vagabone: (what's to be proud of?)
Héctor ([personal profile] vagabone) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2019-07-25 06:24 pm

minecraft is unrealistic

Who: Héctor, anyone
What: His spirit is as dead as he is.
When: July 25th
Where: Enso
Warnings: Mild injury, and a truckload of d e s p a i r to start with.

It's mid afternoon, one year and then some after he first arrived on the beaches of the island. The thirteenth month. Thirteen's been said to be an unlucky number. Certainly it's not doing him any favors.

As good and kind as everyone is... it's just not enough. Not every day. There's only one thing that ever will be, one thing which he always seems to be denied, one way or another. Granted, not much about his situation is new, when it comes down to it, but then neither are these deep black moods. There were no failures this year. No bridge. Nothing to try. Everything's perfectly fine until he can't fake it anymore, because everything is not fine.

He had four pleasant days with his family, after so long dreaming of them. Was that it? Is that all he'll ever have? And there's no reason for it, seeing as there's very little he can do someone else can't do better. Of course, if he hadn't been so stupid, he would have had many years with them before being drawn to this world, not only four days... stupid, stupid, stupid. He's always been stupid. It explodes outwards as anger first, for a few minutes, but that's hard to sustain for him. So...

He's just lying on the ground, in the leaves underneath a tree, no smile on his face and cracks spiderwebbing through all the bones of one hand. Don't punch trees if you have no padding on your hands, you won't like the results. He doesn't want to get up, he doesn't want to goof off, joke around, play games, none of that. There's... nothing. No point at all.
eudaimonikos: (moral agency)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-07-31 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Michael really meant something more along the lines of "120-ish is young", but okay. He leans back, squinting down at Hector for a moment.

"I think I may have misunderstood what you meant by 'my demon things'."
eudaimonikos: ('cause everything else)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-07-31 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Michael interpreted it more as "you're a demon and your perceptions of things are weird". At that, he sits up abruptly, eyes narrowing. "We're not even in Hell. You said there weren't any demons in your afterlife to begin with!"
eudaimonikos: (moral imperative)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-07-31 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, man, I didn't come over here to get accused of things." Michael's quick to get indignant, but he did tell Hector all about his human friends, and how he had sword off torture. To be accused of torture anyway is - well, he probably deserves it, but it still feels sort of rude.

He should probably just leave, but instead he keeps right on going. "Do I walk around telling people you eat brains, just because you're a walking skeleton?"
eudaimonikos: (critique of pure reason)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-07-31 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Not here. And you literally just told me I was doing a good job!"

In some ways, that's what he's most worked up over. Because he can definitely appreciate it; this is the kind of thing Michael would have enjoyed doing as a torture project, had it ever occurred to him at the time. The psychological weight of being separated from one's home and friends, the constant unknown threats coming out of nowhere...it's a good setup.