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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2019-02-14 10:05 am

Event Log: Soulmates

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for Soulmates event
Where: All over the city
When: February 14th-February 22nd
Warnings: None


Oh shit, what even happened last night? You're pretty sure you had a normal night, no crazy drunk antics (unless that is your normal night). But this morning you woke up with a brand new tattoo, and it's... a name?

Maybe it's a name you recognize, one of your good friends. Maybe it's a stranger. Maybe it's someone you can barely stand. No matter who it is, you kind of feel like you should look for them and figure out what's going on with this weird tattoo. And when you find them - well, they've got one too, except this one is your name. It would seem weird, except as soon as you see each other you kind of understand. Of course you'd have a tattoo with the name of the person you've found such an amazing connection with. You were meant to be together.

So enjoy your time with your newfound soulmate. Who knows, you might wake up tomorrow with a whole new name on your arm, a new connection, a new love. Make the most of it!

► This log covers February 14th-February 22nd
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you try to pull off a stupid stunt to impress your soulmate and fail so miserably you die, please let us know here.
aroundthecoroner: (but my peace)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-02-23 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Right.

[If he notices that Carlisle is trying to cover his tracks, he doesn't mention it. Consider it an awkward friend courtesy. Instead, he just gets right to the business at hand.]

So, um, I don't think you're going to like what I'm about to say, but I think the newest god event, it's, um, I think it's affecting the monster instead of me.

[Which doesn't explain why he's here of all places, but they'll... get to that... One step at a time.]
tongueamok: and his worries were that much worse for it (➣ he'd thought a moment too long)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-02-25 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Carlisle's brow knits—]

The- the monster? What monster?

[— then arches —]

Wait, that monster? The- the what did you call him? The Visitor?

[— and then settles somewhere into "furrowing in uncertainty."]

That's- that's not what you mean, surely. Or possible. Both impossible and improbable.

[And yet... he feels like that's right, and he does not like it.]
aroundthecoroner: (and some would scream)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-02-26 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's not impossible, unfortunately. It's happened before. Just... usually I'm affected, too.

[It was affected by the Door, too. Which had some... unintentional consequences. Consequences he hopes will not be repeated here.]

The thing is, I think it's, uh. I think it likes you right now? Not in a violent way, in a way I've never felt from it before. It's like it, well, wants to be close to you.

[He feels so awkward saying these things, which is evident by the fact that he can't meet Carlisle's eyes.]
tongueamok: (➣ potentially problematic)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-02-27 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Close... to me.

[The apprehension on Carlisle's face could not be clearer, his eyes wide, teeth bared in a look somewhere between his usual, lopsided smile and an outright grimace. No matter how he feels logically, he knows what Michael says is true -- and inwardly infuriating as it may be, he cannot explain it for the life of him. There is definitely something though, given the way that gnawing, irritating ache finally settles in his gut, more satisfied by their proximity than it has been in some time.]

Close. Right. I, ah.

[He steps aside, a silent invitation.]

How, ah. I mean, I suppose I could use some company, if it, um. If it would help.
Edited 2019-02-27 08:55 (UTC)
aroundthecoroner: (could barely tear)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-01 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Michael takes the invitation, slipping awkwardly past Carlisle and inside. The monster in his head seems satisfied, if not completely. It's better, which is something.]

Sorry, I know this is weird. It, uh, it does help though.

[He fidgets a little.]

Is anything like this happening to you, too?
tongueamok: (➣ never what he wanted)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-03-01 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Carlisle laughs, his chuckle high and loud with agitation.]

Aheh, no. Noooo no no. No. Of course not. I- I have been fine. I haven't- I mean, there was a construAUTOMATON who, ah. I have met him before, but I felt as though I should do it again. Properly. But it went away, and I came home, and everything has been fine for well over a day now.

[Very convincing.]
aroundthecoroner: (had a power)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hm.]

So, you had the urge to go meet someone? I mean, that sounds like a milder version. Are you... sure you're okay?

[If anything about what Carlisle just said is any indication, the answer is no.]
tongueamok: (➣ but no one likes when i'm right)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-03-02 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Fine! Fine fine fine fine fine. Never better.

[He closes the door behind Michael, doing his absolute best to not absolutely lose his mind over the fact that his will is being -- well, not dominated, but certainly tampered with. He feels inexorably lonely, reluctant to let Michael even consider leaving now that he's here.

No, not Michael. The Visitor. His voice ramps up in tempo the more riled his nerves become.]


