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[whowhatnow]

[This little mental nudge comes from Nathaniel Horn, someone who is, oddly enough, not at all used to making these kinds of things on his own. Still, he's been thinking since the bombing a while ago, and this is a good chance to let everyone know what's been on his mind.]

(So........ladies, gentlemen, people in general, let's talk about monsters. Spooky beasts. Creatures that go bump in the night. Those things. They all exist in one form or the other. Lots of terrible tales about abominations that want to like, rip you apart and suck out your eyeballs or something. Anyways, they exist! And how do I know they exist?)

[A pause for dramatic effect here.]

(Because I am one. Annnnnnd I don't mean the whole "something is crawling inside of me, alas I'm like the worst person ever" kind of monster. And honestly, I'm not a monster, but an alien, but...semantics! Anyways, if you see a big hulking flesh thing that looks like it crawled from your worst nightmares sometime, please don't try to destroy it like right away. It might be me. And I wouldn't like that. Just say hi over the mental telephone before doing anything rash.)

[There's a long pause here as he tries to piece together what other points he wants to make. It looks like he didn't think all of this whole mental speech thing out beforehand.]

(Anyways, uh...are all of you human? For the most part? I don't think there's anything like me among the broods...unless I'm wrong. So like, if you have any questions for me to answer, or want to share examples of big spooky monsters where you come from, just, like, tell me? Honestly, I think I'm pretty good-looking no matter what form I take, but I know most of you guys don't like seeing things like, I dunno, teeth growing in different places outside of human mouths and stuff, so I just wanted to give you a heads up. I don't transform often, but it could happen. Just be aware, and all that.)

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[whowhatnow]

[clutches chest...angel u are 2 good to him]

(Aw, to hear those words...goodness, Angel, you always know what to say. But, I mean, you haven't seen what I really look like...you sure you'll still be saying that if you see it for the first time?)

cw: gore, violence, death, vomit, cannabalism

[circumspector]

[ She opens up her mind a little more, a pause as she does it - like she's considering something. The way someone draws their hand over a great and dense book collection, such as she picks at her own memories. Pauses, fingers lingering over one and draws it up.

It's static observation: She sees, without being there. A cut in image that flickers through old cameras, of a person - or it had been, once, it's body is monstrously proportioned. A body over seven feet. But it's head is small, in comparison to its brawn. Goliath, she supplies the knowledge of. It's doing what all things do on Pandora: slaughtering, a spray of bullets and sickening laughter that issues out from its helmet. Sick and weedly, like it's winning. There is other things, that are wrong with this all: there are body parts laying on the ground, a small person appears to be licking blood off a severed hand, somewhere, someone is screaming in a horrific pain before it's gutted in a wet spray of blood on the camera that drips away. But her point comes when the helmet blows off the goliath. For one second, it's more than just that it's protecting its head. It's holding it together. A shrunken distorted form, that is skinless, and leaves exposed muscle, flesh, blood. Eyeballs bulging out of its head, a jaw upon jaw upon jaw jutting out in raws of misplaced teeth, and a growth that looks like another head growing out of the side of it's long, thin neck, a wet tongue that drools something that is glowing green and hideous.

It roars in rage for being exposed, a hideous bellow. It turns to the smaller person beside it - it's ally, up until this second and proceeds to vomit on him. A caustic substance, it looks like, but it comes out like a torrent and it sears skin. Death that way isn't quick if the goliath misses, but the psycho is too busy gorging himself on severed limbs and catches a face full of it. That way at least, it is quick. It tries to run, but the acid sears it, and melts him away from the head and shoulders down until there's just a seared mess of skin and bones where his head used to be.

Her point, she figures, is made with that, and she cuts it. Shelves the memory again, pushes it away. ]

( I'm sure. )

[whowhatnow]

[Well, this is unexpected. It feels almost like a field trip (which is a concept he's somewhat familiar with - one time he sneaked in on one as an extra child, hanging on the periphery, listening with rapt words to a teacher who would later wonder who, exactly, that strange kid was). Any normal person would react with horror and disgust. Nathaniel's feelings are quite the opposite - he feels awe when he sees the Goliath, fascinated with its shrunken, misshapen head. What it's doing is, of course, horrifying, but Nathaniel doesn't mind - in fact, he files that particular acid-filled moment away as something he could maybe try to replicate.]

[And then it's gone, and he's back to where he was before.]

(Oh, well...you weren't kidding.) [He says, with a mental laugh, but his mood sobers a bit.] ( Thanks. For showing me, I mean. That must be a really brutal world, where you come from...)

[circumspector]

[ There's something wane to it - yeah. It was. ]

( You could say that I really can't believe what people tell me about their homes. ) [ To say the least, from the glimmer she shows. ]

( As for monsters that people are terrified of - well, you're talking to one of them now. People are terrified of sirens almost as much as they are things like that. It's probably because they don't understand us. )

[ Laughable, she knows how she presents herself. But it's true, the man that screamed in utter terror of Maya - ( Not her! Please, anyone but her! We'll pay, we'll pay! ) But it is what it is. ]

( I think the best thing anyone says about Pandora is that it isn't Promethea, it's the only place worse that I know. )

[whowhatnow]

(What? You, a monster? I can't believe it. But yeah, the biggest fear that people seem to have? Fear of the unknown. If they can't relate to it or they don't think it's cute and vulnerable, they're afraid of it. It's kind of stupid.)

[It just smacks of ignorant, really.]

(And what's Promethea like, then? Ten times as worse as your home? Just how can it get worse?)

[circumspector]

( It is. In our case it's something justified. Lilith liquifies people. Maya traps people in alternate dimensions where things like -- )

[ and tentacles, tentacles everywhere ]

( that come from. The scientific team that monitored and ran the experiments on me were terrified.

I couldn't exactly blame them. We're a reminder of something no one really wants to contemplate. )

[ She hums, and oh boy there are stories - ]

( Make you love it first before it eats you? )