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[casaposa]

[Somehow it all comes down to ole Sougo Okita being a bastard and the offer today is courtesy of Caesar hearing one too many times that his food is shit. Screw you, Sougo. His food's fine and he's going to get validation in the most roundabout way possible. Not that he needs it, but damn.]

We're offering free snacks if you visit the Roman Holiday today. It's a bath house, if you're unaware of it.

[There's a pause while he places a cigarette between his lips and raises the camera to show this fine establishment from the outside. Incredible. ]

That's all. Ciao.

[CHARMING.]

Comments

[spacedisaster]

Italia? Is another of the countries? So far I've met America and Lithuania, I didn't know there were more of them.

He can imagine why Caesar might like that one, given his origins.
[ Peter doesn't really mind smoking, he's been people engage in worse vices plenty often. ]

It's very tempting, more so these days. It's so hot outside. Are you their official PR guy?

[casaposa]

Don't tell me you actually believe they're nations? They may bear their country's name, but that's impossible.

[Because as much as he likes Italia, he takes that talk with a grain of salt and chalks it up to some weird nationalism. Nations can't be actual people.]

And no, I'm not. I make appointments for the baths and direct people while they're here. I have little to do with public relations.

[IF THAT ISN'T........obvious.]

[spacedisaster]

It's going to sound like I'm insane but...my biological father was a planet. He could change his matter and have a humanoid body. So the idea of having human-like representations of Earth's nations doesn't sound that far fetched to me.

Space is a big place, Caesar, there's all sort of special being out there. We know that the multiverse is real because otherwise none of us would be here. So never say never.

[ Peter has nee Too Much Shit™ not to believe it's a real possibility. ]

Oh thank god, I don't think you'd enjoy doing that, no.

[ YOU DON'T SAY. ]

[casaposa]

[That does sound insane, Mr. Starlord, and he squints at the screen, as if trying to read his expression.

Is this guy screwing with him? His father was a planet?

It sounds like an elaborate hoax, but from what he knows of the guy, it seems a bit beyond his ability to come up with a ploy like that.]

If I find out you're playing me, you'll pay for it. Your father was a planet? What does that make you, then?

[spacedisaster]

[ That it does, that is does. But life is already so goddamn weird... ]

If I were going to lie to you, I'd say something more convincing. My father was a celestial, a creature that was millions of years old. He started as a floating brain in the middle of space, then he built a planet around himself like a shield. He could create an humanoid extension of himself to interact with other beings. He was also the biggest jackass of the whole Galaxy.

Well, technically, half-god. But I lost my powers when he died so I'm mostly just human with a soemwhat higher endurance to pain.

[casaposa]

[What is he going to DO with you Peter?? This sounds like nonsense to the highest degree.]

You must know how this story sounds.

[Unbelievable, honestly, but he doesn't claim it's false. The half-god thing is something.

This whole story is just a lot of somethings.

But the death of his father pings him in a sympathetic way, even if he describes him as a the biggest jackass. He can't tell if it's done in good will or not.]

You shouldn't speak ill of your father, even if he was a jackass.

[spacedisaster]

[ Just smile and accept what he says? Sounds easy enough :) ]

Yeah but...looks around you. We live in an alien planet, we get tails and ears and a whole lot of other animal traits when a certain moon is in the sky. 'Weird as fuck' is our new normal.

Hah, well, yeah I'll give you that.

[ As for his father, Peter winces at Caesar's word but he can't find it in him to feel sorry about Ego's death. He regrets it had to happen, that his biological dad turned out to be evil, but he had to go, ]

He murdered a lot of people, my mother and siblings included, and was going to murder a whole lot more by expanding himself across the galaxy. trust me when I tell you he didn't have any remediable qualities, he only fathered children to use their power and further his goals.

He wasn't a jackass, he was a monster.