It was just an urge, of course. Nothing overwhelming. Nothing nearly so bad as suddenly garnering the attention of an accursed monster afflicting a friend. Acquaintance! An acquaintance, even. Not that- not that I wouldn't consider you as a friend, obviously, but I wouldn't mean to presume something like that of someone merely attempting to assuage the effects of the gods' latest machinations.
aroundthecoroner: (and some would scream)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-03 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if you're sure.

[It'll bother him, but he'd rather not dig at it. Because that would probably bother Carlisle more.]

I, uh. I would consider us friends. Even with the, um, god machinations.

[It feels weird to be able to admit that. He has friends here. He has one friend back home, and it's not like he doesn't value that friendship, but now he's got more than one. For like, the first time. It's wild.]

You know, if it was someone else, I probably would've just tried my hardest to stay away. I just figured you'd... understand, I guess.
tongueamok: (➣ abashment wearing into him)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-03-06 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Carlisle wrings his hands tighter, reddening at the fact that Michael would consider them friends, despite... well, him being him. Michael is right, though -- there have been more times than not that Carlisle could commiserate with him, given they are both cursed, damned to their respective fates.]

I... I do. I mean, I believe I do. I want to understand.

[Which, if he truly does, he should probably be honest instead of shoving his obvious affliction under the figurative rug.]

I- I suppose there is something I feel. Now. Nowish. Now that you're here.
aroundthecoroner: (love's perfect ache)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I know, and I appreciate it.

[Carlisle has difficulty with... things like this. Admitting things, maybe? But the fact that he's trying says a lot. Not only does he believe Michael that this is happening, but he's maybe starting to concede that things are happening to him, too.]

What, um, what kind of feeling is it? Is it sort of like... satisfaction?

[That's the best way he can describe how the Visitor is feeling right now, as far as he can tell.]
tongueamok: and unlike him, it would not die (➣ it burned within him)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-03-24 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Not exactly. It is- it's more the feeling you might have when you've been alone for too long, and begin to crave even the barest amount of companionship. I... cannot say it is a feeling I am terribly familiar with.

[He takes umbrage with his own words, grinding his teeth in frustration as the dam breaks.]

I mean- I am more familiar with it now, or am after my time here, but I am usually fine by myself. Or I was for years in Bear Den, a-a-and being in this place has spoiled me thoroughly. I- I have friends now, and people who care for my well-being despite everything, and it's no longer normal for me to feel so lonely when I haven't even been alone but an hour or two today, and now that you're here, I feel better, and I don't want to feel better if it means that I am being drawn toward a monster infect—

[He slams his hand over his mouth, forcibly shutting off his little tirade because he has said way more than he would have liked.]
aroundthecoroner: (but my peace)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-25 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment, Michael is inexplicably offended. Something about the idea of the monster "infecting" him is... well, it's not entirely right, but it's not entirely wrong, either. He really has no right to be mad about it. Right?]

Oh, uh, that's a lot. Um, isn't it a good thing, though? Not the lonely part, but the fact that you have friends and people who care about you?

[He pauses, comes at it from a different angle.]

I've got next to nobody back home, and coming here, meeting everyone I've met, I don't think it spoiled me, I think it just made me realize how lonely I'd been before. And, um, about the other thing... Maybe you can just pretend it's me and not the monster.
tongueamok: thick, stifling, unbearable (➣ shame blanketed him)

[personal profile] tongueamok 2019-03-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He lowers his hand, his fingers curling against his palm as shame colors him.]

I have only my church and my guilt for company in my world.

[He sucks in a breath, his eyes on the floor.]

Coming here as made me realize how my solitude was... destroying me. How sequestering myself away in my family's estate might have been what I thought was best for the people of Bear Den, but it did nothing to help me. I was once afraid of leaving my house for fear of what would happen to those around me, those touched by my affliction; now, I am afraid that I will one day return to that village, losing all I have. My garden, my partner, my friends... people like you.

[He doesn't take Michael up on his suggestion just yet -- he's still processing his inner conflict.]
aroundthecoroner: (was mine alone)

[personal profile] aroundthecoroner 2019-03-29 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Michael's quiet for a moment, letting the whole thing settle in the air between them. He gets it, he absolutely gets it. Even if he's able to go home with Harlan, he'll still be leaving most of Hadriel behind. All the people he's met here, all the friendships he's started, they'll just... end. They won't even be in the same universe anymore. But hey, speaking of that-]

Maybe... you don't have to go home.

[Which would normally sound awful, but Carlisle's life in Bear Den is what sounds awful.]

Harlan and I, our plan is to go together. If the gods let us choose, if they eventually let us out of here, maybe you can choose to go somewhere else.

[It doesn't solve all of these problems, but it solves... one? Maybe?]