Chel had decided not to leave the writing up to Chris or Abbi or anyone but herself. It was going to be difficult, she knew that. It wasn't like dyslexia was something new in her life and she'd never dealt with it before. It didn't feel right leaving it to anyone but her. It felt like if she did that, she would betray the trust of her Halloween counterparts. But she would try. She promised she would.
So there she sat, curled up in one of the lounges with an old spiral notebook. Quite frankly she wasn't sure how else one was supposed to do an official report on monsters. Probably typed up. The computer made her head more dizzy than writing did. But she would try. She promised she would.
Her hood was up and around her ears was a set of runic headphones, gifted to her by a lovely friend. She blocked out those around her with the sweet guitar rifts of the hair metal greats. Most importantly, she couldn't hear the bracelet. She couldn't see it because it was tucked under her sleeve. The cool metal still touched her skin every time she went to adjust the page or adjust the way she was sitting. It unnerved her every time she was reminded. Every time she forced herself to go back to writing. Both were nauseating. But she would try. She promised she would.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:15 pm
Editing
Of course, it would be stupid to think Chel was going to turn her piece of s**t notebook into a proper official.
She had Chris edit it to be both legible and comprehensible. Jack would have probably done it more quickly and more correctly, but right now she had had too much of Jack. She needed someone she could trust with her words, not her heart.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:46 pm
Owain
Owain: Forest Giant
- Big tree monster. Had glasses so maybe like forest things have bad vision or something?? Tough bark skin that gave me a lot of splinters and leafy hair. Very nice.
- Met in golem at Deus. Belongs to Partnered with Jack.
- Strengths: Forest stuff. Bark skin?
- Weaknesses: Fire and he said metals smell weird and he doesn't like them?
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:00 pm
Shun
Shun: Reaper???
- Some kind of reaper not really sure what that means still. Has a billion daggers and shadow powers. Kind of humany looking almost?
- Met in wonderland and later ran into at the haunted house. Current status is dead- killed by Evan Roberts.
- Strengths: Has shadow powers. Really good at combat stuff, especially daggers and hand to hand. Human appearance can be camo or something?
- Weaknesses: Has an eyepatch- bad vision?
She felt wrong writing about Shun. It felt like she was betraying someone. She elected not to include his current (live) status, nor extensive details about his skills and personage. Penumbra was left out completely, as well as her involvement. She only included things she thought she could squeak by. Things that any reaper might have attributed to them.
She also knew full well that Shun's eyepatch created no disadvantage.
At the end of the day, Chel needed to care about herself, but she still chose to put Shun's safety first.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:07 pm
not another songfic
Chel had been eating in that cafeteria.
She saw the guitar and was immediately intrigued. He still had yet to keep his promise to play for her "if she was good." She wondered what had been enough to drag him out of his hole to play. Of course she wasn't so naive as to think it was her- especially since Jack's eyes were attached to some other poor target.
She followed his line of sight and wasn't sure how to react.
Chel quietly stood and left the cafeteria. She didn't bother taking her food with her.
It was goddamn embarrassing.
Even worse that he hadn't even noticed her there.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:08 pm
Edel
Edel: Ice Demon ??
- Really cool ice skin. Has ice on her ears. Wears big long dresses. Has ice powers and stuff. ICE. Kind of a b***h too.
- Met in wonderland. Saw in Halloween once on a golem trip.
- Strengths: Ice powers.
- Weaknesses: Fire I'm guessing? IDK Unknown.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:23 pm
Sorcha
Sorcha: ???
- Some kind of goat thing. Had hooves and big floppy ears and horns. Quirky.
- Met in a golem interview.
- Strengths: ???
- Weaknesses: Maybe dust? She seemed weirded out by it and wouldn't enter the room until I dusted off her chair even though there was nothing there.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:46 pm
Shuffle
Sometimes she is afraid to close her eyes, for fear that she might wake up somewhere else.
They'd let her out of the quarantine. Ma'am there's no reading outputs currently, so we're releasing you.
But she still worries. It's one of many things she thinks about as she's lying awake in bed, listening to her glorious 80s racket. Sometimes she cries, but sometimes she can't work up the energy to care. It strikes her as funny that blinking and existing have now becomes sources of fear. How did one escape such symptoms?
She also thinks about the look in Jack's eyes as he strummed the first few chords to Hanna. Getting a read on people had been her specialty, almost always. If there was love or conniving deceit she'd be able to pick it up and discern her feelings, but in Jack's eyes she'd seen nothing. Nothing at all. Was it Jack that was empty, or was her ability useless on the beanstalk?
