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Steven 'Sharpteeth' Durante ([personal profile] fingersandteeth) wrote2022-02-21 05:11 pm
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VICTORY ROAD: IC INBOX

This is Steven. Leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
asmywitness: (the fuck did you sign bitch)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-03-25 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's no response for a few minutes. Because Tyler is just raging, and kicking over a trash can IRL and then getting in trouble for it and having to clean it up.

He's still mad when he gets back.]


Are you fucking serious, I have work tomorrow and it's a fucking two-week hike back to Goldenrod!!
asmywitness: (what the hell is that)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-03-27 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've got my card. [He's gonna charge Team Rocket out the ass for this shit.] I'm crossing two routes and a city to get there, I'll get them three. Keep them off my ass twice over, cover my bases sort of bullshit.

I'm actually pretty close to Olivine, aren't I? I might as well stop in there for the night, register with the warp there. Because why the fuck not.


[The next text comes about a minute later.]

You're teaching me how to use the shit you gave me when I get back.
asmywitness: (the fuck did you sign bitch)

feel free to switch to prose whenever

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No, yeah. That makes sense.

Ugh. Fine. Ecruteak to Olivine and back it is.


[It's a very uneventful eight days of travel, at least. Tyler texts Steven on and off for some random conversations and a few photos of Pokemon he's seen, or caught (the Hawlucha, however, remains an undocumented surprise until he gets back), but eventually he's finally back in Goldenrod; and luckily he stayed in a relatively decent hotel the night before, so he got a decent night's rest, before he comes back to dump the Pokemon he doesn't care about with the Rockets, and find Steven again.]
asmywitness: (how do i say this without swearing)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-02 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
He's more nervous than he'd like to admit about this - honestly, he feels like he's more anxious about this than he was about killing his boyfriend's doppelganger, is that fucked up or what - but he has an excellently stoic face about it, as he reads Steven's text, before watching him carefully. He makes it look so easy.

He nods, as Steven passes the blunt, and there's a moment's genuine hesitation before he finally puts it between his lips and takes a deep, slow breath.

And then starts coughing, because he gagged and panicked, making Isis jump off his shoulder in surprise.
asmywitness: (oh this is v interesting)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
The coughing passes quickly, at least, but he can feel a bit of colour burning his cheeks.

He glances down at his gear to read the text; then nods, looking a bit more determined this time. Now it's a challenge.

At least now he's fucked it up once, so he's less nervous when he takes the second attempt; so he doesn't cough when he feels the smoke enter his lungs properly, even if it still tickles a bit.
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[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
He picks up his gear while Steven takes his puff. Two hits and you're already letting the claws out.

He's honestly kind of curious if he'll be like that. He's got no idea whatsoever what to expect, or even what this is meant to feel like.
asmywitness: (are you talking to me)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
He takes another deep breath of the joint as he stares at his phone thoughtfully.

I mean, I guess so. It's just. Weird, I guess. To think about how LITTLE everyone means here.

He passes it back when he hits send.
asmywitness: (i am the night)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Tyler is very good at schooling his expression; reading things always has a bit of a delay in registering, even now, so it's easy to look impassive.

I am so good at disinvesting, don't worry. I had to disinvest in my fucking boyfriend for a few years so I'd stop feeling bad about killing him.

Instead he'd started resenting him. He's thinking about that, rather than focusing on maybe not spilling that shit, when he hits send.
asmywitness: (ok boomer)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
There's a lot here to dissect. And right now he's not sure how.

Oh don't worry, I never really cared about people to begin with. Remember the part where I spent my whole life with people acting like I'm an idiot or an underdeveloped CHILD. The only people I ever cared about were my family, my boyfriend and the friends he introduced me to.

So like. It's not hard for me to not give a shit about random people I've never met. It's really not. I know for a fact that I don't give a shit when they die now.


It's not like causing a car accident didn't have collateral damage. But he'd been so caught up in trying to kill Nick's Fetch that he hadn't cared. He takes the joint back from Steven then and takes another puff.

I don't care if people lie. Everyone's an asshole anyway so why should I care what they say?

And as he exhales, blowing the remnants of smoke back out, he mutters something quietly under his breath, quiet enough that Steven might not catch the words - especially since it's not in English.
Edited 2020-04-03 06:16 (UTC)
asmywitness: (oh this is v interesting)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Tyler takes his gear, and the joint back from Steven, so he can lean back on the couch and read the next message. And holds the roll-up between his lips while he types with both hands. It's worth noting that his typing speed had slowed significantly since he started smoking.

