[Lately, Danny's been having a strange spike in difficulty when attempting to concentrate on work: cuts are a little too uneven, extractions messy, reaction time a little slower than he'd prefer when a sacrifice attempts to slip past him onto the next floor. It's hard to say what exactly has been eating at him here, but regardless, it's keeping him from doing what he wants.
So Grey, in an attempt to offer advice to one of his "angels" about something that might make them feel more at ease in their little murder building together, has suggested to Danny to try hypnosis on his own perhaps, perhaps, to see if that helps Danny, after he... politely told Grey to fuck off from the offer of a hallucinatory session with the other man.
And yet, on a day when there are no scheduled "sacrifices" to be delivered, he finds the tape again that he had previously tossed aside and decides to actually try it and see whether or not Grey was serious about it being useful. He puts up a sign asking his co-workers to leave him be for today (or rather, it's a note that practically says "busy with important work, do not disturb or else I will tear out your eyes from your skull, especially you cathy") and once he's taken a seat at his desk, he puts the tape on and starts to listen to it. After the first few minutes, he's actually kind of glad that he put that sign out there, it would be bad if someone came in once he had started to fall into a trance...
... Too bad he forgot that there's one person in the building who can't read signs.]
[And, of course, the one person who can't read signs happened to wander onto Danny's floor today.]
[No "sacrifices" means no killing, and no killing means Zack is really fucking bored. Since he's already rummaged through his floor for stuff his past sacrifices had dropped, and he's pretty sure he doesn't need to wrap himself in clean bandages for a while, the next thing he figured he would do is sneak onto the third floor and smash some of that gravedigging brat's stones. It's not like they're that important anyway, and seeing that kid cry about it was part of the fun so long as he got out of there in time.]
[Unfortunately, with the way the building was set up, if Zack wanted to go to a specific floor he had to go through all the other floors in between first. He really hated having to ask Danny for the key every damn time he wanted to go upstairs, especially when the doctor was having one of those "why do you have those mismatched peepers" moments or worse.]
[Zack was about to bang on the office door when he noticed some weird sign had been stuck onto it. He thought he could faintly hear an unfamiliar voice calmly whisper on the other side of the door.]
[What the hell was Danny doing in there? That couldn't be a sacrifice; the voice is too relaxed and they would have had to go through Zack first. So what else could be going on in there? A new recruit? A movie? Maybe a youtube video or some kind of weird porno?]
[After a few minutes of trying to eavesdrop on the muffled mumbling, Zack gets fed up and tries the door.]
[The door is locked if only because Danny considered the possibility that Cathy, most likely, would ignore the warning and test his patience anyway, but that lock is kind of shitty honestly. It's something he's been meaning to fix, but he forgot to do so before today, so with enough force, Zack can force the door open anyway with a few hard shakes of the door knob.
Once he gets the door open, he'll find that he's arrived just as Danny appears to have fallen asleep at his desk here, the tape still playing just as the voice is finishing it's sentence about how the listener "will now fall into a deep trance, and..."
Depending on who you ask, this might be weirder than walking in on Danny watching a porno, but either way, what will you do now, Zack?]
It had been 10 months since they escaped Gray's labyrinth of a torture chamber, 8 months since Zack broke out of prison, 7 months since he busted Ray out of that psych ward, 3 months since the cops stopped searching for the two, and 3 weeks since Ray began to prepare for her own murder. Yes, she had delayed Zack's end of the bargain for a long time, but she didn't want to see him living on the streets again. She wanted to die knowing that her trusted friend in this cruel world would be able to start his life anew when she was gone.
Their preparations had been through. Fake IDs, homeschooling, apartment hunting... Ray dyed her hair and cut it short, Zack went in for multiple tattoo sessions to cover up his burns... They made plans so that the deed would be done in secret, and that nobody would notice the violent death of the young girl. It was perfect, but there was one thing missing from Ray's carefully plotted demise.
Closure.
Ray insisted on visiting her old "therapist" at the asylum for closure. No, neither of them were ever sure how Danny survived the destruction of the building. Zack secretly wished that Gray's arrow had struck the mad doctor in his heart, or that he at least got crushed by the falling debris, but no. He just had to fucking live, and Ray just had to stop by and say goodbye.
So here they were, being led through the halls to Danny's cell, getting yelled at by the other inmates as they passed them by.
