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Entry tags:
- ahiru: timmy,
- albert wesker: ref,
- ange ushiromiya: jelle,
- ariadne: wizera,
- darth maul: shade,
- dipper pines: jami,
- kyle broflovski: emma,
- lance: charley,
- luz noceda: pedro,
- manabu yuuki: elle,
- orpheus: qv,
- reaper: vette,
- richie tozier: effy,
- takashi "shiro" shirogane: red,
- the abomination: alba,
- the medicine seller: greenrivers,
- usagi tsukino: jax,
- varian: tf,
- zib: taku
[Open] Keep it locked up, keep it sealed tight
Who: Varian and YOU!
What: Varian's final corrupted days, his beasthood turn and the aftermath. See his corruption/monster page HERE!
When: First 2 weeks of Jan- before the event.
Where: Around the city!
Content Warnings: Applicable content warnings go here. Mentions of death, corruption, dissociation.
Hope you've stocked up - Last days of corruption
Anyone who's close to Varian will have noticed his slow corruption growth over the last two months. By the time January rolls around, things have gotten worse instead of better. By now his skin is made of a thick, black rock. This same black rock has turned his teeth into sharp fangs and his nails into claws. two amber horns sprout out from his head, and his elbows and one remaining ankle have spurs of the same stuff- as is the tail he's since gotten, flicking nervously as he paces around- firey red eyes darting around furtively.
He'd largely been keeping himself out of sight, trying to handle this alone, but his hallucinations have driven him onwards. He stares at things seemingly only he can see. If he comes across you, he'll grip your arm tightly (sorry if those claws hurt, he's not even thinking about it). He points at an empty spot of nothing, worry on his face.
"Eugene!" you are definitely not Eugene, but it's clear that's who he's seeing right now. "We- we gotta deal with these rocks before they take over everything! There's...there's got to be a cavern around here somewhere so we can cut them off, right?"
It's a long night - Monsterdom (Gaze and surrounding area)
Regardless of how much or how little help he gets in his final days of corruption, eventually, Fern decides enough is enough and the best way to handle this is to Fistfight God. Which is to say, he goes off to confront The Tower about this and gets himself killed by Never Mind in the process. Varian got there too late, and being the driving reason behind his boyfriend dying again was the final nail in the coffin for him.
The transformation is quick and sharp, and what's left is a a ten-foot rock monster spewing fire everywhere. His leg is still missing in this form, at least, which should help anyone with a quick ID-check. Varian himself rages through the city, slamming against buildings and breathing fire at anyone foolish enough to come close. It's definitely attracting the attention of nearby hunters- so perhaps finding a way to talk him back down before there's another death today would be for the best?
Nothing good is meant to stay - Aftermath
Eventually, Varian lets his friends in, lets them talk him down and the best hood fades. Parts of corruption still cling to him- his skin is still an unhealthy grey colour and his nails aren't quite back to normal yet. He's also sitting in a ball on the floor- partly out of shock and partly because he can't go anywhere without his leg - if someone could fetch him that, that would be awesome.
Or perhaps you come to him in the days that follow. He mostly stays near the Disaster House in Cassandra, as he waits for Fern to come back to life. He can be found inside the house, or sometimes sitting on the front porch, people-watching. Though he's certainly not better yet, day by day the signs of corruption lessen. Any visitors will get a tired smile, he's still a little withdrawn, but he's getting there.
"H-hey, thanks for checking in," nothing has changed how awkward he is at least! "Um...how are you doing?"
Because obviously, you're here for him to check up on you. Obviously.
[[OOC: The monster battle is intended to be open to any CR who want to take part. No ONE character will be responsible for talking him down from monsterdom, it is intended to be a team effort- hammering home that Varian is able to rely on his support network. Feel free to make separate threads, team up with other players, thread hop, etc. Do what you like, and we can wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey it so it happened around the same time- to make it easier than players trying to keep to one concurrent thread! Go nuts! As always please hit me up on
teeeff for anything! ]]
What: Varian's final corrupted days, his beasthood turn and the aftermath. See his corruption/monster page HERE!
When: First 2 weeks of Jan- before the event.
Where: Around the city!
Content Warnings: Applicable content warnings go here. Mentions of death, corruption, dissociation.
Hope you've stocked up - Last days of corruption
Anyone who's close to Varian will have noticed his slow corruption growth over the last two months. By the time January rolls around, things have gotten worse instead of better. By now his skin is made of a thick, black rock. This same black rock has turned his teeth into sharp fangs and his nails into claws. two amber horns sprout out from his head, and his elbows and one remaining ankle have spurs of the same stuff- as is the tail he's since gotten, flicking nervously as he paces around- firey red eyes darting around furtively.
