012 - Lemon Meringue

[deadly_ned]

Question.

Or, um. Query, if you will.


Why do we have the death toll?

Does it teach us anything? Don't go doing what you do or you'll get punished for it? And why a week's worth of suffering? Doesn't death make you suffer enough? I hear it can be painful.


Why just...not have a death toll? Can any, um.

Is there anyone else on board who can stop a death toll from happening?

Just.

Just curious.

[Strike visible to those with psychic powers]

Comments

[deadly_ned]

You're lucky. We're lucky. I hear it's terrible.

[silvestris]

Have you ever kicked it?

[deadly_ned]

No. I've never kicked anything. I tend to avoid kicking things if I can help it.

[silvestris]

[Omg Ned.]

Have you ever died?

[deadly_ned]

Not first-hand.

[silvestris]

I didn't know it came in second-hand. [Do tell.]

[deadly_ned]

Off-the-rack second-hand death you buy in a thrift shop? Sometimes.

[silvestris]

Now how does that work?

[deadly_ned]

How does what work? Death?

Why would I know how death works?

[silvestris]

Since death for you seems to be different I'd assume you do know a thing or two. But then, you are a man...

[deadly_ned]

Why does being a man have to do with knowing how death works?

[silvestris]

Do you want this to turn into a lecture on statistics and demographics?

[deadly_ned]

Everyone dies, men and women. The only statistics where death itself is concerned is what was populated in the field to begin with.

[silvestris]

Not everyone murders, and not everyone goes to the front lines. It's mostly men. Men are usually the ones taught about violence...we girls are just showed firsthand.

[She can't be so brusque with someone so...soft-seeming, though.] ...Doesn't seem like your field.

[deadly_ned]

It is true. Gender stereotypes having to do with violence which in turn leads to greater harm towards women than towards men. I'm not sure the gender gap of 5.3 years lived longer for women as compared to men makes up for it in the long run since more men kill more women than the other way around.



I...sometimes do work in a morgue.

[silvestris]

[She hides a giggle behind her hand.]

You're a morbid little thing, aren't you?

[deadly_ned]

Considering where we are - who we are - it's to be expected.

Isn't it?

[silvestris]

Well, where I'm from I suppose it is. You seem- sunnier than people I know.

[deadly_ned]

I make pies for a living. I attribute at least half of my sunniness to that.

[silvestris]

[Stop being cute and morbid, Ned. You'd fit in with her Gotham. It's unnerving.]

Well, as long as you don't go Sweeney Todd with it.

[deadly_ned]

I'm horrified by that reference, by the way.

And it wasn't Sweeney who baked the pies. He just provided the crucial ingredient.

[silvestris]

I should have paid more attention. As long as you don't turn into Mrs. Lovett, then. You'd have no shortage of Sweeneys volunteering here.

[deadly_ned]

You don't need to worry about that. I'm a vegetarian.

[silvestris]

I'd be off the hook, I hate meat pies anyway.

If I'm feeling homesick can I make a request?

[deadly_ned]

Of course.