[log] walking, talking silk-wrapped razor blades
[21:51] * Brody is... back, now that he's had time to change--now wearing his jammies, Nightmare Before Christmas flannel bottoms and a Misfits hoodie. And make-up, because GOD FORBID someone see him without it. He is pale(r than normal) and tired(er than normal), sitting on a couch, staring at the bar.
[21:56] * Martel has spent less time around Stigmata lately (and there are reasons, one assumes); when he does arrive now, actually tidied up fit to his station, he's a little on edge. ...which he'll tuck away, upon spotting his company. "Hello, there."
[21:58] * Brody stirs, abruptly--he had zoned out for a moment there. He manages a sleepy smile. Sleepy, but he can't sleep, THANKS BODY. "Hey."
[21:59] Martel: "You ought to be sleeping, I see." Martel: responsible adult. ...responsible adult who is getting a drink, it's been one of those.
[22:01] Brody: "Don't start." He at least has a blanket, which he wraps around himself, with his bare toes sticking out under it. "I will get up and mother you to death." ... something in there sounds like it is missing an s.
[22:02] Martel: "If I'm remembering my mother rightly," Martel drawls, digging out a wine bottle, "then I promise you I'm getting married, we don't have time for children yet, and I have no idea what the difference between cream and off-white is."
[22:02] * Martel is lying about the last one, FYI.
[22:03] Brody: "But did you wash your teeth and brush behind your ears?" What.
[22:03] Martel: "You're thinking of nursemaids." ...welcome to the nobility.
[22:04] * Brody actually... tilts his head really far to the side, like a puzzled owl. "...really? People do that?"
[22:04] Martel: "You want to hear about my childhood?" Martel cocks his eyebrow, half-amused.
[22:06] Brody: "Probably not if it involved nursemaiding."
[22:06] Martel: "It wasn't very interesting."
[22:08] Brody: "Most people's aren't, and yet, somehow everyone needs therapy. How's that work out?"
[22:08] Martel: "Most people lie," Martel shrugs, sitting down with his glass.
[22:10] Brody: "True. Or maybe the Nexus just pulls in fucked up people specifically."
[22:12] Martel: "Mmm, no," he shakes his head. "I promise you it's not a peculiarity of this place."
[22:13] Brody: "I musta grown up in an anemone. Anema... anoma... whatever, that word, SCHOOL IS HARD." Brody accompanies this with a tiny flail, because... tired.
[22:15] * Martel is thoughtfully silent as he tries to work out what in the name of God the boy is trying to say.
[22:15] * Brody only makes sense about 30% of the time, so.
[22:16] * Martel ... gives up. "You haven't finished growing up," he says, blandly, instead.
[22:16] Brody: "Don't start." :|
[22:17] Martel: "I'm not picking at you, I'm stating a fact."
[22:17] Brody: "Your fact is lies."
[22:18] Martel: "I confess my mistake in light of your eloquent maturity."
[22:18] Brody: "Also you're a doodie-head." ... Brody, stop that, that's not conducive to anything. "I was grown up at twelve."
[22:19] Martel: "Bollocks," Martel disagrees, conversationally.
[22:19] Brody: "I'll fight you over it." Brody puts up his dukes.
[22:20] Martel: "I always drew the line at beating children." ...that's nice, Martel. Why do you talk.
[22:20] Brody: "Chicken." >:|
[22:20] Martel: "Reformed," he corrects, mildly.
[22:20] Brody: "Is a reformed chicken a duck?" WHAT.
[22:21] Martel: "Only in some parts of Daresia."
[22:21] Brody: "That means nothing to me, but remind me not to go there."
[22:22] Martel: "It's a continent," he explains, chuckling.
[22:22] Brody: "I see." He narrows his eyes, which is apparently his opinion on ducks. ... look, no one knows.
[22:25] * Martel has actually never been to Daresia, he's just an asshole. Do they even have ducks? Who the hell knows.
[22:26] Brody: "You're wrong, though. I'm not a child."
[22:26] Martel: "Yes, you are." Martel refuses to actually take any sort of argumentative tone, for the record.
