myironeyes: (once a Seeker)
Marsh || Steel Inquisitor ([personal profile] myironeyes) wrote2014-04-22 02:09 pm

Like a hole in the head

[Private to Riddick]

I want to try something.

[He sounds a bit - strained.]


[Public, video]

[It's never comfortable, being stuck full of spikes. But it is even more uncomfortable to be full of spikes and simultaneous feel full of holes. He plucks one of his own eye spikes out just to ease the discrepancy, his hands clenching around the heavy length of steel.

Marsh can't see anything on the screens, but he turns it to video anyway, dark red blood trickling down his cheek from the dark black hole of his empty socket. Whatever keeps the wounds neat and bloodless in the normal course of events is void with the spike removed. He gestures toward the camera with the sharp tapered end of it. Despite the grotesquerie, his posture isn't threatening - it's a little bit schoolmarm-ish, a fussy librarian with a razor pointer. His jaw is clenched taut.]


Whoever is pulling pins out of their doll. Should stop.

It is disconcerting.
force_captain: (C'yra of D'riluth III)

[personal profile] force_captain 2014-04-24 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
How fascinating. Makes a lady wonder what it would take to get you to wind down.
force_captain: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] force_captain 2014-04-24 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
So, often then? As this place enjoys making us different every chance it gets.

[She's keeping it light, not even really a complaint in her tone. Not that she likes the floods and forcible alternate realities, but that isn't the point at the moment.]
force_captain: (considering)

[personal profile] force_captain 2014-04-24 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?
force_captain: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] force_captain 2014-04-25 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Those are rather incredible wounds. How are you alive?
force_captain: (cautious)

[personal profile] force_captain 2014-04-29 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Surprise,Marsh. It actually is.]

I see. What kind of magic? Is it focused on you or the last spike?