i had this weird idea about posting later in the event prompts later in the actual month so bear with me ^^; plot with me | ConnectiveTrick | content warnings (a lot don't apply until he starts getting memories back) basics is that levi is an orphan (though as he's 18 he's been kicked out of the orphanage) and a high school drop out/junkie. got bullied a lot when he was younger and is generally grumpy and stand off-ish. smokes a lot, but less legal drug use is usually behind closed doors (or in an alley late at night). he loiters a lot and sometimes engages in petty theft or graffiti (even though he has no artistic skill). occasionally does More illegal things in exchange for drugs or money for said drugs, but that's less likely to be known unless your character is also doing illegal things. everyone is free to know he's some loser kid with no future though.
1 It was a bright, beautiful day. Clear skies, not many clouds to obscure the sun from shining down and brightening everyone's day.
Levi hated it. He hadn't slept well last night, like most nights, and the bright light was giving him a headache. Would it kill Those Who Were There to let them have a cloudy day every so often? Its not like he's asking for rain or something, it could still be a nice day. Not that he believed in Them or would bother to actually ask them for anything. But he could sure grumble about them.
He was outside anyway, though, because the fresh air was nice and, mostly, because he wasn't supposed to smoke in his apartment. So this morning, like most mornings, he was out loitering in the town square, sitting on a bench and people watching while having a smoke. It was nice and warm out, so he's got short sleeves that leave the track marks on his arms visible to anyone paying attention. The bags under his eyes were quite obvious. Despite how idyllic Aldrip usually was, Levi had still managed to have a tough time.
2 One thing Levi would actually admit to liking in town was the casino. He wishes it had shown up earlier, but he hung out enough at/by it in the afternoons and evenings that he almost made up for it. Since he rarely had any money, and was not a good candidate for employment (and he didn't want a job anyway), he was usually found outside of it. Sometimes Levi would hang out near the entrance, other times out back. Maybe talking to people and socializing, maybe just smoking by himself. Possibly out near the back to take some minorly illegal odd jobs or purchases.
Some nights he managed to have enough money that going inside was worth it. He'd play various games each time, but often ended up playing poker. It was one of the few things he was good at, since his poker face was somehow almost perfect.
(( ooc: I took some liberties(?) here... hope it's okay! but please let me know if it isn't! ))
[ Perhaps unbeknownst to Levi, he's being observed by a cop — one tasked with investigating the very group of dealers with whom the boy is secretly doing business.
Ryuki's been using a crowd as cover to watch the group for a short while now, only losing sight of them once they diverged from their spot to presumably carry out their business. He waits until the boy and the group part ways and the former is on his own again, to walk up to him. ]
[ Seeing as the boy doesn't seem particularly startled by the interruption, Ryuki settles for a more casual approach. ]
You're a resident here, right? I was wondering if you could tell me anything...
[ His words trail off as his attention temporarily drifts to the marks on the boy's arms. From a distance it was hard to tell what those were, but looking up close...
[ Now that reaction only makes things harder... Even if it's just part of his job at times, he never really liked the idea of using authority to drive others into a corner. ]
... Ah, um, about how to go back to the main entrance from here. I got a bit lost.
[ Shh, there are absolutely noooo signs this far in the back, so this excuse should work, right?! ]
[This guy is either on something or has ulterior motives...but the casino's a crowded place, right? He should be okay as long as this guy doesn't want to go somewhere private. Not that he made a habit of going 'somewhere private' with people, let alone ones he just met.]
Y-yeah, I'm headed over that way myself. Follow me.
[ Ryuki nods in acknowledgement and follows the boy, letting a comfortable distance slip between them.
Sure, that was an awkward thing to ask. But that was just to cover up an even more awkward approach to a delicate subject...! Which comes not too long after the pleasantly(?) clumsy silence has settled in. ]
[Of course. It was only a matter of time before he got that question. Even though rumors traveled fast and his status as a junkie wasn't hidden in Aldrip sometimes people still asked. They hadn't heard, or were from out of town, or wanted to hear for themselves. This Levi isn't ashamed of it, but he doesn't like to talk about it. It invited people trying to tell him what he should do 'for his own good.']
