do y'all have a fav song from the old ones?
you BETTER appreciate this because i am about to run around the base passing the focus along to everyone !!!
Aloy - Oh. Um. I don’t exactly listen to their music a lot, I generally prefer what we have today. Although, GAIA gave me this playlist once called “Phonk”, and I guess it was ok, so I guess that? Sorry, that’s not really a song..
Erend - HEAVY METAL BANDS, I THINK METALLICA OR SLIPKNOT IS MY FAVOURITE. I ENJOY MASTER OF PUPPETS A LOT, THOUGH. ITS EIGHT MINUTES LONG, SO I GET TO ENJOY IT FOR AGES.
(ooc: i know nothing about heavy metal bands all i have is a friend with a metallica bag whom we call emo all the time)
Varl - i actually quite enjoy the pop genre! i think there was a heavy split between the old ones between people who did and didn’t, but i think they sound cool and upbeat. my favourite has to be this one song called shake it off by this girl called taylor swift!!! i don’t know if she’s still relevant with you guys but i enjoy a lot of her music :) also i listen to classical sometimes from zo!!!
Zo - Generally I listen to calmer music, classical like Varl said. I enjoy Beethoven, but I also switch over to more 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2020s music sometimes because of Varl. I like Adele - my favourite from her has to be Chasing Pavements, or Easy On Me :) Alva got me into The Lumineers too.
Kotallo - i don’t have a lot of time to listen to music. all i know is mr. sandman. bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam oh mr sandman. that one. i think it’s old so i don’t know if you all still know it.
Alva - MY TURN!!!!! i enjoy this one band called the lumineers a LOT. my favourite is ophelia because it reminds me of federa and sometimes it makes me cry. also!! taylor swift!! she was 2000s to 2020s i think so like varl said i’m not sure if you all know her.. but i heard her fans called themselves “swifties” so that’s pretty cool!! me and varl listen to music together a lot we share similar tastes :3 i like the pop genre too!!
Beta - i really enjoy the crane wives i really like the moon will sing or the well also there was this song called lovely and i think billie something was her name and all i can do is see myself in the lyrics so it makes me cry but it also makes me feel really comforted also alva showed me this song called rises the moon and it makes me really calm
Sylens - Classical.
GAIA - My likes are what Elisabet liked. Sometimes, when she was feeling a bit happier, she’d listen to 70s, 80s, 90s, but when she needed to focus or needed something calmer in a solemn mood, she’d put on some classical or generally calm music. I believe her favourite was “Keep On Movin’” by a band called Five. Although, I do enjoy the songs everyone plays around the base, too.
sorry guys sylens was grumpy… it took me like 5 minutes of pestering him to get him to write ONE word!!!!
now i am going to look at some data. sitting down. i’ve been running around the base i need a break.
12 notes
·
View notes
Forged Divinity Unnamed Sequel: Chapter 2
1446 words
CW: dead body, like a real nasty dead body, dissociation, memory loss, amnesia, anger issues, past TBI
Previous, Masterlist, Next
~~~
Enjolras decided, since Leannan was catatonic, that she need to investigate the body. Some sick, sorrowful part of her needed to know how Phineas had died, and Leannan wasn’t about to tell her. She took one last breath of fresh air before ducking back into the shack.
She avoided the body at first, opening a cabinet on the far wall. There were a couple small sacks of oats, but little else. She grabbed a handful out of one sack, letting it run through her fingers. It didn’t look contaminated, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t – Leannan’s Iowan immune system could handle a lot more than Phineas’ could have.
She cupped a hand under the tap of their water barrel, and dribbled some out into her palm. It looked clear. She couldn’t smell it, though, not with the overpowering stench of the corpse filling the room.
She tipped out the water and wiped her hand dry on her pant leg. Finally, reluctantly, she approached the corpse.
The bloat and maggots told her it had been around a week since Phineas had died. She couldn’t imagine what Leannan had gone through, how thoroughly he must have been in denial, to live next to a corpse that whole time.
She carefully pinched the blanket covering the majority of Phineas’ body and pulled it back. She immediately spotted what she was looking for.
Cloth bound their chest flat, as usual, but more strips were wrapped around their waist, strained dark with old, dried blood. Phineas had died of an injury – a slash or stab to the gut.
Enjolras threw the blanket beck over the body before she could digest any more details – the flies, the maggots, the no, don’t look – and covered Phineas’ mutilated face with it as well. Then she turned, and fled, stumbling out the door and gulping down fresh air, tears stinging her eyes.
If Leannan had been able to bandage up the injury while Phineas was still bleeding, still alive, that meant Phineas hadn’t died immediately. They had died slowly. The thought, the sight, the smell, it all made her nauseous.
Phineas was still a part of her, as horrible as they were. Rapist, arsonist, murderer, yes. Her little sibling? Also yes.
Her eyes settled on Leannan where he sat on the ground, and she quickly brushed away her tears. She couldn’t spare the time to mourn right now. She needed to get Leannan home, before anything else went wrong.
“Leannan?” She touched his shoulder. He was still… gone, his empty gaze resting on the ground. She scooped her hands under his arms and lifted him to his feet, then led him by the arm over to the pickup truck. This, finally, seemed to rouse him.
“Are we leaving?” he asked.
“Yes,” Enjolras said.
“Is Phineas coming with us?”
Enjolras’ heart sank. Something was really, really wrong with Leannan.
