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where we're going--
✖ EVENT HORIZON
Ⅰ. ARRIVAL
You can read all about your character's arrival in the game lore.
There has always been some confusion as to whether or not the ferry cuts through sea or sky, but this month as you glide along you will find yourself more and more convinced that it is the latter. It is nigh impossible to see where you are headed, the way forward shrouded in darkness.
At first you think the lights ahead are stars.
The ferry docks inside of a metallic bay of some kind. It’s an extension of what must be the island, although this one does not resemble any earthly land mass. It appears to be a deliberately constructed structure, contained on all sides. Maybe you’re familiar enough with technology or science fiction enough that you realise it resembles a space station more than an island.
Once you’ve disembarked from the ferry, you will find that you cannot go outside of the structure.
Inside, there are seemingly endless corridors for you to explore. The halls on the upper deck are rounded, metallic, with lights set at regular intervals. Here there are chambers roughly the length and width of a single bed, with sufficient height for a person to crawl in and sit up on the bed. There is a television screen set in the wall at the foot of the bed by the door, and sockets for electronics. That is all.
Also on this floor is a mess hall where you can get beige, mostly tasteless nutritional sludge dispensed from machines. Water and coffee are also available, likewise dispensed from machines. (There is a cookbook hidden on a shelf written by one Serak the Preparer, but no ingredients anywhere.) There are private showers and bathrooms, a small gym, and rooms clearly meant as places for people to sit and talk. There is a medical bay, although there is no staff. In fact, the whole place seems empty.
There are some rooms that are locked - these look like offices. The doors to these rooms are extremely difficult to break down, but if you have superhuman strength you could manage it. Or maybe you’re clever enough to work the electronic panels beside the doors.
Inside you will find round monitors on the walls and square tablet-like devices on desks. Attempt to work any of these and a soft, pleasant but emotionless voice will inform you that you do not have access. You can try to speak to the AI - called MUTHER - but it is supremely uncooperative. Someone very good with technology could use the tablet the old fashioned way, perhaps, to access files. You might want to be careful, though - MUTHER might decide to retaliate. Harshly.
There doesn’t seem to be a temple anywhere readily apparent.
Ⅱ. CONSCIENCE
CW: psychological trauma, threat of death.
It’s easy to get lost; nearly identical corridors branch off from one another. As you walk along you gradually become convinced that someone is following you. Periodically you’ll hear footsteps, a sigh, a rustle of cloth. But every time you turn around you see nothing… unless it’s one of your fellow Travelers. Or maybe you run into them because you’re so busy looking over your shoulder.
Regardless, as you walk along the lights in the corridor flicker, and when they turn back on you will find someone you know standing directly in your path. Someone who you know absolutely cannot be there.
Maybe they died. Maybe you haven’t spoken in years. Whoever they are, the feeling they inspire within you is one of intense guilt. You did something to this person, something for which you think you can never be forgiven.
The apparition might speak, or it might just watch you with silently accusing eyes. You begin to wither under its gaze, feeling weaker and weaker until you can barely stand. You just want to lay on the floor and close your eyes… maybe forever.
Your fate rests in the hands of whoever is with you or finds you. All they have to do is introduce a smidgen of doubt into your mind, a recognition that maybe it isn’t all your fault. Of course, that means you might have to tell them what you did.
Oh, dear.
Ⅲ. STOWAWAY
CW: monstrous creatures.
The lower decks of the station are darker, more utilitarian looking. These are corridors that lead to rooms full of computers and machinery that keep the station running so it’s probably best to keep out of there.
There are also storage bays filled with both prosaic wooden crates and large metallic pods. Most of these are locked up tight. But not all. Investigate some of the pods and you’ll find that the floor around them is wet with some sort of milky, slimy substance that sure seems like it came from a living organism.
Maybe you should get out of here.
Before you can get good and gone to the upper decks, however, you find exactly what you probably didn’t want to unless you have a very exciting Tinder profile: an alien.
