no_reload: (Reyes - Too old and grumpy)
Reaper ([personal profile] no_reload) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2021-11-06 07:42 pm

House meeting

Who: Reaper ([personal profile] no_reload), Fern ([personal profile] laminae), Luz ([personal profile] imaglyphwitch), Luca ([personal profile] schoolingfish), Varian ([personal profile] droptheious)
What: Disaster House has a meeting
When: Beginning of November
Where: Disaster House in Cassandra

Content Warnings: Will add as they come up.


[Reaper had taken his time with recovery, which left him trapped in his room for a few days. When it seemed that he could get around without having long episodes of shortness of breath, he appeared more downstairs. That's where he happened to be, settled into a chair with the other occupants of the house.

He knew they had questions, knew that most of them would have to do with Lance's outburst on the network. That wasn't the kid's fault; they didn't always control their Omens. And Lance had been circling the drain for years now, barely holding on. Not the kid's fault. For as long as he had known Lance, the kid had been teetering on the edge of a mental crisis.

However, this wasn't about Lance right now. This was about the household where he resided, and many of the youngsters who lived in it. As the eldest, he knew that his position here was the most tenuous.

So Reaper sat quietly, one ankle crossed over his other knee. He remained in comfortable black clothing, and while situations like these usually had him wearing his mask, he had decided against it. Instead, his scarred face was bare, though he kept his hood up to cover most of his white hair. His gloved hands were folded in his lap, thumbs clasping the mask that he would normally wear. Instead, it lightly tapped against his thigh.]


So, I suppose we should call this meeting to order, hmm?
danserai: human (24)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-11 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably! He's a knight so he always has one somewhere.
imaglyphwitch: (bi guns)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-11 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
A knight! Neat! So he's like Fern then?
imaglyphwitch: (...with a dark side!)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-11 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me more about him!

[Now Luz is super interested]!
imaglyphwitch: (O MAN I MESSED UP)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-11 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[With Luz, everything was about the perceptions that she had on meeting people. This was not the first time she met Shiro, but she could see that he had his own quiet beliefs and people that he cared about. Lance, she could figure, was one of those in his circle].

That's kind of what he said to me about it: that he didn't want you and him to meet.

[She pretty much agreed with that, and figured the only way that they might even meet each other was if Shiro came to visit, which he might: he seemed to be familiar with a few of the people in the house].

I'll keep that in mind from now on. I, however, always tell people where I live, mostly because I love my group of weirdoes in this house.

[This she said with a smile, because not everything needed to be super serious in their conversation].

Let's hope nothing crazier than another Arena situation happens then! Oh no. I doomed us all, didn't I? Should not have said that.

laminae: (yes HELLO I am dog)

[personal profile] laminae 2021-11-11 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, Fern remembers that orange hair! He looks totally baffled here, because the last time they talked he was pretty sure she was walking off to talk to a monster that was probably going to kill her.]

You?? You didn't die!
droptheious: (When there's science to do)

[personal profile] droptheious 2021-11-12 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Varian's largely kept in the middle for this entire mess. After all, he knows he's capable of being pretty damn dangerous too- take down a kingdom dangerous. But he's also kind of a weedy little nerd and so long as people get his alchemy away from him, he can't theoretically do that much damage.

...Fire powers notwithstanding.

But that comment from Reaper does bring a genuine expression of worry to his face, raising his hands and waving them in a quick, panicked gesture.
]

Whoah whoah whoah whoah, not that! Not- uh...not the killing thing or driving away thing. Bad idea! Really bad idea.

[Varian's privy to a lot of things about Fern's life back home that others are not- and while he knows Fern would agree to such a thing, he also knows that's a slippery slope into a pretty damn bad cesspit Varian's been trying to help him move away from. He doesn't want to spill all of Fern's...everything in front of the house though, so he's trying to be diplomatic, not really his strong suit but here he goes. ]

It's...uh. It's a whole thing. Putting that sort of responsibility on him? Us...I guess. [He casts Fern a worried glance.] That's what he's trying to explain. Because if things go wrong...they'll go really wrong.

danserai: human (14)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ ahiru gives a sheepish laugh. ]

I guess I got lucky? Ehehe . . .
danserai: human (87)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, there are adults, I just don't know many and I don't talk to many of them other than my teachers, except it's just one teacher and he's a cat so really there are adults!

Okay! . . . So what exactly do I do?
danserai: human (75)

1/??

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
About . . . Fakir?
danserai: human (06)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, most of the time, he can seem like a jerk and kinda rude because he doesn't really have any manners and doesn't think when he says things . . .
danserai: human (132)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
But he is very kind . . . Kinder than people know. He keeps a lot of feelings hidden.
danserai: human (104)

4/4 END

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
But most of the time, he's a real pain.
laminae: (spiderinfluence)

[personal profile] laminae 2021-11-12 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[This would be the third time someone has told him that he needs to man up and kill someone he cares about if they go evil. The first time he had been a miserable failure, the second time he hadn't wanted to do it and had been forced to it, and now we're at number three.

Fern is grateful Varian is speaking up, because he's immediately feeling both the encumbering weight of responsibility to accept that offer regardless of whether he actually wants to or not, and the Grass Demon's interest in the prospect of more violence. It makes his head buzz with a whole lot of emotions that don't feel like they're actually his.

He doesn't answer right away, instead reaching up to rub his temples.]


Y... yeah. I don't know. [Varian has every right to be worried, because accepting the offer is on the tip of his tongue.] I'd just screw up again, it wouldn't work. If things go wrong, we're all that, nothing's gonna change that.
imaglyphwitch: (It's all good)

Re: 4/4 END

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-12 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
The two of you really sound like you have a conflicted relationship.

[Not that Luz was pairing anyone together here. Ahiru definitely seemed gently naïve to such things, and anyway, wasn't she too young]?

But you said he was some kind of knight, right?
danserai: human (40)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
It was, at the start. But I trust Fakir.

[ in everything. ]

And yeah. He protects the prince.
imaglyphwitch: (whoa)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-12 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Wow.

Wait, prince? You knew a prince?
danserai: human (117)

1/2

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh maybe she said too much. come to think of it, she probably shouldn't have said the fakir stuff too . . .

but it's not as though drosselmeyer is here and everyone else is Also Weird so. ]
danserai: human (84)

2/2

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! He's best friends with a prince.
Edited 2021-11-12 05:03 (UTC)
imaglyphwitch: (with my fav owl)

Re: 2/2

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-12 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, really? I didn't think a knight and a prince could be friends that easily, because of hierarchies and such.
danserai: human (14)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-11-12 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bit of a . . . unique situation.
imaglyphwitch: (is this real life)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-11-12 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
It is? How so?

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