sweet like syrup

candy | 17 | he/him. cute boys hmu

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

✧ (i know our characters havent interacted before but!!! ill send one anyway! you dont have to reply if you dont want!)

Tate: I don’t want to get in an argument with them.

[popitcandy-blog]

oh no, you are definitely cute hehe! and im absolutely overjoyed because of our meeting, silly! it’s very great pleasure to be able to meet someone as lovely as yourself 💗!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

o-oh. Well, i’m happy then. good to see you’re friendly.

i’m just hoping this is how you introduce yourself to everybody - not just me. i have my eyes elsewhere.

[popitcandy-blog]

i am a very friendly individual hehe! i’m the friendliest person i know! ♫ ♫ would you be jealous though if i was like this with everyone?? ♫ ♫ don’t be!! i have room for my heart for all!!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

✧ (i know our characters havent interacted before but!!! ill send one anyway! you dont have to reply if you dont want!)

Tate: I don’t want to get in an argument with them.

[popitcandy-blog]

i doubt we’ve truly met before since i’d definitely remember a cutie like you ♫ ♫!! i’m the wonderful lovely beautifully amazing perfect and charming candy! it’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

hffu, i’m glad to meet you then, candy. i don’t know if ‘cute’ is the right word for me, but thank you.

i’m just called Tate, sometimes kid, and other times darling. it’s nice to see you.. mm, what are you excited about?

[popitcandy-blog]

oh no, you are definitely cute hehe! and im absolutely overjoyed because of our meeting, silly! it’s very great pleasure to be able to meet someone as lovely as yourself 💗!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

✧ (i know our characters havent interacted before but!!! ill send one anyway! you dont have to reply if you dont want!)

Tate: I don’t want to get in an argument with them.

[popitcandy-blog]

weeeell i can’t say that there isn’t no one because as perfect as i am, i’m only human, but i usually never argue with anyone! it must be my charming personality hehe!!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

A perfect human, with a charming personality?

hahah, do i know you?? i don’t think we’ve met in any dimensions.

[popitcandy-blog]

i doubt we’ve truly met before since i’d definitely remember a cutie like you ♫ ♫!! i’m the wonderful lovely beautifully amazing perfect and charming candy! it’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

✧ (i know our characters havent interacted before but!!! ill send one anyway! you dont have to reply if you dont want!)

Tate: I don’t want to get in an argument with them.

[popitcandy-blog]

hey hey there’s no reason to get worried about that! i don’t argue with anyone at all!! ♫ ♫

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

somehow i don’t believe you! there’s nobody that gets under your skin? even a little?

[popitcandy-blog]

weeeell i can’t say that there isn’t no one because as perfect as i am, i’m only human, but i usually never argue with anyone! it must be my charming personality hehe!!

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

✧ (i know our characters havent interacted before but!!! ill send one anyway! you dont have to reply if you dont want!)

Tate: I don’t want to get in an argument with them.

[popitcandy-blog]

hey hey there’s no reason to get worried about that! i don’t argue with anyone at all!! ♫ ♫

[popitcandy-blog]

taltoisnotmyname replied to your post: is anyone still like. Active for ngc omg… its been…

((/poses yes hello I’m kinda dead but kinda not ahaha but hello I’d definitely be up for stuff yes))

hey!! im up for whatever too lmao so u can hmu at any time!

[popitcandy-blog]

im back on this account for now since i have free time so hit me up if you want to rp or anything!

[popitcandy-blog]

is anyone still like. Active for ngc omg… its been like almost a year since ive been on here…

[deliverybird-blog-deactivated20]

there’s a few of usss, at least five tryin to get back in the swing of things))

[popitcandy-blog]

mmm five isnt that bad of a number so maybe ill try to hop back into it too o:

[popitcandy-blog]

is anyone still like. Active for ngc omg... its been like almost a year since ive been on here...

[elvishsolitaire]

"Well, let’s give it a shot then." He says, walking down the length of the street and turning the corner. He quickly stops, pointing down the road at a lone creature separated from a larger pack further down the way. "There’s your first target my friend, take a shot at it and I’ll deal with it if you miss or the bolt doesn’t kill it. I know it’d be easier to fire on stable targets first, but I think it’s much better to get a feel for it while in combat to be able to hit living things consistently."

"Of course, I have full confidence in your abilities, but if you do happen to miss just make sure it doesn’t reach that larger group back there. As confident as I am in myself it’d be quite troublesome to fight the, oh, fifteen or twenty of them that are grouped up over there. The fog makes it hard to tell to be honest. Either way they’d be hard to deal with since I don’t want us to get separated."

