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i can feel it kick down in my soul.

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goldenelixxir‌:

“I’d say don’t believe everything you hear, but whatever it was was probably true.” He wasn’t bragging and didn’t sound particularly proud of it - it just was what it was. His powers made him capable of doing extraordinary things for people. So he did them. Anything less than that would’ve been selfish and beyond wasteful. That’s what he told himself every morning he woke up in a narrow bed one door away from the clinic floor, anyway.

He nodded as he heard the explanation. “So you got lucky?” His touch was careful and he very gingerly touched the side of Larry’s face. Burns, fires, it brought back…a lot of memories. Ones he couldn’t stand there and think about right then.

“I heard you’re a good guy and you don’t keep records,” Larry said, shrugging once. “That’s good enough for me.” He had heard more than that, but this was the relevant information by which Larry would be judging Josh. Larry had plenty of facets of himself he would prefer people didn’t focus on, and he was going to extend that same courtesy to Josh. Larry knew what it was like to be an outcast, to look different and feel different, even before the burns and the bandages. It was infuriating. 

Larry shrugged lightly. “In a manner of speaking.” He wasn’t sure if having some spirit residing inside of him was exactly lucky. He closed his eyes as Josh touched his face, not wanting to think too hard about it. It had been a long time since he had been touched.

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Zach blinked slowly, “A goat acting as a dimensional key… Why can’t people just use candles nowadays?” he spread his arms, as though asking the universe itself before shrugging, “But, workable. Do you by any chance still have access to the goat? Or failing that something of yours that Niles gave you or meant something to you both? Personal connections can work wonders here. I’d offer to use you as a conduit but well…” he trailed off, “When you try that with living things they often aren’t living by the end of it.” The strain on the body could be too much.

“The goat exploded. And sucked up Niles’ house and all his stuff with him,” he said. “I don’t  have anything.” Behind his bandages, Larry’s eyebrow quirked slightly (not that he had an actual eyebrow anymore, but he liked to pretend that he wasn’t a freak sometimes). “You’d be surprised at the kinds of things I could survive,” he replied. He was sure that whatever this beast inside him was wouldn’t let him die. Then they’d be out a home and go back to causing plane crashes or whatever its purpose was.

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mostpopularmagi‌:

Zach raised an eyebrow, “Okay, slow the roll there King-Tut.” (he’d been thinking of mummy puns since the guy walked in) “Observe. rooD ot eht citcrA, rooD ot eht nozamA, rooD ot eht naibarA treseD.” he rattled off, summoning three wooden doors next to them, he walked over and opened one, “Here’s the Arctic,” closed it, “Here’s the Amazon Jungle.” he opened the next one, “And here’s the Arabian Desert.” he finished opening the last and then dismissing them “Trust me, not matter how nuts you think whatever comes next is, I’ve seen weirder.” he deadpanned.

“There was a hole that opened up in the town where we were living and swallowed Niles. We realized that all that was left was this goat and the goat was a door so we put a key in its throat and went through to a different dimension.” Larry spoke in a deadpan voice. “That’s as far as we got,” he added bitterly. He was hitting dead end after dead end. He was sure the trail was cold by now. He didn’t know what else he was supposed to do—he hadn’t been away from Niles’ guidance in decades now.

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queen-of-atlantis‌:

“I don’t want a picture of you.” Mera had come to see Larry because she’d heard of his power. There were aspects of it that would be helpful for the Justice League. After some discussion with Bruce, they had each decided it would be worth pursuing. However, she had her limitations. She had convinced so many members of the league to join them that she no longer had the energy to pursue anyone who wouldn’t undoubtedly make the impact she was looking for. Oliver had been worth the chase. Bruce. Clark. But Larry? There was only so much time she was willing to put into this effort. “The Justice League is rising. And it could use your assistance.” 

“You want me?” he asked, incredulous. He had never expected that he would amount to much of anything at all, so he was certainly intrigued by whatever it is she thought made him material for the only superhero team anyone had ever talked about. He stood up and bent down just enough that he could look out the half-open window on the bus. “Do you think you guys would be able to help me with something, too?” He had a singular purpose. Find Niles and the rest of his housemates, regroup, figure out what was next. Something fishy was going on, and Larry couldn’t deal with it on his own.

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“I don’t know about wunderkind, but I’m Josh Foley. I used to go by Elixir.” He was prepared to see something severe, and as the evidence of all the burns was slowly unveiled that’s precisely what he got. By that point, though, he’d seen nearly everything in the books. Nothing unnerved him anymore.

“You want to tell me how this happened?” For a little while he just looked him over, but eventually reached a point where that wasn’t going to be enough. “Is it okay if I touch you?”

When Josh didn’t react, Larry kept unwrapping his head. He was slow and careful, as if he was still afraid of disrupting what used to be tender wounds. “I hear great things about you,” he said, his gaze flicking to Josh’s face behind reddened eyelids. 

“I was a test pilot in 1968 and I got in a crash that should have killed me,” he said simply and quietly. He watched Josh’s hand’s carefully. “Yes.”

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mostpopularmagi‌:

Zach rolled his eyes at the guy’s choice of words. Odd appearance aside, Zach had thought this might for once be something simple. Hell, people’s appearances didn’t tend to bother him much anyway but usually the odder the look the more difficult the request. In this case, it wasn’t odd so much as it was just vague and what the hell was he supposed to do with that? “Yea well, and correct me if I’m wrong but ‘he was here then he wasn’t’ isn’t a whole bunch to go on. I’m a Magi not omniscient.” he finished in a deadpan, hands on his hips. “Can you narrow it down a little? Gimme a location maybe? Get me something that belonged to him? Something tangible that I could maybe work with?” Then he’d have a better chance at tracking this Niles guy down. 

