10 ◈ voice + private

[characterdefect]

Horatio's in a coma. [He sounds sort of surprised by this. Almost upset.] What do you do with the body, exactly?

[And, somewhat later:]

When we're all done arguing with each other, there's copies of Porphyria's Lover [ooc; cw graphic violence] in all of the common rooms. I think maybe everybody could use a distraction.

[Even if it is, in its own small way, his commentary on what's been going on.]

private } iris

Bet I can drink you under the table. [A calculated challenge. He's been paying attention.]

spam } syo

[He finds her in the library. Of course he does. Lost in the stacks somewhere, ostensibly restocking shelves. He can tell it's her and not the other one, because he has this preternatural way of sensing a glare about to come his way.]

Hey. What are you up to? [Like they're best friends. Which they definitely are.]

private } hannibal

Next time you invite me to a dinner party, can we bring some napkins or something?

[He's fine. It's fine. Just. Messy.]

Comments

[theresalwayshope]

Porphyria's Lover...isn't really a distraction. I had to read that in school, it's actually the opposite of a distraction from all the 'to kill or not to kill' talk.

[characterdefect]

That's a very surface reading.

[lulz]

[theresalwayshope]

Not really. I had an English teacher that made us read the thing freshman year? Surface reading is taking it at face value. Go deeper? And Porhyria saw the narrator as a friend taken ill...she didn't know he was obsessed with her. She was probably dressed up to go to a party, or to see her real lover, and checking in on him was a pit stop. When she went to kiss his cheek like he was her brother or something, he got all crazy and killed her rather than accept that she would never truly love him.

The guy was sick or...mentally ill or something.

[characterdefect]

[There we go. Much better.]

Do you know where the word "porphyria" comes from?

[theresalwayshope]

[...okay, Allison's starting to feel like she's in English class. What are you up to, older dude?]

No, sir.

[characterdefect]

It's a group of enzyme disorders. Two types: cutaneous and acute. Cutaneous, I bet you can guess, symptoms appear on the skin. Acute porphyria symptomology usually involves the nervous symptom, especially mental symptoms.

Porphyria literally means insanity. You get what I'm saying?