Event: Consolidation Theory, Part One and Two

[snowblindmods]

Characters: red-marked characters
Location: ???
Date: Morning & Day 353
Summary: You wake up in a cell.
Warnings: general horror warnings; please note in subject lines for anything specific that comes up

Consolidation Theory OOC Post
Part Two OOC Post

Comments

[phaseshifter]

Rhys.

[ Angel doesn't have to see Rhys to know his screams. Obviously. She watched the cult stuff, after all. Plus, you know. It's Rhys. He scream. ]

I'm here. It's not like last time. Don't forget to breathe.

[headjacked]

[ No words, not immediately, though eventually -- ]

That's -- not better!

[ Screamed, of course, at the same volume of the wordless shrieking. It doesn't sound like he's doing the breathing thing too well. ]

[phaseshifter]

It is better. Nothing too bad happens while we're together, remember? Fake memories don't count, since they're... Fake.

[ LOGIC. FUCK YOU. ]

Plus, they might be showing camera feeds of this. You could scare Dumpy.

[headjacked]

Right -- n-nothing -- we haven't DIED together or anyth--- th--

- Dumpyisntscaredofscreaming!

[ He does quiet down a notch. A small notch. Teeny tiny. ]

[phaseshifter]

In the snow? It was a pretty easy death, dude! Downright freaking comfortable. Better than any other death I've had.

[ Maybe bickering is a good distraction?? But failing that - ]

And Dumpy may not be scared of screaming, but you know he gets upset when you're upset. He's a sensitive baby and he's probably already giving Beckett ten headaches at once just because you aren't around all of a sudden.

cw mercy killing

[headjacked]

You cut my throat!

[ Freezing in the snow, then, wasn't the death he was thinking of. Every hideous trauma they've been through is flashing vividly before his eyes, even though that was necessary.

But logic has been well and truly fucked, so. There it is. ]

cw mercy killing

[phaseshifter]

To save you from something worse.

[ Her voice doesn't even waver. Her face does get that horrible blankness it sometimes gets, though, in case anyone is watching. Yay! ]

We didn't die together then, anyway. I left so that the corpse retrieval process wouldn't be affected by my presence. So there.

[headjacked]

We were dying, we were dying...

[ Less screaming, so progress? But what he's gaining in volume control he's losing in coherence. Mostly likely because the breathing problem is escalating. ]

[phaseshifter]

Rhys. In through the nose, out through the mouth.

[ Don't pass out. GET HELP MY BROTHER IS DYING isn't going to work here, dude. ]

Sing, if it helps regulate things. Like the other guy.

[headjacked]

-- I can't think of a song.

[ Rhys has a huge library of songs, both modern and ancient, stored in his impressive cyborgy brain. Yet he can't dig a single song out. ]

I know, I know 'em! But I don't know 'em!

[phaseshifter]

I'd suggest Mainframe if I didn't think everyone nearby would start trying to strangle themselves with their own jumpsuits. Um...

[ Not being able to think of anything is contagious. Angel splutters for a moment, and... ]

T-twinkle, twinkle, little star...♪

[headjacked]

How I... w-wonder... -- something, are...? Up... ab... abo....

[ Just whimpering. And then, silence. ]

[phaseshifter]

Rhys?

Rhys?

[ ... ]

You better be freaking breathing! You h- you had one job!

[headjacked]

Ibreathe.

[ He says, breathlessly, and after more screaming and conversations about said screaming. She's probably heard him talking on and off to others, enough to assuage any fears that's suffocated himself. ]

I -- calm. Calmer. Sorry, Angel, couldn't -- couldn't concentrate.

[phaseshifter]

You know you don't have to apologise, dork. I'm just fussing.

[ With good reason, but shush. ]

Tap on your cell wall for me? I wanna see how close we are.

[ They don't need to shout to each other, so. Pretty close? It'd be nice if they were next to each other, though, and she taps her own cell wall hopefully. R U THERE BRO. ]

[headjacked]

[ Rhys taps a few times with the metal knuckles, and --

-- what do you know. The sound comes from an adjoining wall. ]

Hey. I th... I think we just caught a break.

[phaseshifter]

Cool!

[ She says it in that delighted little way she has that makes it sound even dumber coming out of her mouth. You know the one. ]

Now if you want to go full sap, we can make sure we both sleep against this wall when night falls and it'll be just like things usually are. Except... with significantly less drool.

[headjacked]

On your side of the wall, maybe. Y-you just... keep lucking out, don't you.

[ Full sap. He's already snuggling up against said wall, arms hooked around his knees. ]

[phaseshifter]

Hey, think about it. When Miller comes for us, you'll be the one he's too icked out to touch. It's an enviable position.

[ She's smushed against her wall too, obviously. Was this ever in doubt? ]

When you go home, look into manufacturing drool shields. You'll make a fortune.

[headjacked]

You can start -- s-start slobbering too, y'know. If you want to get on my level. Then he won't touch you either.

[phaseshifter]

Not everyone can just - mass produce drool on command, Rhys. That's your very special talent.

[headjacked]

Here's a hot tip from the master -- just. Open your mouth when you sleep.

The saliva floweth freely, as the powers that be intended.

[phaseshifter]

 

 

 

So if someone were to put a strip of macaroni tape over your mouth while you slept, would you stop drooling or just drown? Asking for... a friend.