🎧 homophonic | pcs | shu lyn o'keefe

[silicone]

no one gets to pick the day they die, but today's as good a day as they come, isn't it?

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[silicone]

[ he... nods hesitantly and kind of glances out at the street and steps into it so he can stand next to shu. ]

Kinda scary...

[roseoftexas]

[ blinks. ]

Doesn't mean you have to stand out here too.

[silicone]

[ he rocks a little nervously on his heels. ]

It's weird talking to you from the sidewalk. I have to shout.

[ he didn't have to shout ]

[roseoftexas]

[ he didn't have to shout. ]

You look like you're about to bolt.

[silicone]

I don't stand in the middle of the road usually waiting to get hit by ghost cars...

[roseoftexas]

Yet, here you are.

[silicone]

Here I—

[ and because his ass isn't paying attention, a car rushes straight through them and eiden freezes up and lets out a little pitched yelp as it passes through them even if it feels like nothing. he's baby. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ there he go. screaming.

shu just watches this -- the freezing and the yelp. and then he pats the top of eiden's head. there there. ]

[silicone]

That sucks!

[ help also his head is being patted. it happens for a few pats because he's caught off guard and then he turns quickly to push a shoulder into shu and try to nudge him to the sidewalk. ]

Street enrichment time is over. Come on. Out.

[roseoftexas]

Not a fan of playing in traffic?

[ he'll allow it, letting himself move with the force of eiden's push, and step his way back onto the sidewalk. ]

[silicone]

No, it blows and it's only something I would tell my worst enemy to do.

[ huffs and gets on the sidewalk with shu, eyes narrow. ]

[roseoftexas]

Didn’t tell you to join me.

[ which. he didn’t. ]

Proved it’s not going to kill us though. Again. So that’s one less thing to worry about when whatever they’ve got planned kicks in.

[silicone]

Good, you don't have to do it again then, neat right?

What'd you think of the weirdo reapers?

[roseoftexas]

[ heh ] If I need to leg it across the city in a hurry, I don’t have to worry about injury.

[ so. yeah he’ll be doing that again eventually ]

Not sure. Generally, fine. They’re just doing a job. The guy looked like he was three seconds from bolting at any moment though.

Don’t think I’d trust him in a crisis.

[silicone]

Mmm, that's true. I guess it's good to know, but, still hate that.

[ don't. do it. again. (shu will do it again and eiden will suffer him) ]

Yeah, Red mentioned that a group of people are basically his own personal hell. They... seem nice enough, a little cagey, but maybe their bosses are watching? If they have bosses?

[ everyone has a boss ]

They weren't the ones who brought us here, so they say... so I can only guess for now.

[roseoftexas]

Ruby mentioned a boss, but no details on them. I didn't ask directly. She got her hackles up when I asked how you become a Reaper.

[ can't stop, won't stop, too realistic to be stopped. i hope shu is going to give all the twinks he knows headaches this game. ]

... Red?

[silicone]

Her names basically all mean red! Ruby, Rose, Red. Heh.

... Doesn't surprise me though. With a job name like "Reaper" I'm not sure how many perks it's got.

[roseoftexas]

It could be worse. You could be the one doing the running around for your afterlives.

[ like them. ]

[silicone]

I guess...

[ he makes a face ]

Maybe if we try to get to know them better, they might say more.

[roseoftexas]

… Makes sense. A lot of people don’t want to talk about themselves right out the gate.

[ see: shu ]

[silicone]

[ rolls eyes just a little because that's what he was thinking. ]

Yeah. We just have to be persistent. But gentle about it.

They seem pretty relaxed overall—Netzach got some booze off of one for some cash.

[roseoftexas]

[ i promise he’s more open than most of my boys, you just. have to get him past the early stages. cries. ]

You don’t think it’s weird to talk about your entire life to complete strangers? [ mister sex toy maker extraordinaire? ]

Ah. Yeah, if it’s within their means to do so, they can get you things. Cigarettes, a lighter. That sort of stuff.

[silicone]

[ oh i know i love him he is stinky ♥ ]

I mean, I think for some people it is. And that's okay.

[ some of us are just (only kind of) open (about some things). ]

Being in a modern city's better than being in the middle of nowhere, I guess... food, shelter... even if shelter's just a furniture store.

[roseoftexas]

[ he's one of my least stinkies.... but tbh everyone looks less stinky next to crow and date. ]

Talking about it out of nowhere's... [ he shrugs. ] I don't mind things coming up in conversation.

If we'd been in an arctic tundra, this would've been a lot more uncomfortable.

[silicone]

Two truths and one lie is not out of nowhere!

[ kicks gently in the shoe ]

But yeah, we'd definitely be fucked. Or we'd have to use our powers a lot more than we are now, I think.