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dorian did many things wrong ([personal profile] flashystyle) wrote2017-10-27 04:09 am

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Dorian Pavus
@sparkler (33), Tevinter, Thedas

I WAS A: Incredibly privileged know-it-all with a family complex. I got better.

I'M SKILLED IN: Talking about myself excessively. Calling everyone names. Also, some magic and archiving.

I'M LOOKING FOR: A way to stop feeling so helpless in the absence of home.

ALSO, I'M: Very tired. All the time.
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sad but true

[personal profile] priorly 2018-03-31 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh so he knows about chestbursters too. That was a scene Prior might have moved on to later, but since it's where Dorian's begun -

His hand drops, sudden, fingertips walking up the seam of Dorian's ribs to where his own palm rests, catching loosely over the top.]
Oh but there's worse. When the things hatch? They attach to your face and they won't let go. By the time someone carved one of those off you you'd never want a mirror again.

[Macabre, maybe, to be playing at this when he's seen people carved into by some flesh peeling induced sickness but it's almost a relief to play at horror and know it's not real. He pushes onto an elbow, enough to examine that well-sculpted silhouette Dorian's so proud of, and leans in close.]

Wait. I think I see something now. Hold still. [Still enough not to duck as Prior presses a kiss just to the corner of his mouth, drawing back with the slightest of satisfied smiles before starting to settle down again.] Who told you about Alien? I thought it was all mummers and folk dancing where you come from.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-03 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Still folk dancing, just a different folk. [He's sure it was all very cultured, really. With the dragons and the massacres, nothing Dorian's told him's ever sounded barbarous at all.] And don't let Ritchie play you jazz, it's music for people who enjoy suffering.

[He's smiling as he lays back, but the smile and the sentiment's a thin veneer and fades faster than he'd intended. Maybe it's the spent adrenaline dying in his system that gives way to a low-level dread, but there's a point where he can't lay in silence with it anymore.]

All this, and I don't think I can sleep.
Edited (Who the fuck is Jim ) 2018-04-03 05:57 (UTC)
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Damn my true identity revealed

[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-03 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Do we? It's been months and I haven't seen much working yet. But that's not it. It is but.

[He hides his face against Dorian's shoulder, nudging out a small dark hollow where there's room to breathe.]

I've upset people. With this.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-03 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Care, but don't understand. Do you know, almost everybody I know here has come close to getting themselves killed one way or another. I wasn't even doing it intentionally. But because I'm – dying, there's an assumption I should take greater care. I've thought about it and I can't see how the opposite isn't true.

[It's far easier to spill this wrapped in the heat and scent and company of Dorian, but without looking him in the eye.]

I don't want to go back and be told I should have stayed still all along. Like I don't hear that from her every time I close my eyes.

[The her in question has yet to be introduced, at least directly. But she's tangled up in Prior all the time.]
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-05 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And you think I was being a shit.

[Somewhat flat. Not that he has illusions of it being a noble quest (not coming from a world where such things are commonplace). But the number of people who seem to think he went into it for kicks is beginning to become wearying. It was hardly out of nowhere, the source at least must have been clear. People process trauma in different ways. Some sink low, Prior looks for a way to climb out. 'They're all still fragile' includes him too and he couldn't bear it without doing something.

He twitches a little, half decided on just leaving now, but then Dorian opens the door on a question that's been itching under his skin for days.]


You brought him out, didn't you? What had they done to him?
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-05 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Prior listens with his head tipped into the dark. He knows enough about the result: bandages wrapping Byerly's hands, bloodied and bad enough to need more than human healing could achieve. He knows about the days laying pale and unnaturally still, for all the world like he'd been tucked into an open coffin. It was enough to make him wonder if he'd been rescued from his own kidnappers at all, or if this was just another poison-tipped arrow to their bow.]

It had wings. The creature. Wings and claws and it moved like a hawk in the dark. [He'd caught glimpses not just from Byerly but others in the sanctuary who found the thing waiting again in sleep when they should have been safe. At first he'd taken it for another visitation of his own: wingbeats and screeching in the dark.] I woke him. Well, both of us really. It was either that or get stuck there too. So I woke him, but I don't know if I chased it off.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think anybody's saved yet.

[Prior surfaces, his chin on Dorian's shoulder probably a little sharp to be comfortable. He's reddened his eyes with rubbing at them, but that's all.]

He'll wake up, too. The boy who - they told me they'll all wake up. Like it's a compensation clause: one free vehicle if the old one's beyond repair.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-05 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh bullshit. What is it with you people and the idea that it's just you versus the apocalypse? Who else would you expect that from? We can't even expect that from gods, apparently, so why you? I'm a prophet and I didn't see it coming until there was a wet rag over my mouth, so maybe give yourself a break.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-06 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[It's that curling back that gets Prior, like a guilty animal retreating with its tail between its legs.

He doesn't press his lips to the corner of Dorian's mouth again. As far as it's a kiss and not just an instruction to shut up, it's brief but entirely deliberate.]


I vastly prefer your inflated sense of self-importance when you're not using it to self-flagellate. Prepare all you want, but know that while you're looking one way there will always be something coming from the other and it can still knock you on your ass.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-06 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Marginally better, he supposes. There's a faint, futile smile on his lips.]

It's not possible. I've watched the worlds end a thousand different ways, you'd never be ready for all of them. This was not your fault.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-06 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
A drag queen and a fire mage walk into a Times Square bar. [He tilts his head a little, maybe weighing up some of Dorian's more memorable outfits.] You wouldn't even have been out of place. But what would have happened then?
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-06 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Terrible and wonderful, dirty and beautiful, the only place Prior would ever have called home, given the choice. Also: no dragons outside of Chinese New Year.]

You've brought me flowers and bought me drinks. Not to tarnish your image of me but I may have put out for less, in the past. [Less like a wink and a nod toward the bathrooms.] Do you get the book of fire puns when you develop the talent, or does part of the training involve working on your act?
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-04-06 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
What would you have done if your affinity was for a different element? Nobody's gotten laid with a joke about wind. [He pauses his answer to the next question. It's not new, but the man it makes him look is different to the way he sees himself.] Well nothing recently. I've had a slight dry spell - only five years or so. Monogamy and disease are quite the one-two punch.

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