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Dr. Casper Darling ([personal profile] readytosee) wrote2024-02-05 08:10 pm
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OPEN RP POST



OPEN RP POST
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Deep beneath the blackened waves)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-21 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's fun in a new way, a different way, exciting as the buzz of collaboration and so much more twists through the air, the void, the dark place like pure fucking magic and energy.

And mostly, importantly, beautifully, this man is his way out. Maybe he should feel a bit bad about clocking that the mathemetician--scientist--is in desperate need of some loosening up. Maybe he should feel bad that, drinks in hand, the other is clearly in over his head. But he isn't, because this is art, this is rock n roll, this is spontaneity, this is Kenneth Anger. This is Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. This is collaboration in the truest sense. He can sense that. He's always been very good at sensing that.

This is an attractive man with something he wants being not hard to get, not insecure, but unused to things. Zane? Zane has been here a long, long time.

"Time ticks away even if we stand still, Darling." Maybe it's his last name. Maybe it's a pet name. Zane smiles wide in the conjured hotel room, leans in, brows high and arched, mouth almost comically open.

"Six-six-five," he echoes solemnly, and a ringed hand is on Darling's knee as he leans in like a counselor about to tell a spooky story by the fire.

"The neighbour of the beast."
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (And told her stories of treasures)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-21 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Tom laughs, genuinely finding the other charming as he lifts the glass to his lips for one last sip. He sets it down--or maybe he never really did and it was always sitting, half drunk on the table, glitching in and out of real-ness like this whole room.

"You concern yourself too much about the practical. The real. That's not what this place is. You're thinking too much with that brilliant mind of yours--" to emphasize, Tom's hand travels up the other's thigh, fingers curling around the inner side as he leans forward.

"--you need to relax."
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Now the Muse she was his happiness)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-23 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
It would be annoying if he wasn't damn fascinating, Darling's analytic mind already such a delightful grenade in the proverbial deep-sea pitch of the Dark Place. The idea of a collaboration--Zane had been earnest when he'd suggested that--is more than thrilling. It's tantalizing, and he can feel the endless possibilities on his tongue already.

"The Oceanview Hotel." He takes Darling's negroni with his free hand, gently pries it away from his grasp by curling his own fingers around the rim, making sure to brush against the scientist.

"Think of it as--" a brief wave of emphasis "--my own little corner of the sky. It's a part of me."

Zane tilts the negroni to Darling's lips, gently urges the glass back, encouraging more drink.
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Tom The Poet and his Muse)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-23 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Is he making Darling a little uncomfortable? Sending him spinning off of his scientific axis? The other's hand moves around his wrist for some sort of support--control--and Tom nearly forgets to blink, watching the other with a hungry gaze as the younger man moves back, just a little.

"I'm sorry," he lies, and the glass glitches--shifts--and it's out of his hands. It's out of existence entirely.

"I don't think I'm accounting for you in this collaboration."

He wants Darling to know about this. About him. About everything. Better chance of getting out, since Alan's gone mad. Tom lowers the hand Darling still has a loose grasp on to begin to play with the other's bowtie.

Tom also wants more.

"It's that you're so damn charming--but I have an idea. Let's play a game." And, before Darling has a chance to speak, both of Tom's touchy hands are framing either side of that bearded face, chuckling. He's three seconds from crawling into his lap at this point.

"Get our creative energy flowing, loosen up, get to know each other--you're a man of science and inquiry. It might help. What do you say?" A gentle pat of the other’s cheeks.
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (And now to see your love set free)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-23 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good hand, a strong hand, a hand Tom Zane would love to see it other places but he has to focus.

"An icebreaker, a party game, a way to get through the cracks and collaborate, to show ourselves to each other."

Darling clutches at his blazer like it's a life line. Tom's gaze flicks briefly to those long fingers, and then back to the bowtie he's playing with.

"For every question you ask, I'll ask one, too. A back and forth. Less of a stuffy interview. You should have another drink. You should have something else, too, maybe. That way you can get answers and I can see you relaxed, and we both win. Doesn't that sound fair?"
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Deep beneath the blackened waves)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-04-24 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good!" Tom's smile lights up the whole room, it seems, and there it is, another drink, fresh gin and compari and a lovely little orange slice in a perfect old fashioned glass.

