Death Is But A Doorway

Chris Vail (The Mummy (2017) & Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? (Podcast)) Canon Divergent RP Blog Callie Castle (21+ only) Read my carrd - it contains critical information for interactions

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indie, selective The Mummy (2017) canon divergent RP blog for Chris Vail run by Callie (21+)

Written by Callie

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Graphics by: @mermakes

General/Trigger Warning: This blog discusses subjects including death, the afterlife, the US Military, War, and more

~Not Duplicate Friendly~

Other blog: Lucien Castle

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Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

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"Wicked" Sentence Starters

NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED

"Good news!"

"Let us be glad."

"Let us be grateful."

"Isn't it nice to know? That good will conquer evil?"

"No one mourns the wicked."

"When you're wicked you're left only on your own."

"Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?"

"It's only just one night."

"Know that you're here in my heart when I'm out of your sight."

"I've got one more night left here in town."

"So you see, it couldn't have been easy!"

DEAR OLD SHIZ

"Well, it depends on what you mean by 'friend'."

"We shall still revere the lessons learned."

THE WIZARD AND I

"If you work as you should, you'll be making good."

"Did that really just happen?"

"Have I actually understood?"

"That's how we'll begin."

"No one thinks you're strange!"

"This gift or this curse I have inside, maybe at last, I'll know why."

"Of course, that's not important to me."

"Alright, why not?"

"What a pair we'll be."

"My future is unlimited."

"I've just had a vision almost like a prophecy."

"I'd be so happy, I could melt."

"I'll want nothing else 'til I die."

WHAT IS THIS FEELING?

"There's been some confusion over rooming here."

"But of course, I'll rise above it."

"I know that's how you'd want me to respond."

"What is this feeling, so sudden, and new?"

"Let's just say - I loathe it all."

"I do admit, it came on fast."

"Still, I do believe that it can last."

"I will be loathing you my whole life long."

"How do you stand it, I don't think I could."

"These things are sent to try us."

SOMETHING BAD

"I hope you're right."

"It couldn't happen here."

DANCING THROUGH LIFE

"They want you to become less callow, less shallow."

"I say, why invite stress in?"

"Learn to live the unexamined life."

"Life's more painless for the brainless."

"Life is fraught-less when you're thoughtless."

"Those who don't try never look foolish."

"Make sure you're where less trouble is rife."

"What's the most swankified place in town?"

"We'll meet there later tonight."

"We can dance 'til it's light."

"You'll be happy to be there."

"I hope you'll save at least one dance for me."

"You deserve each other."

"I've got something to confess."

"I think you're wonderful!"

"Don't you see, this is our chance?"

POPULAR

"I've decided to make you my new project."

"You really don't have to do that."

"Don't worry, I'm determined to succeed."

"I'll help you be popular."

"Let's start, 'cause you've got an awfully long way to go."

"Don't be offended by my frank analysis."

"Think of it as personality dialysis."

"It's all about popular!"

"It's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed."

I'M NOT THAT GIRL

"Don't dream too far."

"Don't lose sight of who you are."

"Don't remember that rush of joy."

"Wishing only wounds the heart."

"I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl."

ONE SHORT DAY

"One short day full of so much to do."

"There are wonders like I've never seen."

"I think we've found the place where we belong."

"I wanna be in this hoi polloi."

"I'll be back for good someday. To make my life and make my way."

"One short day to have a lifetime of fun."

A SENTIMENTAL MAN

"I think everyone deserves the chance to fly."

DEFYING GRAVITY

"Why couldn't you have stayed calm for once?"

"I hope you're happy now."

"I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever."

"I hope you think you're clever."

"I hope you're proud how you would grovel in submission, to feed your own ambition."

"So though I can't imagine how, I hope you're happy right now."

"Listen to me, just say you're sorry."

"You can have all you ever wanted."

"I don't want it. No, I can't want it anymore."

"Something has changed within me."

"Something is not the same."

"I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game."

"It's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap!"

"It's time to try defying gravity."

"You're having delusions of grandeur."

"I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so."

"Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try, I'll never know!"

"Too long I've been afraid of losing love, I guess I've lost."

"Well, if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost!"

"Come with me."

"Think of what we could do, together!"

"Together, we're unlimited."

"There's no fight we cannot win."

"They'll never bring us down!"

"I really hope you get it and you don't live to regret it."

"I hope you're happy in the end."

