abnormalizes | Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

As do I! But, well, you know...
We do get a certain way when we cuddle for so long.

[Said, of course, as he tucks right up against her - even looking over his shoulder at her with that littl grin of his.]

... Give me your arm? I'd like to hold it, if I may.

I'm sure we can manage it if we really, really try.

[She drapes her arm over him.]

[Arm: taken! He's gonna snuggle that right up, as if her arm, alone, is a stuffed animal.
Even presses his cheek into her palm! Which lets her feel his smile just get a little big bigger as he chuckles.]

Oh, certainly. I have faith in us. I'm sure we'll last, mm...
Twenty minutes, perhaps? Thirty, if we try very, very hard.

We could talk about unsexy things. That might help.

[Warming herself up a little for him.]

[... Oh, he's just gonna tuck even closer then, thank you --]

And what would you suggest? I feel there aren't very many things you and I could talk about that would cool us much, if at all.
At least, nothing that wouldn't be actively unpleasant to talk about... especially while cuddling.

Unsexy but not unpleasant is a tough one…

Have you ever thought about having kids someday, I guess?

...

[Looking at her over his shoulder again, with that sort of face that just says "really?"
But he'll lay back down into her palm again, thinking that over.]

I... well, ah - first, as a Grim Reaper... I cannot have kids in the first place. Grim Reapers are sterile - we're incapable of reproduction.
Which is for the best, as we're created when a specific type of human dies and joins our ranks. And we already have too many child Grim Reapers running about, I wouldn't want to see naturally born ones, as well.

That said...
I also frighten children merely by existing in their vicinity. Often to tears. I've yet to meet a single child below the age of, oh, twelve? That wasn't immediately on the verge of crying just from being in the same room as myself.

[...]

All this to say - I have, yes. While I was alive, I thought about it often.
It would have been my duty, as an heir to my family's name.

To not have children would have been to kill my family's lineage. Which... wouldn't have been allowed.
I likely would have had a marriage arranged for me, by the time I was twenty...

[Congrats on finding something unsexy and only mildly unpleasant, Eva --]

-Yet another reason why I’m going to destroy your family if I ever meet them.

[She should have expected them to come up.]

I think you would’ve been a good father, if it had happened.

Mmm. Ideally, you'll never have to meet them. They were left behind among the living, after all - and there is no way they had enough goodness in them to become Grim Reapers.
If Hell exists in the universe I'm from, they are destined for it. Likely with reserved, VIP spots among the pits of greed.

[Said, of course, with a huff of a laugh after it.]

...

I'm not so sure about that, however. What constitutes a good father in the first place?
Who I was while I was alive hadn't been the sort of person I would want to see raising children.

‘Determined to not be like your father in any way’ is a good start, I figure.

Well, that's a given. ... But, unfortunately, there would be portions of him I would be forced to further -
Such as, as what would have happened to me, arranging marriages and the like. Training them in the only things that mattered to myself and our family.
Making sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they would be willing to destroy for the sake of profits.

My family isn't just myself and my parents. My grandparents were still alive, and I had a few aunts and uncles, as well.
Failures, likely, as my father was the one chosen to inherit our fortune, despite being one of the youngest.

... I would have had all of their expectations foisted upon my shoulders, the moment my arranged wife was found to be pregnant.

[Sinking against Evangeline a little bit more...]

…Have I told you recently that it’s incredible you turned out as well as you did? I think I should mention that again.

... You have not mentioned that at all, actually.
But I think it can't be understated that I only "turned out" so well due to dying.

[Another little huff of laughter, though it's more genuine than the previous one had been.]

My life trajectory was just to further the cycle, after all. ... I do wonder what my parents did once they discovered I was dead, however.
Try again, I suppose?

Bitch about how they’d wasted so much time and money on an investment that had to go and die, probably. And then try again.

Hmhm.~ Yes, you do seem to have caught onto their mannerisms perfectly, despite having never met them.
They'd have put on a circus of a funeral, full of dramatics and crocodile tears for the press, swear up and down that they'll "find my killer" despite having been told I'd been killed by alligators...
And then they would try again.

I pray for the poor bastard who was forced into my place.

They sound like they’d fit super well into the City. Fuckers.

[She rests her face against Louis’ shoulder, wordlessly grumbling.]

I told you. I would have as well, had I not died -
I still would, merely on knowing how to operate in such a world without trouble.

[...

But y'know what?
He's gonna let go of her arm and turn over in her hold, just so he can wrap his arms around her and give her a little kiss. Just a quick little peck.]

... Let it console you that whatever awaits them after death won't be pleasant. If I am half angel, half demon, then there's little reason to believe Hell doesn't exist in my universe, hmm?
And we both know how His Majesty is. If the one in my own universe is even half as wonderful, my ill-given parents will suffer for eternity.

[All said warm and sweetly, of course.]

That’s true. -But it’s more important that you’re free now than that they suffer. Even if I do still want them to suffer.

[A light, brief, chaste kiss in return.]

G ol agapo.

...

[She's getting that hug tightened a little bit, just to hold her closer.]

Sa, gi. And you're absolutely correct -
It's a much better revenge that I am free and happy, frankly.

Mmm, I think I should make you extra happy just to make sure. -Nonsexually.

Aha, I was just about to say - much that I'd take you up on that offer...
How do you plan to please me otherwise, hm?

[Taking his face gently in his hands.]

You are a joy to be with. No matter what we do together, I always feel lighter when I’m with you. Your love and passion for overlooked things is incredible and I would gladly listen to you talk about insects every day for the rest of my life.

...

[...

. . .

The shade of orange he's quickly turning is spectacular.]

I -
I said please me, not vaporise me.

It doesn't make you happy to hear that you're a wonderful friend?

[:>]

It - it does... but -
Mmmmh.

[Oh, he's going even MORE orange.]

... You are doing this on purpose, aren't you? Picking an opportune time to reduce me to atoms like this.

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