Waking the Dead 2.0 || August 13, 2063 || Saturday || The Mordechai Home

[icarusalsoflew]

[So before the real work in Europe starts, you've all got a free day to roam around the Mordechai Home and its rather beautiful surroundings. Everyone is more than welcome to stay the night.

The Cooley Peninsula's a lovely place, and this particular section is even prettier than the rest of the area. The house, in itself, is pretty interesting too.

Knock yourselves out, guys. This is turning out to be a pretty sweet vacation, isn't it?]


DESCRIPTION STUFF:
+ The house is an old-style Irish home made of brick and covered in ivy. It's got two floors (all five bedrooms are upstairs, and each one has a bathroom), an attic, and a basement. Everything's antique in here, and there is pretty much NOTHING Japanese in the house except Hikaru. The binding motifs: Christian symbols with a Celtic twist, blades, brambles and water.
+ First floor's got the kitchen with the dining area right next to it, and the living room with a fireplace. There's a porch up front.
+ The attic is full of old and interesting shit, and looks like a study. Hikaru's Brotherhood of Violence stuff is here.
+ The basement is the strangest area: half of it is a workshop-cum-armory with a map that expands an entire wall. It's full of old notes, post-its and photographs. Observers will note that this was Alistair's project from way back when - the beginnings of how he always managed to keep track of Hikaru. The other half is under lock and key; the door's a vault. It feels cold beyond it. VERY cold.
+ There's a beach that's about a three minute's walk down from the hill that the house is on. The ancestral Mordechai cemetery's a ten minute walk from the house, through rolling hills. Alistair's wife is buried there, as are Maes' wife and kids, Abel, and both Seth Mordechais.
+ ...And then there are fields for miles and miles, and mountains in the distance.
+ The Kearney home is actually a fifteen minute drive away from the Mordechai home. Nobody's in, though.

OTHER OOC NOTES:
+ Feel free to go anywhere you like. Ping me if you need descriptions.
+ Alistair will only return to the house by sunset. He's in the cemetery or roaming around in the forest. until then.
+ Feel free to make your own threads, or pop in to bug the NPCs at the threads I am putting up for them.

Comments

open to all.

[larue]

[ Your blade leader is visibly relaxed and kicking around. If your timing is great, you might catch him sending a look Hikaru's way -- when that one's not looking, of course.

They's good though, and Josh is better than he has been in a while. Feel free to bother at will. ]

[ktotheatothez]

[ So this one is actually hiding, peeking ever so often into the doorway of wherever you are... Even if he apologized already he still feels a little bad. He's also learned a few things from Cisco recently, so he needs to talk to you. ]

[larue]

[ He's upstairs in the room he set up in, finally taking time to remove the tags from the clothes Hikaru had helped him get in town. ]

You going to shadow me all day, kiddo?

[ He's rolling one of the shirts an tucking it into his satchel when he turns his head in your general direction. He doesn't need to see you to know that you're there. You've been at this ever since everyone went back in the house. ]

[ktotheatothez]

[ He sucks in a breath when he realizes he's been caught, but stays in that spot, choosing to be hidden. ]

Maybe...

[ Should've looked into going invisible. He really just wanted to see how you were doing without being seen. ]

[larue]

[ He'll set down whatever he's fixing at that and turn around to face you as he sits down on the edge of that bed. ]

What's up, kiddo?

[ You're acting like the puppy you are -- only a lot more shy than your usual. Is this about the fact that you both haven't spoken since the night of Kalika's party? ]

[ktotheatothez]

[ B u s t e d. Roxas laughs from inside Kaz's head. ]

U-um... Nothing? Just wandering around the house, ehehe.

[ Well, to be honest, he was wandering around the house looking for you. The odd thing is because he's speaking to you from the doorway, it's like Kaz's very disembodied voice is just floating in. ]

[larue]

[ Didn't he already let you know earlier that he's okay with you? ]

You know, [ there's a hint of amusement when he says that. ] It's kind of impolite to talk to someone from the other side of a door—

—unless you're doing something that keeps you from being in the same room, that is.

[ktotheatothez]

[ That's when he walks into the room and finds a place to sit - next to you. ]

There. Happy? Now m'in your face.

