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daybreakacademy2019-02-20 09:07 pm
deuteranope) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-02-20 09:07 pm
and we could run away. [open]
WHO: Maverick Taylor and OPEN (mostly/semi).
WHAT: Maverick’s nightmares rear their ugly heads again. Time for late night stress relief.
WHEN: Night of February 20th (into the 21st) “officially”, but time is fake and nightmares happened on more than one night, so chase your bliss.
WHERE: Lumi3/outside and around.
NOTES: Smoking and swearing, as a Mav does.
( SKITTERING - closed to Imelda. )
[His feet are bare against the cold ice, and part of his brain tries to tell him that he should be slipping and splitting his head open, but there isn't time to argue because he needs to go, he needs to be faster, he needs --
crrrack.
He’s falling. The only one reaching out to him is the sharp-nailed, glowing creature he was running from in the first place...but arms still catch him. They're cold, probably from being so far beneath the ice in this dark pit, and dirty. He can't find where any of them stop being an arm, even as that one twitches with a crack and starts slithering over to him, crawling, nails scrabbling. He shouldn't open his mouth, but it's the only thing he can still move, as the cries for help rise up within him.
Maverick sits up with a yelp and an overwhelming feeling of nausea, like those fingers really had clawed their way down his throat and were stirring up his stomach, now. This room is -- weird. But it's his, still. Just the one at the academy. He’s here, and he'd yelled, but not for help, and he wasn't crying, and thank fucking god it had been years since he'd ever wet the bed from this shit. He doesn't know how much lower he can let himself sink. He runs his hand through his sleep-addled curls to try and stop it from shaking, but when that doesn't work immediately, he reaches for a pair of headphones coiled around the bedpost to clamp over his ears and -- ugh, fuck, where was his phone? He doesn't want to turn on the light… If anyone had woken up -- or was still fucking awake -- then he needed some kind of plausible deniability. Totally still fucking asleep…]
( SMOKESCREENS AND SNOWBALLS - open, around campus. )
[The fear had faded some, letting anger take its place. Adults weren't supposed to have nightmares, only little kids -- and yet there he was, eighteen years old, and waking up in the middle of the night scared out of his wits time and time again. All because of some fake bullshit his brain came up with! He needs...something real. And a goddamn smoke.
He’s already working on a second cigarette by the time he's settled into packing snow into something that is a maybe vaguely human-shaped lump? His movements are agitated and restless, punctuated now and again by a string of curses or a cloud of smoke intermingling with his breath, clear from the cold. He's gotta suck it up and build an army.
And then he's gotta take that army out with the metal bat resting on the ground beside him.]
( SORRY NOT SUBTLE - open, Lumiére 3 common area. )
[Now that he’s worked out all that anxious energy… Okay, no, he still can't fucking sleep. But at least he can come back inside and curl up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate. He’s swapped out his bat for his laptop, drooping eyes scanning the screen as he scrolls through various, brainless sites. Mav’s got music going, but with the low volume he's set it to, someone probably has to get pretty close to recognize one of many songs by The Cure. Soothing rock.
...there are literally a dozen packets of hot chocolate resting next to him. He probably has more than enough to share, during these lazy, godless hours.]
WHAT: Maverick’s nightmares rear their ugly heads again. Time for late night stress relief.
WHEN: Night of February 20th (into the 21st) “officially”, but time is fake and nightmares happened on more than one night, so chase your bliss.
WHERE: Lumi3/outside and around.
NOTES: Smoking and swearing, as a Mav does.
( SKITTERING - closed to Imelda. )
[His feet are bare against the cold ice, and part of his brain tries to tell him that he should be slipping and splitting his head open, but there isn't time to argue because he needs to go, he needs to be faster, he needs --
crrrack.
He’s falling. The only one reaching out to him is the sharp-nailed, glowing creature he was running from in the first place...but arms still catch him. They're cold, probably from being so far beneath the ice in this dark pit, and dirty. He can't find where any of them stop being an arm, even as that one twitches with a crack and starts slithering over to him, crawling, nails scrabbling. He shouldn't open his mouth, but it's the only thing he can still move, as the cries for help rise up within him.
