🌈 chroma — w5 curfew

[decisions]

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[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. ]

[decisions]

[ good. ]

You can't say that doesn't feel a little better.

[daggering]

[ ignores percy ]

[decisions]

[ that's cool he's just petting his feathers so they ungoop. continue 2 ignore this. he's NOT sleeping in a puddle of weird depression goop. ]

[daggering]

[ shut up smoke boy ]

[decisions]

If you would just stop melting, I wouldn't have to do this...

[daggering]

[ oi. ]

's not like I can control it! It just does that. [ when he's sad ]

[decisions]

It's alright. Just don't want you to wake up in a puddle...

[ pauses a minute and just...

kind of hugs him from behind.

because maybe he can just do this all at once. ]

[ktiseos]

[deal with it, vax.

he's content with this much for now, though.]

[daggering]

[ .... mmf. he's settled in here now, i guess.

strokes thumb over the side of his hand. ]

[ktiseos]

[he squeezes his hand a little tighter, there.]

[daggering]

[ huff. alright. ]

...Need anything, big guy?

[ktiseos]

... I am fine.

[it's just. odd, not to have vax close as usual.]

[daggering]

[ that's gay. ]

Mmn. [ ok. if you say so.

he turns his face a little up to look at him properly. ]