SCAWWY 😱 totty

[concoctive]

Carnations, the flower of many colors. Each color of carnation flower has a separate, definitive meaning. A pale red denotes admiration and the idea that “my heart aches for you,” while dark red conveys feelings of deep love and affection. Pink carnation flower meanings include gratitude and the concept of never forgetting someone. In herbal medicine, carnation is used for treating nervous and coronary disorders. Carnations contain substances that calm the nervous system and reduce inflammation and swelling.

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wknd 0; saturday

[concoctive]

[ we are in the church currently, and alfyn stands squinting at the runes when not occasionally warily squinting at the stain glass. but he still tries to see if there's anything familiar about the writing, or this place overall. it's not like any church he's seen before, after all...

and then the phantom bell gongs above them, and he jumps, swearing. ]

Gods! What the hell!? [ clutches his heart like the old man meme ] Is there somebody up there?

[drymonster]

[ todomatsu also jumps, though it's much less of a reaction than he would have had if it were still dark out. ]

If not, they might have it on some kind of timer or something.

[ glances up at the ceiling, looking annoyed. ]

Either way, that thing's way too loud.

w0, tuesday

[drymonster]

[ well happy national fucking leech day, i guess todomatsu's ready to get torched. this is, unfortunately, far from the worst thing that's ever physically happened to him, but trauma-wise, it's pretty far up there!!!!

once alfyn is looking at him up close, he'll see some of that inky writing in a couple of spots on his back, maybe mildly obscured by leeches: the dark, and being alone at night, and being humiliated. (and dying a virgin again, but let's ignore that one.) ]

[concoctive]

[ the frown that pulls on his mouth is sympathetic, worried, and deeply pensive - not only for the leeches, but also for the writing that he sees inked across todomatsu's skin. his right now is saving him, but also not being able to save her, not being enough and not doing enough alternating.

he's not paying too much attention to it right now, as he sets down the bits of wood he collected from the broken benches alongside his satchel, flipping it open and taking out a mortar and pestle. ]

So, you're not gonna feel a single sting of pain as long as you stay still, alright? You don't gotta be all tense and not breathe, but just no extra movement. You'll definitely feel the warmth off the fire, it's just not gonna be the whole damn torch up close and personal.

[ a little bit of water from a mason jar goes into the mortar, followed by a velvety soft looking leaf from his flower crown that he pulls out, and some small white flowers clustered like a cloud. it gets left there for a minute as he burns the end of one of the pieces of wood on the torch first. ]

I can't put a bandage around your neck, since that could be dangerous for you if you get into trouble, but I'm gonna make a salve to put on all the spots that should help keep them from getting infected and will stop the bleeding.

wk 0; friday

[concoctive]

[ we'll do the refectory, since it's a stone's throw from the theater where they just were and is one of the least creepy places (comparably). he's still got his axe out instead of snapping it into the loop on the back of his belt, even though they're indoors and there's probably? not anything that's going to jump out at them here.

he does seem to position himself closer to the doors in comparison to todomatsu, like he's putting himself between possible threats after the discovery of aventurine this morning.

but he does scrub his face with his free hand for a moment, sweeping it through the bedhead of his spiked hair. ]

Not sure if any of us are gonna wanna stay over in the theater after this. Gods.

[drymonster]

[ ugh. yeah. he's just going to sit down at a table and stare at the ceiling. ]

Yeah, no offense to three out of the four of you guys, but I am so done with that place.

wk 0; sunday

[concoctive]

[ seated at the bar of the winery is alfyn! he's got a drink, yes, but it's only maybe had a few drinks taken from it as he sits there with a spread of herbs and a mason jar on the other side from the drink. he's absently grinding herbs with a mortar and pestle until he gets it to the consistency and color that he wants.

he just looks frustrated as he works, and even with his ponytail there's clearly ink that yells losing more people across the back of his neck. but when he hears steps coming down the stairs into the basement, he lifts his head up and looks to see who it is.

seeing todomatsu, he offers a wan, tired smile. ]

... come to take a load off?

[drymonster]

[ ah... yeah, hard to miss that. ]

Yeah, something like that.

