stares then winks with both eyes
⸺ ❝ Why are ya staring at me like that? What? You hungry or something? Need something? ❞
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stares then winks with both eyes
⸺ ❝ Why are ya staring at me like that? What? You hungry or something? Need something? ❞
chews on his hat
⸺ ❝ No, stop it! Not the hat!!! ❞
When you and your Angelic Security murder drone, @roguecmd, have spent so much time together and it adapted to your personality to the point that it just Knows™ what you'll say next. And you have a Bonding Moment™. Thank you @wonderful-balan 🥺❤️
❛ hey you! can you hurry up and dispose of the bodies? they're really killing the vibe. ❜
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084. Describe your character in one word.
cathexis.
because david, much to his detriment, invests plenty of his emotional energy into people and their ideas (dreams). because of his environment, and the tragedy that befallen him with the violent loss of his mother, it's survival-wired attachment. his identity is poured into those who helped shape him, and their goals and ideals for him tether him to his own humanity in a world purposed to sever that.
if he stopped fighting for his family's dreams (gloria, marine, etc), it'll be as though he stopped being himself.
i can break this down a little further with the three main parties in his life.
lucy. she is his sanctuary, his anchor. her dreams of going to the moon become his mouth outta hell. it's not that desperation that attaches him to her but with definition. if she believes there's something better outside of night city, then he subconsciously programs himself into becoming someone worth more than nc has designed for him. with the death of maine and his mother, his selfhood is invested entirely into her. this is why he loses an ounce of his humanity when their communication becomes increasingly complicated. it was his humanity, his humans connections, that made him unique and helped him stay mentally afloat for as long as he did.
gloria. she was his mother. his reason he existed. his reason. his grief, he never had a chance to properly grieve him. it calcified into fuel when her underworld entanglements came barreling into his home. cathexis means she's not just a memory for david—she’s a cause. his entire body, his mods, his choices.... in school.. in the streets.. on the ripperdoc's slab... they all orbit that loss. that trauma became him.
the edgerunners = a family of ghosts. he loved them. they were his mother's only other attachments. their deaths don't just haunt him, they have residency inside him. every fight he engages in, every detour he takes into the fighter's pits after he enhances himself with maine's gorilla arms, he carries the edgerunners with him. his rage in the streets is personal. he's not just avenging them. he inherited them.
so yeah, cathexis is devoting oneself in the shape of identity. moving on, half-feel, David doesn't know none of that. he commits to it wholeheartedly. sometimes it's violent. it's what makes him powerful, but it's also what's killing him. it's difficult for him to detach. he only knows how to be the burning bright star for what he loves. even if it leaves nothing of him behind. and i mean nothing. not an ash, not even an atom.
@roguecmd
N 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐀 * 𝐁𝐔𝐆 : ❛ do you believe in ghosts? ❜ / ― 𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑹 / 𝑯𝑶𝑹𝑹𝑶𝑹 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.
A short bereaved gasp . ❝ Why ? ! Have you / @roguecmd seen one ? ! ❞ His voice sporadic as he twitches , suddenly unnerved .
♔.* ― ❝ I hear noises under the floor ! ❞ & More . He isn't certain if it's ghosts or any other celestial beings . He has seen them take form in NPCs of his world any nightmare was possible so long as the artificial deity that reigned could will it into existence .
❝ & when I think I hear a voice in my head ? ! ❞
Before Kinger was once a man who believed in solid facts a man of 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 not superstition .
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looks at her :D
Staaaaaares right back at him then that mouth slowly curved.
"....Pspspspspsps...I see you."