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Leave me here, Burning with you (Open)
Who: Andrew Jaeger bloodalwaystells and Everyone!
When: Late April-May
Where: Various locations
Summary: Catch-all for post-assassination and TDM events
Warnings: Scars, hospital setting, burn wounds, mentions of violence, murder, and torture, burned bodies, more will be added as needed!
((OOC: Open to planning, just PM or![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
brimstonemuse to discuss ideas and set up a starter! I will match brackets or prose, as desired!))
The Infirmary ((Approx April 23-30, after this thread)) CW: Burn wounds and other damage, hospital setting
It's not the first time that Jaeger has been hurt in the line of so-called "duty", and it won't be the last. Normally, it's something he can fix, but not anymore. Not here, especially since using his powers is partly what got him into this situation in the first place.
So, a hospital bed is home for a while, until he is steady on his feet and showing signs of good healing. He's being kept in the infirmary ward for some fairly severe burns, and some rather mysterious internal damage that has him occasionally coughing blood. Bandages cover one arm and his side and chest, and there's a quietly beaten, haggard look to him that the big man seldom allows to show. Painkillers help, and so do visitors, though his entirely inadequate hospital gown shows both a fine array of decorative-looking scars (well healed) on his arms, and the vicious mark across his throat that by now is starting to become common knowledge.
Visitors will be greeted with a wan smile, though, once word gets out that he's laid up. It's better than listlessly flipping through cable channels for something interesting to watch. Most of the time, he settles on a murder mystery or old western, though other times he'll simply doze through whatever's on the screen.
Well-Read - (May 1 - 12): CW: mentions of torture, murder, scars/scarification, Bad Magic
Being out of the infirmary is a relief for Jaeger, even if it means returning to something like chaos. He's still healing, though, still tentative and careful in the way he moves. A book fair, though? That's a good excuse to get out and about. Fresh air, a change of scenery, and hopefully, bringing back something interesting to read while he's still recovering a bit.
There's still bandages, but he's better. He'll continue to get better, he's resolute on that. He might be out of action for a bit, but certainly not too much longer. He hopes.
In the meantime, he'll be found browsing the offered books, especially the folklore and local history sections. Or, occasionally, hunched over a laptop, a rare deep scowl on his face as the questions flash by. Terrible, pointedly direct questions, that the computer has no business knowing.
Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
No.
Invalid answer. Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
No.
Invalid answer. Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
Yes.
Excellent! Welcome, Sebastian.
This is not the worst of the questions. Not even close to it. Do you still love your wife? gets a vicious glare, and by the time he gets to Why did you kill Claudia when she was already helpless? he's ready to throw the laptop. Or just wither and die on the spot...that's an option too. He's tired and overdue for his next pain pill and goddamn, sometimes this place is just awful.
Alternatively, he might catch a glimpse of your screen, even in spite of his best efforts not to pry. But it's really just a reading questionnaire, right? There's no harm in seeing what kind of questions they're- oh. Okay.
Training Wheels Off - (May 13 - 14) CW: burn wounds, burned bodies, claustrophobia
The Train
Jaeger has never been fond of flying, really. A train proves much more comfortable, even if it's slower, and he is still healing. Most of the bandages are off by now, but he's still just a little bit careful, a little bit tired. Three weeks is a good amount of time to heal, though, and his wounds are well on the way to becoming new scars across his chest and arm.
He's going to choose to take the time on the train to relax as best he can, to lose himself in the liminal space of travel. They're going to be on the train for a while so he may as well make the best of it.
Until things start getting weird, at least. Then he can be found on a slow patrol of the train, or standing sentry (or sitting sentry) at one of the ends of the train cars. Breaks are taken in the dining car, usually with a cup of apple juice or a bottle of water and gaze alert to the darkness beyond the windows.
At some point in the evening, after the chaos of the Tunnel Incident, Jaeger will return to his assigned sleeping car, and whoever his roommate for the trip might be. If it's someone he knows, he will be as cordial as ever...if it's someone he previously hasn't met, well, he'll still be friendly, if a bit reserved? But quick to introduce himself before stretching out his huge frame on the provided bedding with a deep sigh.
Burned Bridges
He's not hallucinating. He's pretty sure of that, and the sight of the body propped up by the tracks, contorted by intense heat into something barely human-seeming, is a strange and surreal shock after the night they've had. He's seen a lot of Weird Things In The Woods but a body always draws his attention right away. It's wired into him by now, with all the awful things he's seen, even though through the glass of a moving train car, it's oddly distant and surreal.