"... You sure about this, Ray?" Zack whispered to his companion. She nodded in reply, with that unmistakable emptiness in her eyes.
Honestly, Zack's not the only one surprised that Daniel Dickens is still alive. His best guess is that despite the man's actions, Gray decided to save him out of some act of mercy, perhaps fancying himself as someone saving the last of his fallen angels...
... What a load of bullshit.
If Gray's idea of "saving" him was to shoot him, only to then change his mind and dump him outside and have him end up in this place, then Danny thinks the man should have just left him for dead.
Regardless, thanks to some... "incidents" from Danny being allowed anywhere near other people during his stay here, he's currently being kept in a private corner farthest away from other prisoners. As such, normally he expects the footsteps to be some terrified guard reluctantly leaving something for him to eat and then fleeing before they have to look him in the eye. At this hour, though...
The only person he can think of that would visit him is Gray. After all, Cathy and Eddie are dead. He doesn't know where Zack is, but he hopes the stupid bastard is dead or rotting in a cell of his own somewhere after being dumb enough to step foot outside the building. And Ray... well, it's more than likely that she's dead too at this point. And occasionally, that's the one thing that gives him some amount of pause whenever he spends time idly looking up at the ceiling. He was never going to see those beautiful peepers of hers ever again... what a waste.
Either way, because he thinks it's Gray visiting him, he almost considers pretending to be asleep from where he's sitting in a corner of the (now padded after one of those incidents previously mentioned before) cell that he's in today, as he leans against the wall and closes his eyes for a moment. As such, Zack and Ray will find that when they are brought to his cell, they'll be able to catch him in this state, among noticing that there are a few things that are different about him.
For one, he's not dressed like a doctor anymore, now more like the patients he once "cared" for. He seems a lot more thin and pale than he was before, even more so for a guy who spent most of his time in a murder building, and while he's not in a straight-jacket, there does appear to be some kind of restraining device around his wrists. But perhaps the most notable detail is that he isn't wearing his glasses, and there's an eye-patch over where his fake eye used to be. That fake eye he had before was considered... too unsettling and should be removed for the benefit of his mental health, or so he was told when he first woke up.
Zack stared in habitual unease as the orderly slid open the observation hatch on Daniel's door and stepped aside. Even in his freedom, Zack still felt a bit weary of the guards. Ray was there with him, though, and as she kindly asked the guard for a stepping stool so she could peer into the cell he wondered what he's going to do with himself after he rips her apart.
The guard refused to let Rachel's eyes get anywhere near the opening, so Zack decided to pick her up himself, letting her see the withered wretch poor Danny had become.
"That's him?"
"I think so. Guess the asshole finally got what he deserved after all."
Ray frowned at Zack's suggestion as she gazed into her old therapist's cell and called out to him, "Doctor Danny?"
In a certain building in a small pocket universe where most of the non-canon, NG, fourth wall breaking things go, three familiar beeps chime out on the intercom. However, the message being broadcasted is much unlike the usual sacrifice announcements:
"ATTENTION: The Master of B6 has died."
"WHAT?!" Zack screamed at the ceiling in shock. "I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD!"
Zack was right- He was sitting sideways on his couch, alive, safely stationed in his proper room on his proper floor. That did not stop the voice on the intercom from going into detail.
"Cause of Death: Multiple stab injuries." "Details: The master of floor B6 fought his attacker valiantly, but they had the upper hand in the end. The body was found pinned to the wall with his own scythe in the police station."
Zack blinked. He didn’t feel like he was stabbed, and when he looked down, he couldn’t see any torn clothing or bandages. Not even a new drop of blood on his stained hoodie. Then, how...
"He managed to last seven weeks this time, including Week Zero."
"As always, the events of the murdergame Magical Girl Raising Project have no real consequences on anyone in this building." "However, fragments from the game may follow the victim out." "Thank you for your time."
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Zack sat there in silence, unsure of what he just heard. Was he dreaming? This has got to be a dream, or else Grey was fucking with his mind again. He groaned in annoyance and settled back down on the couch, ready to go back to sleep or something, when he felt an odd lump in his hoodie's pocket.
"What the..." Zack reached into his pocket and pulled out an odd looking cell phone. Weird, he's pretty sure he hasn't seen this thing in his life, but why does it look so familiar? Hesitantly, he turns the phone on...