“Uh… Yeah. They’re riding in the back. Can you get in?” She opened the passenger door for him.
“Mhm.” He climbed into the cab, and Enjolras shut the door. Then she looked back at the shack.
A part of her wanted to do something – to bury Phineas, maybe. But the ground was dry and hard-packed, and full of rocks, and she didn’t have a shovel anyway. It didn’t feel right to just leave them there, to be scavenged by animals, but there was nothing she could do.
Then she remembered the gun.
She steeled herself, and went back into the shack and looked around. It wasn’t immediately visible, but there were only so many places it could hide. She found it soon enough, tucked behind the cabinet: the Barrett M95 sniper rifle. She slung it over her shoulder, not bothering to search for the ammo. She just wanted to have it, not to shoot it.
It was Mom’s. She couldn’t leave it there.
She stashed it in the bed of the pickup, and glanced back at the shack one last time.
She wished she could make it right. But things had gone wrong a long, long time ago.
~~~
Leannan slept as they drove, leaning his head against the window again. Enjolras couldn’t help but glance at him constantly, trying to take in every detail while still watching the road.
He still wore the clothes he had taken with him when he left Goat Island. They were weathered and dirty now, and too big on him. The scar on his left temple looked like a gnarled lightning strike or tree branch growing out of his hairline. The soles of his boots were peeling away from the uppers. He was tanned and freckled, and his hair was sun-bleached even paler than it had been when they first met. There was dirt under his fingernails, and crusted into the lines of his face.
They had been driving for about two hours when Leannan awake with a small yelp, and started looking around frantically.
“Hej, what…?” Enjolras started.
“Where’s Phineas?” Leannan demanded.
Enjolras couldn’t answer. She kept her eyes on the road, her jaw clenched.
“Where’s Phineas?!” shouted Leannan.
“They died, Leannan,” Enjolras said quietly.
“No! No, you left them behind! You left them behind on purpose!” Leannan was working himself up into a frenzy, “You promised! You promised they could come with us! You lied to me!”
“Phineas is dead.”
“Fuck you!” Leannan shrieked, with a level of vitriol Enjolras had never heard from him before, “Fuck you! I hate you!”
Without warning, Leannan grabbed the steering wheel and yanked it to the side. Enjolras slammed on the brakes to keep them from careening off the road. While she was occupied getting the car back under control, Leannan flung his door open and jumped out of the slow-moving vehicle.
“Leannan!” Enjolras shouted. She finally got the car to stop and threw it into park, then jumped out to follow him. He was running back down the road towards where they came.
“Leannan!” She caught up with him easily, between her taller height, better nutrition, and better shoes, and grabbed his arm. “Leannan, stop!”
He swung around and punched her in the face. It was a pretty weak punch, but it surprised her nonetheless.
“I hate you!” he screamed, twisting in her grip, “You always ruin everything!”
Those were Phineas’ words. Enjolras would recognize them anywhere. She pulled Leannan close and wrapped her arms around him, pinning his arms to his sides, his back to her chest.
“I’m sorry, Leannan, but I need to take you home!” she said through gritted teeth.
Leannan screamed wordlessly in return, struggling like a wild animal.
“Don’t you want to see Shannon again?” Enjolras coaxed.
“Not… without… Phineas!” Leannan insisted in between attempts to twist himself free. Enjolras held him tighter.
“Leannan,” she felt a lump rise in her throat, “Phineas is dead!”
Leannan paused his fighting, panting hard. Enjolras could feel his thin body swell and deflate in her arms with each breath, rife with panic and anger. She felt the anger fade.
“I didn’t mean to,” Leannan whimpered.
Enjolras carefully loosened her grip.
“Didn’t mean to what?” she asked softly, already anticipating the answer.
“I just get really angry, sometimes, now, and I don’t know why, and Phineas was being a real jerk, and I just wanted them to stop…” Leannan’s words dissolved into soft, hiccuping cries.
“It’s okay. It’s not your fault.”
“Yes, it is!” Leannan wailed, “It’s always my fault!”
Enjolras released him fully, turning him around to face her.
“When did you start getting angry?” she asked.
“When I got hit… in the head,” Leannan gulped, his hand going to the scar on his temple, “Phineas says it made me stupid and weird.”
“Do you remember what happened?”
“No,” Leannan shook his head miserably, “Phineas says it was an accident.”
Enjolras tallied up the symptoms. Memory loss. Mood swings. Disorientation. A bad enough head injury, combined with some psychological trauma, would certainly explain everything.
“Leannan, I promise it’s not your fault.”
Leannan frowned up at her.
“You also promised you’d take Phineas with us!”
Enjolras sighed.
“I would have, I really would, if Phineas had been alive. But they’re not, they’re dead, they couldn’t come with.”
Leannan’s red-rimmed eyes drifted to stare past her. For a moment Enjolras was afraid that had dissociated again at the mention of Phineas’ death, but then he spoke.
“What am I supposed to do now?” he whispered.
“Come home with me,” Enjolras offered, “We’ll take care of you.”
He slowly shifted forward and, to her surprise, leaned against her, resting his forehead against her shoulder.
“You’ll take care of me?” he murmured, muffled by her shirt.
“Yeah,” she patted his back, “We will.”
~~~
Previous, Masterlist, Next
Taglist: @angst-after-dark, @sunshiline-writes, @flowersarefreetherapy, @thecyrulik
12 notes
·
View notes