Accidental video
Jun. 13th, 2011 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stayb100ponyboy[The SFC feed clicks on, showing a small, darkish bedroom and someone wrapped in blankets like a cocoon, completely swaddled and hidden. The feed rolls cheerfully along for a moment or two, until the blankets shift, falling away as the person under them props himself up on one elbow, his back to the camera. Even without seeing his face, it's pretty difficult to not recognize Equius Zahhak just by his size and broken horn alone.
He reaches out with one hand, fumbling for something on a small table on the other side of the bed. The camera catches just a glimpse of a glass full of water before it shatters in his grip, the breaking sound almost unbearably loud in the otherwise silent room.
Equius' shoulders roll forward, hunching in around his chest, and he appears to study his hand for a moment, watching a few trickles of blue blood run down his fingers, before he grunts and pulls the blankets back over his head. The blankets move around him as he curls into a ball and sighs, deeply, before he stops moving.
The feed keeps running for another couple of minutes before it cuts off.]
[OOC: backdated to before this thread, and the morning after the curse wears off.]
He reaches out with one hand, fumbling for something on a small table on the other side of the bed. The camera catches just a glimpse of a glass full of water before it shatters in his grip, the breaking sound almost unbearably loud in the otherwise silent room.
Equius' shoulders roll forward, hunching in around his chest, and he appears to study his hand for a moment, watching a few trickles of blue blood run down his fingers, before he grunts and pulls the blankets back over his head. The blankets move around him as he curls into a ball and sighs, deeply, before he stops moving.
The feed keeps running for another couple of minutes before it cuts off.]
[OOC: backdated to before this thread, and the morning after the curse wears off.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 01:23 am (UTC)[He pulls back, smiling at him.]
No fuckin' nightmares this way, yeah?
[He actually barely used to have dreams between the slime he was eating and the stuff he was sleeping in. But ever since that... incident? And the lowered slime dosages? Yeah, no good.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 01:43 am (UTC)Do you know how to get to the grocery store from here?
[He's not asking because he doesn't, but because there's not much point in taking the Highblood to get burritos if he can't find his way back.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 02:11 am (UTC)When Equius asks that, he just leans over, patting his arm for a moment.]
Done forget where it is all at? It's okay, brother. I get my fuckin' forget on all the time too.
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Date: 2011-06-18 02:16 am (UTC)It happens sometimes. Can you show me the way there?
[Now that the necessary coral ritual is finished, Equius is in much less of a hurry, and has no problem with the idea of just following the Highblood around Vatheon for awhile.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 02:32 am (UTC)Sure. Ain't no problem, bro.
[Gamzee turns and... surprisingly picks the right direction! He has been getting better at this. His memory might be bad, but even he can't forget roads he walks on nearly every day.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 02:59 am (UTC)yes!Equius is perfectly content to walk with the Highblood, taking what is undoubtedly a longer, more meandering route to the grocery store than he would have taken himself. His mood, so dark this morning, has improved significantly. He still can't really explain how the Highblood does it, but he somehow almost always manages to make him feel better when he's down.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 03:58 am (UTC)Eventually they get to the supermarket. It sure took some extra time, but Gamzee had not gotten gigantically lost this time. It was a good trip.]
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Date: 2011-06-18 04:54 am (UTC)They keep the burritos over here. There's a variety of flavors; my personal favorite is "Extra Cheezy," but you might like another kind better.
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Date: 2011-06-18 10:59 pm (UTC)That is incidentally the sound clown skull makes when it impacts the front of a glass-door freezer. Because Gamzee? Has just plastered himself up against the freezer, staring at all the frozen goodies inside.]
Woaoaoah.
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Date: 2011-06-19 02:43 am (UTC)How big is your thermal hull unit? We don't want to get more than you have room to store.
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Date: 2011-06-19 02:50 am (UTC)[Gamzee doesn't really make much of an attempt to move, still transfixed by all the frozen food in front of him.]
This shit is amazing, man. Like, how the fuck do they do it? Who all went and made foodsicles you can fuckin' toss in the magic box and have it become miracles?
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Date: 2011-06-19 02:54 am (UTC)[That's a pretty good question, actually, and Equius has no idea. All he knows is that frozen foods are a human invention, and a pretty good one at that.]
I don't know. Maybe we could ask Wataru how it's done?
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Date: 2011-06-19 02:59 am (UTC)[Yep. He's all proud of that moirail of his and his infinite human wisdom.
He finally opens the freezer and selects some frozen food. He's pretty much unfamiliar with most of them, but hey, it is not like he is a picky eater or anything. Nope, everything has equal chance of ending up in his stomach.]
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Date: 2011-06-19 03:16 am (UTC)Would you like to get some ice cream too?
[Because he does, okay?]
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Date: 2011-06-19 03:20 am (UTC)Yesssss.
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Date: 2011-06-19 03:24 am (UTC)[Equius walks to the next aisle, where all the ice cream is lined up in neat rows in the freezers. He reaches in and pulls out a tub labeled "Superman." He doesn't know who this human is, but the ice cream that bears his name is certainly the most colorful in the freezer.]
How does this look?
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Date: 2011-06-19 03:30 am (UTC)Yeah, shopping trips with Gamzee are great fun.
And luckily neither of them know it also comes in buckets.]Action;
Date: 2011-06-19 05:07 am (UTC)[Equius selects some Blue Moon and blueberry frozen yogurt for himself. Shopping trips with the Highblood are fun, shut up.
Humans think of everything, man... eat the ice cream and then have some fun with the packaging later.]Action;
Date: 2011-06-19 03:54 pm (UTC)He is still totally staring at it like it is a beautiful miracle happening in front of his face.]
This is the best. You're the best.
[But it is such a small bucket. You'd need two! At least.]1/2
Date: 2011-06-19 11:59 pm (UTC)2/2
Date: 2011-06-20 12:02 am (UTC)Do you need help carrying all that back to your hive or are you going to use your Miracle Modus?
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:21 am (UTC)His modus would probably taste delicious afterwards though but.]
I think I'll just carry this shit. Ain't all fuckin' heavy, you know?
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:23 am (UTC)[Awkward pause.]
I guess I'll head back to my hive, then. You should go and get all that in your thermal hull unit before it melts.
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:27 am (UTC)You gonna be chill, yeah? Like, I left the fuckin' bandaids, so if your prongs bleed more later, you should put some fresh motherfuckers on that shit.
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:36 am (UTC)[Another pause, more awkwardness. He'd feel a little less stupid if his arms weren't full of burritos and ice cream.]
Thank you again for coming over. You... you made me feel better, and I appreciate it.
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