couldbeavoided: (BOB/won't like me when I'm angry)
Robert Reynolds ☼ THE SENTRY ☀ the void ([personal profile] couldbeavoided) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2012-08-31 08:20 pm

beneath the black, the sky looks dead

WHO: THE VOID and YOU?
WHERE: Around the City and the Brooklyn Bridge
WHEN: Sunday, 8/2
WARNINGS: Violence, death, chaos
SUMMARY: The Sentry loses control.
FORMAT: Quick.


[ There was no abrupt revelation, no struggle; when Robert Reynolds had opened his eyes that day, the Sentry was simply nowhere to be found. He'd flown from the mansion into the sky, a poisonous oily creature wearing Bob's skin and the Sentry's clothes until even that began to shed. Red eyes and an aura like fire and toxic ash, sharp tendrils coiling out behind and around him like sentient shadows.

Years. Years here, trapped, ignored, denied. Bob was done fighting, and hurting; his mind went blank so that someone else could use his body to fight back. But it was his body, too -- the Void celebrated his freedom by flying into the sky, raising his arms and calling upon the sky to darken in deep reds and purples. Clouds collected and rain started pouring; he raised his face to the rain and smiled, before he dropped from the sky and flew cleanly through the Brooklyn Bridge. ]

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-02 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a voice. Someone is talking to him. Someone who understands. It is hopeless-it always was. It always will be. Connors manages to stammer out a reply, through choked sobs, his throat tight from the screaming.]

It is. Oh God, it is.

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-02 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I should have died. I-

[He felt the pain shoot through his arm, despite the fact that it wasn't there-he felt the searing pain of when he lost it. And then he was at a grave, at Richard Parker's grave, looking at the tombstone.]

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-02 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[What? No. No, no, no, what was this? Why was he still here? He let out a sharp yell as the tentacle was ripped out, still reliving his past, all his mistakes, all of the things he could have done better, the reason he was useless. Curt Connors was left, fallen on the sidewalk, eyes wide as he remained lost in his own past.

He was alone.
]
necronomicod: (anemones abound)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
*Ever since the sky had gone all black and dark and swirly - and not in a good Horrorterrors-esque way either - Feferi had been out and about. They were here to be heroes, right? So it was time for her to do some hero-ing.

Except she was having a devil of a time finding anyone to hero at. In fact, as she stopped to try to catch her bearings, she didn't see the man lying on the ground behind her.*

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-04 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He had heard the footsteps. Connors heard footsteps. He felt weak, so weak thanks to that...whatever it was, that he could barely get up. Still, he managed to at least push himself up off of the concrete.]

Please...please, help.
necronomicod: (whale i never)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-04 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
*And the girl spun around, her eyes opening wide.* O-oh my cod!

*She's rushing over to you now.* No, no, stay down! Stay down! What happened?

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-04 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He could easily stay down. Connors slumped back against the concrete, looking up at the girl.]

Whatever that...that thing is, it's dangerous. Very dangerous.

[He was back in therapy, trying to-no. No he wasn't. He was on the sidewalk, next to a girl.]

Don't let those tendrils hit you.
necronomicod: (oh nooooo...)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-04 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Tendrils? I haven't seen any tendrils! Just a bunch of rain and swirly grimdark clouds and things!

Hold still, though. I'm not very good at this yet. Um... where were you hurt?

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-04 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
My back. This...this thing came from the sky. It had these smoky tendril things. One touched my back and...

[And then he was suddenly flung into a fistful of memories. The girl didn't need to know that. He rolled over slightly, exposing his mostly missing right arm, but also more of his back. His back was covered with bruises from where he hit the concrete and burns from where the smokey tentacle hit him.]
Edited 2012-09-04 07:03 (UTC)
necronomicod: (whale i never)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-04 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Your arm--! *Le gasp.* It took your whole arm, too?!

Okay, I... I'll take care of this! Just relax!

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-04 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, don't worry about the arm. It's...it's fine. Just the back. [And then, said rather bitterly,] The arm's-argh, the arm's been like that for a while.
necronomicod: (oh nooooo...)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-05 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure? I don't know how much I can do yet but I could give it a try!

*But she's putting her palms on his back, her upper arms beginning to glow a faint green, moving down her arms into her hands.*

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-05 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Just worry about the back. Thank you.

[He feels the pressure from her hands on his back. It hurts for a moment then suddenly...the pain starts to fade. At least physically, he feels better. Slowly, Connors manages to sit upright and look at the girl who managed to heal him.]

You don't need to worry about the arm. I wouldn't want you to exert your healing power on that, not when there might be others wounded here.

[Damn his nobility.]
necronomicod: (wtf r u doin)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-06 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Clam it, basster! I'm the one who's in charge of what I can do here.

*She is giving you such a Look now that you're up. But she's breathing a bit harder.* I'm trying to find my limits, so why shouldn't I test them?

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-06 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Connors is just blinking back in surprise. It's obvious he wasn't expecting the Look.]

...sure, why not. I can't see the harm in trying.
necronomicod: (silhouette)

[personal profile] necronomicod 2012-09-08 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Okay!

...um, here goes. *More green light! Brighter green light! ...it doesn't appear to be working, Dr. Connor. Your arm might feel better, though.*

[personal profile] ex_mostlyarmless446 2012-09-08 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, at least he has a healthy stump now.]

It certainly looks better. Not whole, obviously, but not as scratched up.