a cruel romance [night 8]

[worldchampofmartialarts]

[Death never has a meaning, but if we so choose to seek out patterns in a desperate attempt to imbue meaning into the twisted charades and senseless loss of life, we might come to the natural conclusion that love has no place here. That no matter how close a relationship may become, we can never know anyone else as intimately as we know ourselves.

Ultimately, we are all entirely alone, unable to truly understand anything beyond our deeply limited perspectives.

It's pointless even pretending any of us, alive or dead, are people deserving or capable of love.

Well, to hell with that.

We can always put in the effort.

Even when the circumstances get worse, we can always be better.

So let's give it a try.]

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[neverstudied]

[He looks delighted for all of three seconds before the mark fades.]

Damnit!

[He shakes his head.]

Ah, well. You can't win every time, huh.

[It doesn't stop him from kissing Ray a second time, and watching this mark disappear too.]

... I mean, two people are dead again- victim and killer-, but otherwise it wasn't as bad as yours. Oksana didn't really have much remorse for killing that Medic guy, and he had a severed toe with him? That probably came from the corpse I helped him steal from the cops when we first got here.

So they were both kinda... weird. And it was nowhere near as depressing as your melodrama.

[gether]

[Ray's eyes widen at the mention of Venkman helping someone steal a corpse from the cops.]

Venkie I can't believe you!

[...]

You helped someone steal a corpse without telling me?

[It's

Really hard to tell if he's joking or not.]

[neverstudied]

Hey! It happened before I even found out you were here, ok? I forgot about it.

[How do you Forget a corpse,]

I was distracting the cops while he took the body- never really got back to him afterwards, so I dunno what he did with it or where it is. Maybe his room.

[...]

You think you could phase into his room?