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markofkaine ([personal profile] markofkaine) wrote in [community profile] comicshavefailedme2024-10-30 09:48 pm

LL cont’

[Bad ideas. That’s what Rafael was famous for. Sometimes those bad ideas would pan out into groundbreaking technologies. Other times it would blow up spectacularly in his face - and by extension, all faces adjacent. Not that it ever stopped him from coming up with more.

This one, though. A bridge too far.

Aracha - if that really could be called his name anymore - sat, hunched over, cycling a trinket between his fingers as though in a trance. It felt like the slow, tactile motion was the only thing still keeping him grounded to reality (again, questionable). His mind was… far, far away, in a place that might not even exist anymore, lost. But more than that, alone, in a vast, empty field of deaf, silent rage. And that cold silence seeped into every crack in his brain, filling the folds of his thoughts, the hollow space in his bones, the pockets in his lungs.

He wasn’t real. He wasn’t real. None of this was real. He knew that now.

At some point, his fiance was going to walk through the door and find him sitting at the foot of their his bed. And one way or another, this lie would be shattered.]
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[personal profile] otherspiderman 2025-01-06 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He was soooo petulant! Imagine giving your ex your name! What a wild concept!

In retrospect, he didn't need confirmation. He knew, deep down, ever since that nightmare; he knew his name, and the name he gave him, and how he felt about it. A sigh escapes him, and he ends up staring at the ceiling of the little gazebo he's called home these last few nights.

I think we're connected. Even when we're asleep.

It means there's no safe place from each other. Even if he wanted to give this man a world of space (a thought that briefly aches), he's not sure how possible it is now. Would he still hear every thought if he were a thousand miles away? Could he turn it off? Does he want to? Couldn't he use this as an easy way to stay close to him?

Miguel doesn't love that, but he doesn't love anything else, either. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-16 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's quiet for a long moment, even though his emotions aren't. The realization that this means there's truly nothing private between them now, that there really isn't anywhere to retreat to—he feels bad that this is a two-way street. While on this accursed boat, this guy couldn't escape Miguel like he wanted to.

He'd been chasing after him, but now there's no end. Miguel is trapped in here with Kaine, and Kaine is trapped in here with Miguel.

...the emotion is probably sympathy; an emotion that has taken such a beating throughout his life that it's hard to identify. Nobody who knows him would describe him that way. Nobody who knows him would have an entire second life injected into their brain, either.

There was a sewer. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-17 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ The silence that follows that mental outburst is... cold. He feels stupid; does he want it or not?

The answer, of course, is to smack his notes into his face with a loud groan. And for a shameful amount of time, this is how he stays.

Minutes turn into hours. Daylight turns into a cool blanket of darkness, only for the dreaded sun to creep back into view hours later, accompanied by a short message on the phones of all participants of this "game": Tonight we will be reaching our destination.

He considers responding to the message with a "screw you", reconsiders that... and then sends that anyway. The plan is as ready as it'll ever be—that is to say, the plan is that he's going to have to wing it alone. He can't ask anything of Kaine anymore. He doesn't deserve that. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-17 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The first stage of his "I'm actually just going to wing this in the end, aren't I?" plan is to find where the disembarkation happens on the outside of the ship. And place spider-shaped bombs underneath it. He's probably not going to use these—too much of a risk of hurting an innocent. But just in case...

The second is to gather all of the items he's won during his time as Rafael, to comb over them for possible use: a dagger that when used, reveals secrets of the victim. A piece of parchment that reveals a path to moderate success when ink is spilled on it. A rose that makes anyone who sniffs it sleepy. The photo of his brother. A shiny orb that should have a brief moment of protection magic left in it.

Nothing that will give him an immediate, perfect way out. But that's fine; improvisation is key. And maybe it being simple would feel worse; he wants to really dig his fangs into something right about now.

Miguel's "leaning" on the outer wall of the ship, out of sight to people who aren't bad spiders, holding himself up with the claws in his feet firmly lodged into the metal, with everything but the photo in a bag that hands off of his elbow. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-19 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nothing can stop the bloom of warmth in his chest when he "heard" the voice in his head. A voice associated with everything happy and beloved.

It'd be great if they did, but it's fine if they don't.

If he can get close enough... maybe they'll let him if they think he can't hurt them with these things. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-21 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ He wants to see him. He wants to see him so badly.

...

Not telling. Even if I had the best idea in the world, you'd say it was bad. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-21 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ He can't remember the last time they've been separated this long. Maybe when they were dating—a time that never existed. Just like how this separation is fake (someone is in someone else's head) (and it hasn't been THAT long, he's just dramatic.)

Don't you want me dead half of the time already? ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-21 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[




uggHHHH YOU!!

I'll be okay. If I die stupidly, go home and complain about me to Dr. Strange. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-21 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Look. Stranges do strange things.

...I know. I know you dont. But if there's no stupid plan, then what? I walk off this boat and never look back?

I'm not good at that last part.


He can, has, and will again, run from all of his woes; forgetting them is another matter. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-23 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. And then,

Would you run too? ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-23 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ No. Maybe? Maybe no. Maybe yes.

It's more the latter. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-23 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ I know—hey wait, you're cheating since you can literally read my mind. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-02-23 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ I can lie with my voice mostly good enough, thanks.

The only person worse at a secret identity than Miguel is Kaine— ]

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