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Jan. 27th, 2018 05:03 pm
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"Hello? Oh, hey. What's up?

Just fucking with you, this is my voicemail. Leave me a message, loser."
meteorman: (94 | they've built celestial halls)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
Chloe. I have something very important I need your input on.

[Ford is sitting in his hotel room. Bug Zapper is out, scrunching around on the bed next to him. Even though he let the little cube out of the PC from time to time in the same way that he checks in on all of his Pokémon, it's still been a very long time since he actually picked up the Charjabug. It deserves to be allowed out and about.

Chloe might notice she has a certain image file suddenly on her gear, being terrible.]


I believe you are supposed to 'tag yourself'?

[Sweet jesus he's trying]

1/2

Date: 2018-02-15 06:56 am (UTC)
meteorman: (84 | well you can choose that)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
Obviously I am Mr. Grizzles.

2/2

Date: 2018-02-15 07:03 am (UTC)
meteorman: (42 | did you not know that)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
I admit the use of video over text is one of my biases. Much of my exposure to such technology was in universes where video communication is the norm.

[And it's the norm here too, actually, from what he's observed. It's kind of neat.

Bug Zapper skoonches over to him and attempts to burrow into his coat, presumably to find some of that hard candy he likes (as per meme law). Ford reaches down to pick him up with a soft admonishing sound, and maybe he squeezes a little too hard or maybe Bug Zapper doesn't like being picked up or maybe he just really wanted whatever was in Ford's pockets because suddenly the whole screen is full of flashing electrical discharge.]

cw: talkin' about torture

Date: 2018-02-15 07:34 am (UTC)
meteorman: (54 | man alive)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[He doesn't answer immediately. In fact for what feels like a very long moment he can't move at all because the electrical current coursing through him has locked up his muscles. He can't even let Bug Zapper go, and it isn't until the Charjabug stops shocking him that he's able to drop it with a flump back onto the bedsheets.

Stanford Pines has been through a lot in his long life. There are things that might frighten some people that he can laugh at because he's already survived them once, long enough ago that the memory has lost its bite. But this wound is a new wound, one only a little over a year old, and for just a second there he was back in the Fearamid dangling fifty feet above the ground while Bill sent shocks through him intense enough to singe his hair, What do you think, pals? Another 500 volts?, and his breathing's gone very ragged and his hands aren't nearly as steady as he'd like. He should be more in control of himself than this, and it frustrates him that he's not.]


I'm -- it's fine. Electric types often shock their trainers.

[It's a weak deflection at best.]

Date: 2018-02-16 04:59 am (UTC)
meteorman: (17 | that feel so right)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[Ford takes a deep breath in and lets it out as a shaky, defeated huff. Yeah, he should have figured that wasn't going to fly. Don't bullshit a bullshitter indeed. He should have known a stoner teenager would be able to spot a lie faster than most.]

I don't believe so. No burns. No broken bones. I've had worse.

Date: 2018-02-16 05:21 am (UTC)
meteorman: (74 | take only what you can fit)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[If she had just left it he wouldn't have been surprised. They're... acquaintances, he'd say? Certainly they're not at the point where she could feel obligated to probe. And yet, she is anyway. Is she genuinely concerned about him?

That's... kind of touching.

And anyway he's already tried burying all his issues as deep as he can and ignoring them, and he knows where that leads him and he knows it's not a good place. Now isn't really the time he would have liked to have this out but here they are, and she's asking, and maybe he can try that thing where he extends trust instead of just assuming he'll get burned as a matter of course. He still can't meet her eyes, though.]


I said I've had worse. The last time it wasn't accidental.

Date: 2018-02-16 05:38 am (UTC)
meteorman: (73 | if it glows and gets heated)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[HhhhhHHH he didn't want to have to say it plainly but she sure is making it difficult not to. Ford can usually brush off the horrible things that have happened to him with an offhand macabre joke, but this is too new and after being reminded of it in such a distressing way he's not in the right mindset to be joking.]

It means the last time I had that much electricity in my system I was being tortured.

Date: 2018-02-16 06:00 am (UTC)
meteorman: (57 | dont come near it)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
One of the best ways to overcome a fear is controlled exposure to it. That was just... less controlled than it could have been.

[And it's not entirely Bug Zapper's fault. He's barely past level twenty. He doesn't know how to handle his own power yet. The only person Ford is angry with here is himself.]

You could call it a war.

[There's so much to explain and it goes back so far. How does he even begin to tackle it?]

A demon entered my universe intending to begin the apocalypse. Unfortunately for him he entered into an area with a natural protective barrier around it that he and his cronies couldn't pass through, and I was the only one who knew how to lower it. That was the information he wanted.

Date: 2018-02-16 06:18 am (UTC)
meteorman: (6 | god has slaughtered all stability)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
How else am I meant to be about it? It's just something that happened, one more thing in a very long line of them. Obviously I survived.

[And that means he should be able to just... not care. He should be able to just turn off the way his chest still feels tight and his hands are still shaking. It's not like Bill is here, it's not like he's in any real danger, so he has no reason to be upset.

See, Ford is old, and he was raised in a household where showing any sign of weakness was heavily frowned upon. It's difficult still for him to allow himself to do anything other than deflect and insist it's not a big deal, because to a real man it wouldn't be, would it?]

Date: 2018-02-16 06:56 am (UTC)
meteorman: (89 | stay on the wooden track)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[He knows she's right. He knows what ignoring these things does. And he'd like to think he's learned from his past mistakes, but there's so much to unpack and he hates to admit he's scared to start. He never planned to back in 46'\ and maybe that wasn't all that healthy either, even if it had felt so good to just focus on having a family again. Maybe he would have been having this conversation with Stan instead, eventually, when they were both ready to face it.]

I would say that severe internal and external burns and a dislocated shoulder was 'bad', yes.

[Better than it could have been. He could be dead.]

He always thought that sort of thing was funny.

Date: 2018-02-16 07:32 am (UTC)
meteorman: (21 | 69399375105)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[He told Armin. He told Armin and he can tell her. It's perhaps one of the things he regrets most in his life but it's part of the story as much as any of the rest of it.]

The demon. Bill Cipher. Those days I spent as his prisoner were not the first time I was in contact with him.

When I was younger and far more naive he manipulated me into building a doorway between my world and his. He told me that he was a muse, that he chose one great mind every few centuries to inspire, and I believed him. In reality I was his puppet.

Literally. [Ha, ha. It's funny because it's really, really not funny. The smile he manages to drag onto his face is bitter and rueful.] He could only interact with my world through the mindscape; if he needed a physical body he borrowed mine.

Date: 2018-02-16 08:01 am (UTC)
meteorman: (58 | temple of syrinx)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
Mm.

[Much as it's still odd to be talking about this with anyone, it's kind of vindicating to have someone say outright how fucked up it all is. He got used to treating it as just... something that happened. Just something normal. Something he deserved, a little, for being so stupid.]

It's alright. I had a metal plate installed to keep him out. [He raises a hand and knocks gently on the side of his head. Clang clang. People tend to not believe him until they hear the clang.]

You have to understand that I let him possess me. I thought he was my friend. It wasn't until I realized his true nature that it became a, ah. Mindfuck.
meteorman: (54 | man alive)
From: [personal profile] meteorman
[Yeah it's. Yeah. It's a lot. 'He's taking advantage while I sleep' sure are words he wrote.]

Then who am I supposed to blame? I was taken in by obvious lies because I wanted to believe them. I nearly doomed my entire reality for some flattery. At least some portion of the blame rests on my shoulders.

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