i wish i had critical thinking skills so i could talk about dead plate the way other fans talk about dead plate like the obe post i reblogged talking ab how differently vince treats rody compared to the other cooks or how manon was right abt rody being too self sacrificing but all i can think about is "hehe silly cannibalistic toxic yaoi" or "wow both vince and rody are so pretty"
A little fic about Vince the day before things went to hell. Warnings for mentions of cannibalism, murder, blood.
It will go like this:
[Un]
āWhatās this?ā Rody will ask, surprised as he looks down at the plate you present him with. You will keep him late, after all the chefs have left for the day. Just the both of you, so you can savor the reaction, all to yourself.
āItās-ā for you. Itās a gift. Itās that ex-girlfriend you canāt shut up about, but who will now nourish you in ways you could never return. Itās all your love, neatly presented. Itās my heart, bared before you. Itās yours. Take it.
ā-leftovers.ā you will say instead.
[Also on Ao3]
[Deux]
Rody will take the plate, equal parts confused and curious. Tilt his head to the side and hum, like some mutt. Heāll eat it here, in the restaurant, he wonāt take it home like heās been doing all week. You wonāt give him the choice.
Heās so stupid- too uncultured to comment on the presentation, but thatās not what you will focus on.Ā
The fork will sink into the meat, into its pre-cut slices, nicely. You will note the way his lips wrap around the utensil, how his eyes will widen as the flavor seeps in. Pupils will dilate and his breath will catch, so clear and damning in the echoing kitchen. Youāll note the way his throat bobs around the swallow, and the way he will grin.
[Trois]
āVince!ā Rody will look at you. His eyes will shine, that warm honey golden brown that haunts your dreams. His gaze is admiring, reverent. āThis is amazing!ā
You wonāt be able to stop the way your heart will thump in your chest, so loud you will wonder if he can hear it. Youāve never been able to so far. Maybe it will be more. Maybe it will beat so fast itāll leave you feeling winded. How will you cope? You should prepare for that.
āI know.ā you will respond, airily, after taking a deep breath.
Heāll dig in, clean his plate with a gusto, the way no one has ever done before. It will disgust you, the way he shoves food in his mouth. Uncultured pig. But beneath the disgust will be a bone deep satisfaction that youāve never felt before, so you canāt imagine it now.
[Quatre]
While he eats, Rody will look up at you, every emotion clear as day on his face. Like it always is. Heāll be so clearly impressed and grateful and yes, happy. You will have made him happy.
And he would say:
āWhatever you did this time, it really worked. Itās so rich and the spices are blended so well! So moist and the baste is-ā
Ah. No, not that. Rodyās not- he hasnāt got a sophisticated palate to have those opinions. Heād probably chew through half a boot without noticing anything wrong.
Maybeā¦
āThey were so wrong about you,ā he will look you in the eye. Trusting, honest, raw. Your mouth waters. āThose articles. The critics. Youāve always had it in you. This is just- itās so good, Vince! I can taste the heart that went into this.ā
Yes.
[Cinq]
Heāll ask if there are any more leftovers, desperate and hungry for more. Youāll say no, thatās all you had, just to delight in the disappointment that washes over him. Of course he will- itās the best thing heās ever had. Heāll be ruined, after this. He wonāt be able to get the taste out of his mouth let alone settle for anything other than your cooking.
Now you know. Now you are able to- to touch people, like this. Touch him like this, in a way you will never experience. Thatās a power that youāll never give up.
So you will tell him no, sorry, thatās all that was left.
āWhatās your favorite food, Rody?ā
āHm?ā
Iāll make it for you next. Thereās plenty of meat left.
āYou never told me.ā
āStill donāt have oneā¦ā He rubs his chin and looks up. Where will the two of you be then? Still in the kitchen? Or will you have this conversation outside, after the dishes are left and as you shut and lock the door behind you? Every thought about her will be so far from his mind as you both leave her- whatās left of her- in the freezer.
āAlthough,ā heāll smile at you, cheeks flushed and oh so happy. So alive. āI guess tonight my favorite is- whatever you make!ā
--
āShit!ā
The knife slips out of Vincentās hand and clinks against the tile floor.
He blinks back to himself, away from the daydream, and scowls. His breathing is labored and his face is flushed.
āAlways distracting me, even when heās not aroundā¦ā
He bends down with a sigh and picks up the knife. He takes extra care to step around the puddles of blood to make it to the sink and rinse it off. Too much blood, so much more than heās used to, is making things more slippery than heās used to, but the general process is the same. Second nature for him.
It doesnāt disgust him- what heās done. Who heās done it to. Her eyes werenāt the familiar brown he ached for. Her hair was too light, too neat, not the wild, fiery ginger mess thatās been dashing around his dining room. Barely presentable for his job but- itās soft. Vincent knows itās soft. His hand remembers the way it felt underneath his skin when he dried Rody off.
