Gabriel Reyes (
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EVERY TRUTH BECOMES LIE
who: Reaper
hellshot and Jacob Kane
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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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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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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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He'd almost forgotten he'd chosen that username for the network, too. He'd done it as a bad joke and he's too stubborn to change it.
Anyhow, he's waving a hand at the guy, fingers clicking due to the ... odd, clawed gloves he wore. He's giving Jacob a stare-down.]
It's Reaper, given you didn't even bother asking me for a name during our conversation.
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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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Fair enough reason. I won't crit you for it this time. [See? Super friendly, right.]
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If that's supposed to be some sort of reference, I don't get it.
[He's too old and too tired.]
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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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I thought you'd misspelled it and didn't bother to fix it.
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You look pretty ordinary for someone who's ageless.
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[ 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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So he'll drop that, for now, in place of a better line of conversation:]
...I don't feel like trying to kill you just to prove a point. And I don't wear a mask for the sake of wearing a costume.
I wear it to hide the cost of my 'immortality'.
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[ 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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...About ten years now, give or take. It's not gotten any better or worse since I came 'back' to life.
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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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If I get hurt, my body rebuilds itself from scratch. I've been blown apart by a Tesla Cannon before, and yet, here I stand.
[getting ripped apart by electricity, he wouldn't recommend it.]
My cells always return and revert back to how they are now. In between life and death.
[Which will now give hint about his name--Reaper, 'Death' walking, a 'grave' mistake.]
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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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You're hardly in a position where you need to apologise. [He waves a hand at the other, dismissing the 'im sorry' too easily.] And I don't feel like being congratulated is appropriate either.
[See, friendly. Just as he promised.]
My 'sanity' is the High-functioning kind. Lucky for everyone here who's a little less immortal than you claim to be.
[Which... now he's squinting at Jacob.]
What were you doing when you got stuck, then. [He answered your questions, now it's your turn.]
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[ 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.
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Immortality gained over a traumatic event, or there's something more to that.
[Because last he checked, watching family die doesn't give you everlasting life.]
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[ 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. ]
i press send too early all the time lol
You mentioned 'being the only one' in your world as well, didn't you.
[As he shifts how he's standing, re-settling his arms in their fold against his chest. As if standing idle is enough to make him uncomfortable.]
So you really have no way of finding out what makes you immune to death.
[He's... a little jealous, honestly--if only because Jacob looks so okay.]
No outstanding 'price' to pay?
i just don't know what i pressed!
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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And hardly. My situation stems from someone using experimental sciences on my corpse because they don't know how to let go or something.
[It's vague... mostly because he still has no idea what Angela did.]
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[ 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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[As he waves off the 'disturbing' comment for now. They can come back to it (never) later.]
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[ 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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Who said there was anything metaphorical about me calling myself Reaper?
I'm more than just a rotting corpse.
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