swellter: (Hero: Pillars of Society)
🔥 тσ∂σяσкι ѕнσυтσ ❄️ ([personal profile] swellter) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-03-19 09:29 am

Head Full of Doubt

Who: Shouto [personal profile] swellter  and Dabi [personal profile] burnitblack 
What: Staples run. 
When: A few days after THIS
Where: The Lumenarium

Content Warnings: mentions of domestic violence, emotional exploitation, praticide, and possible fratacide   (will edit as needed)


In the healing district of Trench, a young Todoroki waits for his older brother near the pale greenhouse of the Lumenarium. Sunset has long dipped beneath the horizon and Shouto gravitates towards a patch of Lumenflowers for light. The soft glow of the petals compete with the red haze that surrounds the district and dampen the taste of blood in the air with their thick, sweet smell. It suffocates the blood stench but it still feels wrong. All that blood in the air. 

He draws closer to the flowers while he waits. His omen, as usual, lies behind his ribcage sleeping to the beat of his heart. She's not as trusting as him. Warned him of this meeting, but understands the depth of feeling behind his decision. I only ever knew him by the picture on his vigil. I want...

I know. Kizu had stopped arguing, accepting his feelings for Touya, while distrusting Dabi.

As the minutes tick by, Shouto settles himself among the flowers, breathing in their thick scent to drown out the blood while he waits for his brother.
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (swag)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-19 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Feels like this place sets its sun well before normal time. Can't tell if it's the case, probably isn't, but the atmosphere suggests it. Which is fine with him. There's no lie about crime taking place under the cover of darkness. Easier to move through, less notice to spot someone, and often the majority of people (heroes included) have retired for the night or gone to sleep.

Still new to this place, Dabi keeps to the shadows, following the directs on the stone in his hand. This Omni thing is... interesting. He's played around with it during the few days he's been here. Learned some things. Reading through the so-called "welcome" book in his pack has also been informative. Connecting the dots and illuminating confusions. Some things he has questions about still, but for now... more important matters to attend to.

Stopping in the darkness outside the range of the flowers' glow, he eyes the other person waiting for him. It's strange to think Shouto's here, irritating him that one of the people he can't stand is one of the people he somewhat has to rely on right now. Part of him wants to turn around and leave, figure out another way, but the pragmatic side of him has no problem utilizing this to his advantage. Once Shouto shows him around this Lumenarium, Touya won't need him anymore.

The scent of the flowers mingles with the thick copper in the air. Blood. Lots of it. Can't say it's entirely an uncommon smell he's found himself in during his time on the streets, but never quite this concentrated or oppressive. Guess he wasn't lying about the blood magic... Ch, this place is obsessed.

As Shouto tries his best to sink into the flowers and turn into some storybook figure, Dabi steps out of the shadows and heads into their light, coming to a stop in front of him a few feet off.

"If ya had a coffin around ya, you'd look like your own wake."
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (posing in the moonlight)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Touya remains where he is, watching Shouto sit up from the flowers. Not one for fairy tales and fantasy stories during his childhood, he's not got much in the way of thinking the scene something out of a magical world. Instead, goes right to the macabre idea of his little brother waking up from the dead and emerging from his own wake.

Not at all surprised by the question and completely ignores it. Irrelevant as he turns to look at the large building nearby.]


So that's the Lumenarium.
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (enough just die already)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ya serious?

[said in that deadpan sarcasm way. he's used to being wanted. walking into a hospital instinctively is a "hell no" thought in his mind. already heading off to the side, wanting to take a wander around the building.

like he's sizing up its exterior and determining a better place to break in. cause that's exactly what he's planning on doing.]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (the hell do you want)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[touya takes a few more steps before slowing. that other kid, the floating girl, said something similar. and it's not untrue.

that said, there's advantage in being anonymous. hearing a few faint screams in the distance wavers his decision weighing.]


What about all those?

[he jerks a thumb over towards other buildings, may of which look like, to his guess, smaller clinics. privately owned.]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (the roof's caving in)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The idea of dropping off plants is a little more "maybe" in his mind as he's had some time to think about things and look through the "jobs" that function in this society.

A Hunter seems right up his damn alley, though he's rueful about hunting in order to "protect" the other people here... Gathering plants and creatures for his own resource trading is more enticing, but then again, hunting down people with free reign to torch them isn't a bad use of his time either.]


So ya got no idea what we're gonna face goin into that place. Since ya never had to get healed.

[Not that he's looking to get "healed" in the fist place. Just wants some drugs and some shit to patch his skin up.]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (swoosh nothing but ash)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[there's a few more moments of internal tug of war, but finally dabi turns and gives shouto a dismissive gesture to go forward.]

Fine. Do it your way. I'll decide inside.

[if it doesn't work out, he knows how to get what he wants another way. but it's clear he doesn't trust what he's going towards. just walk in and ask for help? psh, like that's ever happened back home...]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (when you wanna get edgy)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[alleys are comfortable. warehouses and back lots. all those lovely abandoned places villains tend to find lairs in and skulk around. this whole place looks like it could double as one of those. blood and monsters and general horrible things aside.

dabi shoves his hands into his pockets, trailing after shouto like a gloomy scarecrow.]


Ya know some of the other kids arrived, right?
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (uh whatever you said)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[dabi slows as he passes by the greenhouse, head turning and eyes lingering on the collection inside. hn... once he knows what plants do what, should be an easy place to collect some extra resources if he needs them.]

Rescue from what?
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (you're a fucking lunatic)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't seem the kind to spill blood.

[but if a single drop was enough to make Shouto freak out, maybe that's a moot point.]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (how dare ya)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
These monster attacks, what happens? Some creature rampages outta the forest?

[sounds strange, but it's not impossible. he's seen giants show up out of nowhere.]
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (a look back)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Probably the same way all of us got here.

[unfortunately touya, while not as sheltered as shouto during his childhood, since he and his other two siblings at least went to school outside the estate, wasn't interested in things like comics and movies. so the notion of kaijuu is barely a vague reference in his head. (godzilla, sure, because not even endeavor could keep godzilla out of his house.)

dabi glances to the world around him.]


Like Gigantomachia?
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (kocchi kocchi)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[dabi passes him, not bothering to wait for his brother's halt. it's not like he can't see where they're going. this talk about monsters and corruption over spilled blood is both aggravating and curious. a world that's on such balance with blood and shouto's suggesting he go to a place with blood magic?

like quirks, could be used for good or bad, he's guessing. as for the monsters... burn them. so he'd like to say, but after that giant bastard stormed right through his flames, touya had to face the reality there were some things that could resist his quirk.]


What kinds have you faced?
burnitblack: by burnitblack @ dreamwidth (change my mind)

[personal profile] burnitblack 2022-03-20 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[dabi eyes the glowing flowers. they remind him of sunflowers, but the pale moonlit petals surrounding that gaping black chasm in the middle would be unnerving to some people. the sweet scent is almost overpowering when in the middle of a cluster of them. he turns his head towards his collar, breathing in the scent of smoke and leather for a reprieve.]

They show up on a monthly basis?

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