bloodyashes: (Is that all you have to say?)
Asch the Bloody ([personal profile] bloodyashes) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2014-02-13 09:52 pm

there's a let it go joke here somewhere

Characters: Grumpy redhead and you!
Setting: Various; see prompts.
Format: Whatever man, you know I don't care.
Summary: Catch-all for February; event stuff may be added later if needed.
Warnings: Valentine's mini event = really bitchy Asch.

Cafeteria Kitchens, early afternoon, any day 1st-13th

[Anyone who braves the cafeteria will find a usual scene - Asch with a bowl full of batter, or his hands deep in bread dough, or cleaning some animal of its meat.

On the twelfth and thirteenth, there's a big bigger prey than usual - large pieces of chocobo meat fill a table, in various states of "frozen" and "cooked," with whatever piece Asch is working on at the moment in front of him. Hell of a bird, that.]


[Floor 101, the morning of the 9th]

[A stop by the hidden floor has become a part of his morning rounds, since he prefers to catch the elevator on this floor rather than at the top of the dorms above. It's less crowded that way.

This morning, though, he has to stop and double-take at the thickening layer of pink snow building up on the garden paths and ledges.]


You have got to be kidding me.

[Around the dorms & elsewhere - CLOSED TO PREVIOUS CR WHO WERE IN LAST MONTH'S EVENT]

[And for those of you who are choosing to stay in your rooms until the malfunctioning powers come to an end - luckily, there's a redheaded delivery service with your name on it.

If you don't run into him on the stairs or in the elevator, with arms full of bundled, makeshift meals, then knock-knock. Here's something a little less sugary sweet and morbid. You'll let him in, right?]


[Valentine's Mini-event catchall - the 14th, obviously]

[At least there's warnings this time. That's about the only good thing about this, really. Come morning there's Asch with a deep pink heart on his cheek and a bad attitude that might be familiar to anyone from Auldrant - he stomps his way up and down the staircase in a rush, with a glare leveled at anyone who gets in his way.

There's no food deliveries today, certainly - as far as he's concerned, you can all just starve. He's got better things to do than worry about people like you - even if yu're one of the people still inclined to help him out.]
seekinganswers: (a little skeptical)

14th because fuck yeah bitchery

[personal profile] seekinganswers 2014-02-14 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Sheba's lip curls as she catches sight of Asch on the staircase. He's going up, and she's going down. It probably wouldn't be as big an issue as it's about to be if not for the fact that while he has a heart on his cheek, she's got a heart on her arm, a bit above her leather wristband.

As it is, she narrows her eyes.]


You're in my way. Move.
ambassadorasshat: (the hell is that?)

Cafeteria, 6th

[personal profile] ambassadorasshat 2014-02-14 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Hi Asch hi, your not!brother is wandering into the kitchen to join you. This is the first time he's been to the cafeteria in a couple days, as he's been sleeping the rest of them.

And still looks tired. He's wandered into the kitchen in search of food that's less pink and/or heart-shaped, but whatever Asch is doing looks interesting too.]


What're you making?
sageprincess: (Kept secrets)

14th, this will go well

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-14 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's an agonizingly slow process for a busybody like Zelda, but the energy she gave up for the Tower's continued existence is gradually beginning to return to her. If it weren't for the visions of... everything that continue to plague her dreams at night, she might have even felt more alert than not as the first half of the month comes to an end.

But she doesn't need that much energy to recognize something's odd when she catches Asch in the dorm halls. The glare might be familiar to those from his homeworld, but she's more used to a polite bow of the head when they find one another in passing. But the stain of the heart on his face is the most troubling - it's hard not to associate the symbol with Ruana after two years in the Tower.

Brow furrowed deeply in concern, she backs up to ask:]


Asch, what is wrong?
sageprincess: (Discerning intentions)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-14 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Minds and personalities being altered is hardly a new thing, but she can't help being taken aback, lips pursing into a hurt frown.]

... The hateful glare says otherwise.

[So much so that she has to break eye contact lest she wither under it - something she cannot allow herself to do if he's Ruana's playing a game with his mind. This does allow her to scrutinize the mark on his cheek more closely, at least.]

She has marked you for something... [But what, and how does she go about reversing it this year?]
fionnuisce: (it was your heart on the line)

foodgrump delivery service~

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2014-02-15 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Waver ran into Asch on his way back to his own dorm room. Even though the lecturer had been stopping to rest more than usual, it was apparent he'd still been running himself ragged all the same. Some things simply never changed.]