He'd largely been keeping himself out of sight, trying to handle this alone, but his hallucinations have driven him onwards. He stares at things seemingly only he can see. If he comes across you, he'll grip your arm tightly (sorry if those claws hurt, he's not even thinking about it). He points at an empty spot of nothing, worry on his face.
"Eugene!" you are definitely not Eugene, but it's clear that's who he's seeing right now. "We- we gotta deal with these rocks before they take over everything! There's...there's got to be a cavern around here somewhere so we can cut them off, right?"
It's a long night - Monsterdom (Gaze and surrounding area)
Regardless of how much or how little help he gets in his final days of corruption, eventually, Fern decides enough is enough and the best way to handle this is to Fistfight God. Which is to say, he goes off to confront The Tower about this and gets himself killed by Never Mind in the process. Varian got there too late, and being the driving reason behind his boyfriend dying again was the final nail in the coffin for him.
The transformation is quick and sharp, and what's left is a a ten-foot rock monster spewing fire everywhere. His leg is still missing in this form, at least, which should help anyone with a quick ID-check. Varian himself rages through the city, slamming against buildings and breathing fire at anyone foolish enough to come close. It's definitely attracting the attention of nearby hunters- so perhaps finding a way to talk him back down before there's another death today would be for the best?
Nothing good is meant to stay - Aftermath
Eventually, Varian lets his friends in, lets them talk him down and the best hood fades. Parts of corruption still cling to him- his skin is still an unhealthy grey colour and his nails aren't quite back to normal yet. He's also sitting in a ball on the floor- partly out of shock and partly because he can't go anywhere without his leg - if someone could fetch him that, that would be awesome.
Or perhaps you come to him in the days that follow. He mostly stays near the Disaster House in Cassandra, as he waits for Fern to come back to life. He can be found inside the house, or sometimes sitting on the front porch, people-watching. Though he's certainly not better yet, day by day the signs of corruption lessen. Any visitors will get a tired smile, he's still a little withdrawn, but he's getting there.
"H-hey, thanks for checking in," nothing has changed how awkward he is at least! "Um...how are you doing?"
Because obviously, you're here for him to check up on you. Obviously.
[[OOC: The monster battle is intended to be open to any CR who want to take part. No ONE character will be responsible for talking him down from monsterdom, it is intended to be a team effort- hammering home that Varian is able to rely on his support network. Feel free to make separate threads, team up with other players, thread hop, etc. Do what you like, and we can wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey it so it happened around the same time- to make it easier than players trying to keep to one concurrent thread! Go nuts! As always please hit me up on
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Luz was also aware of what happened to Fen back in Ooo and really couldn't think about that or she never would have been able to help Varian.
"Oh, I agree. You and Eda were a little like that too, but man. She really cared about you and Fern, I could tell."
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"Yeah, she really was good at that. And we cared about her too a lot. This place is way quieter without her here."
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"I mean, I don't know if its exactly quiet here. It's what I like about this place!"
She looked over at Varian.
"He'll be back soon. Fern, I mean. When he is, we'll have to make sure he doesn't do any more crazy missions like that. But now that you're back...I can miss him properly."
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"Well, not this house specifically, this house is always pretty... loud."
Which is so different to when he first came here. When it was just him in his basement, working away. He might get less peace these days, but he wouldn't change it for anything. He likes having this much life around him. It reminds him to live.
"...Yeah," his expression softens, saddens as he plucks at the bedsheets. "It's just the waiting part now. I hate this part."
Being afraid that he'll come back at all.
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"It is! But I think you know that it's not something I really mind. Then again, I live all the way upstairs, so I sort of have my own fortress of solitude there!"
He's not going to get that reference Luz, but she's sure he gets the idea that she lived how busy and robust this place was. It was halfway between always noisy and very quiet when she needed it to be.
"Well," Luz said, putting her head on his shoulder a moment, "now you get to hate it with us. We all can miss him together. But he'll be back, and when he is? We'll remind him how great it is that we can see him again."
Luz was all too aware what happened to him back in those memories, and she just keeps the faith that he'll be back.
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Yeah, he does not get the reference at all. Off it goes, sailing above his head. He smiles lightly, sadly, putting an arm around her shoulder so she can snuggle in.
"Yeah. You're right, we'll do all of that, because he will be back. And we can be really obnoxious about it when he does come back."
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Well, maybe. Rapunzel was up there a lot more these days. She'd just have to handle that no one understood her hip phrasing. Instead she just sort of wriggled and lounged a little on Varian.
"Yeah we will. I hate that he had to go at all. I'm guessing that Dirk explained specifically what happened to him?"