Nothing. I just scratch a lot.
[He does so now, scratching at the underside of his elbow. See? That's totally what happened.]
[ Well, Ryuki was hopeful the boy would be less guarded about it, but perhaps it's to be expected.
And given his own experience with alcohol reliance, it's not like he doesn't understand why one would turn to substance abuse to cope with life's challenges, either. ]
But doesn't it hurt?
[ The meaning behind the question is left open to interpretation. ]
The first It shouldn't have been there, but it was. Levi knew, looking at the odd symbol hanging in the air in the middle of the street that it was wrong in multiple ways. For one it was floating in midair, but mostly it felt wrong. So much of him was telling him to look away, leave, forget about it and never look back. But there was just enough of him to fight that, to be stubborn and refuse to do what it seemed like he should be doing. Levi was never that great at following rules, if he had been he'd never quit school or started taking drugs. Well, maybe he should have been better at it.
He reached out to touch the symbol and immediately his world changed. For a brief instant his world consisted of a green void, but he was at peace. It didn't last, though, as memories of fighting a god, a demi-god and a creature in the bunker under Prehevil flooded into his mind. As it faded he stumbled backwards, falling on his ass and clutching his head. Just what was that?!
Piano The piano wasn't like the other weird objects. Sure, it was in the middle of the park and it really shouldn't be there, but it felt different. He was almost afraid of the others, but this one felt more...bittersweet? Sad, but not. He'd tried his hand at the piano when he was younger, he can't remember why, but had given up before learning much. Did he still remember any songs? The strange phantom piano probably wasn't the best place to try and find out, but with everything being so strange lately Levi figured he might as well. ??The piano disappeared as soon as he touched it, of course. There was a fleeting memory of tapping away at the keys in some bar but it only lasted a moment. The memories that came after that fit the bittersweet feeling the piano had given him. His mother playing it. She hadn't really, had she? Or not in this life. But in the memories brought forth she did, she even tried to teach him but he was too young to grasp or remember any of it. This time, when the memories faded, Levi found himself crying. He wasn't sure if they were happy tears or sad tears.??
General The items quickly become an obsession for Levi, just another addiction to chase getting a fix of. The wrongness never goes away, but it no longer fully registers. Its more of a rush, an increased heartbeat and the need to see what he gets this time. After the first couple Levi does the unthinkable and stops doing any drugs, aside from smoking. Normally he smokes regularly, but as the obsession with the strange objects and the memories builds he begins chain smoking. He has to, he's nervous constantly. Twitchy, certain that somehow he'll get in trouble with all this. The things felt WRONG, like he shouldn't be seeing them. He took that as some sort of defense mechanism, something that It was trying to hide from him. What was It? He doesn't know. The council? Those Who Were There? The city itself? Maybe some strange unknown force that was possibly pulling the stings behind everything. Who or whatever it was didn't want him knowing these things, so it had him looking over his shoulder at every waking moment. He wasn't going to stop, so he needed to make sure he was ready for anything that might try and make him.
After regaining more memories later in the month, however, Levi returns to the drugs. So many of the memories were bad, terrible things happening--that he'd done or been responsible for. He was in too deep to stop, though. He still needed to know, to do whatever it was he was rebelling against by interacting with these things. Later in the month Levi seems much calmer, no longer chain smoking and looking over his shoulder every few seconds. He was taking anything and everything to calm his nerves, to make him forget about all the terrible memories he'd seen, or simply to feel like he was in yet another world.
It's not like Ange knows Levi - or so she thinks, anyway. But.. really, regardless of whether or not you know someone, it's really hard to ignore someone just seeming to fall down in the middle of the street out of nowhere.
It doesn't help that the street is relatively quiet right now, which means Ange can't spot anyone else when she turns her head to look if anyone else saw that.. and since the girl knows it means no one else is going to check up on this odd guy who just fell over, the responsibility is going to end up on her shoulders. Especially when she's a little more helpful right now than she'd usually be.
So the redhead slowly makes her way over until she's right next to Levi's fallen form, slowly blinking at him.