At least eight feet tall, with pale almost translucent skin, the creature has an elongated skull and a mouth that hosts two sets of jaws like a moray eel. It has a whiplike tail and spiky protrusions along its upper back. It is bipedal, and very, VERY fast.
Better hope you’ve got something to fight with! Your chances of survival are definitely greater if you work with a partner.
And you better hope there’s just the one.
Ⅳ. TEMPLE
CW: potential insanity, violence.
If you wander the dark lower decks long enough, you will find yourself moving ever inward toward the very center of the station. There is a door there that is supposed to be locked, but often isn’t. It’s waiting for you, beyond that door and down a dark corridor: the station’s heart.
The room the solitary corridor opens into is round, walls sloping gently up to a domed ceiling. In the middle of the room is a machine of some kind: a series of concentric thick metal rings rotate in different directions around a sphere. The only noise it makes is the gentle swooshing of the circles as they spin out, up, around.
The air feels heavy and charged. It’s not pleasant.
Before you can leave, all of the rings line up so that they appear to radiate out from the sphere in the center. Light flares, and then in the space where the sphere once was you can see it:
Home.
It’s your homeworld, perhaps exactly as you left it, or perhaps earlier or later along in the timeline. It may be pleasant, or it may be awful, but it is undeniably the place from which you came. The place where you belong.
Stare into this portal home long enough and the compulsion to return will slip over you. You just need to jump into the glowing, trembling center of that dimensional gate.
Whoever is with you, however, realises that leaping headfirst into an unknown dimension might not be the smartest idea you’ve ever had, especially considering how ominous the whole place feels. They might be able to talk you down. Hopefully they can talk you down, because the longer you stare at the portal the more convinced you become that you MUST leap into it, and the only way to do so is to kill whoever is trying to get in your way.
If instead you turn away from the dimensional gate, the lights will flare once more before the rings resume their movement. That brief glimpse of home is gone. In its place is the sound of soft voices; people you have left behind, calling out to you with accusations of things left undone, begging to be told why you won’t come home...
These voices will follow you throughout the ship. They are not constant, but they never leave you alone for very long. They won’t be silent until you give them an answer to the question of why you have chosen to remain.
Is anybody out there listening?
You can read all about your character's arrival in the game lore.
There has always been some confusion as to whether or not the ferry cuts through sea or sky, but this month as you glide along you will find yourself more and more convinced that it is the latter. It is nigh impossible to see where you are headed, the way forward shrouded in darkness.
At first you think the lights ahead are stars.
The ferry docks inside of a metallic bay of some kind. It’s an extension of what must be the island, although this one does not resemble any earthly land mass. It appears to be a deliberately constructed structure, contained on all sides. Maybe you’re familiar enough with technology or science fiction enough that you realise it resembles a space station more than an island.
Once you’ve disembarked from the ferry, you will find that you cannot go outside of the structure.
Inside, there are seemingly endless corridors for you to explore. The halls on the upper deck are rounded, metallic, with lights set at regular intervals. Here there are chambers roughly the length and width of a single bed, with sufficient height for a person to crawl in and sit up on the bed. There is a television screen set in the wall at the foot of the bed by the door, and sockets for electronics. That is all.
Also on this floor is a mess hall where you can get beige, mostly tasteless nutritional sludge dispensed from machines. Water and coffee are also available, likewise dispensed from machines. (There is a cookbook hidden on a shelf written by one Serak the Preparer, but no ingredients anywhere.) There are private showers and bathrooms, a small gym, and rooms clearly meant as places for people to sit and talk. There is a medical bay, although there is no staff. In fact, the whole place seems empty.
There are some rooms that are locked - these look like offices. The doors to these rooms are extremely difficult to break down, but if you have superhuman strength you could manage it. Or maybe you’re clever enough to work the electronic panels beside the doors.
Inside you will find round monitors on the walls and square tablet-like devices on desks. Attempt to work any of these and a soft, pleasant but emotionless voice will inform you that you do not have access. You can try to speak to the AI - called MUTHER - but it is supremely uncooperative. Someone very good with technology could use the tablet the old fashioned way, perhaps, to access files. You might want to be careful, though - MUTHER might decide to retaliate. Harshly.
There doesn’t seem to be a temple anywhere readily apparent.
Notes:
1. The High Temple and anything characters may have stored there is only accessible to those who are experiencing their first island outside of the TDM via a marked door. Everyone else must make do with what is available.
2. Please remember to mark threads appropriately with Content Warnings when necessary.
3. The televisions play mostly game shows. You can also find a set of controllers for it and play Pong. Just Pong.
4. MUTHER will not deliberately kill any people on the station - her programming forbids it. She is not above releasing hallucinogenic gas into the air vents, though.
5. Have fun!
Ⅱ. CONSCIENCE
CW: psychological trauma, threat of death.
It’s easy to get lost; nearly identical corridors branch off from one another. As you walk along you gradually become convinced that someone is following you. Periodically you’ll hear footsteps, a sigh, a rustle of cloth. But every time you turn around you see nothing… unless it’s one of your fellow Travelers. Or maybe you run into them because you’re so busy looking over your shoulder.
Regardless, as you walk along the lights in the corridor flicker, and when they turn back on you will find someone you know standing directly in your path. Someone who you know absolutely cannot be there.Maybe they died. Maybe you haven’t spoken in years. Whoever they are, the feeling they inspire within you is one of intense guilt. You did something to this person, something for which you think you can never be forgiven.
The apparition might speak, or it might just watch you with silently accusing eyes. You begin to wither under its gaze, feeling weaker and weaker until you can barely stand. You just want to lay on the floor and close your eyes… maybe forever.
Your fate rests in the hands of whoever is with you or finds you. All they have to do is introduce a smidgen of doubt into your mind, a recognition that maybe it isn’t all your fault. Of course, that means you might have to tell them what you did.
Oh, dear.
Notes:
1. The severity of the offense is of course up to the player - this can be deadly serious, or played for laughs. No matter how it is played the only way to save a character from sleeping on the floor until they die from dehydration is to convince them of even the possibility that they might not be guilty. They do not have to feel completely absolved.
Ⅲ. STOWAWAY
CW: monstrous creatures.
The lower decks of the station are darker, more utilitarian looking. These are corridors that lead to rooms full of computers and machinery that keep the station running so it’s probably best to keep out of there.
There are also storage bays filled with both prosaic wooden crates and large metallic pods. Most of these are locked up tight. But not all. Investigate some of the pods and you’ll find that the floor around them is wet with some sort of milky, slimy substance that sure seems like it came from a living organism.
Maybe you should get out of here.
Before you can get good and gone to the upper decks, however, you find exactly what you probably didn’t want to unless you have a very exciting Tinder profile: an alien.
At least eight feet tall, with pale almost translucent skin, the creature has an elongated skull and a mouth that hosts two sets of jaws like a moray eel. It has a whiplike tail and spiky protrusions along its upper back. It is bipedal, and very, VERY fast.Better hope you’ve got something to fight with! Your chances of survival are definitely greater if you work with a partner.
And you better hope there’s just the one.
Notes:
1. The aliens are extremely dangerous, but they CAN be killed. Their blood is thick and yellow but is not acidic or poison.
Ⅳ. TEMPLE
CW: potential insanity, violence.
If you wander the dark lower decks long enough, you will find yourself moving ever inward toward the very center of the station. There is a door there that is supposed to be locked, but often isn’t. It’s waiting for you, beyond that door and down a dark corridor: the station’s heart.
The room the solitary corridor opens into is round, walls sloping gently up to a domed ceiling. In the middle of the room is a machine of some kind: a series of concentric thick metal rings rotate in different directions around a sphere. The only noise it makes is the gentle swooshing of the circles as they spin out, up, around.
The air feels heavy and charged. It’s not pleasant.
Before you can leave, all of the rings line up so that they appear to radiate out from the sphere in the center. Light flares, and then in the space where the sphere once was you can see it:
Home.
It’s your homeworld, perhaps exactly as you left it, or perhaps earlier or later along in the timeline. It may be pleasant, or it may be awful, but it is undeniably the place from which you came. The place where you belong.
Stare into this portal home long enough and the compulsion to return will slip over you. You just need to jump into the glowing, trembling center of that dimensional gate.
Whoever is with you, however, realises that leaping headfirst into an unknown dimension might not be the smartest idea you’ve ever had, especially considering how ominous the whole place feels. They might be able to talk you down. Hopefully they can talk you down, because the longer you stare at the portal the more convinced you become that you MUST leap into it, and the only way to do so is to kill whoever is trying to get in your way.
If instead you turn away from the dimensional gate, the lights will flare once more before the rings resume their movement. That brief glimpse of home is gone. In its place is the sound of soft voices; people you have left behind, calling out to you with accusations of things left undone, begging to be told why you won’t come home...
These voices will follow you throughout the ship. They are not constant, but they never leave you alone for very long. They won’t be silent until you give them an answer to the question of why you have chosen to remain.
Notes:
1. If characters DO jump into the gate… They can pass through and emerge on the opposite side gravely injured or completely out of their minds. Or you may use this as a very dramatic exit from the game.
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When she mentions that only he would find two berserking hotties going at each other hawt, he just shrugs. Maybe. But probably not. If Transformer porn exists, surely raging berserker sex porn exists, after all! He'll have to remember to google it.
"Ooohhh...do I smell chimichangas?!?"
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“But you know I was an absolute nightmare to be married to, right?” she adds, a little bashfully. Sure, she was the outdoorsy type, who loved hockey, but “When it comes to all the things that make a marriage work…? Like communication and compromise… Let’s be real, I’m the worst.”
There absolutely is berserker-rage porn somewhere in the vastness of the Internet, but Oni is blissfully unaware of it, and if he produces any on his phone he’d better be prepared for her to chuck it through a wall.
“Not a chance in… Hell?” That definitely is a waft of Tex-Mex she’s getting. “I’m certain this is Muther fucking around with us again, but I don’t even care.”
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"Nah. No more than he was. You probably had hot crazy makeup sex all the time after bad communication and compromise. I'd call that a win. And your current Brit beau seems to love your fierce energy something fierce. Not that I'm peeping or anything. Except I guess I totally am, to know that without being in any of those threads. Sorry?"
Then he is loping off, chanting the names of all the Mexican dishes he absolutely must have that he smells in the air. Who cares if it's MUTHER fucking with him? The perception is the reality, right? And he for damn sure intends to perceive some Mexican food.
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“You absolutely were peepin’,” she grumbled, even if she had no idea how. She’d be so much angrier about it, though, if mentioning John didn’t also hammer home how hopelessly far away he was. Pessimistic as he was, he’d have probably said that they were ‘right fucked,’ but she’d give anything just to hear his voice.
“Do you think…” she cut herself off, swallowing thickly. She’d been about to say do you think I’ll ever see him again? but he couldn’t possibly know, and it seemed unfair to ask. “… Nothing. Nevermind.”
“Wade, wait! What if what we think we’re smelling is really… Somebody’s pet, or somethin’ sick like that.” Not that she wouldn’t wolf down a hamster, if it really came down to it— She’s ate dirt, for crying out loud. Anything beats slipping into Frenzy out of hunger. She just didn’t want to wind up in space-prison.
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Instead of waiting, he just digs right in. Illusory or not, as long as it's not poison and it tastes like what he wants, he's not complaining. Even if it is poison, that's the joy of a healing factor. He abuses the shit out of that thing on a regular basis.
"Oh my god this is so good," He murmurs as he shoves food in his face bere looking up, "Hey, if it's someone's pet, it ain't anyone I know so no harm no foul. But what did you wanna know? I think a lot of things. I'm happy to help there."
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Sighing, she resigns herself to food-paste, settling down opposite the Merc with her plate of taupe sludge. At least she’d be spared Montezuma’s Revenge. “Comin’ here… If I hadn’t already died once, I’d have thought that’s what this was. Now I’m not sure if we’ve been zapped into another dimension, or what.”
“Do you think we’ll ever make it back to Earth?”
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Having likely just ruthlessly murdered any appetite she had for the stuff, he merrily eats more of his own...whatever it is, hallucination or real. "Oh, it's definitely another dimension. Probably several. I think it's all some big social experiment. Honestly, that's pretty cool. It's better than the physical experiment gig. Been there, done that, here I am now as Deadpool with multiple t-shirt deals."
Chewing thoughtfully, he answers honestly, "Probably not. They'll probably kill us when they're done seeing how we dance. It's why I don't give a shit about this thing." He waves his bracelet, which has been glowing angrily red since forever. "I didn't even listen when they said what it was. I just know it's supposed to try to manipulate my behavior, and I don't play nicely with that kinda shit."
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As if to prove her point, and demonstrate how much harder he’d have to work to put her off her appetite, Oni dips her longest finger in the gel-like substance and sucks it clean.
Then she flips him the bird with the same finger. But while talk about the unique properties of baby batter didn’t turn her stomach, mention of physical experiments sure did, and she pushes her plate away unhappily.
“Yea, I got the sense that you didn’t pay much attention on the boat ride over…” That’s probably what came of being functionally immortal. Her eyes lock on his bracelet. She hasn’t dared to look at her own yet, and see what color’s been assigned to her (and not only so her writer doesn’t have to decide which it should be.) “If they really want us dead, and they’ve got the stones, they’re welcome to try it… But there was something I was supposed to do before I die, and I worry I haven’t done it.”
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Deadpool just shrugs as she mentions the boat ride. She's right; the most attention he paid was to check out the boatman to make sure it wasn't his star crossed lover Death. Apparently, there was more than ones sexy skeleton type person out there, who knew?
"Have a kiddo?" He just tosses that out there, seemingly unaware of how much of a bombshell it could be.
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And a bombshell it is. Oni half-lurches up from her seat, sorely tempted to flip the goddamn table or something, anything. “If it were to have a ‘kiddo,’” she bites out through clenched teeth, “Don’t you think I’d have fucking done it by now?”
However, her rage is short-lived, if only because Wade has nothing to do with her ongoing struggle to conceive. He’s not to blame for her infertility, just for making her feel extra shitty about it, and even that was probably unintentional. She rubs her face with rough hands, “You know me well enough by now, you know the only thing I’m ever asked to do is end lives… Not start them.”
“If you must know, I had a vision about… Well, I’m not sure exactly what. I was supposed to fight something, I think. Didn’t seem like a winning battle…”
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Deadpool blinks, surprised by her sudden outburst. In this, he's choosing not to be a fourth wall surfing bastard, and he had no idea how much it seemed to mean to her. With the important things, he didn't peek behind curtains, and there was definitely a curtain here.
"If you could have one, yeah..." His voice is cautious, but also thoughtful. Her reaction combined with his ability to make intuitive leaps lead him to make that critical observation. "But that's why it's a thing you gotta do."
He frowns at her assessment of herself. "Well, I'd ask you to make a life if I could. You'd be a great mama bear. The best, really. If I had you being overprotective of me at all times and looking out like I know you'd look out, well, I guess I wouldn't be me. I'd be another person. A better person."
And his frown deepens at her vision. "That sounds...bad. You sure that nutritional splooge isn't making you trip balls?"
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Once more, he throws her an emotional curveball, and there are tears gathering in the corners of her eyes as she pushes her dark hair back from her face. “I’ve tried and I’ve tried… I can’t even tell you how many times.”
“Like a wolf, you mean. Pas comme une mère ours,” she grins despite herself. Much as she hated to agree with him, someone should have been looking out for him. But he’d be dead now, as likely as not, if someone had. “You tryna get adopted? I’d have happily burned Weapon-X to the ground, and then salted the earth afterwards. You deserved better… But don’t cut yourself short. You don’t give yourself enough credit for the goodness you do have, considerin’ everything you’ve been through.”
