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Hibiki Ganaha ([personal profile] brandnewday) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2017-10-07 09:54 pm

The world is all one! Unity mind!

[Another week, another set of disasters. Hibiki’s head is still reeling from the lengthy ordeal that was Solf J. Kimblee. But it’s because of that exasperation that she’s able to turn her restlessness into something useful. It’s too late to set about making curry for everyone, so it’s time to make some easier dishes. A replication of Fern’s mac-and-cheese, somehow she’s whipped up some kind of donut to go with her animal-shaped rice balls. There’s coffee, tea...hopefully it’s enough? And if it’s not, Rin has provided some delicious Chinese food. And that always tastes better late at night, doesn’t it?

And for the adults (or the exasperated teenagers), Susan is carting down booze from the bar. Joy. Hibiki’s never written to the group en masse before, but she delivers a piece of paper to everyone while Rin and Susan finish up the preparations. Each paper has a drawing of an animal on it, too.]


Too much has happened today. Whether you want to get angry, cry, smile, laugh, or just be out of your room, you don’t have to do it alone. Rin and I have prepared food for everyone, and Susan’s brought the drinks downstairs so none of us have to go into the bar tonight.

Even if it’s just for a little while, won’t you think about joining us in the dining room tonight? Being together is just as important as working hard. And remember, nankurunaisa!

-Hibiki Ganaha


[Three more candles are lit today. Tabitha Smith. Sigrun Eide. Solf Kimblee. They’re all Cabanela’s doing. There aren't any decorations, but the food is spaced out so everyone should be able to grab something and munch if they need it. It’s not clear how many people will come, but a serious attempt was made this time.]
matchbreaker: (Yin Yang Twins)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-09 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Blood is life. It's infuriating how few of you seem to get that.

[ She ... what point is there in hiding it? She can spell out all the details, but she just-

Smirks. ]


Two hundred years ago, the humans declared their God wanted us destroyed. Damn near completed it, too. Our kind was all but wiped out. I lost my mother, my father, my uncle, my brother, my grandmother, and my homeland to those monsters.
ninehundredlives: ([ where i've been ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's in bags. Same as how we buy meat at the market, and don't think about the animal it came from.

[But, you know. That is far less important than the, ah. Genocide.]

.....sounds like you've got the right to hate us, then.
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[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ When she puts it like that - that's probably the reason. Humans don't hunt anymore, certainly not in great numbers. Most of them don't even farm or ranch. They're apart from what products they consume in their base form, and more than that, they don't conceive of something hunting them. It's impossible to think of the weight of their blood with that context, isn't it?

... Mmm. ]


Of course I do.

[ . . . And yet, here she is. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the lamb ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Here she is. Susan can't fault her in the least for her attitude, after learning that. Doesn't she hate flowers, now, even if all flowers aren't those ones? But Elda clearly cares about Sayaka - you can't get away without something like that, in here.]

Yeeeeeeah. You really deserve to get drunk. [Let her pour herself another glass.] So how is this going to work?
matchbreaker: (You no longer live as cattle)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... Yes, yes she does. She hangs her head for just a moment and then... well. ]

It's going to hurt.

[ Like... let's get that out of the way. ] What's more, as I am now I can't erase your memory of it.

[ She's ... still doing disclaimers, isn't she? She'd been so certain earlier. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ open up ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I remembered a woman melting my eyes with bleach on Sunday? I can manage.

[Man, and now we're talking about that, let's take a BIG DRAW OF WHISKEY]

Is there anything I have to do? Stop the bleeding after, or something?
matchbreaker: (MUSIC)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
--Holy shit, what? What kind of luck does your life have?

[ Err- ]

Of course that won't be needed, it'll seal up instantly. Honestly, from me, you'd normally feel better.
ninehundredlives: ([ knock knock ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shitty luck? It's a long story. [She waves a hand dismissively.] I got better.
matchbreaker: (And you'll become a legend!)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure how much you have to do with walking in on that!

[ Like....... wow. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the color today ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I say my world hasn't got magic in it, but I think I'm remembering that maybe it does, a little bit? Not anything you can really control, or...that. But I've died a few times now.

[Something in common with Kimblee. Gross.]

I doubt it's still working here. I don't really want to test it. [Even if it could be really useful, to die and wake up wherever it is they put the bodies. Unless that's an incinerator. She bets she could get back faster than they could toss her in an incinerator.] So...do you have to do it on the neck?

[Because that is, uh, some personal space violation she doubts either of them really want.]
matchbreaker: (LOCK IT)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
... That's traditional. And easiest. So I was going to do that.

[ SURPRISE??? ]

For my part, ever have I said that my world doesn't have magic, but I suppose that some vampire abilities border on it, and perhaps not every world has ghosts. who knows, there could be some more unknowable things at the margins too.

[ a beat ]

Still, coming back from the dead... that's. Astounding.
ninehundredlives: ([ one last time ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh....

[okay that's fun at least she is gonna be drunk!]

Yeah, I...when I tried to kill myself, I had a sort of dream. I woke up in a field of barley, and I met an old woman who called herself the Queen of Maggots. She said she was going to send me back, and make me immortal, so I could kill five people for her. Parasites, she called them...serial killers, more like.

