SUN SIGN

[livestage]

[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with pure judgment. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the scowl, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in black also.]

Sun Sign, you try to act so heroic, but you're all a bunch of phonies.

Comments

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting

[heartlands]

If you're going to get hurt or something, no, I'm not going to turn around. I'm like, the only one who hasn't gotten messed up, so the least I can try to do is help.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting

[bad_crowmance]

Okay, but I want it on the record that I tried.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting

[heartlands]

Yeah, well - you didn't have to. I can handle it, you know?

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT??

Suede nods, and then he pulls a knife out of his desk-- why is there a knife in his desk? Don't worry about it-- and he proceeds to slice his own throat before the punishment can do it for him. It's a deep cut, not nearly enough to behead, but it's certainly enough to wreck his vocal chords, blood pouring dark and thick from the wound. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[demonicdomestic]

Suede...?

[Oh. That's blood. That is... not arterial blood but still a significantly non-zero amount of blood.

Dropping the braid, he whips an arm around Suede's torso, pulling him back against his chest for some support.]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ That's probably for the best because even if it's not arterial blood, it's certainly enough that he sags significantly as the knife slips from his fingers, gurgling in a silent sound that may or may not have been meant to be a scream as he sags significantly, not unlike a puppet whose strings have been cut. He's alive, awake, but one could hardly call him "alert" after that particular stunt. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[demonicdomestic]

Don't talk.

[The nice thing about adrenaline is that he's not paying too much attention to how his bruises are doing under Suede's weight. The focus is far more on getting Suede cradled, princess-style, so his airway can connect without his own blood drowning him.]

Just breathe for me. Slow and steady.

Gingham, any clean fabric you have -- I need you to press it to that wound.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ He listens to the soothing sounds of Satin's voice, not fighting the movement as he's shifted into a new position and follows those instructions. Breathe in..... breathe out. Breathe in..... breath out. Slow and steady and rhythmic, and utterly unrepentant about the decision he just made. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[demonicdomestic]

Good. Just like that. That's all I need you to do right now.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ That's good. That's fine. No explanations-- those may come later, if they do at all-- but those aren't for right now. Right now, he can follow Satin's instructions, breathing slow and steady, focusing more on the sound and soothing tone than the words themselves. But that's all he has to do. For now, he just needs to breathe. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[heartlands]

[per satin's instructions, trying to hold up some clean fabric to the wound to stop the flow of blood even a little]

It's going to be okay.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ He nods, or tries to before he gurgles in a noise that indicates oh, maybe that was not his best idea ever, hissing through his teeth. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[heartlands]

Don't try to talk for now.

But... If it's okay, I'd like to know what the other option is later.

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ He lifts his hand and wobbles it to and fro. WE'LL SEE. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[heartlands]

Suede...

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[bad_crowmance]

[ Suede gives a small hand shrug. ]

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[heartlands]

Okay.

[tearing off a sleeve quickly, moving forward to hold it to the wound - trying to make sure his hands don't shake.]

Anything else?

Re: STARS 4, throat slitting CW NOW WITH ACTUAL SELF-HARM

[demonicdomestic]

Now we just keep him as comfortable as we can.

All our squares are done -- if we submit our "story", hopefully that will end this all soon.