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[burlap]

Those other doctors certainly picked a very festive time to take me out of my "fictional reality", as they put it. Luckily, I didn't have any plans to disturb. I got a 'Merry Christmas' right before my I'd imagine standard 'Hello, you're fictional' speech yesterday.

Help a poor new arrival out, will you?
On a scale of one to ten: How upset should I be that I'm here? It's so hard to make a clear judgement a place when it's decorated for the holidays.

Comments

[coinmover]

Anyone who wasn't there and thinks they understand is wrong.

This place... while a cage... does not compare.

[burlap]

I'd imagine inheriting it means you come from a long line of people with it? Do you enjoy it?

[burlap]

Do you think of yourself as someone that could be a bad guy?

[animator]

It skips a bunch of generations sometimes, but my grandmother can do it, too. She handled my early training.

Enjoy it? I'm not sure anyone's ever asked me that before. I'm good at it, so there's that, and it's the kind of thing you have to either use or lose control, so my career options were limited. But sure. When I can use it to help people, I enjoy it. For some people, it's an embarrassing curse, but I don't mind it. Some of the perks are nice, too.

[notvictorious]

No. I mean, I don't know. I used to think I was a narc or something. But now I don't know. If that's what I'm programmed to be, what if I can't fight it?

[you_have_heart]

It is rather annoying.

[burlap]

Oh no not a puppy.

[badnewsboy]

It was definitely a puppy.

[burlap]

Who indeed. You're certainly a breath of fresh air.

Wouldn't that be uncomfortable though? Being a book brought to life... Anyone who has read it would know anything about you and you wouldn't know anything back. Is anyone you know here?

[burlap]

Nothing would ever truly compare.

[librariansheart]

Well, I suppose it depends on where you were pulled from within the book. Wouldn't it be exciting to think that you might be a hero? The agent of some great victory, or the one who discoveres something important? Someone who saves lives? I haven't met anyone who recognizes me from anything, and my life isn't anything to speak of, so I'm sure I wasn't a main character by any means, but... It's still rather an exciting thought to me. I don't have anything to hide, and if they're right, any enemies I might make (though I hope I don't, of course) couldn't get to any of those I left at home. So in a way, it's rather a relief.

There were... some that I knew. Here for a while. But they didn't stay long before getting released. We're still not entirely certain what that means.

[burlap]

Perks?

[kantstoppfantstopp]

Really...
What are you even a doctor of?

[animator]

The partial immunity to vampire mind tricks is pretty great. Saved my ass a few times.

[burlap]

Is there no reprogramming that could be done?

[notvictorious]

I don't really wanna mess with it, set something off. I mean, maybe it's better to go bad early or something, but if I have a couple years left as me.. I dunno.

[burlap]

I can imagine. Is there anyone you would like here?

[burlap]

How horrible.

[coinmover]

And this discussion is moving rapidly into irrelevance.

[badnewsboy]

Funny, you do not seem properly horrified. It's a very underwhelming horrified.

[you_have_heart]

Not particularly, no. Yourself?

[burlap]

Then a topic change is in order.

Introductions, perhaps?

[coinmover]

Erik Lehnsherr.

[burlap]

Oh but you can't see my face. It's properly horrified.

[burlap]

The same.