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he's (misterenigma) wrote in rooms,
@ 2015-09-21 09:58:00

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!dc comics, *journal, *log, bruce wayne, death, eddie nigma, selina kyle

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[As a result of Emily going Deathly, reality shifts for "Ed" Nashton. His hands go transparent and then the game controller that he was holding suddenly drops to the floor. If she's Death, then he's got to be dead. And if he's dead? Then he's a full on ghost. He does his best to communicate with his electronics:]

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-22 08:12 am UTC (link)

[An awful scream erupted from the swirling rabbit hole as the television shattered. The screen went blank and the shadows that had been crawling on the wall were stretched and pulled back from the hole they crawled out of. Finally, the temperature in the room started to warm, like sun on a snowy day. The lights actually worked, making the room feel like a regular dorm room.

But, what was splayed out on the floor near jumbled robot parts and broken action figures wasn't flesh and blood. Ed was fully formed, but he was translucent and sometimes parts of his body would vanish if he wasn't focusing on keeping them there. He was dead.] Thanks. That was awesome. [His voice shook, but he was appreciative of her quick thinking. Ed always liked girls who could think on their feet. Not that it mattered what kind of girls he liked, anymore.

Ed looked down at his hands, right through them, and sighed.] Muerte.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

spacecowboys
2015-09-22 09:27 am UTC (link)

[She almost tugged the blanket over her head when the television screamed, because televisions? Weren't supposed to scream. But she managed not to, and she managed to stand there, shoulders back and like she wasn't scared, because East End girls? They didn't scare. Right, and then the room warmed, and she couldn't hide the sigh of relief that escaped her. She tossed Mr. Moneybags' blanket back on his bed, and she was about to start bitching at Ed, because she assumed that was him on the floor, but...

He was see-through, flickering in and out, and he didn't look like anything alive.] Muerte? [No clue, and she assumed he knew he wasn't actually alive, and she was just going with this entire thing, even though it didn't make any sense to the very pragmatic, feet-on-the-ground kitten.] You have to tell your roommate about this. If there's any fix for this? It's going to cost bank.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-22 10:49 am UTC (link)

Muerte. Emily? She- [Eddie knew this had something to do with her. A gut feeling, a stone in his stomach. And if he wanted to figure out a way to come back to life, he needed her help. Which, honestly scared the daylights out of him, because they barely knew each other. It was all tied. Tied to this "hotel" and the lives they were shadowed by.] She did this to me. A curse, I think. [Was the best way to describe it.

He smiled at her solution: money. Like that could solve something supernatural problem. A shake of his head.] I can't tell him I'm dead. He finally manages to make a friend, and he dies within a few weeks? That's going to make him even more angsty.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

spacecowboys
2015-09-22 11:05 am UTC (link)

The science nerd? [She frowned, because how would the science girl do this? And she didn't think he was really dead. Dead people? Stayed dead. They didn't jump into televisions, and they didn't walk around dorm rooms transparently. Dead people stayed dead, and she knew that as well as anyone in Gotham. She couldn't remember when she'd seen her first body, but it was early enough that she couldn't remember a time before, and this? This was different. Maybe Emily was to blame, though the kitten couldn't understand how.

And she believed, really believed, that money could fix everything.] He can use his dough to bring you back. [As if that made all the sense in the world, and as if she wasn't standing there and talking to a ghost. Because she wasn't. Like futures she didn't believe in, she wasn't willing to believe this was death.] Did you die? Literally die? Where's your body? Alright, something weird is going on, but this isn't death. [She motioned to him.] This? It isn't what being dead looks like, Ed.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-22 11:30 am UTC (link)

History, actually. [Ed adjusted his ghostie glasses and for a brief moment actually looked like a normal, dorky college student instead of a spectre. He stood up, which was to say it looked like he stood up, though his body passed through anything spread across the floor and his feet floated a half inch off the ground. He rubbed his chin thoughtfully.] I think her and her brother are more than human. I'm positive of it. Not that either of them will know or even want to reverse...whatever this is.