I didn't want it. Any of it. But there wasn't a lot I could do. I probably would have thought it was just one big hallucination, if it didn't start happening for real.
matchbreaker: (While u sleep)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
... Why didn't you have a choice when you got back? Did you get maggots in you?

[ Is this a Fern situation? ]
ninehundredlives: ([ the color today ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I just keep on coming back. It's not like I could just stay dead, if I wanted to. Or maybe I could, and I haven't figured out how...

......there's no maggots. [god let's not talk about fern's deal]
matchbreaker: (the one below was the worse option)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[ how does she ... mmm. ]

... To me, that sounds like a blessing. But I've made no secret that I'd be fine with living as long as I possibly can. Our circumstances are very different.

[ James gave her that gift. ]
ninehundredlives: ([ my heart is heavy enough ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-10 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I guess so. It's a nasty sort of gift to give somebody who was...where I was, then. Now, though...

[She shrugs.]

I could do without murderers stumbling across me every thirty seconds, but when they do, they don't ever expect somebody they've killed to get up again. I can deal with them like no other victim could. It's...better, really, that they come after me and not somebody else.
matchbreaker: (Storm King's Thunder)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ she nods at that, but can't make eye contact there. It... it's hard to articulate what she thinks about that. The fact of the matter is that there's no way that someone should be allowed to die... just like that.

Right?

She's... Mmm. She'll work it out when she's feeling less sorry for herself. ]


That's like some honest to goddess superhero stuff though, it's... well, it's amazing, really. If somewhat morbid.
ninehundredlives: ([ wookie noise ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-11 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Susan shrugs. This is more open than she probably would have been about it, but she's tipsy now and it feels like a closer setting in here than talking about it out in the dining hall where anyone could hear would.

That doesn't mean she's more comfortable with being compared to a superhero.]


I think anybody would try to get back at someone who just murdered them. But...yeah. It's pretty morbid.
matchbreaker: (I'm so unsure on this icon)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-12 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh heavens no, I'd rip them to ribbons.

[ Still, rather... she considers how she wants to word this and then slides off the bed to get closer to the other woman. Elda's a lot smaller, but the languid movements still have a sort of predatory deftness to them as she spreads out her long nailed fingers. ]

Rather... I of all people am aware that humans are monsters- demons more than capable of inflicting the greatest horrors known to time and space. But I am a vampire. I could probably break your arm quite easily even now, and normally could erase your memory. For me, vengeance is obvious. But for an individual human woman...? I know I am laying it on thick, but allow me to say it's incredible.
ninehundredlives: ([ no one to ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-12 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Susan fidgets a little, fiddling with the hem of one of her sleeves. But she doesn't back away; it's not Elda's proximity that bothers her.]

......I haven't really told anyone about it before. It's not the sort of thing you can, anywhere but here. Where everyone's already so weird anyway...

[She doesn't know how to approach that kind of praise, or even begin to acknowledge it. It had felt...powerful. She had felt powerful, and even now she's come to think of Alena and Jericho as enemies to be overcome, people she could kill given time and patience.

Maybe that's too hopeful. Maybe she's colder than a lot of people - Sigrun thought of Alena as a friend, silly as that was.]


...some days it's already hard enough to live with myself. I couldn't have done it if I'd just run off and let those monsters keep on living.
matchbreaker: (Uses this a ton)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-13 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly, she'd felt the same, about those creatures back in Europe, even if she never did. But... they're long dead. Would it be the same if she killed their successors? She's not sure, really. But...

She reaches a hand out to gently brush it on Susan's shoulder. ]


Well, I think you've pulled it together quite well.
ninehundredlives: ([ no one to ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-13 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Susan startles a little at the touch, but doesn't move away.]

......thanks.

[This went a lot of places she didn't expect.

Well, one good turn deserves another. Her hair's not all that long, but she reaches up to push it back nonetheless, exposing her neck.]


Well. Do you want to have a go?
matchbreaker: (Anxiety Works)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-14 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
As I said, it will hurt. But you will not die.

Are you prepared?

[ Why is she hesitating now. God, it's so weird when you know them. ]

... I hope it makes you feel better, really.
ninehundredlives: ([ and you're not coming ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-15 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Feel better? She doesn't really understand how it's meant to do that. But she'd rather just take the plunge than have an explanation of something that may not even happen.]

...yeah. Okay.
matchbreaker: (Wow this looks painful)

[personal profile] matchbreaker 2017-10-16 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay.

... Okay you're here, you can smell the alcohol and you have permission. Hesitation isn't right at this point. And so Elda inhales a little, and she- does the most natural movement in the world for her. She leans forward, and while she could just bite the neck, reflex more than anything (she needs to make sure that Susan doesn't move, doesn't make the fangs shift around, make it worse) she languidly wraps her arms around the woman's shoulders, draping her small body against the woman. Her breath might seem a little hot against her neck for a moment...

But that's the prelude.

Next, the vampire's fangs sink through her flesh in one quick movement. The whole process is painful, as promised. After all, she's getting two veins pierced. But Elda happily, greedily sucks up the blood that flows free from the bite, using her not inconsiderable strength to hold her in place as she welcomes the warm fluid in.

God. It's... it's still bland, but it feels like mana as compared to that shoddy prepackaged stuff. It makes her feel like she's alive again, in a way she really, desperately needed after this last trial. ]

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