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grabs by the throat ([personal profile] maladied) wrote2025-11-30 12:00 pm
robopriest: (datil)

[personal profile] robopriest 2025-12-01 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[Here he is, reeled in. He's giving the rules a bit of a frown. Extra...?]

This can't be a literal pound of flesh. Right?
hymned: (мy нearт ιѕ loѕт вeтween тнe ѕтarѕ)

[personal profile] hymned 2025-12-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what we're jumping to? We should try to bring at least the letters with us, shouldn't we?

[ Does that even count? How high are the requirements here? ]

If it's more metaphorical, and taking parts of this room with us will mean to take ... what, that idea of feeling like a monster? Needing to stay locked away to avoid hurting people?
robopriest: (dorset naga)

[personal profile] robopriest 2025-12-01 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
...


I could take that. The monster thing. I felt like that as a kid. Wouldn't be anything new.
hymned: (wιѕн ι waѕn'т ғleѕн and вlood)

[personal profile] hymned 2025-12-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
... Honestly, I could too. We're not that much different there.
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[personal profile] robopriest 2025-12-01 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
...

[That's news. He blinks at Julius, thoughtful for a moment.]

Because of that family trait thing you and Ludger share?
hymned: (a revelaтιon ιn тнe lιgнт oғ day)

[personal profile] hymned 2025-12-01 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hm. How much has Ludger told his roommate about things? ]

Not exactly, but you're also not entirely wrong. In any case, Ludger's not like me. I've tried to protect him from it as best I can.

[ A bland, wan smile. ]

For a while when I was younger, I felt all I was good for was hurting people. If that's a valid price for the door, I can take it with us.
Edited (better icon option) 2025-12-01 05:50 (UTC)
robopriest: (anaheim)

[personal profile] robopriest 2025-12-01 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
...You're a good brother.

[But Julius seems like he can handle it. Hansa folds his arms, thoughtful.]

Should I take the feeling no one is returning for me, then? The feeling of isolation?
hymned: (wιll тнe wallѕ ѕтarт cavιng ιn)

[personal profile] hymned 2025-12-01 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
... I don't know about that, really. You shouldn't say that kind of thing so quickly.

If that's what you think is best, though, we can give it a shot. Let's see what the door accepts.

[ Ssssoooo sure, while he isn't sure about how any of this and what kind of proof or price it wants, Julius is going to try to take the letters + assorted Blue Trinkets with them, of which the letters are supposedly a freebie, and take along the feeling of being a monster who can only hurt people, who apparently needs to stay locked away to keep from doing so. Or something like that, who knows how any of this works. ]
robopriest: (aleppo)

[personal profile] robopriest 2025-12-01 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You're the one taking the feeling of being a horrible monster, Mister Pot to my Mister Kettle.

[But sure, he will help Julius with taking the blue items and letters, and taking the feeling of being isolated, with no one coming back for him, too. Why not add a problem to his mental stability. Sure he can handle it.]