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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 2025-03-10 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Wine.

[ breathes out. ]

It's fine. You can have the bed.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
How do you manage to make every move you make so mad looking?
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ what else did i expect. ]

Fine. I'll celebrate our freedom by myself, over here.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ nodding like Kaine has never been more right in his life. ]

There's a bar. I bet I can get us a bottle of something.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Okaaaay.

[ WHY DOES THIS MAN, WHO DOESNT LIKE ME, GET SO MAD ABOUT THIS!! ]

Do you have a way to get some?
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't. I'll be back soon.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-10 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He feels... kind of sad, for some reason. But it's time to go be a slut for whiskey.

About twenty minutes later, he's returned with a bottle of Fireball and a box that smells utterly divine; chicken wings lay within. He's placing that on the nightstand nearest Kaine, but the bottle gets placed on the table while he looks for cups. ]

It sounds like some of the other ship guests are in a similar position as us, so a lot of the locals are being pretty resourceful. Bartender was pretty fascinated by what happened. I guess it's made the news.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-11 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I did. I wouldn't let you down.

[ Normally, he wouldn't think twice about a man in the shower. But this isn't just a man—he knows every inch of this man's body, dry or wet. Clothed or not.

...he's trying to find the cups a little faster, and—a teacup? Sure. Fine. Whatever. He needs to keep his mind away from the other side of that door. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-13 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Cinnamon whisk...ey.... . . .

[ He's dropping off there as he passes over a styrofoam cup of the precious golden liquid, because. Well. He...

He.

...he has a terrible problem. A very terrible one. A truly outrageously horrendous problem!

Oh my god he's beautiful. ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-13 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Second problem: this man is a Miguel mind-reader. He brings his hand back, balling it into a fist so he can focus on the pressure, rather than a sight in front of him that will have him spiralling into a whirlwind of emotions that aren't supposed to belong to him. ]

Look, I—I'm sorry.

[ quick, apologize for your dick before the man passes out... ]
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-15 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a heavy thump in his chest, and Miguel doesn't want to take the time to puzzle together whether it's because he thinks this is concerning or if he thinks it's hot. Not the time! It'll never be the time!

Instead, he wraps his fingers around Kaine's wrist. ]

I'll leave, if you want.
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[personal profile] intelligent 2025-03-16 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Something lower in his body immediately reacts with all the interest in the world. Ohhhh no. All reason escapes his brain immediately, and his thumb gently strokes the inside of Kaine's wrist as he leans closer.

Who is he now? It doesn't matter anymore. He's this amalgamation of a man (or two) who's feeling everything.

When he answers, it's in a low and slow tone. ]

Do you remember what comes after that?

[ An entire weekend in bed as an apology, only punctuated with the important shower time (also not necessarily alone). ]

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