Maverick sits up with a yelp and an overwhelming feeling of nausea, like those fingers really had clawed their way down his throat and were stirring up his stomach, now. This room is -- weird. But it's his, still. Just the one at the academy. He’s here, and he'd yelled, but not for help, and he wasn't crying, and thank fucking god it had been years since he'd ever wet the bed from this shit. He doesn't know how much lower he can let himself sink. He runs his hand through his sleep-addled curls to try and stop it from shaking, but when that doesn't work immediately, he reaches for a pair of headphones coiled around the bedpost to clamp over his ears and -- ugh, fuck, where was his phone? He doesn't want to turn on the light… If anyone had woken up -- or was still fucking awake -- then he needed some kind of plausible deniability. Totally still fucking asleep…]
( SMOKESCREENS AND SNOWBALLS - open, around campus. )
[The fear had faded some, letting anger take its place. Adults weren't supposed to have nightmares, only little kids -- and yet there he was, eighteen years old, and waking up in the middle of the night scared out of his wits time and time again. All because of some fake bullshit his brain came up with! He needs...something real. And a goddamn smoke.
He’s already working on a second cigarette by the time he's settled into packing snow into something that is a maybe vaguely human-shaped lump? His movements are agitated and restless, punctuated now and again by a string of curses or a cloud of smoke intermingling with his breath, clear from the cold. He's gotta suck it up and build an army.
And then he's gotta take that army out with the metal bat resting on the ground beside him.]
( SORRY NOT SUBTLE - open, Lumiére 3 common area. )
[Now that he’s worked out all that anxious energy… Okay, no, he still can't fucking sleep. But at least he can come back inside and curl up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate. He’s swapped out his bat for his laptop, drooping eyes scanning the screen as he scrolls through various, brainless sites. Mav’s got music going, but with the low volume he's set it to, someone probably has to get pretty close to recognize one of many songs by The Cure. Soothing rock.
...there are literally a dozen packets of hot chocolate resting next to him. He probably has more than enough to share, during these lazy, godless hours.]
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Haha, right~! Yes! There's no problem with that at all~! Carry on, good sir~! Kuroko and I leave you to your important task~!
[He's just going to head back to the dorm. But first...]
Do you, um... I don't... What's my room number? It's 302, right? Just like to be sure~!
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TUNK the head of the bat slaps against the ground as his arms go limp.]
Are you fucking for real right now? Wait. Are you high? [He almost wants him to be high???] What the fuck, dude.
[HE IS SO...CONCERNED.]
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It's not then. 203? Yes! It's 203. I don't have a key, so I don't... do the keys even have numbers on them? Nevermind, that doesn't matter!
[He eyes the dropped bat and realizes how weird this situation is, and that it may require proof.]
Can I take a picture of you with the snowman?
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I...guess? [He's just too bewildered? To deny him this??] Dude, if you fucking think I'm letting you fucking walk back alone, you're an even bigger fucking dumbass than I ever could have imagined, like that's just pants on head stupid.
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Wait, no, I'm fine! You don't have to walk me back!
[It is not that bad yet. It's not. To prove this, Toki scrolls through the network because he's pretty sure Yuya's profile has their room number on it. He should have just looked at that first, but it hadn't occurred to him until he had the phone in his hand. Oh, there it is. He holds up the phone for Maverick to see. The screen has a central spiderweb crack, but hopefully he can make out Yuya's bio section that definitely says their room is 203.]
See? 203. I know where I'm going! Also, for the record I didn't lose my key! Well, I did, but like the first day! Not recently!
[Kuroko's kneading again and looking rather distressed.]
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Look. I could be a bag of dicks and let you go off, then follow you in secret, but I'm not gonna. I'm just gonna tell you straight up that I'm gonna fucking follow you, so you might as well be my company while that happens. It's late and somebody fucking told me there's weird shit out here sometimes, so being a spacecase isn't doing you any favors. I'll do whatever dumbass thing you want me to to make up for it, all right?
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Whatever, fine. It's really not a big deal, though!
[He needs to emphasize that, more for himself than Maverick.]
