[IC] Misc. Open Post

[curriculum_fictae]

For various overflow, misc. threads that don't fit on the comms they're for, etc.

Comments

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Gosh. Maybe it’s his looks, but Martin is abruptly feeling a lot of sympathy for this poor nervous man. He gives him a gentle smile. ]

Well, I’m not from around here, and I don’t know who you are. Would you mind telling me?

[hijoperdido]

Uh.

[He hesitates, just wandering the room a bit, setting one of the rats onto a barrel]

I'm Bruno. Of the family Madrigal, the family who lives here. Out there. Abuela Alma has been leading the village out there since we found this place.

[curriculum_fictae]

Well, it’s nice to meet you, Bruno. My name’s Martin Sims.

[hijoperdido]

[This man is all nervous energy, the way he keeps circling the room, twitching and hunching, picking things up, putting them down, still widely gesturing with his hands while he talks.]

I'd say it's nice to meet you, but it's uh. It's still weird? Still have no idea how you appeared here which means you probably have no idea how to get out. Not that you gotta leave right away or anything, it's just, y'know, it's good to know?

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Gosh he reminds Martin SO MUCH of Jon. Just. Nervous? Twitchy? Like himself?

………is this their AU son or something. Goodness, what a thought. ]

Agreed on all points. Though I have some hope I’ll simply disappear once whatever’s going on burns itself out.

[hijoperdido]

Burns itself out, there's a thought. Don't even know what it is and- I mean, if I could find a place I could look, but I really don't want to, don't do it anymore, no good. No good, nothing good would come from that so don't even think about it.

[Yeah this is a guy who got really used to talking to himself. From the looks of it, it's been well over a decade.]

Why do you think you'll just disappear? Do you know what it is?

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Poor Bruno. The more Martin sees, the more sympathetic he is. ]

No, I have no idea, b-but I’m currently living in a place that pulled me in, and if I were to get shoved home, it would look like I disappeared randomly.

[ A beat. ]

What did you mean about looking?

[hijoperdido]

[He shakes his head, some of it ringing familiar. Some vision he had ages ago coming to the surface, but still feels like a dream.]

My gift, um. I-i see visions, but they're no good. Nobody liked 'em, they're garbage, so I stopped doing them.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Oh. OH.

Martin’s eyes go wide at that. ]

Visions? Of - what?

[hijoperdido]

[He shrugs, shoulders up by his ears.]

The future. Literally nobody liked it though. Better I stay here.

[curriculum_fictae]

… Is that the only thing you See?

[hijoperdido]

Yeah? Y-yeah, I mean, besides seeing you right here in front of me which is still weird by the way.

[curriculum_fictae]

No, I mean. Magical. Seeing. If that makes sense?

[hijoperdido]

Uuhhhhh then yeah, no, the future's all I see like that. Or, it used to be.

[curriculum_fictae]

Used to be? Did you. Stop?

[hijoperdido]

Yeah, I- uhm. I stopped. Years ago, long time ago. Nobody liked them, they were never any good.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin immediately looks alarmed, sweeping his eyes up and down Bruno’s malnourished frame. ]

You just stopped. Did - did you start feeling sick afterwards?

[hijoperdido]

No? Kinda hard to with my sister's cooking out there. Heals anything. I don't think anyone here's been sick... Ever, actually. Huh. Weird.

[curriculum_fictae]

S. Sorry, did you say your sister’s cooking can heal?

[ But okay, that does make sense, if he’s starving but being healed all the time, [

[hijoperdido]

Oh yeah. Doesn't matter what she cooks, all of it heals you right up. Super helpful.

[curriculum_fictae]

And it doesn’t - er - turn you into a horrible flesh monster?

[ He eyes Bruno’s lack of unusual fleshy appendages. ]

[hijoperdido]

[Yeah, Bruno's kinda giving him a Look.]

No. What? No..

[curriculum_fictae]

Well, good. Sorry. Just checking. That - would definitely happen in my world if there were magical healing food.

[hijoperdido]

[Bruno kinda shakes his head.]

It's not the food that heals, it's her. The fact she's the one cooking it, that's her gift.

[curriculum_fictae]

And. It just does it? There’s no catch?