[popitcandy-blog]

Candy lets out a small hum, as he listens to Eliath speak, and he nods slowly. "The best learning experiences are from trial and error, after all," he says, patting the side of the crossbow a few times. "Especially when it's for physical activities like these. It'd be good practice."

He brings the crossbow up, popping off the cap of the scope and peering into it, making adjustments until he's satisfied with the setting. After he finishes with that, he uses it to take a look at his target, judging the distance. It's hard to tell with the fog, but he thinks that it's only twenty feet away. Good, he thinks, not too far then. He should be able to hit it from here, taking a moment to factor in the movement of the creature and the lack of wind in the air. But, there's a slight problem.

"I'm glad," he breathes slowly, "that you have so much faith in me. It won't be too hard to hit, but there's a small little thing that I need a little help with. Nothing big, I assure you, but, I need a little assistance on cocking the bow. I don't have the strength to do it correctly myself, see. It's not too hard to do, you just put it on the ground, put your feet here," he taps on the stirrups, "then draw the string back and pop it into the cocking mechanism. Not too difficult, really, and I'm sure you know how to do it."

[hungryforcarnage]

"If you can figure out how to get to where I live, sure," Caedes sighs, running a hand through their hair. "…You’ll have to find it yourself, though. For my own safety."

"…You’d be surprised at what pure instinct is capable of," they say, frowning slightly. "My stomach runs on pure instinct, and look at how far that’s gotten it. Wild animals are more dangerous than you think’d think, Candy.”

"It doesn’t really matter, anyway, as long as we survive." They stop at the top of the stairs, looking around. "…You said the third floor, right? I wasn’t keeping track, so… is this the right floor?"

[popitcandy-blog]

"You could always just bring your stuff over to play, it doesn't have to be your place, if you're uncomfortable," Candy hums, nodding to their question about the floor number. He sidesteps them to make his way over to his door, turning the handle and opening it. "As long as we get through this, we'll have a lot of time to hang out more."

He takes a pause though, giggling slightly. "I think that's the first time you've said my name," he says, with a large grin on his face. "It's a little weird to hear come out of your mouth, but it's cute, hehe. Is it that thing people call gap moe? Say it again, please!"

[elvishsolitaire]

He shrugs again, heading back out of the front door. “Really I’m just sharing idle fantasies at this point, I fully meant it when I said it was not the best time to be messing around. There are far more important things to worry about though, so let’s put them off for now. Where to next? Shall we find a more infested area to investigate and attempt some captures? I’m personally ready to get the ball rolling on some combat myself.”

He sticks his hands into his coat pockets, turning back to face Candy again. “I’d say the two of us are more than enough to fight a decent enough group of the things with all this weaponry, so we can hit bigger areas than before. As long as we keep calm and play to our strengths, speed and some precision attacks, we’ll be fine as long as no unexpected events occur.” He says with an all-too confident smile written across his face.

[popitcandy-blog]

Candy hums and follows after him, closing the door behind them carefully. "If you want, we could go and try and catch some. Somehow we managed to find all the items we needed here for now, so we don't need to make a trip to the hardware store to try and scrounge up anything just yet. We can leave the food for later too, since I still have a couple of bags for chips at home."

"We should be decently okay for now with supplies, so it should be best to start getting a hang of the new equipment, instead of leaving it for later and maybe ending up getting caught in trouble. I'll need to fire a couple of practice bolts to get used to the crossbow before I can be able to really snipe anything though, so I'll leave the fighting to you while I try to get a scope of this bow."

[elvishsolitaire]

"I’ve seen one work before elsewhere, so I know it is possible at least. We can put it on the back burner for now, and if we happen to come across materials to use to make it we can gather those." He says, shrugging with a small sigh. "As for the whip, it is a rather dangerous proposal yes. I imagine if the handle is made out of sufficiently electricity resistant material it would work if we could find a conducting metal flexible enough to be whip-like." He still thought it was worth a shot, if it shocked him so be it, he could pack it up for later tuning.

"The third would be a double-sided glaive, blades facing opposite ways with hooks on the reverse sides. It’d let us pick things up at a distance, and it’s a good weapon for out ranging the things. Plus, if we can get the skyboard to work the hooks can catch onto things and let us turn almost instantaneously around corners or even to do a complete one-eighty. That one’s probably the easiest of the three to make, just as long as it is sturdy enough to take the strain of a high impact collision. That’d be the only real problem I can foresee."

[popitcandy-blog]

Candy only hums, tapping his fingers on his arm. "I like the idea, but the problems are the materials again," he mutters. "There's not many things I can think of that would work to make a makeshift version of them, and even if we decide to actually smelt and create them, we need to find the right equipment to use in order to properly make them and make sure they're good enough to use for their purpose. Half-assing it will just be dangerous and makeshift might not be enough for this."