[ He's grinning at you, though. It's not like he's still wibbling over the fight you had. ]

Brothers fight all the time, right?

[larue]

[ There's a pause as he lifts a brow in your direction—

—and then you're getting a noogie. ]

The best of them do.

[ktotheatothez]

Y'know I said what I said 'cause I know aniki loves you, right? That sacrifice up in the Unnamed Tower... It doesn't change the fact that he's with you.

[ He hasn't moved from being in that noogie. ]

[larue]

[ And that noogie's getting turned into a hug of sorts before he ruffles your hair and gently lets you go.

A pause, then: ] I know that now. But... thanks.

[ He looks down at his hands. ] I guess I just got... scared.

[ktotheatothez]

Scared 'cause you'll only have so much time? I haven't forgotten that you made me promise things.

[ And now he's rubbing at his neck, clearly feeling like he's unfiltered again, but he has his reasons. His talk with Cisco had been most illuminating, and now he just had to confirm it. ]

[larue]

[ A soft laugh at that. ]

[ And I'm going to hold you to it. Glancing over now and reaching up to give your shoulder a gentle squeeze. ] It's fact, kiddo. I'm one of the two in the blade who's going ahead of all of you.

I'm going to make the most of things though. [ Because come what may, he intends on sticking by Hikaru. ] One day at a time, right?

[ktotheatothez]

[ He knows he can't change the fact that you'll be gone someday, but today is not that day; and if he has something to say about it, not for a good, long while. ]

One day at a time. Can we not do the whole silent treatment kind of fighting ever again?

[larue]

[ You know, he might not have been given a little brother, but he's glad that he has you to fill that spot in.

Lifting a fist up for you to bump. ]

Deal.

[ktotheatothez]

[ He bumps that fist and tacklehugs you for a couple seconds before letting go. ]

So... We met another Mordechai.

[larue]

[ This is a look of "seriously?" ]

Who? [ And for that matter: ] Where?

[ktotheatothez]

[ Answered by this look of "ya srsly". ]

Robb Kearney, Godhand stationed at Seth's Rest. I like him.

[larue]

[ Tilting his head now. ]

What's he like?

[ Because that's really interesting. Then again, he figures bloodlines, etcetcetc in the Vigil is kind of a thing? ]

[ktotheatothez]

Like a Mordechai.

[ It's about two seconds before he laughs and says -- ]

Seriously though, I can't peg Robb for anything. He's like Maes and Alistair and Hikaru in so many ways.

[larue]

[ Okay, he wants to hear this. ]

Go on.

[ He won't tell you that he forgets sometimes that Hikaru's actually... a Mordechai. That he was Alistair's son once upon a time. It's... it slips his mind, okay. ]

[ktotheatothez]

Well, think about it like this... He's a Godhand who's got an entire base full of...

[ He trails off for a second. ]

Actually no, let me revise that. He was like hanging out with a much younger version of Maes. Although... He was a Devil, like Aniki.

[ He is poised to talk your ear off. ]

He asked where you were, too.

[larue]

[ And this one's going to pull himself back to sit on that bed. He'll gesture that you join him since this catch-up was overdue. He's thinking on what you said though: a younger version of Maes? He's trying to picture it and that's... kind of intimidating? If that makes any sense at all.

He ends up missing that bit about Robb having the same Arcana as Hikaru though, because that last bit snagged his attention more-- ] W-why did he...

[ Of course the man would ask, LaRue. You're the Hounds' blade leader.

Does he look sheepish and like he's worrying that he might have gotten in trouble for being absent for the initial introductions? Maybe. Your elder brother is kind of a worrywart puppy when it comes to his responsibilities ( read: all of you. ) ]

[ktotheatothez]

[ He actually grabs a pillow and flops onto the bed. ]

It was cool though, he sicced me, Taning and Bri at the Hunters, train them up. I'd never even seen a Hunter who couldn't shoot straight at thirty paces before.

[larue]

[ And this is Josh flopping on his back and folding his hands behind his head. ]

Dude, [ yes. This Face. ] I can't shoot, period. What does that make me?

[ True enough, kiddo: this one's never done anything ranged. His Sin-Eater shit don't count. ]