"I hope you're happy, my friend."

THANK GOODNESS

"Let us put aside our panic for this one day, and celebrate!"

"What a celebration we'll have today."

"We couldn't be happier."

"Look what we've got, a fairy-tale plot, our very own happy ending."

"Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true!"

"People are so empty-headed, they'll believe anything!"

"Getting your dreams, it's strange."

"There's a kind of sort of cost."

"There are bridges you cross you didn't know you crossed until you've crossed."

WONDERFUL

"I never asked for this."

"What can I say? I got carried away."

"Believe me, it's hard to resist."

"I never had a family of my own."

"We believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it 'history'."

"It's all in which label is able to persist."

"There are precious few at ease with moral ambiguities, so we act as though they don't exist."

AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE

"I need help believing you're with me tonight."

"My wildest dreamings could not foresee lying beside you with you wanting me."

"I'll make every last moment last."

"You've got me seeing through different eyes."

"Somehow I've fallen under your spell. And somehow I'm feeling it's up that I fell."

"There's no future for us as a pair."

"Though I may know, I don't care."

"I'll be here holding you."

NO GOOD DEED

"I don't even know what I'm reading."

"I don't even know what trick I ought to try."

"One more disaster I can add to my generous supply."

"No good deed goes unpunished."

"No act of charity goes unresented."

"My road of good intentions led where such roads always lead."

"Was I really seeking good or just seeking attention?"

"Is that all good deeds are when looked at with an ice cold eye?"

"All helpful urges should be circumvented."

"I meant well. Well, look at what well-meant did."

"I promise no good deed will I attempt to do again."

MARCH OF THE WITCH HUNTERS

"Wickedness must be punished."

"I have a personal score to settle."

"For once, I'm glad I'm heartless."

"I would join you if I could."

FOR GOOD

"You can do all I couldn't do."

"Now it's up to you."

"People come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn."

"We are led to those who help us most to grow, if we let them and we help them in return."

"I know I'm who I am today because I knew you."

"Who can say if I've been changed for the better?"

"Because I knew you I have been changed for good."

"It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime."

"So much of me is made of what I learned from you."

"You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart."

"Whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend."

"I ask forgiveness for the things I've done that you blame me for."

"There's blame to share."

"None of it seems to matter anymore."

"I do believe I have been changed for the better."

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ABIGAIL (2024) SENTENCE STARTERS

❛ Fuck. That’s not part of the plan. ❜

❛ You grab me like that again, I may have to respond. ❜

❛ Y’all might want to hold on to something. It’s about to get real accelerated in this bitch. ❜

❛ You know the rules. No real names, no backstories, and keep the grabass to a minimum. ❜

❛ I’m like a expert at reading people. ❜

❛ Wow. You might be the least perceptive person I’ve ever met. ❜

❛ Crisp $100 bill, you can tell me one true thing about me. ❜

❛ You’ve basically got a fucking neon sign over your head that reads “muscle.” ❜

❛ That’s cheap, considering you come from money. ❜

❛ Don’t ever fuck with me. I will know. ❜

❛ Can you take the blindfold off? It’s really tight. ❜

❛ We’re keeping you here until your father gives us some money. ❜

❛ Do you know who my father is? ❜

❛ Can you promise me you’re not gonna let anybody hurt me? ❜

❛ I pinkie promise you that I’m not gonna let anyone hurt you. ❜

❛ I’m sorry about what’s gonna happen to you. ❜

❛ Oh, my God, you’re gonna be a real pain in my ass, aren’t you? ❜

❛ I don’t scare easy, so when I do, I pay attention. ❜

❛ I like you. You’re scary, though. ❜

❛ What’s going on? What’s going on is that we are fucked. ❜

❛ What if we just, like, you know, like, give her back and say sorry? ❜

❛ If seven million per person isn’t worth the risk, then what is? ❜

❛ Everyone stay alert. Any threat is gonna come from outside, so we set a perimeter and we hold it. ❜

❛ Hey, listen. I don’t trust any of these other fucks. So let’s watch each other’s backs. ❜

❛ His head fell off. ❜

❛ Why do you have a dick on your face? ❜

❛ It looks like a fucking wild animal ripped him apart. ❜

❛ I, for one, would like to revisit the cut-and-run idea. ❜

❛ This whole thing is a trap. ❜

❛ Can you pinkie promise me that you’re not keeping a secret? ❜

❛ We can take ’em. ❜

❛ We’re gonna get through this. ❜

❛ Why’d you do it? Bring us here to kill us. ❜

❛ I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, but you don’t sound very calm right now, Little Miss Paranoid, so forgive the precaution. ❜

