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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 19:26:41 GMT -8
“Wait what—“ Fuck. He knew, he knew, Nik had been pulling his leg and fell for it anyways. Fuck. A small half-snort escaped from him even as his hair was mushed and his glasses went skewed across his face. Reaching up, he pulled the glasses from his face and folded them before setting them on the end table before closing his eyes, feeling through his own hair slowly, vaguely embracing the tangles there. Without the lenses distorting parts of his eyes, it was pretty easy to see the dark circles under them. He’d slept on and off again that week, but damn if he wasn’t still tired.
“Have they— ah, figured out what happened to her by the way?” he asked backing up more than several paces to their conversation on Mia. He’d heard she’d wound up in the hospital with a missing arm under questionable circumstances but hadn’t really been keeping up since.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 20:21:17 GMT -8
Ffffff... Some part of him felt bad for those dark circles but he was so used to them that they only barely registered at this point. All the rest was just... so endeared by his adorable sleepy boyfriend and the way he just accepted his hair-mussing fate.
He'd gotten a few more strokes of color in when Orion spoke again. "Hm?" What happened to-- oh right. "Not last I heard. I feel like she would've at least texted me if she learned since then but maybe not."
... A thought occurred, and Nik fought to keep his hand moving steadily despite the fuming in his head. "I swear to Arceus if it turns out it was Niso I'm gonna be ripping his arms off indefinitely. I don't even care if the grow back. I'll collect at least 100 of them."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 20:30:46 GMT -8
Ah, so nothing had changed or anything alr— PFFFFFF. “The fuck would you do with 100 Niso arms?” Orion snickered opening one eye and glancing sideways at Nik. “Aside from bury them in in the Wasteland and hope maybe some life would return.” Niso was… made of the souls and life of everything in that place, right? So it’d make sense if 100 arms of Niso would restore some life to it, maybe.
There was a pause as a different thought came to him. “Xerneas is in that mess somewhere, huh? Or … least that’s what the news and conspiracy theorists say, yeah?” He, of course, wasn’t there, but he’d seen for himself how immortal Niso really was so.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 20:39:48 GMT -8
"Decorating," Nik answered flatly. He had zero desire for all those arms but man he just... that little asshole. ...Huh. Would that help at all? He was vaguely curious now. Then again, Niso's severed parts didn't regrow new Niso's as far as he knew, so maybe it was like Rapunzel's hair? Once separated it loses its power, or something. Hm.
"...Ah, as far as I know. I've never talked to either of them about it." Hrm. If Orion had met and could apparently tolerate Niso, then especially if Nik and Sera would be around too, maybe... "Maybe you could go with me over there some time and ask yourself. I could use the moral support dealing with him, heh." If anything, at this point, he almost.. hoped Orion would be a good influence? Man what a world where that statement could be made, ha.
... "Actually I change my answer. I wanna build a Niso Slapping Machine."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 20:50:16 GMT -8
Orion snickered a bit too much at Nik’s answer. The morbidity he in imagining hanging arms from the ceiling or setting them in pots in the window probably shouldn’t have been this amusing. As Nik shifted the conversation a little, however, Orion blinked slowly— only for him to snicker all over again at the Niso Slapping Machine. “I –heh- sure?” he answered with a small hand gesture of his free hand. “He’s an interesting case study, I’m sure Dad would have a field day with him.” Yellow eyes closed completely again. “He let Mr. Fish take an actual bite out of him and then let them nom him after. He seems pretty self-destructive… like not in the ‘I wanna die’ way but the… ‘I’m scared not to live’ way.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 20:59:48 GMT -8
Oh yeah?? Ugh, Nik hated that the fish bite didn't really surprise him and hated even more that it was vaguely endearing. He hated that Niso was so like that while also being so like that... The end, though, earned a scoff and an eye roll. "No fuckin' shit. Doubt I know many people who'd be afraid to live when they can't die."
Or... rather, heh. "Guess maybe some would be afraid of social repercussions but..." He didn't want to lift his hands from their work, and briefly twiddled a thumb circularly instead. "Niso." Yeah, that seemed an apt explanation, didn't it.
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 21:09:57 GMT -8
Orion snorted. “No— not just that,” he answered letting his gaze flicker open to stare at the ceiling for a moment. “I asked him what it was like to know he’d never die, and his answer was that it was relieving,” there was a pause before he allowed his eyes to flick sideways at Nik. “He specifically became immortal because he was that afraid of death.” Of course, why else would someone become immortal anyways? Heh. Yellow eyes flickered to the ceiling again. “He also said he did a lot of dangerous stuff before then and was glad he didn’t have to be scared anymore— paraphrasing but yeah.” A softer breath escaped from Orion. “He’s very human. Chaotic as fuck but very human.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 21:37:24 GMT -8
Nik bit the inside of his cheek. "None of that conflicted at all with anything I said..." he muttered. "Whoopty fuckin' doo, he was a dangerous asshole to himself and others before, and then abused a god to make sure he'd only be dangerous to others from now on. Very sympathetic, much difference." He'd fume a few seconds silently before sighing.