Asch? Do you need help carrying all that?
sageprincess: (Song of Storms)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-15 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ruana's influence on your mind is not nothing.

[She insists, because it is unfortunately rather easy to misinterpret the lack of a response to the mark.]

You would not look at me in such a way otherwise.
sageprincess: (Requiem of Spirit)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-15 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course he isn't. She has never known Asch to be the type to regret his words. She tries to not let them sting, but the idea that he might just think this sort of thing deep down still hurts her despite. It (and, admittedly, the sheer amount of venom in his voice) makes her back up, both to give him his space and to distance herself from the resentment he radiates in droves.]

I care for you as a person - as a friend - before I care for whatever you perceive to be usefulness, Asch. And I do hope you will remember that when this is over.
sageprincess: (Without expression)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-15 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

It's Ruana's doing. She's messed with his mind. It's Ruana's doing. She can't hold what he says against him. It's Ruana's doing--

And yet, the familiar weight of failure settles itself neatly upon her shoulders, matching her logical mental mantra with whispers of guilt and shame and regret. Knowingly or not, Asch has pierced through the gaps in the armor she's built up around her heart, but she will not allow herself to respond in kind. It would be unfair.

Numbness, however, is a welcome reprieve. Her expression smooths out, no longer concerned or even pained, but carefully neutral.]


I am... sorry I am not all you thought I was, then.

[Divine blood runs through her veins, the power of the gods literally rests in her hands, and yet... destruction seems to be all she's good for.

She steps aside, out of his way, head bowed as she does.]


I will let you go, now, if my presence disgusts you so.

[He may take that however he'd like.]
sarcasmancer: (Side-eyeingly Uncheerful)

Cafeteria, 5th

[personal profile] sarcasmancer 2014-02-16 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Considering the menu for this month, Jade hasn't bothered to eat at the cafeteria. Doing his own hunting and cooking is an inconvenience, but it's far preferable to the alternative. Actually, he'd spent the first several few days experimenting with fasting--after all, technically they don't have flesh-and-blood bodies, so do they really need to eat?--but there was an unmistakable sense of lightheadedness after a while.

It's quite realistic. He can understand why no one suspected for so long.

So when he arrives at the cafeteria on the fifth to ensure it's in a state that can be used before heading out hunting, he pauses to see Asch busily preparing a meal. His gaze is inexpression. After a moment, he briskly moves to inspect the rest of the kitchen. There was something Jade had to ask Asch, but preparing for the first meal of the day comes first, and he doesn't expect the redhead to share.]
Edited 2014-02-16 01:28 (UTC)
sarcasmancer: (Side-eyeingly Uncheerful)

feelings are hard, let's go snarking

[personal profile] sarcasmancer 2014-02-16 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a touch of surprise in the way Jade straightens and raises his eyebrows over at Asch. He had figured that Asch would probably say something, but that? That he did not expect. He can only imagine one reason why the redhead would make the offer, too.]

Well, well. Is this an offer for a truce?
Edited 2014-02-16 04:58 (UTC)
sageprincess: (Held close)

[personal profile] sageprincess 2014-02-16 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[She does, at least, look back up at that, though the look in her eyes is more tired than anything.]

I will not engage in a battle I cannot win. Nothing I say will please you so long as Ruana is influencing you.

[it's Ruana's doing it's Ruana's doing it's Ruana's doing--]

I respect you too much to argue while your mind is not your own.
sarcasmancer: (Facepalmingly Uncheerful)

what a waste of a perfectly beautiful human organ 8[

[personal profile] sarcasmancer 2014-02-16 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid it's not my policy to make conveniently beneficial assumptions about people with whom I'm on bad terms. I'm much more interested in knowing what your actual intentions are.

[After all, Jade never had heard why Asch had been so helpful that first day he arrived. Better to get this all out in the open now, if he's inclined to continue to be helpful for whatever reason.]
sarcasmancer: (Side-eyeingly Uncheerful)

[personal profile] sarcasmancer 2014-02-16 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
My apologies, but I'm afraid I don't know how to take 'I assisted in the current impending doom of the Tower and all its citizens, and I would do it again if given the chance' other than in the most negative possible way.

What is it that you want, Asch?

[It makes him feel like becoming blunt as a nailbat to the forehead.

Also frying is acceptable, though no guarantees that Jade will actually accept the eggs. He is, at least, not yet outright refusing them.]

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