... Well, that sure was an announcement that was put out over the intercoms today. For a moment, Danny wondered if this was Cathy's doing as part of an attempt at playing a prank on Zack. After all, it sounds more like the sort of thing she would say and do rather than Gray. Then again, that would involve her actually convincing Gray to let her do something like that.
Regardless, Danny is a little too curious for his own good here, and decides to pay a visit to his fellow floor master. Normally, he tries to avoid Zack's floor at all costs, up to and including forcing the other to come to our floor instead whenever we had something to tell him. But for now, he stomachs the disgust he has for the general state of this floor to come knock on the door to Zack's private room down here.
The door's been boarded up, per usual. Gray went through a lot of effort to make this floor look like an abandoned back alley, boarded up buildings and all. Not that Zack really minds living in one of them: He likes breaking through things, and if he had to one of the windows was actually functional despite the decorations.
However, today Danny will hear a woman's voice reply to his call. It's a deep, husky voice, but a woman's voice nonetheless.
"Huh? Danny?!"
The woman grumbles out a curse as a list of options starts being called out in a cute, electronic voice. If Danny looks through the slits, he might see a mysterious woman in a dark brown robe, messing around with some electronic, egg shaped device. Her back is turned, so he might not see any distinguishable features...
[Zack knew he would miss her when it was all over, but even after swearing on each other Ray still wanted to die. Fine, he's free to hold up his end of the bargain. He made sure it was quick, if he couldn't guarantee it would be painless.]
[All that was left was to get rid of the body.]
[Now, Zack didn't really want to bury her, but he didn't have many resources and he couldn't just toss it in the dumpster if he doesn't wanna go to jail. Out of options, he started digging up an abandoned lot in the worst part of town. Ray was smart enough to give him directions to somewhere the cops won't pay much attention to.]
[As he lay her down in her makeshift grave, he took her old black bag. A memento of their bond she let him have. He stared down at the body, grimacing at her lifeless corpse. It's bittersweet, but she still wanted this after all that happened.]
[The remote has a sick sense of humor then, bringing Danny here... or maybe that's his punishment for being too curious and unable to let it go, despite the fact that he's been quite happy as of late living with Kogami in Rin's world.
He didn't even know what he planned to say if he ever ran into anyone again, though if it had been Rachel... well. He might have tried to offer having her come with him back to the other world instead of staying here. She could live with him and Kogami, have a family like she had wanted... ha.
No, it's more likely that she still would have insisted on staying here rather than leaving Zack behind, after everything that happened. If they saw each other again, it would not be a happy reunion. More like a goodbye, really.
However, it looks like he's not even going to get that, when he suddenly appears just outside of the abandoned lot, and notices a familiar figure ahead...]
... Well. I can't say this is who I was expecting to run into here, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. An abandoned garbage lot is the sort of place where you belong, after all.
[Zack freezes when he hears a familiar voice talking to him.]
[He glances up at the figure, his bandages still stained with fresh blood and dirt, and immediately he goes on the defensive. He drops the shovel and grabs his scythe like he's about to add to the body count if the doctor steps any closer.]
You?!?
[As a wolf would jealously guard his meal, Zack hovers over the makeshift grave and sneers at Danny.]
How the fuck are you even here?! I saw you get shot through the chest and crushed!
Isaac had been keeping an eye on Danny ever since he first stepped into his father's pews. He did not fully understand his father's medicines, but he remembered seeing the doctor on his knees, muttering... He remembered that horrible scene and the convict's death all too well.
Yet, somehow, it led to his father working with Danny on his personal project. Isaac found an outlet in this, and asked if he could offer his services. Angels cannot purge sinners without the proper tools, can they? It was a justifiable sin, a good reason to set up the rooms, to brainstorm new ideas to kill people.
However, it got off to a rough start. Danny had referred a pair of twins to this project, but they were turned down for some reason. Something about not being able to work alone? Isaac didn't fully understand the logic here, but he did not dare go against his father's wishes... Even though Danny seemed VERY disappointed in this development. Perhaps he needed a bit of pity?
Isaac decided to go visit with Danny before he went home. Pulling his hood further so that the shadows hid his bandaged, mangled face, he calmly approached the man and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey..." He muttered awkwardly, feeling rather unsure of himself. He didn't try to initiate conversations with strangers too often. "Sorry to hear about what happened with those carpenters back there."
