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Ozpin ([personal profile] clocktowers) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-01-08 11:34 am

o4 . january catchall

Who: [personal profile] clocktowers and CR.
What: A bit of drama at Clockhouse.
When: Early January
Where: Throughout Trench.

Content Warnings: Tagged in subject lines as needed.

Ozpin's Vampirism Timeline:
- [Ford] rescue from the Sleeper Farm
- [Qrow] not talking about it
- [Willow, Tara] rancid vibes
- [Zhongli] a fight
- [Willow] stalking
- [Willow] on the groupchat
- [Oscar] checking in
- [Ruby] the intervention pit
- [Ange] on the groupchat
- [Sayo] a wakeup call
- [Shannon] after the wakeup call
- [Faith, Willow] a confrontation
- [Willow] on the groupchat
- [Oz] on the groupchat
- [Qrow] after the confrontation
- [Willow, Ford] discussing options
- [Faith, Qrow] hostile stalking
- [PH house] meeting the inlaws
- [Qrow] an offer
- [Willow] reconciling
- [Ford] at the Red
- [Willow] wolf talk
slayerskiss: (but i'm still at the start)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-10 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Faith instinctively starts to reach for her knife when this stranger starts speaking.

She stops herself, thank god. It's just Willow's friend.]


Uh, yeah. Nice to meet you.

[...No, something is wrong. Her senses are picking it up, there's something distinctly wrong with this guy. Willow said there's no vampires in this place, but that's what she's looking at.]

...You're a vampire.
frogfear: (126)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-10 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Willow moves forward to step between them as Faith reaches for the knife to try to diffuse the situation.]

Hey, come on, Ozpin's not a vampire. That's crazy.

[He can't be. It's ridiculous. There's no vampires here, so he never would have been able to be turned. Just because he's been acting a little strange lately, sometimes staring a little too long, and the odd way the light seems to catch in his eyes, and only going out at night -

Oh.

Uh oh.

She glances to Ozpin. She's pretty sure he can't directly lie to her. That's probably the easiest way to solve this whole misunderstanding]


Tell me you're not a vampire.
slayerskiss: (i've preemptively blocked all the exits)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-10 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's not my safety I'm worried about, man.

[She looks at Willow, because ultimately Willow calls the shots here in her house. She's still tense as anything and her hand is actually hovering around where her dagger is sheathed.

(How did nobody notice? How long has he been like this? How many people has he killed and eaten?)

Unimportant. Instead she just raises an eyebrow at Ozpin expectantly, waiting for him to answer Willow's question.]
frogfear: (050)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-10 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She fully expects him to deny it, and that will be enough for her to believe Faith is somehow mistaken - some trick of the town maybe. She even feels a hint of an apologetic smile coming on when he says her name in a tone that suggests how ridiculous the suggestion is.

He does not directly deny it, and the smile fades immediately into something more alarmed, bordering on horrified.

Ozpin steps out into the foyer, and Willow steps back so she's not within arms' reach of him.]


Ozpin. Come on, I know things have been rough lately. Just... tell me you haven't been running around, drinking blood from people. Right?
slayerskiss: (that could have happened)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-10 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Faith steps in front of Willow, protective. She doesn't know this guy. Maybe he hasn't killed her yet but that doesn't mean he won't. Slayer protocol would say she should have already dusted him but... this isn't Sunnydale, and again, her best friend's a vampire.]

It's a simple question with a simple damn answer.

[There's an edge of warning to her tone.]
frogfear: (131)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-10 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Willow has been worried for awhile now that Ozpin's been hiding something significant from them. She was not expecting that something was this. It all makes too much sense in retrospect with all his strange behaviour. That he's done his best to keep this from them all in spite of their clear concerns is alarming. That he's been feeding on other Sleepers is worse.

Her voice is quietly shocked when she speaks.]


You fed on Ford? Is he - I mean, he's not...

[In his right head, of course she is confident Ozpin would never intentionally harm Ford, in spite of whatever's happened between them. In his right head, she's confident he wouldn't hurt any of them.