Until Jaeger sees the lower portion of a leg, and the whole thing snaps into focus. Untouched, unscorched, just laying there amid the charred, leathery mess of the rest of the corpse. "That's human."
bloodalwaystells and Everyone!When: Late April-May
Where: Various locations
Summary: Catch-all for post-assassination and TDM events
Warnings: Scars, hospital setting, burn wounds, mentions of violence, murder, and torture, burned bodies, more will be added as needed!
((OOC: Open to planning, just PM or
The Infirmary ((Approx April 23-30, after this thread)) CW: Burn wounds and other damage, hospital setting
It's not the first time that Jaeger has been hurt in the line of so-called "duty", and it won't be the last. Normally, it's something he can fix, but not anymore. Not here, especially since using his powers is partly what got him into this situation in the first place.
So, a hospital bed is home for a while, until he is steady on his feet and showing signs of good healing. He's being kept in the infirmary ward for some fairly severe burns, and some rather mysterious internal damage that has him occasionally coughing blood. Bandages cover one arm and his side and chest, and there's a quietly beaten, haggard look to him that the big man seldom allows to show. Painkillers help, and so do visitors, though his entirely inadequate hospital gown shows both a fine array of decorative-looking scars (well healed) on his arms, and the vicious mark across his throat that by now is starting to become common knowledge.
Visitors will be greeted with a wan smile, though, once word gets out that he's laid up. It's better than listlessly flipping through cable channels for something interesting to watch. Most of the time, he settles on a murder mystery or old western, though other times he'll simply doze through whatever's on the screen.
Well-Read - (May 1 - 12): CW: mentions of torture, murder, scars/scarification, Bad Magic
Being out of the infirmary is a relief for Jaeger, even if it means returning to something like chaos. He's still healing, though, still tentative and careful in the way he moves. A book fair, though? That's a good excuse to get out and about. Fresh air, a change of scenery, and hopefully, bringing back something interesting to read while he's still recovering a bit.
There's still bandages, but he's better. He'll continue to get better, he's resolute on that. He might be out of action for a bit, but certainly not too much longer. He hopes.
In the meantime, he'll be found browsing the offered books, especially the folklore and local history sections. Or, occasionally, hunched over a laptop, a rare deep scowl on his face as the questions flash by. Terrible, pointedly direct questions, that the computer has no business knowing.
Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
No.
Invalid answer. Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
No.
Invalid answer. Hello, Sebastian. May we call you that?
Yes.
Excellent! Welcome, Sebastian.
This is not the worst of the questions. Not even close to it. Do you still love your wife? gets a vicious glare, and by the time he gets to Why did you kill Claudia when she was already helpless? he's ready to throw the laptop. Or just wither and die on the spot...that's an option too. He's tired and overdue for his next pain pill and goddamn, sometimes this place is just awful.
Alternatively, he might catch a glimpse of your screen, even in spite of his best efforts not to pry. But it's really just a reading questionnaire, right? There's no harm in seeing what kind of questions they're- oh. Okay.
Training Wheels Off - (May 13 - 14) CW: burn wounds, burned bodies, claustrophobia
The Train
Jaeger has never been fond of flying, really. A train proves much more comfortable, even if it's slower, and he is still healing. Most of the bandages are off by now, but he's still just a little bit careful, a little bit tired. Three weeks is a good amount of time to heal, though, and his wounds are well on the way to becoming new scars across his chest and arm.
He's going to choose to take the time on the train to relax as best he can, to lose himself in the liminal space of travel. They're going to be on the train for a while so he may as well make the best of it.
Until things start getting weird, at least. Then he can be found on a slow patrol of the train, or standing sentry (or sitting sentry) at one of the ends of the train cars. Breaks are taken in the dining car, usually with a cup of apple juice or a bottle of water and gaze alert to the darkness beyond the windows.
At some point in the evening, after the chaos of the Tunnel Incident, Jaeger will return to his assigned sleeping car, and whoever his roommate for the trip might be. If it's someone he knows, he will be as cordial as ever...if it's someone he previously hasn't met, well, he'll still be friendly, if a bit reserved? But quick to introduce himself before stretching out his huge frame on the provided bedding with a deep sigh.
