sacredashes: (✝ for so long my life's been sewn up)
ASCH ✝ THE BLOODY ([personal profile] sacredashes) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2025-03-10 02:16 pm

closed; it doesn't get easier the further i run

WHO: Luke, Zelos, Asch, and Belle
WHERE: Random Play (Belle's video rental store)
WHEN: Early March
WHAT: Luke realizes that the weird guy he met once is not a stranger, and Belle & Zelos realize Luke has a twin.
WARNINGS: Possible talk of child abuse, maybe-murder, infidelity, swearing... Wilder Sr. was a piece of WORK.

[action;]

[With Luke on the network, that might necessitate a change of plans. Yes he took this job so he could look over the deteriorating situation in Kaisou, but the real reason was because he found out Luke was attending college here and he wanted to keep an eye on his long-lost brother. Of course, he never spoke a word of this to Nephrite, but he found out anyway. Asch is fairly predictable as far as motives go.

More importantly—he has other family here, too. But he isn't sure how to approach them, and he's not sure he even wants to. His mother's family was... nonexistent, or so distant as to not care, abandoning a single mother at the first opportunity. His father's family... well, if they were anything like him, Asch sure as hell didn't want anything to do with them.

But Random Play flashes its neon retro lights at him friendly-like, twinkling like an arcade star in a dark velvet galaxy of gray, and he finds himself drawn to it once again. The first time he'd only showed up for a few minutes and quickly hurried away when he saw movement. This time he stays longer, arms folded as he looks at the old movie posters taped up in the windows.

What if he did go in? What would happen?

He turns away after a moment and sighs, slipping his hands into the pockets of his long dark coat. He should do something productive with his time, like finding a proper place to stay. Chasing ghosts never gets anyone anywhere.]
wilder: (past is never forgotten)

1/2; TW human experimentation, dead bodies

[personal profile] wilder 2025-03-12 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[A cult that performed illegal experiments.... particularly on children. That's a heavy story for anyone to hear. One that leave anyone normal aghast, but Zelos gives a much more subdue reaction, eyes looking far away for a moment.

Content Warning ahead for a flashback involving a bodyThe cottage was completely falling apart from years of neglect, cobwebs and dust were everywhere. But what stood out most was the smell, the smell of death and decay that came from the bed. The girl, who looked no older than a preteen, continued her tasks with zero awareness of the state of her home... or that the person in the bed had long since passed away and left to rot.

A unique form of hell created all because someone's desire to create a Cruxis Crystal. It was the first time Zelos got to really see the evil that went into creating such things, and it wasn't the last.... it never got easier.

He blinks and pulls himself out of that memory. It's been awhile since that particular nightmare surfaced. Subconsciously, Zelos tugged on the collar of his shirt, as if to make sure the gem on his chest was covered up.

Hearing a group like Krusnik exists in this world... seems his choice to keep his mouth shut about his crystal as much as possible was the right call. There's always monsters among men that'll exploit the vulnerable for their own gains.

And to think one of their long lost siblings suffered at some such monsters...]
Edited 2025-03-12 13:06 (UTC)