Messenger RP: Fight Talk; Then and Now
20-23 October 2016
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Adam to Abe; protip - the coke you did isn't the coke Emily and Henry did. It's been refined to be a whole new monster. If you and Emily ever binge watch some shit don't let her egg you on. She can take moose coke that you can.
Abe to Emily: did he just fucking say that?
Emily: -puts her hands up- Don't look at me! I can't even believe we're having this conversation.
Emily: Do you two talk often?
Emily: Are you just talking 'cause I'm here?
Adam: Henry's afraid well start punching each other if we're in the same place for too long.
Emily: -mutters- That's kinda what I was expecting... Or an intervention.
Abe: plus the mun can't come up with something for them to do in the room that won't end in frustration and at least a punch. And it's hard when is the same mun.
Emily: Is it bad that I'm kinda curious to see you fight?
Abe: These days he won't win as badly. I can put up at least some thing resembling a fight.
Adam: the first time we fought I actually never touched you and you still lost.
Abe: you don't have minions any more.
Emily: What about the strays?
Both: they hardly/don't count.
Emily: Plus, weren't you human?
Abe: yeah, I was. Both times.
Emily: -looks between them both- I think he could take you for a round or two. Hey!! Do we have vampire MMA or boxing or anything?
Adam: No, no vampires in sport. Yet. Things go viral to easily these days. Once we have a 'place' then hell yeah.
Emily: We could do a fight in the ballroom. No tech allowed. Besides, I know most of the strays don't want to be found. That's why they're here.
Emily: I mean-- I'm not saying you SHOULD fight. Just that-- Just that it would be interesting.
Adam: you sure you've been keeping in shape?
Emily: -looks more excited than she really should-
Abe: It would be really hard to keep it a friendly match. It's far too easy for these things to get personal.
Abe: I don't know if that's a good idea. I don't know if I could really fight you so much as as move about a bit and let you punch me.
Emily: Are you afraid to fight me?
Abe: I don't want you to take this the wrong way.... I can't always control my strength and I... accidents happen. I'm afraid I might hurt you.
Emily: -clenches her jaw tightly- I'm stronger than I look. And quicker than you can imagine. I might get scared, but-- I'm strong. And we're nearly the same age!
Abe: I know. I know you're capable and I know I'm being absurd.
Emily: -looks to Adam almost pleadingly-
Adam: she's been on her own, and Henry taught her sone things. And so did I, for that matter. She could give you a run, Lincoln. But Emily.... you have to keep in mind /when/ he's from. He's lost fights.... several. All against lady vampires.
Emily: -sighs dramatically- Just like the boys near one of my schools. 'It's not proper to hit a lady.' Is that right? Well then, I'll just go ahead and give you a good bop on the nose! Guess how long I lasted at THAT school?
Abe: *smiles* and it's wonderful that you can do that. I... on the one issue, I cant help it. I know I need to let go of those thoughts. But on the other... as Adam how hard I hit.
Emily: -grumbles- I'm from the same time... And English!
Emily: Did you ever fight ada's sister?
Abe: Yeah I did. And I lost. Spectacularly. Part of it is because she took her skirt off half way through the fight.
Adam: bull shit! You ran at her chin first and she kicked you in the face. One of the funniest damn things I've seen in a long time was when she tossed her skirt all 'toro toro'.
Abe: she took her skirt off and you threw a chair at me.
Emily: -barely holding back giggles- Seriously?
Emily: That's fucking epic! And I thought I was bad when I cut a slit up the side of my skirt and nearly gave some 13 year old snot a coronary when he saw my bloomers. Wait-- Why'd you throw a chair at him?
Adam: I want throwing it at him, but Vadoma. She caught it after kicking him flat in his back and then pour the choir down in top of him to sit on and pin him.
Emily: Ooookay... Why'd you throw a chair at Vadoma? And why were you all fighting in the first place?
Abe: it.... he invited me to attend a ball.
Adam: It was an integrated ball in an age when Lincoln was still an ass. The fact that whites and blacks were mingled and dancing together pissed him off enough that he drew his ax and charged in. Vampire defended and humans fled. The humans who were eaten that night were court appointed executions as he later found out. Black and White and human and vampire all together for a ball.
Abe: I told you would wouldn't like me very much back them, Emily. But, Adam... perhaps I wouldn't have been so quick to violence if you hadn't have kidnapped a friend of mine to get me there.
Emily: You wanted him to see that everyone could get along on equal footing, right? Be he-- -looks to Abraham- But you wouldn't listen. 'Cause if you were an ass about blacks and whites integrating, then I can't even imagine what you were like with the idea of humans and vampires together. -turns back to Adam- That's why you took his friend, right? To force him to come and see for himself. I'm not saying it was the BEST idea, but I kinda understand...
Abe: I was a very different man back then. I've grown since then.
Adam: thank the gods for that.
Abe: ooooh.... working at Speed's shop so... 20-25. Maybe 28 at the most.
Adam: if I might.... Em... Dad bragged. Lincoln is the only time I've ever heard Henry brag. Long before Jack stole the watch, everyone, well undead at least, knew who Lincoln was. I was astonished to hear that Henry was actually bragging. Not only about Lincon's skill as a hunter, but Henry had alluded to a world changer. To Lincoln's credit.....
