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riverview2017-04-09 05:51 pm
onthehalfshell) wrote in riverview2017-04-09 05:51 pm
@wikus.vandermerwe: Video (Warning: Some Body Horror)
[The video starts with the view blocked by a hand. The view shakes a little.]
Is this started- right. Okay.
[The hand draws back, revealing a rather mousy brunet man. He's smiling, but his lips keep twitching as if they might collapse into a frown at any moment. His gaze keeps flicking away from the camera, as if he's having trouble keeping even virtual eye-contact. The nervousness might have something to do with the fact that his left eye and hand are distinctly not human, and there are several inflamed patches on his left cheek where something dark and chitinous pokes through the skin.
He tries to fold his hands, twitches slightly when the human right touches the inhuman left, and settles for strumming his fingers on the table instead.]
Since we're all going to be living and working together in this city for the next couple years, I thought it would be good introduce myself. Less of a, uh, surprise that that way.
I am Wikus van de Merwe, and I am- was- an employee of…
[Trailing off, he seems to think better of that particular fact.]
I'm from Johannesburg. That's in South Africa, for those of you, ah, familiar with Earth and it's countries. I grew up there, and it's where I live with my beautiful wife, Tania, who I know is- she's waiting for me to come home, and-
[Another pause, this one accompanied by placing a hand on his forehead and inhaling deeply through his nose. It takes a few moments before he's ready to speak again.]
Anyway, if you're worried about this- [He lifts his alien hand, clenching and unclenching tentacle-like fingers.] You don't need to worry about this. I'm not- it's not contagious or anything. I just had a little accident and- Ow!
[He claps his hand to his mouth, coughs, then promptly spits something out. It's hard to tell given the camera's focus, but it looks like it might be a tooth.]
Fok-! [The alien hand reaches out and the video ends.]
Is this started- right. Okay.
[The hand draws back, revealing a rather mousy brunet man. He's smiling, but his lips keep twitching as if they might collapse into a frown at any moment. His gaze keeps flicking away from the camera, as if he's having trouble keeping even virtual eye-contact. The nervousness might have something to do with the fact that his left eye and hand are distinctly not human, and there are several inflamed patches on his left cheek where something dark and chitinous pokes through the skin.
He tries to fold his hands, twitches slightly when the human right touches the inhuman left, and settles for strumming his fingers on the table instead.]
Since we're all going to be living and working together in this city for the next couple years, I thought it would be good introduce myself. Less of a, uh, surprise that that way.
I am Wikus van de Merwe, and I am- was- an employee of…
[Trailing off, he seems to think better of that particular fact.]
I'm from Johannesburg. That's in South Africa, for those of you, ah, familiar with Earth and it's countries. I grew up there, and it's where I live with my beautiful wife, Tania, who I know is- she's waiting for me to come home, and-
[Another pause, this one accompanied by placing a hand on his forehead and inhaling deeply through his nose. It takes a few moments before he's ready to speak again.]
Anyway, if you're worried about this- [He lifts his alien hand, clenching and unclenching tentacle-like fingers.] You don't need to worry about this. I'm not- it's not contagious or anything. I just had a little accident and- Ow!
[He claps his hand to his mouth, coughs, then promptly spits something out. It's hard to tell given the camera's focus, but it looks like it might be a tooth.]
Fok-! [The alien hand reaches out and the video ends.]
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[Just a tooth, no worries, happens all the time! Hahaha. Ha.
Internal screaming.]
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I think you should go see a doctor again-
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[He is not fine. The transformation had actually seemed to stop for awhile and now... Yeah.]
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Are you sure?
I mean, people will worry.
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[Is it bitterness over how he was treated back home or projecting his own personal flaws? Why not both!]
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Don't let anyone screw you over, man, just because they seem nice on the surface.
[Possibly proving Kaneki's point a little bit, because he is kind of worried about the nice kid who seems awfully naive in the face of Wikus's own jaded attitude.]
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except that one time when a girl tried to eat him. And that other time one of his school mates turned out to be a psycho. Or that guy who tried to feed him to ghouls. Or when said guy tried to eat Kaneki. and maybe this other time when his friend's brother kidnapped him.
FAITH IN PEOPLE IS GREAT IDK WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ]
I'm not sure about that. I just think that it's important to be kind. You just need that to be happy. [ his mom's words.
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[Just look, he helped Christopher and his son and he's still miserable! Nevermind that helping isn't necessarily the same thing as being kind.]
Are YOU happy?
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[He means it, too. Let the kid be happy while he can.
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