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HEATHER MASON ([personal profile] ingestion) wrote2020-04-21 07:01 am
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-13 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a 'So?' that's in the back of Gorgug's throat about death here, or even back in the world Heather's from, but he stops himself, since, okay, he's got to go inside? But the name drop of Henry also makes him wonder, though confused, glancing back out at the hallway, but otherwise following Heather inside.

And with the door closed... ]


Is Henry the older guy who looks like he's always out of it?

[ Ways to describe Henry Townshend. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-13 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. ] Okay.

[ Huh. Gorgug wonders what Henry being from the same world means, but doesn't give it any thought. Heather's walking, so whatever hug he would have give seems...awkward now, unless he's meant to give her one against her bed?

Too awkward, far too awkward. ]


I can help put them away, [ he offers instead. If they need folding, Gorgug knows how to do that neatly enough, as long as a bag is nearby. Unless Heather just wants to shove them away-- ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-13 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He makes a small sound just to acknowledge her at first, before considering his actions, his reasoning behind them, and recognising: ]

It didn't sound like you wanted to kill them, and if it were me, if someone like that was around, I wouldn't care if they got killed once already, or if they would come back alive. So, it didn't sound like a good idea to be around them? Everyone lives here.

[ Most people live at the apartments, anyway. He's being careful with her clothing, folding them and then letting her place them where and as she wants. ]

There's still a chance you'll bump into them, but... they won't be living near to you? [ A beat. ] Having my dad's co-murderer living near me would piss me off.

[ It still makes him feel itchy on the inside to think about, actually, but he's going to just ignore that. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-14 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Truthfully, Gorgug hears most of what Heather says and thinks, What the hell does that mean?

'How much I've grown', 'I'd be sinking down to her level'? -- It's bizarre to Gorgug, even absurd. The math equation that Heather seems to be laying out here makes no sense, until she says this person is like a child, and, oh. And it's easier to fixate on that, his voice even shifting, like something dawning on him: ]


What? Is she ten?

[ He looks at her when he says it, because maybe: okay, Gorgug wouldn't rush to kill a ten year old. Or someone younger than him, at a point? He was imagining someone in Heather's age range or older, but the rest, changing or growing or not killing for some random people...

Okay, he might hold back on murder for friends. But he wouldn't talk about it in the same way that Heather is. It's just so-- odd. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-14 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He looks unsure, thinking in that way that his brows furrow, and takes her clarification with the decision that, well, he'd still kill her, personally. ]

You don't normally kill a person to reason with them. [ In Gorgug's experience. But maybe he's just thinking about murdering too much? But not enough to not reach out to the box, seeing as they seem to be done. ] --You want me to take this? You've got to carry-- Cheese, right?

[ Mister... Cheese... ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-14 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He would've dropped it, if she hadn't bothered to say what she did. But instead of moving to the van, he just stands there, being the one here to ruminate on what she's saying-- her logic. Because it's one thing to want to not kill someone, but the reasons she's giving just rubs him wrong. Confuses him. ]

Sam didn't want to kill that guy to make him change his mind. [ He pauses, just for a second or so. ] Do you want to kill her, or do you wanna hear her say she was wrong?

[ Because that's what Heather seems to keep coming back to: this person not learning their lesson, not understanding what they did wrong. The revenge is secondary, the fulfilment and release--it's about trying to be the better person, or thinking you are, from what Heather's said. Something like that. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-14 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ] Did you-- know her?

[ There's some small hesitation, but Gorgug asks it. There was a past life Heather had, and even if Gorgug didn't know about it, he would probably ask the same thing, or something similar. Why do you care about her feelings?

Because why else would someone care about the other person, even to this degree, to want their understanding? Can you have that about someone you don't know, never met before, had no connection to?

This is a different kind of anger than what he's been imagining. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-15 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's willing to do that, at first: go to the van, talk about it there. But when Heather comes over to him and gives him that small hug, perhaps even the words that accompany it-- something in Gorgug deflates. He lets out a breath, gives her a tiny nod with a pinch of a smile on his lips. ]

Me too. [ ... ] We, we don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to. I was kind of confused, but I think I get it now, what you're feeling.

[ It's up to her, he doesn't have to know the details. If he removes all the fluff added to why Heather's holding back on going after this person, it isn't so peculiar.

Either way, he still has the box in his hands. He'll make the trips needed to start getting the van filled up. ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-17 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The van has more decorations going on than Doulgas's ride did. Even in the back while they packed, a vibrant cloth hung between the driver's section and the back side, and stickers of different variations were plastered here and there on the walls. In the front, scents hang from a hook where a rear view mirror would be in a car, beads and random knick-knack. There's a sticker slapped onto the corner of the window that reads 'APPLEBEES 4 PREZ', and somewhere on the console on the driver's side is a sapphire-looking gem where the speed metres sit. ]

Okay. It's Fabian's-- did I tell you it's Fabian's? It's kinda got a lot of gardens around it since his family's rich...

[ Gorgug's starting up the van though as he speaks. There's no rumbling of a gas engine, but there's some soft vibrations as the stone in the console starts to glow, and Gorgug starts turning the van around to get back onto the road made after the vehicle-making mission.

Without Gorgug touching anything (and even a little delayed from him starting up the van), chill, lo-fi beach tunes start playing from the van's radio. Gorgug makes a small face, but only briefly. Uhhh, hopefully Heather's into it... ]
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-22 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Gorgug gives a 'Yeah' and a nod, confirming Fabian's relationship to himself. But as for the point about a home- ]

I guess so? I wouldn't really call it a home-- [ Hmm ] It's about as much of a home as a place can be here. Fabian just likes to live... comfortably.

[ Truly, he's a rich kid through and through. It's nice and spacious, and there's enough familiarity to the boat mansion that Gorgug can appreciate, but it still has a degree of staying over your friend's place to it, for Gorgug.

Should it even be that familiar? Aurora did say, apparently, they were the real deal when you asked for something from home, and not just a copy. So it's the real Hangman boat.

...It doesn't make it less odd to think about, to have a piece of Spyre like that in Etraya. ]
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cw: topic of murdering,

[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-24 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Somewhere around where Heather finishes and the last of her words, the volume on the radio seems to turn itself down, slowly but eventually; still the same tunes playing in the background, but far more in the background. ]

I don't think not wanting to kill someone makes you weak, [ Gorgug-- reassures, or so is his honest opinion on it. ] If you have that kind of history with her... I guess, it's hard, if you liked her once? A lot of people don't kill people.

[ And some people happily murder their own parents. Gorgug isn't sure where he would lean in Heather's position. Would he go after a childhood friend (separated by a resurrection)? But he doesn't give the what if any real thought--the complication isn't as easy an answer as it was before. ]

But the way you were talking about it, you sounded more angry that she couldn't understand what she did wrong. [ He pauses. ] I've been around a lot of...different reasons for murdering people. It stuck out.
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[personal profile] tinflower 2025-04-25 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Some people are just too far gone to really be reasoned with in a way that won't drive you crazy too.

[ Can this person be reasoned with? Not by Heather, Gorgug thinks--not without it fucking with Heather in the process. She might go along with murder at this point if she had to, and Gorgug himself isn't the sort of spirit who would be keen to explain to a person why murdering someone's dad is wrong.

Who knows what'll happen with them. But if Heather's lucky, she'll be able to keep a wide berth from them. ]


Does she say he isn't your real dad too? That shit sucks.

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