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[overclocking]

Date & Time: Several days after the necromorph outbreak
Location: A VR room
Characters: Chrono + Rosette + open!
Summary: Lil bit of coping in-between zombie apocalypses and civil wars, nbd
Warnings: None! KEVIN AND BREAK
Notes: Feel free to tag around also! ♥


[ Chrono doesn't bother to close the door when he finally decides to try one of these rooms for himself. Something about the last few days (weeks) (months) has left him unwilling to stay in enclosed spaces too long, with no obvious path of exist. Too much like a lab or an undead-lined hallway.

But these concerns slowly melt away as he sets about instructing the AI, and the room gives way to a place that isn't a room at all.

Mountains rise up in the distance, framing a blue, clear sky, and a faint breeze rustles the treetops of a thick Michigan forest. Birdcalls ride that wind, and the air smells cleaner, fresher, than any moon base could reasonably boast. Where the blanket of trees ends, a large, glassy lake gleams in the sunlight. He takes care with this part—instructs the AI to make the water a temperature a bit too low to be entirely comfortable for swimming, knowing full well that this won't actually be a deterrent. But it wouldn't be right, otherwise.

He takes his time strolling from one familiar landmark to the next, having the computer make adjustments as necessary. He doesn't miss details, either; for all the times that Rosette brought him to this very place, his eyes had missed nothing. They were wide and all-absorbing, like someone who had been born anew and was discovering the world for the first time.

(Likely because, in all honesty, he had been.)

He stops once he circles back around to the open door—a black silhouette hanging oddly in the landscape, and the only giveaway that none of this is real. It's here that he surveys the scene as a whole, the sum of all its little memory-parts. ]

Perfect.

[ Well. There's still a thing or two missing. ]

... Almost.

Comments

[senseandcecilbility]

[That look

He knows what it means.]

...

...Indeed.

[velveteened]

I always thought being able to go somewhere like the moon would be exciting, but zombies might be a little too much.

( EVEN FOR HIM. )

[senseandcecilbility]

[Oz gets more sandwiches to soothe his zombie trauma.]

They are completely unholy creatures that should not exist. The fact that they cannot be exorcised is a statement to this place's lack of sense.

[velveteened]

( well he'll always take food to cope with trauma. )

You can do something like that?

( SOMEONE IS LATE TO THE ANGEL REVEAL TRAIN because he's a winner. )

[senseandcecilbility]

[Not late at all, young man. He is still hiding it as best as he can, though a few people have already figured out, like their mutual friend, Mister Xerxes Break.]

Ah, I took the job of school priest at Stradford to stay close to my young master, though I have to admit I am far better at sermons than exorcisms.

[velveteened]

( it's not that he's incredulous that kevin could be a priest

but he's sort of incredulous kevin could be a priest )

Really?

( he doesn't say you don't look like one to me but it's sort of a near thing. )

[senseandcecilbility]

[What, do you mean I do not look venerable at all?]

Ah, my mother comes from a family of clerics. My older brother was supposed to follow the tradition, but he passed away during the Crimean war. [That is, Kevin Cecil's brother did.] So I went to Winchester to study theology, but came back when young master lost his parents.

[velveteened]

( the specific names aren't ones he knows, but follows the gist of the story well enough. came back when — william, william twining had needed someone. )

No wonder you worry about him so much.

( from what he's heard, at least, and what he assumes. oz wouldn't quite know the feeling of losing one's parents (having something like that to lose in the first place), but of only having the one person on which to rely... )

[senseandcecilbility]

[Being someone for William to rely on is what he has been doing for the last decade or so. It is a shame that their simple and peaceful lifestyle has been disturbed by an horde of overly glamorous demons.]

If only I could send him a few letters.

[...It is not like he....has been writing them on a daily basis.]

[velveteened]

( 'overly glamorous demons.......' )

That'd be nice, wouldn't it? I'd love to write to my uncle — and to tell my sister about this place! ( she was here once, many months ago, but not for very long ) She'd never believe me if I said I've been to the moon.

[senseandcecilbility]

[They are the worst.]

Oh, I did not know you had a sister.

[For some reason, he thought Oz was a single child.]

[velveteened]

Yep, a younger sister!

( youngerolder sister it's complicated )

She's very gentle and sweet, and really adorable!

[senseandcecilbility]

[Aw, Oz loves his sister, who Kevin imagines as a lovely little girl. Just like the one Barma summoned the other day.]

You and your uncle must worry quite a bit about her.

[For one thing, she seems like the sort that would attract demons.]

[velveteened]

( oh, kevin. if only you knew which vessalius sibling is the one contracted to a 'demon.' )

A lot of course! He even rushed to the school to see her when he was worried about ( HER GETTING A BOYFRIEND ) something she'd mentioned in one of her letters.

[senseandcecilbility]

[Oh, the things people don't tell him so he will not have an aneurism.]

Oh my, did she have a suitor? Were his intentions honorable?

[Was he a demon?!]

1/2

[velveteened]

We weren't able to find out who he was.

( ONE DAY THOUGH )

[velveteened]

But if they aren't, or if he hurts her, he won't be able to get away so easily.

( SUDDEN THREATENING ATMOSPHERE )

[senseandcecilbility]

[Yes, good.

Kevin approves.

Thoroughly. ]

[velveteened]

( big brother won't allow her to get hurt )

Of course, she's old enough to be getting attention from boys, ( and he knows of girls of his status already married and settled down ) but I don't think it's a good idea until she's older.

( OR NEVER!!!!! )

[senseandcecilbility]

[Oz gets the best muffins for being such a good big brother.]

Precisely! You should not allow them to approach her until you know for certain...It seems that Mister Gilbert is rather proficient with fire weapons?

[So maybe he is enabling the young man a little, but one can't be too careful about these things.]

[velveteened]

That's right!

( HE LIKES THE WAY YOU THINK, KEVIN. and in the meantime is going to help himself to reward muffins yes. )

[senseandcecilbility]

...

[Hopefully, Oz is not allergic to holy sunshine muffins like Allen. Kevin is certainly keeping his fingers crossed.]

[velveteened]

( HE TAKES A BITE......

and smiles as he chews and swallows! )

Did you make these yourself?

[senseandcecilbility]

[Kevin lets out a sigh of relief. No food poisoning. Always a good start.]

...Y-yes, I did.

[velveteened]

( that might've been awkward to have to explain to gilbert or break )

Ah! I knew it. They always taste especially delicious when you do.

( almost as good as gil's! he's a little biased. )