maddest: (whatever shall we do)
[personal profile] maddest
[No staircases for Break.

He somehow goes ass over teakettle out of his open window, where he'd been sitting on the sill, landing in the soft garden outside with a rather surprised yell. The PCD in particular tumbles out of his hands, and lands in the grass, while Break lies on his back, blinking in shock.

That was unexpected.]


Really.

Really.

Date: 2010-09-08 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
The personal level doesn't matter. My science is what interests me; you haven't given me any reason to take your sentimental attachment to autonomy into account. I could experiment on you again, if I took the time to find you - what reason do I have to obey your systems?

And I have no interest in sociability. Why would I want to navigate that either?

If these terms are important, subjects should try to live up to mine.

Date: 2010-09-08 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
But why should they try to live up to yours? You're the one that stands to gain from the experiments, they can only lose.

So why should they?

You could conduct your experiments by force, of course. I remember fighting you, I have no doubt of that. But if you think that would be troublesome, or would get you in trouble with some of your other acquaintances here- you will have to provide your subjects with reasons to consent. It's simple cause and effect, you should be able to grasp that; if I have no reason to want to do something, I will not do it. If the risks outweigh the benefits as I see them, I will not do it. No rational person will.

Date: 2010-09-08 09:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
I already conduct them by force, because simple coaxing doesn't work. I've made more than reasonable offers, but they're refused. Of course I have to turn to force - how else would I find materials otherwise?

The disapproval from the other shinigami is a nuisance, and not one that really existed back in our world. I'm not sure what delusion they're under, but I'm not going to change myself to suit them.

...I see why you think you shouldn't agree to my experiments, but it's completely deluded, distorted by some petty spite. I'm curious about your health and what can be done with it. You're in a position to have your status improved by my curiosity. So you didn't get to try it willingly the first time - it's only in your interests to be agreeable now.

Date: 2010-09-08 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
Perhaps your reasonable offers are refused because they're reasonable according to your own value system, and not according to ours?

I could easily call your science just as petty as my spite, if I didn't believe in the pursuit of knowledge.

Date: 2010-09-08 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Your value system is an annoyance, then.

I wouldn't care if you did. If you're not a scientist, I wouldn't expect you to understand my interest.

Date: 2010-09-08 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
Mmhm. That's the crux of it.

I've been simplifying it a little, of course. In our examples I've been representative of the moral majority, which I'm not. I've cut a swathe of bodies of my own. It might not rival yours, but I'm not Father Christmas.

Date: 2010-09-08 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
So there's no reason not to continue ignoring it.

The absurdity is even more convoluted? And oh - was that before or after your health started failing?

Date: 2010-09-08 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
A bit of both.

But I think it's your turn. Tell me the whole story behind this man.

Date: 2010-09-08 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Hm. Well enough I suppose.

He's an Espada - a rank sort of loosely equivalent to my own, since Aizen chose to organize them that way. He's made himself out to be a scientist, but believes in perfection.

He was in the process of fighting and mostly killed two people - another shinigami, and some Quincy - a human - through the use of one of his resurrección's abilities. Ah - an Espada's resurrección is something like a shinigami's sword release, except that it changes their body, rather than the weapon. In any case, he could create small dolls of his enemies, and used them to destroy organs from a distance.

I'd already analyzed the ability so it was useless against me when I arrived. Then everyone was getting so loud, so I manifested the second form of my zanpakutou, and let it consume him. He died the first time then - are you following so far?

Date: 2010-09-08 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
I've realized how little I do know about you. Espada report to Aizen, an alternate organization to the one you're a part of- the shinigami?

Shinigami's sword releases would be what you used to attack me, but I'm lost at the zanpaka--ku?-tou. Thing.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Yes, that's about right. Espada are to arrancar, as captains are to shinigami. Arrancar come from hollows, which are fallen human souls, and shinigami come from the usual soul.

'Zanpakutou' is the general name for a shinigami's weapon. It has two potential forms - you've been acquainted with my 'shikai', which is the first.

Is that better?

Date: 2010-09-08 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
So, your irritation mounted, and you turned your zanpakutou on him- which is different from the shikai, or sword, which you used on me.

And killed him.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
More boredom than irritation, but close enough. My 'bankai' - or full release - temporarily killed him at that point.

Then, he used one of his other abilities to impregnate my subordinate - Kurotsuchi Nemu - and temporarily killed her to revive himself.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Does it make sense so far?

Date: 2010-09-08 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
I think so. I don't know how one would impregnate someone after death and temporarily kill them, but I'm sure there must be a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Somehow.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Or he was only mostly dead, whichever. In any case, he showed that more interesting ability in the process, but that was apparently the end of what he could do.

...Ah, no, he did try to take control of my bankai after that, but it didn't work very well. I suppose he gets a point for effort. I'd suggest not eating him if you come across him, though.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
I don't, as a rule, eat people.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Just making sure. I can never tell, with some.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
Good grief, you've found a sense of humour.

Date: 2010-09-08 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Hmph. Is there anything else you wanted to know?

Date: 2010-09-08 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
That's all for now, thank you.

Did you have any more questions?

Date: 2010-09-08 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com
Just idle curiosity as to how long it'll take you to drop your societal convictions. When your lungs fail?

Date: 2010-09-08 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
Mm- if I had to speculate...

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:35 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:37 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:40 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:49 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:50 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:55 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:57 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 08:58 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:00 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:08 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:10 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:12 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:13 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:15 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:16 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:17 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:19 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:22 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:24 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:27 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:28 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:30 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:34 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:38 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:39 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:41 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:41 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:42 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 09:44 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:11 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:13 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:24 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:26 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:28 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:38 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] law-of-reason.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-08 10:40 pm (UTC) - Expand

[private: unhackable]

From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com - Date: 2010-09-09 06:45 am (UTC) - Expand

Profile

maddest: (Default)
maddest

March 2024

S M T W T F S
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 11th, 2026 03:11 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios