Doppelgängers
Feb. 23rd, 2004 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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evil_grapefruit and I were talking about the pervasive notion of The Evil Twin. I told her about telling someone a little whlie ago, when he suggested blaming something on my evil twin, that I am probably in fact the evil one.
Everyone talks about having an evil twin, but that's actually impossible. Only half the population can have evil twins; the other half would have to have good twins. But you never hear about those, do you?
We speculated on what Pol Pot's good twin would be like, for a while, and I said that Hitler's would be a happy vegetarian who got into art school and had some crazy ideas about politics. Et cetera.
The two of us concluded that Jenn, in fact, must be the evil twin, because anyone more evil than her would assuredly be a serial killer or otherwise famous and on TV, so we'd know about it. Besides, it would be relatively easy to imagine someone angelic being horrified at some of the things Jenn has done--she manipulates men, she's belligerent towards children, she wants to sendcomradexavier a dead fish in the mail ...
evil_grapefruit and I were talking about the pervasive notion of The Evil Twin. I told her about telling someone a little whlie ago, when he suggested blaming something on my evil twin, that I am probably in fact the evil one. Everyone talks about having an evil twin, but that's actually impossible. Only half the population can have evil twins; the other half would have to have good twins. But you never hear about those, do you?
We speculated on what Pol Pot's good twin would be like, for a while, and I said that Hitler's would be a happy vegetarian who got into art school and had some crazy ideas about politics. Et cetera.
The two of us concluded that Jenn, in fact, must be the evil twin, because anyone more evil than her would assuredly be a serial killer or otherwise famous and on TV, so we'd know about it. Besides, it would be relatively easy to imagine someone angelic being horrified at some of the things Jenn has done--she manipulates men, she's belligerent towards children, she wants to send
comradexavier a dead fish in the mail ...![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-02-23 04:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-23 04:39 pm (UTC)Hmmm... none of that's really exciting enough to be considered "evil," is it? I'll just have to try harder.
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:57 pm (UTC)Jenn aka THE evil grapefruit
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Date: 2004-02-23 09:13 pm (UTC)ComradeXavier: Oh, thank you!
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Date: 2004-02-24 09:58 am (UTC)(As a completely pointless aside, one of my favorite pieces of jewelry is a dead smelt in latex that I wear as a brooch. I've had it for nearly 15 years now, and worn it while working at terribly stuffy conservative companies. It escapes notice for the most part, until someone does a double take while talking to me about acquisition documents and says "Oh My Goodness!! That's a dead fish!!" I try to make it easier for them by wearing fish skeleton earrings with my dead fish pin, in keeping with the whole deceased piscine theme, but somehow it never manages to clue them in. Poor fools... Note to self - this is especially fun during job interviews, particularly when paired with an extremely conservative suit and shoes.)
As for the evilness question, my orientation seems to unfortunately be "chaotic good" (and I'm also third halfling on the left in all class pictures between sixth and eighth grade). I do bad things, not necessarily on purpose but mainly from thoughtlessness and impulsivity, and feel gut-wrenchingly guilty over them afterwards, thus negating all the "cool" badness, and making it merely mediocre, anxious badness.
Helga
-sheep in wolf's undershorts
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Date: 2004-02-24 10:18 am (UTC)FUnny you should mention "chaotic good"--I really do think that's Jenn's true descriptio; she and I reached this conclusion in some earlier D&D-related conversations. Except she doesn't always feel guilty afterwards. Sometimes she does, but not always. :-)
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Date: 2004-02-24 10:40 am (UTC)Now <ljuser=evil_grapefruit> will just have to send that dead fish in tupperware to someone else. Preferably a random, non-lj-using target. Of course, if she wants to have a signature method of jaking someone, she could always buy lots of grapefruit in bulk, keep them in a warm, damp storage facility, and then mail them to random strangers. In lo-budget tupperware, of course, which she has also bought in bulk. This is particularly effective when the said tupperware is covered in Hello Kitty stickers and pink glitter. Alternatively, the grapefruit could be preserved, and be accompanied by little leather whips. Still using the Hello Kitty and glitter, of course, as an aesthetic contrast.
Even though my gaming skills are not highly developed (I still have to keep asking how to calculate points on dice throws even after having played in various gaming universes since the sixth grade, and can never seem to keep my character's abilities - or name - in mind for more than 3 seconds without referring to my character sheet), the gaming geek way of seeing the world seems quite natural. I've been describing people (to myself if nothing else) as chaotic/lawful evil/good for years now. This, in and of itself, is kind of scary.
Helga
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Date: 2004-02-24 10:42 am (UTC)Helga
-who is not a computer programmer for a reason
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Date: 2004-02-24 11:04 am (UTC)