I only care about yours in how you keep trying to make it my problem. With all the acting like I'm your sister or some shit. I don't have a very high capacity to give a shit about people anymore when I can just kill them without them ever realising it was me. It's a fucking

He pauses mid text with a light frown, passes the joint back to Steven and glances away so he can toy vaguely with his hands, trying to find the right word in his sign. And when that fails, he mutters under his breath again; that seems to do the trick, as he gives a slight nod at that.

tragedy. Like we're SUPPOSED to care about people and now I just can't. At all. I hate it.
Edited 2020-04-03 08:17 (UTC)
asmywitness: (i am the night)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-03 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
He looks faintly annoyed in the face of Steven's scrutiny. Or rather, he's giving his phone an annoyed look, and hasn't actually noticed Steven staring.

I don't WANT to not care about people. Like at least I had people I used to care about before, but now I can't even pretend to like my family. He scowls as he types. Especially since they took that fucking fake in and let it be happy there while I was suffering in hell. It got to have a boyfriend and a meaningful existence, while I spent every goddamn hour I can remember writing stories to make mine fuck his best friend and murder my ex in the most brutal ways I can fucking think of.
asmywitness: (are you shitting me)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-06 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Tyler just mutters something disparaging, loud enough this time that Steven will definitely be able to catch it; or at least, the sardonic tone. The language isn't anything on Earth - but it's still horribly familiar.

I was never like you before my Durance, I actually did genuinely care about people. Lots of them. I had so many little siblings I had to look after, I fucking loved them. I had a huge extended family, I had a boyfriend and friends that I LIKED. I've been out of the hedge for four months, I've killed two people and I thought

He pauses there (hits send, by accident), and leans over to take the joint back again so he can do a quick hit before he continues.

I don't know, I thought that maybe getting rid of them would get me something back that I lost. All it did was make me realise that I didn't CARE about anyone who showed up at that fucking funeral. And when they saw my dead Fetch, I didn't care about them screaming about it. I was only worried about not getting caught.
asmywitness: (i am the night)

[personal profile] asmywitness 2020-04-10 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
He stares at the message for a while. Not just because it's long and thus a bit difficult to parse while he is definitely now high; he's only focusing on the last three paragraphs.

He just. Hates what they're saying.

You say accepting it like it's easy to just. Reconcile the fact that anyone I ever used to care about means less than nothing to me now. I escaped with one of my friends and I just. I can't bring myself to care that she's freaking out about being replaced. I tried and I TRIED to give her a shoulder to cry on but it never felt REAL.

He leans forward to prop his elbows on his thighs, lifts a hand to run his fingers through his hair, tightening his grip until his entire body tenses, his knuckles are white and his scalp stings like he's trying to punish himself for not caring. He takes the blunt back and it's looking very sorry as he puts it between his lips for another puff, and holds the smoke in there as he types again.

Why do you think I went after my boyfriend's Fetch to begin with. I thought maybe if I found It I'd FEEL something for Him again, and I got angry but it was wrong, it wasn't angry that I missed him, it was angry that It got to be happy and *I* didn't. So I thought maybe if MY Fetch feels something I might too. You know? So I made It walk into oncoming traffic and - Tyler's shoulders hitch slightly, and a faint noise escapes him - that might be recognisable as a sardonic little snigger - the guy that hit It was going so fast he swerved and T-boned a street light. I was there to watch the whole thing to make sure it went off without a hitch and I just didn't CARE. Not that I killed some random innocent person, or that I killed someone who looks just like my boyfriend, there was just.

Nothing.

So I went to the funeral and I could FEEL all of my family's emotions, everyone was so fucking sad and angry and they all cared SO MUCH and I DIDN'T. Even when my own Fetch saw me and tried to lay me out and I ran off and jumped over the fucking fence.


He takes out the dead stub of the blunt and flicks it onto the table, breathing out slowly.

My Fetch wasn't as fucking graceful as me. I made sure of it. It was like some tacky Christian symbolism, seeing my own fucking corpse impaled on a goddamn church fence. And like. I SAW my parents in the funeral. They looked like Nick dying almost broke them. I wonder what seeing their son did, because. I know what it's SUPPOSED to feel like, I can imagine that, I could write the most fucking tragic story about someone ELSE feeling that, but I can't fucking FEEL it for myself.

Jesus Christ. I killed my parents' son and I didn't feel a thing.


He lifts one hand and pinches the bridge of his nose. He knows he should be crying and he isn't. He's a fucking monster.

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