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Viktor ([personal profile] mehanizovati) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-05-27 01:20 pm

june catch-all

Who: viktor and others, open to all with some closed prompts in comments
What: june catch-all, some tdm prompts
When: june
Where: various

content warning; terminal illness, arcane season 1 spoilers



misc lab stuff and various fruits.

[viktor's lab in the willful machine is usually left unlocked when he's working inside. friends or acquaintances have likely been told they're welcome to stop by if they like, either to say hello or to get help with whatever a vaguely sketchy lab could handle. of course someone he doesn't know can just walk in too or knock. maybe there's a sudden downpour and that ajar door is tempting? go for it.

the lab has been slowly filling with all sorts of nonsense on the various tables- lasers! tasers! some weird machine hooked up to a blood gem? it is not unlikely to be walking by and hear some minor booming noise and either a curse in czech or a satisfied 'a-ha!' feel free to investigate.

this month there's something else too, a bowl full of fruit. all the fruits mentioned in the tdm in fact, there to be tested on though it looks more like they're just for guests if people are unaware there's some weird shit going on.]


Just a moment, make yourself at home. [he might say to guest. that would include eating some fruit, right? enjoy. probably not the raw lemon though, that's weird.]

[ooc; if you want to memshare i am game, my only hard limit on memories is no suicide stuff please. self sacrifice is fine! feel free to ask to make sure one is okay. if you'd like a viktor memory let me know any hard limits and what sort of memory you might prefer!]



gaze and time loops.

[having lungs mostly working for the moment is pretty great, in viktor's humble opinion. it means walking around the trench doesn't come with the risk of coughing up blood and attracting beasts and generally having a bad time, along with added perks like not getting so easily winded and going for longer. it also means he finds himself out longer than he usually would, which maybe isn't the best, as it turns out.

for example, making his way home through gaze and hearing the chilling cry of a beast, sighing and trying to make his way around what turns out to be the wrong corner. maybe that's where he sees your character before the snarling of a too close beast starts in earnest.

and then snap! they're both back about an hour, where they passed on the street. the look viktor gives is somewhere between resigned and 'fuck this, actually.']
There is a term for this. 'One of those days,' I think.



[ooc; if you'd like to wildcard or do something else you can pm me here or find me at [plurk.com profile] dichotomy]
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-05-29 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Of course Chizuru comes right over when she gets Viktor's invite. Sure, maybe she's got work first, or something else, but the less important stuff she will always gladly wipe right off her schedule to spend time with a friend.

Which means that it doesn't take too long at all for them to come together like this. She smiles - first upon seeing Viktor, but then even wider upon seeing what he's got there. ]


Oh! Viktor, you got some of the fruit?

[ Chizuru seems.. almost a little too excited about this fruit deal. But she hasn't quite realised that's the paleblood within her having its influence on her. She just thinks that fruit is always nice. (Which it is to her, so it all makes sense in her mind.) ]

Is that for us to share..? [ There's at least a little bit more caution in that tone.

Chizuru does not want to just come over and rob a friend of all their fruit, okay. Even though it's tempting. ]
Edited 2022-05-29 17:05 (UTC)
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-05-30 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For once, Chizuru doesn't have to be told twice. The moment he's giving her the okay, she's just reaching out and already grabbing one of the slices, putting it right into her mouth and smiling with delight as she chews on it. It's so good..

There's nothing to be afraid of when it comes to it just being apples. Chizuru looks like the slices she's eating right now are saving her life. Her crops are watered. The earth is healing.

Not that she knows what this action is about to cause. Instead she just smiles, even as she replies. ]


Mm-- [ Hold on, she needs to swallow first! Can't speak to Viktor with her mouth full, it'd be impolite! ] It's been alright. It feels kind of nice that it seems like summer is slowly starting to come along.. It's always such a nice time of the year, don't you think?
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-03 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a shock, suddenly being dragged into the memory like that with her entire mind. It's not like it's the first time she's seen a memory lately, given what's been going on over their communication devices, but this is definitely the first time Chizuru has experienced it in person like this.

The fact that it is a memory all the same is clear enough though. That child sitting is clearly Viktor in every single way possible. But Chizuru doesn't even have time to think about how utterly adorable the other looked as a child. Instead, more than anything, a feeling comes over her.