Levi's eyes widen as he looks to Ange. He'd forgotten he where he was after the intensity of the visions, and remembering he's in public makes him feel vulnerable. He doesn't really know this girl aside from having seen her around town, but right not it seemed she wasn't a threat. Or going to make fun of him. Maybe.
"I-i-i....I...d-did you see it? The..." he trails off. The what? How does he describe what just happened?
She tilts her head a little to the side as she echoes that last word back at him - like she's thinking about it, but doesn't fully seem to realise what he's talking about. If anything, Ange mostly sounds a little bit confused...
Not necessarily sceptical, though. Instead she looks around them, like she really wants to find the thing that Levi was talking about.
He looks back to where he'd seen the strange floating symbol. "There was...some sort of picture. And then there was...I-I don't know. I saw...something weird. Somewhere else."
Ange is still looking around, but she can't see any picture. She's imagining it must have been on one of the walls around them - since she's not going to assume pictures would just appear out of nowhere in the air, that's ridiculous! - so she's looking at those, but.. it's all just empty walls to her..
So rather than trying to find a picture that clearly isn't here, she turns back to Levi. Is he just hallucinating?
"What was that 'something weird'?"
Might as well ask, regardless of whether it's fake or not. At worst she'll just have a kind of funny story to tell Ragna once she gets home, she figures.
"I...uh..." Did he just have a daydream? Was that even how those worked? He never remembered his real dreams, but he remembers this one. "I-I guess? You didn't see anything weird?"
She shakes her head. Pretty quickly too, like she's just being honest about this.
"Nothing at all." Granted, maybe she was just too late to see what he saw, only seeing the aftermath.. But Ange figures that if there really had been something there, surely it would have stuck around for long enough for her to see it too, right?
"You haven't been drinking or something, have you?"
.. maybe kind of too blunt a thing to just ask someone so plainly..
But then again, it's a more logical way to explain this than anything else in Ange's mind. Hence why she goes for it so quickly.
"No, I haven't, uh..." Well he hasn't been drinking and he didn't think he took anything that'd cause hallucinations. Especially ones that felt as real as that. "Nothing that should have done something like that. People don't usually just trip out in the middle of somewhere unprompted."
He didn't like hallucinogenics anyway. His mind seemed to only be able to picture horrible things.
Okay, Levi. She heard that pause there. That mighty suspicious pause.
There's no way Ange won't raise an eyebrow at that, definitely giving him a suspicious look to go along with it.
"Did you have anything?" Specifying that it was nothing that should have done something like that does kind of imply there was something, after all. Maybe it was just stronger than Levi anticipated. Ange knows a lot of other people in general are idiots who overestimate themselves.
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Levi | Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
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basics is that levi is an orphan (though as he's 18 he's been kicked out of the orphanage) and a high school drop out/junkie. got bullied a lot when he was younger and is generally grumpy and stand off-ish. smokes a lot, but less legal drug use is usually behind closed doors (or in an alley late at night). he loiters a lot and sometimes engages in petty theft or graffiti (even though he has no artistic skill). occasionally does More illegal things in exchange for drugs or money for said drugs, but that's less likely to be known unless your character is also doing illegal things. everyone is free to know he's some loser kid with no future though.
Early Days
It was a bright, beautiful day. Clear skies, not many clouds to obscure the sun from shining down and brightening everyone's day.
Levi hated it. He hadn't slept well last night, like most nights, and the bright light was giving him a headache. Would it kill Those Who Were There to let them have a cloudy day every so often? Its not like he's asking for rain or something, it could still be a nice day. Not that he believed in Them or would bother to actually ask them for anything. But he could sure grumble about them.
He was outside anyway, though, because the fresh air was nice and, mostly, because he wasn't supposed to smoke in his apartment. So this morning, like most mornings, he was out loitering in the town square, sitting on a bench and people watching while having a smoke. It was nice and warm out, so he's got short sleeves that leave the track marks on his arms visible to anyone paying attention. The bags under his eyes were quite obvious. Despite how idyllic Aldrip usually was, Levi had still managed to have a tough time.
