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Luca Paguro ([personal profile] schoolingfish) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2021-12-05 10:54 pm

Luca catchall post - Fun vileblood issues!

Who: Luca Paguro and open!
What: Luca's memory flashback, as well as generally sneaking around the Disaster House/Town/getting caught in snares because he's a vileblood and there's two blood types hunting him this month
When: Throughout the month
Where: The Disaster House or anywhere in the Trench

Content Warnings: A thirteen year old boy getting hunted like an animal, both in his memory and in the 'present day' prompts


Luca's Memory – Trying to escape Ercole (OTA)

Whoever touches the Winter Mourning will find themselves witnessing a hunt. Maybe they'll see out of Luca's eyes, a passive observer forced to make the same choices he made, or maybe they'll take on the role of someone else in the setting. Alberto, perhaps, or one of the people trying to catch Luca. Maybe they'll even be able to do their own things, make their own choices.

Regardless, the memory starts with Luca and Alberto in sea monster form racing through the streets on a bike. They're terrified, desperate. Ercole has gotten in front of them, but the hill's too steep to try and turn back and go up. Besides, they need to get back to the water to be safe, and to do that, they need to pass Ercole. Luca stares in horror as he keeps pedaling forward, and Ercole lifts his spear, ready to throw.

"You should have left when I told you. Now...I'm going to kill some sea monsters!" Ercole says, and his cackles fill the alley as he balances on his bike, his spear raised in the air.

Then, just in time, Giulia, a red headed girl who had caught up on her own bike, rams her bike in to Ercole's own, sending both of them tumbling to the ground. Luca and Alberto race past on their bike, but Luca glances back. Giulia bounces roughly on the cobblestones several time, rolling down the steep and rocky pathway.

"No!" Cries Luca.

"Giulia!" Alberto calls out to her.

Not willing to just leave her like that, not knowing if she's okay, Luca stops the bike and he and Alberto race over to her, helping her up. This was a mistake. They're surrounded now. Many of the townsfolk are just standing there, watching to see what happens next. Others seem more ready to participate in this hunt. Some have harpoons. Some have nets. They whisper.

"Look at that," says one villager.

"You're not going anywhere," says another.

Ercole, however, is quick to call dibs. "Guys! I saw them first! The reward is mine!"

Luca tries to be brave. "We're not afraid of you!"

"No," responds Ercole, "But we're afraid of you. Everyone is horrified and disgusted by you, because you are monsters."

The memory may end here. Or it may continue on for a few more seconds, so the viewer sees Giulia saying that they aren't monsters, and Massimo coming out of the crowd to tell them that the boys are Luca and Alberto. Either way, the memory wraps up soon unless the viewer is an active participant and was able to make a different choice in the course of events.


The Disaster House – Open to anyone who would be at/around the Disaster House

Luca's skittish. He's been hunted before, he knows the feeling. He knows the mortal terror, the constant hiding, the fear of discovery. The worst part is, this month even people he loved and trusted seem to be turning on him. Nowhere is safe. But this house...it's still home.

He sticks to the shadows, staying out of sight, easily startled if anyone spots him. Still, there are times he lets his guard down. Enamored with all the pretty antler decorations around the house, Luca decides to make his own. He takes a couple of antlers he's found tying them up with ribbons and decorating them with little twigs and springs from the greenhouse. At one point he even starts having enough fun with his crafting to relax enough to hum a little tune, enjoying himself as he pretties up the antlers, holding them up to see how they're coming.

Other times he can be found grabbing things from the greenhouse or the kitchen to eat. He doesn't know how to cook, though, and this month...this month he's too scared to find someone around the house to help him, so he might just start eating raw ingredients as is just to avoid coming out of hiding.


Out And About – OTA

But of course, living in a household with all bloodtypes can be quite stressful to a young boy during a season where he's doomed to be hunted by two of them, so he ends up spending quite a bit of time away from the house this month. Of course, he heeds the warnings he's been given about cold weather and bundles up. A dark grey wool coat, gloves, boots, a hat...dressed up as well as he can be as he heads out into the harsh winter.

Still, as unused as he is to this sort of winter weather, Luca does stop to marvel at the snow. It really is pretty, and he never imagined it looking quite like that. He stomps it down to crunch it, squeezes it in his hands, experimenting and examining it, fascinated...until he hears anyone else coming by.

Like a prey animal, he's likely to hurry off to cower in the nearest hiding spot, before staring in horror at the obvious tracks he's left in the snow.

Trapped – OTA

Luca is trying to be careful, staying out of sight, avoiding other people and obvious traps. Not all traps are obvious, though, and there are so many this month that he's bound to get caught at some point.

He panics when he feels the snare tighten around his leg, pulling him up. He struggles, and he wants to scream, but he doesn't dare to. He's helpless now in a place filled with people who want to hunt him. If he wrong person comes...he has no hope of survival. They'll just slaughter him right there. He has to get himself down.

