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Fat Billie ([personal profile] wapples) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-09-25 12:56 am

September/October Catch-All

Who: Fat Billie ([personal profile] wapples)
What: Open and Closed prompts (Closed only for now)
When: September, and October
Where: Throughout Trench

Content Warnings: None yet! Will tag in the comments as necessary

necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (i can feel it on my tongue)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-27 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, this can in no way go wrong. When in doubt, commit to the bit: John raises a hand in a matching wave. He still has to crane over so that Billie can tow him along. ]

Pretty standard for necromantic errands.
shiro2hero: (but then who was the phone)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2022-09-27 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Shiro, really, was fairly sure this would just be a weird little anecdote. You know, something to talk about later. But Billie's explanation derails that train of thought. Immediately.]

[Like you can almost hear a record skip in his head. He goes from hesitantly interested to concerned in a heartbeat, looking between them both.]


Vyng's eyes? [... he was kind of a Beast for the whole Ocean Incident okay.] What happened to his eyes?
necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (i can feel it on my tongue)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-27 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's like a slow-motion trainwreck; his smile has gone strained. ]

Very necromantic errands.
shiro2hero: (if you need me i'll be on the floor)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2022-09-27 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[All humor and bemusement drains out of Shiro in an instant. He's lifted his gaze from Billie to the other man in the street, and can only stare at him. Picked a fight? With one of the Patrons? And...]

You're telling me... [He starts, slowly, his voice far too calm for what he's feeling right now.] This guy. Decided it would be a great idea to fight one of the Pthumerians.

And Vyng had to clean up his mess.

[Though he's speaking to Billie, Shiro does not look away from Jon. Not for a moment.]

Is that about right...?
necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (brick and mortar thick as scripture)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-28 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
The biggest one. [ John adds this like it's helpful, because if this is going to explode, it can at least be funny when it goes up. ] To be fair: I can now admit that stabbing the ocean was not a good idea.
shiro2hero: (FALCON... PUNCH!)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2022-09-28 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Shiro is not a Coldblood. He's not any sort of special blood that could actually affect the temperature of this street. But the air seems to cool by several degrees. He is, in most situations, in most times, a patient, steady man. He would, nine times out of ten, prefer to talk this situation through. To understand the whys of someone's actions, no matter the outcome.]

[This is, apparently the tenth time.]

[Rationality has flown the coop. All he hears is Yes, I hurt your dear friend and I am incredibly blase about it. All he sees is a man casually walking down the street while someone Shiro deeply cares for is blinded for this man's colossal error.]

[His fist swings before Shiro thinks too much more about it. The metal one. The one saved for the monsters of Trench.]

[And it's aimed squarely at the necromancer's jaw.]
necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (laying borders as tall as towers)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-28 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He expected, you know, maybe a little bit of shouting. Some comically loud distress. He did not expect the guy to shoot forward and punch him in the face.

He also, if anyone's keeping score, did not expect the metal hand.

Shiro connects with an unpleasant crack, and God goes flying. He goes right down on his ass on the cobblestone streets, which is insult to injury; it leaves him blinking up at Shiro in bewilderment and not a little incredulity, a hand to his jaw.

All he manages is, inelegantly: ]
Ow.
shiro2hero: (first rule of magic arm fight club)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2022-09-28 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[To be fair, no one expects Shiro of all people to do the talking with his fists.]

[He takes a deliberate step, himself between Billie and the man on the ground. Just in case. It doesn't feel good, heck, it barely feels better. But at least there's something. At least Vyng isn't the only one who got hurt. That should make it feel okay. Right?]

[But on the other hand (har har), he is so damned tired of everyone he cares about being screwed over by this place, by the other people - ]


If you are ever involved in hurting one of mine again, I'm not going to hold back.

[After all, he hadn't turned on the glow, had he? His voice is still icy calm, barely restrained. It only warms a fraction when he addresses Billie again:]

Do you need help escorting him?
necrolord: <user name="thebutt"> (laying borders as tall as towers)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ John splays his hands in front of him, a startled Easy, easy. ]

Look, I'm off the warpath. We can all be friends.

[ He picks himself up with exaggerated care, pops his jaw with a hand, rolls his nose around like he's setting something right. All this accomplished is leaving a smudge of dirt on his face. He glances to Billie, all the same. ]

I'm already under heavy guard. [ That being Billie, and obviously a joke. ] But I am going to help... healing the blind, that's right in my wheelhouse.
shiro2hero: (oh my god it's full of stars)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2022-09-29 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[We can all be friends - it's an effort not to scoff.]

No. We can't.

[And no, he won't. He is extremely tempted to offer to go with them, but honestly, if he spends more time in this guy's presence right now, he's just going to get more irritated. Billie seems to believe him. But Billie is also... a tiny child. Literally tiny.]

Billie, if something goes wrong, let people know, all right?

[Again, the coldness in his tone fades when he addresses the kid. No reason to be angry with Billie, after all.]
necrolord: =- (the words fall flat)

[personal profile] necrolord 2022-10-04 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ He can't say it's a surprise, but it is disappointing: here's one more burned bridge. They keep popping up just when he thinks he's finished touring them all. John, who can't ever pass up an opportunity, raises a hand in a wave goodbye. Shiro looks like he might hit him again.

But he takes the kid's hand, in the end, and lets himself be led on through Trench. They probably could've done this by Lamp transit, but there is something so painfully charming about trying to keep up with Billie's scurrying walk.

This is how Vyng gets Billie on his doorstep with a black-eyed lich-king holding his hand. ]