But neither would Angel, and she can't help but think about what happened when he lost his soul. She's sure he absolutely would have fed on Buffy given half a chance, even as he deliberately went after the people close to her, and innocents as well.

Drinking blood, she's sure, is absolutely going to lead to serious corruption, if it hasn't already.]


Shit...

[The real reason he's been visiting Cellar Door at night is suddenly abundantly and horrifyingly clear. She glances around to make sure they're not about to be interrupted before continuing.]

Shit! It's not just Ford, is it? This is why you've been creeping around at night to go visit Night Walkers, isn't it?
slayerskiss: (i am cruel)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-10 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She narrows her eyes. He's really just trying to lie, huh.

There's a lot about this situation she doesn't understand but one thing she does know clearly and plainly is that by and large, you can trust a vampire as far as you can throw him, which in this situation might just be out of the house.

But she's learnt, since the last time she plundged a stake into a human heart and ruined her own life in the process.

She unsheathes her knife from her thigh, holds it steady in front of her, and turns a side glance toward Willow.]


I'll let you make the call, Red.
frogfear: (067)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-10 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Willow steps back a little when Faith pulls the same knife she's seen a little too up close and personal for her liking, and her eyes go to Ozpin in concern. She still doesn't want to see him hurt. It takes her a moment to recollect and hesitantly put a hand on Faith's arm.]

No one's getting stabbed.

[Her attention turns back to Ozpin as she tries to process. He's lied to them all repeatedly - hid his condition, even knowing about the vampire situation in Sunnydale. It's abundantly clear he'd be lying to them right now if he could, and that isn't terribly reassuring.

Not only that, but he's been feeding off Sleepers - Ford, and who knows how many Night Walkers he's bitten. That certainly calls for looking into any recent deaths around Cellar Door. She'd like to trust him, but clearly that's currently an impossibility, and who knows what else he's hiding?

Not as bad as it looks, he says.

No, it might be worse. And it might get worse. Sure, he hasn't hurt anyone in the house yet, and she doesn't think he could hold back if Ford wasn't really fine, but that could change. If he's been staring at Ange, then he's tempted, and if he's tempted, there's a chance he could lose control. If he loses control, he could end up hurting one of them, and having to live with that for the rest of his life, which none of them want.

On the other hand, he has been there for her every single time she needed him; he's saved her life more than once, he gave her a place to stay when Maul tore down her home, and accepted her even after knowing what happened in Sunnydale. Ozpin has stood with her time and time again.

It's what makes the decision she knows she has to make nearly an impossible one, but it's just temporary, and it's better than any of the alternatives she can come up with.]


We need to figure this out, but with everything - the lies, the secrecy... Ozpin, I'm really sorry. I don't think it's a good idea for you to be here right now.
slayerskiss: (when you swear its all my fault)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Part of her wants to snap at Willow for apologizing, but she gets it. A bit. She's not sure how she'd react if it was Buffy, or Angel.

Definitely wouldn't stake 'em, that's for sure, even if she was supposed to. So she lowers the knife. She doesn't sheathe it, not yet. If he's going to lash out, this would be the part where he does it.

It doesn't seem like he's completely lacking a soul, though, so maybe it's closer to vampire movies where the vampires are all brooding and grim and needlessly dramatic. Like Angel.

A few comments spring to mind, ranging from smug to intimidating to sneering. But instead, she just nods in response to Willow's words. This isn't about her.]
frogfear: (133)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-11 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[If she could just confine him to his room until they can figure something else out it would make all of this so much easier. She does know of a spell to keep a vampire out of a place they've been invited to. Sadly, none to keep them in somewhere.

Stopping himself mid-sentence to rephrase, or simply leave the sentence hanging does absolutely not help his case about not lying. Exaggerating. Same thing. Or close enough.

Willow shakes her head and looks at him miserably.]


No, Ozpin. I know under normal circumstances, you wouldn't hurt any of us - ever, but these aren't normal circumstances. With everything that's been happening, I'm worried about your judgement.
slayerskiss: (but i'm still at the start)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-11 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Faith crosses her arms and furrows her brow.]