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One thing Levi would actually admit to liking in town was the casino. He wishes it had shown up earlier, but he hung out enough at/by it in the afternoons and evenings that he almost made up for it. Since he rarely had any money, and was not a good candidate for employment (and he didn't want a job anyway), he was usually found outside of it. Sometimes Levi would hang out near the entrance, other times out back. Maybe talking to people and socializing, maybe just smoking by himself. Possibly out near the back to take some minorly illegal odd jobs or purchases.
Some nights he managed to have enough money that going inside was worth it. He'd play various games each time, but often ended up playing poker. It was one of the few things he was good at, since his poker face was somehow almost perfect.
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[ Perhaps unbeknownst to Levi, he's being observed by a cop — one tasked with investigating the very group of dealers with whom the boy is secretly doing business.
Ryuki's been using a crowd as cover to watch the group for a short while now, only losing sight of them once they diverged from their spot to presumably carry out their business. He waits until the boy and the group part ways and the former is on his own again, to walk up to him. ]
Hello. Can I have a word with you?
its cool!
Uh...
[He looks around, just to make sure this guy isn't talking to someone else but there's nobody close.]
Me? About what?
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You're a resident here, right? I was wondering if you could tell me anything...
[ His words trail off as his attention temporarily drifts to the marks on the boy's arms. From a distance it was hard to tell what those were, but looking up close...
That alone explains a few things. ]
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Anything? About what?
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... Ah, um, about how to go back to the main entrance from here. I got a bit lost.
[ Shh, there are absolutely noooo signs this far in the back, so this excuse should work, right?! ]
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[This guy is either on something or has ulterior motives...but the casino's a crowded place, right? He should be okay as long as this guy doesn't want to go somewhere private. Not that he made a habit of going 'somewhere private' with people, let alone ones he just met.]
Y-yeah, I'm headed over that way myself. Follow me.
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[ Ryuki nods in acknowledgement and follows the boy, letting a comfortable distance slip between them.
Sure, that was an awkward thing to ask. But that was just to cover up an even more awkward approach to a delicate subject...! Which comes not too long after the pleasantly(?) clumsy silence has settled in. ]
Mind if I ask... what happened to your arms?
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[Of course. It was only a matter of time before he got that question. Even though rumors traveled fast and his status as a junkie wasn't hidden in Aldrip sometimes people still asked. They hadn't heard, or were from out of town, or wanted to hear for themselves. This Levi isn't ashamed of it, but he doesn't like to talk about it. It invited people trying to tell him what he should do 'for his own good.']
Nothing. I just scratch a lot.
[He does so now, scratching at the underside of his elbow. See? That's totally what happened.]
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And given his own experience with alcohol reliance, it's not like he doesn't understand why one would turn to substance abuse to cope with life's challenges, either. ]
But doesn't it hurt?
[ The meaning behind the question is left open to interpretation. ]
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[ Then a touch of concern slips into his voice— ]
And you never considered trying to get help?
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Lost & Found
It shouldn't have been there, but it was. Levi knew, looking at the odd symbol hanging in the air in the middle of the street that it was wrong in multiple ways. For one it was floating in midair, but mostly it felt wrong. So much of him was telling him to look away, leave, forget about it and never look back. But there was just enough of him to fight that, to be stubborn and refuse to do what it seemed like he should be doing. Levi was never that great at following rules, if he had been he'd never quit school or started taking drugs.
Well, maybe he should have been better at it.He reached out to touch the symbol and immediately his world changed. For a brief instant his world consisted of a green void, but he was at peace. It didn't last, though, as memories of fighting a god, a demi-god and a creature in the bunker under Prehevil flooded into his mind. As it faded he stumbled backwards, falling on his ass and clutching his head. Just what was that?!
Piano
The piano wasn't like the other weird objects. Sure, it was in the middle of the park and it really shouldn't be there, but it felt different. He was almost afraid of the others, but this one felt more...bittersweet? Sad, but not. He'd tried his hand at the piano when he was younger, he can't remember why, but had given up before learning much. Did he still remember any songs? The strange phantom piano probably wasn't the best place to try and find out, but with everything being so strange lately Levi figured he might as well.