She opened her mouth to argue, then froze— Could Muther still be fucking with her? “… I don’t think so…? But I reckon anything’s possible.”
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Wade folds his arms and leans back, thinking. Then he looks at her and waves his arms in the air. "I'VE GOT IT!!! Okay. My heart goes out to you, really it does, because I like kiddos and YOU should be able to have one. So please take this not as me being insensitive but instead sincere. You're dating a magic man in one of your stories, yeah? Isn't magic like the ultimate macguffin? Just have your magic man do magic things!!! If I know anything about the Doctor Stranges out there, it's that they think body fluids are extra magical. So if he hits you with some magical splooge or something while you get it on in a runic circle and your sexytimes cries are magic words, maybe you could do the thing!"
He pauses. "Well, I mean, if you want his kid. If you want a non-magical kid, I don't have any good ideas right now..."
Even though he's still deep in thought, he does listen to her, but he waves a hand at her talking about his goodness. He knows he isn't good. But he does have a thought there. "Yeah, I'd love to be adopted, but it's way too late now. I'm like fifty years old. Too late to make any happy fun family memories."
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She appreciates that he’s prefaced whatever he’s going to say with a warning of sorts, but, seriously, what? “In one of my—?” And then, suddenly, she has a horrible thought. If what he’s said is true, and this is an alternate dimension, is it possible he’s met alternate versions of her? No, no, no, she does not like that idea at all. Put it away.
“You’re thinkin’ of blood, cher,” she interjects. The theory, as she understands it, is that magic mixes with water and water mixes with blood. Technically, the same… Could…? Be said about splooge? Again, she makes the conscious decision not to think too hard about it.
Before she can accuse him of being at least partly motivated by a desire to think about splooge, he more or less asks if she wants Constantine’s child, specifically. Honestly, she hadn’t really given the matter much thought because, beyond being fruitless, it hurt to hope. The mental image of him holding their baby paints a smile on her lips, even as it’s tight with sorrow. However lovely the dream is… It could never be more than that, not as far as she knows. “Of course I want his kid… But it’s a bad idea to roll the magic dice, especially with les enfants. I mean, just look at the Meti’s. Any child of mine would have enough issues…”
“Now, I know you’re only trying to help, but could we please talk about something else?”
At last, she snorts, “So you’re fifty? So fucking what? You can have fun family memories at any age, if you allow yourself to,”
“Like right now. You with your chimichangas and me with my… Whatever this is,” she said, hoping against hope that this was wallpaper paste and not actual bodily fluids she’s been consuming, “Still not the worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth…”
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Leave it to Deadpool to absolutely, 100% go there and think too hard out loud about something better left unsaid.
He frowns at her shooting down her own deepest desires though. "Oni. Beebs. Onida. C'mon now. All kids're gonna have issues. Maybe not like you and me, but issues isn't a reason to not have 'em if you want 'em. You just try to set them up to deal with those issues as best you can. See, that's why I'm so fucked up, right? I don't remember my parents, like at all, so I have no idea how to be set up to deal with issues. Besides, that's you deciding for the potential little bugger. Deciding for them based on your fears. What if they don't mind dealing with those issues because it beats not existing and having you for an awesome mom? I've got all the issues in the world, but I love existing. I exist all over the place. Literally."
Of course, she's asking to talk about other stuff. He can oblige, but it felt important to urge her to do what her heart desires, if she gets the chance. Never mind that he's a complete hypocrite who has, in another RP iteration lost his fucking mind at the very thought of actually having a child based on how he knew he'd fuck it up.
"Heh. Well. I can never have parents though. Kiddos, sure. Lovers, apparently because I'm super DTF and that's a bigger variable than it seems like it should be. But parents? No...never." He sighs. "But chimichanga, yeah, I can have those."
