Astrophobia

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[Jonathan Crane, PhD, scans the Plane with bespectacled eyes in his very nice suit. To all appearances, the Plane has just won itself a new university professor]

Acrophobia would hardly be an irrational fear at present. Indeed, it would be very [takes a step] very [another step] practical. This is possibly one of the very few instances in a normal individual’s life where siderophobia might be considered rational as well. And so they would cease to be phobias.

Incongruous but coherent structure... far too lucid to be any breed of hallucination or dream. The idea of it being true space is out of the question, of course.

[picks up a discarded hat, examining it] The two most likely options are thus illusion or reality. I wonder which it is. [sets the hat down again and carries on his way]

Comments

[swanseer.livejournal.com]

[...She actually understood some of that, as odd as it sounds] ...The fear of stars is usually rational in my experience.

[oldoldghost.livejournal.com]

[Buuuuut Brigitta has no clue what any of that means, so she'll just be trying to look like she isn't completely baffled] ...We think that it's reality.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[Oh god big words.]Uhm. This is the Astral Plane.

[lamb_of_gold]

Reality, unfortunately.

[house-1-god-0.livejournal.com]

{Sarcasm, don't you love it?}

Oh, now we get a shrink? Great. Should I leave you alone to ponder life as we know it for a while?

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{You are a very popular person, Dr. Crane.}

Ne, what an intelligent person. It is real, though, as much of an illusion as it seems.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[someone who speaks his language!]

While I must admit that there are some ways the stars can kill creatures of Earth, they are not quite so common nor defensible as would make the phobia a practical one to possess.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[looks at her curiously]

I could accept that in time. Who is 'we'?

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

Astrophobia, too. Don't want to forget that one.

As far as I know though, it's real. Then again, if it was a very good illusion I would be convinced it was real even if it wasn't.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[slight smile]

A very appropriate name. Does it have anything more than that?

[swanseer.livejournal.com]

[Very vaguely!]

Okay, so in the human universe it is fairly illogical, if other places however it is completely logical and completely sensible, in other places the stars are definitely something to be feared.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[it takes all of one second for Crane to get over Mu's hair. It's unusual, but not THAT unusual]

Why is that unfortunate?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Had a bad experience with a psychiatrist?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[it's the sweater vest]

Thank you. I think I may be willing to accept that. What's your name?

[oldoldghost.livejournal.com]

Most people tend to, after a while.

Well, the people who come here, there's quite a lot of us.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

A fraternal twin to siderophobia.

What have you done to test the nature of it?

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

May? There's not really a "may" about it, since you're here now. I don't think there's an option to reject it.

{But she smiles politely, curtsying in greeting}

My name is Diva. And you are?

[house-1-god-0.livejournal.com]

I think they had a bad experience with me.

[usagipino]

[And a tiny, creepy little bunny girl starts to follow him, mimicking his exact movements.]

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[oh, interesting]

That assumes that there are universes other than the human one.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Really? So it's a place you can return to after you leave? Not that I know how to leave.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Any psychiatrist who quits over a bad patient shouldn't have the job.

[says the man who has to get yet another new psychiatrist because he terrified the last one]

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

There is that option. Of course, if the place is real, taking the option would make one delusional.

[he gives a bow in return! Samantha insists on those]

Jonathan Crane.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[Scarecrow's first thought? 'Oh, she's awfully young to be a costumed psychopath']

Hello. I don't suppose I could ask your name?

[also: categorizing possible names for a bunny-costume-wearing mimicker. 'Echo' is too normal. The White Rabbit? No, it's pink. Though, Jervis would've liked that, and she's young, too. HMMM.]

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

It's a pleasure, Mr. Crane. Ne, but you have an interesting way of thinking, don't you? Most people are just afraid of the Plane, or...I guess surprised is better. I'm not even sure what you "are".