Brown hair had been an aid in escaping at least. She wonders if Jack chose to ignore her, or if he truly hadn't even seen her. Why had he made such a public display? He preached about not slipping up, about needing to straighten himself out, and then doing something so brazen and open. It wasn't right. It wasn't Jack.
Or maybe she didn't know Jack?
Quote:
Text to Beanstalk: did hanna like ur lameass 80s omage?
Delete.
He had lied. He said she could talk to him about anything. It was a lie. There were things she couldn't say.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:33 pm
Uttam
Uttam: Famine Horseman
- A desert horse. Lots of beads and stuff. Kind of an a*****e too. Usually barefoot.
- Met in wonderland. Haven't seen since.
- Strengths: Pretty good at fighting. Bugs and desert stuff, not really anything unusual.
- Weaknesses: Kind of a coward.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:46 pm
Astra
Astra: Fairy?
- A fairy. Small sometimes, big other times. Has wings and magic powers.
- Met first in a golem study, later fought in the haunted house.
- Strengths: Magic powers are pretty sharp. Has razor leaves that cut like a b***h. Can fly.
- Weaknesses: Occasionally small, so advantages in size sometimes. Wings can be a pretty big target.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:31 pm
Olivia
Olivia: Wight
- A wight (some kind of zombie?). Dislikes cold and is sort of fidgety.
- Met in a goldem study.
- Strengths: Undead so weapons probably aren't too hot. Good with the cold?
- Weaknesses: I'm guessing fire is bad, like other undead. If she's anything like on GoT, only fire's gonna stop her.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:34 pm
Quillan
Quillan: Ink Demon
- Has horns and ink powers. Kind of flighty, but nice.
- Met in the haunted house. Fought, but he thought I was a reaper; never revealed hunter stuff.
- Strengths: Staining clothes? I bet his ink could be used to blind s**t too. Maybe he could make stuff slippery.
- Weaknesses: He said that he was pretty bad against water.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:50 pm
Amphi
Amphi: Mermaid
- Has fins and scales all over. I didn't think mermaids had legs? Pretty cool though.
- Met in a goldem study.
- Strengths: Well she didn't say this but I'm guessing as a mermaid she can swim underwater and s**t? She had pretty sharp teeth too.
- Weaknesses: It's not being out of water so ... maybe electricity or something? I'm not really sure.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:30 am
I Feel So Old
She clicks through pictures on her phone late at night sometimes too. It has pictures of good times, and even Chel like reminiscing. She laughs at the picture she took of her ridiculous makeup done by Abbi, and she laughs at a picture of her making a peace sign over Chris' defeated body (post spar).
Others are shameless selfies of her in the gym (taken in the mirror while flexing her muscles beside a shirt that she stole from Chris- it read "Suns out Guns out" and she thought that was too heinously clever to let Chris keep it locked away in some groady closet). Shameless selfies in her room and at parties. There are a lot of selfies. She hasn't taken one for a while and probably won't for some time anyways. It hurts to even look in a mirror still. She isn't as alarmed anymore, but it's hard to love a face like hers.
Even harder is all of the excuses she has to make for others. Every time they're caught staring she has to tell them "Dude it's okay, I know my face's ******** up," in that tone that implies she doesn't give a ********. It's hard because every time she has to say that, she has to remind herself of it as well. It happens multiple times a day, and it occurs to her that this is her life now. It is not something that is going to go away, and she will continually have to remind herself and others that her face is now less than ugly.
She spends the most time on pictures of her close friends. Particularly ones where they are unguarded; Finn saying something to Ripley when they think no one's watching, Noemi smiling her darling smile in front of a camera she's too afraid to look in the lens, Abbi pointing to her new rabbit-shaped flats excitedly. Jack eating ice cream is of course her favorite, but lately it doesn't feel right to look at him because envy has started to take root, and she hates herself for that. Hadn't she told Abbi- "no labels, cut it off when you weren't feeling it."
Yet no matter what she tells Abbi, all she can think about is how Hanna must see that pleased expression of his so much more than her, and what other expressions does he make and would he ever make them again for her-
So she decides her favorite picture is now of Chris posing in front of the Guardians of the Galaxy cardboard stand, because that is what she knows. It is safe.
But eventually she has to turn the phone off because the backlight is too bright, and she goes back to thinking.
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