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[elementalherodragonlord]

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TEXTING MEME

You’ve got your TFLN, you’ve got your sexting, now here’s the meme for all those gen texts, phone calls, voicemails, pictures of your cats, and whatever else your little heart can come up with, because who doesn't like a little old fashioned friendly texting. (Or enemy texting, if that's more your bag.) instructions: What it says on the tin! Leave a comment with your character, include preferences, a start, absolutely nothing or whatever you want. Run around and reply to others. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Ryou

[ringaroundyourneck]

[ppl see a charm on ryou's phone are are like "aw how cute!" but then look at it closer and it's some (well-made) grotesque looking fiend he made himself]

teen eddie......... first text seems ALMOST normal

[vampirefratboy]

hey this is ryou right

this is eddie, yugi gave me your number

tbh i've been lax on ryou's honorifics but here we go for this thread

[ringaroundyourneck]

Oh, Eddie-kun. This is me, yes.

[literally no one calls him "Ryou" so he's taken aback but he'll just. roll with it. he feels a little weird...correcting? him? he doesn't know.]

[vampirefratboy]

ok cool

so are you watching me all the time because you're into me

or is this more of a murder plan in progress deal

and is the cursed necklace involved

[ringaroundyourneck]

[oh. so he noticed. he didn't think he was staring that much, he just has this feeling about him, and he feels the Ring pulse like something's up, and he tries to ignore it but he can't. his curiosity gets the best of him.]

No, nothing of the sort!

[not that he isn't attractive or anything but that's not the point]

And my necklace isn't cursed! What would make you say that?

[he figures at this point there's no use hiding it but he'll try]

ryou has a weird conversation, the thread

[vampirefratboy]

[For a second, Eddie actually second guesses that cold, sick shiver that he always gets around cursed shit, but he shakes it off quickly. Maybe he's wrong about the necklace, but he's not wrong about the feeling.]

well its either the necklace or you dude

wait have you not noticed it

shit if you don't know this is going to be way weirder

you like occult shit, right?

[ringaroundyourneck]

[see, Ryou is well aware of who and what is cursed in this household, he reasonably doesn't want anyone else knowing about it]

I do like the occult, yes. It's an interest of mine, albeit one others don't usually take their own interest in.

[he's going to try to deflect this conversation, but he is a little sad now because he's reminding himself that even his friends are pretty dismissive of his interests]

You sound like you are, too, Eddie-kun, aren't you?

[vampirefratboy]

[He actually snorts in real life at that last line.]

guess you could say that

know a lot about vampires at least

[ringaroundyourneck]

[huh. interesting.]

Vampires? Don't hear much about those.

[except in manga and stuff of course, but that's not what he means]

[vampirefratboy]

more of them in america I guess

[He takes a minute to think about this. He's never had to convince someone they were from the same fucked up corner of reality as he was.]

look if I show you mine will you show me yours

feels like we're beating around the bush here

and you can take that as a come on or an invitation to dig into some occult shit or both

[ringaroundyourneck]

[unfortunately Ryou is a wary teenager with a Big Secret. he takes a while to respond.]

[maybe he should be responsible, instead.]

The things that happen to me are dangerous. Very dangerous.

Not that I'm not interested, I would just prefer no one else get hurt.

[he's pretty suspicious of the spirit for keeping quiet for so long, anyway--or at least as far as he's aware. for all he knows his body could be being used at night for whatever it gets up to.]

[vampirefratboy]

[Jesus, they really do have like, no support for curses around here, do they?]

you can't curse a vampire though

i know its a curse i can smell it

[ringaroundyourneck]

[yeah his curse support group is four other teens, one who has a good version of his thing and thus doesn't quite get it]

I don't know if they're "curses" as you know them but there are other kinds of danger it can inflict. But...fine, you're right about the necklace being cursed itself.

[...maybe it feels good to get it off his chest to a stranger. that's a thing, right?]

So you're really a vampire?

[vampirefratboy]

[oh HELL yeah, all of grandma's lectures on trusting your gut about curses were helpful after all, he guessed it right]

knew it! so what it like starts fires or something

knew a girl back home with something like that just a shitload of arson

and hell yeah i am! feel free to poke around my fangs if you don't believe me but i won't promise to behave ;)

[ringaroundyourneck]

[if only it was just arson that plagued him]

You don't understand but it's better that way.