He had been so certain that the twins would be the perfect subjects for the Reverend's project.
... No, Danny's absolutely certain that they could be useful. They had potential, and it was strange that Gray would turn them away because they worked as a pair. What did that say about his own reason for being here, wanting to be the other man's partner on this project? There has to be something he can do to remedy this.. perhaps he should go and speak with the twins tomorrow and...
And then Danny's thoughts are interrupted by the tap to his shoulder and the arrival of Isaac, who just barely refrains from startling at the other man's sudden presence. Since day one, he hasn't been sure what to think of the wayward man in Gray's care, but despite appearances, he hasn't given Danny a reason to dislike him. Yet.
"Ah... I guess you heard all that, huh? What did you think of them, if you don't mind my asking?"
Conversational, friendly enough, but without the teasing edge of fake cheer, or outright disgust that would tend to creep at Danny's words in another lifetime. If anything he actually sounds genuinely curious by what Isaac has to say.
So, the ANGels of Death cafe is doing a publicity photoshoot for the upcoming Halloween season. You see, the cafe's reputation has made it popular with goths, horror fans, and edgy teens, so they wanted to get in on the 'forbidden love between a human and a monster' troupe.
Unfortunately, Zack's medical condition has forced him into the monster role. Since this is the yaoi part of the photoshoot and Eddie's too young, the person he has to make out with is...
"DANNY?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" Zack yells at the photographer like they have any say in this nonsense. "There is no way in hell I'm gonna get sexy with him!"
Danny is also not happy over here, and the look on his face just descends further into disgust as he reads over the plans for the photoshoot.
"I fail to see how this is necessary in order to drum up business for the cafe... can we not just green-screen it, or... just not do that? Especially with Zack of all people..."
[The last thing he remembered, he was leading that Eddie child down certain secret staircase to clear his name. The furthest he got was touching the hidden door disguised as a stained glass window...
Then the world around him warped and faded to black.
The next thing he knew, he was waking up in a lavish hotel room that had not been tended to in quite some time. A layer of dust coated the antique furniture, cobwebs choked the corners of walls... The only clean thing in this neglected room was a note on the sideboard that read, "Welcome, valued guest. I'm sure you have a lot of questions about where you are and why you're here. Please gather in the foyer at 12 O'Clock, and I shall explain as much as possible. - H.H."
What on earth was this?! A hostage situation? More importantly, how did the kidnapper follow him through the building? It couldn't have been Eddie; the child made it absolutely clear he would rather bash his head open and bury him in the church yard. So how...?
Shin folded the note and took it with him as he left the room and wandered through the halls. Surely, he wasn't the only one in the entire hotel. Surely, someone had awnsers.]
[Luckily for you, Shin, you are not the only one in this entire hotel. In fact, there's someone familiar! ... But he doesn't have answers--in fact, he's likely just as confused as you are.
... Danny also looks like he was recently run over by a truck or something given how tired and haggard he looks as he leans against a wall in the hallway here, wondering just what kind of nonsense he's gotten into this time. This can't be the afterlife, can it? It doesn't make any sense, so then... a kidnapping? But who the hell would bother kidnapping a man on the verge of death from a burning building? Even if he doesn't feel like he's about to die anymore--on the contrary, he feels pretty okay at the moment, but still.
Anyway, Danny is so lost in his thoughts that he doesn't even notice Shin from where he's choosing to be here, taking a break after attempting to check some rooms and still not finding any answers to where the fuck he suddenly is now.]
[It's December. Zack is spending his self-appointed birthday at another stupid bug party.
It's bad enough being trapped in the parasite nest and dealing with their dumb celebrations, but now there's a repeat of the goddamned brain network and memory bullshit! Sure he managed to get his memory back from the poor smuck they were swapped with, but hearing everyone's thoughts and ear worms all the time...
Urgh. He's trying not to focus on them. Maybe he can be thankful he doesn't need shoes anymore...
Distraction isn't working well. He's already learned about AM and Danny's sex life.]
[Yeah, this sure is a fucking trainwreck, isn't it. And unfortunately, Danny has forgotten that Zack is in fact here again for the purposes of this PSL, back from wherever it was that he briefly disappeared to when people leave Ryslig, but to be fair, Zack has been rather quiet and thinking about shoes rather than loud swearing to announce his presence.
