were closely acquainted with him, you have my condolences.

[ she winces and reaches offscreen to grab a glass of water, hands over her mouth as she holds a gulp over her front teeth a few moments before swallowing. why did she have to do this now? this was a mistake, she should have known better. ] Excuse me. [ she pulls her purse onto her lap and starts digging around in it for a bottle of painkillers. ]

So, unfortunately, this renders mine the primary income to a household of six, which may necessitate an expansion of that. This season does tend to create a greater need with the increases in consumption that the holidays bring with them, so I may have a fair amount of options that won't use my age as an obstacle. Assuming I can balance my schedule between that and my education...or maybe I'll simply need to drop that one.

[ she finally finds the pills and drops two in her hand. ] Of course, if any of you require an augmentation to your wardrobe for season functions, my services are always available for an appropriate fee.

[ the video ends as she pops some advil. ]

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Haha...they're probably not important!

But I bet you think they are. That sort of attitude is so dumb.

It is the better practice of prudence to recognize the interactions of the world around you and ways you might affect it. Remaining ignorant will only worse consequences.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that you wouldn't think so, of course.

Worse consequences...? That's what you think. I get by fine like this! Better than fine. So long as I've got my powers.

Until someone with powers that trump yours inevitably comes along. That's the problem with living only by your might, there will always be another who's mightier.

You're wrong. I'll just have to try harder to be better than them, and never stop trying. Otherwise I'd be weak, and what's the point of that?

Ugh, I can't even talk to people like you!

Or you could interact with society in a way that isn't entirely dysfunctional. That is an option on the table still, no one has even threatened to remove it!

But does it really qualify as weakness when the reasonable and sustainable solution is often the more difficult one to continue successfully? When you have power, there is no effort in unleashing it, exercising it to whatever end you may desire. It is restraint that presents a true challenge.

I don't get it.

You're probably not weak, but you say things like that...!

You misunderstand because you're wrong. I am weak, and I do still have to fight to overcome those impulses. But I am at least devoting the effort into controlling them, to not letting force be my first method of response.

So.

You'd steal the money if you just let yourself. That's how it is.

You're forgetting the part where I would have to also be stupid to an astounding degree.

I was speaking more generally to the idea that a modicum of power gives one full indulgence to dominate those without it, to abuse that power at any opportunity.

[ Okay, give her a few minutes to parse those words. "Modicum"? Really? Come on! ]

I get it. You're still clinging to some idea about how things go on in this world other than the strong eating up the weak.

It's your loss!

What I'm clinging to is an inclination to not allow them to eat them up. And personally, I'm not particularly hungry.

Huh! I guess we should be enemies.

I'm not convinced that would be worth it. You could always decide against being so cartoonishly villainous instead.

I'm no cartoon, but I won't be a loser like you.

Of course, why aspire to mine when you can cultivate your own variety!

I don't cultivate nothing. That's growing things, right? Making stuff grow...sappy things like that, I couldn't take it. I pull things out by the roots!

If you consider entropy its own manner of development, then it may be no different. It simply means that instead of growing in your faults, you allow your endowments to corrode.

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