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[escardos]

it's almost christmas! how does it feel to be approaching the holidays when nightfall is approaching so quickly? make sure to spend your time wisely, because you might not be here next year you might be three meters underground!

juuuuuuust kidding! but it's a fun thought, isn't it? people celebrating and putting their holiday lights up, almost as if trying to make us unaware of what is coming. they might as well be trying to brainwash us, huh?

i really hope i can buy some new video games-- what are you guys planning?

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[hawkwardness]

Might as well.

So did you really mean what you wrote or are you just trying to wind people up?

[escardos]

Uwah--!!

[ flat doesn't see the forehead flick incoming, yelping more in surprise than anything else. ow?!

however, that does seem to snap him out of whatever mood he was in. he rubs his forehead absentmindedly, listening on to the professor. he doesn't quite understand half of what moriarty's saying and while that usually wouldn't stop him, today it leaves him with a slightly bitter afterthought.

hm. ]

Hurting you isn't something I want to do. [ a pause. ] But I'd like to hear about it! What's your worst death so far?

[escardos]

yes

[escardos]

a happy reminder!

[hawkwardness]

Both. Okay.

Pretty harsh things to say about people enjoying their very last holiday, if you're assuming we're all doomed.

[escardos]

awww xmas with the family sounds good! hope youre not as grumpy with them as you are here! or did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

[escardos]

that sounds nice! everyone likes cookies. or maybe muffins? macarons are always tasty, but they seem hard to make...

[infestedcouncilpresident]

So youre an asshole. Got it

[escardos]

they always say that the truth is the hardest thing to hear! i'm just helping!

[escardos]

am i an asshole because i said smth that was obvious and no one wants to really acknowledge? or just because you and others say so?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Hurting me? My boy, I cannot feel much pain. In fact -

[He gets up and heads towards his room, coming back out with a hunting knife and a handkerchief - and as he sits down, he plunges the knife into his palm without hesitation, going all the way through.

He's bleeding - but he doesn't flinch, or show any outward signs of pain.]

I cannot feel this. See? You can move it around in the wound, if you'd like!

[MORIARTY, SHERLOCK CAN FEEL THAT. He places the handkerchief around the tip, catching the blood,, letting it just sit in his hand.]

My worst death....hm. I suppose the Bisection would be the worst? That one, I actually felt due to it cleaving through part of my spine. Horrible elevator 'accident', you see - I had to sneak out of the morgue once I'd returned, which became distressingly common as time went on.

[hawkwardness]

Good luck making any friends, you're going to need it.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

The first one

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Moriarty, your phone is going off]

[escardos]

Ah--

[ flat does tense up when moriarty takes the knife, plunging it into his hand like it's no big deal. part of him almost expects it to be a magic trick of sorts, but the blood is too real and moriarty doesn't seem to be showing any signs of deception.

not that flat would ever notice them. he's rather naive, despite his rocky childhood.

he takes the knife cutting through the hand, pulling it out with little remorse. ]

So you only feel pain in your spine? I guess since it's where so many nerves are bundled it would make sense... so if I were to cut off a finger, would it grow back? Or would the tissue reconnect itself after some time?

[ he takes a look at the knife itself, fingers touching the blood to test its consistency, scent, and appearance. it's definitely blood that's oozing out of that wound.

he hears the phone buzzing, but doesn't pay much attention to it. ]

And if I cut your head? Would you still be able to come back from that? Or would you be like the headless horseman from then on?

[escardos]

is that so?! i'm glad you're so worried!

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[when he takes it out, there's a faint scream from somewhere else on campus. Sorry, Sherlock.

With the undamaged hand, he picks up his phone and checks it - a text? - and shoots off a 'What' to the vampire while still focusing on Flat, not paying attention to whatever Sherlock wrote.]

Hm, well - You've read the books, so I assume you remember how I 'met my end', as it were? I bounced off a rock - and my spine was broken in two places. When the immortality took hold, it was repaired - but since the severing was so intense, it's continually regenerating.

[He laughs.]

I actually dragged myself out of the falls and then went mad with pain - It took 5 years for my mind to piece itself back together! But because of the pain, I simply can't feel anything that doesn't approach the level of agony I continually go through. It's amazing what the human mind can adapt to, isn't it?

[He says it so cheerfully that it's hard to imagine he's telling the truth, and yet...]

Anyway! Yes, I will regenerate cut off digits or limbs, though it takes time. For a finger, it's about a week or two - for an arm, around two to three months. Of course, if the limb or digit is still in one piece, it's much quicker and easier to merely hold it to the wound and allow it to reconnect itself.

[He holds up his hand, which is already beginning to show signs of knitting together under the blood.]

As for decapitation....hm. I'm not quite sure! I've never undergone it myself, but I would assume that I would be 'dead' for however long it took for a body to regrow, or to reconnect my head to my body again.

[escardos]

but how does that make me an asshole? if it's something that needs to be said, isn't it good to say it?

[infestedcouncilpresident]

It DOESNT need to be said! We all KNOW we might die! Were trying to not go insane thinking about it and you had to SHOVE it all in our fucking faces! So yes, youre an asshole

[shockingblue]

Yeah, go to the Outlands and deal with cosmic horror that would make Lovecraft feel ill and then we'll talk grumpy. It's been a long month.

[escardos]

So it’s not that you’re not in pain...but the pain that you’re in is so intense that everything else is eclipsed by it. Like a paper cut vs a broken femur!

[ flat nods as he takes in moriarty’s situation. whether fortunate or not, he doesn’t seem concerned about how this affects his new professor’s mental state. idly, he does wonder if moriarty would feel a broken femur— oh, but is that too much?

he looks at the still regenerating hand with interest, studying how the tissue regenerates. though it’s something he has seen on himself while practicing healing magic (he had to learn somehow, he thought) it’s surprising to see it on someone that doesn’t even flinch from the pain.

beyond that, however, there’s something that interests him even more. ]

Why did this happen to you, though? And what happened to Sherlock?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Indeed! It's exactly like that - I'm sure the signals of pain are still sent, but it's so inconsequential that I just don't receive it.

[He pushes his regenerating hand closer to flat, wiping away the blood where he can. It's fast - it's only been about 1-2 minutes, and it's already halfway closed - but there's the sense that it should be faster, somehow.]

Ah, why this happened? ...Well, it's funny you should ask that and also about Sherlock in the same breath....though I suppose I should keep some secrets for later, so let's table that for now.

[A wink - sorry, you have to be a level 3 student in order to access that backstory.]

Anyway, Holmes is still alive - or, well, existing. He's a Vampire now - and is at this school, though he goes by the name 'Arthur Bell' here.

[escardos]

i mean lovecraft made the monsters because anything that wasn't like him made him feel ill. he's basically just a prime example of how humans are with things that they don't understand.

[shockingblue]

We literally fought slimy squid-people with tentacles for faces and psychic powers that tried to eat peoples' brains, man.

Literary critique wasn't what I was going for with that statement.

[escardos]

[ hmph! flat looks somewhat miffed when moriarty keeps the answer from him. sure, sure, there's things that he hasn't told the professor either, but that doesn't make it fair--in his eyes at least.

having lost interest in the wound flat decides to heal the rest of it. it's done so in blink of an eye, while moriarty continues talking about sherlock--or arthur bell, as he now goes by. ]

A vampire! That's so unfortunate! [ flat says so with a laugh, almost as if making fun of the poor detective. ] I wonder if that has something to do with why you're like this. I know you won't tell me, but it's just so strange that I have to find out on my own! After all, you're so similar! You could totally pull off that 'good twin evil twin' trope with ease!