[I think it was the other way around for the breathing thing man. Two blinks means he can't breath. No blinking would mean he can breath.]

That doesn't seem a sensible system. Why would I make no blinks the breathing one?

[You are kind of messed up.]

True. Point.

[He swirls around the knife in his hand absentmindedly as he has this chat with himself]

Hmmmmmm. That was two blinks wasn't it?

[He taps his foot. That was not breathing originally, or breathing? He decides for a compromise and goes and sticks his fingers where the nose would be clearing a way for the nostrils. You might get a finger up the nose there, Vash]