He needs to get Darling to relax. To truly open his mind.

"Good," he repeats, and he laughs, looking more than a little giddy. Loosening up Darling before inviting him further into this place, this world. He's been wandering for days. Tom's been lost for longer, but this is his escape. He needs to cement it. Really lock it down.

"Kippis." Cheers him, Darling. Don't ask why or how he's got a fresh drink, too. Don't ask why the rooms lighting is warmer, far more of a hotel than it is a void, strangely muted neon ghosting along their faces from the outside window and the patter of drizzling rain running rivulets down the glass pane.

Tom takes a sip, sets it down, and puts a cigarette in between his fingers, gesturing with it. His first question. Something simple.

"Do you feel this? This connection, between us."

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sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (And now to see your love set free)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-21 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
He's making do. The Old House is fascinating, this whole place thrumming with an ancient energy that Zane can't quite put a finger on. Collective Unconsciousness. A planar mirror into humanity. Raw creation.

It's the rest of this place he doesn't like. The walls. The squareness of it all, literally and figuratively. The suits, too. He's not against suits, but if he's going to be in a building like this for God knows how long and get told no about everything he wants to do he starts to get antsy.

The Suits tolerate him because of who--what--he is, and Zane isn't stupid. He's in a gilded cage. But a gilded cage is better than the frying pan and Zane will gladly snatch at that shiny lustre as he bides his time. And hey, it's not so bad. Not really, cops aside. Except Darling.

Zane finds Darling fascinating, and is fairly certain the other is hiding from him. Since he's not in any of his usual haunts: Darling's regular lab spots have come up empty, Zane loops around the office. If Darling isn't there, then Tom can at least go through his stuff.

He opens the door without knocking, and his smile widens with delight once he spots the other man, a spare labcoat on in lieu of shirt and a cigarette in his hand.

"Darling, I've been looking for you. How've you been?"
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Now the Muse she was his happiness)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-21 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmmm," comes Zane's noncommital response, lazily lifting the cup of coffee he'd also brought with him, holding it near the top so he can still hold onto his cigarette. It's not a negroni, but it'll do. He watches the other shuffle around, glancing at the desk if only because the scientist had definitely stashed something. Interesting.

He inhales sharply.

"Doctor Darling," he says formally--a rarity--and moves effortly onto the desk, sitting on top of it and gently setting his cup down directly onto the paperwork the other is about to move. A silent demand for attention. He knows exactly what's going on.

"How long have you been here? Have you gone home?"
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Tom The Poet and his Muse)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-22 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Zane's face lights up immediately as Darling promptly brushes him off. Probably he should be a bit miffed, but it's quite the opposite.

Gotcha.

He takes his hand and places the flat of his palm right where the coffee used to be--another demand for attention, and he's not even trying to hide it this time. He leans forward, gaze far too intense for the subject matter at hand.

"I was just wondering, since you have a cot set up in here. It's just for late hours, right? That brilliant mind churning out equation after equation."
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[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-22 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
He can feel it, the light tinge of something that's not quite annoyance. Casper likes things orderly and neat--maybe not meticiulously, but in his own beautiful way. And Zane doesn't enter into theorem he's working on.

Pity.

Zane's mouth drops into a genuine frown.

"You should get out more," he comments. "It's not healthy, being cooped up like this. When was the last time you've seen a tree that isn't in an office planter? Another person not wearing a tie?"
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[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-22 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Semantics. Splitting hairs. Zane looks at Darling pointedly, waving a hand errantly.

"I mean to see the world! Get some inspiration, restart your brainwaves. Follow the ebb and flow of chaos around you to draw from a fresh perspective."

He's reaching for that coffee again, still eyeing Darling.

"If you won't go home than you should at least do something relaxing."
sukeltaja: <user name="yayifications"> (Now the Muse she was his happiness)

[personal profile] sukeltaja 2024-05-22 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's too late. Zane's smelled the blood in the water, and he's put a hang on the edge of the desk he's already sitting on, leaning back in a languid fashion, brows raising in approval at the active comment. He sure does.

"Is it so bad to want both?" he asks, finally taking a sip. When he lowers the mug, he speaks again.

"Come see a movie with me."
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