[also it's, like, hard to be serious when that last part flustered him a little]

And I won't be doing any poking around your mouth. I wouldn't mind looking, though.

[vampirefratboy]

aw no 20 questions then?

no but seriously you don't gotta tell me but this isn't weird for me

you want pics?? i can show you my sunblock too if you're into that shit but you can probably smell that on me anyways

[Vampires tend to smell more like "herbs and basil" than "blood", or at least Eddie does. Covers the weed, at least.]

[ringaroundyourneck]

[alright he's warming up to this guy]

Maybe some other time.

And...sure.

[vampirefratboy]

[oh no, you've given him an excuse to show off. here we go.]

[ATTACHMENT: video file, 10 seconds. thumbnail is Eddie grinning toothily at the camera. clicking into the video has him saying 'a show, as promised', winking, and then holding the camera closer to his mouth. he opens his mouth, at first showing unusually sharp canines, until he twitches some kind of muscle in his gums and they slide out the rest of the way. he gives a few angles before the video abruptly cuts off mid-motion.]

[ATTACHMENT: image. a still picture of Eddie grinning again, but the fangs are extended now. his pupils are a little blown and he looks unusually alert, because he definitely just told his body he's about to eat. idiot.]

[ATTACHMENT: image. a still picture of bottled herbs on a bathroom counter, with a visible smear of toothpaste on the side. you can see his toothbrush and part of a tube of some kind of acne wash in the background.]

anything else you want to see? ;)

[ringaroundyourneck]

[ah. that wink was attractive. his gay little heart.]

[but boy is he fascinated. the teeth sliding out, the way that they just look...so cool. so, so cool. this is so much more tangible than the kind of stuff Ryou's usually into.]

[he's curious about the like...skincare routine of a vampire, he guesses, but maybe he'll ask about that later. that winky face reminds him of the irl wink and he feels Shy.]

Is there anything else about vampires I don't know about?

[vampirefratboy]

[Ryou is giving this attention sponge of a boy an excuse to talk about himself, he will tell you anything.]

oh hell yeah loads

the garlic thing is a food allergy pretty sure it's like genetic or something

oh that's a big one actually the whole thing is genetic biting people doesn't turn them or whatever

i think you can get it if you get an organ transplant from a vampire?? might be an urban legend tho

the fangs don't grow back you only get the baby teeth and the big boy teeth and then you're out

my cousin's gf only has one because she lost the other one in a mosh pit LOL

oh and we can't get viruses so i'm totally immune to colds it's sick

well not sick you know what i mean

[ringaroundyourneck]

[Ryou reads the texts over a couple of times to just process stuff. if he hadn't seen the teeth thing before he'd think this was some neat lore Eddie was making up, and he doesn't have much a reason to doubt the video.]

Wow that's all very interesting!

[he types the next message over a few times; is he about to be rude or is it just a question? oh well.]

If this is rude to outright ask then my apologies, but do you actually drink blood?

[vampirefratboy]

[ah yes, The Question has been asked! he was waiting for that one]

man you're so polite

it's cute but don't stress too much i am damn hard to offend

yeah the blood thing is for real

mostly we do bagged blood or volunteers tho because assault = bad

[ringaroundyourneck]

[don't call him cute he's shy and gay]

I see...that's very interesting.

[he means that in a different tone than last time; how do you react to that, really?]

Do you get a lot of volunteers?

[vampirefratboy]

in the states? yeah its a whole thing

a lot of quid pro quo going on over there

blood for weed or a bj or helping somebody move or whatever

[or some much darker stuff, but Eddie IS only 16 here, he hasn't ACTUALLY seen what happens in the back rooms of supernatural bars, he just knows it's sex and drugs]

some people are like REALLY into it tho

like the bite itself

grams used to warn us off them tho they get real anemic doing it every time they get randy and you can really hurt them by mistake

[ringaroundyourneck]

[he's a little confused, like...he doesn't understand the "bj" slang so "randy" is lost on him, but from context he can understand that it's r-rated maybe. he sits there wondering how to proceed with a response for a bit: does he admit his lack of experience or does he just attempt to talk around it?]

Wouldn't a bite hurt, though?

[well, either way, he can't understand how that would be enjoyable]