Quatre (Accidental video)

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

*Albedo's phone is lying discarded on a side table in Albedo's apartment room, recording him sitting with a length of cloth bandage within arm's reach, a knife in his left hand and his right hand unusually bare. He curls his fingers briefly, pressing the tips of his long, pointed nails into the red 667 tattoo on the middle of his palm before opening his hand again and slashing the knife across the number. Instead of reacting in pain, he closes his eyes and lets out a pleased moan.*

Ahhh...that ought to do it. How frail this body is, though, that even this much is the limit of what I can safely inflict.

*The video ends as he reaches for the bandages and starts wrapping his hand, although he clearly has no practice in such things.*

Comments

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Well then, it's a good thing that I have no concern for the typical conventions of society, isn't it?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Pfft, people just say that to excuse their laziness.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Laziness? Au contraire. Wouldn't you say that it took a good bit of extra effort to accomplish this?

*And he holds up the injured hand, which has the number completely covered now.*

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Well if you can deal with the pain of stabbing yourself, why can't you deal with living within the rules of society?

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

The so called rules of society are nothing more than arbitrary guidelines created to establish an idea of normalcy that people can hide behind and use to comfort themselves that they're in the right. It's a desperate ploy to convince themselves that humans are greater than beasts, even as they take part in acts of malice unheard of among supposed lesser creatures. Beings such as myself have no place within the standards of human society, and I would rather live by my own standards than attempt to deal with the arrogance that those of so-called pure origin direct upon those with abilities superior to theirs.

Aside from that, I happen to rather enjoy this pain.

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Well if it pleases you I guess you can do whatever you want in your home. Just as long as you don't decide to start enjoying the pain of people who you think you can look down on.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Oh? And you would stop me if I did?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

I'd do more than stop you.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Oh really? So certain, aren't you?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

The only thing that will save you is the fact that no one stays dead here.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Even in this human shell, I fail to see how a young woman is anything more than a brief diversion.

*He's just going to pick up his knife and lick the blood off of it now.*

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Heh, the arrogance of others has always been my greatest ally. Make sure your lick up all of that blood, since you're going to need every last drop.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

Scary scary. But are you sure you want to judge how well earned my pride is without knowing what I'm capable of?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

I know you're capable of losing horribly.