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Display Name: Huvrye
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Notes: Post ageswap event

What's an angel?

I mean, I looked it up, and it looks like it's some kind of religious thing? But the information doesn't always match, and people keep asking me if I am one, so...I don't know.

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[demigoth]

It’s in the Bible a lot.

[ Nico doesn’t quite understand the confusion. ]

So it would be a good credential.

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[He has no idea what Catholic or Bible are - given the bent of the conversation, probably also a religious thing - but there's something a little more relevant at hand.]

Wait, can you raise the dead?

[demigoth]

Like Jesus raised Lazzaro? No.

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[Nope, too far in the weeds, context required]

I don't know what Jesus or Lazzaro or Bible or Catholic are.

[And it all sounds really complicated, so he's not sure he cares!]

And if you can't do it, then why'd you bring it up?

[Sorry, Nico, you're going to have to explain the joke.]

[demigoth]

[ What? Ugh, fine, he’ll explain his schoolboy understanding of it. ]

Catholic means Catholicism. It’s Christianity but older. They believe Jesus is the Son of God, but not a demigod, and also God. The same one. The Bible is their holy book.

Ge- Jesus raised Lazzaro from the dead, but in the Bible, everyone gets raised from the dead alive and whole and perfect. Does that answer everything?

[effiomsfavorite]

...okay.

[That is the slow, careful okay of someone who definitely listened and definitely didn't retain any of what they just heard. Evidently this particular religion is really complicated and involves people coming back from the dead a lot.]

[Speaking of:]

Almost everything - why'd you bring it up?

[Because given this conversation, the implication is that Nico can raise the dead, and now that that thought is in his head, he really needs to know for sure whether that's the case or not.]

[demigoth]

[ A few minutes later, Nico drops a link to a TikTok video of chaotic footage lasting maybe 10 seconds, taken from a crazily spinning camera. Someone's superimposed lots of 😮😮😮 emojis all over it. You can't make out much, maybe a possessed machine every few frames, a snip of a black tentacle, and a close encounter with what might be a large skeletal thing with black sneakers atop of it.

He doesn't even bother to name the link; it's just the URL. ]

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[It's a few minutes before Huvrye replies, because he's spending those few minutes watching the video and trying to figure out what's going on, especially with the camera spinning and most of the footage obscured. He finally manages to make out machines - Dylan had mentioned fighting a giant robot alongside Hunter - maybe it's that? - and some kind of monster (that he has to stop and breathe and remind himself that they don't have Corrupted here before getting back to it) with shoes on top.]

[It's a whole lot of noise. More implications with nothing solid. A puzzle he doesn't have the time, patience, or context for.]

[So he finally comes back to his post and sighs.]

Can you just tell me?

[demigoth]

No.

[ He can’t just tell you. It’s an odd thing to just say in public. ]

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...do you wanna talk privately or do you just not wanna talk?

[demigoth]

That’s a trick question, so the first one.

[ He has not been able to completely choose the “just don’t talk to people” option in quite some time. ]

[effiomsfavorite]

It's not a trick question. If you say you don't want to talk about it, then I won't ask you to.

[His tone is gentle. He knows what it's like to feel like you have to answer questions; he also remembers how he felt when Mark respected that boundary and didn't push him. The least he can do is extend that to Nico.]

[demigoth]

[ Nico bristles like a porcupine. ]

I already said the first one. I don’t need you making decisions for me.

[ He’s in charge, thank you. ]

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[Well that backfired immediately. Great.]

I'm not. I just wanted to make sure you knew that was an option.

[In a separate, there-and-then-gone comment, he leaves Nico his phone number.]