Burned Bridges
He's not hallucinating. He's pretty sure of that, and the sight of the body propped up by the tracks, contorted by intense heat into something barely human-seeming, is a strange and surreal shock after the night they've had. He's seen a lot of Weird Things In The Woods but a body always draws his attention right away. It's wired into him by now, with all the awful things he's seen, even though through the glass of a moving train car, it's oddly distant and surreal.
Until Jaeger sees the lower portion of a leg, and the whole thing snaps into focus. Untouched, unscorched, just laying there amid the charred, leathery mess of the rest of the corpse. "That's human."
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[It certainly makes communication between the two of them interesting. Jaeger is by nature very reserved, even before introducing the world of secrets his life has been based on.
Though, he's getting better about sharing some things. The fact that he's actually meeting other people who have, like him, suffered some terrible things...it sucks but it's also comforting to have that company.
The sight of Tony's scars makes Jaeger pause, fully pause, and blink slowly as he takes them in. It's hard to form a polite answer, and he's kind of doped up at the moment, so what comes out is...very matter of fact.]
Some things never heal right, once you've got them.
[A grave admission of solidarity, as he raises a hand to touch the band of scar tissue around his throat. The hospital johnny really doesn't do the job of covering it, but Tony has likely seen Jaeger in a t-shirt around the apartment anyway.]
It looks like someone tried to take your heart out with a trowel.
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Who knows.
Tony pokes at his scar a little, tracing the outline of it. It's more like a collection of scars, really, arranged in an almost perfectly circular formation right over his heart, and their individual shapes are just as unnatural and mechanical-looking. As if, indeed, someone had attempted to perform an amateur pericardiectomy on him, but rather than a trowel they'd used an industrial-sized hole punch. ]
Nah, it's not nearly that dramatic. There used to be an electromagnet here, embedded right in my chest. See where it's kind of hollow here, in the center?
[ Tony leans forward, giving Jaeger a better view of the slightly sunken area of his chest inside the circular keloid, the outline of which he's still idly tracing with his finger. ]
That's where it used to be. Prototype ran off a car battery, but I fancied it up a bit; turned it into a miniature version of the reactor that powered my factory back then. Then it was just a, a part of me. For a while. It was, uh...
[ He sits back in his chair, faltering slightly; he doesn't mind telling the Cliffnotes version of this story at all (it kills at parties) and wouldn't be volunteering the information right now if he did, but the...gory details? Not as keen on sharing those. Certainly not at parties, but they're not for the initial 'opening up to someone for the first time' conversation, either. ]
I ate some shrapnel from an explosion. Hit me square in the chest, which was bad enough, but then it was like I was my own personal doomsday clock. If it weren't for the magnet holding it back, the shrapnel would have slowly, literally ate its way into my heart.
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It's hard to be enthusiastic when you're bleeding internally, but Tony has definitely got his attention.
The whole thing sounds pretty unreal, but Jaeger has had weeks to accept that Tony is from a different world. So maybe people running on car batteries is not so strange there, though his expression is still vaguely wondering, a bit stunned at the strangeness of it all.
He nods slowly, indicating he is very much listening, even in spite of all that.]
That's still pretty dramatic.
[He drops his hand from his own scar because he hates the feel of it under his fingers, the reminder of when it was fresh and open and bleeding his life out into the grass. It's funny how he has those sudden and stark moments of sudden realization, after living with it for six years now.]
I suppose both our worlds have their own version of magic, in a way. I only survived because I was able to heal myself. Not enough, but some.
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Despite this shock to the system Tony pulls himself together quickly enough, and then reacts to Jaeger's opening words at once: he sits up in his chair, tugging his legs up off the ground and up onto the seat so he can rest his arms on his knees, and then he looks at the other guy with eyes so big and brown and expressive they look as though they'd originally been meant to be put on a doe or a puppy dog but God had fucked it up somehow.
They shine with interest. Do go on. ]
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And he perceives that interest in Tony's eyes, the watchful gaze of someone waiting for him to say more. What is there to say? It's a complicated issue, and Jaeger has already said more than he usually does.
He'll go with the middle ground, after a moment of thought.]
I had a very unpleasant falling-out with my...employers. The company that I spent my entire life a part of, going back to my father.
Mostly, I found out that they were using dark magic and murder to further their ends, that the whole organization was dedicated to preserving control and privilege for a select few elite. Most of my world doesn't believe in magic. That makes those who have it even more powerful.
And they don't take kindly to their people trying to leave, especially with so many secrets at stake.