dead to the power of two | OPEN

[runeing]

Who: celen's boys (aka charles and viktor), you?
Where: viktor's lab, lupin, the farm
What: viktor finally loses the battle against his illness and comes back. meanwhile, charles is learning magic (badly).
Warnings: death and dying, mentions of child abuse



PROMPTS IN COMMENTS.

▷ charles.
▷ viktor.

Comments

[solitarysoul]

Y-yeah...I, uh, I just woke up I think a week later like nothing happened.

[Let's just leave out how he died for now.]

[runeing]

That sounds familiar.

[ read: this also happened to him — and yet, he makes it sound like it could simply be that he's heard of it from someone else, too.

still, ] Did you have any side-effects?

[solitarysoul]

I...I don't think so? I felt fine afterwards. Normal. A-after I calmed down, at least.

[He needed a few stiff drinks...and some shimmer. But mostly fine.]

[runeing]

... I see.

[ meanwhile, he's felt distinctly wrong at times after his death; the walls closing in, a quiet dread inside his mind he can't shake. sometimes, he looks at the bloodstain he left on the floor of his lab and almost feels it reaching back at him.

how lovely to know that that's just specific to him. ]

That is... fortunate. I am glad you had no lasting adverse effects.

cw: horrible coping mechanisms

[solitarysoul]

[That's what the drinking and drugs were for! Thankfully Levi doesn't know so he can't offer his brilliant advice.]

I don't know if that's normal...I never really asked if anyone else has died or what happened.

oh levi...

[runeing]

Perhaps you should have.

[ like he is doing now, sort of... still. he tilts his head, almost owl-like, amber eyes fixed on levi. ] May I ask... what is it that claimed your life?

[solitarysoul]

I, um, I-I don't know how I'd ask something like that...

[But mostly it would open him up to questions. Like that one.]

A, uh, a-a few months back there was...um...a glitch? or something that turned some people crazy and murderous. I wasn't able to stay safe.