Tobias "Toby" Matthews (
hisheartsdesire) wrote2015-11-08 06:56 pm
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Tobias may one day learn to change the greeting on his voicemail. Until then, there's only the default.
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You know, you're not like any vampire I've met.
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Wh—well, what makes you say that?
[Why, do they all fall putty into his lap, or do all of them just hate his guts, or is it something else he can't think of?]
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You're so gentle and in-control.
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Oh, I don't know about "in-control". You've already seen one of the fledgelings.
[He frowns as he remembers what they'd mentioned of Kanaya at the swear-in.]
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It isn't like that, all right?
[Because other immortals, YAY!]I'm not... I'm not looking to hurt anyone.[Ah, but has he killed before? Of course, he has, and had even developed a taste for it back then, before he met Dorian.]
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But, that's why you're different. You're so gentle. Aren't you hungry, Toby?
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...I'm fine, there's no need for that.
[But if Abduxel has already learned to read Toby, he knows that's a lie. So many tells: the way he tenses up, turns his gaze away, tries to avoid that line of conversation...]
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Defensive:] I haven't killed any. Not here. You already know about the one; isn't that enough?
[He wants to avoid making any more deals if possible.]
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Is it better when you suck someone dry, Toby? Like, is that more satisfying if you get to see the light go out?
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[This is one of those moments he should've seen coming but somehow got completely blindsided. A little panicked but mostly confused, he tries to buy himself some time or look for a way out.]
...what do you want from me? What are you looking for, Matthew?
[He is on the verge of just wanting to flee.]
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Abduxel looks at him plainly, his expression flat. He raises his hands, palms up, like calm down.]
I'm just curious. I've never been a vampire. Besides, I suppose that sets you apart from the vampires in my world, too. They like the taste of bringing death. Ask me how I know. [He winks, then, with a little smile.] But I was always an escape-artist, even before I died.
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turns up the heatcan pressure him or otherwise get under his skin. On the other, he thinks that he should be able to connect to or reason with the demon and thereby be rewarded.So he glares at Abduxel, studying his countenance and body language, and... nothing seems off. It's as if Toby is just making a scene, that whatever animosity he might've detected earlier was all in his head. Or perhaps a misinterpretation on Toby's part. He eases slightly, though his expression remains slightly wary.]
—Is it common for demons to have relationships with vampires where you're from? How well did you get to know any of them; rather, any vampire other than myself?
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The only way I really knew vampires was through stories, and on a few occasions, through near-death experiences. When I was still human, I mean.
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I should consider myself lucky; I was only gone for thirty years. [Not that Dorian was any more welcoming for it.] But "cheating the Devil", you say—how so?
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[He got lost in a tangent there. He comes back to the point:] People think the Devil owns your soul but that you walk among the living, untethered from Him. Cheating Him. It doesn't make sense to me, really. Then, of course, you're stronger than us. That's probably the real problem: demons are an envious group.
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I see. Not that I know how it works, whether in my world, this one, yours, or any other. But becoming... what I am, I never really died to begin with. Maybe it's just, I don't know. A strange condition. An unfair one, I guess.
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I meant it's unfair to you, to demons. Because you're right, I didn't sell my soul for this. I didn't even know it was going to happen, not until it was too late.
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Let me tell you a secret about demons, Toby. Every one of us asked for this, quite literally. And that's all you need to know. Envious, sure, you're free and you're strong, but only by certain measures of strength. I don't need your pity, I really don't.
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He sighs and shrugs.]
Ah, right. Sorry. He doesn't feel bad about his pact, and neither would you, and so it goes without saying you're all willing to pay the price. [He tells himself to stop here, but his mouth moves faster than his mind.] I don't know that I'm as free as you think I am, though. I may not have to pay anyone back or serve anyone, that much is true, but that doesn't mean there aren't other methods of being boxed in.
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What boxes you in, Toby? Not being able to see the sun? You could. I offered you that much, once.
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i'm sorry
LOL are you really, i wonder
not even a little
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it was clear before but both are good :-*
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i think he wants to weep, LOL
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...i need a more appropriately pissed off icon. oh well
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hope you're cool with this
always bb
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