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angryhearts2020-10-31 01:10 pm
inquiryguqin) wrote in angryhearts2020-10-31 01:10 pm
Taken away
WHO: Lan Wangji and whoever attended the Halloween party, ota
WHAT: Halloween party, monster crashing party, shades, and aftermath, this night is totally cursed
WHEN: Night of Halloween party, October 31st, and wwx's unbirthday
WHERE: Ballroom, in the hotel
NOTES:CW: Death, gore, body mutilation/maiming, violence, PTSD, mental breakdowns
I. Lost
It was almost nearing the end of the night when the party is almost finished and that's when the monster came crashing. The staff barricades themselves in the staff-only area, and everyone is left to defend themselves against the monster. It's becoming clear, connecting to the stalking scarecrows who are tormenting him for the past weeks, wearing the fashion of his clan, as in a sudden realization as to why he was being targeted by the nightmare of the creature, controlling them.
The shadows are shadowy, nimble, with sharp claws and teeth. Their darkness is like a spiderweb, connecting to each other as a hivemind. Each time he managed to kill one, another takes place after another, and the one he managed to take down will reappear in a few moments, not giving him much room for a break. He kept fighting, but he is outnumbered. The shades took shape of his sect seniors, and one, in particular, looks like his husband, except it keeps whispering, "Get lost" over and over repeatedly during the attack.
"Get out of here and run." He managed to say to the others, warning them to run away for their lives and their safety, before he starts to fight for his very life. Eventually it's a battle to stay alive. Anyone who can manage to help will find it very difficult to fight the shades as a group, as the shades give chase to anyone in the ballroom, taking shape of the people alive or dead they once knew back home, and the group can easily be divided, so help will not come easily to him.
The shade that impersonate his husband whispers, "Get lost" over and over. It's the only words he hears and it's the last word, as the shade attacking him sank their teeth and claws into his flesh, strangulating his throat, mauling him asunder. Much worse is the burning pain is when he's losing blood, pooling on the floor. He's loosing too much and too fast of it as the fight goes on and he knew he was going to die. There's no feeling other than the chaos of fighting, pain, and losing his consciousness to the darkness that is tearing him apart.
Eventually, the pain is no more, and his heart eventually stops. His final words as his last breath left him is his beloved's name. The last thing on his mind is Wei Ying and his smiles, the only light in his life as the pain and warmth of his body left him and faded away into the nothingness...
II. Taken away
After what felt like hours, the monster left. The hotel staff will re-emerge once they're pretty sure everything is safe. There was a mess and it's inevitable for the clean-up.
Lan Wangji's body was laid on the floor. After some time, as part of the clean-up crew, anyone present in the ballroom will see that two hotel staff members will come to collect the body from the ballroom to have him taken away to clean up the mess before the main clean-up crew will come.
[ooc: This is a mingle-post, so feel free to make your own top-levels. I won't be responding as lwj because...Reasons. Feel free to be the one he's trying to save during battle or saving him. There's also an NPC section for hotel staff. As a reminder, attacking NPC staff will have serious consequences!]
WHAT: Halloween party, monster crashing party, shades, and aftermath, this night is totally cursed
WHEN: Night of Halloween party, October 31st, and wwx's unbirthday
WHERE: Ballroom, in the hotel
NOTES:CW: Death, gore, body mutilation/maiming, violence, PTSD, mental breakdowns
I. Lost
It was almost nearing the end of the night when the party is almost finished and that's when the monster came crashing. The staff barricades themselves in the staff-only area, and everyone is left to defend themselves against the monster. It's becoming clear, connecting to the stalking scarecrows who are tormenting him for the past weeks, wearing the fashion of his clan, as in a sudden realization as to why he was being targeted by the nightmare of the creature, controlling them.
The shadows are shadowy, nimble, with sharp claws and teeth. Their darkness is like a spiderweb, connecting to each other as a hivemind. Each time he managed to kill one, another takes place after another, and the one he managed to take down will reappear in a few moments, not giving him much room for a break. He kept fighting, but he is outnumbered. The shades took shape of his sect seniors, and one, in particular, looks like his husband, except it keeps whispering, "Get lost" over and over repeatedly during the attack.
"Get out of here and run." He managed to say to the others, warning them to run away for their lives and their safety, before he starts to fight for his very life. Eventually it's a battle to stay alive. Anyone who can manage to help will find it very difficult to fight the shades as a group, as the shades give chase to anyone in the ballroom, taking shape of the people alive or dead they once knew back home, and the group can easily be divided, so help will not come easily to him.
The shade that impersonate his husband whispers, "Get lost" over and over. It's the only words he hears and it's the last word, as the shade attacking him sank their teeth and claws into his flesh, strangulating his throat, mauling him asunder. Much worse is the burning pain is when he's losing blood, pooling on the floor. He's loosing too much and too fast of it as the fight goes on and he knew he was going to die. There's no feeling other than the chaos of fighting, pain, and losing his consciousness to the darkness that is tearing him apart.
Eventually, the pain is no more, and his heart eventually stops. His final words as his last breath left him is his beloved's name. The last thing on his mind is Wei Ying and his smiles, the only light in his life as the pain and warmth of his body left him and faded away into the nothingness...
II. Taken away
After what felt like hours, the monster left. The hotel staff will re-emerge once they're pretty sure everything is safe. There was a mess and it's inevitable for the clean-up.
