12th Wave

[tentacruelest]

Bring me yer dead and dying, Admiral. I should like to laugh in Sparrow's face one last time before surrendering to your eternal hell.


...He is dead, is he not?

Comments

Re: Big Steph

[tentacruelest]

I give back only what I'm given. By my count she's owed a few broken bones. I'll let her pick which ones and yeh can't ask for a fairer deal'n that.

[tentacruelest]

...it's not true.

[tentacruelest]

Then it's no wonder we never crossed paths. I take only what the sea gives up.

[tentacruelest]

Did yeh have a habit of dying, boy?

Re: Big Steph

[ichoosefight]

[ ... Well it's something. ]

You make a compelling argument. But you know if you come at her all "yarrrrr I'm gonna break yer bones ye wee wench!" she's just gonna freak out and try to break yours again, right? I mean, it's what I would do.

Re: Big Steph

[tentacruelest]

I like the fear in their eyes when I come to collect.

[madeofplants]

I have seen... the heart... of the green. It seem cruel... only because... it does not care... for human sensibility. Life is short... but the green... is timeless.

[gorefiend]

An important assignment. Have you no counterpart for the rest of us? It would make the whole thing seem more orderly if someone was waiting.

Re: Big Steph

[ichoosefight]

Yeah see that's the part that makes kids like her who haven't learned self control yet go straight for the jugular. Christ, has nobody ever told you about cornered animals?

[tentacruelest]

Yer a damned liar. It's capable of love all the same!

[tentacruelest]

If there is a counterpart, I've never met 'im. I've been a sailor most of me life and all of me death.

[this_corrosion]

Been trying to put that off, actually. Not that people haven't tried. People. Robots. Robots that look like people.

[tentacruelest]

What are...'robots'?

Re: Big Steph

[tentacruelest]

Don't get much of animals on my ship: no. Speak your piece.

[gorefiend]

Did you die on the sea?

[madeofplants]

[ There is a long silence, though it's a pretty normal seeming pause by Swamp Thing standards. ]

You are... in love. You might... take care... that your love... has the humanity... you claim... you lack. It is... very human... to love.

[tentacruelest]

Aye. I did.

[tentacruelest]

It's too late for it now. Far too late for any o' it.

Off with yeh. I won't speak more of it.

[this_corrosion]

's a good question, actually, because they don't like being called robots, do they? Usually you know it's like metal men, beep boop.

[The man does a stiff-elbowed impression of C-3PO.]

Unable to process.

[gorefiend]

And who met you?

Re: Big Steph

[ichoosefight]

Even the gentlest animals will bite if you corner them. You want her not to attack you? Don't threaten her. She'll defend herself. And if I remember right, she'll defend herself hard.

[madeofplants]

[ He just nods, slow as ever. When he speaks again, he's almost talking to himself. ]

Life... is short. But death... is so... very long.

[made_a_wish]

Well now you didn't say anything about a Jack Sparrow. You just said "Sparrow", which is my name. Magic is tricky like that. Sometimes you have to be very very specific, or you get something you didn't really want.

[Oh, now she'd made herself a little sad. Rose...]

Big Steph

[tentacruelest]

I didnae threaten her.

[tentacruelest]

There is only one Sparrow worthy of note, and he ain't no wisp of a girl. I've nothing to say to you.