.. a faint hurt. Loneliness. That's what it feels like as she watches the entire memory. Even though there's thankfully a bit more of a hopeful end to it, Chizuru can still feel the feeling soaking right through into her bones, leaving her mouth hanging open slightly. ]


T-That was.. [ She looks over at Viktor - cautiously. ] That was.. you, right..?
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-05 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She quickly shakes her head. ]

Don't apologize! [ The words fly out of her mouth so quickly - and with such intensity - that it's most likely just Chizuru's reflexes acting up, rather than anything she would necessarily consciously say.

She just doesn't want to see Viktor blaming himself in front of her.

Realising how that just flew out of her mouth though, Chizuru starts to look a little bit more like her meeker self again by the time she continues. ]


.. I mean, it's.. alright. You didn't do that on purpose. [ Or Viktor wouldn't seem just as startled as her about this. ] And that memory was..

[ Well.

Rio was cute, sure, but..

Chizuru can't help but keep thinking about that other part of the memory. Of Viktor sitting there. All alone. Unable to join in with the rest - and not even being invited to do so. ]


I'm.. sorry, Viktor. You must have been lonely..
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cw: slight wound description

[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-06 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
But, still..

[ Maybe it's unfair of her to say, Chizuru thinks. After all, hasn't she had the exact same experience? Finding that people here in this place are so kind, and constantly being surprised by that..

But - as usually - she feels like it's one thing when it happens to her, but it's another thing entirely when it happens to someone else. Viktor is so kind, and so smart - he deserves better. ]


It doesn't feel right. [ She slowly grabs another apple slice, only faintly nibbling on it as she's thinking. ] They shouldn't have treated you like that, just because you were different..

[ It's that last word that lingers in the air, almost echoing against the wall around them.

Especially as the view around them seems to change once more. It doesn't move back to Viktor's memory, though. Instead the space around them fills up with the outside, but much greener. A tree blooms overhead with multitudes of pink flowers, and a bunch of young kids are climbing in said tree. They laugh, giggle, obviously having a great time treating the tree like their own personal jungle gym. If Viktor looks well, then he might realise one of the kids is Chizuru - though obviously much younger, and actually with her hair down, rather than pulled into her current eternal ponytail.

The young Chizuru seems to suddenly lose her balance though, falling out of the tree with a gasp and hitting the ground. The kids seem startled, quickly climbing back down to check up on her. Chizuru thankfully seems mostly fine, but there's a huge scratch across her forearm, most likely from having hit one of the branches on her way down.

The kids crowd around her, asking if she's okay.. but then one of them suddenly jumps back with a yelp. More and more of them do. It leaves room for Viktor to see what the kids seem to be so startled about - the huge, bleeding gash on Chizuru's arm is disappearing on the spot, skin knitting itself back together until it looks like the wound was never there in the first place.

Chaos ensues as the kids quickly put more and more distance between them and Chizuru, screaming about how she's a monster, how she's weird, how they should get away from her..

.. and they do. The kids run away before the young girl has even a chance to stand up, leaving her there alone on the grass as the young girl starts softly crying to herself, not bothering to try and follow them.

A bald man slowly walks up to the girl, frowning in concern and putting a hand on her shoulder, before saying that it's probably better for her to not play with those children again.

With that, the memory fades. ]
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-07 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Chizuru is quiet for a moment.

It's kind of scary that Viktor saw that memory. Because it could lead him to wonder why Chizuru heals so easily, and while she doesn't want to keep secrets from her friends, she is absolutely deadly afraid that they will drop her like a brick the moment they know of her nature - just as those kids had, back there.

It also feels much harder to say any words defending herself, compared to how easy it felt to defend that poor young Viktor in his memory. Chizuru stops eating the apple slices for now, instead pulling her hands close to herself - protectively so.

Her expression is worried. ]


.. It's fine. I had my father, so.. that was enough for me.

[ Is that the full truth? .. Maybe not really. She was lonely.

But on the other hand, Chizuru knows that she is luckier than some to have had a father - or a person she assumed to be her father - taking care of her. ]
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-11 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Unpleasant. It's a very specific choice of words, though Chizuru feels a little glad that he can admit it in the first place. Maybe it's since she just knows way too many people back home who might rather die than admit to a single sad emotion..

But since it's a little harder to address than his question, Chizuru decides to focus that first, and to save this for later, once she might be able to address it a bit more gracefully. ]


Yes.

[ She slowly nods. ]

Um.. He isn't my biological father though. [ Maybe it's a weird detail to mention, but she at least wants to be a little honest with Viktor in return for the heavy memories they just witnessed.

