kismet_loop | [Video] Body Garden

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[Video] Body Garden

[The drone captures Dirge's huge form half in shadow perched on the roof of an old mausoleum, surveying the graveyard below like some hideous teal vulture.]

I don't understand...

[He mutters, claws tapping at the ancient stone statue of whomever is interred there curiously. He pinches the chin and squints into its eyes for a moment before shaking his head.]

What is the point of this ritual?

[Dirge jumps down, landing on all fours and crouching near a tombstone.]

What a terrible waste! Body parts are so very useful...

[He flicks the grave and it pitches forward a little.] Why bury them in the ground? Or lock them in boxes? Is someone saving these for later?

I know decaying organic can be used to grow things. People bring flowers, but they do not plant them.

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[To reply, or not to reply? Sam would waffle, but... someone should say something, and it might as well be her.]

Well, a part of it is to show respect for the dead. If the remains of the dead are treated in a disrespectful way, they're more likely to return as unhappy ghosts, and unhappy ghosts can do a lot to make the living unhappy alongside 'em.

What is so disrespectful about reusing them? They want to rot? To be wasted?

[He wishes now he had asked one of the ghosts that were around a few weeks back. Well, not the one specific ghost....who was still....around. Best not to think about him lest it somehow summon him.]

That... varies a lot, depending on what a person believes. On one end of the spectrum, some people get their remains buried with things specifically for their use after life, but on the other end of the spectrum some people have their remains cremated and the ashes scattered. Different people have sometimes very different ideas about respectful remains-handling.

After life? [Do others have the ability he and his siblings possess...? Dirge's optics shift to the side.]

[And then he scowls.] Why do they care anyhow? They're dead!

The 'next world,' or 'underworld,' or wherever it is a spirit goes upon 'moving on.'

So? There's a difference between being dead and being dead and gone, and the dead being unable to use a thing doesn't mean they're no longer interested in what befalls it. You got stuff you can't use because you're too big, but I bet you still care what becomes of your stuff.

Wait- There is something after death? [Why has no one told him about this?]

I don't have to be able to use something to own it. [He scoffs. Which really just proves her point.]

So basically, you're telling me ghosts will be pissed if I take their dead bodies. [Why are ghosts always potentially angry with him?]

Sure seems like it.

See? Ghosts don't have to be able to use something to own it either!

Ghosts got a rep for being possessive.

It is about remembering. Besides, I’d be willing to bet most of those graves are empty and just the markers are there to remember those who were here and then vanished.

Empty!? [He frowns down at one, clearly unhappy to have been tricked. He was promised dead bodies!]

So....this is just for memories. Sort of a placeholder for the person who is gone?

Most likely. [He's sure not all of them are empty, but is guessing a lot of them are.]

That's what any memorial is for, Dirge. It's a place to remember those gone, either lost to the badlands before, the Miasma now, or to death. So yes, it's "just" a place of memories.

[Look around enough and you might find a marker for him and Drift...since they left the city only for the Lambda to bring in a different version of the two of them...Talk about strange when they came back shortly before Unicron attacked. That was surreal.]

[Dirge considers this, grabbing the grave he had knocked askew and tilting it back into position. He stares at it for a few moments before speaking again.]

A place to be remembered when you're gone. [He taps his chin with a talon.]

I wonder...

[His optics brighten abruptly.] You know what? I think I know someone who needs a grave.

[Head tilts a bit to the side.]

And who would that be?

Someone that really wanted to be remembered. [He is grinning now.]

How does one go about getting a marker made and placed here?

[And Wing is very, curious. But he asked straight out who is was and Dirge did not answer. He won’t press.]

There might be some unmarked ones in the warehouse. I could get one for you.

If not there, then you might have to make it yourself.

Good, yes. Do that. Do you know anyone who can make statues with pretty good likenesses?

[Considers] I'm not sure. Perhaps you can ask around the hub to see if someone in the area would have such skills.

[He points at the screen.] No threatening anyone to get what you want. You offer a trade, something they might want in return for what you want from them, understood?

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