[22:28] Brody: "I am not, you don't even know me." His tone is equally mild.
[22:28] Brody: ... nobody really knows Brody, for the record, though, not really, but he is kind of KING OF LIES. Lies and half-truths and hedging and pretending.
[22:30] Martel: "No," Martel allows, "I don't. But that's mutual, hardly unique, and ultimately means very little."
[22:32] Brody: "It means you can't just decide I am things." B|
[22:32] Martel: "The fact you're bothering to argue with me about it is telling."
[22:32] Brody: "I'm allowed to be tired of it."
[22:37] Martel: "You're remarkably strong in a situation you shouldn't be in. It's worthy of respect. It's not adulthood."
[22:38] Brody: "Then what's adulthood?"
[22:39] Martel: "Something some people never reach," he says, dryly.
[22:39] * Brody makes a face. In his category of Making Faces, that's #95. "That's not an answer."
[22:54] Martel: "A state of body and mind. We keep growing, as we get older, but we have to do a certain amount in the first place. It's not something you become overnight on cue."
[22:55] Brody: "So basically 'I know it when I see it'. Everyone likes to say they know what adulthood is but when you ask, they can never give you a real answer," Brody observes. "I think adulthood is making it up as you go along and y'all are just pretending you know what you're talking about."
[22:57] * Martel chuckles, in a bleak sort of way. "No, that's not what I said."
[22:59] Brody: "'A state of body and mind' isn't an answer. That's like asking, 'What's a chair?' And someone going 'a piece of furniture'. Like, durhay." Witness his stunning vocabulary. 'Like, durhay'.
[23:02] Martel: "Physical and emotional maturity," Martel rephrases, bland (also, extremely patient, observe this). "The end of adolescence. Unfortunately, we don't progress along one single perfectly uniform scale."
[23:04] Brody: "What do you know about my physical maturity?" Brody trolls.
[23:06] Martel: "With your wardrobe, far more than I'd care to."
[23:07] Brody: "My plan is coming along nicely then." >:3
[23:08] Martel: "You concern me," he says, blandly. It's hard to tell if he actually means this or he's just trolling further.
[23:09] Brody: "Good."
[23:09] * Brody is definitely trolling further.
[23:24] Martel: "Mad thing."
[23:25] * Brody opens his mouth.
[23:25] * Brody closes it.
[23:25] Martel: "I don't want to know," Martel says, preemptively.
[23:26] Brody: "I shall spare you. Mercifully."
[23:26] Martel: "I'm glad one of us has any." Mercy.
[23:26] Brody: "I can do something horrible and then you can mercifully make me a sandwich instead of beating me up," he offers, practically.
[23:27] Martel: "I have a dungeon," he reminds Brody.
[23:28] Brody: "I think I've been in there."
[23:28] Martel: "Probably." ...probably not the ones he piously says he'll never use.
[23:30] Brody: "I've been in lots of dungeons, I will give yours a 6.5 out of 10." One can hear his halo ding.
[23:30] Martel: "I've had better." This is true.
[23:32] Brody: "The true test of a dungeon is if you release a herd of bears into them and they respond to it like their natural habitat, then you know you got a good one." PLEASE SOMEONE CHANGE THE SUBJECT.
[23:35] * Martel does, because actually dungeons are a little too close to the reasons he's on edge and drinking. HOORAY. "Unfortunately my wife frowns on torture. Did you look much at the books I gave you?"
[23:37] Brody: "I did! They're pretty interesting, thank you." :> ... that is sincere, actually.
[23:37] Martel: "They looked it. I'm waiting on another set for the library. ...you're welcome."
[23:40] Brody: "It's hard to find good information because most of it is written by dumb people."
[23:41] Martel: "I've been one manner of scholar or another for thirty years," Martel shrugs. "I should hope I have a knack for that by now."
[23:42] * Brody ... squints. "You're old." BRODY.
[23:42] Martel: "Forty-two," he acknowledges. "Forty-one or so when I died."
[23:43] Brody: "Why is everyone I know old?"
