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[genitrix]

[Hello, Mallow Hallow, it's your resident spooky alien vampire ghost (no, seriously), and she's looking hungry for a good conversation. Wearing a strapless dress that shows off the extensive black spirals tattooed across her chest, shoulders, and down her arms, she's curled up in a comfy-looking chair in her and Kurloz's place, toying with the gold ring in her lower lip contemplatively before she begins to speak. Her accent is foreign, just a touch middle-eastern sounding, but mostly just alien.]

Hi there. In a place like this, it's nice to know that other people share one's interests. As it happens, I've got a major interest in body modification. Tattoos, piercings, you name it.

[She leans forward, looking inquisitive—though it's hard to tell without irises.]

Who wants to play show-and-tell?

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[genitrix]

Happens to the best of us. [She knows all too well the consequences of ego, but she tries to keep herself relatively humble. It's hard when you're so good-looking, you know.]

And what happened to the stripebeast?

[bigbadbasher]

Had to kill the damn thing to make it out alive. Ended up blowing it to hell with a pistol.

[genitrix]

My. You sound like you've been through quite a lot. Regardless, I've always found there's something fascinating about scars. Each one's a story.

[bigbadbasher]

'S'why I'm so fond of 'em, I suppose. Lived through plenty in my day, I've got the badges to show for it.

[genitrix]

I'm afraid I don't have any interesting scars to speak of. You seem like you must have had a much more interesting life than I did.

[note the past tense, there. it's not entirely true, but her life was so short that she often feels like she didn't accomplish much while she could.]

[bigbadbasher]

You mean before you came here?

[genitrix]

Well—yes, and no. Before I came here, but mostly before I died.

[She doesn't really look sad about it; she's had quite a long time to deal with it, after all.]

[bigbadbasher]

Oh.

[_{He's quite for a moment or two.}]

I didn't know that you could come here after you died.

[_{That has some pretty terrible implications for him.}]

[genitrix]

Apparently so. What's stranger still is I've been dead a very long time.

[She bats those blank eyes of her at him.] Ghost girl, and all.

[bigbadbasher]

Huh. Well isn't that something.

[_{He aggressively clears his throat.}]

Sorry to hear that, though.

[genitrix]

[She chuckles quietly.]

No need to be. It was a while ago, after all. And I'm living pretty well, for a dead girl.

[bigbadbasher]

Yeah, you're certainly not lookin' any worse for it. [_Leeeeeeer.]

[genitrix]

[She plays coy, offering a smile and shrugging one shoulder languidly.]

So I've been told. I could say the same of you, you know. I like your scars.

[bigbadbasher]

[_{He grins a big, stupid, girl-chasing grin.}]

Thanks. I like your tattoos.

[genitrix]

And you haven't even seen all of them yet.

[She raises her brows like she's challenging him.]

[bigbadbasher]

I'd like to remedy that, actually.

[_{He sounds like he's about 2 seconds away from a wink and a finger pistol.}]

[genitrix]

[She smirks at him, shifting her shoulders suggestively.]

Are you this forward with all the alien girls?

[bigbadbasher]

T'be honest with you, you're my first. Alien girl, anyway. [_Smirk.]

[genitrix]

Well, I'm honored. The least I can do is give you a good, long look.

[bigbadbasher]

[_{He chuckles quietly.}]

That so?

[genitrix]

Mm. If you're nice, I might even let you touch.

[This is almost too easy. But her favorite pastime is flirting—well, second to smashing the patriarchy—so she doesn't even think twice.]

[bigbadbasher]

Mm, I would dearly love to be in the position to do that sometime.

[genitrix]

Well, Sebastian, you just let me know if you get bored, and we'll talk.

[bigbadbasher]

Don't you worry. I'm sure I'll have plenty of free time once, uh... well, once Jim's sorted out.

[genitrix]

Oh, yes. How is he?

[How does she switch from suggestive to motherly at the drop of a hat? Nobody knows.]