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Holland March ([personal profile] questioningmermaids) wrote in [community profile] singillatim2023-11-02 01:15 pm

boogie wonderland; ota

Who: Holland March + open, Holland + Huaisang
What: March spends some time contemplating, talks distilling with Huaisang
When: Nov 2nd
Where: Community hall

Content Warnings: usual cw for alcoholism

i. Weapons cleaning + contemplation;
His supplies are running low. There's only so much you can scavenge in a place like this, but when you chain smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish eventually what you can scrounge up is going to disappear. He's got a little left, sure, courtesy of a gas station raid and the basement Huaisang's got, but supplies aren't infinite.

It gets him thinking. Makes him antsy. March enters the community hall like he usually does, a frequent visitor like most of the small little community they've all managed to put together, but he's never really done much. Drank some coffee, chatted. It's hard to tell if he even realizes he's the village idiot.

Today, though, he's set up in a little corner and is making sure his gun is cleaned along with sipping his morning caffeinated sludge. He's less animated than usual, less talkative, simply staring into space as his hands go through the motions. If not interrupted, he'll eventually speak.

"We're really fucked here, huh? Completely." Holland knows he should curve the negativity, but it's starting to get to him more than he'd like admit. He's been adamant they're all probably going to die within the month since day one but there's less of a joking tone towards it this time.

He wants to help sure. Pitch in, even. Mostly he's just worried about how tiny his booze stash is getting.

After coffee there's a far less depressing revelation, said just as solemnly.

"...Should I hunt?"



ii. Huaisang;
"We gotta do something."

March doesn't bother to announce himself when he opens the door to Huaisang's place, spending far more time there than he probably should. His scarf is taken off, the hat is dumped unceremoniously onto the floor.

"Hey. Huaisang? Huaisang, we gotta do something. You know what I did today? Math. You know what that math was for?"

He's already flopping onto the nearest available surface, aviators still on.
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[personal profile] fanoperator 2023-11-02 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sounds horrible, why would you do math?" Huaisang grimaces sympathetically at him, nose wrinkled. He's all bundled up on the couch in pretty much the entire house's supply of blankets, since he is now officially out of firewood in the house, would rather suffer than cut his own firewood, and even his naturally shameless conscience feels guilty about making someone else do it for him. He has no capacity to live alone. He 'lives' in the community center, at least for now. This is just the house where he goes to sketch and have a little privacy and where he stashes the alcohol he scavenged.
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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2023-11-02 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd been patroling extra early today, so Levi'd back in the community hall later in the morning. He pauses near March and watches the man clean his gun for a moment. It was almost medatative for him, so he wonders if its similar for this guy.

"We...might not be completely fucked." Levi frowns. "We can survive here but...I don't know about anything else.
"We should probably start hunting soon, though."
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[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Aren't you the ray of goddamn sunshine we all need right now?"

Wynonna is slouched in a chair nearby, legs stretched out and feet crossed on a crate, Peacemaker tucked cozily into the shaft of her boot next to her calf. The coffee's okay; she's had worse. There aren't any donuts, though, and that is a real problem.

But he's not wrong. They are fucked, probably. Winter in the Ghost River Triangle is only bearable because they have power, and heat, and donuts. Stocked grocery stores. A saloon.

She aims a skeptical glance at him over her cup. "Can you hunt?"
Edited 2023-11-03 00:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fidior 2023-11-03 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's typical that Edward makes his rounds to the community center, perpetually clad in uniform, the same formal figure on patrol. He takes some time to check in on things there, chatting with various people, taking stock of firewood — making certain that things are running smoothly.

Coffee is also part of his routine, and only when business is taken care of does the lieutenant allow himself a (brief) moment to rest. Grasping a large mug in his gloved hands, he's walking around with every intention to finish the drink quickly and set off again, when he spots a familiar face off in a corner on his own. Edward finds himself heading that way instead, though it becomes clear the other man is quite occupied in his task (or perhaps his thoughts), and Edward lingers close-by, maintaining a well-measured distance that he means to convey as "Polite But Close Enough to Be Amicable."

As soon as March begins to finally speak, the other man's brows are lifting, head turning that way, ready to greet the dialogue with mannerly attention, but what comes is.......... Well—! Unexpected vulgarity.

