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Eridan Ampora ♒ chronicAugustus ([personal profile] chronomancer) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-12-12 04:26 pm

[OPEN] you waste your time with hate and regret

Characters: Jade!Eridan Ampora('s half dead carcass) and YOU.
Setting: Floor 12.
Format: Action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Nobody told Eridan sleeping in this cold is a bad, bad idea. What did you expect from him? He knows how to survive extreme heat, not extreme cold.
Warnings: Jadeblood popcicles. Jadeblood popcicles for everyone. Also Eridan sliding down the slippery slope of murderously batshit crazy, yay.

[Watching the universes ending and stars imploding and the whole thing... it's rather soothing. Sort of. Eridan was in dire need of soothing things, to put his mind back together. He'd intended to maybe sit there for a couple hours, watching the stars dying, and trying to calm himself down from an abrupt, nonsensical rage that even he could tell was irrational. He'd been pushing down a bubble of hysteria for the better part of four days now, mostly because hysteria meant bad, bad things for all involved, but maybe if he went at it slowly, it wouldn't be so bad. Because meltdowns totally work that way, obviously. Though even he had to admit that he couldn't keep on pretending everything was right and peachy. Putting on a smile and going through the motions was getting almost physically painful, but he didn't want anyone to get hurt. (And of course, being a responsible troll and asking Jade for a feelings jam was not an idea that occurred to him, either, because what is doing the right thing, haha, you must have confused him for someone else, Eridan Ampora never does the right thing unless Paradox Space has him at metaphorical gun point about it.)

Eridan watched the cycles of destruction repeat over and over again, while he tried to put order to the mess that is his head, but it wasn't long before he started feeling sleepy instead. Not really knowing any better, and given the alternative was thinking more about Rei and such, he started nodding off, fueled by the cold.

Which is why you'll find him tucked away in a corner of the room, face buried into his knees, arms around his ankles and limbs already stiff. The sleeves of that jacket have been brutalized already, but hey. At least there isn't a single bloodstain on this floor.

Yet.]
puppy_lancer: <user name=maidofulster> (And his wild harp slung behind him)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[It talked. Guess it isn't a monster after all. Lancer walks up to it and sniffs at it. It's got a scent, so it's living. He can't really see the face very clearly, but from the horns, it might be a troll.]

...Kid?
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (And kneel)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He pulls away a little.]

You okay there?

[Because being statue-like in this weather doesn't seem very healthy.]
puppy_lancer: <user name=gaybulge> (The Minstrel boy will return we pray)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[A shrug.]

If you say so. Man, you trolls are tougher than humans.
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (But I was young and foolish)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[There was no question--just a comment on his endurance.]

I've run into a couple of your kind before. How strong are you guys anyway?
puppy_lancer: <user name=hound-of-ulster> (Could not bring his proud soul under)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh?

[He leans in to peer closer at the boy.]

I'd like take a look at that strength sometime.
puppy_lancer: (From glen to glen)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2012-12-13 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles.]

Not now, kid.

[He's got other things to worry about right now.]