❛ Wow. You got a lot going on up there,  but your brain’s not quite putting it together, huh? ❜

❛ You’re not as smart as you think you are. ❜

❛ Fucking put it down. I’d really prefer not to have to fucking shoot you. ❜

❛ We kidnapped a fucking vampire. ❜

❛ Someone has been messing with us ever since we got here. ❜

❛ We got to get out of here. There’s got to be another way. ❜

❛ Okay. What do we know about vampires? ❜

❛ What are we talking about, like Anne Rice or True Blood, you know, Twilight? Very different kind of vampires. ❜

❛ Okay, how do we kill a vampire? ❜

❛ Hey, we got a real fucking situation here. So I don’t give a shit what you think. Either you’re helping us, or you’re dead weight. Which is it? ❜

❛ There’s pool cues in the game room. Go sharpen ’em into stakes. ❜

❛ I’m not betting our lives on your fucking hunch. ❜

❛ All right, let’s go kill us a fuckin’… vampire. ❜

❛ You’re so bloody and so gross. ❜

❛ Oh, if you fucking say, “I told you so.” ❜

❛ Listen, you sit here and bleed, or you trust me. ❜

❛ Vampire on my ass! ❜

❛ I’ll kill you fucking fucks! I’ll rip your fucking heads off and gorge myself on your blood! ❜

❛ I’ve had a few centuries of experience. ❜

❛ Tell us how to get out of here, and we’ll let you go. ❜

❛ Hey, what’s gonna happen to me? Am I gonna turn into a vampire? ❜

❛ We would never have taken you if we knew who your father was. ❜

❛ Haven’t you wondered why I brought you all here? ❜

❛ If this is about revenge, why didn’t you just kill us? Why’d you bring us here? ❜

❛ What can I say? I like playing with my food. ❜

❛ If you touch that door, I will shoot you. ❜

❛ Fuck that shit. I’m not staying down here…with that. ❜

❛ Open the door, and I’ll let you keep all your blood. Oh. Organs, too. ❜

❛ Wait. A deal’s a deal. ❜

❛ Still gullible at your age, you fucking freak? ❜

❛ That’s why I took this job. With that money, I can start over, you know? ❜

❛ God, everybody’s got to be a fucking victim now. ❜

❛ Oh, I’m sorry. Did I hit a fucking nerve? ❜

❛ Fuck this job. ❜

❛ Fucking dream team. ❜

❛ You got any other bright ideas, Nosferatu? ❜

❛ Goddamn it. Why did you all listen to me? This isn’t gonna work. This is so fucking stupid. ❜

❛ You got people out there that you care about? ❜

❛ You and me. You’re my friend. ❜

❛ Lot of painful memories. But it’s never too late to make new ones. ❜

❛ I brought you back here to offer you a deal. ❜

❛ You fucking set me up. ❜

❛ You can die here, or you can help me kill [name]. ❜

❛ Yes, drink, and you’ll be one of us. ❜

❛ Our game ends here. ❜

❛ Well, well, well. Look who came to join the party. ❜

❛ Here’s the thing about being a vampire. It takes a long fucking time to learn how to do all the cool shit. ❜

❛ I came when you needed me. I’m here now. ❜

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If you're looking for threads or memes in your inbox like this post and Vail will give you some valuable loot in meme form.

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[bldrdsh]

There's a moment where he considers what he's being told. It went without saying that he was NO STRANGER to oddities of the world, MYTHOLOGY turned out to be much truer than the vast majority of the populace gave it credit for, which in it of itself was RATHER amusing to think about.

Karter watches him quietly, blinking a few times as he shuts his eyes, HAVING to genuinely think about whether or not he actually wants to see where this road leads, BUT THERE'S something about the way he speaks that get his attention.

HE'S DESPERATE. It's not sad the way Karter typically thought about it, but given how he speaks, HE'S at his wits end. This was going to CLAIM him if Karter didn't do something, and despite the fact that he has a sinking suspicion that HE SHOULD know better, there's a thought in his mind.

HE REMEMBERS BEING HELPLESS. That feeling of dread that came with feeling like your hands were tied no matter what you did. It's a FRIGHTENING thought to say the absolute least. Suffice it to say WITH A SIGH he finally answers.

