The Loft, The Window & The Crow

Indie RP - OC & Xover Friendly The Crow: Stairway to Heaven Sideblog (akumacv-rp)

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notjustoneofyourmanytoys:

“What the-” Toni watched the bird just make itself at home on the chair and she turned back to Eric. “That’s a fucking bird.”

She seemed confused even more about a god damn crow just flying into her apartment. “Okay, Eric, what’s the deal? If you’re some sort of bill collector I swear t God I have every intention of paying, I’m just in a bind right now and don’t have the money.

He didn’t look like a collector though, so she was waiting to see what his explanation was as to why he was standing there and the deal with the crow. “Oh, right, I’m Toni.”

“...Sorry - he’s got a bit of a one track mind and less than zero tact-”

CAW. The bird ruffled its feathers, giving the two of them by the door a gimlet eye as it interrupted Eric’s apology.

“I promise I’m not a here for money. ...This may seem very strange - but I am here to help you.” He winced. That wasn’t at all suspicious. 

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victorious-sigyn:

One very perfect eyebrow raised into a right angle. 

“Trouble?” she parroted. That was a new question. No one had asked her that before. Perhaps this male was more intuitive than she thought. “No, sir. I do not believe so. Though, I could be if you bring it my way. Which, I might add, is an unwise choice and I advise you to take your trouble elsewhere.” 

“No worries,” he replied, holding up his palms in a gesture of surrender. 

“I meant no offense. ...I’m something of a trouble-solving type.” He shrugged. “I like to think so, anyways.”

The Crow must remain on Earth, performing good deeds and helping others until their own personal pluses and minuses are balanced in order to counter the debt of their existence and balance the cosmic scales.

That was the passage Sarah had read to him from one of her web-searches early on in his state of unlife, and it returned to his thoughts now along with his response.

“...Pile up some merit badges... I try not to bring trouble - just help... lay it to rest. I’m sorry for prying into your business.”

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victorious-sigyn replied to your photo ““It seems our friend, T-Bird, won’t be joining us this evening. Has a...”

This confused me for a second because I am Tbird!

** A flock of Tbirds! Only one is a fictional arsonist that went ka-blooey. : /

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“It seems our friend, T-Bird, won’t be joining us this evening. Has a slight case of death.”

**My favourite villain monologue.

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notjustoneofyourmanytoys:

Toni was nursing a hangover, she’d gone out the night before to a concert and effectively got ditched by her best friend again so she had one too many shots and stumbled home. Just the usual. 

Hearing the knock at the door, Toni rolled out of bed and hit the floor with a thud before groaning. “Fuck,” she muttered and got up, going to the door and opening it, leaning in the doorway and perking a bow. “Yeah?”

He hesitated.

The bird on his shoulders had no such compunctions- it launched itself forward through the open doorway and alighting on the backrest of a chair, CAWING proudly.

“It was his idea,” he explained nodding towards the bird. 

Eric winced - that was definitely the kind of comment Sarah would spout when trying to get out of trouble. But the fact was that there was no good way to explain what he was doing here.

“I’m Eric,” he backpedaled slightly. When in doubt, introductions. “...This is probably a bad time.”

I came back from the dead and my spirit guide wants me to help you or someone in this building. I’m perfectly sane!

That probably wouldn’t fly.

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shannonletosdaughter:

“Dare? Oh no, sorry man.” The witch gave a slight chuckle while examining the being in front of her. So it was true what she heard about Eric. She travelled to the city only to check with her own eyes. “I was just… certificating myself about something.”

“This isn’t a zoo - it’s a crime scene. And I’m not some exhibit.”

It was rude of him, but there was only so much cross-examination he could take, especially from strangers.

Though it was an odd crime. A dead body with no cause of death. While the yellow CSI tape had been taken down, the case was still open and driving Albrecht - and by extension, Eric - up the proverbial wall. No tangible evidence, no signs of foul play. Only a gut feeling.

A flash of green light.

Make that a gut feeling with a side of Crow TV. 

Eric stumbled as the split-second vision snagged him. “Green...?”

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victorious-sigyn:

Sigyn sat up straighter at the voice. It seemed like it was directed at her, but the name was wrong. Hazel eyes look out over her book in search of the source, slowly moving over the people not looking in her direction until… there…

Oh, he was not well. Not in that he was sick or looked sick… his aura seemed to emanate his sadness and perhaps hers was much the same. 

She shook her head. “No… Not Shelly. Sorry.” And she was sorry. Sincerely sorry. 

“You don’t have to apologise - it was my mistake.” He shrugged.  “It’s a compliment, I guess. She was the best person I knew.”

