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patheticvillain) wrote2013-10-28 10:49 pm
patheticvillain) wrote2013-10-28 10:49 pm
Entry tags:
- a series of unfortunate bodyhorrors,
- all that & a bag of chips,
- art metaphors,
- bird metaphors,
- cassel loves film noir,
- cat metaphors,
- daneca did have some influence,
- harvey douchebag i mean dent,
- king of poor life choices,
- lila who?,
- matricide for fun & profit,
- metaphors!!,
- show me how to lie,
- what if instead of that,
- you're getting better all the time
twenty-six ➢ spam + private + public
deck spam } open
[It has been said in the past that Cassel walks like a leopard dressed up as a house cat. This is still - very applicable. It's just that he uses his claws more these days and cleans them less, and he only really makes an effort to seem nice when he wants something he can't get with threats or bribes.]
[He doesn't care about the deck, but he does spend a decent amount of time on deck even now, even with everyone milling around like assholes trying to claw their way to the top of the mountain. He has a plan. He will be living like a king regardless, when this place falls apart; it's just a matter of pressing the right buttons and getting certain stubborn assholes graduated before the end goes from nigh to right now.]
[When he isn't committing violent acts of overwrought and symbolic discipline, he arranges a folding deck chair by the starboard rail and occupies himself with one of two equally important tasks. First, mending holes in his gloves - the less-than-deliberate ones; there's a small hole in the forefinger of his left and the ring finger of his right that were arranged on purpose, bless Shandra's rotting heart. Second, sketching. He possesses a honed fascination with the human form, what it can become, how far it can be stretched - literally - before bones break. Before the psyche does. Here, he's been working on his pencil drawings for years. They're horrific. Some of them are probably familiar.]
private } anya
[Voice, to start with, sounding tired and a touch disappointed; he understands, he truly does, how humiliating it can be when your inmate doesn't do what you want them to. And he does love Anya in his way. She's calculating and dangerous and desperately important to him. He wants her to succeed in the way that he has, here; wants her to bring someone else as far as she's come.]
[And he knows, too, that she cares for Dean. Sort of. It's all very complicated. She's Anya, after all.]
Chances are you've got some things to get off your chest today, little sister. Why haven't you come to me already?
spam } harvey
[Justice is a sham.]
[Which makes Cassel wonder sometimes if he and the Admiral would actually kind of get along. Pairing him and Harvey was a master stroke. If anyone's going to teach this stubborn piece of shit to let go of his convictions, it's absolutely the kid who was indiscriminately beaten down by the justice system and then turned on his heel and ripped it to shreds.]
[This does not, of course, mean that Cassel's job has been easy thus far. With the appearance of the door, things have gotten harder. Some bullshit's floating around about nonviolent resistance, and even if he wasn't positive that shit had trickled out of Harvey's mouth by dint of knowing him excruciatingly well, he'd have verified with - god, any number of people. Loose lips all over this ship.]
[He's brought shaving equipment. Harvey doesn't get knives. Not until he's ready. Not until it's right. He knocks on the door with the handle of the straight razor, the cool metal bleeding through the hole in his glove.]
Open up. Time to get pretty.
public } video
[For those who are old hat on this Barge, this display is nothing new. Cassel did it a couple of times with Anya - a whole lot more with Harvey. He's taken time after the blowback to collect himself, to grind his teeth until the pain flies off his face, to shake it off and push his hair back and adjust the cuffs of his gloves. He looks long-suffering, though bright-eyed.]
I realize we're all really excited about the door, but I still happen to have a job to do here, so - well. You all know how this goes.
[There's a cage approximately mid-deck, on a stand as tall as a podium, with a flat shelf. Something shifts inside it, then goes still.]
[Cassel turns the communicator towards the cage and zooms in. It's Harvey - this much is obvious from small details. The teeth, in particular, Cassel has let stay, protruding from a beaklike protrusion in the center of his face; they're acid-stained and shrunken slightly, left as an affectionate gesture for Ben and Anya, who will appreciate. One of the eyes is also the same, some pained part of Harvey's soul shining through. Tear ducts have been carefully left in on that side. The other eye is beady and black, like a rat's or a sparrow's.]
[He is roughly the size of a football, though not the same shape. His head is disproportionately large, to throw him off-balance. One side of his body is a patchwork of flesh and black fur, a vestigial arm with fully-functional fingers flexing helplessly, along with something that may once have been a leg, or not. The other side is unkempt white feathers, bereft of human limbs but sporting a single dovelike wing.]
