fifty-ninth labyrinth

[lord_wizard]

[He'd woken up this morning to find a month of memory crashing violently into place. Names and faces - friends and strangers alike - all treated to the uncouth, uncultured, ungainly little wretch of a prostitute he'd been before Malkar had gotten his claws into him. That the castle had stopped shy of that milestone was a small favor, but not enough of one for him to forgive the trespass. Not this time. He could bear every other embarrassment - being turned into animals and even a woman - was better than having his past stripped bare for all to see.

And as he paged through the journal to better place what had happened, though he remembered every moment of it vividly, the significance of the date clicked in his mind.]

I will have been in the castle for two years today.

It seems the castle chose to ensure I remembered this by marking the day in a rather dramatic fashion, though I'm not sure how I could ever forget...

[His tone is particularly bright and hard as he speaks. That's the closest he's going to get to mentioning the loss - at least publicly]

[Those who encountered him during the loss who knew him before]

I suggest you forget whatever it is you think you've learned about me in the past few weeks.

[That done, he checks himself in the mirror again, perhaps to assure himself that he's back to normal. Rather than pushing it away, he embraces the old anger - wraps it about himself like a mantel - and turns to head out to town.

Time to replenish his missing liquor stores. He was going to need it]

((ooc:Loss end! Feel free to encounter him on the way out of the castle or in town. But beware...he's in a MOOD))

Comments

That filter forever

[onlyanapple]

Forget what? I don't remember a single thing. [Well, he does, but he'll be nice and not bring it up because he actually likes you, Felix]

[lord_wizard]

I am thankful as always for your selective memory, Crowley.

[onlyanapple]

Always happy to serve.

[lord_wizard]

I'm sure you are~

[onlyanapple]

What can I say? I do what I can.

That filter

[radiantwingedone]

.... Learned something?

[ He's really trying to figure out if he learned anything new about Felix from that.

... Mostly things about his world... ]

saaaaame

[lord_wizard]

If you don't know I'm not going tell you.

[radiantwingedone]

Had meant that uncertain if anything personal was learned from conversing, hut clear enough anyway.

[lord_wizard]

[There was a lot to be picked up from context. This accent, grammar, and clear lack of education compared to his 'normal' persona were at complete odds to each other. It was hard for him to claim a noble heritage when he obviously never was one]

Good.

[radiantwingedone]

[ Sorry, Felix, Duke doesn't really care that much about those things. Humans are humans.

Well, he'd have liked to fix the lack of education but- ]

... Will leave you with your mood.

[lord_wizard]

[Someday he'll learn that nobody cares but him.

Today is not that day.]

As you wish, darling. I'll speak to you later.

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke is giving the area about the journal a 'why did you just call me that' look, but shrugs and just... flips the page.

Felix said he'd come in contact with him later... ]

[Felix]

[legacydeck]

Don't do anything I wouldn't.

[Clow]

[lord_wizard]

That doesn't make it a terribly long list, does it?

[Felix]

[legacydeck]

Long enough for me not to worry.

[Clow]

[lord_wizard]

If it makes you feel better.

[Felix]

[legacydeck]

Oddly enough, it does.

[Clow]

[lord_wizard]

Mmmmm.

While I have you here, is there anything I missed that I should be aware of?

[Felix]

[legacydeck]

Magically speaking? Not that I can think of. Which is just as well, that whole ninja business was a bit much.

[Clow]

[lord_wizard]

It was...an experience, yes. I've tried to speaking to someone from there once. She's no longer here, I think. Still, I wasn't able to make her open up the idea that their abilities might be some form of magic.

[Felix]

[legacydeck]

No so unlike all the mages who are convinced their way is the only way~

[Clow]

[lord_wizard]

How very true.

Felix

[hard_talker]

I'm sorry, what am I forgetting?

[translation: consider it done. even if he feels for the guy, he knows he is not big on Talking]

Mark

[lord_wizard]

[Mark was the one person Felix had been most concerned about, considering his stance on telling the truth about things. But he just wasn't ready to face it. He couldn't help but feel relieved that Mark recognized that]

Nothing much, I'm sure. I forgot it all myself.

Felix, to end

[hard_talker]

[he's quiet for a moment, thinking. Felix clearly isn't comfortable with who he was, any more than he's happy with the shy kid he was when he arrived. it's not a thing either would want to discuss in detail, but he still feels like something else should be said. something that shows he gets it, and isn't just playing along]

You ever see Harris Mueller's Big Day? ... I bet you'd like it. [there is a point here, among the misdirection. be patient]

Mark forever

[lord_wizard]

My education in movies in ongoing, I'm afraid.

[He's humoring this line of conversation for now]

[hard_talker]

Maybe we should watch it one'a these days, then. It's about this kid my age, who basically decides he's gonna skip school and do everything he always wanted to do with his best friend and his girlfriend, 'cuz they're gonna graduate soon and he's kinda flippin' out about it. Usually that sorta shit doesn't fly farther than the backyard, where I'm from, but he gets away with all of it. It's pretty awesome.

[it is also about lying your way into being a badass so often that by proxy you eventually become one, and people forget that you weren't to begin with. therein would lie his point]

[lord_wizard]

He was very lucky then. Bravado doesn't carry you that far.

[Especially since not all of it was his bravado. It was Malkar's.

There's another short pause]

Though maybe I'll try and see it sometime.

[hard_talker]

[quietly] No, it doesn't. .... Your friends do. They help you believe it till it's who you are.

[lord_wizard]

Well, as long as your friends approve of who that is.

[hard_talker]

This one does.

[lord_wizard]

[He's silent for a few long moments. Mark's trust in him still feels misplaced and mistaken for the fact that there are still a lot of pieces of the puzzle he hasn't yet seen. Besides, how can people like who he is when he isn't terribly fond of himself.]

...thank you. Though I hope some day I'll get to actually earn that.

[hard_talker]

[and someday, Mark'll help him realize that just by listening, and being honest with him about whatever they end up talking about, he has. but for now...]

Hey, no thanks necessary.

[lord_wizard]

[There's the impulse to thank him for that, but then they'll just be going in circles, and he simply doesn't have the energy for that right now]

As you wish.

Though if you'll excuse me, I need to go remember how to be a real adult.

[hard_talker]

[no no no Felix Darling, come back to Neverland with Harry Pan! brain what the hell was that emote]

Suit yerself. Just don' grow up too much, man.

[lord_wizard]

[When he's done moping. Or...trying to find pixie dust in the bottom of a wine bottle. One of the two.]

Noted.