[23:45] Martel: "The place between being a child and being an adult is awkward enough without feeling apart from your own peers." ...
[23:46] Brody: "I don't have peers, only nemesises." .........
[23:46] Martel: "I don't recommend those."
[23:47] Brody: "Keeps me on my toes."
[23:48] Martel: "Rarely worth it." ...Martel should talk less, drown his irritation with the nexus more.
[23:50] Brody: "Pfft." No never.
[23:51] Martel: "Even death is not what it once was, I'm afraid."
[23:51] Brody: "No," he muses, "it's really not."
[23:52] Martel: "Ah. But there was never such a thing as a tidy end."
[23:53] Brody: "It's not any fun." :(
[23:54] Martel: "No," quieter.
[23:55] * Brody ... does his best to look not suspicious.
[23:55] Martel: "I wasn't aware you'd died." Welp.
[23:57] Brody: "Oh, I got better." He chirps this, because it's easier to talk about than Things That Are Going To Happen.
[23:58] Martel: "I didn't," Martel reflects, which is sort of weird no matter how you interpret it. "You, on the other hand, are more evasive than a churchman."
[23:58] * Martel is just sort of making an observation.
[00:01] Brody: "Truth is overrated." He wants a beer, but he is too tired to get up and get another one. "Besides, people hear it and then freak out, even when there's fuck-all they can do."
[00:02] Martel: "Truth is a tool, like anything else." Martel is probably the least inclined to do that, but he's also not going to point that out.
[00:04] Brody: "In my experience most people can't handle it. Tom Cruise style."
[00:04] Martel: "In my experience most people are useless, and irritating besides that."
[00:04] * Martel isn't actually antisocial, he's just picky as hell.
[00:06]
"You are a misanthrope, don't be such a grumpy bear." :>
[00:09] Martel: "I didn't go live in the mountains because of my outgoing social nature," he says, dryly.
[00:10]
"Well, shit, I don't know your life." Brody says things that just... are.
[00:10] Martel: "We're both the better for it." :]
[00:11]
"I'm going to break into your home, go through all your things and replace all your sheets with Little Mermaid ones," he threatens, emptily.
[00:12] Martel: "You have access to my home because I allow it," Martel points out, absently. "Adjusting the wards would be simple."
[00:12] * Martel takes the fun out of breaking in :(
[00:12]
"I can hire... gremlins."
[00:12] Martel: "Mmmhmmn."
[00:13]
"Tiny ones.. with paintbrushes."
[00:13] * Brody yawns. :(
[00:13] * Martel refills his glass. "You /really/ ought to be sleeping."
[00:13]
"Whatevah, I do what I want."
[00:14] Martel: "You look like you want to sleep."
[00:15]
"I need to wait for dawn." >_>
[00:15] Martel: "Why is that?"
[00:15] * Brody mimes zipping his lips.
[00:15] * Martel rolls his eyes with remarkable tolerance.
[00:16] * Brody looks angelic.
[00:17] * Martel finds actual angels kind of annoying. "If you run into a tall gentleman with an accent like mine, tell me," he says, instead.
[00:17] * Martel is going to find you, whichever one of you bastards it is. >:E! ...sup.
[00:18]
"Should I not mention I know you?" Brody guesses, accurately. ... He knows how these things go, see.
[00:18] * Brody ought to have known how these things went back with the business with the Nosferatu, but uh.
[00:18] Martel: "For your own convenience, not mine."
[00:19]
"I will keep that in mind."
[00:20] * Martel chuckles. ...his sense of humour could still use work.
[00:20] * Brody glances at his cell phone watch. "Sun's rising," he observes. "I should go make sure Alex got home."
[00:21] Martel: "Don't get lost."
[00:22]
"In the event I do, I promise not to wander into any gingerbread houses." ... B| Brody gets up to leave.
[00:23] Martel: "Goodnight, Brody." Martel is not going anywhere, for a while.
[00:23] * Brody goes, to make sure Alex got home all right, sure, and then fret more about Things That Are Going To Happen. And hope the damn vampires don't come back.