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Kageyama Shigeo ([personal profile] centile) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-12-09 07:48 am

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Who: Mob, Viktor and others
What: december log catchall for my characters
When: december and potentially beyond
Where: around the trench

Content Warnings: in thread headers
strongroots: (hag)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-16 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robby walks, not looking at Mob initially, but he does listen despite that. Just words is all they can do. Like an irritant to the brain that Robby doesn't want to give power, and yet--there's something rewarding in that knowledge.

Knowledge that gets a scoff out of him. ]


Then there's not a lot they can do. It's not telling me anything new-- [ Yeah, I know I don't have powers was the direction he meant to go, but he realises what that voice had last said, that Mob had heard them too, and his mouth closes, he pauses with the thought. ]

...Yeah, I used to lie and steal, [ he starts again, less enthused in admitting it until the voice amends, He still does, spiking up his anger. ] And-- fine, I have, but it was a bottle of hair dye, it wasn't important.

[ Fucking voice. ] But I'm still here, and I'm not going to let this world beat me. I made it out here--and I haven't died yet.

[ ...which isn't said so much with confidence, even if it is true. The thought--and talk--of death is a scary thing, more on Robby's mind these days with his dad's four deaths here always lurking.

But he'd like to think his not dying yet is a good thing, all things considered. ]
strongroots: (and forehead crease)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-16 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Robby can do bravado. You need it if you're dealing with people who can kick your ass, putting on an act to charm people, to worm your fingers around belongings, you need it. Pretend you belong where you are, in the clothes you've put on.

And he gave up on that life, why should he be shamed for it?

...it's easier to deal with anyway, than the part that Mob actually addresses, where there's a shame from the moment he speaks, 'I don't look up to you because of lies.' He does look over at Mob, but he can't hold any gaze, looking back at the concrete under their feet. Someone might find it bizarre for a guy to care about this than the whole lying and stealing history.

But it does make him feel good. It makes him feel useful, enough that he can disregard if he's the guy who should be helping out some multi-talented psychic guy in a city with other multi-talented people. ]


I don't like it just for myself. [ Robby stops as he says that, turning to face Mob, his eyes coming onto him after a reluctant second. ] I like thinking it helps you too, and seeing you sound happy about what we do. In your own way.

[ His own small way. ]

Maybe helping you is helping me too, but--I never said I was perfect.

[ Which isn't what he's embarrassed about for the second he looks away, but Robby lifts his gaze back. ]

We're both trying.

[ To be better versions of themselves. ]
strongroots: (HER HER HER HER)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-16 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's an evil ghost gagging right about now, surely. But whatever it could be doing or saying doesn't matter next to what Mob is. Sure, Robby feels worthless at times--but he's been trying with that. And everyone feels weak, now and then.

Even someone with all the psychic gifts like Mob. ]


That's right. [ He places his hands on Mob's shoulders. ] I'm not your family, but I'll be here for you as long as I am. If you ever feel lonely, you can always call or come over.

And I know you have my back too, [ he adds, dropping his hands; but he lets one hover than fall all the way, offering a fist bump. ]
strongroots: (cash)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this 🙄🙄 anime 🙄🙄 shit 🙄🙄

The accepted fistbump gets a smile out of Robby anyway (cool, look, the guy knows a fistbump! Robby doesn't know if those are popular in Japan). It might thin some to the apology, which Robby has to mull and think about how he feels. There's maybe some stuff he has to explain, depending on how much Mob heard? Not that Robby particularly wants to talk about what's happened to him in Trench, or what he knows the voices are referring to with their taunts.

Instead: ]
Have they been saying stuff to you too? What's their deal anyway? Is this just what spirits do?

[ Do spirits just suck, Mob? ]
strongroots: (never go home again)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-17 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not ominous at all... merging with the city? Robby can't even imagine how something like that can be possible, but Mob is his resident spirit guy, so he'll take his word for it. ]

Do you wanna focus on figuring out what happened? If we can find anything like newsprint or somewhere in the city that seems off, [ Bad Vibes, particular property damage, ] we might get an idea.

[ So he says... but he's really winging it on this 'what to do' plan. ]
strongroots: (mully mully scully)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Robby should just take Mob's power for granted and ask him if he can feel weird things more, huh...

