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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2014-05-21 11:25 pm

Zompania Draft - Draftees only, days 1-3.5

Who: All Draftees
What: This is your death. Followed by your time-traveling life and desperate bomb hunting.
When: From May 22 to May 20 to early May 23 (days 1-4)
Where: Zompania
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post is for the draftee-only portion of the Zompania draft--the day 3 death, time travel to day 1, and then the events until the arrival of the reinforcements. Be sure to use the above info post for any plotting needs you might have. Enjoy!

Please note that there is a specific top-level comment thread for:

All other threading, from day 1 until the reinforcements arrive, should be conducted as normal.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name
selfhelp: ([wiccan] because you think we're...)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-05-27 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[This part... he hadn't heard. Cautiously he glances around - still no one, despite the light, despite the explosion. They're lucky. Tightening the forcefield around them, he grips Loki's arms, holding him in place to try and keep his focus on Billy, to keep him upright.]

Tell me. Tell me what happened, all of it.
complicatedliar: (laugh because it hurts)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-05-27 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He feels so strange, so woozy. Without Billy gripping him so tightly, he'd probably have fallen over by now. The words just come out, because he's too tired to stop them.]

When I was in the dungeon. Waiting for Odin to execute me--bastard. But Mother wouldn't let him. And then when the Kursed on...came in with the prisoners somehow. Broke out. Let out all of the other prisoners. But not me. Oh no. He left me to rot like everyone else.

But I told him. The best way to get out of the dungeons. The one that would take him to the shield room. Near the royal quarters. [He starts laughing again.]

And then he and Malekith killed Mother, after I told him where to go. And I just sat in my bloody cage. Sat in my cage while they killed her.
selfhelp: ([billy] oh god I'm an ass)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-05-28 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[That... okay, that sounds bad. Horrible, actually. But it's about the same level of guilt as he'd expected to hear. Loki loves his mother. It's the most obvious thing about him, actually. So to hear him say so blatantly that he killed her sounds like the biggest lie he's ever told in his life.

Loki always lies. It's a pretty common phrase, and it's true enough, a lot of the time. Even, it seems, to himself.

Pursing his lips, Billy pulls him into another hug, letting his magic close in around them, a soft, pale blue light warming the air and keeping them safe from the world, at least for a little while.]


That isn't the same as killing her. You shouldn't... say that. You couldn't have known.
complicatedliar: (consume thyself)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-05-28 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He clutches uselessly at Billy's cloak.] I should have realized. I should have been there. Thor was right for once in his bloody life. [The great and brilliant Loki, who plays games that last centuries, who plans his moves like an artist lays out dominoes, and how useless he had become.]
selfhelp: ([billy] seriously? you're calling a cab?)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-05-31 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
How could you be there, when you'd been locked away? It was out of your hands.

[It's not like that kind of awareness can help anyone feel better - he'd learned that with Teddy, with his own guilt for failing her. And it's not like he could understand this feeling, with both his parents still very much alive and an extra set to spare.

But he understands grief. And he knows how hard it is to let go of your guilt... and to keep it from overwhelming you, too.]
complicatedliar: (laugh because it hurts)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-05-31 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
But that's precisely it. I could do nothing because I had been imprisoned. And that was my own miscalculation. I did this. [He chuckles dryly.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] unhappypants)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-02 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
So do you blame Thor for killing her too, then?

[It's asked quietly, calmly, without accusation. Speaking of Thor is still painful, with the dead man's blood on his face and clothes and the brother in his arms still grieving the loss of a different family member, but he figures the question is pretty essential.]
complicatedliar: (consume thyself)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-02 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I tried to. [His voice is a bare whisper.] But he won that argument.
selfhelp: ([wiccan] not seeing it.)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-02 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Can... I ask how?

[That's possibly the most confusing thing he's heard yet. But better to keep Loki talking than to hav him clam up, he figures. This is one seriously messed up situation, and he has no idea how else to deal.]
complicatedliar: (consume thyself)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-02 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki giggles.] He was in the dungeon whilst mother was murdered. Because he thought I was trying to escape.
Edited 2014-06-02 05:40 (UTC)
selfhelp: ([wiccan] do I get a say in this?)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-02 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[...Well.

Ouch.]


...It's still not either of your faults. Blame yourself for not saving her if you have to blame yourself for something- I understand that sometimes you have to do that. But not for the murder. That's different. It's totally different.
complicatedliar: (laugh because it hurts)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-02 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki laughs softly.] Oh Billy. Such a lawyer when it suits you. That's my trick.

