HANS

[foreverphantom]

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w2, saturday

[foreverphantom]

[ walking into hans's shiny new prison cell ]

Well...how's it feel to be a "villain"?

[myadsharp]

[Wow, you can't come in here, this is a single-occupancy cell. Hans just cackles at him, he's probably lounging, I think there's a cot.]

Nyahaha! Most people woulda called me one anyway. Ain't many assassins out there people try to make into heroes for whatever reason.

[Yeah, who knows why? He thinks this is hilarious.]

[foreverphantom]

Yeah, well, you and me both, but here we are.

[ his expression is sour, but his mouth turns up just a little bit in a jaded grin ]

Looks like people always figure it out in the end, though, huh? Even if you didn't do it, they could still tell you qualified as a "villain."

[myadsharp]

Meow, what, the hero part?

[Danny is probably not a secret assassin but hey, stranger things have happened.

Hans watches his expression curiously; White Tiger really is a strange little conclave of People Stuck With Each Other.]

Don't matter what qualifies as a villain or not, ya know. This one was all about which of the options they liked better. [he doesn't seem bitter about that, it's a mix of amusement and matter of fact discussion] Same with the whole thing -- there ain't no real reason to vote fer the right one, so it's goin' to be a bloodbath, I'm thinkin'.

[foreverphantom]

Yeah.

[ his arms are folded, and as hans continues talking, he seems to hunch in on himself a little more ] I guess you're right. "Which option they liked better"... I guess it pays off to play nice.

People like Reigen a lot more than they like you.

[myadsharp]

Meow. What're you then, do ya think?

[More of that curiosity, careless and catlike.

It's hard to say if he's actually interested or just passing the time, but there's plenty of it while he's stuck here, anyway.]

Don't always matter to play nice, 'cause then ya might just get killed off by somebody who ain't. Just gotta use what you've got. [he should not be giving advice but here he is regardless] If yer talking about Reigen, though, seems like his job an' all's got a lot to do with people. Mine ain't really like that.

[Well. Assassins also deal with people just. You know. ☆]

[foreverphantom]

[ waves a hand dismissively ] It's not really my place to decide what I am. Or what I'm not.

Fine then, let me amend that to playing nice in public. But yes, I guess Reigen's job is a lot more...customer-facing than an assassin's would be.

[myadsharp]

Nyahaha! Yer a real funny kid, ain't ya? If ya can't decide what you are, how're you goin' to decide what anybody else is?

[Still laughing, he waves a hand back for no particular reason. He might just be a fidgety cat, considering the jail cell thing.]

I'm not an actor, though, meow. Playin' something I ain't for ages is just not my style. [yes, apparently, even if it leads to life or death situations -- I don't know what you expected] I got my customers, but I'd say we're meowre alike? Most of 'em are a bit different from a bunch o' heroes.

[foreverphantom]

I'm not deciding what anyone else is either.

...any regrets about any of that now that you're about to be executed?

[myadsharp]

Bit wishy-washy, ain't it? You're goin' to have to figure some o' that meowss out one of these days.

[Who wants to be lectured with cat puns? Nobody. To be fair, Hans is perfectly happy to drop it either way, he just likes commentating.]

Only gotta think about regrets if the execution goes through, don't I? Even if it does, though, if that's the time the reaper got me then that's it.

[Sometimes you've gotta be philosophical about these things.]

[foreverphantom]

Maybe. But not today, and not any time soon.

[ he raises an eyebrow at the philosophy of it all though ]

How very...fatalistic of you. You really don't mind dying tomorrow?

[myadsharp]

[He just snickers a little at being accused of fatalism after all of that, and shrugs.]

Ain't that I don't mind dyin', I think -- I got no intention to, but if it turns out I wasn't up to snuff after everything, then there ain't nothin' else I could have done. 'Sides, there ain't any regrets about the way I lived my life, so why would I harp on about the way it ends?

'Course, if there's somethin' going on after that, that'd be a different story.

[foreverphantom]

Would an afterlife be better, or worse?

[myadsharp]

Wouldn't know a thing about that, but last time I died it didn't exactly stick, so can't say I'm rulin' anything out either.

[foreverphantom]

No?

How did it not stick before?

[myadsharp]

We got some right crazy healers where I come from, an' that's in all definitions. Long as ya still got blood, Rolonia could drag ya back from the land o' the dead if she wanted to. That's what I got from it, anyway.

[A beat and then he lets loose a bit of a snicker.]

Why are ya asking me about the afterlife, anyway. Ain't you a ghost?

[foreverphantom]

I am, but it looks like every world handles death and the afterlife differently. A guy can't help but be curious.

[myadsharp]

Meow, if yer talkin' about religion an' all that it's a little different, so I'm guessin' ya mean the literal one.

[The literal death and afterlife...... Hans scratches his head a little.]

Like I said, though, yer the one who'd know more about that one. What's it like in yer neck o' the woods?