But hey, that's better than the 'wander around town until we find something obviously off-putting' plan Robby had, so he'll take it! ]


Then let's go that way. There's gotta be more than dumb voices to this place.

[ Robby's walking, anyway! Like, they didn't all come out this way just to find an empty city, did they? (...yes, actually.) ]

Can you tell how it feels worse? [ ...well. ] Is it alive?
strongroots: (buy some tea)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...does Robby want to feel the creepy foreboding feeling in the air? Not particularly, but if Mob is-- ]

Yeah, sure. Time to learn what bad vibes actually mean.

[ And maybe it'll help? It'll help to understand what Mob means, anyway, even if Robby can't come to any thought or conclusion. He's beginning to wonder if it'll lead him to see the city in another sense.

Like, how utterly ignorant to how bad everything really feels around them. ]
strongroots: (mash)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Good, Robby is glad to piss off a piece of shit ghost!!

Not that he's particularly focused on their ghost friend so much as he is...well, the entirety of the vibes. A different level from normal-level vibes: this feels bad. Where negativity could almost be made palpable, and Robby stops just so he can take it in, wrap his head around it.

Mob's talking, and Robby hears him, if distracted; giving him a 'Yeah' half-heartedly, but after a moment looking at him. ]


...The world just feels like this to you?

[ Well, maybe not always like this, but... ]
strongroots: (megafone)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He has an answer ready, though it's dumb, but when a second doesn't give him a better one-- ]

Yeah? [ How to describe it... Robby frowns as he thinks about it, what exactly this feels like. ]

You sometimes know how I'm feeling when you give me energy, right? [ ...he's not wanted to really talk about that, but!! ] It feels like that, but not as in my head? Like you know where something is just 'cause you can feel it, but you don't see it.

[ Is he just describing Mob's every day here. ]

That's not normal. [ A beat. ] For me.
strongroots: (snog snog)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be a lot different if someone was moving stuff around and you couldn't see them. [ For Mob, Robby figures. ] I'm pretty sure some people just like to be scared, though.

[ Considering how few ghost shows seem to be real... people are Just Into That.

But ah, look, they're approaching the church with enough visibility now that Robby can see it in the distance, a slight squint as he takes it in. ]


Hey--that looks like a church. ... Okay, [ okay, ] how spooky are things gonna get at a church?

[ Mob, you're the expert here. Nevermind we were just talking about how different our expectations of what spooky is, are.

Churches have to be spooky!! ]
strongroots: (jealous of me)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pretty spooky. That gets a scoff out of Robby.

Which is the last decently-humoured he might be for a while.

Because a church looks like a church from a distance, but a church up close...still looks like a church. But features start to come into place, and structures can have similarities if one's familiar with their design.

Is it the feeling coming off from the place doing this? Or a real memory, the reddened sky and rumbling of thunder in the clouds above, the sermons taking place loudly and the ringing in one's ears from the constant activity.

Robby's stopped too, standing with a foot slowly withdrawing back. ]


Mob... [ He swallows, tearing his eyes away from the building. ] ...There's no one in there?

[ 'You're sure?' ]
strongroots: (loom over the tune)

[personal profile] strongroots 2023-01-18 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [ His answer is sharp, quick. He can't let Mob go in first, what if something's in there? (bodies, a bloodied mess; he can't let him see that, Robby doesn't want to see that, but--) ]

Wait out here. [ He's not asking, hurrying forward before Mob might suddenly be compelled to get some speed in him and want to go in (or, you know, get the idea that he doesn't want to, and go on ahead). Breathe, he's telling himself, refusing his mind the chance to think, approaching the double doors with hands that don't want to touch the wood they're made from. He hears no chanting inside (that's good), but it doesn't make him feel any less sink to his stomach to pull on the handle and open the door with a whining creak.

He leaves it ajar, stepping in just enough to see inside from the entrance, and...there's no one there. There's nothing like he was worried about, the church basking in a wash of multicolours from the gem-stained windows, but nothing else.

Nothing except that apprehensive feeling, somewhere deeper in.

... will Mob want to go in? ]

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