tempredmental: (Definitely In Trouble This Time)
Keith ([personal profile] tempredmental) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-07-15 11:37 pm
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[ open - July Catch-All ]

Who: Keith, OPEN
What: Being evil, falling in love, worsening corruption, contemplating suicide, getting killed, waking up, facing judgement, feeling lonely... just another day in Trench
When: All through July, specific dates for prompts will be in headers
Where: Various places around Trench

Content Warnings: Death and suicide are the big ones. Feelings of abandonment and self-loathing. Probably all kinds of violence and stuff. Others will be added per thread.

  • Links to threads will be added as they're made
  • July 1 - 9: General havoc around town. Violence, crime, anger, growing beasthood, influenced by The Evil
  • July 10: Death, closed to Lance, Sasuke, possibly Sakura, any other CR who might be involved with finding bodies and helping squids break out of crystal
  • July 11 - 17: Recovery, TBD (likely closed to close CR, Plot with me?, recovery and squid-time will be in Sasuke's pond...)
  • Rest of the month: TBD (Plot with me?)
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azurestar: (terror)

[personal profile] azurestar 2022-09-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He's scrambling to his feet as fast as he can manage even though his ever cell protests in pain. Perhaps he should have thought it through more, tried to focus his mind on his powers and using them properly, but honestly, he couldn't manage it even if he tried.

It doesn't matter, though. It's not new damage. And as Keith is saying… she really isn't going to stop. Deep down, he does know he's delaying the inevitable, but he doesn't care. He just needs even one more moment with him to… to. He doesn't know, he's going on pure instinct at this point.

And now they have this thing hanging between them, this horrifying idea Keith has had that he- Lance's hands go up to his head and tangle in his hair again. Then, he reaches out and grabs the front of Keith's shirt with a rough and wild desperation.]

You… you don't understand. What you're asking me to do. Please- [His breath hitches wetly as he shakes, eyes going glassy and distant.] Don't a-ask me that.
tempredmental: (I Didn't Want To Do This)

[personal profile] tempredmental 2022-09-27 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Keith brought his empty hand up to grab one of Lance's wrists, attempting to pull himself free of the grip.]

I don't know what else to do.

[He sounded desperate.]

Lance, please... don't get killed because of me.
azurestar: (but secrets kill)

[personal profile] azurestar 2022-09-28 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Lance either doesn't care that Keith is trying to pull himself free or he's too distressed to notice. He starts shaking his head in denial and dread, despair. Then he hangs it, breathing hard and wet.]

I'd rather die than hurt you, Keith!

[He can't even bring himself to say the word 'kill', replacing it with 'hurt'. And once that's out, and he realizes the raw truth of it, hitting his psyche like a truck, he barks out a broken and unhinged little giggle that mixes into heavy breathed almost sobs.]

I'd- I'd like to die. Heh. I've done it before, right?? S-sounds nice.

[The Reckoning is a god and she hardly needs to chase them, she can appear as soon or as late as she desires, and it would seem their time is just about up. Again.]
tempredmental: (Pushing Past the Limit)

[personal profile] tempredmental 2022-10-11 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No! [Keith shook his head sharply and clenched his jaw just before giving Lance a hard shove back and away.

It was then that Reckoning had put up with enough of their little game. She was there in an instant, sword ready, and thrust it through from his back. It didn't matter to her. Justice was served. She'd done what was right, regardless of whether it was face-to-face or not.

Keith dropped to the sand as she pulled it free, turning her attention now on Lance... who had aided her target, tried to defy her justice...

But Keith didn't die right away, of course. That would be too merciful. He'd fallen on his side, bleeding heavily from a fatal wound in his gut. She'd run him straight through, almost dead center. It was excruciating at first. But, he started to go numb fairly quickly with the speed that he was losing blood. Pale blue liquid pooled and turned to ice on the sand...]
azurestar: (but secrets kill)

[personal profile] azurestar 2022-10-19 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[It happens so fast, he has no time to fully process before he's rushing forward, body numb and time slowing. His eyes are wide as his arms go around Keith just as he's hitting the ground. And there's blood, blood everywhere. His breaths come fast and hard in panic.]

No, nononono. Y-you're okay, I can- I can… [He can what? Already, his powers have flared to massive strength around them both, he unconsciously shifts it into as much of a barrier as he can. To buy time. He's not thinking anymore and his powers go wild, not just outward, but inward as well. His cells are visibly being torn to shreds along his neck but he doesn't seem to feel it. All his focus is on Keith.

He pulls him close, careful of his wound and uses his powers on the wound to try and cauterize it, stop the bleeding. A second later, he pulls his glove off his other hand with his teeth and places his hand on Keith's cheek to take his pain. He's crying, welling up at his water line, but unable to go further as they're instantly evaporated.]

