sevenhorrors | (no subject)

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(no subject)

Who: whoever
When: August 16th
Where: wherever
What: whatever you're up to
Warnings: probably things

[there's still hauntings and places still to explore, after all...]

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I was presumed dead, so... I couldn't use... that face.

... one was a bounty hunter.

Another was a millionaire tycoon.

And another was a wandering magician...

Do you have any that don't sound like someone famous?

... there was the time I had a face for a volunteer service for a few months...

[when the people at the hospital got unnerved about the bounty hunter face doing the volunteering.]

But you don't use it anymore? I mean, I guess if you can turn into anyone, why not a millionaire assassin spy.

[opens his mouth to object he wasn't an assassin--and then shuts it because, actually, technically, Gehrman Sparrow did, in fact, do a fair few assassinations...]

Well. It's really more... the face that I'd rather have back most beyond this one... it looks the most like how I... used to look.

Even if that face has a reputation...

[...she wants to poke his face again...]

It doesn't have a reputation here.

[... allows poking...]

No, I know that... but it's a very different face from this one, still.

Oh yeah, you said you were from China... Can you draw it?

I... guess?

Can I see it?

I'd need some paper and pen.

How about chalk?

[pulling like three packs of chalk out of her pockets, WHAT COLOR DO YOU WANT]

Edited 2025-08-18 14:42 (UTC)

[... he's going to take a blue if she's got one just 'cause.

it's actually kind of tricky to really draw features with chalk but he does his best to make a sensible enough portrait of a man with a bit more asian features than his current face, except more angular and harsh. this is not a face that smiles a lot.]

Oh! Handsome.

[looks at the sketch.]

I'll admit. I was a lot less fit in China. But good food and sedentary lifestyle of a software engineer is a bit like that.

Do you just make yourself muscles now?

A bit of height...

People are just taller in Loen.

[laughs]

Cheater!

Anyone would do the same if they could!

It's still cheating if you're the only one who can! I have to go to the gym and everything!

Well. There is one massive trade-off.

Speaking of which, I'd like to ask a favor of you, if you don't mind? You can say no and I'll take it with good grace.

A favor for your face? Sure??

It's a bit of a long-term favor. But it does involve this face.

[taps the chalk portrait.]

I'm not completely certain it'll work, but... I have a theory about how I can potentially calm or even reverse any signs of my losing control. You wouldn't have to fight. Or directly engage. Just go somewhere safe, and say a six lined prayer with a request.

Edited 2025-08-20 02:25 (UTC)

[raises her hand like she's in school ROCKETS IT RIGHT UP I VOLUNTEER]

I'll do it!

Edited 2025-08-20 02:26 (UTC)

[surprised? but also just laughing.]

That easy?