Ushiromiya Battler ([personal profile] damedana) wrote2023-02-15 09:17 am

[UMINEKO SPOILERS] Heart (Scored) - Merlot

The story ends as such:
"when the seagulls cried, none were left alive"...

But this isn't such a sad story.

This is a story about love.
todineonthecorpse: (you will be remembered)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-16 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Please try and hold on a moment longer, miss. I'll be right back.

[and he leaves the phone off the hook and goes to the wardrobe. for reasons. Kanon-related reasons, perhaps.]
todineonthecorpse: (and he holds the spade)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-16 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

... well, be a shame not to peek ...

[so yes, he's opening the wardrobe anyway, even as he has to walk through a few shallow pools of blood to do it. spish spish spootsh]
todineonthecorpse: (when you work for the father)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-16 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[you'd be correct.]

[but that doesn't answer the burning curiosity Merlot has about what clothes Battler keeps in his wardrobe.]
todineonthecorpse: (and he holds the spade)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-16 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[well]

[perhaps not]

[but it could've been]

Not even Big Brother Kanon's clothes, huh ... ah, well. they wouldn't fit me anyway.

[so he goes to try the phone again, because while that obviously meant something he's unfamiliar with a disconnection tone entirely, and so.]
todineonthecorpse: (when you work for the father)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-16 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[puts that stain up to his lips]

[and licks it off his fingers, contemplatively, as he's already shrugging away from the phone and moving towards the door, leaning down to pick up the sword where it fell.]

It would be very unfulfilling if the same trick works twice, father. Just so you know. But I'll respect your commitment to personal integrity, all the same. It's a kind of honor, and I understand that.

[but he is going to try and cut the chain with the sword, again, anyway.]
todineonthecorpse: (you will drag the lakes)

Re: A... Room

[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-17 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh. well. so this one actually has a key, for real, this time.]

[the first thought Merlot has, then, is "perhaps the key is buried in the candy-basket?" and so that's what he's going to check first.]
todineonthecorpse: (and he holds the spade)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[not to worry, he's not going to stop there - but there's only so much one wants to throw at a poor room with a view at a time, after all, especially when one is working their way up to something like - say - pulling the beds apart, to see if there's a key hidden beneath the mattresses, and also opening literally anything openable, again. i.e., the dresser, the nightstand, and if there's a cabinet under the sink in the bathroom that too. he's going to get his hands on them all - and if need be he's going to try and pull on the electrotoxin that is his right to call on as well and see about disintegrating anything that gets in the way of tearing through the room to find - that - damn - key.]

The key to that lock is somewhere in this room, after all.
todineonthecorpse: (of sinners never saved)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[you know what, might as well. there's a certain threshold past which he's going to lose it and dissolve into a puddle of orgiastic violation and it's important to know when he crosses it.]

[also i forgot about the corpse entirely lmao so yeah Merlot is definitely getting his gross blood-coated fingers - because tearing the room apart absolutely means getting some of what's on the floor on your hands, at least if you're Merlot - all over that corpse, too.]
todineonthecorpse: (you carry the net)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[electrotoxin is a manifestation of the Originium Arts which Merlot inherited from Yuzu, ahem. imagine if electricity were rendered into a viscous fluid, like a wet corrosive shock capable of being expressed through the pores of one's skin like sweat. like a decaying mist that also gives you little goosepimple tingles all over.]

[basically he's trying to disintegrate things with a touch.]

[he almost electrotoxins the corpse for going "oof!", then stops himself. what the fuck?]

... I'm sorry, what?

[HAVE THEY BEEN ALIVE THIS ENTIRE TIME. DID THEY OVERHEAR EVERYTHING HE DID IN HERE.]
todineonthecorpse: (cursed are the places you have been)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[... well. a little politeness never hurt. might as well make his last memories pleasant, hm? so he doesn't suspect too much.]

If anything, Grandfather, I'm helping make it easier to clean up in here, like any good servant would do - particularly if some of the mess winds up being self-inflicted.

[the "Grandfather" is ... not meant familiarly, as much as it's simply an overly friendly way to address an elderly gentleman, but his player's got a sinking suspicion he may be more "correct" in that assertion than he's aware.]
todineonthecorpse: (and he holds the spade)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[he grins.]

Well, I suppose maybe someone might've "seen", or "heard", something - but as for what state I'd assume that someone might've been left in, it seems fair to me to suggest a live man wouldn't have been in the room to see anything, but a corpse is a blameless witness.
todineonthecorpse: (take the girls)

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[personal profile] todineonthecorpse 2023-02-18 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, I might. [what's a "police", he wonders, idly.]

But it's getting late, and I have to wonder if that'd really be good for an old man's heart. And you strike me as a man who appreciates having a fine life. Maybe even a fine wife?

[okay, he's just guessing here, but - he's pieced together some things about the scenario whence Beatrice and Battler came. there's ... types, surely.]

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