Especially while she's still dancing around the reason just why she can heal so quickly, somewhat glad that Viktor isn't asking about that right now. Offering this up in exchange feels a tad easier. ]
I didn't know that yet back then.. but my father and mother died a long time ago. He took me along as his daughter after that.
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-12 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's not like adoption is an extreme rarity where Chizuru comes from, but there's definitely still quite some emphasis on blood relations as well.. to a point where she can't even really imagine a world like Viktor's, where biological families are actually rare.

The way she looks for a moment probably says as much.

(It means she also wonders about his family, but given the memory she just saw.. it feels a little too raw to ask.) ]


He.. did his best. [ She instead says, still wanting to be honest. And it's true! It's not like things were always bad. It just got awkward when he straight up abandoned her, only to start an army of mutated people.... ] Even if his intentions might not.. always have been pure, I suppose.. But it's not like he was unkind to me, so I really thought of him as my father..

[ She shakes her head. ]

I'm so sorry. I shouldn't just talk about myself here, especially since you had to see one of your old memories again as well.
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-13 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
He didn't hurt you, did he?

[ Sure, Viktor is saying a lot of other things here. But this time - this time!! - it's actually not an effort on Chizuru's part to avoid having to deal with any compliments, or just people telling her that she deserves better.

It's just that the moment Viktor mentions that the man she saw in the memory didn't only have pure intentions, Chizuru just can't help but worry. Especially since Viktor had still been so young back then.. what if something bad had happened to him beyond the memory she saw?

Hence why she instantly asks that question, looking at him with worried eyes. ]
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cw: non-consensual implications, though nothing that actually happened

[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-15 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head, even as her thoughts linger on Viktor for a moment. Relieved, at least, that he wasn't hurt by that man, but.. still a little worried all the same that he was relatively close to someone who might not have been the best person ever.

At least his rejection of what that man did does further cements Chizuru's view of Viktor as a good person.

But his question.. ]


It's just.. [ For a moment Chizuru's voice trails off, and she makes a nervous gesture with her hands before she manages to continue. All of these things are hard to talk about - if not mostly because she constantly hides them from everyone. ] My father and mother.. apparently they died when the village was lived in was attacked. Everyone who lived there was like me [ a little vague, especially since Chizuru does know the word for something like her, it's just hesitancy on her part to actually use it ] and that's apparently why it was attacked. Why.. [ She swallows. ] Why everyone there was killed.

My adoptive father saved me from it by taking me away with him while it was happening. He.. He seemed to think it was important for our kind to live on no matter what since there were very few of us left, and he thought I was important for that, since it's really rare for girls to be born among our kind.

[ One can see where this is going, right. Especially with what Chizuru told Viktor before about what her father wanted for her, with him forcing a specific man onto her and all.

Sometimes you're just seen as a potential special babies machine. ]
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-17 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Truthfully, Chizuru's feelings on what she is, and what it means, and whether or not she ought to have some duty towards others like her because of it.. they're still murky. She found out too soon ago, and the chaos back home left her with no time to sort any of those feelings out.

But it doesn't matter. Regardless of how she feels about it, or regardless of how little she knows how to feel about it.. She knows that Viktor's words in this moment make a warmth blossom inside of her all the same. Because she knows that the words come from a place of care. It's a little similar to what some of the Shinsengumi men back home might have told her, she thinks..

Chizuru stares at that hand, held out to her like that. Even without knowing any of the thoughts going through Viktor's head, just the words he says out loud are enough to make her smile and put both of her hands on both sides of his hand, clasping it between her two hands like that.

She smiles up at him. ]


You know.. Those kids were wrong too. Even if you might not have been able to keep up with them if they'd run, there's so many things you can do. You're so smart, and thoughtful, and you're one of the most kind-hearted people I've met. [ She may sound a tad choked up as she speaks.

His words just seem to mean that much to her.

But she manages to speak on all the same. ]


They may have missed out on that, but.. I feel so grateful that I'm able to call you my friend, Viktor.
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[personal profile] tealeafs 2022-06-20 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Me too.

[ That's a sentiment she doesn't even have to think about. Of course she's also glad about that, especially given how little chances either of them had to form a whole lot of connections before.

Chizuru lingers like that for a moment, but then slowly lets go of his hands - even though she didn't quite realise how overwhelming this was for Viktor, this small action might coincidentally help a little. ]


I also hope that you don't have as many.. um, angles to consider. With me.

[ It's a little difficult to imagine, because Chizuru's own meekness is never born from that as much as she just has an inherent wish to be polite and kind to everyone, never wanting to be the overpowering voice in any room.

But she hopes that she can at least make the interactions with her as easy for Viktor as possible. ]