Week 3, Friday

[foundationmods]

[As Friday morning dawns on the third week, everything seems normal. The weather is as sunny as always, there's no stillness or heavy air, and after two weeks without a murder it's easy to assume that this Friday will be the same as the others.

Well, it's a few hours yet before Dazai would show up with some fun activity for Friday. Might as well go about with getting up and ready for the day, right? Who knows what you might find waiting for you this morning.]

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[visionem]

I refuse. My body is not like yours.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

...In what way?

[visionem]

I only assume this shape to communicate with you better.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Is your current form unable to be damaged?

[visionem]

Normally, yes. Here I am uncertain.

[ A beat. ]

But if I were injured, it would be very apparent. I do not have blood like humans do.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Then... what would it look like?

[visionem]

[ He's quiet for a while, no smile on his face. ]

If it matters at a later point, I can show you what I truly look like. If it matters now, you can ask Nora. I prefer to stay in this form unless the situation is dire.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[...]

Nora, could you please describe Alcor's true form for us?

[houndumb]

[He shoots Alcor a Look.]

Ya can’t describe yourself or something?? I suck at this. [grumbles forever] He’s like a floaty striped box with wires an’ stuff? Like his clothes.

[You know. The striped ones. He REALLY sucks at this RIP.]

[visionem]

[ Alcor returns Nora the look with one he's seen before: he's one comment away from launching into a philosophical soliloquy. ]

I struggled with what I am for thousands of years. The very act of deciding a name took one thousand years alone.

...if that was inefficient I can show you, Watanabe Saki. However I insist it be outside.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[...Yeah she's totally judging Nora for that description.]

You can show me outside.

[And she'll follow him out!]

[visionem]

[ Don't worry Alcor is too. Either way once they're outside Alcor floats a bit away from Saki, and with a bright flash of light there's a giant red and black striped box. Surrounded by metal frames.

See icon and here. ]

As you can see, I would not sustain wounds like humans would.

[houndumb]

If I took a thousand years to decide on somethin' I'm pretty sure the world would blow up first.

[It's sulking, but it's at least quiet sulking and not-quite-pouting as he follows them out. The box form is pretty familiar by now and he just gestures meaningfully at it after a moment.]

See?? Why couldn't you just do this in the first place??

[visionem]

Humanity's propensity for destruction only reached that level in recent years. It took them many civilizations to learn how to craft weapons, for example.

[ History lesson...??? ]

This form is...it does not matter.

[houndumb]

Hmph, they still can't match up to demons for destroying things. They don't even really have their own weapons.

[It's a mutter, leave it to Nora to argue with a history lesson. It seems more rhetorical than anything, though, halfway to himself. He peers at the box for a moment.]

... Ya really gotta break the habit of leaving cliffhangers all the time.

[iblistriggered]

[Silver also peeks around Saki to look.

um

yeah

of all the things he guessed

"an actual literal talking box" was not one of them]

[visionem]

[ Maybe this was what he was afraid of! ]

[iblistriggered]

[HE'S KINDA COOL???

in a very

weird box-y way]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[mood.]

[iblistriggered]

[oh worm]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Welp, guess who's seeing this, too.

Though there's a moment of surprise...he does smile before nodding.

Ah, there it is. That's his true form - nothing unusual for those who were built to never be human in the first place.]

[visionem]

[ Oh, Moriarty. Alcor catches that and...well he can't smile back? But the box does do a full rotation so there's that. ]

[darkremnants]

[ this is why moriarty likes him.

he has all the right angles ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Huh.

Nora's description was actually mostly accurate. Amazing.]

...Y-yeah. But you don't know if that form can be damaged now?

[visionem]

[ Still as a box. ]

How would I know?