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Oni narrows her eyes right back at him, unsure which is more annoying: The nickname that he just won’t let die, or his use of her full name. Once, twice, maybe three times, she opens her mouth, trying to interject until, finally, she gets a word in edgewise. “I didn’t mean those sorts of issues, Wade. You… You understand that I’m a literal monster, right? They could inherit that from me. And, with that, a genuine, bonafide, hand-on-a-stack-of-bibles, big fucking curse. Bein’ haunted by ghosts ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at, so excuse me if I don’t wanna pile anything else onto that.”
It may come as some surprise to him that Oni’s voice turns uncharacteristically gentle. Perhaps the gentlest it’s ever been with him. “Of course we can’t have our parents back. To tell you the truth… I can’t remember my mother, either. Not even what she looked like…”
“But that’s one of the nice things about havin’ a kid in your life. You get to try to be the kind of parent you wish you had.” And that, essentially, is why she was so adamant that Neph didn’t need to fight her battles. Why she was so angry with Logan for taking their ‘daughter’ on any of his escapades. She knew what it was like to be a child-soldier. “I’d offer to adopt you but, to be fair, y’had a countdown to when Neph was ‘legal,’ so that’s a hard no from me,”
“There’s other kinds of family, no? Not just parents and children. We could be like… Cousins?” She chews on that thought for a second, then smirks, adding, “Distant cousins. On the condition that you stop starin’ at my ass…”
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As she calls herself a monster, he's already shaking his head to negate her words. It's funny, the two of them call themselves monsters all the time, and then other people including them refute that claim. So it's hypocritical to insist she is not even as she insists he isn't and he doesn't believe her either. But he does it anyway.
"You're not a monster. Werewolves aren't monsters. That's just bad PR from the movies. Propaganda from scared humans. And ghosts are cool!! If I saw them all the time, that'd be fun."
He offers her a sad shrug. "I'm sorry. We are orphans together, then. But not cousins. I can't promise anything when it comes to checking out your ass. It's just too fine. I can't help myself. That is the best booty I have ever seen in my entire life. It is supernaturally amazing. It draws the eye, the hand, and the quarter. I have no idea how such perfection can exist in the universe. It's like a god that doomed us all to imperfection let that one little thing slide through the cracks, that one perfect booty."
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It’s sweet, even if every fairytale begs to differ, but his denial earns him her most skeptical look. “Werewolves aren’t monsters… Really? That’s the headline you wanna go with? Look, I’ll spare you the history lesson, but there’s a reason human beings drop a proverbial deuce when they see me… Present company excluded.” And, well, it isn’t only him. She’s found that, while not every mutant is exempt from Delirium, their odds are better than your garden variety homo-sapien, but maybe that has less to do with genetics than experience… Horrible, horrible experience. “And before you get all melodramatic on me, yes, you’re human.”
She buries her face in her hands, shaking her head as he launches into what is basically a dissertation on the merits of her ass. All she can do is be grateful there isn’t an actual 36-slide PowerPoint presentation to go along with it. “Is that a pun?” she groans through her fingers.
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And he is. He really is. for like, ten straight minutes of staring off into the distance with a dopey grin on his face. It's so perfectly awful and lecherous, and yet to his mind it doesn't hurt anybody so he's cool with it. She might not be, but oh well. Wade is not always the best with consent, and he's the worst with fantasy consent.
"You know, you wanna talk headlines, I'd go with saying that humans are monsters. Not even 'too', just humans are monsters, full stop. You tear things up, but you generally have a pretty set goal of saving the planet. Just, you know, violently. And also your kind is kind of a dick to all the other changers, so you learned a few lessons from the humans in that regard unfortunately. BUT. Humans are still way worse. They...we...intentionally fuck over all that we see, the planet, those we label as monsters, each other, etc etc. Just ask any of the bajillion extinct races. Or anybody that's not a white male. In comparison, yeah, I'll stick with werewolves aren't monsters. You look like puppies in comparison to humans. Humans even invented vampires to give you a harder time when they couldn't do it well enough regularly."
