[open] November catch-all

[theforgottenboy]

Who: Cole & you
What: General shenanigans
Where: Around the void
When: Post-event and throughout November
Content Warnings: that one statue. you know the one.

Prompts are in the toplevels, but you can make your own if you want to wildcard it!


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[theforgottenboy]

[Cole quietly watches him sit, and once he's sure he doesn't need help with the sitting process, goes back to looking at the ground.]

[He's glanced in enough books to know who wrote it, and Leo's the only composer he knows anyway.]

Leo likes composing... but it can be painful, too.

[At least, based on the memory of Leo's he experienced before the nightmare.]

I don't think it hurts now, but I don't know. He wasn't himself in the nightmare. Maybe I should try asking?

[He sounds uncertain, and really he's not even talking to Damien, not that he apparently cares that he's sitting right there listening.]

[abeautifulgame]

[not talking to him or otherwise, Damien's going to take it upon himself to answer. he does like hearing himself talk]

You'd probably get an answer faster, if you did, than if you waited around until you could do -- whatever it is you do again. [faster than waiting to be able to read minds again. also probably more conductive to furthering that relationship]

[theforgottenboy]

[Look, reading minds is way easier and faster??]

But I can't always know what hurts just by asking. The nightmare was hurting everyone, but I could hear it, I could find who needed me. I could do more to help.

[He's maybe just a little frustrated. Going back to "normal" just briefly means getting used to the new normal all over again.]

[But he's not important, the helping is important. So,]

Are you all right now? Aiden, is he someone who hurt you before?

[He wasn't there long enough to get much of a "deep" read on anyone. And everyone was preoccupied with more current problems on their minds.]

[abeautifulgame]

[he starts to respond to that -- and then, at the question, barks out a laugh, the sound almost incredulous and definitely humorless]

Oh, Aiden's absolutely hurt me before. [he pauses, then -- hesitates is more like it -- and then, at great lengths, admits:] We both have. [that's growth, right? admitting that he hurt Aiden, too? never mind the fact that all he did was kidnap his sister. Aiden fucking shot him in the head -- or will, as soon as he goes home]

[theforgottenboy]

[He thinks back to what tidbits he was able to hear and feel, when he found Damien running for his life.]

You're in danger, where you're from. He wants kill you, like in the nightmare. Why?

[If Damien is admitting he's hurt Aiden before too, then,]

Is it because you hurt him too?

[abeautifulgame]

Like I said. [he and Aiden are both so good at hurting each other] Never mind the fact that he's a fucking maniac. [you don't just shoot people!!]