... But then Danny ends up digging himself even further into the proverbial hole when in the midst of this argument that, if given the choice, he would rather have sex with Zack than with AM again, which is a thought that Zack will likely find very hard to ignore once that comes to light.]
[ Many people had asked him what he'd been through as he washed up on the shore with the other newcomers. He wouldn't give a straight answer to most, but with how many bits of himself had been chopped off it's natural for people to be curious.
It's a blessing and a curse that Danny happened to be living here as well... As a vampire... With a living skeleton for a lover... Isn't he happy. Shin can't help being jealous of the odd relationship, and every time that snail girl comes to visit he wonders how Eddie's doing, but due to their shared history Shin's temporarily living with them until he can afford to start up a new furniture shop. In the meantime, knowing how people transform into monsters and come back from the dead have convinced him to put his final masterpiece on hold. He'll wait until the fog rolls in. As soon as he begins changing, he'll cast off his human flesh and use it for his work.
Sure enough, the fog came. Sure enough, Shin grabbed a hacksaw and vanished into the basement. Soon enough, his screaming could be heard through the house...
Wait. He's not crying in pain, he's screaming in distress. Just what is going on in there? ]
[It's been... strange, living with Shin here. He's never had a roommate in the entire time he's spent living in Ryslig, and definitely not one like Shin, who is someone who should have been deceased years ago. Then again... Danny is also someone who should be deceased right now as well, so that's not something he can really fault Shin for.
At least Shin isn't Cathy, and is for the most part actually tolerable to live with. Save for the screaming he's doing right now in our basement, but Danny chocks it up to the fog rolling in... at first.
Shin has been screaming in a manner that isn't quite how he normally expects of the other man, so he ends up taking the steps down to the basement quickly to come check on the other man.]
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So Grey, in an attempt to offer advice to one of his "angels" about something that might make them feel more at ease in their little murder building together, has suggested to Danny to try hypnosis on his own perhaps, perhaps, to see if that helps Danny, after he... politely told Grey to fuck off from the offer of a hallucinatory session with the other man.
And yet, on a day when there are no scheduled "sacrifices" to be delivered, he finds the tape again that he had previously tossed aside and decides to actually try it and see whether or not Grey was serious about it being useful. He puts up a sign asking his co-workers to leave him be for today (or rather, it's a note that practically says "busy with important work, do not disturb or else I will tear out your eyes from your skull, especially you cathy") and once he's taken a seat at his desk, he puts the tape on and starts to listen to it. After the first few minutes, he's actually kind of glad that he put that sign out there, it would be bad if someone came in once he had started to fall into a trance...
... Too bad he forgot that there's one person in the building who can't read signs.]
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[No "sacrifices" means no killing, and no killing means Zack is really fucking bored. Since he's already rummaged through his floor for stuff his past sacrifices had dropped, and he's pretty sure he doesn't need to wrap himself in clean bandages for a while, the next thing he figured he would do is sneak onto the third floor and smash some of that gravedigging brat's stones. It's not like they're that important anyway, and seeing that kid cry about it was part of the fun so long as he got out of there in time.]
[Unfortunately, with the way the building was set up, if Zack wanted to go to a specific floor he had to go through all the other floors in between first. He really hated having to ask Danny for the key every damn time he wanted to go upstairs, especially when the doctor was having one of those "why do you have those mismatched peepers" moments or worse.]
[Zack was about to bang on the office door when he noticed some weird sign had been stuck onto it. He thought he could faintly hear an unfamiliar voice calmly whisper on the other side of the door.]
[What the hell was Danny doing in there? That couldn't be a sacrifice; the voice is too relaxed and they would have had to go through Zack first. So what else could be going on in there? A new recruit? A movie? Maybe a youtube video or some kind of weird porno?]
[After a few minutes of trying to eavesdrop on the muffled mumbling, Zack gets fed up and tries the door.]
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Once he gets the door open, he'll find that he's arrived just as Danny appears to have fallen asleep at his desk here, the tape still playing just as the voice is finishing it's sentence about how the listener "will now fall into a deep trance, and..."
Depending on who you ask, this might be weirder than walking in on Danny watching a porno, but either way, what will you do now, Zack?]
