[Spooky graveyard fog has definitely got Ryou's attention! Yeah, this is so cool! It's like a horror movie, you know someone's gonna die here and add to the body count. It's inevitable. Don't mind him, he's just going to all but press his face against the cab window.
...Though what Atem says to him does grab his attention. How could it not? It's true. He smiles, but it's not an entirely happy one.]
It is interesting. I wouldn't have minded being a shade, I suppose, if I could just eat normal food. But, um. It's really difficult. I'm sure all monsters feel their hunger differently, but for me, it's so terrible when that emptiness hits. It's all-encompassing, like it's eating me up. Knowing that I have to destroy someone, not just kill them, in order to sate that void...it's very difficult.
[He runs his fingers over Atem's coils again, slowly. Feeling out the scales individually.]
This body killed enough people before it changed. At least with those, as hard as it was, it wasn't really me doing the killing. Eating souls to stop the hunger? That is me.
cw; discussions of murder
...Though what Atem says to him does grab his attention. How could it not? It's true. He smiles, but it's not an entirely happy one.]
It is interesting. I wouldn't have minded being a shade, I suppose, if I could just eat normal food. But, um. It's really difficult. I'm sure all monsters feel their hunger differently, but for me, it's so terrible when that emptiness hits. It's all-encompassing, like it's eating me up. Knowing that I have to destroy someone, not just kill them, in order to sate that void...it's very difficult.
[He runs his fingers over Atem's coils again, slowly. Feeling out the scales individually.]
This body killed enough people before it changed. At least with those, as hard as it was, it wasn't really me doing the killing. Eating souls to stop the hunger? That is me.