Hemophobia

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[Blood.]

[Dripping down every door in the onsen.]

[Human blood, rich and fresh, slipping to the floors, slowly, then disappearing into nothing. The flow goes on like a wound that will not clot. And of course, there is the smell.]

[It's perfectly real, perfectly nutritious for those with a sanguine diet. Some of it is the night-and-starlight blood of those who have died on the Plane.]

[And it just won't seem to wash off.]

[ooc; What? He was bored, and he figures that the vampires are probably a bit hungry. As Scarecrow isn't going to own up to What He Does When Given Shiny Rings, feel free to use this as an event post. That is, other characters are encouraged to comment to each other, because Dr Crane won't be responding to everyone about it. This effect will last until the end of the plot.]

Comments

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

If you could leave the asylum and choose a life of your own - any life - would you still wish to be an entertainer?

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, certainly. It's what I chose when...Amshel and my Chevalier died. I didn't have to do that, since I had plenty of money to live on my own and not do anything, but...I really love to sing. I could never give it up.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Then in my opinion, damn the rest of Arkham Asylum. Who cares for them? We are all here because we do what we desire and not what we're told to do.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

Then I'll sing for the asylum. Ah, but, I overheard someone mention someone else...What was their name...? It had to do with music.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

...The Music Meister.

[he had to stop himself from singing the name, just so you know]

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that's it. Who is he?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[posthypontic reaction---] He's the Music Meister! And we are all his--[Scarecrows closes his mouth. When he speaks again, it's talking, not singing]

Sorry. Sometimes the effects of hypnotism linger. By singing, he can hypnotize people. And turn all of Arkham into a musical. [without singing, but he can't stop himself from saying it] It's a good thing we got Arkham 'cause he really drives us Bats.

[frowning] That line bothered me. It should be 'have,' not 'got.' And I hate his ballads.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{Diva is filled with glee to hear Crane sing, so she just covers her grin and giggles with her hands}

Oh, how interesting! That's a really unusual power, even for some of the people I've heard about. Ne, I'd like to meet him! Do you think Arkham would let me?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

You'll meet him eventually, once they start letting you out into the rec room.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope that doesn't take long! I want to meet some of the other people really badly.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

You have the rest of their lives to get to know them.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{She frowns briefly, but she puts her smile back on quickly}

Oh, but that's such a sad way to think about it!

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Which way? That we'll all be there forever, or that they will die before you?

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

Both, I suppose. I don't like to think about how I'm immortal and no one else is. It makes it easier to enjoy things when I don't.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

There is a word for that, you realize.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

What is that?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

It's called 'thought supression.' Your psychiatrists are bound to bring it up more than once.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

...It's not like it's that bad, is it?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Not morally, most of the time. It is, I assure you, a completely natural process. All humans do it. Vampires apparently do too.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{She smiles a little, but it's shyly.}

I guess so...I've just always dealt with things that way, so I didn't think it was weird.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Most consider it somewhat unhealthy.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

You mean Arkham does. I know, he's told me.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Jerry-boy might be a sadist, but he earned his degree fair and square. Any other psychiatrist would agree.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

I don't really care what they think, though.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Most of us don't. But most of us don't want to 'get better.'