??The piano disappeared as soon as he touched it, of course. There was a fleeting memory of tapping away at the keys in some bar but it only lasted a moment. The memories that came after that fit the bittersweet feeling the piano had given him. His mother playing it. She hadn't really, had she? Or not in this life. But in the memories brought forth she did, she even tried to teach him but he was too young to grasp or remember any of it. This time, when the memories faded, Levi found himself crying. He wasn't sure if they were happy tears or sad tears.??
General
The items quickly become an obsession for Levi, just another addiction to chase getting a fix of. The wrongness never goes away, but it no longer fully registers. Its more of a rush, an increased heartbeat and the need to see what he gets this time.
After the first couple Levi does the unthinkable and stops doing any drugs, aside from smoking. Normally he smokes regularly, but as the obsession with the strange objects and the memories builds he begins chain smoking. He has to, he's nervous constantly. Twitchy, certain that somehow he'll get in trouble with all this. The things felt WRONG, like he shouldn't be seeing them. He took that as some sort of defense mechanism, something that It was trying to hide from him.
What was It? He doesn't know. The council? Those Who Were There? The city itself? Maybe some strange unknown force that was possibly pulling the stings behind everything. Who or whatever it was didn't want him knowing these things, so it had him looking over his shoulder at every waking moment. He wasn't going to stop, so he needed to make sure he was ready for anything that might try and make him.
After regaining more memories later in the month, however, Levi returns to the drugs. So many of the memories were bad, terrible things happening--that he'd done or been responsible for. He was in too deep to stop, though. He still needed to know, to do whatever it was he was rebelling against by interacting with these things. Later in the month Levi seems much calmer, no longer chain smoking and looking over his shoulder every few seconds. He was taking anything and everything to calm his nerves, to make him forget about all the terrible memories he'd seen, or simply to feel like he was in yet another world.
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It doesn't help that the street is relatively quiet right now, which means Ange can't spot anyone else when she turns her head to look if anyone else saw that.. and since the girl knows it means no one else is going to check up on this odd guy who just fell over, the responsibility is going to end up on her shoulders. Especially when she's a little more helpful right now than she'd usually be.
So the redhead slowly makes her way over until she's right next to Levi's fallen form, slowly blinking at him.
"Is.. something wrong?"
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"I-i-i....I...d-did you see it? The..." he trails off. The what? How does he describe what just happened?
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She tilts her head a little to the side as she echoes that last word back at him - like she's thinking about it, but doesn't fully seem to realise what he's talking about. If anything, Ange mostly sounds a little bit confused...
Not necessarily sceptical, though. Instead she looks around them, like she really wants to find the thing that Levi was talking about.
"What do you mean? What did you see?"
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So rather than trying to find a picture that clearly isn't here, she turns back to Levi. Is he just hallucinating?
"What was that 'something weird'?"
Might as well ask, regardless of whether it's fake or not. At worst she'll just have a kind of funny story to tell Ragna once she gets home, she figures.
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See, that sounds way less weird.
.. and way more embarrassing.
"That sure must have been some daydream." To have that much effect on Levi, she means.
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cw: mentions of drinking
"Nothing at all." Granted, maybe she was just too late to see what he saw, only seeing the aftermath.. But Ange figures that if there really had been something there, surely it would have stuck around for long enough for her to see it too, right?
"You haven't been drinking or something, have you?"
.. maybe kind of too blunt a thing to just ask someone so plainly..
But then again, it's a more logical way to explain this than anything else in Ange's mind. Hence why she goes for it so quickly.
i rase your cw: drinking with cw: drug use
He didn't like hallucinogenics anyway. His mind seemed to only be able to picture horrible things.
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Okay, Levi. She heard that pause there. That mighty suspicious pause.
There's no way Ange won't raise an eyebrow at that, definitely giving him a suspicious look to go along with it.
"Did you have anything?" Specifying that it was nothing that should have done something like that does kind of imply there was something, after all. Maybe it was just stronger than Levi anticipated. Ange knows a lot of other people in general are idiots who overestimate themselves.
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