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AU: Cruel Mercy
Their preparations had been through. Fake IDs, homeschooling, apartment hunting... Ray dyed her hair and cut it short, Zack went in for multiple tattoo sessions to cover up his burns... They made plans so that the deed would be done in secret, and that nobody would notice the violent death of the young girl. It was perfect, but there was one thing missing from Ray's carefully plotted demise.
Closure.
Ray insisted on visiting her old "therapist" at the asylum for closure. No, neither of them were ever sure how Danny survived the destruction of the building. Zack secretly wished that Gray's arrow had struck the mad doctor in his heart, or that he at least got crushed by the falling debris, but no. He just had to fucking live, and Ray just had to stop by and say goodbye.
So here they were, being led through the halls to Danny's cell, getting yelled at by the other inmates as they passed them by.
"... You sure about this, Ray?" Zack whispered to his companion. She nodded in reply, with that unmistakable emptiness in her eyes.
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... What a load of bullshit.
If Gray's idea of "saving" him was to shoot him, only to then change his mind and dump him outside and have him end up in this place, then Danny thinks the man should have just left him for dead.
Regardless, thanks to some... "incidents" from Danny being allowed anywhere near other people during his stay here, he's currently being kept in a private corner farthest away from other prisoners. As such, normally he expects the footsteps to be some terrified guard reluctantly leaving something for him to eat and then fleeing before they have to look him in the eye. At this hour, though...
The only person he can think of that would visit him is Gray. After all, Cathy and Eddie are dead. He doesn't know where Zack is, but he hopes the stupid bastard is dead or rotting in a cell of his own somewhere after being dumb enough to step foot outside the building. And Ray... well, it's more than likely that she's dead too at this point. And occasionally, that's the one thing that gives him some amount of pause whenever he spends time idly looking up at the ceiling. He was never going to see those beautiful peepers of hers ever again... what a waste.
Either way, because he thinks it's Gray visiting him, he almost considers pretending to be asleep from where he's sitting in a corner of the (now padded after one of those incidents previously mentioned before) cell that he's in today, as he leans against the wall and closes his eyes for a moment. As such, Zack and Ray will find that when they are brought to his cell, they'll be able to catch him in this state, among noticing that there are a few things that are different about him.
For one, he's not dressed like a doctor anymore, now more like the patients he once "cared" for. He seems a lot more thin and pale than he was before, even more so for a guy who spent most of his time in a murder building, and while he's not in a straight-jacket, there does appear to be some kind of restraining device around his wrists. But perhaps the most notable detail is that he isn't wearing his glasses, and there's an eye-patch over where his fake eye used to be. That fake eye he had before was considered... too unsettling and should be removed for the benefit of his mental health, or so he was told when he first woke up.
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The guard refused to let Rachel's eyes get anywhere near the opening, so Zack decided to pick her up himself, letting her see the withered wretch poor Danny had become.
"That's him?"
"I think so. Guess the asshole finally got what he deserved after all."
Ray frowned at Zack's suggestion as she gazed into her old therapist's cell and called out to him, "Doctor Danny?"
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tw: suicidal implications
CW: Suicide threat
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Zack's dead. Post murdergame thread pt. 1
"WHAT?!" Zack screamed at the ceiling in shock. "I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD!"
Zack was right- He was sitting sideways on his couch, alive, safely stationed in his proper room on his proper floor. That did not stop the voice on the intercom from going into detail.
"Details: The master of floor B6 fought his attacker valiantly, but they had the upper hand in the end. The body was found pinned to the wall with his own scythe in the police station."
Zack blinked. He didn’t feel like he was stabbed, and when he looked down, he couldn’t see any torn clothing or bandages. Not even a new drop of blood on his stained hoodie. Then, how...
"As always, the events of the murdergame Magical Girl Raising Project have no real consequences on anyone in this building."
"However, fragments from the game may follow the victim out."
"Thank you for your time."
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Zack sat there in silence, unsure of what he just heard. Was he dreaming? This has got to be a dream, or else Grey was fucking with his mind again. He groaned in annoyance and settled back down on the couch, ready to go back to sleep or something, when he felt an odd lump in his hoodie's pocket.
"What the..." Zack reached into his pocket and pulled out an odd looking cell phone. Weird, he's pretty sure he hasn't seen this thing in his life, but why does it look so familiar? Hesitantly, he turns the phone on...
