pillz: (sun)
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.]
driftsintobuffetline: (ok...)

Video

[personal profile] driftsintobuffetline 2016-02-15 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Completely unimpressed. Which is saying something, because any other time, he'd be all over that elemental or pokemon or whatever you've got, but he also doesn't believe in torturing innocent creatures for your own amusement and ugh.

And don't think a biologist doesn't notice your pupils. What the hell are you on.]


Oh, you're the kind of kid who terrorized his toys, huh. I don't know if you ever watched Toy Story, but that comes back to bit you in the ass, 'Sid.' So play nice.
caerulea: (o40)

voice.

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't like the video option. She rarely touches it. So she tries for voice. ]

Kavinsky?
caerulea: DO NOT TAKE. (o65)

text.

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh thank god, she'll take text.

Because. What an asshole. ]


I was at your last Fourth of July bash. With Ronan and Gansey. Blue Sargent. I worked at Nino's. [ Shut up, Blue, none of that matters. ]

Is that actually you?
driftsintobuffetline: (well yeah you could do that)

text

[personal profile] driftsintobuffetline 2016-02-15 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a reason they card you for cough syrup these days.

Oh, a fan of text. Ok, well, he lives with one of those.]


it's a good movie
first feature-length computer-animated film
sid does not sit on a unicorn

but I think fantasia would probably be more up your alley
v trippy, does have unicorns--and pegasuses and centuars
v popular with fans of psychedelics

what are you tripping on?
caerulea: (o25)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay she's not crazy. That all actually happened.

Including the... part... ]


Blue. Not 'babe' you pig.

Did you just get here or something?
[ Ignoring like half of what he says. ]
caerulea: DO NOT TAKE. (o65)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
You really don't have enough brain cells left to waste them on trying so hard to be an ass.

[ Why did she try. Why. ]
caerulea: (o23)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's going to kill him. ]

Was that really that hard to ask?

No. I'm not a superhero or a hero or anything like it.
driftsintobuffetline: (I don't yet have a name for this face)

[personal profile] driftsintobuffetline 2016-02-15 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: I lost it at comp lit major, having been one myself.]


you sound like a riot to be around, kiddo

i'm a biologist
xenobiologist--hence the interest in your magical? creatures
but zero interest in any drug that makes me see things that aren't there
i can do that well enough on my own, thx

what was the creature?
caerulea: (o35)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's not an invite to provoke her! ]

I'm not one. I'm not a fighter or anything.

Did you get any powers?
[ In addition to the dreaming crazy shit thing. ]
caerulea: (o61)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ DEEP SIGH ]

Did you *read* the file they handed you?
caerulea: (o10)

[personal profile] caerulea 2016-02-15 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ So he actually could still have new powers. Great. Something to watch for. ]

Psychic powers. [ That's all she's giving. ]

Not the stuff of superheroes.
driftsintobuffetline: (idk what to call this face)

[personal profile] driftsintobuffetline 2016-02-15 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: I've never done drugs and indeed escaped having to read that one, though I'm surprised because that looks like something a handful of my profs would have possibly assigned. I did a fair amount of Latin American lit (magic realism, etc) and some Asian lit, with a dash of French thrown in (god help me, I read Proust)]


a dragon, cute.
i thought maybe he had a unique breed or species designation.
or a name, you know, like unique to your world--pocket monster, etc


[Oh no. Hermann will kill him.]

really? how do you care for him?

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