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[tricksandstones]

[oh my GOD venus. okay. how does she help here.]

It's okay!
Calm down, seriously.
It was a mistake, that happens.
And it's not like I've never seen the insides of a machine before.
It's not really directly analogous to seeing a human torn up or anything, I was exaggerating.

[wingstosee]

8(((

[tricksandstones]

Venus are you actually freaking out or messing with me now.
I can't tell.

[wingstosee]

both? maybe?
i thought it might be funny to exaggerate but also my nose is all stuffed up now and my cheeks are swollen and i think i have a headache

crying all the time sort of sucks?
it's better than never crying. but also, wow

[tricksandstones]

[... is it weird she's touched by the idea venus would cry for the idea of upsetting her? probably. time to never mention that.]

You don't need to cry over it.
Are you okay?
Do you
I don't know
Need company or something?

[wingstosee]

not really?
i wouldn't mind it. if you want to come over that'd be nice too
but i don't think i NEED it or anything.
i just sort of cry for no reason now?
i mean not this time. this time there was a reason at least.

[tricksandstones]

That's pretty worrying, Venus!
What do you mean by 'now'?

[wingstosee]

oh. uh. since i hatched?
since i threw away my old body.
this new one's basically perfect, but also i just... cry more?
like, i used to have so much trouble with it. and now it's just There, you know?

[tricksandstones]

Oh.
Makes... sense?
No, nothing about it makes sense, but whatever.
Just a new body thing.

[wingstosee]

i think it makes sense :(

[tricksandstones]

The devil having an endocrinal system and tear ducts in general doesn't make sense!

[wingstosee]

why wouldn't it make sense though

[tricksandstones]

Because the devil having a physical body makes no sense?

[wingstosee]

that's like saying it doesn't make sense for an angel to have a physical body
or god
that's kind of objectively wrong though?

[tricksandstones]

THOSE DON'T MAKE SENSE EITHER

[wingstosee]

yeah well it doesn't really make sense for a human to have physical form either??
but they do. they do and there's not really anything we can do about it

[tricksandstones]

Humans are physical beings.
You know what bodies angels are supposed to have?
Wheels within wheels, eyes of fire, all of that stuff.
"Six-winged, many-eyed". That sort of thing.
Not conductive to having real biology.

[wingstosee]

eyes and wings are literally biology though.
i have those? i have a lot of them actually.
just because something doesn't seem like human biology doesn't mean it doesn't make sense you know

[tricksandstones]

They were nothing but wings and eyes.
And also, you've still got a human endocrinal system.
Which is weird.

[wingstosee]

ok then show me the part in the bible that says that!
where it says they have eyes and wings and they're not biological at all, they're just a metaphor or fake and not actually real

and i have a DEVIL endocrinal system!
sorry that only humans are real to you, or something, but i'm real and i have my own body and i don't really care if you think that's ok or not!

[tricksandstones]

The Book of Isaiah. Or Ezekiel. Or any.
The Cherubim have many wings, and four faces, a lion's, a human's, an ox's, and an eagle's.
The Ophanim, the wheels within wheels, burning and covered in eyes.
When angels descended before humans, their first words were pretty much always "Be not afraid", for damn good reason.

What the hell? Calm down.
That's so far from what I was saying I don't even know where to start?

[wingstosee]

[ have literally three minutes of silence. if this were discord you'd keep seeing "venus is typing..." pop on and off until she finally gives up.

WHUH OH KANIN, YOU ARE GETTING

THE

COLD
SHOULDER ]

[tricksandstones]

Did you really think I'm going to say only humans are real?

[wingstosee]

no

[ yeah. maybe not on an intellectual level, but. it's hard to not assume what you've internalized your whole life. ]

[tricksandstones]

[she hears you there

even she doesn't think she's real. but.]

So it's fine.
Just... start over. Rewind. I guess.