"I'm gonna regret doing this I'm sure but..."

HANDS splay out on the desk before him with a resigned sigh. He knows full well that THIS was going to get him a lot of heat, BUT at this rate he feels LIKE his conscience will never let him sleep again if he didn't.

"...Fine. I'll help you."

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Vail nearly laughed with relief when he agreed to help. The tension fell from his shoulders, he was able to relax. There was a potential end to the living nightmare he was enduring.

He didn't know for certain how this was going to end. He didn't know if Karter could get Set out of him, help him find whatever it was he needed to get to purge this out of him...but some help was better than no help.

Especially from someone with more experience, and more caution, than Nick. Nick got him into this mess. Nick and his damned need for adventure. "Where's your sense of adventure Vail?" he always asked. Look where it got him.

"I'll do everything I can to make sure you don't regret this, I promise. I, thank you, thank you." The words tumbled out of his mouth, relief flooding his body from the hope that this might come to an end. Being cursed was, in fact, shitty, and he'd like to stop being cursed.

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[painofhumanity]

Aria didn't understand what was happening; she watched her uncle have some kind of fit, and Stiles talking him down like he knew exactly what was going on. But then, Stiles usually did know what was going on, or could at least figure it out faster than anyone else she knew.

Aria glanced at her cousin and watched his expression darken. He muttered something about a '"low bar" as Uncle Chris explained that his friend Nick would never look at her the way Ezra had. . . She couldn't help shaking her head, immediately dismissing what he was saying--and ignoring the way Stiles rolled his eyes at her.

"No, you don't understand, Uncle Chris. It was love," Aria argued. "Ezra saw me as an equal, not just some silly little girl that needed to be protected or sheltered. I mean--he went to jail for me, because he wanted to be honest with my parents and stop hiding out in his apartment. How is that not enough to show that he loves me?"

Stiles groaned and hung his head back for a moment, as if asking the universe for strength to deal with her stupidity. "Aria, come on," he started, frustration clear in his tone. "He didn't go to jail for you-- That makes it sound like he was protecting you from something. No, Ezra Fitz was the thing that you needed protection from. Uncle Chris is right. Adults aren't supposed to look at people our age and see someone they wanna screw. It's gross. It's illegal."

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Vail looked at Stiles, they were going to to have to tell Aria about Set sooner rather than later. Not that he wanted to, but it was clearly going to be a problem if they didn't say something soon.

Vail let out a small sigh, nodding. But...he got an idea. "Aria...have you heard from this guy since he went to jail? I won't judge, I just want to know. Besides...people go to jail for causing irreperable damage to their partners more often than they do protecting them."

He looked at the ceiling. "I even almost went to jail because of someone, not...kind of, for him, but not really. Nick and I...were liberators of precious antiquities during our time overseas, to make extra money. We could have done twenty years in a military prison for it."

He looked back at her, taking her hands again. "I know it's hard to listen to everyone else when you're caught up in your emotions, and you're sure your right. But trust me...this guy needs to be in jail and far away from you. You deserve someone your own age who sees you as an equal because there's no power imbalance. You deserve a happy ending with someone who is your equal in every way."

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[malka-lisitsa]

The only thing Katherine could think the moment she saw him approach was 'this is the guy isnt it... ugh.' For ex military she was expecting a built attractive man with rugged charm. Instead she got squirrely boy and the search for self esteem. Still it apparently works for him since he has a reputation for being very good at what he does.

Nice night for a drink

"...Really..."

She does nothing to hide her doubt and surprise that this is 'the guy' but still, she gestures for him to sit.

"So." Crossing her arms she looked him up and down again for good measure. "You're Vail? The man whos good at getting anything he wants from anywhere he can? Mr. Sticky hands himself?"

Honestly shes more than certain he gets this a lot, she's mostly testing for his reaction. Katherine is very specific in who she works with. He's going to tell her everything she needs to know through her little pokes and prods.

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Vail had the sense of who she was expecting, and the disappointment that...well, he wasn't Nick. Not that she knew who Nick was. Which was clearly a benefit to him.

"Really."

He quickly sat down in front of her, leaning back against the seat. "That would be me. And I've been looting graves for the last several years while working for the government. So...yeah. I can get in anywhere and get anything."

If this was the person who could keep him alive sobeit. He would tell her anything she wanted to know. He wasn't about to die for good again.

