JIAOQIU

[foreverphantom]

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[fried]

Of course you are. [ vaguely amused. ]

[ folds his arms. ]

I was told you missed me.

[foreverphantom]

[ ALARM. ]

What?! Who said that?!

[fried]

[ he is SO amused. ]

I actually have no idea. It was sent to me as an unaddressed letter.

[foreverphantom]

[ hisses ] Coward.

[fried]

Even if it wasn't, I wouldn't have told you. I don't intend to encourage more violence.

[foreverphantom]

Well, they were lying.

[ emotionshare says that it was true, actually, ]

[fried]

[ hehe. ]

I don't believe you! [ cheerfully. ] I missed you too, despite your very awful letters aimed to get a rise out of me.

[foreverphantom]

A terrible and incomprehensible choice on your part.

[fried]

I am known for making terrible choices.

[foreverphantom]

Yeah, good luck getting redeemed after deciding to miss me, of all people.

[fried]

I'm sure I've done quite enough to balance out whatever that is worth.

[ a beat, then: ]

I'm of half a mind to force you to apologize to the people you were terrorizing, but I think you would not be sincere in doing it.

[foreverphantom]

[ scoffs ] I've been dead and isolated from all of you, who have I been terrorizing?

[fried]

The other dead, so I hear. There were more of you than us, by the end of things.

[foreverphantom]

Hear from who?! I've barely done anything! I didn't even kill Firefly!

[fried]

Calm down.

[ tail swish. ]

You did tell me that. Again, I'm not giving names. And I can only tell you what I've heard - you'll have to fill me in on the rest.

[foreverphantom]

Hmph. Whatever. It's what I'm best at anyway, I should just embrace it.

[fried]

No.

[ thwacks him with his fan on the arm. not hard, just enough. ]

You should not. [ ... ] You do seem less angry.

[foreverphantom]

[ shrugs a shoulder ] Having even some of my powers back helped keep me sane.

...that, and even I can't sustain nonstop rage for that long.

[fried]

You certainly seemed ready to try.

Tell me about your powers? What can you do?

[foreverphantom]

Oh, you know...

Fly, turn invisible and intangible, manipulate ectoplasm as energy blasts or as a solid constructed into whatever I want it to be, telekinesis, possession, and my Ghostly Wail. Just for starters.

[ he sounds soooooo fucking smug tallying these all off on his fingers ]

[fried]

That's a large collection of abilities.

[ woah... he is suitably impressed. ]

A Ghostly Wail? Some sort of... stunning attack, perhaps?

[foreverphantom]

[ PREENS under someone finally fucking appreciating his powers

he scoffs at the question tho ]

Stunning as an extension of wide-scale destruction, sure. I can level entire city blocks in one go with it. It's so strong that not even specially designed anti-ghost machinery can withstand it.

[ ...or it used to, at least. ]

[fried]

[ jiaoqiu has like one whole ability total so it's pretty impressive!! ]

I see. [ ear flick. ] Well, I'm glad that it does not do so here. We don't need more destruction.

[ ... ]

So, you are physically strong again, but what about emotionally? Have you worked on what we talked about all those weeks ago?

[foreverphantom]

...maybe.

[ which is really code for I don't know. ]

[fried]

[ a little bit of amusement. ]

Maybe? What a vague answer... [ teases him ]