Lan Wangji's body was laid on the floor. After some time, as part of the clean-up crew, anyone present in the ballroom will see that two hotel staff members will come to collect the body from the ballroom to have him taken away to clean up the mess before the main clean-up crew will come.
[ooc: This is a mingle-post, so feel free to make your own top-levels. I won't be responding as lwj because...Reasons. Feel free to be the one he's trying to save during battle or saving him. There's also an NPC section for hotel staff. As a reminder, attacking NPC staff will have serious consequences!]
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"Lan Zhan was there..." He had moved into the room to wait for him. To take care of Lil' Apple and make sure that he wasn't alone when he arrived. But he would have been alone..had been alone when he died. And already he has failed his husband by not protecting him. How can he possibly let him be alone in death?
But he also knows that he was comforted by his soul twin. That he had received comfort from him. But he can't expect that from the others. The circumstances are different now. They are married and he can't possibly intrude upon them.
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"Do you know what it will do to him, if you are not there when he wakes? Because I do."
He has seen it. He might not have been the one to see this version of Wangji through the first years of living without Wei Wuxian, but he doubts the pain he was in was very different from the Wangji of his own world - and he did see this Wangji, when Wei Wuxian died here.
It is not only for Wangji's sake that he's arguing, of course. It is for his own, when he does not want to lose Wei Wuxian either, and for Wei Wuxian himself. Dying is not a solution for having to face your world crumbling down around you - someone stopped Lan Xichen from making that choice when he contemplated it himself, and he cannot let Wei Wuxian do this.
"Stay with me, Wei Wuxian. Wait for him with me. Please."
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His voice is barely audible. He can hardly manage the words but it is the fear that is gripping his heart perhaps even stronger then the fear of being alone for those days as he waits. His entire body starts to tremble as that fear starts to take a hold of him, causing him to clutch even harder at the man in his arms. He will never let go. If he can simply keep his eyes on him then he will know for sure that he will come back and not simply disappear from his life completely.
He wants to believe that in three days the man will return to him. That he doesn't have anything to fear and that he can simply wake up in Lan Wangji's arms again. But the hotel is so unpredictable. How can they really be sure of anything?
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The moment he says it, he realizes that he believes it. Lan Xichen is not one for empty promises - even if lying were not forbidden, it is not in him to be so blatantly dishonest.
It is not only because he doesn't want to allow himself to consider any other alternative than that Wangji will be back. It is the mostly likely conclusion, from what they know of those in charge here and what their motivations are, from all of their previous actions.
"Those who run this hotel are capable of many things, most of them contradictions. The only thing they have been consistent on is never causing us lasting physical harm. They need us, and we are no good to them dead."
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"I won't let them take him.." Because he doesn't trust the hotel anymore. He doesn't want to let the man out of his sights. He will be there when Lan Wangji's wakes up. He will make sure they don't do anything more to harm him. He won't be alone...
"It they take him, they are taking me with him."
His voice is stern. Harsher then it has been for many minutes. Wei Wuxian has always been stubborn and he is going to be very stubborn about this.
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He does not have time to fall apart.
Instead he forces himself to focus on Wei Wuxian, on the tension in his body and the edge in his voice.
He doesn't argue, not yet. His voice is gentle as he asks, "Why?"
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When he was about to die the twins words echoed in his head. About how alone he was and how there was no one there to help him. Lan Wangji will never be alone. He will never feel that fear of being away from the ones he loves. He will be locked in Wei Wuxian's embrace the entire time and know that he is loved. And he will fight anyone who tries to tear him away.
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Later, if they both survive this, if Wei Wuxian does not hate him for what Lan Xichen is prepared to do if he cannot convince him with words, perhaps Wei Wuxian will let him try then.
For now he holds his gaze steady on Wei Wuxian.
"He is already dead. He can feel nothing. It will not help him to try to go with him, Wei Wuxian, whether you are dead or alive. Either they will separate you when they bring you back or they will lock you away, and he will be alone."
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"He won't be alone. I won't let him be alone! I'll never let him go!"
Wei Wuxian's voice is raised, panic gripping it as he continues to shake his head. Even though a small part in the back of his brain, he knows that Lan Xichen is right and that there is no way they will let him go with him, he can't help how he feels.
"He'll know...he'll know I failed him..."
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He does not let himself say that Wei Wuxian is not the one who failed him. He knows exactly how he would feel if someone tried to tell him that he did not fail to protect his brother right now.
"The only thing he will care about is that you are the first thing he sees when he opens his eyes again. And you cannot do that if you do not stay."
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"How can i possibly be there if I don't even know where he will wake up?"
He woke up in Lotus Pier, but that is his room. Lan Wangji has been living there with him but technically his room is Cloud Recesses. What if he picks the wrong place? What if despite all his efforts, Lan Wangji still opens his eyes to find no one? Wei Wuxian is at a loss of what to do and with each minute that passes he is becoming more and more broken inside.
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He lets go of Wei Wuxian's hands, now, but only to pull the sleeves of the bathrobe he'd worn to the party over one of his hands and cup Wei Wuxian's cheek. He doesn't really try to dry the tears, just - holds it there.
It's instinct, more than anything else.
"He will wake up in his assigned room, and we will both be there."
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He lets out a rather shaky sigh. It is probably for the best that it was Lan Xichen that was there to try and talk him down. Otherwise there is no telling where or how he would have ended up.
"We will..."