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Regardless, Danny is a little too curious for his own good here, and decides to pay a visit to his fellow floor master. Normally, he tries to avoid Zack's floor at all costs, up to and including forcing the other to come to our floor instead whenever we had something to tell him. But for now, he stomachs the disgust he has for the general state of this floor to come knock on the door to Zack's private room down here.
"Zack? Are you in there?"
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However, today Danny will hear a woman's voice reply to his call. It's a deep, husky voice, but a woman's voice nonetheless.
"Huh? Danny?!"
The woman grumbles out a curse as a list of options starts being called out in a cute, electronic voice. If Danny looks through the slits, he might see a mysterious woman in a dark brown robe, messing around with some electronic, egg shaped device. Her back is turned, so he might not see any distinguishable features...
Zack is nowhere to be seen.
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Well this took long enough for me.
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boys please you're both pretty
Says the guy who walks around in that ugly hoodie covered with blood all of the time.
Children please
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At least it's better looking than your ugly peepers.
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For Trustfell Danny
[Zack knew he would miss her when it was all over, but even after swearing on each other Ray still wanted to die. Fine, he's free to hold up his end of the bargain. He made sure it was quick, if he couldn't guarantee it would be painless.]
[All that was left was to get rid of the body.]
[Now, Zack didn't really want to bury her, but he didn't have many resources and he couldn't just toss it in the dumpster if he doesn't wanna go to jail. Out of options, he started digging up an abandoned lot in the worst part of town. Ray was smart enough to give him directions to somewhere the cops won't pay much attention to.]
[As he lay her down in her makeshift grave, he took her old black bag. A memento of their bond she let him have. He stared down at the body, grimacing at her lifeless corpse. It's bittersweet, but she still wanted this after all that happened.]
[Zack wasn't expecting any company...]
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He didn't even know what he planned to say if he ever ran into anyone again, though if it had been Rachel... well. He might have tried to offer having her come with him back to the other world instead of staying here. She could live with him and Kogami, have a family like she had wanted... ha.
No, it's more likely that she still would have insisted on staying here rather than leaving Zack behind, after everything that happened. If they saw each other again, it would not be a happy reunion. More like a goodbye, really.
However, it looks like he's not even going to get that, when he suddenly appears just outside of the abandoned lot, and notices a familiar figure ahead...]
... Well. I can't say this is who I was expecting to run into here, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. An abandoned garbage lot is the sort of place where you belong, after all.
[Hi Zack, guess who is still alive.]
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[He glances up at the figure, his bandages still stained with fresh blood and dirt, and immediately he goes on the defensive. He drops the shovel and grabs his scythe like he's about to add to the body count if the doctor steps any closer.]
You?!?
[As a wolf would jealously guard his meal, Zack hovers over the makeshift grave and sneers at Danny.]
How the fuck are you even here?! I saw you get shot through the chest and crushed!
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Meanwhile, in an alternate universe where Gray adopted Zack as a kid...
Yet, somehow, it led to his father working with Danny on his personal project. Isaac found an outlet in this, and asked if he could offer his services. Angels cannot purge sinners without the proper tools, can they? It was a justifiable sin, a good reason to set up the rooms, to brainstorm new ideas to kill people.
However, it got off to a rough start. Danny had referred a pair of twins to this project, but they were turned down for some reason. Something about not being able to work alone? Isaac didn't fully understand the logic here, but he did not dare go against his father's wishes... Even though Danny seemed VERY disappointed in this development. Perhaps he needed a bit of pity?
Isaac decided to go visit with Danny before he went home. Pulling his hood further so that the shadows hid his bandaged, mangled face, he calmly approached the man and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey..." He muttered awkwardly, feeling rather unsure of himself. He didn't try to initiate conversations with strangers too often. "Sorry to hear about what happened with those carpenters back there."
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... No, Danny's absolutely certain that they could be useful. They had potential, and it was strange that Gray would turn them away because they worked as a pair. What did that say about his own reason for being here, wanting to be the other man's partner on this project? There has to be something he can do to remedy this.. perhaps he should go and speak with the twins tomorrow and...
And then Danny's thoughts are interrupted by the tap to his shoulder and the arrival of Isaac, who just barely refrains from startling at the other man's sudden presence. Since day one, he hasn't been sure what to think of the wayward man in Gray's care, but despite appearances, he hasn't given Danny a reason to dislike him. Yet.
"Ah... I guess you heard all that, huh? What did you think of them, if you don't mind my asking?"
