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[ anyway yeah he is just
dragging percy off to somewhere else - maybe not by the hand, but the gesture of "follow me" was pretty easy. lets find a corner somewhere away from the others. though vax looks tense and uneasy, and his arms are folded, it's probably more likened to worry. ]
...Glintshore's really the last thing you remember?
dragging percy off to somewhere else - maybe not by the hand, but the gesture of "follow me" was pretty easy. lets find a corner somewhere away from the others. though vax looks tense and uneasy, and his arms are folded, it's probably more likened to worry. ]
...Glintshore's really the last thing you remember?
Edited 2022-02-12 02:26 (UTC)
[ percy allows himself to be ushered away, his steps quick. worse case scenario, he's walking into another nightmare. as it stands, vax seems rather real considering all the shaking he did.
as he steps into the room, he admires the room in silence for a moment, the crumbling molding and creaking floors. it feels like an echo. he just finds himself slowly spanning his hand against the wall, brow drawn. ]
The last thing I remember is [ (static) ] going down one last time. I could feel it. All of it. And then none of it...
[ and then he was here. ]
as he steps into the room, he admires the room in silence for a moment, the crumbling molding and creaking floors. it feels like an echo. he just finds himself slowly spanning his hand against the wall, brow drawn. ]
The last thing I remember is [ (static) ] going down one last time. I could feel it. All of it. And then none of it...
[ and then he was here. ]
[ when vax sees percy from where he is coming back from the carnival, picking confetti off of his shoulders, he immediately, mentally, says nope and pulls his hood down further over his face. ]
Hey. Watch out for fucking clowns while you're out there.
[ :T ]
Hey. Watch out for fucking clowns while you're out there.
[ :T ]
[ percy is coming back from the zombie-filled hall in the mansion as well, strange, colorful spatters on his hair and his jacket's arm. ]
Oh really? Add zombies to the list then, while you're at it.
What's wrong, are you shy all of a sudden?
[ reaching out to drag that hood off i'm sorry, you don't scare him, he tackled a zombie. ]
Oh really? Add zombies to the list then, while you're at it.
What's wrong, are you shy all of a sudden?
[ reaching out to drag that hood off i'm sorry, you don't scare him, he tackled a zombie. ]
[ my inbox is so full of vax'ildan. i hate this (no)
in any case, they're exploring together, having a look about at the brand new locations and have arrived at the one, the only, game room with it's soothing interior and tidily stacked games and such. the computer in the corner hums softly.
as he passes a small table, he sees a chess set all neatly set up and grins a bit. ]
Shall we have a game?
in any case, they're exploring together, having a look about at the brand new locations and have arrived at the one, the only, game room with it's soothing interior and tidily stacked games and such. the computer in the corner hums softly.
as he passes a small table, he sees a chess set all neatly set up and grins a bit. ]
Shall we have a game?
[ sprawls across it and does a pose. my inbox now
anyway we need 100 threads so!! yeah, here's vax. he looks at the chess set, starts to make a face...
... and then smiles. ] You know what, Percy? Sure. Let's play a game.
[ local man is confident for no fucking reason. he grabs the back of the chair and rikers over it for no reason, settling down in a mishmash of limbs on the side with the black pieces. ]
anyway we need 100 threads so!! yeah, here's vax. he looks at the chess set, starts to make a face...
... and then smiles. ] You know what, Percy? Sure. Let's play a game.
[ local man is confident for no fucking reason. he grabs the back of the chair and rikers over it for no reason, settling down in a mishmash of limbs on the side with the black pieces. ]
[ the medbay sees use today for sure. vax is probably at least stabilized for the moment as we all probably are waiting for turns with our friends in the healing pods. for now there's a bed in a cordoned off area and some pillows for vax, and a stool that percy has chosen to perch on anxiously. bad news is slung over his should at the ready while he waits for another round for vax in the pods. ]
Gunshot wounds.
[ he says it quietly from where he's looking down at a book. ]
Gunshot wounds.
[ he says it quietly from where he's looking down at a book. ]
[ well, percy's really about to hear something he does not want to hear, because, as vax is halfway conscious now and able to actually recall, he just mutters: ]
Orthax.
[ and lets that sink in.
it's good percy's not looking because vax just keeps looking at him - just for snatches of seconds, and then away. ]
Orthax.
