[7rings] catchall for steven

[shiftingwinds]

i'll make this post pretty when i'm less canonblind to steven

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[kokytos]

[ That reputation was in tatters the literal first day when the first and only thing you did was beeline towards the bar and start drinking like a madman. ]

Really inconvenient effect, isn't it? Or, well, convenient if it happens to show exactly what you were thinking of. [ He seems to get his bearings back. ]

...A rather wild adventure you had, very... dungeon-like.

[shiftingwinds]

[fair and valid.]

Well, that's Crimson Rain Sought Flower for you... he really is good at mind games...

[sulks]

But he's a good friend to His Highness.

[kokytos]

...We all just have one of those crazy people all around us, huh?

[ He laughs, just a little. ]

I don't have anyone testing me, but there is one man in my peripheral who's just known for causing shit. By accident.

[shiftingwinds]

Oh, is that so?

[she's curious... she wants to know...]

[kokytos]

Yeah...

[ He was smiling, but look at him. It looks like the soul has immediately left his eyes even as he just thinks about this man. ]

His name is Blitz T. Abrahms. But everyone calls him "Lucky" Abrahms.

Take a guess why?

[shiftingwinds]

[oh no]

Hmm... he soaks up all the good luck in a room, and everyone else is stuck with bad luck?

[kokytos]

Bingo.

[ SHE GOT IT RIGHT ON THE NOSE. And right when he says that, Shi Qingxuan is going to get. An INCREDIBLE memory. Of Hellsalem's Lot, an Otherworld-integrated version of New York, going into ABSOLUTE CHAOS. Cars are crashing, an airplane fell. A wild monster suddenly passed out in the middle of the sky and fell down on top of a restaurant, crushing the building. Pipes back up and explode, cracking asphalt, flooding streets. Steven watches as a bunch of debris just rams into a white-haired shithead of a man next to him, who is left standing there looking absolutely stunned as a stream of blood pours out of a fragment of concrete stuck in his forehead, comically.

And then across the street, one rather normal-looking man in the midst of this, completely unscathed, waving happily.

"Long time no see!" he says, like everything around him is normal... ]

[shiftingwinds]

This sort of luck is just unnatural.

[kokytos]

Yeah. We can usually tell when he's arrived in town because there'll be some kind of several series of natural and unnatural disasters.

[shiftingwinds]

Sounds like you've got a lot on your plate, back there.

[kokytos]

No kidding. And even worse is that Abrahms only shows up when he really has to -- meaning, we need an outside, more experienced voice in on the matter.

[ You know they only call a guy like THAT when they REALLY have to. Also he's totally just being disrespectful by not calling him by his first name or Mr. Abrahms or anything but it's fine, he can't hear him. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[oof. even worse, indeed. you know a situation is bad when the bad luck that follows that guy is worth whatever else he's bringing to the table.]

My, does that happen often?

[kokytos]

Oh Christ, no. I finally got to fuck off and stay away from Abrahms when we ended up settling in Hellsalem's Lot, you know how many times I've probably narrowly avoided death just by standing next to that guy?

We definitely make him stay away from us if we can help it.

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha, that sounds like the safer way to do things!

[


lonely for abrahms, though.]

[kokytos]

[ Trust me. That man is FINE. ]

Yeah. And that's just one of the people we're associated with... there's a whole slew of guys like him. Less accidentally destructive, at least.

[shiftingwinds]

An eccentric group of people... [she laughs] Sounds like the heavens to me!

[kokytos]

Haha, that's too much flattery for me. We're nothing like anything that could be in the heavens.

[shiftingwinds]

You'd be surprised! We gods were mortals once, you know. Humans are a lot more similar to us than you all think.

[kokytos]

Well, that's just another difference between gods of your world and mine, I suppose. [ Haha. ]

No shade to you, but I think I'd hate to become a god.

[shiftingwinds]

It's not for everyone. You should be whatever you want to be, anyway.

[kokytos]

...If only it was as simple as being able to choose, right?

[shiftingwinds]

...yeah. It would be nice if it was.

[kokytos]

[ His smile turns a little melancholy. He remembers when he asked that question himself to somebody else. ]

Maybe you should try visiting Hellsalem's Lot one day, if the possibilities allow it. [ Ha-ha. ] I don't think I could sufficiently describe it in words.

[shiftingwinds]

I wouldn't mind that! It would be interesting to see such a place with my own eyes.

[a beat]

And my luck isn't anywhere near as bad as his, so it shouldn't be a problem for you if I drop by!

[kokytos]

[ HE GROANS AT THE NOTION. ]

Please, if you were as bad as Abrahms, then I'm sorry but I would have to request you stay away.