[The camera shifts back to Cassel, then pans out to display the both of them. He gestures widely at the cage, a put-upon Vanna White.]
As usual, if you have any grievances to air with Harvey Dent, this would be an excellent time to do so. If you have any frustrations you'd like to take out on, you know, whoever, knock yourself out. He'll be on deck for eighteen hours.
Just restrain yourselves from killing him, if you can help it. I know it's trying.
spam, forward dated to wednesday 10/30 } chris & slevin
[It was surprisingly difficult to get Slevin out of commission for long enough to lock him up in Chris's room. Generally learned helplessness does wonders for the guy, but by all appearances Slevin seems to think he's from somewhere else and is thus obnoxiously infused with - well, not hope. Just pissiness.]
[In the end, a blunt object to the back of the head worked fine. But it was messy and lacking in style. Cassel disapproves.]
[Anyway: he's chained to a chair in Chris's room now, slowly but surely regaining consciousness. Cassel, with a sluggishly-bleeding laceration above his eye, is rifling through some notes. College-ruled, wrinkled from frequent consideration, but in meticulous handwriting. There's a certain amount of care here, pride in his work.]
[He waves his hand, exasperated.]
I don't know, I think your boy's gone insane. Legitimately off the wall crazy, as if there's any point in fighting it at all. It doesn't change much as far as tactics, but, I mean. This might take longer than expected.
[He taps his lip.] Could always take it one limb at a time. If it's gonna have to be slow anyway - it might as well be artful as well as effective.
[It has been said in the past that Cassel walks like a leopard dressed up as a house cat. This is still - very applicable. It's just that he uses his claws more these days and cleans them less, and he only really makes an effort to seem nice when he wants something he can't get with threats or bribes.]
[He doesn't care about the deck, but he does spend a decent amount of time on deck even now, even with everyone milling around like assholes trying to claw their way to the top of the mountain. He has a plan. He will be living like a king regardless, when this place falls apart; it's just a matter of pressing the right buttons and getting certain stubborn assholes graduated before the end goes from nigh to right now.]
[When he isn't committing violent acts of overwrought and symbolic discipline, he arranges a folding deck chair by the starboard rail and occupies himself with one of two equally important tasks. First, mending holes in his gloves - the less-than-deliberate ones; there's a small hole in the forefinger of his left and the ring finger of his right that were arranged on purpose, bless Shandra's rotting heart. Second, sketching. He possesses a honed fascination with the human form, what it can become, how far it can be stretched - literally - before bones break. Before the psyche does. Here, he's been working on his pencil drawings for years. They're horrific. Some of them are probably familiar.]
private } anya
[Voice, to start with, sounding tired and a touch disappointed; he understands, he truly does, how humiliating it can be when your inmate doesn't do what you want them to. And he does love Anya in his way. She's calculating and dangerous and desperately important to him. He wants her to succeed in the way that he has, here; wants her to bring someone else as far as she's come.]
[And he knows, too, that she cares for Dean. Sort of. It's all very complicated. She's Anya, after all.]
Chances are you've got some things to get off your chest today, little sister. Why haven't you come to me already?
spam } harvey
[Justice is a sham.]
[Which makes Cassel wonder sometimes if he and the Admiral would actually kind of get along. Pairing him and Harvey was a master stroke. If anyone's going to teach this stubborn piece of shit to let go of his convictions, it's absolutely the kid who was indiscriminately beaten down by the justice system and then turned on his heel and ripped it to shreds.]
[This does not, of course, mean that Cassel's job has been easy thus far. With the appearance of the door, things have gotten harder. Some bullshit's floating around about nonviolent resistance, and even if he wasn't positive that shit had trickled out of Harvey's mouth by dint of knowing him excruciatingly well, he'd have verified with - god, any number of people. Loose lips all over this ship.]
[He's brought shaving equipment. Harvey doesn't get knives. Not until he's ready. Not until it's right. He knocks on the door with the handle of the straight razor, the cool metal bleeding through the hole in his glove.]
Open up. Time to get pretty.
public } video
[For those who are old hat on this Barge, this display is nothing new. Cassel did it a couple of times with Anya - a whole lot more with Harvey. He's taken time after the blowback to collect himself, to grind his teeth until the pain flies off his face, to shake it off and push his hair back and adjust the cuffs of his gloves. He looks long-suffering, though bright-eyed.]
I realize we're all really excited about the door, but I still happen to have a job to do here, so - well. You all know how this goes.
