[log] Lean on me [closed]

[zunesareawesome]

Characters: The Sorcerer Not-Yet-Supreme, Star-Cat, Star-Lord, and the Librarian
Location: Building 318 and various
Date: Day 339-343
Summary: The visiting of Flynn Carsen to the clan of Snow.
Warnings: References to character death, drowning, blood (because this is a scary building), more CW's in ensuing threads.




318: The stench of blood is thick in this garage, with blood long-soaked into the concrete floor, staining nearly the entire expanse. There are empty wooden tables to be sat on if you would rather not sit on the floor, though they've all been flipped as if in anger. One of the tables has been broken into pieces and burned, and another has pieces missing as if someone had begun to break it into pieces but was interrupted. The whole place has a hostile air to it, and the walls sound like they're breathing at night. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX, PLEASE CALL @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE NEEDED." and "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT, FOR ANY ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT @LELRIC ANY TIME." are written on one of the walls.

Comments

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

I'm, uh. Pretty far ahead in the figuring out process.

[Really. Promise.]

I just have to... piece it all together. You know? Like a puzzle? I'm good at puzzles.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Good.

[He sounds relieved. This hurts a lot, but it's going to be worth it. If anyone could figure this out, it's Flynn.]

I wasn't that great at puzzles when I was a kid. I mean, the jigsaw puzzle kind. I finished like, one, but most of the time I lost all the pieces. Or ate one. They're really small and sometimes the colors looked tasty? [If that made sense. It made sense to tiny Peter, who assumed a bright orange puzzle piece would taste like an orange.

It did not.]

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

You... ate the puzzle pieces?

[How.]

Wait, didn't you say the same thing about your action figures? Is there anything you didn't eat as a child?

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Um, yeah?

[A pause.]

I wasn't a big fan of broccoli. So...broccoli.

[At least the burning wasn't so bad this time.]

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

What, are you kidding?

[He looks up from what he's doing -- what is he doing? -- his eyebrows shooting up.]

Excuse me, but broccoli is amazing.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Broccoli is pure evil in plant form and there is no way you can convince me otherwise.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

Broccoli cooked and then roasted in a pan with garlic and breading is a tasty treat of green goodness.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

That sounds awful. Blech.

A tasty treat? Dude. The only treats that count are ones covered in chocolate, filled with peanut butter, or 99% sugar.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

While I will probably always prefer treats covered in chocolate and filled with peanut butter and/or 99% sugar, your opinion on broccoli is 100% uninformed and wrong.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Wrong? Wrong? [Uninformed, okay, he can get over that. But not wrong.]

Your opinion on broccoli is weird and unusual. Seriously! Who even ever likes brocolli with all its weird little leaves and it's unnecessarily crunchy stalk like it's some kind of mini-tree. You know, a tree is part of my family!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

[Well, Peter, if you don't want people to tell you you're wrong stop being wrong.]

Wh-- My opinion isn't weird?! A lot of people like broccoli! It is a very well-liked and versatile vegetable! And I'm not telling you to eat your family tree!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

[W o w, b r o.]

It is so weird! That's a bold-faced lie. False. And yeah, you kinda are.

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

What? How am I-- a vegetable has nothing to do with your friends! Are you calling your friend a broccoli? Because that's kind of mean if you don't even like it!

Oh, wait, what, so now you're calling me a liar?

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Groot is literally a walking talking tree, so yeah, he's probably related to broccoli!

Everybody lies to win arguments, it's not a big deal!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

Broccoli is part of the Brassica oleracea family, and a biennial flowering plant that completes its biological life cycle in two years! It has nothing to do with trees!

And if you have actual facts you don't need to lie! Fact: Broccoli has been considered a uniquely valuable food since the Roman Empire!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

It looks like a tree! Therefore, it's a tree!

Oh yeah? Fact: A uniquely valuable food to torture prisoners with and make them talk!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

That-- that is not how botany works!

And nobody in the history of torture has ever been made talk with broccoli!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Botany-shmotany! That's a stupid-sounding word anyway.

You don't know that! It's a big universe! I'm sure someone did!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

[You did not just.]

It's not. It's a revered academic field with centuries of tradition!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

[He totes just did just.]

Tradition!? What kind of tradition does a revered academic field even have? You guys wear broccoli hats!?

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[cahooted]

[Flynn bristles because okay, now he's starting to take this a bit personally.]

Yes, tradition. It's one of the oldest branches of science and botanical gardens attached to universities started as early as the 1540s! And we do not wear broccoli hats!

cw self-harm, torture, blood

[zunesareawesome]

Well, that's cool they have old-timey gardens! [And it is! And he's saying it just as aggressively as his anti-broccoli rant!]

Are you sure? I think that totally sounds like a thing ancient universities would do!

[He knows nothing about ancient universities, but whatever.]

[cahooted]

It's very cool that they have botanical gardens! [Just as aggressively!]

And yes, I am very sure! It's a very serious field of study with many important advancements for humankind!

[zunesareawesome]

Well, then, I guess we agree! [Why is he yelling.]

What kind of important advancements are you gonna get with a bunch of plants, to advance humankind!?

[cahooted]

I guess we are!

[But he is SO GLAD YOU ASKED because he is ticking off the points with his fingers, the fingers are in your face! When he runs out he just starts over.]

Oh, I don't know, just the discovery of new medicines and antitoxins? Advances in biochemistry! Chemical products! Agriculture, horticulture, forestry! Genetics! Soil sciences to increase the yield of field crops! Natural resource management and the protection of our natural resources for the benefit of society!