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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] intelligent 2025-03-02 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ I NEVER LIE!!

Yeah. Or it's a trap for them. Let's mess it up.

There's something fuzzy making a bed in his chest; it's nice, planning destruction with this guy. He's glad he got talked out of murder. Glad he might come with him.

It's time to start crawling, perhaps like a spider would, across the side of the boat towards the exit. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-08 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ The boats come alive easier than he thought they would—Kaine got the cooler job for real. Later... later he'll pick on him for it, maybe. Being at the top of the massive boat means he gets to glide off the edge, when the time to bail comes, so maybe that's a win actually.

Like a bird he follows Kaine as he takes off, finally landing behind him and hoofing it similarly.

He only stops when his chest begins to burn and his thoughts catch up with him. ]

Hey. Let's find somewhere to...

[ To eat. To sleep. To figure out what the shock we do next. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-08 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... but that won't be a problem for now. Give me five minutes and I'll find us something.

[ Giving a quick look over the buildings, he picks an inn that boasts a restaurant and bar. It looks quaint, even cozy, and he's already opening the front door and disappearing inside without waiting for him. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-09 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Why is it... weirdly cute when he does this... wow.

Miguel, while smiling about his follower, is approaching the pretty lady at the front desk. He introduces himself with all the charm in the world, and without missing a beat, starts spinning a tale about how they have nowhere to go, if she had any leads on what they could do, a promise to make up the lack of money with work—and sooooo many compliments.

It all works, too, because she hands him a keycard with one hand while the other twirls her hair.

Sure, he's a terrible liar. But he's a great bullshitter. Especially when it's not entirely bullshit. They really do have nowhere to go. And... he doesn't want this guy to be stuck in a bad place because he asked him to come with. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-09 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The last thing he gets are some coupons for free breakfasts; it won't be anything amazing, but it's a start. Turning around, he hands half of them to Kaine. Who—wow.

...he can't help it.

He thinks he's cute. It looks like he's pouting. He's seen this face before, on most of the people he's dated in the past—those assholes who injected these memories into him? At least they got something right. A little thing. ]

I'm done. Want to go check it out?

[ Holding up the keycard, indicating that he wants to go to their room. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ FOLLOWING!!!! ]

I wasn't flirting. Hold the door for me—
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I was being charming to—hey!

[ that hey is muffled, as the elevator door is now shut and the punished Miggy is left on the ground floor, banished to taking the stairs............. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ knowingly: ]

You missed me?
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ GETS INSIDE FIRST. ]

Fourth.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jeopardy music... Miguel is mostly wondering, the whole time, if his charming was embarrassing or something... it clearly worked, but this man is especially sensitive...

The sound of the doors opening is a welcome break in the silence. ]

Number eight. Should be... here.

[ He's swiping the keycard. It doesn't work. Again, and it doesn't work. Uh oh.

He swipes once more. This time it does work. ]

...almost thought we were getting pranked there.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[ Inside... is a room. It's clean and bright, but nothing extraordinary. A small bathroom, a tiny kitchenette, a loveseat... and one queen-sized bed. Without considering the implications of One Bed, Miguel walks in and immediately flops on the loveseat, groaning.

And then he starts laughing. ]

I don't feel waves. We're not on that shocking boat anymore.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
No more performances! No more murder! No more weird bonding games! No more meatballs!

[ he's in bliss give him a moment. ]

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