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roland. ([personal profile] gradenine) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2023-07-20 12:51 pm

( semi-open ) though it may hurt today

WHO: Roland ([personal profile] gradenine) & some of you guys
WHAT: July catchall + event
WHERE: Vaults, then some formalwear shop (get in losers we're going shopping)
WHEN: The rest of July
WARNINGS: Major Ruina and Leviathan spoilers in the first prompt. Death, murder, the usual Project Moon warnings apply, probably. Please refer to his opt-out for more info.




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:)

[personal profile] blattella 2023-07-20 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't recall seeing Roland around in the bank before now. Then again, all of that time spent poking and prodding and rifling for absolutely jack-shit doesn't seem real in the first place, with the way he's just been thrust back into the Smoke War yet again, the red, the red, the pieces everywhere of everyone else who can't regenerate, pieces of him, the flag, fluttering, and

Roland's screaming. Or just screamed. Hard to tell. Gregor blinks wetly, then tosses the flag across the vault as though it burns to touch. Wings, but they're both messes, on their knees just a few boxes apart. Roland's here.

Gregor better address him. Even if he's already sure that this won't end well in any capacity. Even if he's not sure that he can trust him fully, but damn it he wants to.
]

........Hey. [Croaked out.] ...What'd your note say. With the-- whatever you got. Mine said something about sharing.

[but fuck that lmao!]

<:J

[personal profile] blattella 2023-07-21 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
[bitch you are BOTH freaking out, nothing's real in this bitch!

Sigh. Gregor's at least somewhat used to having his trauma yanked out and paraded around in front of him by now, so he's able to crawl his way on over to Roland and sling an arm around his shoulders. Not tight. Just. There.
]

Got you, man. It's okay. We'll figure this out in a minute. [Even if he keeps shooting the discarded flags looks, between his wobbly attempts to be so useful, so helpful, such a good buddy friend pal.

Better to focus on Roland than on the flag. The stupid fucking teenager plastered on it, photoshopped to high hell, grotesque and handsome all in one. What's Roland holding? That's more interesting. What's that? The note's identical to his, but he can't peg what Roland's holding, and he can't ask if brother's freaking out.
] Breathe in, hold, out. That's what all the quacks told me.

(。_。)

[personal profile] blattella 2023-07-22 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[It is what it is on this bitch of an Earth. They're stuck together, and he's. He's really not sure how he feels still, about Roland, but it's not hate, not disgust. Just unease, and that's not enough to make him abandon the guy at such a low moment, is it?

So stupid breathing exercises it is, letting his ears stop ringing in turn, right up until Roland lays it all out on the line.
]



...Scheiß.

[What else do you say? 'I'm sorry'? That's not fucking helpful right now, and Roland's probably heard enough of that anyway.

Time to sit back on his haunches and simply pull out two cigarettes.
] This place is awful, dragging that out for you to relive. Here. [Take the fucking smoke or he'll have to smoke it himself. He'll do it. He'll smoke two at once. Don't push him.]

...Makes sense you were married. You seem like the sort who'd want to settle down one day.

[personal profile] blattella 2023-07-23 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No one's fit for it, but we still all fall in love and want it. Shut up.

[TELL HIM HE'S WRONG, BITCH. SHUT UP. DREAMS ARE ALLOWED!!!

But

man, yeah. He almost says something like 'what, so you could die together?', but....Well, yeah. He knows he'd want that, if it were him.
]

You mind if I ask what killed her? [Because that's the interesting thing, in the City. How one dies, not that one died at all. And this is all so much better than having to share his own agony, though. Not like they're getting out until that happens. Suck shit, future Gregor!]