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[Verdigris]

  as the title would imply- may contain half-finished or not-even-near-finished stuff

[Verdigris]

[spoiler=small plot bunny?]
don't threaten me with a good time

-basically Lithium City, if soulless!Michael were running it (here, Michael's full-on personality change resulted from damage to his frontal lobe (possibly sustained in a suicide attempt?))
-wild parties every night, probably a lot of crime as well
-literally everyone has a dark secret:
-Saffron fled to another city to escape the stress of dealing with everyone else
-Michael has his aforementioned suicidality and past abandonment issues
-Florence is a pyromaniac who did time in an asylum (and deals drugs on the side)
-Tattered/Thomas has to deal with his sister being a pyromaniac who did time in an asylum (and deals drugs on the side)
-Americanbeauty/Hayley also has abandonment issues due to numerous ex-boyfriends leaving her
-Devlin also has abandonment and trust issues, particularly with Florence
-Luke secretly yearns to leave and go back to his old hometown, which was destroyed in a massive fire (one caused by Michael's ex-fiance)
-naming Biyoka's myriad of issues would take way too long
-Dylan is being stalked and gaslighted by Michael (though no one else is aware of this), and also only has one eye due to an accident he suffered as a kid
-Seija is an illegal immigrant, and only lives in the city because Michael was the only person that would offer her an actual job
-Sadie has to take care of Florence whenever the latter is kicked out of the apartment she shares with Michael
-Scry tries to act as a therapist for everyone, but a) rarely receives any support themselves, and b) still has some of their past failures haunting them
-Akira has had issues with self-harm in the past (due to being neglected and abused as a child)
-Scarlet is incredibly worried about everyone, but hides it beneath a cheery veneer (not that dark in comparison to the others)
-(James' secret)
-(Cadet's secret)
-(Marisa's secret)
-(Nova's secret)
-(Ianthe's secret)

so Peregrine meets Dylan somewhere else, and he leads her there one night, only for her to be captivated by all the crazy stuff going on
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[Verdigris]

[spoiler=wip]
far too young to die

tags: Lithium City, Peregrine-centric, no dialogue, extremely angsty, not really sure what I was doing with this

The air inside of the apartment had long since stagnated.

Peregrine merely stood there for a moment, gripping her key tightly in one hand, watching the light play upon the dust particles beyond the open doorway. Truthfully, she had almost hoped that the key wouldn't work this time, foolish as it was- it had unlocked the same door dozens of times before. Taking a deep breath and steeling herself, though, she stepped inside and closed the door, then pressed the light switch.

The lights did not turn on- perhaps she should have figured that would be the case. Swallowing, the female fished her phone out of her pocket and turned on its flashlight, pointing it towards the far wall.

The desk was still settled against the wall, stacks of various documents still covering its surface. The chair remained in the corner, the laptop perched on the seat cushion (the girl couldn't help but wonder if it still had charge on it). The television sat rigid near the side wall, its darkened screen reflecting the flashlight's glare, as if staring back at her, waiting.

Everything was in its proper place. It could have easily been a normal day, were it not for the emptiness, the agonizing silence that permeated the air.

Fighting the urge to turn and leave right then, Peregrine gingerly approached the desk, turning her flashlight towards the ground to ensure she wouldn't step on anything she couldn't see. Reaching the desk, she lifted her phone and pointed the light towards the clutter on its surface.

The first thing she noticed was a stack of what appeared to be photographs. Raising a brow, she took the photo on top and brought it closer to her face, tilting the flashlight to illuminate what was on it.

It looked like a group photo, taken in the old hospital's lobby, although she could only recognize a few of the people in it. Florence was standing near the left, ruffling a younger boy's blonde hair, a genuine smile on her face. Two other blonde males, much older, appeared to be joking around in the center (one looked almost like Michael, if Michael had been capable of any positive emotions). A shorter girl, with mousy brown hair, stood by Florence and the younger boy, watching with a wistful look on her face.

In the corner, someone had scrawled 8/29/15.

Frowning, the girl set down the photo, then spread the others out on the desk.

The second one was missing Florence, the boy that she'd been standing next to, one of the older blondes, and some others- the Michael lookalike was still present, standing in the center, but had a strained expression on his features. The brown-haired girl, too, was standing in the back, looking away from the camera; looking closer, she seemed thinner, as though the smallest gust of wind could blow her away (perhaps this was Devlin?). A few new faces had joined the crowd, but not nearly as many as had vanished from the previous photo, and none of them were anyone she recognized. The date in the corner read 10/14/15.

The third one was lacking the Michael lookalike; however, both Florence and the other older blonde male had reappeared, and the brown-haired girl was still present. Dylan was in this photo, though, with both eyes intact and as big a grin as ever. Glancing down at the corner, she noted that this photo was dated 1/3/16.

The fourth one...

wip
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