[ and lets that sink in.
it's good percy's not looking because vax just keeps looking at him - just for snatches of seconds, and then away. ]
Edited 2022-02-25 01:01 (UTC)
[ after all of the chaos of the mini event vax is just flopped down in that big, comfy, sleepy bed in his marine apartment spread…ravened? what a fun afternoon. estinien doesn’t seem to be around so! just the two of them.
with a biiig yawn. ] Found someone else with one of those tattoo and dream combinations you had last week. You hear anything?
with a biiig yawn. ] Found someone else with one of those tattoo and dream combinations you had last week. You hear anything?
Yeah, I found someone with the very same one, even. Besides Garou.
[ the marine beds do look cozy, and percy doesn't even hesitate to kick off his boots and flop down beside him. decorum doesn't matter right now, he's pulling off his glasses first, his gloves next, to rub at his eyes slowly. ]
Did they mark you?
[ the marine beds do look cozy, and percy doesn't even hesitate to kick off his boots and flop down beside him. decorum doesn't matter right now, he's pulling off his glasses first, his gloves next, to rub at his eyes slowly. ]
Did they mark you?
[ you ever just see your gun daughter fuck up bc her brain is fucked up and feel bad about it. wow!!!
vax is heading off with percy after the trial first, scrubbing a hand over his face. ]
Think this is just going to get shittier every time we have to do it.
vax is heading off with percy after the trial first, scrubbing a hand over his face. ]
Think this is just going to get shittier every time we have to do it.
[ do you ever just fucking lose it inside and go a little catatonically silent as you watch everything unfold? yeahhhhh. percy's just moving beside vax wordlessly, clutching his coat. ]
Absolutely.
There were two bodies, two culprits, and we only could vote for one for execution from what we've seen. Someone's gotten away, and someone else has to die.
[ his voice is tight. ]
Absolutely.
There were two bodies, two culprits, and we only could vote for one for execution from what we've seen. Someone's gotten away, and someone else has to die.
[ his voice is tight. ]
[ as we scream about other stuff and plot
well, percy and vax spend a lot of time together, so it's probably not surprising they get stuck by one of these bubbles. vax hasn't had enough experience with one, yet, to know what they do, so he prods at it with one of his knives.
when nothing happens, he frowns? looks at percy? then shrugs his shoulders and imbues his dagger with a bit of azure blue, and pokes it again.
and when the world around them fades to darkness... ]
well, percy and vax spend a lot of time together, so it's probably not surprising they get stuck by one of these bubbles. vax hasn't had enough experience with one, yet, to know what they do, so he prods at it with one of his knives.
when nothing happens, he frowns? looks at percy? then shrugs his shoulders and imbues his dagger with a bit of azure blue, and pokes it again.
and when the world around them fades to darkness... ]
[ it starts with a scream.
PERCY!
that voice is keyleth - ringing through the darkness, in desperation - and you see her reach out for something and pull.
you're sitting with the others in the temple of sarenrae that's been built in whitestone. it's still under construction, but you sit with the others and watch, nervewracking, as pike does the rituals for a spell that you've seen done before.
for you, it's watching your sister that breaks your heart.
percy is your friend. losing him - to ripley, even after he came back, after they were all suffering - was a painful final blow, one that shook vox machina to pieces. you've all been broken apart since he was gone, and you've done your best to be strong for the others, but it wrings at your chest, too. you told percy that you were angry with him. that you didn't trust him. and you didn't, because he took something from you - even if he didn't mean to, it didn't matter, he took vex'ahlia and you couldn't stand that he let her get hurt. it feels so long ago, now, looking at percy's cold body on the altar, after you used the newly blessed powers of the raven queen and saw orthax's soul clinging to that gun and swallowing percy whole.
percy is your friend.
percy is your teammate.
you watch vex'ahlia take his residuum, and his raven skull - raven skulls, something thet wo of you have in common, you have so much in fucking common - and you watch her shake as she steps from you and goes to percy.
and she speaks, her voice shaking, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Percy, I don't know if you can hear me, but that day in Syngorn was one of the best moments of my life. And not because of what you think. It wasn't because of my father or the title. It was because of Whitestone. It was because of you. You allowed me to be a part of the thing that you hold dearest. And I was so proud.
But I don't want to be here if you're not.