You know how sometimes you get a little stressed over something and suddenly you don't like remember your locker combination~! It's like that! You've done that, right!? And there's nothing suspicious about taking a walk with your cat!
[He starts walking back to the dorms, Maverick can keep up or follow or whatever he wants and then go back to his snowmen and his own issues.]
As for what you can do to make up for it~, I'll hold onto that "favor" for later~!
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No, you're definitely fucking weird. That's not that surprising anymore, though.
[There is a fine line between being a weirdo and needing legitimate help...thinks Mav the hypocrite, not dealing with his own issues. No harm in dropping the other off, though.]
You know, I don't remember pretty much anything from before I was adopted. That shit's just gone. I know some stuff, from Mama telling me, but that's not the same as memories.
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[Apparently, he'd gotten Maverick to talk about himself somehow, so mission accomplished inadvertently.]
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[WAY TO MAKE HIM REGRET THAT INSTANTLY... He just wanted to make him stop being so defensive over his brain being useless. Maverick hefts the bat over his shoulders and shakes his head. He's not picking apart every little piece of that word tsunami, he isn't in the mood.]
Mama picked me up when I was five, because my parents were toast. Like dead, not like...bread. Fuck, that almost sounds funny in English.
[Stupid French.]
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Thanks for the clarification!
[But that's rude, so...]
I'm sorry, about your parents. Is, um, 'Mama', a nice person?
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Yeah, she's the fucking best.
RNG hates Mav, cw: desc. of rotting corpse, snakes
Does she live close by? Do you get to see her?
[As soon as the second question's out of his mouth, he stops walking; staring somewhere over Maverick's shoulder. His fingers tighten around Kuroko...
The setting is unfamiliar and hard to distinguish. Blurry and near-colorless. There's someone lying on the ground, or the floor, he can't tell if he's inside a building or not. The only sound is the hissing of snakes. Moving closer to the body, her hair comes into focus. He knows it. It's Orihime. Snakes slide over her, their tongues flickering. A ghostly form emerges from Orihime's body and slowly takes shape. A copy of her, faint and ethereal. The ghost-like Orihime drifts away from her body, followed by the snakes. Orihime on the floor begins to decay and rot at an accelerated rate, her skin bloating and sloughing off the muscles and bone, blackening. Snakes slither out of her exposed rib cage. They're and red and black, with white markings on their faces not unlike human-shaped skulls. He's compelled to follow them. Another body comes into view briefly; he sees what appears to be Tatsumaki's wavy green hair but cannot be sure of her identity as the snakes lead him past her too quickly. The snakes merge together and a half-man, half-snake is formed from them. The apparition of Orihime is beside him, his arm holding her close possessively.
... Toki shoves Kuroko at Maverick and grabs his phone again. He needs to get another memory card soon; all the text files are taking up too much space. He's now walking in the opposite direction, to Aube instead of Lumière, typing grisly details of Orihime's death. Having had the vision of Minako just a few days ago, he's less immediately panicked by the imagery and assumes there's a bit of time before something actually happens, so Maverick is spared hysterics for the most part, but he's still going to involve him because he needs someone to make calls while he tries to remember everything and makes notes of the details.]
Call Orihime! Find out where she is and tell her to stay there if its somewhere safe!
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He tries to soothe the cat, lamenting the fact that he has to drop his bat to accomplish both that and dig out his phone.]
When you get a sec, I don’t know her fucking number.
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It's fine, I'll call her. I'm going to her room anyway.
[He scrolls through his contact list to find Orihime's familiar robot-tank Network icon, leaving Maverick to do whatever and keep track of Kuroko apparently.]
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He stays frozen there for a second, brows furrowed even more than normal, before he scoffs and raises his voice.]
I guess this is just my fucking cat now! [...sigh, no, hello Kuroko, he's talking to you, now, as he starts heading off to Lumière dorm again. Cats were better for conversation than people anyway.] Not really. I'll take you home. We should let his roomie know what's up, anyway... Let him set up the fucking rescue team if he never makes it back.
[Maverick, cat babysitter. Not even fully independent cat owner because he was just that fucking useless. Sounds...about right.]