He can't help but grin at her reaction to his dissertation on the merits of her ass. And what makes you assume there wasn't a 36 slide Powerpoint presentation? Just because it wasn't narrated...
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“Please don’t.” She could just see it all in the lurid expression painted on his stupid mask. “You save that nonsense for when I’m not sittin’ directly across from you…”
Oni smirks, leaning back in her chair. Much as she hates to admit it, Wade has some points. Inexcusable as Impergium was… If you add up the toll of suffering and death humanity inflicts on itself, there really is no comparison. “Who you been talkin’ to?” she asks, because that’s way more than he should know about garou and the other Fera, “Kind of a dick’ is putting it mildly.”
Wherever the line for ‘too far’ was drawn, the garou passed it long before they eliminated the Bunyip. “You’d be surprised th’shit you get away with, when you say you’re doin’ it to save the planet. ‘Gotta admit… I never thought of it that way, humans inventing vampires, but I reckon you’re not wrong.”
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At her question, he pulls out a Werewolf: The Apocalypse book. "Oh, I got the sourcebook on your stuff. White Wolf made a whole game about you guys. And about the Vampires too." He pulls out that book. "Technically I probably shouldn't have these here, but the game is ending and I never did get to spend all those points I saved up. I was gonna bring in Jeff the Land Shark, but that'll have to be for another game. Maybe that game with the folksy fox if I join it. So now it's just splurging the points on fun stuff like the sourcebooks for your game to make your head hurt!"
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“Sourcebook…?” She blinks, and he produces a book out of seemingly nowhere—- We’re calling it ‘seemingly nowhere,’ because she doesn’t want to even think about where he stashed a whole ass book on his person. “Points…?”
“It’s working,” she groans, because her head really does hurt from trying to keep up. “I don’t know if you’re talkin’ about Kitsune or what-the-fuck but, take it from me, don’t play any games with them that you aren’t prepared to lose. Card sharks, the whole lot of ‘em…”
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He folds his arms at her, looking all imperious and judgmental, before he grins. "Nah, just fuckin' with ya. But seriously. Your face is hot too, it's just more fun to go off about the perfection that is your ass. Because it IS perfection. How is it so perfectly shaped and so firm?!? Like, I mean, your face is a solid 10/10, but that ass is like 150 million/10. It makes me want to believe in reincarnation so that one day I'll die and come back as somebody hotter who can actually date your immortal ass. No pun intended. Except that's a great pun, so we'll say it was intended."
Wade snorts. "Not kitsune. That's a different source book." He pulls that out too. "Although I guess it's weird to know that humans turned your life and history into a roleplaying game..."
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“I can’t believe we’re actually havin’ this conversation in SPACE,” she mutters to herself. Then, louder, “You havin’ a snowball’s chance in hell with me has nothin’ to do with looks and everything to do with the fact that you bounced quarters off my ass for the better part of ten fucking years,”
“And you never would’ve noticed me in the first place, if I weren’t married to yer man-crush, so don’t even go there.”
She’s eaten enough that the risk of frenzying out of hunger is pretty minimal, so Oni uses her spork to gingerly flip open one of the books. For one thing, the art work is pretty ridiculous. “Sometimes hangin’ out with you makes me wonder if I’m not still trapped in a hallucination, Wilson…”
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Wade blinks, and tilts his head to this side a little. "Hey wait, you're not immortal? How long do you have then? I know you've been around for a long time..." That she's not immortal is actually really disappointing to him. He knows he'll outlive damn near everyone, and the people he can keep around mean a lot.
He waves a hand. "Or the reason I kept giving Wolvie so much attention is because I wanted to hang out with you more. It goes both ways! But does the origin of the relationship matter as much as the relationship? Fact is, you and me, we're here, now, together when so many others have disappeared." Once again, his face looks a little forlorn under the mask. It's a heavy and sad fact.
"Oh you are," he chirps, "But does it matter if you feel real to yourself?"