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Vergilius ([personal profile] immortalpoet) wrote2024-03-07 12:18 am

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NAME Vergilius
CIVILIAN_NAME Red Gaze
TEAM Brimstone
HOUSING_NUMBER 11
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-08 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's something about the way he says that that makes them squint, but they don't have enough knowledge here to argue.]

I guess someone probably would have stopped them.

[Or told them all off in this case.]
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-08 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It does feel like that sometimes. ...I probably shouldn't say that.

[It's true though.]

Still, it's better than it used to be. At least we don't have to worry about them killing eachother as much anymore.
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-10 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I do? ...I guess I do.

[They sound genuinely surprised.]

That's a relief to hear. I've been trying to improve as a Manager, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I wonder if it's... enough.
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-12 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
So basically don't get lazy about it.

[It makes sense.]
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Even here...

[It's not what they want to hear, but it's something they need to. It lines up with the pieces they've been wishing they hadn't seen.]

Don't worry, I'm still looking for ways to improve. And even if I wasn't, there's always another kaiju to show up and make me.
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-13 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Right. Keep going and keep walking on their own two feet. Something to make sure they remember.]

Be a "can do" instead...

[Unfortunately for all present, this is said with 100% seriousness.]
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-13 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
I thought it was clever...

[Not nearly as inspiring as they hoped, then.]
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-04-13 09:09 am (UTC)(link)

[ Vergilius promised him he's just a man, that they're both just men, but they're still more than that, aren't they? He's spread beneath him like a tableau for him to take his pound of flesh from, and what does he do? He takes. Silco knew there was violence under the man's skin, and he wants to drag it out of him, see it in full bloom over, and over, and over. As many times as he can.

Over his shoulder, he sees it, in the way he stares down at him, that look in his eyes that makes him want to turn around and stare at him, swallow his every word, and scrape his fingernails along each and every scar on him, find the places where there are new ones, excise from him his doubts and guilt, and keep him focused on taking from him, instead of flaying himself for his every sin. He was a monster too, didn't that fit?

He would crystalize this moment, if he could, the confession, but that look on his face, with lust heating his gaze, like it's burning him up inside, and he has no other outlet than him to take it out on him. He wants to capture that, he'll remember it, every time he looks at him, every time they're in the same space. Maybe he is addicted — obsessed — but that look on his face, the words he says...

Isn't he just as much as Silco?
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I wanted — [ A hiss, when he slips inside, a bruise already blossoming against his back. His fingers want to find something to hold onto — him — but he won't let him. Maybe this really is punishment designed to make him go mad. He feels it, a little mad, a haze that makes him shudder against him, and he's barely started. ] — you. I thought you were doing it on purpose, driving me mad like that.

[ The accusation is heavy on his tongue, as if he hadn't been doing the same to him. How he would have liked to see that careful composure of his crumble just for him. Watch him be foolhardy, brash. Take a chance — all just for him. Because he couldn't hold back. ]
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-13 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Understood.

[And they'll stick to memorizing Vergilius's advice the old-fashioned way.]

I do appreciate it, though. The advice. I know it's probably frustrating, dealing with someone who knows as little about the world as I do
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-14 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[They cringe at the memory. Despite being one of their first, many of the details still stick out in stark detail in their mind.]

In my defense, there was a lot going on at the time.
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-16 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It definitely made an impression at the time, too. Everyone came in as if they knew exactly what to do, Faust taught me some of the basics of command, and then everyone died right in front of me.

And then, just as I thought I was gonna be next, you came in.
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[personal profile] followyourstar 2025-04-18 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You think so? I don't remember anything that led up to them cornering me in the forest, so I wouldn't know.

[They still wonder sometimes just what they were doing all the way out there in the middle of nowhere.]

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