Sadly, the particular meaning to that use of the curse word doesn't develop for several years after when he's from. Little only knows one association, and it's very much of the sexual activity sort. He startles, eyes widening, visibly stunned. By now, he's somewhat used to March's colourful way of speaking, but this....

"......Pardon?" he finally offers, after a lengthy silence. "Did you mean to voice such.... thoughts, aloud?" Perhaps he overshared something quite personal.... God, Edward hopes nothing happened out here in the community center; it's public.
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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2023-11-03 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's not really an option right now, though. We just have to make it through this, then maybe you can find those."

He doesn't sound very optimistic, though.
pacificator: (when we finally hit the ground)

[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's thing about glancing down from her face to Peacemaker: that one glance has to journey all the way along her body, and by the time he looks back at her face, her eyebrows are arching up toward her hairline. "You look like the only thing you've ever hunted for is your other sock."

Actually, that's being generous. She's not sure this guy is together enough to have matching socks.
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[personal profile] fanoperator 2023-11-04 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't have firewood," Huaisang says, a quiet tone that's not quite apologetic and not quite sulky. He's not sorry about the problem and he's not asking March to solve it for him, but he does feel bad about being a failure at this (among other things).

"Oh. Yes. I know." Huaisang's a little surprised that March has only just done this math and that it required math. It's immediately obvious to Huaisang that the bottles are Not Enough. He doesn't particularly want to know how soon they will run out. He's already doing his best to ration. He already hid several bottles where March doesn't know about them, since it is valuable as a disinfectant and Huaisang's not sure March knows about rationing, so he wants to have emergency bottles. Huaisang likes having contingency plans. "Was there more to the math than that?"
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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2023-11-05 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I meant it metaphorically as well." Cause this place did seem to be some sort of snowy hellscape.

He nods, "Yeah. I don't remember your name, though.
They've only really met once, right? He thinks that's right. When this guy was obviously drunk and shouting at the moon or something.
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[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-05 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wow, can't believe I read you so wrong." Fair's fair; she's giving him elevator eyes in return. Under the scruff and the general air of haplessness, he's not all that bad, himself.

"Yep. You're ready for the big leagues. I say skip the rabbits and squirrels and go straight to hunting bear. What could go wrong?"
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[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-05 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Wynonna gives the pistol an unimpressed glance. Sure, it can do plenty of damage – she's seen firsthand what Doc can do with a six-gun, but Doc was the greatest gunslinger in the West.

"I think the most that little lady will do to anything larger than a raccoon is piss it off."
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[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-06 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Wynonna leans her head back, eyes closed, and laughs.

It's not an especially nice laugh – she's absolutely thinking, yes, he was right, they are all fucked, sideways – but it feels good. Might be the first real chuckle she's had since she wound up here. "Yeah. Tell you what, I'll come with you. Not to help; just because somebody ought to be there to say I told you so when you get mauled by an apex predator."
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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2023-11-06 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
He nods at the name ("nice to meet you" was even sillier than usual when he'd met before). As March's look grows more intense he fidgets nervously.

"Um...d-did you need something?"
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[personal profile] pacificator 2023-11-06 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah?" Wynonna lifts her eyebrows at him from where she's slouched down in her chair, sipping her coffee with an obnoxious sluuuuuuuuuuuurp. "What skillset is that, exactly?"

Everyone here is so damn serious; this guy is at least a breath of fresh air. He's taking her barbs and tossing them back, and it almost – almost – feels familiar. "Talking out your ass?"
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[personal profile] bigbaddy 2023-11-06 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
".. I don't think you should be the one hunting."

Sorry, Holland. It's not even like Bigby means it in any actual bad sort of way, though it may be hard to believe with the tone he's using or the face he's making as he glances in Holland's direction while uttering those words - but the resting grump face and the gruff quality of his tone just do that, making everything sound harder than it's necessary mean to be.

If anything, Bigby is saying it out of concern for Holland. He kind of feels like the guy would just get himself killed if he'd go out there alone.

It's not a warning out of kindness though, he assures himself. It's just repaying the cigarette from a while ago. Clearly. Totally.

"You sure you won't just get yourself killed?" Okay, Bigby, maybe you don't mean it badly, but also don't rub it in, my guy.

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