He lets out a loud sigh, reaching up and scratching his head hard for a moment, before he shakes his head. "Well, like you said. It's the best and the worst time to test things. We'll find a way to make them."

[hungryforcarnage]

"…I play games a lot, I guess," Caedes nods, humming a little. "I have more money lying around than I need, and I don’t have anything else to kill time with between meals and selling things to customers."

"The power will probably cut soon, though, if no one’s maintaining the magic that keeps it going," they say, looking around the inside of the tower. Not surprisingly, it’s not that different from the one they live in. "…I don’t think we’ll really need any electricity for now, though."

They shrug again as their attention focuses back on the topic of monsters, looking at the stairs. “Even if the steps are big, that won’t necessarily stop them. Dogs and cats can get up stairs just fine, so I don’t see why these things can’t. They’re agile enough to kill people and pose a threat to us, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they could get up these stairs in no time.”

"I just meant the monsters from earlier, actually," they continue, heading towards the stairs. "The one going after you jumped at you. …Or, at least, I think it did? It all happened too quickly for me to realize what was going on, honestly."

[popitcandy-blog]

"Maybe you could show me some of your favorite ones then," Candy grins, hopping up the stairs after them, throwing his hands out to his sides to keep his balance. "We could play some together, after all this is over. I'd like to do it now, but I don't have any consoles myself and there's no point if the power's going to cut, like you said."

"I'd like to think domestic animals have more thought processes than them, since from what I can tell they seem to operate on pure instinct," he shrugs, but he decides to give up on his plan. Thoughtless or not, they'd probably end up dragging themselves up the stairs.

He makes a thoughtful noise, thinking back on what happened earlier. "Did they?" he asks, frowning slightly. "I didn't notice. I was a little preoccupied trying to get my spray can to really pay much attention to it. If you insist, though..."

[popitcandy-blog]

day ██████

His room is blissfully dark and comfortable, and while Candy can't remember how he even got in here in the first place after lying outside for so long, he's grateful for it. The hallway was too bright, with pure white lights that burned his eyes and made them sting and the floor was hard and cold, an uneven stone surface that hurt his back and made his neck feel weird.

Inside, it's better. He doesn't remember turning off the lights, but somehow they're off and it's nice the way he can open his eyes without being blinded, and the carpet of his room is nice and soft and there's enough clothes on the floor for him to prop his head up comfortably.

The puking has stopped for now and even if he's so dizzy that even closing his eyes doesn't stop the feeling of vertigo, he supposes that it's better than nothing. It could be worse, after all, he could still be puking out nothing but stomach acid, wrecking his throat and his insides and burning away his taste buds. At this point, the taste of bile in his mouth is too normal to him, and he wonders if his teeth will be okay like this or not.

He wonders if he'll be okay, like this.

[look-a-meme]

My muse has left their old, brown leather book somewhere by accident. It looks like it's seen years of wear and tear, and upon opening it you muse discovers that it's full of wishes that never came true and times in their life when they were hurt/alone/sad. Send me a "✝" to read a wish or sad memory (specify which.) from the book.

[elvishsolitaire]

"Ah, good news indeed then!" He nods, glad they had gotten enough supplies to last them for a while combat wise. "As for the experiments, the first involves light polymers sturdy enough to withstand incredibly high speeds. On top of that it requires antigravity engines, or a way to build them somehow. It’d make traveling safer from monsters and far quicker, and I know how to make it work if we can build one, they’re called skyboards." The idea was a long shot, but he thought he might as well throw it out there anyway. It’d been a dream of his to own one since he had seen a group of them in another city.

"Other than those two I wanted to find a way to send the shock of this taser through a whip or something similar, that way I can wrap it around one of them and keep it constantly under control. Plus I might even be able to amplify it to lethal levels that way, and it should be effective against almost anything with a nervous system. There are a few more things I would like to try at some point, but for now I’ll stick to a few at a time."

[popitcandy-blog]

"That's an interesting idea," Candy says slowly, making a thoughtful face. "I'm not entirely sure if it'll work out, with the polymer. I remember hearing that a professor from Tel Aviv was planning to make polypropylene as strong as steel, but I'm not sure if he finished yet. Maybe there's something similar enough in this city though that it'll work out. The whole idea sounds a little farfetched to my human ears- anti-gravity isn't exactly a technology that I'm aware really exists, and the most I know about is the ionocraft- but if you know how to make it work we could make an attempt at building it at the very least."

"You want to make an electrical whip though," he hums, squinting slightly, tapping his chin. "I'm not entirely sure of a way to make one that's going to be safe, if I'm honest. Electricity is a dangerous thing to work with if you're not careful and you don't know how to handle it correctly, and I'm not exactly an expert engineer. It might shock you instead, or blow up on you."