✝ 1ST [video];

[the12th]

[the device has been simple enough for Kaworu to figure out. he's laying on his back on a couch somewhere, his silver hair splayed messily, and he's smiling at the device that he's holding out straight ahead, both of his arms fully extended.]

This place is very strange.

It's amusing enough, but I wonder—are people's dreams here always broadcasted like that? It makes for an interesting first impression, to bare the psyche unwittingly like that. It's almost... intimate. Right? Isn't it? Does it feel violating, for someone having seen your dreams?

Comments

[the12th]

Not if I'm looking straight at something... Like having food in your mouth...?

[wait no, so confusing]

[sniffdeceit]

Have you never looked at something but purposefully avoided registering parts of it?

[the12th]

—I don't think so... Do people do that?

[sniffdeceit]

Sure!

Well, sometimes. Like when they try not to look directly at something for fear that it might offend someone.

[Not that Terezi had ever done much of that even when she could see.]

[the12th]

[how can people even care about offending other people???? Kaworu can't even imagine such a scenario.]

Looking at something can offend a person? How?

[sniffdeceit]

You really don't understand how?

I thought that sort of thing was even worse with humans?

[the12th]

Is it?? They do seem perplexingly sensitive about inconsequential things...

[sniffdeceit]

They? Are you saying you're not one?