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anomaly 012 . a demotion
CONTENT WARNINGS for violence, abuse, suicidal thoughts, catatonic freakout, blood, demotion, idefk just CONTENT WARNINGS
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[ When he runs, he runs to the CES. Fleeing up the stairway, taking them three at a time, panicking, panicking. He hurt someone, he hurt someone badly, and the whole of the ship presses in on him, traps him, corners him like a hunted rabbit. He slams out onto the deck, leaving smears of blood on the door, from his hands, his bloodied hands.
When he gets to the CES, the door won't open.
The compass, his warden item, doesn't do anything. The needle spins idly. There's no response. There's nothing. It won't let him in.
Stephen slams a hand against the door, leaving another imprint, drying and sticky. Vex's blood. His blood. His hands hurt. Something might be broken. He's broken.
Stephen slides down to the ground, tense and panting, almost hyperventilating. He needs to get out. He needs to get out. ]
[ ooc note: Stephen has been demoted because of reasons. I'm okay with multiple people tagging in (timey wimey, etc). He will be potentially violent if anyone touches him, but he's not really a combat character, and anyone well-trained should be able to subdue him. Alternatively, he can probably be talked down. ]
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[ He cleans himself up at the remaining sink, and curls up on the bed, pulling an unnecessary, heavy blanket over himself. All of what's happened seems too enormous to really grasp, so he doesn't try. He stares blankly. Eventually, he goes and eats something from the fridge, which appears to have lingered where the shower went away. And then he curls back up. ]
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[ When he runs, he runs to the CES. Fleeing up the stairway, taking them three at a time, panicking, panicking. He hurt someone, he hurt someone badly, and the whole of the ship presses in on him, traps him, corners him like a hunted rabbit. He slams out onto the deck, leaving smears of blood on the door, from his hands, his bloodied hands.
When he gets to the CES, the door won't open.
The compass, his warden item, doesn't do anything. The needle spins idly. There's no response. There's nothing. It won't let him in.
Stephen slams a hand against the door, leaving another imprint, drying and sticky. Vex's blood. His blood. His hands hurt. Something might be broken. He's broken.
Stephen slides down to the ground, tense and panting, almost hyperventilating. He needs to get out. He needs to get out. ]
[ ooc note: Stephen has been demoted because of reasons. I'm okay with multiple people tagging in (timey wimey, etc). He will be potentially violent if anyone touches him, but he's not really a combat character, and anyone well-trained should be able to subdue him. Alternatively, he can probably be talked down. ]
[ cabin spam, later ]
[ He cleans himself up at the remaining sink, and curls up on the bed, pulling an unnecessary, heavy blanket over himself. All of what's happened seems too enormous to really grasp, so he doesn't try. He stares blankly. Eventually, he goes and eats something from the fridge, which appears to have lingered where the shower went away. And then he curls back up. ]
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Don't - don't touch me.
[ He doesn't want anyone to touch him. He doesn't even want to be touching himself.
A particularly vicious sob/spasm makes him shake with his hands in fists. His right hand is bleeding from the glass in his palm.
But after that he gets to his feet, ready or not. ]
What - what's there to tell? I hurt him. Then - I - kept hurting him. Didn't stop.
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You hurt Vex? What did he do?
[Because Stephen is a good person. He wouldn't just hurt him for no reason.
Now that he's standing, though, and Lydia can take a better look at him she notices the healing bite marks on his throat, eyes widening slightly when she does, but she says nothing.]
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Although he addresses Lydia first:] He did - beat him up pretty badly, but he's in the infirmary now.
What I don't know is what started it. [Said more to Stephen now.] Something must have started it. [Because he's with Lydia. He doesn't believe Stephen did this unprovoked, even if it doesn't make things right.]
And you did stop - he's not dead.
[So that's something.]
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[ He doesn't want to talk about it, and doesn't want to be touched, and doesn't want any of this to be happening. He won't look at Lydia, and barely looks at Steve. ]
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Lydia focuses on Steve, since he's the only one actually looking at her.]
Maybe we should take him to his Cabin. Ask Jack to come by and look at his hands. [And considering the bite marks, at least in his cabin, no one will yell at her if she wants to add a Mountain Ash barrier outside his room.]
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Yeah.
[He glances to Stephen - still not touching him, but indicating that if Stephen starts moving, Steve will follow.] Let's get you back to your cabin.
[Maybe he'll feel comfortable enough there to talk.]