[ he'll pour himself a glass and look at everything that's laid out on the counter. ]

Making medicines, huh? Is that all from the cult's garden?

wk 1; friday

[concoctive]

[ i don't even know where the fuck they are but alfyn won't really hide from totty or geto during all of this, so the moment he sees him he just.

heads over, slumping down next to him so his arm leans into todomatsu's shoulder. his eyes are red-rimmed just like they were yesterday, but fresh, now, and he is so deeply unhappy. ]

... just when I thought the week couldn't get worse.

[drymonster]

[ leans back against him... thanks affection week. ]

Yeah, no kidding.

[ AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST 1.5 SECONDS WHEN HE SAW KARMA'S POSTER BEFORE HE SAW THE OTHER TWO... :pensive:

he's actually surprised himself with how upset he feels about pickles; before yesterday, he doesn't think he would have cared much at all, aside from thinking it was kind of fucked to murder a dog. but after being screwed over and shunned by everyone for almost two months — even if it didn't really happen — it had meant a lot to have pickles so firmly on his side after they reunited. ]

Man. I offered to let him stay with us last night, but he wanted to go back to the haunted house. Because it was his home.

[ which, like... he kind of gets after how much time he spent camping out in his own house. but damn. ]

Might not have made any difference anyway, but...

[ still feels bad!!! ]

w1, sunday

[drymonster]

[ sitting by the pyre sometime after execution with a pear he brought over from AC island, looking tired as hell. ]

Can't believe we're supposed to have another month and a half of this.

[concoctive]

[ he comes to sit with him, apple in hand and slumping back into the bench to stare into the pyre. slowly, he twists the stem out, almost in a consistent rhythm, like counting or reciting the alphabet, until it pops off.

and he just throws it into the fire like it makes anyone feel better. ]

Think we kinda have a skewed idea of time, now. [ a day spanning months, and all that. ] But it feels like it's already been two months of this.

wk 2; tuesday

[concoctive]

[ alfyn is heading into the side rooms out of curiosity, because - well, investigate the areas that you're saddled with, and all that. when he sees totty, thinking it's lucas, he raises his hand up in greeting -

and then, they get slam dunked by memshare time. he looks less than thrilled about this as it starts to happen, the scabbed cut across his own left eye pinching as his expression tightens. NOT AGAIN... ]

[drymonster]

[ ...yeah, he is pretty gullible. todomatsu can't imagine what that's like, choosing to see the best in people and believing what they tell you in spite of evidence and testimonials to the contrary. ] Mm... Most people don't change that easily, I think. [ as a gag anime character, it would be hard to think otherwise. ]

w2, saturday

[drymonster]

[ maybe we're at the refectory again, idk. wherever it is todomatsu's just slumping down tiredly. ]

How the hell did so much happen in one week and why was it all terrible.

[concoctive]

[ alfyn puts his face down on the counter if we're at the refectory, tbh. his voice comes out muffled, as he kicks his feet a little, trying to chip off drying swamp mud from his boots with his heel. ]

Was already bad, but from the moment we saw that damned tree to this point it's just been gettin' worse.

wk 3; monday

[concoctive]

[ we're in the creepy aspen and dogwood forest because i want totty to SUFFER with weird trees. i could make him go through the spiders but maybe later.

alfyn pokes around the aspens, using his axe to shave off some of the bark and taking a few leaves as well to be stored for medicinal uses. he's also got the axe out in case he needs to lop anything in half, considering. ]

... I dunno how long we ought to really stick around places with weird trees, to be honest with you. [ this is the wryest joke in the world, as he eyeballs the dogwood from a distance. he has not spotted the fucking PERSON inside of it yet. ] Not as much of a fan as I might've been before gettin' here.

[ and then he turns back to the aspen he's fiddling with and lets out a gah! when an eyeball is right there, judging him. ]

Aelfric's saggy nutsack!

[drymonster]

[ well the w1 tree trauma starts coming and it don't stop coming... ]

No, I'm with you, I am so over trees right now. [ glances down at the matsu pine emblem on his hoodie and is reminded that his name is basically fir-tree pinefield. ] Well. Non-pine trees, any—

[ AND THEN HE'S CUT OFF BY A VERY COLORFUL INTERJECTION and jumps, whipping around to see what's going on. ]

Whoa, whoa! What happened?

w3, sunday

[drymonster]

[ back at the theater... just think though soon we'll have our own housing post and will never have to turn in pcs with each other again ]

Hey. Working on setting up the clinic?