He can't get himself down, he soon realizes. He can't get up to his leg. He can't do anything here. Tears well up in his eyes, and he wants to cry, but he's too terrified to be anything but silent. He'll die if anyone sees him...and he'll likely die here if they don't.
danserai: human (141)

[personal profile] danserai 2021-12-08 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Great! I'll cook the mushrooms, get some bread and we'll have a little adventure by ourselves.
no_reload: (Reaper - Tilt)

[personal profile] no_reload 2021-12-08 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[The forest was mostly empty by all standards, so he could give into the dark desires of hunting and succeeding after trapping his prey. Thankfully, he also had his patron of Dorothea off-setting the push of his blood and the curse of the Darkblood that came before him.

He sighed from his nose and fired a shot into the tree branch he was standing on, snapping the snare that had been looped over. He dropped and grabbed the end before Luca could fall too far and drew the boy up to the branch.]


The forest isn't the place to be for wandering. Many traps.

[After hauling Luca up, he righted the boy and set him down on the branch.] Remove the rope and I'll take you back to town.
imaglyphwitch: (Experts say!)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-12-08 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"It might be all of them, honestly," Luz said with no hint of joking. "We still have a lot of unresolved feelings, and now the new month is beginning. It usually means there's something new and crazy that's about to happen."

That was just their luck these days. Luz knew she'd been trying to distract herself from some of the painful stuff that had happened to her last month that she might have overlooked something new.

"Rice? I mean, sure, I can do rice. What, do you want something fishy with the rice?"
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[personal profile] danserai 2021-12-08 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
I did notice some people were being weird . . . Do you know why?
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[personal profile] danserai 2021-12-09 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. I know some of the mushrooms were kind of bad but I don't think anyone got hurt too badly . . .

[ not that she saw. ]
imaglyphwitch: (Kinda maybe)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-12-09 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Really wish I wasn't."

Deerington and then this place had pretty much numbed Luz up to the idea that there was going to be some kind of new bad thing waiting for them. She wished she could pretty much put a collar on Fern and Varian especially when these kinds of things happened, but she'd have to settle for making sure that they weren't going corrupt for right now,

It was not easy to corral everyone in the house.

"Good, I still have some saved at the bottom of the fridge. Reminds me that I have to go and catch you some more anyway. You haven't been having any more corrupted symptoms, have you?"
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[personal profile] danserai 2021-12-09 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Do you know if it's happened before?
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[personal profile] no_reload 2021-12-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He watched Luca for a long quiet moment, sensing a rising struggle within him as he looked at the boy. On one hand, it would be easy to put a bullet into the kid and satisfy an urge to finish a kill. On the other, he made a point to not kill children outright without justifiable reason.]

It seems an unnecessary risk to venture into the forest right now. Perhaps the outskirts of town would suit your purpose.

[He shifted his weight, easily maintaining his balance on the branch. The forest was quiet around them, too quiet.]

Did you come out here to hunt?
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[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2021-12-09 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
"No, no, trust me, I'd rather you not just into freezing waters right now! With how cold it is out now, I can't even imagine how much worse the water is. I'll just catch the fish, ok?"

Despite how out of sorts she's been feeling the last few days, she is not about to let something bad happen to Luca. She can just put on a parka and stay on a rock for a while.

"I figured. Ok. You have incense though, right? Remember to try and just light some and meditate for a little bit. Taking at least an hour to breathe and relax is probably going to do wonders for you. If you want to stay in a few days, that might not be so bad either."

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[personal profile] droptheious 2021-12-09 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
The posters hadn't gone unnoticed by the older boy. He remembers what Luca told him about his homeworld. The dangerous line he once trod, worried about the people of the town attacking him. It was an unfounded worry, he knows, but for a while it was not and this memory really shows it.

Varian keeps his attention on Ercole, finally, finally he has an acceptable outlet for all the rage that's been bubbling away in him all month. He sneers, and as he does so, his teeth grow and sharpen- they become the same rocky substance his skin is made of, but he doesn't seem to notice.

"Yeah? You think so?" he holds up his palm and fire bursts into life in it, he takes a step closer to the nasty little bully. "I'd love to see him give it a try. I really would."
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[personal profile] laminae 2021-12-10 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
As much as it sucks, that nervousness is a good feeling to have. Normally Fern likes Luca, he's a good, kind kid who needs protecting from the stuff Trench throws at them. But this month, for whatever reason, whenever Fern sees him he just feels... angry at Luca. Like he's done something wrong and it's one hundred percent his fault. So it's probably good to have the sense to avoid him until those feelings calm down.

Luckily, that memory he just witnessed has tamped down on the effects of his blood. He's sitting there on the couch, still processing everything, though when Luca walks in he snaps out of it. Straightening up, he glances over at the other boy, setting the ornament aside awkwardly. "Uh - hey! Nothing's - well, I think this thing..." he stares down at the ornament, figuring he should be honest here. "I think this thing's magic? I... saw something. I think from your home."

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