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[selfconcept]

[ Sometimes you arrive with an open wound and bleed out while trying to eat everyone. Hien follows Obikawa to IHOP. ]

"I'm surprised that you came to find me."

[voring]

[Having to go to IHOP for drinks is hilarious even knowing it's not a real IHOP. Just conceptually.]

Yeah? I heard a little about what happened from the fishing boy.

[Whenever they get there, he will pick a table by a window and start them with beers.]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien definitely feels disoriented about that concept alone, but drinks? Drinks. ]

"Fishing boy..."

[ How many people did you go fishing with, Obikawa. Though he supposes it doesn't matter. He takes a swig of the beer. ]

"Were you worried about me?"

[voring]

[Drinks! Why suffer when you can simply drink beer in the Purgatory IHOP...]

Blonde one. [There are so many fucking blonde people here so he adds:] The one who was with you and that other guy.

[HE DOESN'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT SYLUS!! He'll also drink, though. Was it worry? Maybe some shadow of it. He's not entirely sure.]

What are you missing this time?

[selfconcept]

[ Ah. Okay. Hien nods. To have Lucien explain all that... Man. ]

"My sense of taste. I could probably chug absinthe without feeling I hate myself."

[ BUT HE CAN'T TASTE FOOD!! AND HIS SENSE OF SMELL IS HALFWAY MESSED UP!! The joys of eating food... gone... ]

[voring]

[Lucien who was so Lucien about it...

Not the way this is truly such a devastating sense to lose though LOOKS AT HIEN WITH THE SAD EYES OF PITY.]

Woah. Sucks! At least it'll come back but even a day without being able to taste is sad. Should we get some?

[Absinthe for him to chug without hating himself...]

[selfconcept]

"Are there any? They're usually illegal for being so potent and even if they're legal somewhere, they're usually mixed with water to dilute it a bit. I drink that shit straight. Not that I care about the law, but it just makes availability a hassle."

[ Apparently:

You can't drink absinthe neat because its extremely high alcohol content (often 106-148 proof/53-74% ABV) and strong, bitter botanical flavors overwhelm your taste buds, burning them and making it harsh, dangerous, and unpleasant; dilution with cold water (often over a sugar cube) is essential to release its complex aromas and flavors, creating the signature "louche" (cloudiness) and a palatable drink.

This is Hien's go-to drink when he wants to get fuckin smashed. ]

[voring]

[absinthe really is so strong i think about how they don't even sell real absinthe in the us and even our version is still so fucjing strong. i think I've only ever had it in a corpse reviver...

But he just raises his shoulders a little!]

Sure, sure! They have whatever else, so why not that? It's not like this place cares about the kind of rules people are used to at home, anyway.

[JUST MANIFESTS A WHOLE BOTTLE OF ABSINTHE FOR THE TABLE.]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien just looks at the bottle like.

?

?????? ]

"Is this also made from your hair? Does it even use up your hair? Is it like shedding????"

[voring]

[THE WAY I MEANT LIKE HOW FOOD JUST MANIFESTS ON ITS OWN IN FOOD LOCATIONS but this is funnier so rolls with it]

Like I said, I'm a god! I can make anything! Don't need hair for it.

[Why are the rules of object manifestation so weird why can he make [redacted] and [redacted] but not [redacted]. WHATEVER it's purgatory powers glitch i can do what i want]

[selfconcept]

"Do you sometimes make food for yourself that way?"

[ purgatory glitch is a lifesaver

Hien reaches out to take the bottle and just opens it. Cork? Gone. Screw? Gone. Whatever it was capped with, it's gone now. Hien doesn't give a shit about proper etiquette. He pours some for Obikawa and himself in a glass cup. Are they wine cups? Is this IHOP fancy enough for that?

Regardless, cheers. He holds his glass up. ]

[voring]

Nah, not food, really.

[Thinking about how he had groceries delivered to his mountain house... But he'll reach for a glass! This IHOP can be fancy enough for that. This IHOP can be anything we want it to be.

He'll also hold his glass up and tap it against Hien's.]

You go first, this smells crazy.

[selfconcept]

"Good thing I can't smell things as good as before."

[ He rolls his eyes either way and just knocks back the entire glass. It burns. Jesus. ]

"... Damn."

[voring]

[Just watches him rawdog an entire glass of absinthe like an absolute maniac.]

Wow, you really went for it. Did you taste its angry ghost?

[Takes a little test sip of his and immediately makes a wrinkle nose cat face.]

[selfconcept]

"I didn't taste anything..."

[ He's convinced that he'll be tasteless forever and not in the way his vision occasionally flickered back.

But then he almost snorts at Obikawa's face. ]

[voring]

Has it been coming back every now and then? But even when you were blind, you were blind a lot more than I couldn't hear...

[because SOMEONE keeps saying DIE TO SWEET HIEN WHO HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG. He takes another sip and immediately eats something to chase it.]

Tastes like burning.

[selfconcept]

[ he has done everything wrong ]

"So far, no. But then again, it's not like I eat something constantly."

[ Surprisingly. ]

"Should we call this edible acid?"

[voring]

[takes him out of your demon hands...]

Woah. I guess that's true, though...

[SHOKKU but you really do see way more than you eat even if you're a big eater... His head tilts a little at that though and he just laughs.]

Yeah! It's basically the same thing. I think humans could use this stuff in war, probably.

[selfconcept]

"Humans got more potent stuff for cheap and 'legally', so I doubt it. It's all about them moolah, or something."

[ Money... it's always money..................... ]

[voring]

[IT'S ALWAYS MONEY... He just hums and takes another sip.]

You sound ancient when you talk like that, you know?

[selfconcept]

"Yeah? I'm a fucking fossil."

[ Obikawa is not the first person to tell Hien that.............. ]

"And I'm not gonna get any younger. How old are you, anyway."

[voring]

[HE JUST LAUGHS. Hien... a fossil who may even out-fossil him if only by virtue of existing everything everywhere all at once-core.]

Yeah, time only goes one way! [Even for gods!] I've been around since the earth was ice and mostly still ocean.

[His 700 million years that predates doors...]

[selfconcept]

"The ice age?"

[ Was that 700 million years ago... he doesn't know. He just knows that's like world-contained Ancient. ]

[voring]

Those were later! [Only a comparative 2.4 million years ago apparently...] It was way before that. Snowball earth!

[selfconcept]

"Oh, like real ice age."

[ He's good at human history--not... ancient history. Nothing's important there for him!! ]

"I dunno how old I am, but I feel it. Wait, aren't you a snake? How did you even live when it was so cold? Did you make yourself a long sweater for yourself?"