open | i'll never die, i am a freak

[brushoff]

Who: Dorian Gray & OPEN
What: settling in
When: all throughout the month of March
Where: Milton, with a focus on the community hall, the church, and the outskirts

Content Warnings: drug use, smut, body horror and gore in the form of Dorian's creepyass portrait, others tba

( catch all post for March! full of open and closed starters, dm me if you have an idea~ )

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Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[brushoff]

There. We've got the start of something going. Hopefully if they just keep talking, they can find at least one fucking point of sympathy.

"How do you get wrapped up in things like that anyway? John isn't the sort of thing you'd meet on the street or at the club. When did he enter the picture?"

Weird creepy eldritch thing, Dorian's dealt with a few of those, that's a much better route to probe than something boring like a missing girl.

Arthur is also absolutely not getting the pillow back. He's treated to seeing his own body clutch the pillow in an act of petty defiance.

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[lestercraft]

The clutching of the pillow is so disappointingly childish, looking at his body being so fucking churlish about it, that he snorts and just closes his eyes again.

"He's a god, too. He was trapped in a book and I opened it." He doesn't feel like giving Dorian more ammo than he has to. "He had to live in my body or he'd get sent back to a hell worse than death, so with him acting as my eyes, we worked together to solve the case of who he was and how to find out what happened to the girl."

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[brushoff]

A hell worse than death, okay, Dorian can work with that. Except for the big important part where he'd really rather not tell anyone about the fact that he also was trapped in a hell worse than death before. And also, there's the fact that he absolutely refuses to empathize with John, someone who as far as Dorian is concerned, was a right pill about the whole bodyswap thing.

"You obviously can see now. What, did he only have control of your eyes when you were possessed? And how did you get un-possessed to begin with?"

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[lestercraft]

A cold look crosses his face.

"I died and came here," he grunts, rolling to face the wall again. "I don't know why he has his own body now, but perhaps the Darkwalker isn't talented enough to put him back in mine."

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[brushoff]

Ah. Whoops.

A brief look of concern flits across Dorian's face. Even though Arthur's a prick, Dorian can at least be a little empathetic to the idea of someone dying. After all, he's done it enough that he knows it's never any fun.

"I'm sorry you died." And that at least, for one brief moment, is sincere. That sincerity lasts before Dorian points out, "But you think the Darkwalker brought us here? It hates us! Why would it bring in things it hates?"

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[lestercraft]

For a brief, shining moment, it seems like Dorian might actually care.

And then he immediately starts bitching again and Arthur actually growls under his breath.

"'You are the Interloper. You are not part of nature’s design.'" It's a frustrated intonation, as he flips back to glare blearily at Dorian. "D'you seriously think that it brought us here to help, that its fucking cult was trying to do anything besides kill us not two months ago?" Both arms come up in a sharp gesture, flopping heavily back on the bed. "I don't know why it brought us here but it certainly wasn't to save us."

Re: for arthur, bodyswap event

[brushoff]

"Or, and here's a possibility, it's trying to kill us because it didn't bring us here," Dorian points out, like it's the most obvious thing in the world. "If you adopt a puppy, you don't go 'terribly sorry, I don't really want this dog' and then bash it's head in with a rock. I think it's far more likely that something else brought us here - the Aurora, that Enola girl, something else entirely, and the Darkwalker wants to kill us because of that. Because we are Interlopers, because we aren't supposed to be here."

He rolls his eyes before pointing out, "I think it's as aggravated by our being here as half of the people here are."