Larry shrugged. “I don’t really think you’re going to believe much of the rest.” He knew that this was stupid. He shouldn’t have even done it in the first place and now he was trying to back out of the conversation as much as he possibly could so that he could avoid the uncomfortable and humiliating conversation he was sure would follow. Larry stood up abruptly. “I shouldn’t have done this. Nevermind. It should be easy enough to forget the guy covered head to toe in bandages and wearing these dumb, cool-guy sunglasses, right?” 

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goldenelixxir‌:

Technically speaking, the clinic never closed. The lights were usually on. That didn’t always mean someone was immediately in there and visible, but Josh came out once he heard a voice. The bandages caught him off guard, but he’d seen stranger things than that. “I’m…going to assume you’re looking for me. This is my clinic.” Maybe it was rude to assume, but…well. In this case, probably not.

“So you’re the wunderkind,” he said, looking around for a moment before finding an empty bed and sitting down abruptly. Larry was fidgety, obviously uncomfortable with the prospect of taking off his bandages in front of someone else. He never did. “I don’t know if you can help me. But it might be worth a try.” He fidgeted some more, looking down at his hands for a moment before taking off his sunglasses. He paused for just a moment longer before unwrapping part of his face, revealing the thick, raw-looking burn scars. 

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“Wow,” Larry drawled, popping up from where he was sleeping on the bus (he hadn’t been able to find a place live yet) and looking out the window at the lightning bolts that scattered around the man nearby. “And here I thought all of you were fans of the law. Unless that’s like, something you pick and choose about.” He gestured vaguely, as if to represent their indecision. Larry brought his knees up and rested his elbows on them, watching the man for a moment longer before looking up and down the street. “Anyone catch that?”

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Larry wasn’t sure what he hoped to gain by approaching the clinic meant for mutants (he wasn’t a mutant, he reminded himself, but he was sure they would be willing to make an exception in his case). He had heard things about the kid who ran it—impossible sounding stories about how he could heal any injury. Even though Larry had long given up hope on any sort of normal life, he figured that it couldn’t hurt to try. Right? He had to be able to do something good, be something good. He couldn’t be on this planet for who-knows-how-long as some broken toy. “Hello?” His voice, surprisingly, wasn’t muffled by the bandages. “Anyone here?”

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Larry supposed if he was going to be in this city, he might as well try to put his powers to good use, but frankly, it wasn’t all that easy learning how to control the beast inside him. He had tried but it had just ended in him crumpling to the ground, a husk. When he came around, he inhaled sharply, gasping for breath as he got a better sense of his surroundings from where he was on the ground. He blinked once, realizing with a start that there was someone standing over him. “Are you going to call the police? Because it’s going to be very difficult to explain what’s going on here and I don’t have the patience.”

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He was entirely unamused by life in general these days. Nothing was funny to him anymore. Niles was missing, and no matter what he tired, he couldn’t find him. Hell, he couldn’t even find the rest of his merry band of misfits to even begin considering what they were going to do without Niles, so he was stuck in this strange limbo with nothing but a vaguely menacing presence in his body and in his mind reminding him that he was never, ever going to be like the rest of the heroes so he shouldn’t even fucking try. Still, when he heard about a magi who might be able to help (key word being might) he knew he —begrudgingly— owed it to Niles to at least try. The boy was proving to be annoying. “I really don’t have any more information than that. He was here then he wasn’t.”

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Larry had long since given up on the idea of being part of any sort of team that might have any good impact on the world. It was clear. Nothing good happened when people like him tried to live in the world, and now that he had been wrenched from the safety of the Chief’s home and thrust into this cold new world that certainly didn’t take kindly to someone wrapped head-to-toe in bandages and boasting a radioactive and generally unpredictable energy. He tried not to let it get to him—but it was hard when everyone who passed by his little defunct bus of plants stared and threatened to call the police. All he wanted to do was prune his roses and cultivate his plants and pretend the world outside didn’t exist. That was why, when someone else approached, he tried his best to ignore it. “If you take a picture, it’ll last longer.”

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is that MATT BOMER? no, that’s LARRY TRAINOR also known by some as NEGATIVE MAN but the world thinks he is just a FORMER TEST PILOT. if I’m not mistaken HE is 84 (PHYSICALLY 35) and he was INDIFFERENT TO the hero ban. 

> this is larry trainor aka NEGATIVE MAN > i’m mostly following the doom patrol show canon because that’s way more interesting than him falling in love with rita anyway  > but as with most of my characters he’s a mix of a couple of different canons > so larry was a test pilot in the 60s and he was kind of the hero of the base > when he had his most important flight of his career, however, niles caulder caused the jet’s guidance systems to break down, sending larry crashing into some deadly radiation and picked up a cosmic negative spirit called keeg > so after that, he was horribly disfigured and he went to live with niles caulder in his mansion with the other members of the doom patrol  > he still hasn’t found out that niles is the reason he became negative man, but currently, niles is missing—perhaps it has something to do with nova wink wonk  > unsure of what to do larry is just tryna keep his life together sldkjfs  > any way come plot with me! 

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