Vincent shivers again, and realizes the tap water is still running.
Shutting it off, he makes his way back to the counter. Thereās still much to prepare before the day begins.
ā
The countdown doesnāt even begin; Rody just had to go snooping where he doesnāt belong.Ā
Now thereās blood, his blood, that fills your mouth. His cartilage, soft and squishy between your teeth. You swallow it down. A piece of him, inside you.
Rody staggers and screams, his expression growing more horrified, pained, disgusted by the second. His eyes go buggy and he brings his left hand up to his wound, heās crying. No. No, no, no, no-
You think about his smile. His kind, soft, moronic, naive eyes were supposed to be fixed on you, were supposed to find you. It wasnāt supposed to be this way-
Heāll never love you now.
Itās- itās his fault. All of this. Here you were, trying to do something nice, and he spits it back in your face. Itās not like you were ever going to tell him what [who] he was eating. He could have lived in blissful ignorance. Happy, content, with you-. He would have forgotten about her eventually.
He calls you insane, and he might be right, but he doesnāt have to be so dramatic about it.
Ugh- now heās accusing you of being a fucking cannibal, Jesus Christ. Imbecile. Your eye almost twitches in annoyance. Of course heād jump to that conclusion, itās not like he uses his brain to think for more than two seconds. You ought to take the other ear, for that. Or a finger. A hand.
ā¦An arm. A leg. Your eyes trace his body, slowly.
Did- did his ear taste like anything, going down? You canāt remember. It- maybe it did. Maybe what you need is something meatier.
The girl never would have tasted like anything to you and in hindsight, of course she wouldnāt have. Maybe not even to Rody either. You never loved her, and she never loved you. Rody, thoughā¦ Rody would be made with all your love. Thatās what people talk about, right? Thatās what you needed all along.
He comes to the realization at the same time you do. Your eyes meet. Honey brown. Alive, alive, raw.
I just can't stop thinking about how differently Vince treats Rody.
Remember that scene with Vincent and one of the cooks on Day 3? Pretty messed up already, but one detail that makes it even worse caught my attention - cook's posture. Hands still behind his back, no struggle. Complete obedience. Employee is being humiliated and threatened, but there is no sign of resistance. It just shows how inadequately high Chef's demands are. How harsh he is.
And when we have Rody. Fella was late on his second day and also got soaked in the rain making Chef himself take care of that wet dog. Buddy ignores his intied tie even more than dirty dishes in the kitchen, talks to his boss in informal way without a second thought. And ofc can't forget about the elephant in the room - restaurant review mentioning Rody's poor service.
And yet... Vince tolerates him. He simply doesn't pressure that much or even turns a blind eye. Harsh professional who only cares about restaurant's prosperity... suddenly had a change of heart.
Cold-hearted chef: you better not be silly clumsy ginger guy with dog vibes
Rody: hey
Cold-hearted chef: š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
I just can't, my heart is melting ššš
Here, take this stupid hyperbolic meme as a reward for enduring my writing
1. Letās say itās 7.25pm and youāre going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2. Youāre really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4. Unfortunately you donāt know if youāll be able to make it that far.
5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!
10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that weāll save at least one life.
11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a personās life.
12. If this message comes around you... more than onceā¦ please donāt get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.
please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks
I have fact checked this several times before, but since it keeps getting reposted and reblogged, let's do this one more time!
Cough CPR should not be used if you think you are having a heart attack. Instead, you should call the emergency number in your country.
From a British Heart Foundation article on Cough CPR: 'The absolute priority when you think you or someone else is having a heart attack is to call 999. This way, paramedics can assess and aid you, and youāll get to hospital as fast as possible. There is no medical evidence to support ācough CPRā, which suggests you can help yourself by coughing vigorously if you think youāre having a heart attack and are alone.'
From a Clevelan Clinic article on Cough CPR: 'The idea of cough CPR has been circulating the web for a few years now and has a slew of misinformation attached to it. The real danger about the misinformation is that it could prevent heart attack victims from getting the lifesaving help they need.'
It is true that in some circumstances, coughing help to keep consciousness during cardiac arrest - but in a heart attack without cardiac arrest, it could make things worse - or even kill you. Therefore it should only be attempted under medical supervision.
From a Snopes fact check on Cough CPR: 'the procedure might be the right thing to attempt or it might be the very thing that would kill the afflicted depending on which sort of cardiac crisis is being experienced. Without a doctor there to judge the situation and, if cough CPR is indicated, to supervise the rhythmic coughing, the procedure is just far too risky for a layman to attempt.'
why is it that all the new addams family media from the last like 20 years has been like āoh wednesday doesnāt fit in with her familyā āoh wednesday is striking out on her own and discovering her own interestsā as if sheās not literally the perfect ideal addams and she doesnāt love being the perfect ideal addams meanwhile pugsley is a colorful bright-haired optimist who adopted a puppy and then joined the boy scouts until his parents called a therapist on him
