[IC Scene] Extreme Bubble Gum Tricks

[zander_holt]

Leaving Zander to his own devices often led to bizarre taxidermy creations, or other equally deranged hobbies. This evening, he’d become enamored with a YouTube video entitled Extreme Bubble Gum Tricks, and the sudden overwhelming desire to one-up all of those tricks overtook him

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[shallow_impulse]

What the hell was Zander on? Seriously. Any given day the headcase of a vampire might show up demanding the most bizarre things and much of the time he only rolled his eyes but there were moments when he just sat there blinking and trying to find some logic in the madness. There was none, clearly, as he stared that bag down from his spot settled into the corner of the couch. Surrounded by a few fashion magazines and ignoring the world otherwise, Devin had been attempting to find some peace and quiet while the vampire was out and about annoying other people

[zander_holt]

Sense of humor? Psh, this was serious; Zander was dead-set on doing something absolutely magnificent with this gum… just as soon as Devin finished chewing it all.

And of course he expected Devin to comply; Devin was his to command, after all. That very fact made Zander’s ego swell, because he was the big scary vampire and Devin couldn’t help but bend to him charms. Or… something like that. Sure, he could have forced Devin to follow his orders with physical violence, but he often didn’t find that necessary. In the time it took to beat the other man into submission, Devin could have chewed… you know, probably five or six pieces of gum. There was no time to waste drawing blood right now.

Besides, physical violence was only reserved for special occasions with his ghoul.

“Come on, the sooner you chew all these, the sooner you can get back to…” He trailed off, flailing a hand toward Devin’s magazines. “...whatever boring thing you’re doing there.”

And just in case Devin did need a bit of a threat for encouragement, Zander reached

[shallow_impulse]

"I could set you on fire in your sleep," he countered in regards to the comment about his hair with a drop of his gaze back to the magazine as he turned to the next page; Zander could threaten all he liked but Devin was hardly the sort to be bullied around. Funny how that worked; the vampire had such high expectations and Devin stubbornly dashed them time and time again

[zander_holt]

Why did everyone have to be so difficult tonight?! First that woman at the convenience store, and now Devin; the whole universe seemed to want to keep him from having any fun! Why was the afterlife so unfair?

“Gum can’t make you fat, Devin,” Zander replied matter-of-factly, as if talking to some slow, stupid child. “And if it’s zits you’re worried about, I can just cut them off and sew your face back up. I’m practically a surgeon.” True, animals were his area of expertise, but he wasn’t above dabbling in human experiments. If only such things were as accepted in society as taxidermy was.

But this colorful exchange wasn’t getting this gum chewed any faster; clearly Devin needed even more encouragement to get to work.

Zander shifted to straddle his ghoul’s legs on the couch so Devin wouldn’t be able to try to escape, and he held one piece of unwrapped gum menacingly in front of Devin’s lips. “Open up.”