I mean, here's what's realistically gonna happen.
If I see a fairy at my door, it's just gonna be like. "Wait, what is this". Fairies are small, so there's no real ... presence to them. They're just tiny! Unless they're human-sized, in which case my first impression is "what's this cosplayer doing here." I'd be more confused than anything else.
If this fairy cast a spell which imparted knowledge into my brain, well, I mean first of all, if it could do that, it could give me all the surprise it wanted. But the option on the poll wasn't "fairy surrounded by an aura which will destroys your brain and increases your level-of-surprise to an arbitrary level", it was "fairy". Of course, if it merely bewitched me with a spell that caused me to believe anything that it said, and said "I am a fairy, and I am real" ... well, I certainly wouldn't have any reason to doubt it after the spell wore off! I'd definitely have to lie down for a bit, it'd be a great big mind-bender that I'd have to unpack for a while, and it's certainly shocking. But once the initial shock has worn off, and it's gotten what it wanted out of the conversation, like ... okay, I'll just have to deal with that now. I didn't know fairies were real until a minute ago, so I can't make any definitive statements about how they work. This might as well happen.
(I also disagree with the idea I've seen third-hand that if you're less-surprised by the fairy, you're gullible and superstitious or whatever. In the scenario described by the poll, fairies are real! This hypothetical scenario is one in which they actually exist! It is reasonable to believe in something which is genuinely real when you see it with your own eyes! *cackle*cackle*cackle* Hiiihihihihihihih! ... sorry.)
Whereas with a walrus, my thought process is gonna be "HOLY SHIT IT'S A WALRUS", since walruses are big and instinctively potentially dangerous. And walroids have a very clearly defined set of behaviors, which does not include knocking on doors, and a highly specific range of locations where you'll find them, which does not have any overlap with landlocked houses, let alone the umpteenth floor of an apartment building, which means that my next several questions are going to be "HOW!? WHY??? WHAT." in no particular order.
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Dick: Let's play two truths and a lie!
Tim: Okay, I have a higher kill count than Damian and Jason combined, I'm pansexual, and I'm toying with the idea of becoming a supervillain when Bruce dies for real.
Dick:
Dick: I don't like this game anymore
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dick: truth or dare
damian: i do not want to play your mindless games, richard.
dick: come on dami, you want tim to beat you?
damian: i was not aware that this game had a point system… get prepared to forfeit out of embarrassment, drake
tim: whatever baby bat, answer his question truth or dare?
damian: *tt* truth, as i have nothing to hide
dick: why do you call tim by his last name and the rest of us by our first? i thought you two have gotten better?
damian: dare
dick: i dare you to answer the question
tim: i also would like to know
damian: *mumbles something*
dick: what was that??
tim: speak up gremlin
damiam: *begrudgingly* drake means dragon, and that is really cool
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