[concoctive]

[ actually. actually, that's true. that's so funny.

alfyn looks up from where he's... moving benches! he's gotten rid of any that were too broken to salvage, so he's trying to figure out a layout for the remaining ones. ]

Tryin' to, at least. Figure the space might as well go used if none of us are livin' in the thing.

wk 4; sunday

[concoctive]

[ here comes alfyn, after making sure camille isn't going to fucking die. totty gets to see him dragging one of the cots from the infirmary back with him, a deep frown on his face. he's mostly able to carry it without effort, it's just that it's a little long, so the bottom back corner draws a line in the ground that bumps every now and then. ]

... had a feelin' we'd be losin' Karlach. Just didn't think it'd be so soon.

[ said when he spots totty, before he hefts the cot up a bit more to adjust the balance so it'll drag less. ]

[drymonster]

[ waves... he looks kind of tired and sick. maybe a hangover? who knows. it's fine. ]

Yeah... I think it was probably better than dragging it out, though. Getting it over with as soon as she's herself again and can make her own choice.

[ better than what camille got. ]

w5, monday

[drymonster]

[ todomatsu has already gathered so many clothes here in the pavilion that he has to awkwardly shift them over to one arm to give alfyn a one-armed involuntary hug when he sees him.

still kind of embarrassing but he doesn't feel obligated to apologize for the personal space invasion in this case, at least. ]

Make sure you grab plenty of clothes this week, even if you don't care that much about variety! No repeating the mistakes of a few weeks ago, who knows if we'll ever see another store again after this.

[concoctive]

[ good news is that alfyn is still just as tactile as always, and returns the one-armed hug with one of his own - but hums, when he pulls back, offering both hands out and gesturing at his haul so far. ]

Here, gimme some of that, since you've got so dang much goin' on here. [ huffing a soft, amused noise. ] To be honest with you, I'm not that fashion-forward thinknin'. What I've got has all kinda been the same thing over and over.

w5, saturday

[drymonster]

[ you tell me where we are but he'll come find alfyn sometime after trial ]

Hey. How are you feeling?

[ after the big daddy debacle... ]

[concoctive]

[ probably in the tea garden tbh. he's sitting there looking... pale, actually. pale, sweaty, and like he has some shakes. :haggard: ]

... I'd say worse if I didn't figure I fractured somethin' when we got bumrushed.

w6, monday

[drymonster]

[ well he hasn't seen the laboratory yet so thus far this place really does just seem kind of quaint and nice. he's plucking some grapes from a vine near the border of the vineyard for a nice healthy snack and waves. ]

Hey.

Kind of sad to say goodbye to some of those places from last week, but it's also nice to have legitimately fresh air that hasn't been filtered through a deep sea ventilation system again.

[concoctive]

[ he seems right at home in this quaint little place, to be honest, walking around barefoot like a hick and filling one of the wicker baskets from the academy with bunches of grapes. ]

Yeah, and nothin' foggy. Place is real nice, kinda cozy - reminds me a little bit of my hometown, but a little hotter. Wish I could make some of my concoctions out of the grapes, but it's good to eat 'em at least.

wk 6; fri

[concoctive]

[ well, it'll take a while, but alfyn can be found in the depths of the vineyard because it's so vast and quiet that he'll be able to just.

cry in peace for a while.

so that's how he's found, just. openly weeping, breath hitching and shoulders shaking and all. ]

[drymonster]

[ oh no todomatsu is not good enough with emotions for this. but he did come out here with the intention of finding alfyn to check on him, and it would look pretty bad if he panicked at the thought of dealing with feelings and just turned around and left.

so he just kind of hovers at a distance for a while before finally coming closer and speaking up softly. ]

Hey. Sorry.

wk 7; endgame

[concoctive]

[ hi totty. once the dust has settled and alfyn has healed, he's just going to come join him, whether he's seated or standing off in the void of post-god destroying. he's got two smoothies with him. one of them is green, the other... pink.

he offers the pink one to totty. ]

Good job completely' destroyin' that thing. Felt like the final blow.

[drymonster]

[ definitely sitting, he's sooo tired. he perks up at the smoothie, though. ]

Oh, thanks!

[ strawberry and peach are his favorite flavors, so he thinks he can be pretty confident from the color alone that this will be good.

god, this is the first thing he's had to eat or drink all day besides that bottle of water earlier, isn't it? ]

Yeah, not gonna lie, it felt pretty good.