Travel Drabble 1
Title: Aesthetic Death
Author: Prototype Boy
Characters/Universe: Chloe, Weiss Kreuz Side B
Rating: PG-13
Content Notes: Nongraphic violence
From the moment Chloe gave his life to Kryptonbrand and the pursuit of justice, his mission to himself was to find a beautiful way to kill. Guns, he learned quickly, were out of the question. At short range, they made far too much mess to ever be considered attractive and from what he'd seen, long range wouldn't give him any sense of personal satisfaction and guilt over what he'd done. That still left him with plenty other options, though, so Chloe kept on, determined to find the best in his eyes.
He threw himself into research and practice when he wasn't working at that night job, learning both his own limits and the basics of how to handle many different things should the need ever arise for them. Finally, after months of trial and error, he sunk a slim, long blade between the ribs of a man willingly hiding information that drugs his company was selling were dangerous for the sake of profit. Both the feel of it and the look of the corpse afterwards told him that this was the right tool for him to use.
With that settled, modifying it into Bite Rose took far less work. Roses were both lovely and a reminder of his previous life, when tending to flowers was all he could do well, and it seemed fitting to turn the stiletto blades into an extension of a pretty, yet dangerous flower. And the added beauty of explosions gave him the incentive to work those into the petals from time to time.
If he had to walk this path, he'd do it in an aesthetically appealing way.
Author: Prototype Boy
Characters/Universe: Chloe, Weiss Kreuz Side B
Rating: PG-13
Content Notes: Nongraphic violence
From the moment Chloe gave his life to Kryptonbrand and the pursuit of justice, his mission to himself was to find a beautiful way to kill. Guns, he learned quickly, were out of the question. At short range, they made far too much mess to ever be considered attractive and from what he'd seen, long range wouldn't give him any sense of personal satisfaction and guilt over what he'd done. That still left him with plenty other options, though, so Chloe kept on, determined to find the best in his eyes.
He threw himself into research and practice when he wasn't working at that night job, learning both his own limits and the basics of how to handle many different things should the need ever arise for them. Finally, after months of trial and error, he sunk a slim, long blade between the ribs of a man willingly hiding information that drugs his company was selling were dangerous for the sake of profit. Both the feel of it and the look of the corpse afterwards told him that this was the right tool for him to use.
With that settled, modifying it into Bite Rose took far less work. Roses were both lovely and a reminder of his previous life, when tending to flowers was all he could do well, and it seemed fitting to turn the stiletto blades into an extension of a pretty, yet dangerous flower. And the added beauty of explosions gave him the incentive to work those into the petals from time to time.
If he had to walk this path, he'd do it in an aesthetically appealing way.