Niko Bellic | Network 002

[vengeance_driven]

[Public | Audio]

I would like to say that I do not intend to eat my hound. He is a good dog. He protects me.

Those are not all the words I said.

I won't eat my beast either. She keeps creepers away. I also wouldn't eat her if she didn't keep creepers away.

[Niko's explanations at their finest.]

Comments

[givessweetness]

…Well, it's just a little odd that your mind went to eating when asked your opinion on 'pets to wildlife'. [It is a little odd, right? He doesn't know humans all that well.]

[vengeance_driven]

That wasn't all I said! [He's so frustrated and he hates journalists/documentaries even more now. He's going to just not be honest ever when a camera is pointed at him. Or break it. It wouldn't be the first time he needed to when they wouldn't turn it off.]

[Though he doesn't mean to yell at Wynter.] Sorry. It's ah... I was talking about living on a farm. I grew up poor in the Balkans. We raised most of our own food, what the government did not take or tax.

That was just the smallest bit of it. That there is something between pets and wildlife.

[givessweetness]

Oh. [Well, that was what farms were, even if… well, there is not a lot of subsistence farming going on on Gallifrey.] Well, I see. I'm sorry you were misquoted. [Which is, at least, a concept that Wynter's more at home with.]

[vengeance_driven]

Yes, well. Journalism hasn't been so kind to me or my people. I am used to our bombed out houses being on the news and no one actually doing anything about it.

[He has strong feelings about that stuff.]

[givessweetness]

Oh, I see.

[Of course his instincts are telling him that they don't interfere, because that would disrupt their own development but within their own culture that's a more iffy proposition.]

[vengeance_driven]

[It's good that he doesn't, because after what he and his family have been through he has strong feelings about that sort of thing. Narvin already rubbed them the wrong way with his commentary on the sacrifice of soldier lives.]

I am not so trusting of their intentions.

[givessweetness]

Well, no. No one trusts the intentions of the press. ...Or if they do, it tends not to last. [Because they'll end up shafted one way or another.]

[vengeance_driven]

I hope you're right.

Most people in America would just eat up what the news told them, so I do hope you are right with these people being different.

[givessweetness]

Really?

[That is just weird. Even the admittedly new Wynter doesn't trust the news. Though, he supposed it was more a defensive 'they'll misquote me' rather than a 'they'll lie to me' instinct. Only rational thought brings the two together.]

I suppose only time will tell.