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Better than the original anyway. And what Cassandra created from the rubble. This is a nice tower. His smile fades, because...well. This is what triggered his beasting out, and he doesn't want to get too much into it, lest he trigger himself back into it.
"I saw the end of what happened to him. I don't- can we not talk about that? I'm not ready yet."
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Ooh, right. She definitely needed not to talk about this. Why would she need to know? Other than whatever he did he SHOULDN'T have, that was all that she needed to know. The last person who she needed to ask that question was Varian.
"Yeah, we don't. I wasn't thinking, sorry. I just didn't have time to process all of that."
She probably SHOULD have been dealing with all of this at some point. Even Luz was starting to get that she wasn't getting to process any of this healthily.
"We need to focus on getting you uncorrupted anyway. I brought some more of Lysithea's wafers, and a few books on meditation. I know you don't love the idea of the latter, but every little bit helps, right?"
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He kind of curls into himself a little, trying to push the memories away. He knows the healthy thing is to talk about them, and he will, but not until Fern is back, alive and with them. He does look over at her suggestions, offering a tired smile.
"No that's...great, thank you. I'm willing to give it a try. Who knows, it might really help me."
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How did you even say all of that without overwhelming someone?
"Take them slowly, and you can even record your findings to see how well they help. In fact, maybe do that with all of this stuff, so when this corruption possibly happens to anyone else in the house, we'll know what to do. In the meantime, whatever you need..."
She trailed off, laughing unconvincingly. "I guess Usagi, Ariadne or Rapunzel will jump at the chance to take care of it. I'm glad you've got so many people looking after you right now."
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"Oh yeah, trust me, I'm not gonna...race into this, I still need to heal first," he's taking his time as much as he DOES want to race into things as he normally would. "And yeah, I'm hoping if nothing else, my experience can mean we have a better way of helping people in the future."
Then maybe all of this suffering wouldn't have been...pointless.
"Me too, I guess I really lucked out, huh?"
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Not that YOU would know anything about that Luz, oh no, you are always so SAFE.
"Maybe we should start documenting all of the Sleeper corruptions, see if there are correlations between how they happen and what the corruptions actually turn the subject into? Yours full on and, well, the start of mine and a few other people are the only ones I know about."
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Just how many times, Luz?!!
"You know, that's...not a bad idea. I think- I think I'm gonna stop looking at the death crystals, it was...doing more damage to me than I really wanted to admit," and at least he's admitting it now. "Maybe focusing on something that can help people that isn't a massive emotional trigger for me would be a good thing."
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Ooh, he might be right there.
"Ok, so we're both idiots that need to start thinking about the people around us. I'm still not wrong!"
Darn him and his points.
"Exactly! That kind of stuff can only cause you to start getting detached from reality, which is still pretty grim. If you want, I'll even help you with your next project! Just...take it easy and make sure that your corruption is going down."
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Because that feels like a highly likely scenario when Dipper is involved.
"I am glad you also acknowledge your idiocy here," he smiles, patting her head. "Sure, I want to get back to working on my car. That kinda...fell by the wayside with everything."
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And yes, that did sound EXACTLY like something Dipper would do, and something that Luz would just as easily come with to help if he asked.
"Dumb recognizes dumb," Luz said, shrugging. "Even I know that I can do some crazy stuff. But now that you mention THAT, if you need a grease monkey sidekick to help you with that, I'm your girl!"
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Given how easy it is to die in this place, he wonders if he should be more worried about that- but it would be pretty hypocritical of him if he did that, so-
"Thanks, Luz," he chuckles softly, giving her a squeeze. "Knew I could count on you."
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And sometimes things are boring and you have to invent your own fun, which just HAPPENS to invite danger even if you didn't really mean it to.
"You know I fully support your projects and building a car could be fun! Granted, I don't know how well we'll be riding in it since I don't think people here have a reason to pave roads, but as long as the wheels can handle it, you'll be good!"
That SOUNDED right.
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He snorts lightly, waving his hand idly like it ain't no big deal.
"I'll figure that part as I go."
Yup, she said it.
This was surely a house of flimsy cards.
"Wish we could get it floating, like in the end of Back to the Future. That way we wouldn't even NEED roads."
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"...Is that a pop culture reference I don't get again?"
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Not that she thought he could quite do that yet, if he was still working out cars. It wasn't even possible in HER world, after all.
"But I really should have you watch Back to the Future. When's the last time we even had a movie night?"
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He considers this, humming thoughtfully.
"It's been a long time, probably months? Before I started to get corrupted, anyway. We're well overdue. "
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Stupid reality, getting in the way of cool science!
"We totally are! Also, now the house is bigger and Rapunzel is here! I'll bet she'd never seen a movie before, right?"
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