#damours

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Damours: A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.

Lucy: An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel.

Fairfax: A realist sees the oncoming stagecoach.

Marchmain: The coach driver sees three idiots standing in the way.

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Verdun, super drunk and pointing at Damours: That’s my boyfriend, suckers!

Montfort: That’s your husband.

Verdun: HA! Even better!

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Pasquier: If I were a drink, I’d be a cherry vanilla coke. If you were a drink, what would you be?

Piquiri: Bleach.

Damours: Sewage.

Pasquier: Please calm down, edgelords.

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Lucy: Alright everyone, carve the scariest thing you can think of on your pumpkin!

Malv: How do I carve my fear of being alone again?

Ville: I don’t know how to represent my lack of self-worth.

Damours: Is “the fear of not belonging in the group” too abstract?

Lucy, staring down at her carving of a spider:

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Wissant: I’m so tired I could eat a horse.

Damours: I identify as a horse and this offends me.

Siggy: I identify as offends and this horses me

Marci: I offend horses identify me

Vee: I think the main question here is why would you eat a horse if you’re tired??

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Placebo Lore: The Abomination Curse

Since I do a lot of running with the lore on Placebo, I decided that sometimes I’m just gonna make posts explaining how certain things are because I’m out here with DD lore like a kid playing in a sandbox.

Anyway aboms!! They got some kinda critter attached to them. I have three aboms: Vee, Damours, and Caunter. Each of them have their own beast: the Veest, an unnamed beast, and the Dragon. Kinda strange how all three of my aboms have the same kinda beast that works the same kinda way, ain’t it? 

As such, I delved into that and came up with an explanation: the beast is a curse on their lineage.

This means that yes, all three of my aboms are related, though distantly so. I’m not sure what happened in the past to cause this curse to be placed upon their bloodline, but regardless, it’s really old and it’s here and no one knows what to do about it. 

The curse in its “active state” (so when there’s an actual beast present) in men almost every single time. Women still carry the curse, but it’s deactivated and almost never becomes active.

Because yes, the curse does start in its deactive state naturally and essentially gets triggered by something that “awakens the beast.” Once the beast wakes up, it never falls back asleep. The curse is in full effect.

Since the curse is strongly linked to the men of the family, the men tend to start developing odd features early on in life. We’re talking things like misshapen teeth, sickly green bile with corrosive properties in large quantities, generally crooked proportions, and hollow or sunken eyes. Not everyone develops all of these things, it’s just generally a rule that those with the curse who are susceptible to it becoming active look strange in one way or another. They definitely have a crazy high metabolism though, so they tend to be very thin because they burn through energy so quickly (especially once the curse is active).

The beast itself is adaptable to its environment. They all tend to look the same when they awaken, but they often change appearance depending on their environment. The Veest has a more amphibious or “marshy” look to it since Vee was raised under a bridge in a swampier area. Damours’ beast has a forest cryptid vibe since he grew up in a wooded area and tends to hide in nature/be antisocial. The Dragon has a lot of dark scales and is generally draconic in appearance since Caunter sets a crapton of fires. 

The beast can also be communicated with by the host. The beast was probably hateful at first, but age has opened it up to being a bit more agreeable. As such, hosts are capable of reaching a middle ground with their beast. If a host and their beast are completely in-sync mentally, then it makes both of them a lot stronger (as seen with Caunter, who accepted the Dragon with open arms when it first awoke).

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Verdun: You okay?

Damours, cutting onions and crying: Yeah it’s the onions

Verdun, to the onions: What did you say to my husband?!