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@kryetar​ asked: ​ ' i believe they call this interrogating. '

“Do they?” That doesn’t help. He shrugs, as if something like that had never crossed his mind and never would. Nothing to see her, despite his default setting being intimidating. Which he also hasn’t taken any steps to fix. “Ever seen one?” He grins, a little unsettling. That still doesn’t dispell any illusions about the interrogation-ness of this encounter. “Believe me, if this was an interrogation, you’d be uncomfortably aware.” For all that Sebastian doesn’t go around telling his strangers his occupation, it’s moments like these that easily could be mistaken for a confession. That said, Ira’s not really a stranger. He’s Severin’s friend after all. They’ve met before. That’s something. 

He relaxes his posture slightly - not that he’s ever going to achieve the way Severin slouches - but it’s an attempt at a lowering of the tension. Whether it’s well meant or not is up to Ira to decide. “No, I’m just asking. No weight to it, no wrong answers.” There’s definitely a wrong answer to any question Sebastian asks, but that’s always to be seen. It’s mostly when he’s angry that questions have pre thought out wrong answers. “I’d tell you to relax, but I’m not sure it’d go over well.” Even if he meant it, it’d probably come out sounding like he’s telling Ira to relax for a procedure that is in fact going to hurt a lot. “I would appreciate an answer in the next century, if possible, though.”

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Matt Maeson, “Go Easy”

[hiistiger]

What quality does he admire most in his children?

(for @gunmetclgrey ily and alex)

Chris:

He doesn’t like that Chris left at all. Sebastian let a teenager walk out into the unknown and somehow managed to rein in any possessiveness that might have spurred him to hunt down his son and bring him back.

So really, what he admires most is Chris’s determination and independence. 

A teenager shouldn’t be living alone without anyone to help him and perhaps Sebastian’s got some way of making sure he’s not dead, but Chris saw that his current situation wasn’t going to be a good one and he got out. Sebastian can respect that. 

Alex:    

She’s got all of his bad qualities - she’s stubborn, bad with relationships, the list continues on. He watched her grow up, though sometimes in very short windows when he was busy. Still, he was a constant in her childhood, as others left or died. And somehow she managed to look up to him, which isn’t necessarily something he’ll ever understand. 

She’s tenacious. 

Maybe she’s a bit of a thief and doesn’t cope well with things, but she won’t give up on what she wants. This may have driven him mad while she was a teenager, but it also means that she’s done what she wants with her life and that maybe, despite how poorly things went when she was younger, she’ll be able to be happy. 

Most importantly, though he probably doesn’t say it outright past her 20s, he’s proud of her. She learned whatever he threw at her, rolled with whatever she needed to roll with, and she survived. 

[thefriendinthenight]

If you guys are reading this, it means that I’ve decided to take a break from Tumblr for a few days. There’s been a lot going on in the world lately, and I need to step back for a while and take care of myself, so that I may continue to do my best to help wherever and however I can. If anyone needs me, I’ll still be available on both Skype and Discord, but I probably won’t be around much on social media sites.

I love you guys. Please take care of yourselves (and others, if you are able to) in these trying times.

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🎁 thespian gives frank a fruit cake they made which 1: is absolutely falling apart just sitting on a plate and 2: tastes terrible. they laugh at it and themself for like 5 minutes

Frank really did his best to school his face into something serious when he saw it for the first time, because clearly Thespian had put some kind of effort into getting it - or making it? Given the way there’s a mess all around, he was pretty sure they made it, which meant that he had to be even more polite about it than if they’d bought it and it’d been kind of a disaster. Still, he’d call it one of those times where the thought counted - counted a whole lot more than the final product, because staring at it as it oozed down its own sides, he was pretty sure it might poison him. He still thanks them for it - again, they put in effort for this - but is pretty relieved when they start laughing because then it’s not as bad when he does too. It’s with them, not at them. More at the situation, he’d say. Maybe that moment - the lightness of it, which is something Thespian does well - is an even better present than either of them had thought.

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who’s the fuck-up now? still me?

"Unless you want to pull a friend out of the woodwork who’s even less suited to living life than you, then yes, it’s still you.” He sounds almost bored. Maybe he is. It’s not like it’s hard to insult Severin this way. For any similarities they may share, Sebastian still looks better on paper and always will. So a setback like this isn’t going to be quite the blow it would be for Severin.

Sebastian decides to go in on that. “Because you see, it’s also a factor of how much our mutual employer trusts us. If I fuck up, yes, it could have a large effect because I’m in charge of more things. But the fact that I’ve gotten to that point means that the title of fuck-up doesn’t apply to me the way it does to you. So yeah, you can be fucking celebrating that I’m not perfect, but I’m not going to be killed and dumped in a ditch because of it. This was a one time thing. Your designation is fuck up and that’s not changing any time soon.” He leans back a bit. “Now let me fucking mope in peace.” That only makes so much sense, given that he’d also snap at Severin for trying to fuck off.

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🥳 / fantasy!kate

🥳 for your muse to find out it’s my muse’s birthday

ft @diabolicaltendencies and @strangerinourmidst

“I had a human mother. Sort of. I wasn’t born in the traditional sense, but I’m part human, and that’s what they told me. But I don’t remember it - I remember months after, when I gained something like full sentience. I was still small, but I grew faster because of what I am.” This is getting long and complicated, but he never knows how to explain these things. “It was the twins that decided on a day. They said I had to.” Not quite like that, but more or less like that. “I was confused, but they explained.” He’d still been confused when they’d explained - he wasn’t a human, so he hadn’t really been born. Therefore no birthday. Things didn’t really have birthdays. He’d been born a weapon, and that was that. 

“So I picked a week from then.” Just to satisfy them, really. Especially at first. “And they found ways to celebrate it.” Another confusing aspect, but at least at that point the information of what a birthday was had sunk all the way in. The twins hadn’t provided much evidence on their own of how humans were supposed to celebrate, but he’d been happy at what they’d come up with. He always would be, but he hadn’t known that at first. “I don’t know how old I am, but that’s why today’s special, even if I don’t. They always do something.”

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@perdefinitio​ you get BOTH

[ nap ] for your muse to fall asleep against mine

He hadn’t said anything when Severin had leaned closer. They don’t get moments like this much, which is probably a little bit the fault of them both, but a lot of the blame can definitely be laid at Sebastian’s feet. He keeps Severin at arm’s length when he shouldn’t and he can’t even put into words why. The reasons are many and likely mostly boil down to the fact that Severin displays vulnerabilities that in many ways mirror Sebastian’s own. It’s not their differences that scare him - it’s how similar they are. If Sebastian’s in the mood for feeling sorry for himself, then he can’t really begrudge human contact - it’s better when he doesn’t ask for it. He focuses instead on a list of things he needs to get ready for next week - whatever they were part watching, part making fun of, and part using as an excuse for a drinking game continuing to play on the TV in the background. 

It speaks to the trust that Sebastian has in his brother that he’s able to ignore his presence for a while, surprise running through him when Severin’s head hits his shoulder. He hadn’t forgotten that he was there, had just been comfortable enough not to notice. Not that he’d ever admit something like that to his brother himself. So once he’s been jarred out of his own head, Sebastian looks over to see Severin’s eyes closed, breathing as even as it’ll get - he checks because sometimes he thinks one day, on one of Severin’s bad days, he’ll see it stop. But that’s constant. Maybe on a different day, he’d shrug him off, wake him up, something like that. He doesn’t. Sebastian’s excuse is that the mental list is half done and he might as well get it finished before he’s interrupted again.