"Frozen"
// Kim Kitsuragi // Harry du Bois // fluff // bit of reading with visuals //
Disco elysium thought bubble comic/reading, I am just starting to get into it so I apologise if I didn't capture their essence
ENDURANCE[Challenging: Failure] - You try to move. Try to obey your thoughts but you don't move. Your feet seem rooted to the ground.
PERCEPTION[Medium: Success] - Something feels wrong. The air feels heavy. More tiring than usual
ELECTROCHEMISTRY[Formidable: Failure] - This shit isn't groovy. It's exhausting and not in a good way, brother.
VOLITION[Easy: Success] - You've been forgetting something, haven't you?
YOU - pat your body for any possible wounds you're forgetting
VISUAL CALCULUS[Challenging: Success] - You seem fine. Your prodding hands don't seem to find anything you might've forgotten. through your legs, your shoulders before resting on your face, fingers covering your eyes.
KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective?"
PERCEPTION[Challenging: Failure] - You hear the familiar voice beside you murmur something. It seems worried, but your head feels loud. *Too* loud.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY[Medium: Success] - Oh, this isn't fun
KIM KITSURAGI - "Are you cold, Detective?" He repeats the question quietly, looking over your form that you didn't even realize was trembling "Everything's okay?"
COMPOSURE[Legendary: Failure] - It's not.
SUGGESTION[Medium: Success] - Tell him it's okay. He doesn't need to worry his mind about little ol' you!
LOGIC[Formidable: Failure] - Agreed. We have more important matters than this. The case is still barely scratched.
VOLITION[Medium: Success] - No, you *need* help. You've been at this for too long and you don't know what's going on.
HALF LIGHT[Formidable: Failure] - You don't need anyone. The only thing you need is yourself. Continue walking forward, don't even look at him.
YOU- keep your hands over your eyes. maybe it'll quiet down. [COMPOSURE: Impossible]
.... FAILURE
COMPOSURE[Impossible: Failure] - Your head lowers further into your hands in attempt to push the noises away. You thought it would help but it seemed to make it worse. Guts feeling as if they're twisting upon themselves. The exhaustion that feels like it's daunting upon your being. It was supposed to be quiet.
RHETORIC - You actually expected it to stop? Wow.
KIM KITSURAGI - "..."
SHIVERS[Trivial: Success] - The air feels colder when he looks at you like that, doesn't it? How are your eyes? Burning
ELECTROCHEMISTRY[Challenging: Failure] - Oh no... we are *not* crying!
VOLITION[Challenging: Success] - Nope, we probably are. We have been holding it in.
PERCEPTION[Impossible: Success] - Through the wind, voices and throbbing headache you can hear a ruffle of something akin to a jacket.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY[Challenging: Success] - Headache? What headache? Head empty because this bore has been staying sober
VOLITION - Which is good
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - *Not*.
VOLITION[Formidable: Failure] - Shut up.
AUTHORITY[Medium: Success] - This is weak. Beneath us, even.
KIM KITSURAGI - "Lieutenant."
PERCEPTION[Trivial: Success] - You finally hear it. Kim's voice cutting through the rumble of your thoughts, firmer than usual but stable enough for you to focus on the point
KIM KITSURAGI - In front of you stands Kim. The Lieutenant, his eyes avoidant of yours, as if hinting of silent embarrasment lingering with the everlasting calm presence.
His gloved palms hold agaisnt the edges of his bomber jacket, spreading it apart lightly to open a window of human warmth and closeness. He doesn't seem to take it off fully, the cold air probably a chill through the tanktop underneath. But he doesn't fix it, just stands there, no more word spoken.
EMPATHY- ...Is he offering you a hug?
RHETORIC[Medium: Failure] - No.
VOLITION[Medium: Success] - Yes.
COMPOSURE[Trivial: Success] - He doesn't say anything. He does't want or have to. You know what it means. He knows. The cold is only the excuse for this moment of closeness. He just doesn't want to say it, ask you outright.
EMPATHY - Do you want a hug?
BONUS
