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steadypulse: (The hell are you going on about punk)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-02 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
I gave out enough to at least keep some idiots from killing themselves.

[Which did damn well hint at the fact he was keeping much more to himself, only gave what he thought would be useful to others. There was also that tone that he knew exactly what Reaper had done with it.

They'd both been injured that day in the alley way, after all.

There was a flick of a finger at the back of Reaper's ear for his sarcasm.]


You're making my point for me. [He was still leaning against Reaper all the same hand fallen back to rest on his own thigh. 76 kept his head rested against the wall, however.]

I honestly don't remember the last time I slept, outside of some fifteen minute rest.
steadypulse: (Always so damn tiring)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-02 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm not.

[Well that was said with a tired finality to it. So much so he wasn't even really going to touch the other part, because he wasn't going to argue against it. Agreed more than not that this place was filled with far too many people was filled with those who'd take something head on despite any danger for whatever reason.

Idiotic.

His knee moved a bit with the swat before knocking against Reaper's leg with the foot lightly.]


Our definitions of 'just fine' are likely not as up to par as either of us think.

[He felt he was handling himself just fine after all, and there were enough that would argue against that. Reaper was no different, no matter his own definition of it.

A blackened and clawed hand lifted up a bit, fingers curling as joints cracked from the movement-]


When do I not burn myself out?
steadypulse: (With this)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-02 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not the one most want me to be. What they expect and demand I be.

[That was the point behind it all, that so many people put up some image of him in their head and expected him to live up to them all. His responsibility to uphold those images until he broke, and then it was his responsibility to take all of the anger and disappointment because he was still only human.

Only one man.]


Do as we say, not as we do. Fuck up enough and run in to the ground because it's how it's always been.

[Stubborn, even past what most wanted to be the very end. How else could he have dragged himself out of an attempt to kill him with so many casualties that were deemed exposable? Swipe off the heads, the rest would scatter and whatever else.

Ha, they nearly matched. Let his fingers stretch and spread out a little, held up next to Reaper's like that.]


If you think I need sleep, what about you.
steadypulse: (... This shit again. Really?)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-02 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Be surprised. But he didn't say that, just let out a breath as shoulders slumped a little. There would always be some image someone would get in their head, one he could manipulate to a point when no one knew who he was or used to be. An old man, someone that was just a number.

Keep the expectations low and keep as many at a distance as he could. Refused to let people close, yet some still managed it. He didn't want to be anything anymore.

Just some nameless and faceless entity.]


Take full advantage of it, too.

[There were raised ridged of skin along the backs of his hand and fingers, almost like scale-plates that looked burned; as if brushing fingers across them would cause them to crumble. Traces of blue and red through black, and no sign of lighter skin on his hands.]

Can't get to sleep if someone around me is awake. [Unless he was drugged or something, but that could go without saying.] Might.
steadypulse: (Y e p)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-03 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[What his mindset had returned to, why he carried the number 76 on his back so glaringly; those who knew what it meant would know what was coming for them. The rest would only see a number, secretive and buried as the files of the project were these days, only those with the power to dig it up were all likely going to be on the other end of his own last mission.

He didn't expect to come back from it in the end, and perhaps it was the same part that didn't care. Clean up messes as he went, finding what he needed along the way.

There was nothing to return to.]


Can always push further.

[They were almost as if some sort of flexible armor, soft yet hard. 76 kept his hand where it was, letting Reaper examine. Why not, reason he'd taken his gloves off in the first place. Claws were still somewhat curved, but so very sharp.]

Sleep lighter than I used to.

[Which was already light, but given the fact he did sleep outside for so long- well.]
steadypulse: (Always so damn tiring)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-03 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Still breathing, means I can push further.

[Enough was never enough, always further to go, drag himself if he had to. He could and usually would, but right now he wasn't moving was he. Remaining down and leaning somewhat against both Reaper and the wall. Hadn't he suffered worse before? Kept going while bleeding out and no one was there?

They felt calloused, warm as the rest of his skin. No sign that they were anything but the beginnings of some odd armoring, could even be because of the electricity he could use. Some strange attempt to protect corrupted skin from shock.

His palm was softer, skin still clinging and outlining bone along his fingers. Still blackened like the rest of his hand. More of those red and blue lines were visible, as if the color a little brighter there along the lines of his palm.]


Can sleep just about anywhere, doesn't mean it'd actually be restful.
steadypulse: (Picking this shit out)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? My old boss was a real asshole, picked it up from him.

[Dry as could be with that tone, as if part of all of it had been leading up to waiting for the moment to jab that back at Reaper. He did know when to actually stop and rest, but hell if it wasn't hard to convince himself at times- got him hunting down the bastard here, however.

The moment 76 felt himself being pulled? He was dragging Reaper down with him out of reflex, fingers twisting in the grasp. Did go down easily outside of the dragging hold he'd taken of the older man, at least.]


Having issues sleeping, and staying asleep, isn't self-sacrifice you shitlord.
steadypulse: (Never stops)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-03 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Shockingly -and perhaps even more startlingly to 76 himself- The words and mixed tone got a snort of laughter out of him. Abrupt and choked, but it was still a single laugh.

Fuck, that actually hurt his ribs.]


You're an absolute asshole.

[76 was still trapped in the sudden positioning on the floor, squirming enough to at least try and get himself in to a half comfortable position- even if he couldn't help how he froze with that coat suddenly across him, fingers twitching a bit.

Reaper was that serious about this?]


Is not.
steadypulse: (The hell are you going on about punk)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-03 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Can both agree to that at least.

[There was a faint wheeze, mostly until the sharp bit of pain in his chest subsided and he could pretend said asshole hadn't startled a chuckle out of him.

Could get comfortable on his own side, even if he wasn't completely a hundred percent on having his back to Reaper, but with the arm trapping him as he was... better than he alterative. Back rested against the other's chest, letting out a breath as he pulled his own jacket within reach over and. Well. Rolled it up in to a makeshift pillow long enough Reaper could get his head on it or deal with it shoved against his forehead.

Better than nothing.]


Fine, fine.
steadypulse: (I'll rest when I'm done here)

[personal profile] steadypulse 2021-12-04 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[There was a noise in his throat, not quite a grunt, that at least sounded like some agreement. Even if a laugh had snuck out of him, didn't mean he was anywhere near going to voice the thought of 'Most only ever got to experience that side', enough was enough.

No room for it.

76 had enough body heat to share, since despite the chill that seemed to always come with his own shadows, he was pretty much still a furnace. Had been since the program- or at least that had cranked up the fact he always ran a little on the warmer side. Came in handy for colder climates, and at least regulated in the heat.

At least they both had settled, and it did take a while for 76 to do anything more but partially force himself to relax. Fighting would be... a waste of what energy he did have left, and he had not come here to start another one as easily as either of them could send things that way. So he was quiet, breathing.

Took a little while, but he did finally doze off a little.]