MARRY ME SO YOU CAN’T TESTIFY AGAINST ME IN COURT ; THE HITS.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY C! my chaotic other half, my same person energy partner, congratulations on another trip around the sun. thank you for putting up with me for yet another year and here is to two very rich, very chaotic people who got married in vegas on a whim. you know how much i love you so i’m not gonna go around in circles but i love and appreciate you and your chaos and your talent.
it was stronger than she anticipated but the burn would die out soon enough and give her the haziness she so desired. “give me a second.” she spoke to the barkeep (the one who luckily hadn’t asked for ID). her head turned to the patron beside her. “got any suggestions for something good?”
“ actually, ” he does. he’s a trust fund baby with an apartment in at least five states. ( his family are classic old money ; they’ve managed to maintain their fortune, somehow. ) he reaches over the bar with a smile at the bartender and an awkward shuffle of his id to make sure he knows this is legal. it’s not, the id’s fake, but it’s good fake. his fingers press into the tops of each bottle and his face contorts in concentration until he finds .... “ got it ! ” he swipes the bottle of dark chocolate patron from under the counter and pulls it free. “ put it on my tab, ” he simply says, as he pulls the cork free and pours liberally into a glass he also steals from behind the bar. ( he’s going to put this bartender out of a job. oh well. he’ll tip well. ) he pours some into his own glass after he chugs the rest of the whiskey he’d chosen down. “ try it. it’s patron from all the nicki minaj songs.”
there was a LOT to process. lizzie wasn’t dead, and yes he was still processing that. every time she did something new he thought he’d never see again, it was like a FLUTTER in his chest. and they were getting married. just thinking of it brought a smile to his face, it made him dopey. which was what allowed the moment of someone spilling coffee all over his shirt. will could deal with the fucking heat but fuck, he liked that shirt. so there he was in the bathroom, trying to clean it off. maybe if he hadn’t been so distracted he would have remembered to lock the door behind him. “shit.” he wasn’t a fan of people seeing his scars ( that was reserved for only a certain blonde ). it was on him for not locking the door but still— SHIT.
people lock the door. usually, without fail. which is why when he invites himself into the room ( it’s a public washroom, it’s not like he’s jail breaking the guys space ) he’s surprised to see it occupied. “ heyyy, man. ” he realises three things at once; one, the guy’s cleaning his shirt, if that’s what he can call the soaking wet mass of sunken colour in the sink. two, that’s a relief, because he really wasn’t looking to end up in the middle of some dude’s public bathroom fetish. ( no shame, but he’ll always judge. ) and three, he’s ... covered in scars. assassin’s creed level scars. it leads him to the conclusion that if this were a game, he’d either be a) the minor character that serves as the know it all stranger and is used as a tool to unlock the main character’s level ten tragic backstory. or b) the happy go lucky sidekick that switches sides towards the end of the game for shock value. ( he’s been playing a lot of call of duty. no correlation. ) “ you good? ” he gestures behind him, to the door that’s now closing under it’s weight. “ because, you know, people usually lock those. ”
that’s bradley emmett duke not jonathan whitesell. he’s nineteen years old and a witch. he may be + approachable, + enthusiastic, & + entrepreneurial but he’s also -unscrupulous, - impatient & - self-serving.
the good bread doth arriveth.
bradley grew up with arlo park, a fellow witch. he was from a less prominent coven. established but small. the dukes aren’t exactly a household name.
although bradley has spent his entire life vowing he’ll go to duke when college comes. he hasn’t, because he’s chosen not to go to college, so now he vows to become a royal duke. he’s stupid.
his father is a failed business man and his mother a concert pianist. his house is eclectic ; think of full house but with magic and replace all the other children with pets. black cats ( oh yeah, where do you think bradley got all his extra from ), labradors, a raven or two. the labradors are mostly mementos from his childhood innocence at this point but he still loves them.
he followed arlo into san francisco, because of course he did. he needs the bonnie to his clyde. ( just not romantically. no offence arlo, but no. ) his mother followed him mostly because she didn’t trust him to function on his own. and she was right, ladies and gents.
since bradley’s been in san francisco, he’s tried to con victoria villalobos out of her money for performing a spell on her in an induced dream. he’s helped aidy silvermist here and there, not knowing that she’s more or less a malicious psychopath. ( not that he’d particularly care. which, yikes. ) and, as the main event, enlisted with finn mikaelson as his resident witch on call. which led to, accidentally ( and in bradley’s mind just a little amusingly ), finn mikaelson taking over arlo’s body.
naturally, he panicked. considering arlo’s body is currently inhabited by an original and said original’s body was stashed away in the safety of a coffin. he’s been moving arlo into available bodies ever since. first came morgan cummings, a triggered werewolf with anger issues and homophobia. naturally, that body wasn’t sustainable.
so, bradley found aiden kincaid. he was rich, and tall, and bradley thought he was making the best of a bad situation. little did he know, aiden was in transition. and checked out of his own life. yep, he’s officially made things worse. sorry, vamplo? at least maya marceli’s amused. he thinks that’s the least she deserves, given the obvious.
