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Jacob "Styx" Graves ([personal profile] tothemetal) wrote in [community profile] aefenglom2021-01-08 12:38 am

video; un: styx

Name: Styx
Date: 01/09
Format: video

[Styx doesn't really like to use the voice function, let alone video. but he's got a question that would greatly benefit from some visual aid, so...enjoy your view of a fish tank, network. there's a single resident inside just chilling, weaving his way around the lush plants and the decorative skull without a care in the world. the skull's eye sockets are continuously changing colors, but that doesn't seem to bother him.

this is a much nicer view than his stupid face for sure.]


Um, hey! You guys have tattoos where you're all from? Just mean in general, not, uh...actually on you or nothing, haha.

[it would kind of be a pointless question if they already had a piece done, wouldn't it? this was off to a great start already.]

I'm gonna get a new piece done real soon, but 'm kinda stuck on what to do with the design. There's just so much killer shit, you know? So I thought maybe if I heard what everybody here's into it'd help me pick something out...'nd if not at least I'll get to see some cool stuff!

[the camera shifts now, briefly glimpsing an extremely large man before it narrows in on what is presumably that same massive guy's upper arm and the wicked tattoo on display.]

This is what I already got! Picked it 'cause it went with my name, but I dunno if I should do more skulls again? Be like too much of a good thing, you know?

Oh, hey, Soren! Dunno if you're listening but you should check everybody's shit out too! 's your money 'nd all, I wanna get something you think's awesome.
silentsavant: (=69=)

[personal profile] silentsavant 2021-02-07 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Especially" since it's me?

[What? Why does he get special treatment? He's beginning to think he has a way with idiots. Is this partly because he thought to return the gift-giving gesture? Does he think they're closer than they are? He clearly didn't do a good enough job at keeping him at a comfortable arm's length away. Then again, he had been a help whenever he showed up to do some of the heavier lifting, so it's not like he had any reason to make it seem like he wasn't welcome there beyond withdrawing into extended silences and conveying disinterest in holding most idle and especially vapid conversations with him.

A bit of sympathy worms its way in. never had that before. Soren's desire to make many friends may have been stifled at an early age, but it didn't mean being harshly rejected by everyone you met didn't hurt severely.

Hmm. Keeping him around for his utility cannot be completely to blame, either, though. That said, he can see why some people might be reluctant to "let" him care about them if they're easy to annoy or embarrassed by associating with him. Soren falls more into the former category.]


Why do you think they pushed you away, anyway?