Whitestone still needs you, darling. I still need you here." and you watch your beloved sister, who loves so deeply, who deserves the best of the world, lean down and kiss percy as he lays perfectly still, and sob, "I should have told you: it's yours.".
and you watch, and your heart swells in your chest, with grief and sorrow and love and you feel some of that fury you've had buried for percy start to crack apart.
vex'ahlia returns to you.
pike next. she uses the power of saraenrae - so warm that it brushes through the entire temple, and it brings a shiver up your spine. a goddess you used to follow, too. you watch like a hawk, like a raven, watching, watching, holding vex's hand in your left, keyleth's in your right.
the ritual glows.
keyleth is last. the two of you look at each other, and you want to say something, but you think - it won't be the same. you can't, you can't fumble around your relationship with percy and fuck this up, percy needs keyleth, and they need percy. and you, you need percy too.
keyleth takes a deep breath, and you join her, and you look down into the face of percival, and keyleth's voice washes over you, too.
"Percy, we had many conversations about life and death, and in many ways, you were my total opposite. But you are also my best friend. Even though I told you that day that I gave you this that we're all going to die and that you can still be saved from yourself, it was clear the journey was far from over, and it still isn't."
a soft, greenish light glows from keyleth's hands, and you look up, as a barrage of crows comes from almost nowhere, melding out of the shadows. they wrap around keyleth's form as she talks, and you love her so fucking much, and she loves percy so fucking much, because you are all a family.
"As much as you might think your journey is over, just because yours might be, ours isn't. And we need you. And I need you."
you look down at percy's face, surrounded by crows, by black feathers
percy is your friend.
percy is your family.
you kneel by his head, and you summon the magic so the wings of your own burst out of your back, and you think, crow that you are, and you drape them over percy's unconscious body like a cloak, and you close your eyes.
you and i have too much in common.
we are family.
you are my brother.
i need you.
we need you.
the crows leave the temple in a flurry of black feathers and golden light, and it's just pike, now. it's pike, her divine form, and divine energy slams into percy's body, and for a moment, no one in the room moves, or breathes, as the light fades and the temple is just a temple. for a brief moment, it feels like nothing will work. vex'ahlia grabs your hand.
and then color starts to flood percy's cheeks.
he doesn't move. he's unconscious - the group seems to breathe all at once, instead, in unison with percy, their percy, their stupid fucking teammate, your stupid fucking brother. your sister sobs pike's name, and pike collapses to the ground in relief, and you get your free hands on percival and push some healing magic into his veins to bring him back to consciousness, back to vox machina.
back to his whitestone. back home.
for the first time in days, you feel relieved. ]
[ a macabre text pings into vax's inbox. every swirling drop of memory that has hit him these past few days.
it's a lot.
it's a reminder. a weight. he doesn't care that the gun went into the acid. he doesn't care that orthax had latched itself so hungrily to anna ripley in his stead. he doesn't care. he is still, at his core, something so weak to all of this that he— ]
I've decided.
If it comes down to it.
I want it to be you.
it's a lot.
it's a reminder. a weight. he doesn't care that the gun went into the acid. he doesn't care that orthax had latched itself so hungrily to anna ripley in his stead. he doesn't care. he is still, at his core, something so weak to all of this that he— ]
I've decided.
If it comes down to it.
I want it to be you.
[ :/ ]
Hey. Spend your tokens, if you can.
Got my three one back, lets me have a premonition about trial
But more importantly I got some sort of upgrade thing. 's a whale? I don't know
Riff said it
Anyway, it lets you get stuff from home back.
Powers. Items. Shit like that.
Hey. Spend your tokens, if you can.
Got my three one back, lets me have a premonition about trial
But more importantly I got some sort of upgrade thing. 's a whale? I don't know
Riff said it
Anyway, it lets you get stuff from home back.
Powers. Items. Shit like that.
I've only got 2, so I'll have to wait for another.
But that's incredibly handy, especially with regards to a premonition about trial. A good tool to have when we're truly stumped.
A whale?
Regardless, that? Sounds promising. If we get tokens on schedule then, I suppose I'll find myself with three soon enough.
But that's incredibly handy, especially with regards to a premonition about trial. A good tool to have when we're truly stumped.
A whale?
Regardless, that? Sounds promising. If we get tokens on schedule then, I suppose I'll find myself with three soon enough.
