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[align=center][div style="width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-family: calibri; font-size: 9.2pt; line-height: 1.4;"]cw for violence, hand trauma, blood, etc. v's in a bad place mentally and takes it out on a tree.

The life he's made here was sticks and stones. A shabby hut at best, one that barely protected him from the elements, but Volatile's always been someone that made a life best like this. When he's always gotta crawl his way out of dirt. He likes the scrabble for life, the desperation of creatures about to die, mostly 'cause it's something he knows deep in his stomach and the soles of his feet. V wouldn't say he's afraid of the world, but fear's what's gotten him this far. A deeply ingrained wariness and rage at everything that God'd apparently made. He hates the idea of that, you know. That there's someone in charge of this shithole. They must be as chaotic as he was, if that was the case, and there's no way in hell someone like V should be in charge of anything. He tears shit apart to spite the heavens, makes people bleed because he's always bleeding too. That's just how it goes, that's why he's always been this alone. It's the way it has to be.

Being God doesn't suit him. All this time without Bane's left Volatile wound tight as a spring, the sort'f pressure that'll carve cuts down everyone once the tension shoots out. He's tried to keep it contained, hitting concrete and dirt and Caustic until he's bloody, until everything's so fucking ruined, but this time tearing something else apart doesn't do anything to put Volatile back together. He told himself maybe it was the city. Maybe it was the dogs or Malik or Caustic or just that missing piece of stability Bane gave him — he got out anyway, knocked down one of the skulls from the top of the fence and dragged his claws through tree bark. They catch and they'll dull but he marks them the way a wild animal would, carving lines into his piece of the world as a warning and a claim.

Maybe that's too poetic. He's just fucking angry. Golden hair sticks to his forehead and the back of his neck with sweat that beads down tanned skin, his heart beats harshly against his ribs and he throws his weight into a punch that sends sparks of white up behind his eyes. Again and again and again until the skin there is mangled and raw and he has nothing left in his chest. V rests his head against the rough bark and tries to breathe deeply. He can feel the dirt sticking to his skin and his shirt sticking to his chest. The sun beating down on his shoulders through the tree branches, the hot blood trickling down each joint of his fingers. Can't close it fully now without stabbing pain, but he keeps trying anyway and breathing through the searing white.


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[align=center][div style="width:500px;font-size:9.2pt; text-align:justify"]It was a very human thing to not know what the fuck was happening. To grow restless with it and stalk down the cage bars, trying to see more of the world through partitioned spaces, trying to name what about it raised the hair on their necks. Maybe it was the sky, cut into pieces by metal poles; maybe it was the simultaneous closeness and distance of free soil. Could be lacking the key for the door, or the people standing outside staring with pockets of peanuts because they liked to mock the guys with strange names and scarred skin. Just as they thought tigers were simple novelties for their stripes and teeth. Strange and bizarre for knowing themselves, for the ability to distinguish prey from competition.

And everything beyond that door was prey.

Their great obstacle. Not the soft-bellied idiots who thought they could remake the world into what it used to be, but restraint. Going up against the one thing stubborn enough to take a beating: themselves. Was this place worth it? Keeping their hands at their sides, sharpening their claws in preparation for empty air? You couldn't train a lion to sustain itself with grass.

Volatile was feeling that now. Had to be, unless something else was going on in his animal brain. Wouldn't surprise him. Most people were simple, boring, but V was afflicted with the unfortunate case of being made for violence over sensibility. Violence was fists and biting, twisting and tearing. All these moving parts V had learned to become to survive. Couldn't live in a fire and remain flammable. 

Burning out was a problem, though. Caustic had noticed his restlessness, and excuse his lack of surprise when he found claw marks in the trunk of a tree. Not some kind of animal, of course- not really. Just Volatile, who'd be fucked up in some way once Volatile found him.

And he was.

"Didn't even bind your goddamn hands, did you? You wanna lose use of your fingers, just ask me- I'd do it a lot quicker than punching a tree." C kept a measured distance between them. "You done, or do I gotta knock you on your ass?"


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[align=center][div style="width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-family: calibri; font-size: 9.2pt; line-height: 1.4;"]cw for more gross violent imagery but no actualized violence yet

He wasn't quite human though, was he? Humans were...soft. Their flesh tore and shredded, they were weak. He wasn't caged, wasn't restricted to this same old useless shit they were. Didn't worry about what was good or right or righteous. What he needed, what he wanted, that's gospel enough for him. It's not right to say that he's not caged. He's not caged the way people are caged, born and raised into a pretty little society. The blackout didn't change shit, even as it changed everything. Not for him. He'd always been free and wild, but now there was a snare around his neck. And he struggled against it like a feral thing, like he was wild, 'cause he was and there's nothing else to it than that. No, it wasn't a cage. He wasn't caged, he was tied, he was running out of room to pace and he was choking himself trying to get more. Yes he wants more. He wants to see and feel and have that wild thrum of adrenaline and excitement and sheer fucking terror. Not this sort of terror that gets caught in his throat and puts more energy in his feet than his fists.

Needs a fight, really. Needs a threat, something real. Caustic's a threat but he's not enough of one anymore — 's'not like he's saying the guy couldn't end him. He just fucking won't, no matter what V says or does. It's good, sometimes. It's good to feel safe around someone, safe to be stupid and angry and loud, but he doesn't want safety anymore. He wants someone to tear him apart and not fucking stop. Maybe this whole thing ain't for him, trying to be human.

He slaps an open hand down hard against the tree when he hears C's voice, not looking at him but seeing the distance anyway. Seeing that he's ready for it all, that he knows V well enough to know what he's gonna do, what he needs to do, and anger starts seeping back in already. He hits the tree again, unsteady and too quick, swaying as he pushes off of it and turns to face him, brown eyes wild and breath coming fast. Normally he'd start snarling back at him, but his mouth just parts for a few breaths and then closes again. He's skin's hot and his blood's hot and his anger burns hotter than both of them combined, which comes as a relief more than anything. Relief that he's here, even if he needs more of a fight than C can offer — knowing him, he wouldn't go all out anyway right now.

"Fuck you," he finally rasps.


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