P-please. You said you- you wouldn't go. [His voice is wet and breaking all over as he's lost the capacity to be fully rational. Something about that seems to give The Reckoning pause. It likely also doesn't help that Mariana roils behind her and an eldritch whisper comes from her depths that has Reckoning looking over her shoulder slightly.]
tempredmental: (Unconscious Ouch)

[personal profile] tempredmental 2022-10-21 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
We come back... right? [Keith panted a bit, clenching his teeth against Lance trying to cauterize one of the wounds. A small whimper escaped just before Lance placed his hand to Keith's skin to take that pain from him. But he still bleeding a lot from the back. There were two, an entry wound, and an exit wound.]

So, I'll... I'll just... come back...

[He mumbled something, it came out as a breathy whisper, but then managed to repeat it.] You'll be fine. You're stronger than you think...

[Keith closed his eyes, leaning into Lance's chest.]
azurestar: (despertear)

[personal profile] azurestar 2022-10-21 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's shaking his head, throat and lungs constricting in panic as Keith's words get jarbled by his warping perception of reality. He hears them right, but his mind isn't able to process them the way they're intended. And deep down he recognizes that his powers are killing him, a burst of star plasma comes out his cheek and flows without end and his skin crackles around it, tearing apart.

And corruption is fast building, his eye glowing blue as his scars open up again to reveal space beneath his skin. He doesn't care. His voice comes out warped when he speaks.] No, no n-not- I can hear it. The deep, it- it.

[Keith's pain and his emotions are still flowing into him and that isn't helping, he's taking too much, all of it. He doesn't care. He sees the cold blood spreading fast and unable to freeze because… because Lance is too hot. Keith's blood can't crystalize and stop flowing because of him.] I-I…

[He can't answer Keith's faith in his "strength" as he doesn't at all feel strong right now, he's coming apart at the seams mentally and physically. And he's just gone and made it all worse and he can't go back. He clutches Keith to himself tight and protective and shakes, sobs.] I-I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[His chest is starting to cave in.]
tempredmental: (I Might Need Some Help After All)

[personal profile] tempredmental 2022-10-24 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Stop... [It was hard to breathe.] Don't... don't do... this to your-... self... please? [Keith wasn't sure why, but he somehow knew that Lance's powers were doing this to him. He could see it. Barely, because it was getting so bright. But it was getting harder for him to fight against it. The heat was getting too much, and, as he felt himself getting weaker, he was having trouble keeping up.] I can't... I can't counter this...

Lance...

Lance, please...

I'm not... [Keith closed his eyes.] I'm not... I... you... [But he couldn't talk anymore. It was too much. He was losing consciousness.] Lance...

[Keith went limp.]
azurestar: (running up that hill)

cw: suicide by Pthumerian, beasthood gore

[personal profile] azurestar 2022-10-25 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith's talking, and part of him feels like that should be a good sign, so long as he keeps talking, he's still here with him. But he can barely get a sentence out, and Lance's mind is supplying distorted hallucinations in the gaps. He shakes his head to try and keep it straight, the only reason he can tell there's something wrong with his perceptions is the stabilizing gem on his wrist. It helps a lot of the time, but it has its limits.

And then all too soon, Keith goes fully limp in his arms. His breath catches and he leans back to brush at his face with his thumb. If the sudden dead weight and boneless quality to his body wasn't indicator enough, the sudden loss of pain and emotional input from his continued contact with his skin sure told him exactly what happened. He leans back to look at Keith's face, flashes of the last time he held a dead teammate and someone he loved overwhelming and overlaying in his mind.

His breath starts to come out uneven and distorted as he physically distorts from his powers and corruption. His teeth elongate and his eyes start to glow bright as he hunches over. A burst of blood and gore goes all over the beach as his chest cavity collapses and then erupts. A black hole begins to materialize where his heart should be in his open ribcage.

With his last conscious thought before beasthood fully takes hold, he turns to The Reckoning with a disturbing jerkiness. She appears as still and contemplative as her estranged lover, sword to the side as though she might plan to leave him there. That's how he reads it, anyway. And he doesn't want her to, he doesn't want to live and he doesn't care how it happens. When he speaks, his voice is distorted with an overlay of a beast and an undercurrent of a broken little kid.]

Either you kill me here and now or we're about to find out just how much of the city I can take with me when I go off.

[He's not entirely in touch with the fact that he's transforming. It feels almost like when he lets his powers loose… but there's a difference as well, he's just too overwhelmed and messed up to notice it. The Reckoning regards him a moment and Mariana seems to no longer have much of an opinion when the god of justice seems to listen for it. Then, without a moment's hesitation or any sign of remorse of conflict, her blade comes up and is pierced down through his back and the core of where his heart was. For good measure, she lifts it again and slices open his throat, nearly fully beheading him.

All at once, the energy he was letting off disappears as he collapses over onto his side, his arms are still around Keith, his mangled, partially transformed corpse curled around his head. The Reckoning turns to Mariana with a stiff, unhappy look, the exchange a few words and Mariana seems to take some amusement from the other god's conflicted displeasure. She is more powerful and that star boy is hers, besides, The Reckoning got what she wanted in the end.]
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