video / un: DocHolliday

[ihavecharacter]

[At first it's just an eyebrow with some muttering about stupid contraptions.] How does this thing work?

[He pulls it closer, but there's an eye now. You wanted to see an eye, right?] And just how are you supposed to tell if it is working?

[He sighs before holding it a little farther away.] Well, I do not know if it is working. This thing is unusual at best. I suppose I might as well make an introduction. Hello. [He goes to tip the hat that is not there before making an annoyed expression and moving on.] My name is John Henry, but you may call me Doc. If anyone is better with these things, I believe I may be in need of some instruction.

Unless I am talking to myself. [This is said softer and meant to be mostly to himself.] Perhaps I ought to stop this before I make even more of a fool of myself.

Comments

[ihavecharacter]

Not terribly no

Yes

We did not have anything similar to this

Electricity was still fairly new where i am from

[nostalgiabomb]

[ Peter rereads the message a couple times, then, ]

right

okay

and where would you happen to be from?

[ihavecharacter]

Well now that is a little complicated

For I was in November of 1887

But then I came up for air in 2017

And the story behind that is even more complex to explain

[nostalgiabomb]

[ Peter rereads THESE messages a few times, too. A few moments later, ]

yeah okay

you're screwing with me, right?

[ihavecharacter]

I have no reason to lie

My name is John Henry Holliday

History considers me dead

I am quite alive as you can see

[nostalgiabomb]

[ Yeah, okay. Unfortunately (or possibly fortunately for all parties involved?) Peter was more of a space kid than he was a cowboys and Wild West kid, so the name kind of goes over his head. ]

if that's the case, then you're looking pretty good for a dead guy

[ Based on what Peter saw from the brief video from earlier. ]

[ihavecharacter]

[It's just one of those things, really. One of the few times he has just said so to people who are not the Earps, Dolls, the Revenants, or Waverly and Wynonna's aunt and it is all rather lackluster.]

Well, thank you. I am blessed with good looks.

[nostalgiabomb]

gotta say, then, you're taking to this whole technology pretty well, all things considered

you sure you actually need help with any of it?

[ihavecharacter]

I was previously in 2017

I am sure there is a lot I do not comprehend

[nostalgiabomb]

right, yeah, the 2017 thing

so does that make you a zombie or something? or immortal? or just really well put together for a guy who's like 100+ years old?

[ihavecharacter]

I do not believe I could claim that

the zombie thing

I just do not age

[nostalgiabomb]

immortal then? or is it like a doomed to walk the earth until someone breaks a curse for you thing

[ihavecharacter]

Immortal I guess is the closest to it

Does seem an unusual curse

[nostalgiabomb]

okay next question:

long life immortality? or can't be killed immortality? like if you get stabbed would you end up being totally good or does that take you out, same as most anyone?

[ihavecharacter]

I have not tested being killed but given I have had my ass kicked I think I would still be out if I was stabbed in the right place. I just cannot get sick or age.

[nostalgiabomb]

huh

still pretty neat either way

least you don't have to worry about getting taken out by tetanus or something

[ihavecharacter]

That would be mighty unfortunate

I have seen many unfortunate accidents

Though I am told that tetanus now has a vaccine

[nostalgiabomb]

fair, yeah, maybe not tetanus so much

the common cold, then