Vatheon Voicemail.

[rebull]

"Heeeey, Lysunder's voicemail here, and if you weren't looking for me, well then lucky you, leave a message anyway and maybe it will be the start of something revolutionary. Beep."

For the record, that first beep was him just saying beep. The real beep is in a few seconds.

-Beep.-

Comments

[rebull]

Well sure, but this was a troll and a troll, it's distinctly different. And still, humans and trolls are just really different. We can't expect them to understand everything we do, uh, without extensive observation. We might act similar but that doesn't mean anything. [A scoff.] Personality wise you could never tell the different between a front hooked praying plate beast and a unihorned hulking plate beast, but they're extremely different creatures.

[withoutasign]

[Signless is just going to take his word on that one, having never conversed with either kind of beast.]

Until I can convince the humans of that, can we all try and get along? Please?

[rebull]

I'm not going to purposely get along if I don't agree with something. That is lying. I really don't feel comfortable with it.

[withoutasign]

[Wow, is he talking to Summoner or the Grand Highblood here?]

Summoner. All I'm asking right now is that you not kill or torture anyone for awhile. Dualscar has learned his lesson, and I trust you have enough sense to avoid the Grand Highblood or to keep your fights at a reasonable level. I talked the humans down this time, but I don't know how much they'll listen if it happens again, especially soon. So please get along?

[rebull]

[He doesn't want to lie, that's all. He won't kill anyone again most likely, but he's not going to just play nice because he's told to. That's what happened on Alternia and we all know how Summoner responded there.]

Oh, well then say that. I don't purposely torture, and this was an extreme case. Dualscar was the first person I ever killed here, and that's saying something looking at my track record back home. I don't like to kill, but my morals are important.

And don't word it like that. Telling me to get along like I am a child. If I am wronged, or someone else is wronged, they need to be told and confronted. I'm not going to just look away to avoid conflict.

[withoutasign]

Summoner, no one knows about your track record from back home, so there's nothing to compare to!

Think for a minute! What trolls have been here the longest, have interacted with humans the most?

[rebull]

They don't need to know, Signless, that was not the point i was making, I think you are misunderstanding.

The young ones, so?

[withoutasign]

Yes, the young ones. Karkat and Gamzee to be specific.

Can you see how, with those trolls as a base line, some of the things the adults have done would be shocking and upsetting?

[rebull]

It's idiotic to base your opinions off the children of an entire race.

[withoutasign]

Do those children really come off like children to you? Especially compared to younger humans?

[rebull]

Some of them seem older, but a majority do come off as children. But even if the humans can't tell, they should ask, or I would have thought the young nymphs here would have said how old they were. But seeing any new species for the first time can be confusing. A lot of times certain animals seem like completely different species when they are really just a young form of some already known animal.

[withoutasign]

[Just going to wait and see if Summoner realizes what he just said...]

[rebull]

...Signless? [Sorry, nope.]

[withoutasign]

Wouldn't the reverse also be true? If one only had dealings with the young of a certain animal, couldn't the adults seem like a completely different species?

[rebull]

Um... yes? But we look similar to our young, enough to kind of push any assumptions aside. Uh, well not our larval form, but our nymph phase. What are you trying to say?

[withoutasign]

I'm saying that we are quite different from the children, given the differences in our time periods and the methods used to raise us, and I can understand how the humans could be confused and shocked by the differences in our behaviors.

[rebull]

...Uh, okay. I don't see why this really pertains to the um, whatever, that happens between individuals of our race.

[withoutasign]

[SUMMONER. Are you being deliberately dense here or what?]

[Gah, bulls.]

We don't live in the vacuum, and the actions of individuals affect the other members of the race accordingly. Do you remember when Karkat was murdered, and everyone flipped out? Likewise, how everyone reacted when I drowned? Can you imagine the fallout if a troll ever killed a human?

[rebull]

[No he's just not... He's not the brightest sometimes.]

This isn't about a troll killing a human though.

[withoutasign]

But if one did... this is why we can't act as though what we do doesn't affect others.

[rebull]

That will be an entirely different situation though. It can't be treated the same.

[withoutasign]

[Siiiigh...]

It's a metaphor, Summoner. I'm trying to explain why it would be in everyone's best interest to get along and not make waves for awhile.

[rebull]

I'm not trying to make waves though. You make it sound like I and trying to do that. And you wish for false peace?

[withoutasign]

At this point, I'd be happy for a few weeks with no one dying. If that counts as a false peace, then yes, I'll take it, and use the lull to work towards a genuine, lasting peace.

[rebull]

I told you, that was an extreme case. Either way, it'd be fair of you to tell the others then, that, I mean, tell them that. Because I'm not going to stand by quietly if something happens again soon.

I've gotten along fine without any death besides that, so implying that I can't is uh, not very nice of you, at all actually.