[That thought, that realization, gives him back some semblance of self control. He feels sick, and shaken, and the renewed grief cuts like he has swallowed one of his own daggers. But he's had to talk enough that he has calmed down to something that seems almost rational. It's hard to explain oneself while screaming, after all.

He uncurls his fingers from Billy's cloak and lets him go.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] why are you looking at me)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-03 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
...Sorry.

[He doesn't know what else to say. A lawyer? He's never considered it- he's not ruthless enough for that. Still, his words seem to have accomplished something, for good or for ill. Loki's moving. He'll accept small victories where he can take them.]

Can you stand up? We should get out of here...

[He sticks close, to make sure Loki would know that he's still here to help if it's needed.]
complicatedliar: (bloody face)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-03 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I can stand. [Of course he can. He's not that week, nor that foolish.

He tries to stand. He's shaking. It's just grief, false grief. That must be it.

Or it might be all of the blood that he spilled to no purpose at all, such a fool he is. His vision begins to gray out as he achieves his feet.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] this isn't what I wanted.)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-03 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[...Shit. Well, so much for that. Billy grimaces and reaches for his cape, tearing off a strip of the tattered material and tugging Loki's arm up to wind the fabric around it.]

Dammit... that looks bad. I could fly us back to the healers, or...

[He hesitates. A teleport would be faster, and much safer, but... he hasn't done a teleport in more than six months. It's actually really frightening to consider, almost as much so as the thought of crossing the battlefield itself.]
complicatedliar: (Default)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-03 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Give me a moment to catch my feet. I needn't be carried. [No Loki, you really kind of do. Whatever the Dream Shifter did to you, it wasn't good.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] I'm not calling you dad.)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-03 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Shut up, that's bull.

[He's too emotionally exhausted to put up with false confidence or bravado right now. They're in danger, Loki needs help, deal with it.

Dammit, he'll have to try.]


Hold still.
complicatedliar: (Default)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-03 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Rude. Why should my standing be so offensive to you? [okay, not the most coherent response ever from him. He may be losing the plot, slightly. It's been a rough evening.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] use the force billy)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-03 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Because you're terrible at it right now.

[You're wobbling, man. Just behave and cooperate.

He closes his eyes, focusing inwardly. And he's really hoping the area around them is still quiet for the moment, because he has to let go of the forcefield to teleport them somewhere. He chants quietly under his breath, echoing the phrase over and over.

If all goes well, they'll be zapped right to the med area in a minute or so.]
complicatedliar: (Default)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-03 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Don't be ridiculous. Loki has never behaved a day in his life. Which should not be mistaken for just not having the energy to be as difficult as he'd like.

Rather he just leans against Billy.]


I'm so glad you're doing magics again. [Mother would have been glad too.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] because you think we're...)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-05 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Billy half-staggers from exertion, casting too much magic in a short span (especially when he's still not used to it yet) and taking on half of Loki's weight, but he locks his knees until he regains his stability. He can't make it worse by falling, now.]

Hah... just in time, huh...? I'd be doomed if I wasn't...
complicatedliar: (laugh because it hurts)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-05 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I would have been doomed as well.

[And this only makes him laugh again. What a pathetic death that would be. Though there is perhaps a certain sort of irony to it.

And Thor already dead. Already dead.]
selfhelp: ([wiccan] you believe it deep down.)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-07 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Billy has no answer to that. He'd rather not think about how close Loki could've come to death, or if anyone else could have pulled him out like that. Jut like he'd rather not think about he'd helped Loki stab someone, even if it was just an illusion. It's not like he'd known it at the time.

Biting his lower lip, he tugs Loki closer, starting to move. Get to a bed, find a medic, sit down for five minutes and try not to pass out. Preferably in that order.]


Come on... let's get you fixed up. What-ifs are pointless now.
complicatedliar: (and i had a dream)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-06-07 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki goes along with Billy rather passively. He doesn't have any desire left to fight, still too caught up by everything that had happened. And he feels far too tired.

He sits where he is told, and asks only one thing:]
Do you know where Rogue is?
selfhelp: ([wiccan] your hand holds me together.)

[personal profile] selfhelp 2014-06-07 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Billy hesitates, sinking down into a chair beside the bed. It's not like he has bad news to deliver or anything, but he doesn't have good news, either.]

I don't, sorry... but the journals are working. I can call for her, maybe. If she's able to make it, I'm sure she'll want to see you.

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