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[offinventory]

I had a thankfully dull moment earlier today passing ways with a fictional ghost—the Headless Horseman. Nothing else happened. However, I am not accustomed to seeing fictional characters, even ghosts, walking around Trench.

1. How normal is this experience?


2. Have you seen any other ghosts—fictional? From home?


3. If you have an experience as the month goes on, I would appreciate knowing.

The Entertainment Feed is going to screen two movies related to The Headless Horseman tonight. It is thematic to the month and solid entertainment. It may also serve as education and preparation should you be unable to avoid a violent altercation.

The plan will be to do the same for any such ghosts people see that are in available media.

Comments

[offinventory]

Gurathin is a person's name. He's an asshole I know.
He's not in the drama.

[tealeafs]

you know someone who is a bad person
?

[ Look, Chizuru is not going to repeat the word 'asshole.' She's too polite for it. ]

is he a bad person who harasses you

[offinventory]

He's an asshole, but he's not a bad person. Those aren't synonymous.
He frequently annoys me, but he's part of the team.

[tealeafs]

how can someone not be both of those things
i do not think i have ever thought of anyone in such a way who was not a bad person

[ Granted - the answer to that question is mostly just 'because Chizuru is too nice, and wouldn't truly judge someone unless they were absolutely the most awful person alive.'

But it's not like she's self-aware enough to realise that. ]

also i think annoying you is not something good people would do
you are far too kind for anyone to do that to you

[offinventory]

[ Murderbot stares off into the distance as it runs over the message in the feed over and over and over again. ]

We may have different definitions. That's the best I can think of here.

[ Among other things, it's an asshole. It knows that and is fine with that. ]

People annoy each other all the time on accident. There's no level of kind that protects you from people being jerks or assholes or whatever else.

[tealeafs]

forgive me
let me alter that

i do not mean to say that being kind will absolutely protect you from it
i suppose what i am trying to say is more something along the lines of

[ A pause, as the indication that Chizuru is writing keeps blinking. Apparently she wants to get this just right before sending it over, not wanting the other to think she is dumb.

Even if Chizuru feels a little dumb. ]

people should not be jerks to nice people
i know they will be regardless
but nice people deserve better than that
i wish better for you than for people to be mean to you when you are so kind and caring
i guess what is what i am trying to say

[offinventory]

That's a nice thought. I appreciate it. However, sometimes people cannot be nice or kind even when they care because they've been through shit. They don't deserve people being jerks just because they've been through too much.

It's more complicated than that, is what I'm saying.

[tealeafs]

alright

[ Does Chizuru feel like she understands it any better?

Definitely not. But she's also not the type to disagree with someone too hard unless it's super important, so there's no way she'll push it here. Instead, after a moment, she just adds: ]

i will try to think about it

[ Like this is some lesson she's learning at school and has some homework to do now... ]

[offinventory]

Thanks. Maybe we can find some shows together that explore this idea. Then we'll both have more to think about.

[ Murderbot doesn't expect to change its opinion, but this feels like a 'nicer' way of putting on it. ]