You're trying to lie right now, man. This is already her giving you the benefit of the doubt. [Which Faith doesn't think has been earned, at least in the context of this confrontation. But if Willow trusts him, then she trusts him. It's her fault if she gets bitten.

Maybe.

What was it that Buffy said before she leaped into the abyss...?]


If there's a cure, [Which is ridiculous but she can play along.] you won't find it just by waiting it out and pretending it's all fine.
frogfear: (052)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-11 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
You've been hiding things - again - like, big things. Drinking blood from Sleepers, giving some of the other people who live here some pretty significant stares to the point where they're noticing and bringing to everyone else's attention. Do you really not get why I'm worried?

[She sighs. She absolutely hates everything about this conversation. She might be convinced that it's entirely the right thing to do under the circumstances, but it still feels like a betrayal.]

This isn't Deerington. You've said that yourself. Yeah, some things here follow the same pattern, but this clearly isn't, and Faith's right - this isn't the kind of thing that you can kind of just wait and see if it gets worse or better. Vampirism getting worse is a whole world of bad, and if you're... tempted... even a little bit by any of the people living in this house? It's not safe for them, or you, for you to be here right now. At least until we figure this out.

[She has no suggestions for where he should go, really, just that he not be here.]
slayerskiss: (when you swear its all my fault)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-12 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
This whole thing's different from what we're used to. Normally we just dust 'em immediately. [There's a glint of something dangerous in her eye. The kind of thing that very much suggests that Ozpin is probably lucky this confrontation and reveal happened with Willow present, because Faith has no emotional connection to this guy, she just sees a monster trying to cover it's tracks. It takes one to know one.]

If you know who Buffy is, then you should know what a Slayer is. This could have gone a whole lot worse for you. [And it still might, if he gets worse.]
frogfear: (052)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-12 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Willow's tone rises sharply at Faith's threat.]

Hey! No one's getting dusted!

[She takes a breath, even with the mess of everything, she's about as willing to put up with threats against Ozpin as she would be against any of her friends from home, and of course she's worried for him as well and the road he's on right now.

To Ozpin, she nods. She already has a plan. A little magic to keep him from sneaking back in, warn the others, then hit the Archives to find a solution. Maybe she'll even get lucky and find something helpful right away.]


I think that's a good idea. I don't want see you end up doing something you're going to regret later. You'll hear from me as soon as I have something useful, I promise.
slayerskiss: (cause you know we're not the same)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-13 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She shoots Willow a look halfway between confused and irritated. This entire situation goes against pretty much everything her Watcher taught her, and the very miniscule amount that Giles ever bothered to teach her too. But fine, she's new here, she can understand that.

She crosses her arms and shakes her head. She'll have words with Willow later. They can do their weird passive aggressive dance to their hearts content.]
frogfear: (067)

[personal profile] frogfear 2022-01-13 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Ozpin leaves and Willow stares after him silently for a few moments. She can't help but recall a conversation that happened what feels like an eternity ago about how keeping secrets can put them all in danger.

Even under the compulsion of honesty, he still tried to lie to them time and time again, even when the truth was obvious.

There isn't time to process, or even be upset about the weight of all the implications of the confrontation, and what's potentially to come. There's too much to be done, and if she can throw her focus into looking for a way to set things right again, then she can ignore certain painful truths. All she can do is try to hold onto the excuse that this is all the influence of the vampirism that's seized hold of him, and not simply Ozpin being Ozpin. That has to be it.

She does not want Faith to see her upset.

Willow takes a deep breath and tries to bring her focus to the task at hand. She grabs her Omni and taps out a quick message to Tara.

Are you home? Can you come downstairs please? Something bad happened.

She turns her attention back to Faith and lets out a sigh.]


It's not usually like this, I swear.
slayerskiss: (don't wanna hear your sad songs)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-01-13 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Faith watches Ozpin leave with a tightness to her jaw.]

No vampires in Trench, huh. [She raises an eyebrow at Willow.] How long's he been like that, anyway?

[Which could refer to him being a vampire or him being smarmy and dismissive, both are equally problematic in her mind. Faith is still on edge, like she's still expecting more of them to burst out and drag her into the basement or something.

Which is stupid, considering she's the hunter, not the prey.]

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