gonna float over to capeandcowl

[gasbag]

As much as I understand your eagerness, I do wish you would have pulled me from a different point. I know I have mentioned this before, but it seems cruel to drag a man away from his prize when he is so close to attaining it. Ah, wait. Perhaps that was a poor choice in words? It's more of a hunt, isn't it? A warranted one-he is nothing if not dangerous. People could die in my absence.

My point is, it would be irresponsible to leave, particularly if my reason is galavanting around New York! No. I must insist that you take me from an earlier point. Heidelberg, perhaps? It'd be much easier to fit in if I still had my body.

[OOC: ah! right. he's basically a walking spoiler for the series so be warned!]

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and then a totally unrelated character

[ropedin]

[ ... ] You do not have a body?

NONSENSE

[gasbag]

I would not be required to walk around in a containment suit if I did.

[It's a touchy issue...]

[ropedin]

A containment suit. [ Nope he's already over HJ's head. Firmly grounded in reality is this man. ]

I see. [ No, no he doesn't. ]

[gasbag]

[You trying to say Johann isn't reality, jerkwad?]

I am, to put it crudely, at a point between life and death. In order to keep my form from disappearing, I must keep myself within this suit. It's fairly simple to understand.

[ropedin]

[ He still refuses to believe people have superpowers tbh ]

Then perhaps someone with your... beliefs will fit in quite well there. I am sure there is a way other than wearing a suit, is there not?

[gasbag]

[Does this look like Egypt? Go put denial back where it came from. ALSO SLOW DOWN MOTHERFUCKER WHAT WAS THAT?]

Beliefs? I don't think anything I've said could be classified as belief. And a suit is much more preferable than wearing other people's corpses.

[ropedin]

You think you're a ghost.

[ He's starting to think he legit belongs in the looney bin. ]

I'm sure you have evidence to prove that as well, yes?

[gasbag]

Evidence?! Mein gott! I should not need to prove what I am! Is the suit not enough "evidence" for you?

[ropedin]

The suit only shows a man hiding his face. [ WOW IT'S NOT LIKE HE HAS ANY ROOM TO TALK... ]

That is hardly proof.

[gasbag]

One could say the same to you.

[ropedin]

They could. I hide my face for a reason. It's prudent in my line of work.

[ Even if he...never takes it off. ]

[gasbag]

And if a brutish stranger requested you take it off to prove a point, would you do so?

[ropedin]

Never.

But I'm not claiming to be more than human.

[gasbag]

And that makes it acceptable? The removal of my suit endangers my health. Does yours?

[ropedin]

Then simply say that, instead of some delusional nonsense about being between life and death.

[gasbag]

[omfno. No, he's not going to keep arguing. Submerging into passive aggression mode is go.]

I have heard of doubting thomas' but never of a blind one.

[ropedin]

It's hardly blindness to not believe in the impossible.

[gasbag]

Then perhaps I should show skepticism at the degree of your stubbornness.

[ropedin]

That's ridiculous.

[gasbag]

Is it? You are confronted with living proof of the supernatural and you deny it. If not an impossible level of stubbornness, then what is it?

[ropedin]

Living proof of the supernatural? You're only a man in a suit. That's hardly proof.

[gasbag]

It is best not to assume such things. You think I am similar to you, yes? I'm flattered- [No, he's not.]-but I don't "hide" my face out of cautiousness-I simply do not have one.

[ropedin]

[ He really doesn't believe you, Johann. ]

Of course you don't. You will fit in well in the City.

[gasbag]

[that's because he's a fuckbag]

You say that as if you do not. I wonder why.

[ropedin]

The future is hardly what I expected it to be.