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joseph kavinsky ([personal profile] pillz) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-02-14 09:32 pm

O1 👶 video;

cw implied harm to (fantastical) animal, implied drug use, probably offensive language within ??

[the picture shakes, obviously handheld. when the picture focuses, there's a dragon rampaging down the street, wings flapping, eyes blazing orange, its body built of churning smoke and fire. it has teeth, in terrifying, serrated rows, but that seems somehow less important than the impossible cycling of gas and combustion that form its flesh. the whole situation is very cloverfield. in the background, the sound of human screams rises tinny, shallow.

lower definition than the communicator video.

but there's a reason for that. a discerning eye might notice immediately: the street the monster is running down is empty of people, and there's something wrong with the buildings. not enough detail in the brick, the windows, the pavement, and beyond it, the sky a fuzzy, paint-white blank. when the camera pulls out, reality becomes clear. the city is merely a cardboard model, stylized in a way that will be familiar to some, but this time a rendering of de chima's downtown area rather than sleepy henrietta. the monster, no matter how miraculous, could fit in the size of an ordinary man's palm.

or inside of a drinking glass, as it turns out. the next moment, one such cup plunks down over the creature, trapping it like a spider in the glass. the tiny dragon immediately begins to screech in rage-- or pain; it's hard to tell, but you only need a little imagination and familiarity with fire to consider the consequences.

and then kavinsky squares the camera lens on his face. skinny white boy— young, hollow-eyed and pale, his black hair clotted with too much gel. one earring, wifebeater, probably (definitely) trying too hard, probably (undoubtedly) overly impressed by himself. there is something oddly jittery about his hands, shoulders, the swollen bloat of his dilated pupils. he sprawled inside of a bedroom, generic, unlived-in. past his shoulder, there's a television playing stadium footage of a european football game, hence the poorly dubbed soundtrack. the dragon's outrage grows fainter.

he smiles.]


Made you look.

[he winks, and cuts the feed.]
mantlepieces: between us. (just you me & this brick wall you built)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-02-20 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Heartless creep without subtlety describes Reggie pretty well, too, except he's eighteen. Still: certain types of people...

Reggie's power isn't even bad, he's just hard to please.
]


What, do you mean like immortal, or like... bulletproof?
mantlepieces: let's do the opposite (sounds like something archie would do)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-02-28 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Pfft. [ TMI BUDDY. But: ] Well, duh -- no one likes bein' sore and bored. Lesson number one.
mantlepieces: (--the woooorst!)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-01 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's spelled R-e-g-g-i-e. [ But there are worse things to be called, at least. ] I can do magic tricks.
mantlepieces: (screw you guys I'm going home)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-02 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
If only. Nah, I can pull stuff out of hats -- but pretty much any stuff, so occasionally it comes in handy.
mantlepieces: (tough crowd)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Another mutually destructive influence is clearly just what each of them needs. ]

Well, not yet, but I mean, probably. It works kinda random a lot of the time -- would be nice not to have spend my money for a change though, that's for sure.

I can use any kind. Saves me the trouble of havin' to own one.
mantlepieces: (gonna party like it's on sale for $19.99)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-13 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
You mean if there was a hat big enough to pull, like, a motorcycle out of? 'Cause I don't see why that wouldn't work, but y'know, if I ever see you in person we can try it out.
mantlepieces: (it would be stupid to say "yes" now)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-14 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's definitely not a promise -- I don't do those.
mantlepieces: (the butler in the study with the diary)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-16 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
I do it when it's worth it, but I ain't in the kinda business where I gotta play nice for tips.
mantlepieces: (but #nohomo)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-03-30 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well.

...
]


Other people to do?
mantlepieces: (/CLUTCHES LOCKET) (how I hate him... and yet)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2016-04-12 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
What gave you the impression that doing me was ever on the table?

[ Don't ask questions you may not like the answers to, Reggie. ]

I mean I get that I'm irresistible, but "hat" wasn't actually like, code for anything.