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

[p2iioniic]

iif iit wa2 a good joke.
have a laugh.
type 'lol'

2ure whatever.
take a2 much a2 you want.
2nowflame'2 been dead for week2.



iif iit wa2 a good joke.
have a laugh.
type 'lol'

2ure whatever.
take a2 much a2 you want.
2nowflame'2 been dead for week2.

[thantagonist]

I don’t know what “lol” means.

haha

how’s that?

Who is Snowflame?

[p2iioniic]

ii wiill accept your haha.

oh ju2t 2ome guy.
2aiid the cocaiine gave hiim 2uperpower2.
ii thiink he wa2 ju2t really hiigh though.



ii wiill accept your haha.

oh ju2t 2ome guy.
2aiid the cocaiine gave hiim 2uperpower2.
ii thiink he wa2 ju2t really hiigh though.

[thantagonist]

How kind.

Likely. Cocaine makes people think they’re brilliant and invincible, but it usually just makes them annoying and gives them sinus infections.

I’m sort of surprised all of Pollux didn’t give up and just start doing it, especially the enforcers. It’s incredibly bleak out there.

[p2iioniic]

thank2.
ii know ii am.
B)

maybe everyone forgot about iit.
or maybe the people who knew about iit all diied except me.
not that he told me about iit per2onally.
ii u2ed two have camera2 all around the ciity before the electriiciity went out.



thank2.
ii know ii am.
B)

maybe everyone forgot about iit.
or maybe the people who knew about iit all diied except me.
not that he told me about iit per2onally.
ii u2ed two have camera2 all around the ciity before the electriiciity went out.

[thantagonist]

[On the concept of “ii”, the part of Daniil that is considering Sollux’s whole vibe and iconography wonders if he perhaps absorbed a twin in utero. He doesn’t know there’s no real utero to speak of here, but still.]

There is much to be distracted by. Perhaps that is for the best.

Cameras all around sounds incredibly useful. I wish I had such a thing to check on experiments. And my work station. I swear, the number of times someone has touched something on my desk even with explicit instruction not to truly boggles the mind. But that’s technology far beyond what I’ve ever had access to back home.

You know, we didn’t really even have electricity when I was a boy. Much has changed.

What will you do when this is all over? Getting back to normal may even be surreal.

[p2iioniic]

[ Daniil you can't just assume someone has an unborn twin. ]

diidn't even have electriiciity?
oh my god you're 2o old.
were you around when fiire wa2 dii2covered two.

beliieve iit or not thii2 ii2 not the mo2t 2urreal thiing that'2 ever happened two me.
2o ii thiink ii'll be fiine.
a22umiing we don't all fuck up iit up and diie.
ii'll help bury the dead 2o the human2 can have theiir corp2e partiie2.
probably level that buiildiing the murder game2 are beiing ho2ted iin.
and dependiing on how the new AII goe2.
we'll 2ee iif they need coddliing.
and then ii'm goiing two lock my2elf iin my room and not come out for 2 week2.



diidn't even have electriiciity?
oh my god you're 2o old.
were you around when fiire wa2 dii2covered two.

beliieve iit or not thii2 ii2 not the mo2t 2urreal thiing that'2 ever happened two me.
2o ii thiink ii'll be fiine.
a22umiing we don't all fuck up iit up and diie.
ii'll help bury the dead 2o the human2 can have theiir corp2e partiie2.
probably level that buiildiing the murder game2 are beiing ho2ted iin.
and dependiing on how the new AII goe2.
we'll 2ee iif they need coddliing.
and then ii'm goiing two lock my2elf iin my room and not come out for 2 week2.

[thantagonist]

I’m not old. I’m young, I am simply from an earlier point in time.

[Get it right or I’ll go insane.]

They had just figured out fire when I was born. It was a really startling culture shift from caves to medical school, you see.

Is a corpse party what you call a funeral or the way you view human funerals?

[p2iioniic]

look man ii don't know how long iit took you human2 two fiigure iit out.
two me ii saw all of humankiind develop iin the 2pan of a few hour2.
ii wa2 2crubbiing through a tiimeliine of hootiing and holleriing and 2uddenly you guy2 had offiice buiildiing2 and powerpoiint2.

...both, ii gue22?



look man ii don't know how long iit took you human2 two fiigure iit out.
two me ii saw all of humankiind develop iin the 2pan of a few hour2.
ii wa2 2crubbiing through a tiimeliine of hootiing and holleriing and 2uddenly you guy2 had offiice buiildiing2 and powerpoiint2.

...both, ii gue22?

[thantagonist]

[None of the rest of that even matters because what the fuck do you mean you watched humans develop? He can’t even fully conceptualize what this would even look like.]

You watched a timeline of humans developing. How?

[p2iioniic]

oh yeah.
troll2 created human2.
and ii watched iit happen through my computer.

[ Fortunately, he does not have Karkat's ego complex, and will not add on the casual, "I am your God." ]


oh yeah.
troll2 created human2.
and ii watched iit happen through my computer.

[ Fortunately, he does not have Karkat's ego complex, and will not add on the casual, "I am your God." ]

[thantagonist]

“What won’t Daniiiil fall for” you think to yourself, rubbing your little grey palms together.

[p2iioniic]

eheheheh that would be really funny of me iif iit wa2 a liie.
but no iit'2 the truth through a 2eriie2 of convoluted event2 you would barely comprehend even iif you are a dr.
that iinvolve2 tiime paradoxe2 and rewriitiing realiity.
don't worry your pretty head about iit.


eheheheh that would be really funny of me iif iit wa2 a liie.
but no iit'2 the truth through a 2eriie2 of convoluted event2 you would barely comprehend even iif you are a dr.
that iinvolve2 tiime paradoxe2 and rewriitiing realiity.
don't worry your pretty head about iit.

[thantagonist]

As if every day of my life isn’t needlessly convoluted. But that sounds horrible in a way that is incompatible with my splitting headache, so I will let it go for now.

Do you have any proof of your claims?

[p2iioniic]

the computer ii wa2 u2iing two viiew all that on ii2 on a meteor borderiing on the furthe2t riing iin another uniiver2e 2o.
no.
ju2t tru2t me bro.

the computer ii wa2 u2iing two viiew all that on ii2 on a meteor borderiing on the furthe2t riing iin another uniiver2e 2o.
no.
ju2t tru2t me bro.

[thantagonist]

Fine, I trust that you believe this to be true. But you must understand, I am more of a “see it for myself” sort of man. I can’t go believing everything everyone tells me, especially not in these circumstances.

Let’s pretend I’m insane and I believe you and I have conveniently forgotten everything I know about evolution. If you did make humans, I have quite a lot of problems with the entire design and structure of them.

Why are we so short lived? So prone to disease?

What’s with nut allergies?