“Well make sure you get it done before you head out with your little friends, you hear?” Marcel listens to his son answer and he nods his head, “Yeah this weekend you got to help me with the paint job in the kitchen, don’t you forget that either. No excuses man or we’re gonna have your mom to face. Love ya, go on have fun.” Marcel hangs up and pockets his phone, “Teenagers, little jerk just mumbled yeah yeah at me. Being too cool with his friends.”
@apxstarters
“ maybe it’s evolution. ” no one asked for your opinion, bradley. ( is he giving it anyway? obviously. ) “ we have to be stupid before we’re smart. ” he would know. except, perhaps unlike this man’s son, he doesn’t think he’s ever going to outgrow his chaotic stupidity. it’s the cornerstone of his personality. it’s like giving beyoncé a second name. ultimate no no.
“You know what? I just can’t believe you would do this behind my back. I thought I could trust you!” Piper exclaimed in disbelief, resting her head in her hands for a moment before looking up.
he’s frozen, lollipop already in his mouth and the wrapper crumpled in his palm. “ if it makes you feel any better, taking candy from strangers is the least stupid thing i’ve done this week. ” not untrue. so far this week he’d, in no particular order : gotten his friend’s body hijacked and removed from the narrative, put him in the body of someone else entirely, and then used his failures to get a dead-alive girl he happened to be friends with to feel better. candy theft has nothing on him.
he’s in deep shit. he’s up a creek with no paddle. he’s practically dancing in the chaos all of his own creation. yeah, he’s in trouble. a ( seemingly ) harmless and usual business transaction was about to turn into sorry i gave an old dead guy your body and then let him run away with it. also the old dead guy is currently in a coffin so i put you in the first stupid guy i could find. sorry. ( frankly, he doesn’t think there’s a good reaction to that. and he also isn’t expecting one. ) when arlo starts to come to, he looks guilty as sin. “ heeeey, buddy. ” he’s reaching into his bag, pulling out a bag of chips and extending it like an olive branch. ( he’s not stupid. except he is. all the time. ) “ you’re looking good. ” ha ha ha, he’s in danger. begin the frantic search for the paddle. @pcthstrayed
“ my parents keep talking about going to switzerland for the summer and like, i know they’re pretty unobservant but i think they might notice if i don’t show up on the tarmac. ” which is a tragedy because she loves flying. loves travel in general. as much as she’d like to test the limits of magic, she’s pretty sure flying past the former barriers limits will have the same effect as if she’d crossed it on foot. she might not love living, but she definitely likes it better than crumbling into ash. no fucking thank you. “ – this is where you, my friend, should offer to curse the guy who did this to me. i don’t care that he’s your best friend. ” she glares. “ – which speaks volumes to your shitty taste. ” in friends, in halloween costumes; just terrible taste all around. @teenagewste
“ you could always say you have a thing against swedish cuisine. ” that is less than the best suggestion he could’ve provided. it’s less than a mediocre suggestion he could’ve provided. his best friend may have been stupid ( so stupid ) and clearly in a crisis of entirely homosexual nature, but he thinks he may actually be worse. by virtue of sheer, chaotic ignorance. “ i mean, i put him in the body of a white dude. ” that does not sound good. “ after i accidentally sold his body to an original vampire for a quick buck. ” he’s owning his failures. like a mature, responsible individual. ( he is neither of those things, he doesn’t know who he’s kidding. ) “ and now i kind of can’t find his body. so, shitty taste and shitty decisions, i guess that’s a curse. ” is that going to make her feel better? probably not. but hey, at least he tried.
P : PARTNER. what does your muse look for in a partner? looks / personality?
someone who is as chaotically stupid as him. he’s attracted to people who he thinks will still put themselves first in a relationship with him. is that healthy? probably not. but it comes from his deeply selfish core and the fact he looks out for bradley first and foremost. he wants to be left in the balance of the possibility at being left at the drop of a hat, it keeps things exciting. as for looks, he doesn’t really have a type. as long as his girlfriend is as chaotically stupid and selfish as him, he’s going to be attracted to her. that said, he has a thing for blondes and red heads.