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[ancient_prophecy]

I'm a bit worried my Signer's default mood lately is "Angry screeching noises".

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[memoryistime]

Is there.

Any way to really help that?

[ancient_prophecy]

I'm not sure, but I'm concerned it's going to end in her stabbing something or lighting fire to things.

[memoryistime]

That would be bad.

Do you know why she keeps getting into those moods?

[ancient_prophecy]

The guy below us.

And she's really gone off the rails to a degree since Eusebius flew off to myriad other realities.

[memoryistime]

Ah.

I dunno, maybe you should make sure she doesn't talk to him? If he keeps setting her off so harshly.

[ancient_prophecy]

That's her choice, impartiality, yadda yada yadda.

Also, I have no room to talk, since I was crazy for a good stretch.

[memoryistime]

I think it stops being her choice if she starts trying to kill someone though, you realize.

Murder doesn't really help anyone.

[ancient_prophecy]

Ah yes. Earth rule of law. Where we come from, you just roll a boulder at monkeys and their Minus Staffs and be done with it.

I suppose.

But what is she supposed to do.

[memoryistime]

I think the general lifespans of monsters is why attempting to kill someone is taken so casually if someone or something is being a problem. Humans don't generally live as long as most monsters do, so it becomes problematic when someone tries to kill another person.

Really, all I can think of is that she should cut off absolutely any contact with him. He only really ever seems to just make her fly into a rage-- be it because he deserves it, or because she has a Pavlovian response at this point towards him.

Though the stunting her emotional maturity thing probably doesn't help either, but I don't see how that would equate to wanting to kill someone.

[ancient_prophecy]

Yes. Especially when our life spans are eternal.

The problem is he and her run in the same line of work, so cutting off interaction might not be feasible.

... The farthest I can go before she can go to my realm is being emotionally a teenager.

Teenagers are bad at controlling their emotions.

[memoryistime]

... Maybe let her be a late teenager? It's still technically a teenager.

Just. Some emotional room there.

Though I still have to question more why her bad control of her emotions results in trying to kill someone. That seems like more of an issue with her and how she sees things than her emotional maturity... It's just not normal in any sense.

[ancient_prophecy]

Who said I wasn't.

But teenagers are a mess is my point, and more prone to fits of irrational rage.

Though, as I said.

She's been.

Really.

Cranky. Lately.

[memoryistime]

... Maybe she needs a vacation.

[ancient_prophecy]

There are no vacations from being a Signer.

The Crimson Dragon doesn't give me or her off days.

[memoryistime]

Sounds like an excuse to me.

She can do Signer work in another country. What's important is getting her out of this one, and away from the guy that's getting her angry.

[ancient_prophecy]

And do what.

[memoryistime]

Boy, I dunno. You and Red found plenty for us to do while Shinoko and I were in France, for instance.

I think you can find something to refocus Shinoko on instead of her complicated feelings towards wanting to inflict pain on someone.

[ancient_prophecy]

But I like it in Japan.

[memoryistime]

Then go to like, one of the tips of Japan. Do a tour of shrines outside of the general area here.

Just not around Domino for a while until Shinoko is a little less likely to destroy places and people.

[ancient_prophecy]

And if she doesn't cool down and Okinawa burns to the ground?

[memoryistime]

Either Okinawa burns down on a guess, or Domino burns down on a certainty at this rate.

[ancient_prophecy]

UGH.

You suck, fine. I'll kidnap her and take her on a trip.

[ogrewarrior]

...Lately? I think that's something she's been at for a while.

[ancient_prophecy]

Oh.

You.

[ogrewarrior]

My reputation precedes me, then. That makes it easier.

I'm trying to talk things out amicably with her but she also keeps trying to kill me.

[ancient_prophecy]

Have you considered there's a reason. Besides the possibility she's insane.

[ogrewarrior]

I mean, probably me since my last disappearing act. Shitty, yes. Worth trying to kill me? No.

[ancient_prophecy]

I'm not sure trying to eliminate you isn't a good answer.

You do seem fairly obnoxious at times, and that you do deserve what she's throwing at you.

[ancient_prophecy]

Then again, she might be emotionally stunted. As I can't let my Signers grow up.

[ogrewarrior]

I'm getting a little bit of whiplash here. Obnoxious doesn't necessarily mean me being murdered by an almost girlfriend of mine. There's plenty of things that I should be killed for and this really isn't one of them.

I mean, the stunted stuff is... also why I'm trying to really break off contact with her completely, so, uh. That's probably not helping anything.

[ancient_prophecy]

Well.

You seem to be specifically setting her off.

Which I'm not paying attention to so she has some privacy.

And it's not like she's completely irrational.

And what are those things you do deserve to be slain for?

[ogrewarrior]

A few digs here and there, yeah. But those also come with her barbing me. She also blew up the last place I lived, so, it's not exactly 'healthy' for either of us right now. Or, really, ever was.

You sure? As soon as I brought up talking about it, she went straight to 'fuck you, go die.'

And, well. Uh. Plenty. I ain't getting into it now. Not with you.

[ancient_prophecy]

... How did she manage to blow it up.

[ogrewarrior]

Shot most of everything I owned with a mini-gun, damage was bad enough that I had to find somewhere else to go. She also attacked my son in his own bar.

Yeah, I think we're long past the 'possibility' of insanity and are knee deep in it.

[ancient_prophecy]

I don't think she'd attack anyone but you unless I really haven't been paying attention.

[ogrewarrior]

She threw a fit in his bar, he asked her to leave, and she went ballistic. So, uh.

You haven't been paying attention.

[ancient_prophecy]

I have.

When gateways keep trying to open.

[naturalcure]

Headin' in that direction myself.

[ancient_prophecy]

Why.