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Brock Fucking Samson ([personal profile] samson) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2014-01-26 08:50 pm
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068. Tea For One

[Brock's been quiet for the past few days, and with good reason. It's kind of hard to care about the day-to-day of a bunch of people in a magical wonderland when your wife is dead. Then again, he can't really keep all this shit to himself forever, so he pens a filter.]

[Maladict]
So, hey. All my other friends are idiot douchebags, so maybe we could talk or something. Like, it's... stupid... but you been there for me a lot, you know? So, uh. Whatever. Just, uh... yeah.
[/filter]

[...which, naturally, goes unanswered.

So after a few more hours, Brock's voice comes over the journal unfiltered this time. He is generally pretty blasé about everything, and when he's not, he's openly furious. But this time he's just very obviously inebriated and annoyed, so that's a thing.]


In case anybody's not too busy talking about stupid bullshit. My wife is pretty dead. So. I'm taking a vacation from being Brock "Solves All Your Problems" Samson for, like... two weeks -- no, a month. Don't bother me.

Oh, Maladict is gone too. So that's another person gone who actually helped anyone in this stupid place. Good fuckin' luck, Paradisa.

[There's a pause here. Maybe he meant to make a filter, but more likely he doesn't actually care.]

Vriska, come to the cabin. Bring a paintbrush. I'm gonna teach you art therapy.

- - CABIN - -
[And for anyone who decides to drop by -- Vriska or otherwise -- Brock is in the cabin. Painting. Poorly.

There are a bunch of easels set up in the living area, all with canvases that he obviously tried really hard on but the paintings are objectively bad. There are also a lot of empty beer cans, so that's a thing. All this along with the beard that Brock has been growing for the past several days is probably an extremely sad scene.

That's not even taking into account the body of his wife wrapped in a sheet in the bedroom.]
wizard_redfive: (Discovery)

Dictated

[personal profile] wizard_redfive 2014-01-27 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Dairine recalls that voice from the fiasco with Bunny. The implication that no one but him and his friends helps people around here ticks her off, and for a second she opens her mouth to tell him off.

But then she closes it. He just lost his wife. She remembers how she had acted right after her mother died. It had been pretty bad. This was probably just the way he was dealing with grief, so she decides not to comment on it. Arguing with him in this state would do no good.

Besides, she
knows she can help the castle's residents. She doesn't need to prove it.]

Thanks for the notice. [Guess she'll be letting Nita know they'll have to work double time.]
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-27 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[She's been moping in her room rather than the outposts, eyes falling every so often at the place where she had left Molotov's for that brief time. She's sucking in a breath as she listlessly flips through the journal... and, oh. Brock.]

Wait, really? [HOW COME.]
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-27 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Excuse you, not!Dad, she's like almost 16! And even if she was sticking to her intro age, thirteen was practically a teen! Teen. Not kid!]

I guess??
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dictated

[personal profile] sworn 2014-01-27 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[When it comes to the death of a spouse, Vereesa can relate all too well. Unlike in her own case, at least Brock's wife will return to him in time. It doesn't make the situation any better, but--

For a moment, Vereesa feels incredibly bitter about it, almost as if he has no right to mourn. Molotov's death isn't permanent while Rhonin's is. He will have his wife back while Vereesa will continue to be a widow until her last breath. All he needs to do is wait.

...No. She pulls herself from such selfish thinking, as difficult as it is. Death is death, whether it is permanent or only temporary. There is still pain, there is still mourning. She certainly didn't feel this way when Brock himself died, and she should feel no different now.

Fortunately, none of this will ever be known to her friend. She thinks of the first comforting words she can muster.]


I am here if you need anything at all.
secondchances: (UGH)

dictated

[personal profile] secondchances 2014-01-27 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Steph feels terrible for hoping that Molotov's death doesn't end up permanent like some others--she shouldn't even be thinking about that.]

Sorry, Brock. Take your time. [You know, with the screw everyone thing.]
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-27 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[WHAT.]

I'm not a big dumb baby! You're the big dumb baby!
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-27 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Whaaaaaaaat.
secondchances: (SLING)

dictated

[personal profile] secondchances 2014-01-27 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you need castle deliveries, don't hesitate to let me know. I won't even ask for a tip. [Bad time for humor? Never.]
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-27 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Brocks! Argh!]

Why would I do that? I've been around all sorts of dead bodies! I was there when my actual mom died! [It's weird to say that. Sweeps and sweeps with a giant spider were awesome and all, but considering Molotov was pretty much her "guardian figure" these days...] Pretty used to it by now!
secondchances: (AMBULANCE)

dictated

[personal profile] secondchances 2014-01-27 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[EXCUSE YOU.]

Alright. Offer still stands if that changes.
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Brock

[personal profile] wagers 2014-01-28 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, that wasn't me! That was my ex! I just, kinda-- you know, broke the legs.
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Brock

[personal profile] gottaknockhard 2014-01-28 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a lot of news to take in, and Spike spends a while thumbing through the journal trying to gather what happened before he gets back to this page. Brock's friends are shitty when they have a reaction this delayed, but what could he expect?

Bad timing. To think he'd been expecting something like this ever since he had a pleasant conversation with Molotov. It's that kind of thinking that leads to him speaking up, at least to acknowledge that he pays attention some of the time. And if he needs anything, Spike figured he'll ask.]


Yeah. No problem.
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[personal profile] assassino 2014-01-28 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[A long pause.]

Christ.
wizard_redfive: (Side glance)

Dictated

[personal profile] wizard_redfive 2014-01-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[It can get that way, that's for sure. Dairine is decent at sorting through the noise though, after a few years of sifting through light-years' worth of telepathic messages. Picking up familiar voices seemed pretty easy compared to that.]

Well, take your time. [She's not sure what else to say besides that.]
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[personal profile] onlyanapple 2014-01-29 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Lot of that going around, lately. Death and leavings and such.

[He doesn't sound AMUSED at least, perhaps even a little unsettled.]

I hope we don't have another serial killer loose again.

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