"I already know he's human. And it pisses me off he can be such a sweet kid and so good for Sera while also casually attacking your cousin and pushing my sister out of a moving vehicle because he got bored." Or maybe there was more to it, but Nik didn't care. That would almost make it worse. "He'd be easier to deal with if he was a heartless monster. It's the fact that he's human and chooses to be like that that infuriates me..."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 21:48:18 GMT -8
A small ‘heh’ sound escaped from Orion. Fair, yeah. “Have you considered launching him into the sun?” his voice had heightened just a bit for a second before falling again. “Though knowing our luck, Arceus would throw him back.” Or whatever legendary beast controlled the sun— He guessed in this case that would be Mia for Nik, eh? Heh. “I hear lobotomy’s coming back into style.” From… no one in particular, heh. “Or I guess we could stick him with Dad for a week and see what happened.” He'd already imagined the horrible shit that could stir up for both Niso and Dad though, heh.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 21:53:39 GMT -8
Nik's mood had plummeted. He hated thinking about Niso and was so offput that Orion would even vaguely defend him. Some part of him was just lowkey ready to fight and expecting this to spiral into an argument... and then Orion came back with.. that. And that, and that.
Okay... Okay he was grinning again. "See now I want a weekly game show. Contestants come up with ways to try to get rid of him and see if it works or not. Like... they can drown him one week and if that keeps him unconscious they could wait to wake him up until next week before the show and the contestants get a prize. Also, everyone else gets a prize except Sera I guess." Sorry Sera, ha...
... "Man we're some morbid assholes aren't we."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 22:01:11 GMT -8
Orion’s brow quirked a little at Nik’s suggestion. It wasn’t until Nik’s realization, however, that Orion snickered softly. “I mean… my specialty for a while was gruesome ways to kill people and—“ He paused a bit too late and groaned weakly rubbing his face with his free hand. “I mean… you know obviously…” He doubted Nik had forgotten the images that illusion room had conjured up and the degree of detail in the ‘death scenes’ that were laid out there. Closing his eyes, he could almost imagine them still, and if he lingered on them too long, those thoughts were now doubt going to spiral deeper still. A sigh escaped from him, and that hand dropped to his chest limply.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 22:17:53 GMT -8
Nik stopped working. He hadn't thought about those images in a long time, but he was again now, and it made his hands shake a bit too much to continue. He never forgot that part of Orion's past, but he liked to try, or at least downplay it. The emphasis on particularly gruesome here just... drove it home harder.
"...Yeah," he answered finally, setting the needle down. "I know..." And that was all he wanted to say on the matter. He'd take a moment to blot the blood and ink, and to take a long drink. Deep breaths, Nikolai.
Taking up his work again in silence, he'd think on it for probably 30 seconds more before deciding to add, "I'm really proud of how far you've come since then, though."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 22:31:23 GMT -8
Orion internally groaned. He… should probably say something, assure Nik that that wasn’t what he did now, do anything and everything to be comforting but… One, it was kind of hard to move at the moment. Two, there wasn’t much he could say or promise that wouldn’t sound fluffy and fake.
MMmmm maybe he should still try— Uhmph, the brush was working again, and he let the silence drag out. What came after, however, had his pulse slowing a bit. Yellow eyes flickered sideways again drawing in Nik’s form and figure before finding a spot on the ceiling to be particularly interested in.
“…. It’s… kinda funny but…. so long as I can fight now and again those impulses go down…” he mumbled softly. “Don’t even really need to hurt anyone just punch and kick and throw knives at a dart board, heh…”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Dec 8, 2017 22:48:09 GMT -8
The fact that there were still impulses to go down should have been unnerving, but Nik was breathing a little easier with relief. "I'm glad," he said with a light nod. He vaguely wished he could help, and his mind flashed to Mia and Vesta fighting for the adrenaline only to have a slight shudder run down his spine, whoops. Yeah... Still not happening any time soon, huh? Although...
"I should try to get you and Mia hanging out more often, heh." Some vague primal urge said 'what no they can't be friends when you're dating both' but that was?? stupid? He couldn't imagine where that impression even-- well, he could, but couldn't imagine why it came so readily. "Have some weekly sparring matches." He smirked. "Maybe with some bets or dares attached. Loser has to do the winner's laundry or do something vaguely embarrassing at the winner's request."
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Post by Orion Alim-Verdi on Dec 8, 2017 22:56:29 GMT -8
A sharp snort escaped from Orion. “But then the question becomes who you’d bet on,” he mused, a yellow eye zeroing in on Nik rather hard. Mia was a Gym Leader and Ligg’s favorite person— and one of Nik’s favorite persons— but Orion was one of those too (maybe not a Gym Leader or any town’s favorite person but Nik’s which was all that mattered in this case anyways). He chuckled faintly before looking up at the ceiling again. “I should challenge her gym again sometime. Last time was pretty fun.” And last time had been a long time ago hadn’t it, heh. Where the hell did time go now a days anyways?
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