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?

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[tentacruelest]

[He really, really could. ;-;]

Descriptive enough. I've not seen my fair share of swamps but yeh'd be the spitting image of one.

[madeofplants]

As you.... are the spitting image... of a man... and an octopus. I have... never seen... such a creature.

[tentacruelest]

To my knowledge, there be no others like me you'll often scout. What of it?

[madeofplants]

I wonder... if you are... like me. A creature... of the ocean... as I am... of the Earth.

[tentacruelest]

It's possible. What made yeh?

[madeofplants]

The Earth... made me... as it made... those before me.

[tentacruelest]

And I fell in love with the sea.

[madeofplants]

I do not think... we are the same. I thought... that I was... human, once... but I was... wrong.

[tentacruelest]

Humanity is overrated. I ain't going back to it. I've been this way far longer than I ever was human.

[madeofplants]

There is... little difference... when you think that... you were once human... if you... were not. It does not change... what you are now. Being human... does not give you... humanity.

[tentacruelest]

Then I am neither human in body or temperament.

[madeofplants]

Then... what are you?

[tentacruelest]

I am the sea. Or the smallest, meanest part of it.

[madeofplants]

Nature... is not... cruel. It is only... itself.

[tentacruelest]

Nature is cruel. It can be kind, but don't you go underestimating her. It would spell your doom.

[madeofplants]

Nature is... impassive. It does not care... to be kind... or cruel. It knows only... how to live.

[tentacruelest]

...it's not true.

[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.

[tentacruelest]

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

[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]

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

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

[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.

[tentacruelest]

Yeh needn't go telling me what I already know.

[madeofplants]

I hope... you do not... spend it... alone.

[tentacruelest]

I am always alone.