[closed]

[existentialcrisis]

Who: Hazel, Jae-Ha, and Ukoku
What: Jae-Ha drunkenly invited Ukoku over. Is it too late to rescind an invitation when someone's actually in your house?
When: 4/27, morning
Where: Aengus's silly temple
Warnings: I don't know why I'm allowed to rp


[ Ukoku is a shadow. A crow's shadow. A short-ish dark handsome (??) stranger, except in this case not a stranger, a vaguely repulsive silhouette of bad intentions in full regalia, with the smell of cigarette smoke and incense and malice clinging to his robe.

Jae-Ha doesn't deserve this. He's a good kid, tall and aesthetically appealing (which has nothing to do with how undeserving he is, but is interesting in that it says something about Hazel), with leggie for days and a talent for waxing poetic, a mildly surprising but undeniably loyal dead-man replacement for Gat.

(He's precious to you, he'd said to Filbert that day in the church: I'm jealous.)

It's not the first time Ukoku has wondered why people cling to other people the way they do, and it won't be the last.

Hazel doesn't deserve this either, probably, in spite of his prejudices and all the souls he's stolen and the wonderfully misguided vengeful justice he's applied. He hasn't had an easy life—but if fate is real, he was never meant to. And from what Ukoku knows of religion in the West, fate is a given and suffering is how saints are made. (Interesting: they run toward hardship, self-punishment and loathing and guilt.)

But he was invited, so Ukoku is standing at the door to Hazel's temple with a gift in his hands: a blue flower in a pot, because Jae-Ha crushed the other one (no he did not). He knocks lightly on the door. Surprise!! ]

Comments

here lies hazel, rip

[churchbelle]

[There's something to be said for getting attached to others, probably. Hazel will deny it in every way he can - he isn't waiting for Gat, he isn't clinging to Jae-Ha despite all the time they spend together - he isn't that type of person. Probably.

Today is a day as ordinary as the rest, aside from someone being at the door so early in the morning.

It's Jae-Ha's turn to make breakfast, so that leaves it to Hazel to answer the door. He doesn't stop to peer out a front window first and see who's there, and that will be his first of many regrets today, but instead just pulls the door open with a vague curiosity about who it could be. He assumes it must be one of Jae-Ha's friends, those "dragons"— maybe the one with a big ham for a hand came by to do something more than wave? Could be.

Hazel isn't exactly dressed to receive guests; it's early in the morning, his hair is down, he doesn't much loiter around the house in his priest's outfit anymore— he's comfortable here, a fact that is both immediately obvious and then immediately fractured when he sees Ukoku standing on his porch.

With a flower.

Someone up there - up here? - has it out for him. He blinks, then puts on a smile, like the nonthreatening calm of his big empty house has not just been cracked.]

Mister Ukoku! It's been a lil while. [go away??] You're up mighty early.