open | i hit the bottom but I'm on the mend

[abeautifulgame]

Who: Damien Brenks + You
What: Prompts below.
Where: All over the place
When: Throughout the month of October.
Content Warnings: Implied nudity? Nothing graphic, though.

Comments

[abeautifulgame]

[he and Akechi have developed a kind of litmus test, to figure out if his version of Earth lines up with someone else's, and Damien may come back to that, just for funsies. (he's already pretty sure their realities won't line up, but it can't hurt to know for sure.) for now, though, he just arches his eyebrows, then lowers them in rapid succession]

Complicated, how?

[he might also come back to the idea that he's never seen anything like her before, either, but -- well, one thing at a time, and 'complicated' is what he latched onto]

[fluffyharpy]

Ummm...[she stammered a bit, it was a lot going from just talking about where she lived to such a serious topic.]People have been well not nice to each other based on race, gender, sexuality and other things pretty much forever. But uh, from history classes I've taken I have heard back then it was pretty common to say "we're all human" as short hand to say those differences were less then skindeep.

[She took a deep breath before continuing.]

When Subspeices humans first showed up, absolutely no one knew what do with them and many people began to think that "We're all just human" didn't apply to us. Like scientists didn't know where they came from, let alone how to integrate them into society. For example, snake-like humans don't have legs and couldn't get into many public places, aquatic types have to be in water for hours a day or they will get sick, and harpys like me -we're lucky honestly- have hollow bones that break far easier then normal humans. It took decades for things to even reach an "acceptable" level of legal protection and societal integration.

That's what I mean by "complicated."

[abeautifulgame]

So, par for the course.

[because, yeah, while they don't have harpies, where or when he's from, discrimination is still a thing. there's a reason why his partner-turned-rival went to such great lengths to hide the fact that he was Irish. hell, he's faced some discrimination, back home, for just being fucking crippled]

Well, that's fun.

[he doesn't really look like he thinks any of this is a good time, however]

[fluffyharpy]

I'm guessing things are similiar where your from, minus all the animal people?

[Summery of the summery: People are a problem.]

Um, lets talk about something else...please?

[abeautifulgame]

[he hums, then after a beat:] I don't suppose the name 'Blume' means anything to you?

[almost a hundred years in the future, maybe Blume doesn't exist anymore, but even if it doesn't, even if they're not at the forefront of technological advances because of him, surely they're in a history book, somewhere? surely, if she is somehow from his version of Chicago, she'll recognize the company name]

[fluffyharpy]

Hm [She thought for a moment.] I can't say I have. Is it someone's name or a company of somekind?

[abeautifulgame]

A company. [he pauses, flashing her a wry smile] And somewhat of a litmus test, to tell if you're from my version of Chicago or not.

[the verdict? no. but that really doesn't surprise him]

Even if they went under in the last hundred or so years, they had impact.