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Gabriel Reyes ([personal profile] hellshot) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-05-24 04:26 am

EVERY TRUTH BECOMES LIE

who: Reaper [personal profile] hellshot and Jacob Kane [personal profile] aeturnus
what: Meeting up because being unable to die isn't exactly common
when: Around the 15th of May
where: Just outside of the living quarters
warnings: body horror, talk



[Any excuse to get out of the housing circle was a good excuse in his books. So despite how he really would rather not socialize with perfect strangers on a planet far from home--he can't lie that he is curious about a being that can't die, like himself.

After all, he was a freak accident, and you don't exactly go around googling for support groups for other undead, forever-living folk in your area.

And as he said he would be, he's easy enough to pick out. A long black coat with a hood over his head, but that unmistakable stylized skull (owl?) mask over his face, hiding his eyes and features from sight.

It's not like he has any idea what this Jacob guy looks like, so he's just going to wait around, arms crossed, looking about as approachable as a cactus. Goodluck, Kane.]
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-24 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a good thing Reaper is so inexplicably easy to find, because Cain is just about the opposite. Looking barely out of college and dressing to match, he doesn't really try very hard to look his age. Most of it is just natural to him but it's also fun not to let on what else he knows and has experienced.

Picking Reaper out is hilariously easy. He's already grinning by the time he makes his way over. Even if he can't see the guy's neck with that outfit on, there's no way to mistake it. ]


GraveMistake, I presume?
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-24 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Something flickers on his face at the name. Unexpected, familiar, weird. He's already realizing he'll have to explain what actual Reapers are like where he's from eventually because they just don't exist anywhere else that he's been able to find. It makes his blood run cold to think about it too long. ]

Figured it'd be better to save introductions for when I can actually give one back. Jacob Kane. Surprisingly: not a mouse.
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's more or less the truth. Only Cain's met real Reapers and this one isn't quite like them, more human for one thing, but negativity doesn't really factor into his reaction. ]

Won't crit me, huh? Lucky me.

[ He just grins at that, too old to be tired anymore, and rocks partway on his heels. ]

You know, anonymouse? The stupid pun I was using.
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-27 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Would "moose" have been better?

[ He says it like he's considering it for real. He isn't. Anonymouse all the way, yo. He does, however, hook his hands into his jacket pockets and shrug. ]

Am I supposed to go around in costume? You can test it if you don't believe me.
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-28 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Right, the smell and the burning and the state it's left you in.

[ He tilts his head, consideringly, at the whole package that is this man who calls himself Reaper. ]

How long have you been like this, if I may ask?
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-28 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ He notices, tracking the motion without really moving his eyes. Due to the fact that he tends to read peoples' necks so often and doesn't let on, he's really good at using his peripheral vision by now. ]

So it's just like a moment frozen in time... What happens if you get hurt? Does it heal or reverse?

[ His tone of voice says he's curious, but not closed off, either. He just isn't going to outright offer information about his own condition unless this reticent guy asks first. ]
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-28 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yep. All those death puns. ]

I'm sorry. [ His head tilts, considering. ] We're about in the same boat but I wasn't dying when I got stuck. But you don't sound horrifically insane to be going through all that, so I guess congratulations are in order.
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-28 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Very luckily for them.

[ There's a lot of things to be said for Cain's hard-earned knowledge and wisdom. He knows a lot, knows how to handle even more when he can't predict it. His common sense, however, often takes a leave for things like shock-factor and the ability to answer easily instead of trying to overthink things. He's not really trying to make a sob story or one-up anyone because what happened is just... what happened. Still. ]

Watching my brother die.
Edited (Unifnished thought??? self why) 2017-05-28 12:22 (UTC)
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-30 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, I don't know what the correlation really is. All I know is that's the moment it happened and considering—a lot of things around my brother's death, it's the most likely catalyst.

[ Hard to do research when you're the only one in the history of ever this has happened to, and the guys you could ask about it seem to either fear you or hate your guts for some inexplicable reason. ]
Edited (what did I even press that made it send so quickly???) 2017-05-30 23:35 (UTC)
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i just don't know what i pressed!

[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-31 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Physically he's fine. Inside he's something of a mess that's going to take a while to sort out. Better than constantly burning, though. Probably. ]

If there is, I'm paying off someone else's debt. And it's supposed to have been in the works since I was born. [ He shakes his head, briefly runs a hand through his hair. ] Is that what yours is? Some kind of "make it right" clause?
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-05-31 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's just how it is where I'm from. You get an amount of time and what you do with it is your call.

[ He shrugs, because he's sure it sounds shady to say it so bluntly but it's a fact. He's known ever since his brother could communicate it to him that he's had far too much time to live — it wasn't until later that he realized how it was all supposed to work out. ]

Ouch. That's... completely disturbing, actually. [ There's no purpose in that, and part of him aches for the meaninglessness of it. ]
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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-06-05 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Earth. Just one not so similar to where most others come from.

[ It does seem to be the most popular choice for the portal. If what Taako said was true, maybe there's actually a reason for that. ]

Reapers are actual forces in the world instead of... [ There's a slight smile and he gestures at the man before him. ] ... metaphorical?

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