Conversational, friendly enough, but without the teasing edge of fake cheer, or outright disgust that would tend to creep at Danny's words in another lifetime. If anything he actually sounds genuinely curious by what Isaac has to say.
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AU where they are actors and they have to romance
Unfortunately, Zack's medical condition has forced him into the monster role. Since this is the yaoi part of the photoshoot and Eddie's too young, the person he has to make out with is...
"DANNY?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" Zack yells at the photographer like they have any say in this nonsense. "There is no way in hell I'm gonna get sexy with him!"
oh boy
"I fail to see how this is necessary in order to drum up business for the cafe... can we not just green-screen it, or... just not do that? Especially with Zack of all people..."
It's not Zack, for once.
Then the world around him warped and faded to black.
The next thing he knew, he was waking up in a lavish hotel room that had not been tended to in quite some time. A layer of dust coated the antique furniture, cobwebs choked the corners of walls... The only clean thing in this neglected room was a note on the sideboard that read, "Welcome, valued guest. I'm sure you have a lot of questions about where you are and why you're here. Please gather in the foyer at 12 O'Clock, and I shall explain as much as possible. - H.H."
What on earth was this?! A hostage situation? More importantly, how did the kidnapper follow him through the building? It couldn't have been Eddie; the child made it absolutely clear he would rather bash his head open and bury him in the church yard. So how...?
Shin folded the note and took it with him as he left the room and wandered through the halls. Surely, he wasn't the only one in the entire hotel. Surely, someone had awnsers.]
good old danny and shin bonding time
... Danny also looks like he was recently run over by a truck or something given how tired and haggard he looks as he leans against a wall in the hallway here, wondering just what kind of nonsense he's gotten into this time. This can't be the afterlife, can it? It doesn't make any sense, so then... a kidnapping? But who the hell would bother kidnapping a man on the verge of death from a burning building? Even if he doesn't feel like he's about to die anymore--on the contrary, he feels pretty okay at the moment, but still.
Anyway, Danny is so lost in his thoughts that he doesn't even notice Shin from where he's choosing to be here, taking a break after attempting to check some rooms and still not finding any answers to where the fuck he suddenly is now.]
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Since I'm missing an awesome event that's making me wanna reapp to Ryslig...
It's bad enough being trapped in the parasite nest and dealing with their dumb celebrations, but now there's a repeat of the goddamned brain network and memory bullshit! Sure he managed to get his memory back from the poor smuck they were swapped with, but hearing everyone's thoughts and ear worms all the time...
Urgh. He's trying not to focus on them. Maybe he can be thankful he doesn't need shoes anymore...
Distraction isn't working well. He's already learned about AM and Danny's sex life.]
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for the purposes of this PSL, back from wherever it was that he briefly disappeared to when people leave Ryslig, but to be fair, Zack has been rather quiet and thinking about shoes rather than loud swearing to announce his presence.... But then Danny ends up digging himself even further into the proverbial hole when in the midst of this argument that, if given the choice, he would rather have sex with Zack than with AM again, which is a thought that Zack will likely find very hard to ignore once that comes to light.]
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Ryslig AU: "Furniture" goes wrong
It's a blessing and a curse that Danny happened to be living here as well... As a vampire... With a living skeleton for a lover... Isn't he happy. Shin can't help being jealous of the odd relationship, and every time that snail girl comes to visit he wonders how Eddie's doing, but due to their shared history Shin's temporarily living with them until he can afford to start up a new furniture shop. In the meantime, knowing how people transform into monsters and come back from the dead have convinced him to put his final masterpiece on hold. He'll wait until the fog rolls in. As soon as he begins changing, he'll cast off his human flesh and use it for his work.
Sure enough, the fog came. Sure enough, Shin grabbed a hacksaw and vanished into the basement. Soon enough, his screaming could be heard through the house...
Wait. He's not crying in pain, he's screaming in distress. Just what is going on in there? ]
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At least Shin isn't Cathy, and is for the most part actually tolerable to live with. Save for the screaming he's doing right now in our basement, but Danny chocks it up to the fog rolling in... at first.
Shin has been screaming in a manner that isn't quite how he normally expects of the other man, so he ends up taking the steps down to the basement quickly to come check on the other man.]
What is it? What's going on?
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This is incredibly late. Ah well.
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