Adam: he was out there campaigning for rational race relations. During his brief first run with politics he stopped slavery in his district. But there was an acceptable split hair in those days. You could hate slavery and still be a racist.
Adam: the ball was because I was desperate to meet the man Henry thought worthy of bragging about. But as a lead to Henry and maybe Lincoln really was the answer. A way out of the war before it happened. But the man in the ball room want yet ready to change the world, he was a righteous hypocrite.
Abe: I was also recovering from a bout with depression at the time of the ball.
Emily: Who started the fight?
Adam: to be honest I think we both did. The moment he set foot in Eden I knew he was a hypocrite. So I disappointment made me sarcastic. Really? That's the man who inspired Henry and Henry was in love with? Also running into the house bearing an ax with start some shit, in any age.
Adam: did you really have to drive a wagon though the ball room and my living room and hall way just because Vadoma sat on you?
Abe: now wait a minute.... you threatened to force me to turn and you said you'd spoon feed me the blood of my friend!
Abe: yeah I drove a wagon through the house. Right through those big windows in the living room and ball rooms.
Emily: -spins back to face Adam- You were gonna what--?!
Adam: disappointment makes me sarcastic.
VW OOC: they had a vampire sidebar about the other thing Adam said that night. Abe isn't brining it up because Henry asked him to stop airing family laundry. Adam because he and Henry have already spoken about it and worked it out.
Emily: That doesn't sound sarcastic, that sounds... That sounds super villainy.
VW OOC: Adam asked Abe to kill Henry. - in game Adam was grandstanding for the minions just to get Abe into the office where they could really talk.
Adam: I forget sometimes, that not everyone is as jaded as I am. My sense of humor reflects it.
Emily: That just seems like something you don't joke about. It's like-- It's like a rape joke. Those of us that were turned against our will, in fear and pain and-- And it's just not right to joke about.
Adam: yeah I know that now. It was mostly sarcastic, but very villainy. Stop being an idiot. Stop being a hypocrite. You have a destiny and you have Henry.
Emily: I can't believe you actually admitted that.
Adam: I'm not the jealous type. Henry's been with others; men and women, and more power to him for it. But even if Henry was bragging about Lincon, Lincoln wasn't making him happy. In fact.... no I'm not going there.
Abe: she knows that I tried to kill him at least twice.
Emily: I'm starting to get why dad REALLY doesn't want you two in the same room for long.
Abe: though the second time wasn't really trying to cut Henry's head of more than it was me goading him into killing me. Didn't work.
Adam: Mmmm mm. Then it's only fair she know. I didn't only threaten to force Lincon to turn and spoon feed him his friends blood..... we were surrounded by vampires. Eden was at its height during the ballroom fight. I just wanted to get you into a privet room and you had just killed 20 vampires. They weren't going to give us privacy any other way.... so I asked Lincon if he was willing to kill Henry.
Adam: to his credit he was a loyal hypocrite.
Adam: Dad and I have talked about this. He knows I was in a difficult position and desperate to get into contact with him at that time.
Adam: as for how hard he can punch..... it's hard. Even as a human. Standing swing, no pull back.... he punched a hole into my gut using a silver watch.
Emily: -winces and whimpers quietly- Was that at the ballroom or-- Or the train?
Adam: the punch was on the train. It's why I couldn't get off before it collapsed.
Emily: And dad... Dad dropped it on you?
Adam: A stroke of Providence by accident. It's not like he could aim it, after all. I watched from below. The train almost made it to the end of the bridge. Just 1 foot more and Lincoln and Will could have jumped to safety. But it didn't get there. The angle was to steep. The train began to slide backwards, into the gorge. And then 2 things happened right after another.....first the train stopped moving. Even after the rail and wood had gone from under it. The train stayed right where it was, even moved forward a foot.
Adam has an odd smile akin to devilish pride
Adam: Henry was picking it up. He lifted quite a few tons of steel and iron. Henry was in a hell of a spot that night and knew he could only save one of us. He picked Lincoln. I always knew Henry was stronger than anyone knew. Physically and mentally. My bother and sister, Lincoln. Even the Union. They all underestimated him and now there he was picking up a damn train.
Adam: but he couldn't hold it for long. He saved us both that night. Abe jumped to safety. But I was facing a rain of fire and stakes and red hot steel railing. I couldn't run and would have burned but Henry dropped the train and a car fell on me. A steel beam and a rock pile broke open the side just moments before it hit and I was safe. - spent the night in a makeshift oven but I should survive a bit of heat easily enough.
Emily: -eyes dart wildly between her father and Abraham- Oh. My. God. If this is my family history, reincarnation doesn't seem unlikely.
Emily: I can't believe you two can sit here together!
Abe: Time is funny like that. It's great for cooling anger. Might take a while more before we get to neutral ground. But I have to face it; that war was a moment in time. I wish to God that it had give differently, quicker and kinder. But Adam hasn't given a hint of anything like that since. I grew up. Perhaps he's still growing.
Emily: -smiles at her dad- I think we all are.