"Sounds like you're looking for something and need help getting it..." He raised an eyebrow, watching her response.

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[painofhumanity]

"Wh- Wh-- Tha-That's just. . .rude. . .uncalled for," Stiles said, though he was clearly too distracted to really be offended by what his uncle said. "You're a rabid raccoon on cocaine. . .asshole." The last was really added more on principle than anything. Like it was something he knew he would normally say if he weren't trying not to freak out, even if he couldn't remember why in that moment.

Stiles flinched hard--though he was unable to get far with the way Chris's arms were wrapped tightly around him--and started trying to push away. "No no no no no no--" He pushed and writhed and tried to lean back as his chest heaved. "Let go. Let- Let me go. Let me go."

He had to move. He had to keep moving. Stiles didn't want to think about it, didn't want to feel it--but Chris was holding tight, and he couldn't break free, and God, all he could think about was that damn locker he was trapped in, with the nogitsune taunting him. Except. No, that wasn't real. . .Or was it? There were still a lot of things Stiles was struggling to determine if they had actually happened or been hallucinations, or some warped combination of the two-- NO. He wasn't going to think about what happened.

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Vail shrugged, unaffected by being told it was 'rude'. The truth sucked, but he needed to hear it. He did get a small chuckle out of his nephew's attempt at a retort.

Vail sighed as Stiles struggled against him. "I'm not letting go kid...because you're family, and you need me. You need someone to be there for you...you're safe, even if it doesn't feel like it." He hated having to do this, but he needed to talk this out. It was the only way anything was going to get better.

His heart broke listening to his nephew have a panic attack like this, he just held him close, kept his voice low. "Stiles, breathe with me..." He took a deep breath in, and a deep breath out. He kept doing that, trying to get Stiles to breathe with him.

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[painofhumanity]

"BULLSHIT," Stiles snapped. "You don't leave someone you consider your world behind, you don't- you don't just drop off the face of the earth for near a goddamn decade!" He didn't want to hear any explanations or justifications, because that would make him understand, and Stiles didn't want to understand; he just wanted to be angry. Because Stiles' anger burned hot, but it was better than the aching emptiness of his grief, or the feeling of being abandoned.

He let out a harsh, grating laugh that held no humor in it. "Protecting us? Is that what you think?" Stiles' face was hard as he thought back on all the times he'd nearly died in the past year and a half. "You're either an idiot, or an ass." He wasn't ruling out the man being both.

"You were serving your country, Dad was serving Beacon Hills, and you know where I was? I was watching my mom die. And then watching my dad try to drink himself through his grief and learning how to take care of the house by myself. And I spent the better part of the last ten years just hoping to God that he came home after every shift so that I didn't end up alone. So, sorry, if I don't really give a crap about what you think you were protecting me from."

Stiles shook with barely contained emotions and scrunched his face for a moment as he tried not to start crying in his anger and hurt. "Screw this. Screw you. We've all been just fine without you, so-- Feel free to go find Mom's grave and say hi and then go back to wherever the Hell you've been. . . Maybe next time someone dies you can be bothered to show up."

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Vail didn't know how to respond to the accusation that his sister wasn't his entire world. Of course she was. But he was a teenager, of course he didn't understand the complexities of government secrets and everything else in his life.

"Shit happens and I never wanted to leave her. But I did what I had to do. You'll get that one day. I wouldn't have at your age either."

Set was coming out at the insults and he leaned his hand against the wall. "Oh I'm an idiot, and maybe I am an ass...but not for the reasons you think..." He needed to control Him, he couldn't be the monster around his nephew who already hated him.

Except...he talked about watching Claudia die and Set took over despite his best efforts, his brown pupils turning gold and splitting, locking with Stiles, and his hand taking his chin. Set's voice came out as a deep hiss. "Death is a part of life, it is as old as time itself. Older than you, your uncle, or anyone could imagine. You have no idea of the horror and death this man has witnessed and wrecked upon the world." A dark grin came out, his teeth looking nothing like Vail's own. "He is death now...a pity Claudia didn't die more recently. Perhaps I could have brought her back for you..." Set looked amused at the situation, looking for the terror in the teens eyes.

[vailtoset]

So I wanna apologize for the delay in my responses. I was fully planning on catching up this weekend for the holiday but we had an unexpected death in the family a few days ago. I should be able to post again soon but I wanted to let you all know what was going on. My love to everyone.