trenchcoatedly | 016 + THESE ARE BUT THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS [video]

Can you imagine what it must be like to be an ant?

Problems that humanity deals with would seem irrelevant - the warming of the planet and all it's related consequences, the population explosion and the subsequent issues, including overcrowding and famine, the expansion of information, and the overwhelming perseverance of human violence. But there would be other problems - like the catastrophe of the appearance of an anteater or another predator animal. There would be tasks like to gather food. And there would be nothing but the colony and the queen.

Now imagine if an ant were to become a human. How difficult it would be to grapple with basic bodily functions, and the variety of emotions and chemical responses each action and reaction brings. Even humans must learn to walk - can you imagine if an ant tried to learn to be bipedal? I imagine it would be a task more monumental than for a human to enter space.

It's difficult to think outside your boundaries, no matter what you start as. Difficult to understand something or someone on a scale dimensions different than yours.

This is how I feel the Admiral sees us.

[PRIVATE to Ivy]

How would you feel about beehives in the greenhouse? I think they would benefit the plants greatly.

[PRIVATE to the ADMIRAL]

Would you permit beehives to be added to the greenhouse?

[PRIVATE to DRACULA]

I'm sorry that I killed you.

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As ever, a beacon of cheer.

[A distantly terrifying, unnamedly dreadful beacon of cheer, but being matter-of-fact is how Stildyne handles that.]

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I believe the saying is "takes one to know one," Chief?

You're coming dangerously close to displaying a sense of humor, there.

I don't understand why this would be a terrible thing. Perhaps I would be creative next. Had I had dreams, I would dream of such a gift.

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[Dracula sounds...fine, actually. Neither distracted nor subdued, his voice is cheerful and has if anything more life in it than before.]

You did not kill me. That thing tore me up on the way out. I almost...knew it would.

Now I merely face the prospect of figuring out who I am now that it is gone.

It was quite tightly bound into you.

It seems you are granted the chance to make that decision for yourself.

I know. My wickedness did not begin when I became a vampire. There were plenty of cracks for the evil to get into me well before that.

Thanks to you and the Father I can look forward to the same basic freedoms as any thinking being, including the freedoms of moral choice and faith.

I have actually already made a few decisions on that front, though my head is still spinning some.

I am always listening, if you need to speak.

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If I am viewed as a human, then your Admiral truly has taken leave of their senses.

A human and an ant is an analogy. It can be anything to any other thing infinite scales smaller. A bird to a whale. An angel to a rock.

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An applicable one, only if my captor is truly more advanced.

That is my suspicion.

Quite the speech, I'm impressed.

Thank you. Spoken language is not a strength of mine.

By any chance, do you speak from experience?

Yes.

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I suppose you would like some bees as well?

Yes.

Preferably Apis mellifera and/or Bombus terrestris.

It couldn't hurt, I suppose. Granted.

[Specifically Irish Dark Native breed ~~because your Admiral today is played by a bee nerd~~.]

If you're even remotely qualified to do the job you've set yourself, you shouldn't need consultation on a question so obvious.

As you live there, I only felt it fair to ask. I'm not asking based on how it would help the greenhouse, only for your comfort.

Ants are designed to follow specific behavioral patterns that have been integrated into their systems. They are a hive-mind. They don't have individual though. They must protect the colony, or protect the queen. Even if they were to become human, they wouldn't be able to comprehend the problems humanity deals with on a daily basis.

But to suggest that the Admiral sees us as bugs, small, seemingly defenseless creatures, well, that, I can agree with. But most insects bite, and one day he'll come out from the safety of his control room and get bit.

I think it's more a question of scale. For a human to imagine to be an ant, or an ant to imagine to be a blade of grass - it's simply a matter of scale. In many ways, the same applies to any barge resident and the Admiral.

I see your point.

So to the Admiral, we're nothing but bugs in his farm and he's just a kid. We all know what children are capable of.

I do believe it's the admiral's intention to rehabilitate inmates; it simply struggles with scale and the exact method of doing this because it doesn't understand what it's like to be an ant - or any other thing besides it.

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