🌈 chroma — w5 curfew

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[daggering]

[ hacker voice im in

vax is here. are they just piling into a bedroom. does it even matter where. he is Brooding TM in a corner, black raven wings at his back still melting and dripping off that viscous, oily looking black liquid.



it's fine ]

[ktiseos]

[it's gotta be either his and bubblegum's bedroom or the main area because he definitely needs to be on the bed or couch... it's fine, he got in a pod for a bit, he's not dying, but he absolutely still needed bandaging and has been fairly cautious in his movements.

whether it's the bed or couch, he's propped up there, just. glancing over to vax's brooding corner with a little concern.]

You cannot stay there all night.

[decisions]

[ percy is gonna to be... wherever whoever brought him back from medbay dropped him bc he has one leg, so on the couch or piled into emetgum's bedroom with his notebook and pencil, though it's just kind of loose in his hands. ]

He's right, you know.

[daggering]

[ i vote emetgum room

anyway no he's just here. melting. brooding. the oil drips a little down his cheeks from the feathers by his face. ]

... [ terrible. he doesn't say anything but there's probably a petulant "can too" in there somewhere. ]

[ktiseos]

...Vax.

[a little quieter.

stop brooding over there alone you stupid melting bird.]

[decisions]

Brood somewhere more comfortable.

[ softly, like he's actually serious about it. which he is. ]

Go on... you're going to feel worse over there...

[daggering]

[ (steel voice) vaxildan are you punishing yourself ]

'm fine.

[ stubborn dumb bird ] You two?

[ktiseos]

[...he's less fine, when vax is like this, but.]

I will manage.

[decisions]

I'm alright. Been shot before.

[ his voice is soft. come here. ]

Would be better if you sat closer.

[daggering]

[ mutters: ] First time you've ever said that one.

[ ... but he will get up, and shuffle over, still very much oozing. his wings drag on the ground. ]

[decisions]

[ i'm just sliding in here to say he is going to tug slimy bird and immediately place a hand against one very goopy wing to stroke softly, even through the slick oil run-off, like it were feathers. he doesn't care if vax is goopy tbh. ]

Don't ruin it.

[ he'll help him into the middle wherever that is i hate thinking about people tetris. ]

[daggering]

[ his sulking, nerfed...

but this worked on him earlier, so percy is correct in that it works here, too. the gross oozy runoff does seem to at least stop dripping everywhere upon the touch, and enough pets get the vague feather shapes to return. ]

[ktiseos]

[once he's over there with them, he's just. reaching out a hand for vax to take. shut up come here.]

[daggering]

[ ... ok.

he can take his hand, gently sliding it in to his. huff. ]

[countermeasures]

[it is not fine.

jiuqing crosses over to vax's corner of brooding and reaches over to put a hand on one shoulder.]

Vax...

[daggering]

[ let a man brood in peace!!! ALL OF YOU!!!!!!

he looks very surprised at being touched, actually - her hand's going to come away a little sticky, though the feeling fades nearly immediately. ]

... 'm fine, doc.

[countermeasures]

[looks at her hand. looks at the stuff dripping from his wings. looks at his brooding corner.]

If you're fine, come out of your corner.

[daggering]

I chose to sit here.

[ :T ]

[countermeasures]

...why, though? The people you have been looking for all day are over there.

[she nods towards percy and emet.]

[daggering]

[ don't out me like that

.............






he has no response because he's actually still like a 15 year old boy buried under that emotional competence, actually ]

[countermeasures]

[oh, vax.

she waits for a few moments to see if he'll say anything, and when he doesn't...]

I think it would help all of you if you went to join them.

[daggering]

[ stop giving him the pike treatment!!! stop!!!

he lifts a hand, after a moment, and rubs the back of his neck. ]

What about you?

[countermeasures]

I'll join you, if it wouldn't be intruding.

[but if it is - she'll hang back.]

[daggering]

Bet it'd make Percy happy.

[countermeasures]

[she smiles]

Then I'll be there. Let's go join them, shall we?