[ yep
here he comes, pretty much immediately, pushing through the door. he knows percy's upset. he doesn't know how to fix it, but there's not a fucking chance he's going to be leaving him alone, so.
the door clicks shut, and there's vax, pulling his hood down. ] Percy.
here he comes, pretty much immediately, pushing through the door. he knows percy's upset. he doesn't know how to fix it, but there's not a fucking chance he's going to be leaving him alone, so.
the door clicks shut, and there's vax, pulling his hood down. ] Percy.
[ it's
a long, long time before vax shows up to this jail cell.
when he hops in, it's soundless, cloak up, in his armor.
and for a long moment, he just stands there, half leaning against the back wall, and stares at him. ]
a long, long time before vax shows up to this jail cell.
when he hops in, it's soundless, cloak up, in his armor.
and for a long moment, he just stands there, half leaning against the back wall, and stares at him. ]
Edited 2022-03-13 02:39 (UTC)
[ percy is here. he's just.
sat in a corner, whatever can be called a corner, his arms folded over his knees until he can see the pale blur of vax's face and he looks up.
his eyes are red.
he twitches quietly in the dark for a long moment before grabbing his head, and then... ]
My apology would mean nothing to you.
sat in a corner, whatever can be called a corner, his arms folded over his knees until he can see the pale blur of vax's face and he looks up.
his eyes are red.
he twitches quietly in the dark for a long moment before grabbing his head, and then... ]
My apology would mean nothing to you.
[ we are here laying on someone's bed late at night, take your pick, and staring at the ceiling after all that has happened.
percy's hand twitches. a sharp motion. his breath sucks in tightly. concave ribs. then pushes outwards, like he's trying to hold something back. ]
percy's hand twitches. a sharp motion. his breath sucks in tightly. concave ribs. then pushes outwards, like he's trying to hold something back. ]
Edited 2022-03-14 14:24 (UTC)
[ these be on their weird crystalline nest where vax has been fuckin sleeping ig: a pair of hand-made lace-up heelies (with little accents of a deep ebony and a dark violet) with a small note: ]
Kazunari inspired me weeks ago.
With a workshop proper, I suppose I could make them happen.
Don't be too much of a menace with these, alright?
- Percival
Kazunari inspired me weeks ago.
With a workshop proper, I suppose I could make them happen.
Don't be too much of a menace with these, alright?
- Percival
Edited 2022-03-17 16:55 (UTC)
[ percy's helping vax pick up in marine and help put pillows back where they belong because he is feeling nice like that and needs something else to do, to be honest. his general vibes are... lowkey anxious, tempered by something soft and lulling. it's just. you know. sometimes your anxiety seeps a little through. he'll pause and just kind of lightly bap him with a pillow. just to get his attention. ]
I think your vision could possibly have something to do with what we felt on the rooftop.
[ a pause. ]
I mean, it's likely not to as well, but... I noticed something. From experience.
I think your vision could possibly have something to do with what we felt on the rooftop.
[ a pause. ]
I mean, it's likely not to as well, but... I noticed something. From experience.
[ he has tracked vax down after making his own rounds and will usher them back to whichever apartment you want so they can flop down on a bed. and just sort of vibe in the bad feelings of atsushi having to go through combat tomorrow. percy has come back from visiting him, small sketches of atsushi with a stained glass backdrop and light overhead decorating the most recent, open page of his sketchbook. ]
Miserable... [ percy mumbles into his pillow. he stretches out a leg and just nudges vax, a quiet surge of "i'm here for you, clown" feelings. ]
Miserable... [ percy mumbles into his pillow. he stretches out a leg and just nudges vax, a quiet surge of "i'm here for you, clown" feelings. ]
[ aw pretty.
miserable. it is miserable, yeah!!! it's well. less miserable than last week, but he's not going to say that. i'll say marine apartment for comfy cozy vibes.
vax is back in comfy clothes, and has also brushed his teeth (no more blood) and dropped the space buns. he looks tired, again, as he flops back and looks at percy's sketchbook. ]
Maybe it'll be like us.
[ he doesn't sound like he believes it, though. ]
miserable. it is miserable, yeah!!! it's well. less miserable than last week, but he's not going to say that. i'll say marine apartment for comfy cozy vibes.
vax is back in comfy clothes, and has also brushed his teeth (no more blood) and dropped the space buns. he looks tired, again, as he flops back and looks at percy's sketchbook. ]
Maybe it'll be like us.
[ he doesn't sound like he believes it, though. ]
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