[There's a cage approximately mid-deck, on a stand as tall as a podium, with a flat shelf. Something shifts inside it, then goes still.]
[Cassel turns the communicator towards the cage and zooms in. It's Harvey - this much is obvious from small details. The teeth, in particular, Cassel has let stay, protruding from a beaklike protrusion in the center of his face; they're acid-stained and shrunken slightly, left as an affectionate gesture for Ben and Anya, who will appreciate. One of the eyes is also the same, some pained part of Harvey's soul shining through. Tear ducts have been carefully left in on that side. The other eye is beady and black, like a rat's or a sparrow's.]
[He is roughly the size of a football, though not the same shape. His head is disproportionately large, to throw him off-balance. One side of his body is a patchwork of flesh and black fur, a vestigial arm with fully-functional fingers flexing helplessly, along with something that may once have been a leg, or not. The other side is unkempt white feathers, bereft of human limbs but sporting a single dovelike wing.]
[The camera shifts back to Cassel, then pans out to display the both of them. He gestures widely at the cage, a put-upon Vanna White.]
As usual, if you have any grievances to air with Harvey Dent, this would be an excellent time to do so. If you have any frustrations you'd like to take out on, you know, whoever, knock yourself out. He'll be on deck for eighteen hours.
Just restrain yourselves from killing him, if you can help it. I know it's trying.
spam, forward dated to wednesday 10/30 } chris & slevin
[It was surprisingly difficult to get Slevin out of commission for long enough to lock him up in Chris's room. Generally learned helplessness does wonders for the guy, but by all appearances Slevin seems to think he's from somewhere else and is thus obnoxiously infused with - well, not hope. Just pissiness.]
[In the end, a blunt object to the back of the head worked fine. But it was messy and lacking in style. Cassel disapproves.]
[Anyway: he's chained to a chair in Chris's room now, slowly but surely regaining consciousness. Cassel, with a sluggishly-bleeding laceration above his eye, is rifling through some notes. College-ruled, wrinkled from frequent consideration, but in meticulous handwriting. There's a certain amount of care here, pride in his work.]
[He waves his hand, exasperated.]
I don't know, I think your boy's gone insane. Legitimately off the wall crazy, as if there's any point in fighting it at all. It doesn't change much as far as tactics, but, I mean. This might take longer than expected.
[He taps his lip.] Could always take it one limb at a time. If it's gonna have to be slow anyway - it might as well be artful as well as effective.
spam;
[He takes a moment, then starts counting on his fingers.]
One, because he's still more or less human in there, even now. Fingers - thumbs - outward indicators of humanity. Two: because he can touch the bars, hold them, even try to work the door open if he wants to - an exercise in futility. Three: because a lot of his pain right now is internal. His organs are all squished up against each other. The teeth hurt, I did that on purpose for a friend. Every sensation that isn't pain or discomfort is going to be funneled through through four fingers and a thumb. He's going to grow to rely on them for sanity.
Then, when I take him back to my room, I'm going to take them away.
spam;
[But there is one more question.]
Take them away how?
[End the essay with a solid conclusion paragraph, Cassel. Or this might go from an A to a B.]
spam;
Make them claws. Let him feel them lose sensation, go dull and dead. Then clip 'em and give them to him later when he's been alone long enough.
spam;
[A-. A little too purple-prosey for Stark's tastes.]
spam;
Critique?
spam;
Everything's gonna be white noise to him sooner rather than later. [Stark's been there. He knows.] You think he's really gonna give a shit by the time you get around to removing digits? He might write you a fucking thank you letter at that point because it's at least something different and one less thing you can hurt him with.
Bottom line? If you're gonna make a point, kid, [he pauses for one last drag on his cigarette before reaching through the bars of the cage to put his unfinished cigarette right out on the sorry excuse for an arm Harvey is sporting.]
You make him notice the right way.
[Keep reminding him it's there. It's something futile and pointless. But it's there and it won't go away until Harvey's begging for it to be taken away.]
[sort of threadjack]
[ His one humanoid eye fixes on Stark, the black beady one blank, empty. ]
spam; also WEH
I'll remember.
Thanks.
spam; such WEH, many u_u
[Either way, when Cassel does finally kick it, he can at least expect a cushy position. He won't be rolling around in the filth with the rest of the humans that make Downtown their final destination.]
I'm already looking forward to how you're going to top yourself next time.
spam;
Yeah, you know. Never stop learning, reach for the stars. All that shit.
[Or whatever direction. Up or down doesn't much matter as long as somebody's bowing.]
spam;