Beyond the feeling of sheer presence this woman had that was making the Crow inside up take notice, the fact that he had mistaken her in the first place might have had some additional significance. Moments like that were usually a hint of something further.

The first instance had been a woman and a man fighting in a parking lot - he had been newly returned then, mind still hazy and uncertain of his own identity. Later, there had been Sonja - a mafia princess on the run from her former ‘family’ after she had fallen in love with an FBI agent.

“...This may seem like a random question - but you’re not in some sort of trouble, are you?”

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@shannonletosdaughter || [x]

As a somewhat well-known musician before his death and subsequent return, Eric was well-used to the occasional stare. After the circus of his trial - the arrest, the conviction, and the eventual dropping of his case and freedom - he’d been getting even more scrutiny than usual.

“...Look - did you need something, or is this another dare?”

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@notjustoneofyourmanytoys || [x]

Eric was used to getting hints. A newspaper blowing into his hand when there was no wind, a sound that only he could hear. Sometimes they were subtle. Other times they were not.

...Having been cajoled and ushered to a the door of a complete stranger by his rather insistent spirit guide fell into the category of not subtle at all.

“..Don’t look so smug.”

“CAW-!”

Rolling his eyes, but alert nonetheless, Eric knocked soundly on the door.

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@victorious-sigyn || [x]

“...Shelly?”

No - it wasn’t her. But from a certain angle there had been a sudden similarity that had struck him. It wouldn’t be the first time that his mind had superimposed Shelly’s face over a stranger’s. There was something else - a feeling crawling in the back of his mind from his spirit-guide. Powerful.

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** Hello - like this birb for a starter?

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winter-summer-and-inbetween:

The man raised an eyebrow. “What the hell? I said get out of my way!”

Becky stepped back a little and glanced at Sarah, not sure what to do now.

Forward, Eric’s posture suddenly relaxed, his shoulders drooping and head tilting forward to cover his face with a curtain of hair. There was a sound like crinkling paper mixed with rain, and the crow swooped down from overhead to alight on the edge of a nearby dumpster.

“Hell? ...You’re HELLarious~!”

“C’mon, Becky-!” Sarah whispered urgently, tilting her head to point towards an alley across the street. “The backdoor of my building is just through there.”

She wasn’t worried about Eric. But explaining him when he started to get like this was tricky. And if the creeper had a gun tucked somewhere in that hoodie of his, things could get dicey if they were in the line of fire.

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winter-summer-and-inbetween:

Becky almost had her knife pulled out when Eric stepped in the man’s path. With a confused look, she wondered how he would be able to fight a gang member.

The man chuckled a little. “Get out of the way, this doesn’t concern you,” he responded, an accent clearly prominent.

Eric paused, holding up a palm in a ‘wait one moment’ kind of gesture, before taking a moment to exaggeratedly look the assailant up and down, eyebrows high and unimpressed.

“Yeah... I think I’m good right here,” Eric affirmed, rolling his shoulders. It made the tail ends of his coat flap against his legs like wings; at the ends of his sleeves the visible parts of his hands and fingers could be seen to begin to curl into tense claws.

Sarah had continued to carefully and slowly back away, making wide-eyes and silent mouthing gestures, hoping to grab Becky’s attention.

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(( HOLY CRAP AN UPDATE?!?!?))

(( Hi all - First off I am so very sorry for the long and unexpected absence from Janurary until now. I am even more sorry to say that it’s not for any big or fabulous reason that I had gone away, simply general busyness and a bad bout of prolonged procrastination.))

((However - the good news is that starting next week I will be coming back to tumblr! I have finished my online schooling and work will be lessening on me after the Easter Weekend. ))

(( Currently I have hugely overdue outstanding drafts for @winter-summer-and-inbetween - I will be spending Sunday going through all the notification history to find any reblogs I have missed in my absence. ))

(( If you would like to start a fresh thread rather than continue an old one, feel free to send me a shout! I’ll be working on these beginning after Easter. ))

(( And finally - I have missed each and everyone of you and I am so very happy to have the free time to write once again! ))

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Holiday Hiatus

(( Hello all, just a heads up that I will be entering a period of decreased activity over the next few weeks if you have not noticed this already. Things are going to be extra busy for me at work as well as finishing off the last two weeks of my current online classes for this semester.))

(( I hope all of you have a happy and safe holiday season. ))

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Holiday Hiatus Ending Soon!

(( Finally starting to get back into the swing of things, and the queue’s been empty for too long! Right now I have one draft sequestered away for @winter-summer-and-inbetween, which I will be attending to sometime tomorrow. ))

(( One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get this and @condorhero-rp more active, so over the next week expect to see some starter calls and open starters making many an appearance. ))