Video || Boredom

[notjustinthemirror]

So a while ago I got a bunch of random shit that's just been in a box in the alleyway. But I am bored as fuck. So I made a damn bird.

[The camera turns to show:]



Do I get a prize now?

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[notjustinthemirror]

As far as I know I'm the only one.

But then I haven't been looking.

[skelebro]

Huh. Well, see, I just know this kid - kid from my world, actually - keep callin' themselves a demon. Don't look a thing like you, is all.

[notjustinthemirror]

Well where I come from there aren't talking skeletons, so I'm guessing it's not the same place.

Though there are people who are dead and just don't know it yet, but they don't look like you.

[skelebro]

Nah, I'm super alive.

[For a given value of "alive," anyway. He's alive here, and that's what counts, apparently. He passes the Turing test, all right? Or the monster equivalent of one.]

You some kinda guardian of hell or somethin'?

[notjustinthemirror]

Should I be? I didn't know hell needed guarding.

[skelebro]

Way you're talkin' about people being dead and dying, it just had me thinkin'.

[notjustinthemirror]

I'm the Alcohol Demon. So if you're ever dying for a drink I can help.

[skelebro]

An alcohol demon. Wasn't aware that was an element worth gettin' a whole demon assigned to it.

[notjustinthemirror]

It is if that's your vice. I wouldn't think a skeleton is much of a drinker though.

[skelebro]

Not really, no. Gotta have magic to it, or it goes right on through me.

[He gestures at his ribcage for emphasis. He's not joking - it literally goes right through him.]

YOU SAW NOTHING.

[notjustinthemirror]

Magic huh? That common where you're from?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

[skelebro]

Monsters are kinda made of it, so yeah, I'd say so.

[notjustinthemirror]

I thought it was more a supernatural thing, but sure. Magic sounds fine.

So someone out there went through the trouble of magicking up some stuff just so you could eat it?

[skelebro]

All our stuff back home is just made with it. No different than cookin' up something non-magic, I'm assuming.

Converts straight to energy, though. 'S nice. No digesting, just cuts out the middle man.

[notjustinthemirror]

If everything is magical, does that make non-magical shit unique?

[skelebro]

I dunno. I guess human food was kind of a novelty, 'cause it went all the way through ya.

[He hums thoughtfully for a second, drumming phalanges against the rim of the device.]

Depends on what it was, I guess.

[notjustinthemirror]

Take excitement where you can, huh?

[skelebro]

Only thing we could do, you feel me? Not much else to pass the time down there.