Death Just Needs A Little Conversation [Open]

[fivemilesdeep]

Who: Ryo and Open (angled towards those with death powers/connections)
Where: ICP/Garden Car
When: Nebula 3
What: Ryo is coming to terms with the fact that he's kept his death-related Diagad powers, so now he's asking for help with them. (They're not what he's afraid they are, but he doesn't know that yet.)
Warnings: Probably a lot of death talk, but we'll go from there.
Notes: It starts as an ICP post, but he won't be replying on the network, only in person. Anyone is welcome to join in; he's just angling for people with Insight Into Death. (I'll also match prose or brackets.)

[Ryo looks...uncertain at best, but much closer to 'worried but trying not to show it' as the ICP flickers on.]

If anyone is connected to death, or has death-related powers, I could use your help.

[-wait that sounds bad-]

It's nothing crazy - I just have...questions.

[He can't quite bring himself to say what he's actually worried about, so instead it's just:]

I'll be in the garden car, if you wouldn't mind coming to see me.

[And the ICP flickers off. He's not planning on having this conversation in front of the train and everyone, so in-person it is. True to his word, he's sitting on one of the benches in the garden car with Lagos in his lap, holding the plush bird and trying not to let his fears run away with him. He may not be entirely succeeding. It may be obvious.]

Comments

[acapriciousthing]

[Well. That sounds like a job for her. It doesn't take her long to find herself in the garden car.]

One... might say I am connected to death.

[It's not much of a joke but still.]

[zombiemessiah]

[Murphy doesn't even reply on the network. He just shows up with two wine-cooler level drinks and holds one out to Ryo.]

Death powers, huh?

[He sits down beside him. He may not be invited in particular but 'death powers' is basically all he's got going for him. Besides the ability to have some kind of fun with his lot in life, that is.]

[thawed_pride]

[Ryo remembers Vexen's swirling portals of darkness, right? He's stepping out of one now, though the effect is probably less ominous with him wearing a white coat instead of a black one.]

I am not a skilled manipulator of death magics, but rather the opposite. I thought I might offer my expertise with revival spells should your...questions go awry.

[controlsthedie]

[ A bell toil and burst of darkness and starlight fills the Garden Car as soon as Ryo's message ends. Why didn't Ryo come to ask him? He's Death Incarnate. He is Death. One of them. A broken, incomplete Death whose absence has likely brought the end of all mortal life on his world.

... Maybe Ryo didn't come to Thanatos because he has been a mess and felt like he couldn't. Thanatos stands awkwardly, fully knowing that Ryo is aware of his presence, before he decides to go forward with his initial summons instead of returning to where he came from. ]

Ryo, what's going on?

[wewillwewill]

[Elidibus has a lot less structure to his shadowy teleport method than Vexen. It's more of a cloud that he steps out of before it disappears. But here he is in the garden car. He's courteous enough to not appear right next to or behind Ryo; having had experience with the alarm several other passengers have had when he did so in the close confines of the train. No need to startle the youth.]

You are Ryo? I've some experience with the cycle of life and death. Do you still seek assistance?

[He won't immediately remark on Ryo's condition, choosing instead to look at the state of affairs. After all, others might have already been by.]

[schrodingersghost]

[Danny was a little uncertain about coming. His powers weren't exactly death powers? But he figured he might as well see if he could help.]

I have ghost powers, if that counts.

[jingyeets]

( It's less about really responding to Ryo's call out on ICP, asking for people with death-adjacent powers. Jingyi doesn't think of his own that way, though yes, he's trained to deal with souls and passings and energies and can, given time or access or inclination, use his own energies to try and help heal or destroy: but these are not the ways he chooses to fight, aren't his first inclinations. So it's odd in a way, knowing Ryo and his healing and how inimical it is to him, to have him talk about death powers and connections, because in a certain sense, Jingyi already assumes he has them.

Two sides of the same coin, right? Knowing the capacity for death and killing, and knowing the capacity for life and saving, and being on one side while aware of the other side. Heck, Ryo's healing had its own inherent danger.

Either way, he was already planning to head to the garden for the new lighting of incense, having worked through most of his elective schedule for the day. He slightly detours to pick up one of the teapots and tea from the kitchens, a silent thank you and bow of his head to his elders who've been so kind to start supplying these beautiful necessities to the train's population, and so when he does see Ryo, he sets down a tray with tea and cups. )

Been getting the help you've asked for?

( In no way was he particularly fast coming out this way, given the leaping around the train by transgate that's required to be here, there, then back again, so he expects a number have started talking with or already been by. He's curious, dressed as he is in train uniform for the day, but he's also here to tend to the dead and the lost. )