meme | #002 -- absolute obedience ( do you do you want to )

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the ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE MEME 1. Post with your character. 2. That character is compelled to follow the orders of anyone who replies. 3. Any orders. 4. Any orders. Meme Strategy: There's nothing in the rules about whether or not your character knows s/he must obey - as well, the other character might not know that s/he must be obeyed. Play it however you like. Don't like the orders you got? Not willing to have your character follow them, even if you've had a good time up to this point? Talk to the other player, use OOC notes or PMs, try and work it out. Got some stuff you'd never want to play out? Consider making a preferences post and linking to it when you reply here. Wanna give orders that people would love to follow? Give em context. Make it a story. Is this about revenge? Working out some personal issues? Too dumb to realize that the other guy has to do whatever your guy says?

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[magnetic_magpie]

Shut UP!

[Because screaming doesn't stop Daniel really, but no, no STOP. And he can't put anything between himself and Daniel without backing himself more into a corner, and he's very scared because having his ability to think and feel is worse than being made to do things, and low but close thunder rumbles from lightning too high to hit the ground.]

[eternaliyah]

[He draws his knees up to his chest and wraps his arms around his shins. Quietly,]

Okay.

[The orders are all still in effect, but Daniel can give him time to breathe.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[He keeps prowling, the metal quaking slightly, like windchimes in a minor earthquake, but everything else was still. He's not calm, at all, and fear spiked too high to make it possible, rage warring with the fear to keep him moving, everything tense.]

[eternaliyah]

You're safe right now.

[And yes, "Believe me" still applies.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[It's a split second look, something that runs deeper than betrayal. Something more at home on a child's face, when they've just been slapped, when they've known no harshness, shock, as if his brain can't quite understand what has just happened.]

That's intolerable.

[Not that he can do anything about it, the sheer rawness of it shutting down first.]

[eternaliyah]

[Daniel flinches, wants to cover his eyes, doesn't let himself. Because he fucking planned that so he could walk things back, but now that they know - it's. It's just a sign that this is exactly what he needs to do. Daniel doesn't know how to do this halfway, knows he'll never get through this if he tries.]

Here, with me, right now, you are. No one and nothing else is going to find you and I -

[his voice breaks, bitter and awful and with an edge of laughter.]

I don't want to hurt you. This is all for your own good.

[He knows exactly how terrible it is. And he did promise to tell the truth too.]

[magnetic_magpie]

So stop.

[Because safe or not, you can still feel fear, and there are so many ways to define 'hurt'.]

Just stop.

[And it's too close to a plea, too close to begging and he hates this, hates Doom, and if he has his way there won't be a stone left in Latveria.]

[eternaliyah]

[He makes a soft, strangled sound, biting down on his own hand. He should - god, how can he, how can he possibly -]

Stop being - so - afraid.

[A moment of weakness. But he couldn't bear to make it absolute.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[He snarls, and it's reflex, the metal on Daniel's body digging into him, biting into skin and deeper where there is muscle.]

STOP.

[eternaliyah]

[He twitches, because it's not actually a surprise but it still trips so many of his fears. Because his gun that's his baby and the simple reflexively pain at his pants zipper and oh god that chain is around his neck even though he knows Magneto can't actually cut his air off.]

[He hides his face in his hands. A respite for them both.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[Daniel backing off gives him enough space, time, to realize what he's doing and V E R Y gently ease Daniel's zipper and chain away, that's dirty even for him, even for right now, and it's almost a begging, see see, stop please, please stop even if he can't - won't - voice it.]

[eternaliyah]

I -

You don't have to believe statements I make after this one.

[Previous ones are still required, though.]

I appreciate that. But you don't have to.

[magnetic_magpie]

No, I don't.

[That's his point.]

[eternaliyah]

I'm going to. Take the gun off, if that's alright. Put it in a corner or something. It's got sentimental value, and I'd rather not damage it.

[the tags and the zipper are staying on, though.]

[magnetic_magpie]

Probably safest outside.

[He can't promise though.]

[eternaliyah]

[He's not leaving his gun out in the sand! >| ]

...okay, make me a box.

[magnetic_magpie]

Okay.

[That's easy and not something he minds to do. He takes a minute to make one, then hands it over.]

[eternaliyah]

[He puts the gun in the box and carries it outside, folding it somewhere into the desert that may or may not be nearby. Then he comes back in and sits down again.]

Talk to me.

[magnetic_magpie]

[While Daniel it outside, he settles into a niche in the rock, it's almost uncanny how he fits into the hollow, curled up on itself like it was worn and smoothed simply to fit his frame. He contemplatives sealing sealing the mouth of the cave so Daniel can't reenter, and in fact, half does, the hammock laying on the ground now, without the support poles.]

About what?

[eternaliyah]

[But he can't finish it - that would be prevention.]

How you're holding up.

[magnetic_magpie]

[No, he can't. He can't be alone right now, even if he wants to be.]

I'm not.

[eternaliyah]

Yeah.

[sigh.]

Come here.

[magnetic_magpie]

[He shrinks up for a moment, curled tighter. He doesn't want to. And he does. The internal confusion between the two, combined with the compulsion of of the spell leave him fight himself - Daniel didn't say now so he can fight it for a minute, trying to figure out what he wants. But he doesn't know, and does uncurl to come over to Daniel, standing beside him because all he was told was come over, and he doesn't know if he wants contact.]

[eternaliyah]

Sit.

Let me hold you.

[There's a soft resignation in his voice - it's selfish, to cast himself as the comforter in this horrorshow, but if he must be horrid, he may as well be selfish.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[He sits, slowly.]

I don't know if I want to be held.

[Some part of him really, really doesn't want to be touched, doesn't know if he can stand it. Some other part of him needs it. But it's enough to allow him to protest.]