un: Dankovsky | video

[thantagonist]

[Daniil posts live from a café near the museum. He has no patience for typing responses, and his own visage should explain why. His nose has recently been broken and reset. He looks exhausted and irritated, but he has a duty.]

I need a couple people to come down to the café near that absurd museum with the sewn up fruit exhibits. Bring a stretcher, we have a patient who could use some more urgent treatment.

[From somewhere offscreen, a voice that is distinctly not Daniil’s states:] This Etrayan shot me in an attempt to get information I did not possess. I would appreciate his removal from my presence.

Now- That’s not true at all. That is not the reason you were stopped. [Daniil now regrets making a video, but what’s done is done. ]

Comments

[fitshaced]

uh what???

[He's genuinely confused.]

[thantagonist]

Don’t play dumb!

[fitshaced]

i'm not playing dumb. i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

look, i'm giving you shit because you're a bit of an asshole and easy to wind up. i tend to respond to assholes by being an asshole back until they simmer the fuck down or piss off depending on the situation.

if you're reading more into that and thinking this is something pointed then let me remind you that i don't know you at all. i don't even know your name.

so whatever you think i'm doing, i promise you i'm not.

[thantagonist]

My name is Doctor Daniil Dankovsky. I don’t make a habit of speaking with people who take pleasure in my frustration.

[Deeply untrue.]

So mind your manners and speak with me like a gentleman or not at all.

[fitshaced]

trevor of house belmont. i tend to piss everyone off at least a little, but i've been told it's charming.

[Literally never.]

barking up the wrong tree though if you're expecting manners. i would never be accused of being a gentleman by anyone and i don't really give a shit about being polite. manners are just people deluding themselves into thinking they're not assholes when they're usually the biggest one in the room. i'd rather be a little more forthright about it.

[thantagonist]

A man who thinks he’s above it all just because he doesn’t want to engage with societal rules. I think you don’t understand the purpose of manners, so they frustrate you.

We won’t get along. Let’s just stay out of each other’s way, hm?

[fitshaced]

kinda hard to feel part of this so-called polite society or feel there's a point to its made up rules when your entire family ended up excommunicated, exiled, and massacred by the church when you're just a child, now isn't it?

oh wait. instead of asking questions, you chose to put words in my mouth i didn't say and make bad faith assumptions, didn't you, danny?

never mind, then. i'll go continue being an arrogant prick or a knuckledragger or whatever other derogatory thing you choose for the convenience of insulting me moment to moment and fuck off.

[thantagonist]

I’ve never liked the Church. But Church is not all there is to society, let alone polite society. Especially not polite society. Ettiquette is for learned men to know how to greet one another as equals. I’m sorry you’ve been deprived a childhood. How old are you now?


And when are you from? I assume nearly everyone is from 2015, especially when I see such affronting screen names.

[He can see the 1476 there, but. No way, right? Or maybe yes way.]

[fitshaced]

well, that must be nice for you, but the church dictates a lot where i'm from. including whether or not people speak to me or if they try to start shit with me just for having the audacity to exist in their general vicinity.

i am from wallachia in 1476. nero came up with the user name, not me.

[thantagonist]

[Daniil is not the most antiquated man. He’s so thrilled. ]

Sounds horrible.

Did the Church dictate manners as well? It must be hard for you to adapt to this modern multicultural place.

So what was the medicine like? Humours? Four of them, perhaps?

[fitshaced]

not nearly as hard as it is for you it seems.

sorry to disappoint, but it isn't as backwards as you'd hope. the church deems everything they don't like or understand or can't control as devilry, but there are learned men and women who know true science. they just have to hide their trade unless they feel like being put to death.

[thantagonist]

What do you mean hard for me? I’m not this tortured creature, mired in struggle.

I don’t know, it sounds fairly backwards.

Can I ask if you think the sun rotates around the earth?

[fitshaced]

danny, i'm going to level with you: you talk like you are.

i have more terrestrial concerns than what's happening beyond earth. so long as the sun rises every morning, that's all i care about.

[thantagonist]

Nonsense. I’m the master of my own path. What, you aren’t even curious about that sort of thing?

[Fair enough, perhaps. But it’s what he expects of the other as well at this point.]

[fitshaced]

sun comes up and vampires fuck off again until nightfall. that's all that matters to me.

i'll leave the specifics of how it all works to astronomers, and they can let me know if something's going to fuck us over into an eternal night.