[Because Cat was right, this wasn't death. Death was when he came home and saw his dad in the armchair he never wanted to get out of, blue in the face with vomit trickling down his chin. Dead was that kid who laughed himself into oblivion on that green junk in the hallway.] I was playing video games and that kid stopped laughing... [He blinked.] And then suddenly I was transparent. So, I tried using my tablet and I couldn't get back out here.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

spacecowboys
2015-09-22 06:33 pm UTC (link)

[She rolled her eyes. Science, history, Selina didn't see the difference. It was all smart people stuff, and it was the kind of smarts that wouldn't do her a bit of good on Gotham's streets. Alright, sure, there was some science to picking a lock or cracking a safe, but mostly it was feeling, listening to the tumblers, and deft fingers, and a lot of luck. But, much more importantly, Ed was floating now, and Selina blamed this all on college. She wasn't made for school.] Emily and her brother aren't human? What? Are they aliens? Demons? [Okay, this was officially outside her wheelhouse.

But, all things considered, this was better than the kind of death she knew. The ugly kind, with faces frozen in anguish and blood sticky on Gotham's sidewalks, layers of it over the years and the ground would never be clean on Gotham as a result. Distracted, she caught up halfway through his explanation, and it made no sense.] You think it has something to do with the laughing dead kid? How do you even know Emily? Because that nerd girl isn't our neighborhood. [Sure, he was geek, but he was slum geek.]

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-23 06:21 am UTC (link)

Demon aliens, most likely. [Ed had no idea. Well, he knew that it had something to do with Santa Muerte, but how many times in history were bolts of lightning mistaken for gods? She could have been anything.] She doesn't really know where she came from. I suggested some middle class stuff the first time she talked and she responded with, [His best impression of a dreamy, nerdy goth girl:] "Sure, that seems right."

[He looked down, realized he was floating and then tried folding his legs Indian style in the air like some kind of Kung fu god. It worked. Awesome. He floated in the air, arms crossed over his chest thoughtfully.] I see her in the library sometimes. Then, she was talking on the journals and I started flirting with her because she's cute. [Him flirting with pretty much anyone should have came to no surprise. Ed nodded.] I know, I know. I told her she was slumming it hanging out with me.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

spacecowboys
2015-09-23 02:12 pm UTC (link)

Demons and aliens. [Now, the kitty cat knew about all of Gotham's weird, but she was still a feet-on-the ground kitten, and demons and aliens weren't her thing. She liked to stay over there, where the filth was completely human, and maybe that said something about her little desires in life. Not that she projected them or anything, but she liked normalcy. Normalcy, fun, expensive beds and designer clothes, and she just wanted out. A big house, life behind clean windows and enough food so her belly never grumbled, and was that too much to ask?

Apparently.

He floated, and she started going through his neat-freak rich-boy roommate's things. Oh, she expected him to stop her, but he couldn't even touch. So, you know, opportunity.] The nerd's into nerds. How sweet. Invite me to the wedding. I think nerdness outweighs zipcode.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-25 10:27 am UTC (link)

Ah, you shouldn't- [Eddie raised a finger of protest as the cat girl went through Bruce's things, but she was right. What could he do? Nevermind that little urge in the back of his mind to let her do whatever she liked because it was amusing. The three of them. Were they always this tangled up?] There's not going- I'm a ghost. Even if she's a alien monster thing, if she sees me like this it's over. No one except maybe one of those [Said with great fear:] asexuals could be into this.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

spacecowboys
2015-09-25 03:46 pm UTC (link)

[The kitten paged through books, and held one up, distracted by other things in the desk's drawers.] Does this look old enough to sell? [After all, what was some old book to Bruce Wayne? Anyway, he almost owed her. Or something. But Ed was talking about aliens and monsters, and she huffed in a fashion that was very teenage girl, despite all her assurances that she wasn't that thing at all.] I have no idea what an asexual is, but if she likes you? Then it won't matter that you're floaty. Girls are stupid for boys they like. [She put the book down, and lifted another for him to inspect from his ghostly distance.] And that one loves weird things. It's like you're made for her.

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Re: Eddie's dorm room: Ghost!Ed & Cat

misterenigma
2015-09-29 05:59 am UTC (link)

You're not going to find anything valuable here. He treats this place like a prison. [Ed said and then glanced up, wondering if he felt the same way, too. Bruce's way of dealing with a stifling environment was to run. And Ed? Well, it was clearly to act out.

He smiled a little at her commentary.] I'm as weird as it gets. [He paused for a second and then:] I better go find her. And hey- you should really talk to Bruce. He's not what you think he is. [Ed didn't elaborate more and simply floated down through the floor towards Emily's room.]

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