#v. alive

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“Rise and shine, doctor. Ahh... yes... there we go...”

Rowan stared impassively down at the older man, his cold grey eyes flicking over the restraints he had used to bind him. But, yes, they were perfectly secure. The former ghostbuster wasn’t going anywhere for quite a long time.

“A pleasure to meet you, Dr. Stantz. You’re a hard man to find. I’d tell you that your situation is dire, but I’ll trust that you’re an observant man. I don’t intend to hurt you, but I will, if necessary. I hope it won’t be... I’m a great admirer of your work, you see, and I don’t like to damage minds as beautiful as yours. So. Play along, and be honest with me, and we won’t have any sort of... problems... Am I making myself perfectly clear, Dr. Stantz?”

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@gloriaxstellarum

“Ah... you must be Dr. Faustus...” Rowan stared at the woman standing in the doorway warily, his pale grey eyes sizing her up unblinkingly, before realizing he should probably introduce himself. “My name is Rowan... Rowan North... I was sorry to hear about the East Wing. Seems a shame to have lost such a prime research facility.” Someone else might have mentioned that there had still been people inside the building when it had so inexplicably exploded, but the paranormal researcher wasn’t the type to comment on things that, frankly, didn’t interest him.

“I suppose this makes us lab partners... I’m sorry if the space is a bit cramped. I’m not entirely sure why they’ve assigned an astronomer to come work in the basement, but you’ll just have to make due.” Besides, he thought to himself, turning back to his work, it didn’t really matter. She’d likely get sick of him, and demand a change of venue by the end of the week. It had happened before, and he wouldn’t be surprised were it to happen again.

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open

“It’s all quite simple, actually,” Rowan smiled broadly. “You are going to help me to bring on the Fourth Cataclysm. Or your friends will die. Quickly, but painfully. Likely with a lot of mess. I promise you, I can make things very unpleasant from here on in, but… I’d like us to start out as… friendly as possible.” He held out a hand to the ghostbuster. “I think you and I are going to have a WONDERFUL relationship.”

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❝ Dealing with you is like herding cats. ❞ //consider: unfortunate souls verse co-villaining.

Guide to Troubled Birds || Accepting

”I think you’re starting to lose your touch, old man,” Rowan sneered. He wasn’t looking at Heiss, instead he seemed wholly fixated on the machine in his hands, weaving together wires and occasionally glancing at the blueprints strewn out all across the table.

“It isn’t my fault if you can’t keep up. I am the brains, after all, you’re just the personality. Let me take care of the planning, you just sit back and look pretty… we wouldn’t want to tire you out before the theatrics begin.”

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caged bird || open

”My my, what do we have here... A visitor? Well. That’s new.” Rowan eyed the newcomer with a mix of fascination and something almost like hunger, a cruel smile twisting his lips. “And here I thought the guards were just letting me take a nice little walk. But it’s such a lovely surprise. I’d offer you my arm, and we could take a little stroll back and forth along the grounds together, but I do recall there’s some sort of rule about touching.”

The prisoner started to walk, his face turned skyward, as if he’d never seen the color blue before. “So. What do you want? Come to gloat, or are you here to discuss something a little more constructive.”

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❝ What have I gotten myself into? ❞ //safetylightsarefcrdudes

UP Starters || Accepting

”Trouble, Professor Gorin,” Rowan couldn’t help but to smile as he adjusted the restraints on her wrists and around her neck. “Trouble with a capital ‘t’. Or pure brilliance, I suppose we’ll have to see. Well. I will. If this doesn’t work, you’ll likely have permanent brain damage. Which would be a shame. But that’s the lot of the guinea pig. Ready? No? Excellent! Let’s get started!”

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( @hcltzs )

“Do you mind if I take a picture? It isn’t every day I get to ruin the life of someone as pretty as you,” Rowan sneered. “I want to remember this. It’s all quite exciting, don’t you think?”

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( @okaygoggles )

He was under the wreckage when they finally found him. Breathing. But only just. Whatever he had anticipated happening when he’d touched those wires, it certainly hadn’t been the explosion that shook the Mercado violently, and sent chunks of plaster and cement raining down as the building shuddered and nearly collapsed around them.

Rowan opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was a sea of blonde hair. He groaned and shut them again. “No,” he moaned under his breath. “Not you. Go away. Let me be dead in peace.”