Ω 01

[boeshane_boy]

This could be worse.

It's bound to be better than the last bar I was at, anyway - speaking of, stay away from the Gliese system, kids. They aren't very friendly there. I've had better service in the Silver Devastation; and the hypervodka was watered down. Huge disappointment.

So I guess this is a fresh fresh start. Captain Jack Harkness, at your service. I'll be a warden here for a while. Now, who wants to start the introductions? I've got all the time in the world.

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[boeshane_boy]

Oh. Well, I'm kind of disappointed, now.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

Dear boy, I'm an angel. I don't do any - feeling. Ever.

[boeshane_boy]

An angel. Well, that's new.

..None? Whatsoever?

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

I do get that reaction.

And no, never in all the years of my existence. You would not be mistaken in applying "forever".

[boeshane_boy]

That's kind of depressing.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

I don't see it that way, as you might imagine.

[boeshane_boy]

I'm having trouble imagining it at all, actually. You've never even tried?

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

Absolutely not! My word. In case it escaped you, angels that disobey the Rules are no longer angels.

[boeshane_boy]

Those rules sound extremely unfortunate.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

Some think so, which is why they're demons. But there's always rules somewhere.

[boeshane_boy]

Fair enough. So, we have angels on board, how about demons?

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

Most certainly. Some of them are almost benign and others are worse than you can imagine. Essentially the same as humans, by my measure, just with different abilities.

Of course, there aren't any of my world's brand of demons here, so my view is skewed.

[boeshane_boy]

I've had enough of demons to last me a lifetime. Or twenty-two lifetimes.

Let's make it a hundred lifetimes.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

So you aren't human?

I've been trying to puzzle out why you don't f register as normal.

[boeshane_boy]

Depends on how you define human.

[NICE CATCH.] I'm sure I must feel pretty strange.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

[ignoring now :|]

Are you indistinguishable from human aside from the fact that you've been alive for such a long time?

[boeshane_boy]

Like I said, depends. Humans do a lot of evolving.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

That's a curious answer. I'm sure you're not the same person you were a hundred years ago, and you can't mean evolution physically because people themselves don't individually evolve either.

[boeshane_boy]

No, but they breed. And when people get over things like romance between sexes, they'll get over sleeping with aliens. So humans in the twenty-first century aren't exactly what humans are in, say, the fifty-first.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

I don't exactly follow how that's relevant.

[boeshane_boy]

I'm not really human like humans are human in the twenty-first century. I'm a lot like humans are human in a later century. You spend centuries going out into space and reproducing with all kinds of aliens, and you get a new kind of human. So it depends on how you're defining human.

But sure. I'm like a human except for how old I am.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

...You're from that universe with all the Gallifreyans, aren't you?

I shouldn't even have to ask.

[boeshane_boy]

The Doctors? Yeah, that's the one.

[tartaned.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[boeshane_boy]

Is that somehow especially meaningful?