characterdefect: i had been (◈ & i really miss)
Tim "Roderick" Nelson ([personal profile] characterdefect) wrote2014-05-27 06:57 pm

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[Weirdest. Drugs. Ever.]

[. . . is what Tim would say if he was the kind of guy who did drugs ever. But Tim has never even smoked weed. He is straight-edge, well-groomed, clean-cut, and an exemplary student, and if you asked him how he got here, he'd have a lot of theories but nothing too concrete.]

[He'd be polite about it, though. He hasn't quite learned to be caustic and cruel, or at least, he doesn't think he has. He doesn't remember meeting Joe Carroll, either, or killing his first young woman, or smiling while he did it.]

[Later, he'll be angry, because this was not the spirit of the wish he made. For now, he explores tentatively and then more boldly, up and down the ship, trying to keep out of people's way - until he reaches the pub, whereupon Tim Nelson, whose body feels too large for him, who is twenty and eternally sober, begins inspecting the beer selection.]

[Weirdest campus ever, that's for sure. He has the nagging feeling that there's work he ought to be doing.]