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Date: 2023-10-22 02:42 am (UTC)
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He thinks about protesting that he has spoken to more than just them, he's been working on building a support network since the day he got here, but when his mind goes to drum up examples, it... well, better he look stupid than open his mouth and prove it.

He gives a dry, single laugh. "It'll be nice to complain to someone who isn't so tangled up in the circles I usually run in. Mm. Where do we start?"

God, it's a fucking laundry list. Well, the widower thing surely doesn't need saying; that's just the sort of thing he needs to quietly cradle close to his heart until he can grow around it. The disaster that is the relationships between his company? That feels like gossip, and he still needs to talk with Helena anyway.

"I. Guess we could talk about my eye."

Date: 2023-10-22 06:55 am (UTC)
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Of course he has. There’s little he doesn’t notice, especially physically.

“… Okay. Well.”

He takes a breath, poking at his food while he tries to think of how to even begin on that one.

“Yeah, it was the Daisy thing. Honestly, it’s. We both expected it to go away. Everyone did. That’s what happens, right? So I didn’t really pursue her on it specifically. I didn’t have to. I sort of caught her and talked with her about the, uh, rest of… what she did, but the eye, even though it got in the way every day it was supposed to disappear the next time I died. And then it just. Didn’t.

He hasn’t looked up from his plate. “I don’t know. I thought maybe it was because it was there for so long, but people have had tattoos disappear. I guess it’s just some kind of… whoops in the process that time. I got Daisy to apologize. That was… complicated. She’s complicated. And she’s really trying, and I appreciate that so much from her. But I still. Have this.”

Gestures at his face.

Date: 2023-10-22 08:54 am (UTC)
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Phil is not only a man with the most powerful good faith on the planet, he is also desperately grasping for anything that makes him feel validated in being angry and bitter. He forks a piece of omelette and is off from center by one prong too many.

“Yeah. And…” I haven’t had a scar in— “… I know life is unfair, but geez. I worried for a while about being able to broadcast again, but I could probably just wear a contact. Which, that’s the other thing, I—I should probably have a patch because it gives me headaches sometimes, but I would honestly rather drown than draw more attention to it than I already have.

“And I… know it’s still bad and no one’s running a damn competition, and any one of them would cut my head off for thinking this, but there are… I mean, with all the crazy dramatic histories of people here, it. Some part of me feels like it just doesn’t matter. Not here.”

Date: 2023-10-23 07:18 am (UTC)
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It's like magic. Well, it probably is magic, but he just marvels at the way Ossie so deftly untangles the briar of his thoughts, this frayed snarl of frustration and stress and split ends. Because yeah. Yeah.

There is really something about it, when you realize you are just never going to be someone going through life with ease now. And he doesn't even know how to complain about it. Which sucks, because complaining is how he copes. Frankly he also doesn't even know if he has forty years left of this or two hundred.

"Yeah... yeah," he nods, sighing. And then puts his face in his hands and just, breathes a very long-suffering groan.

Date: 2023-10-23 09:05 am (UTC)
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Phil just kind of waves a hand at him without looking up. “I’m fine, I just need to be dramatic for sec.”

He luxuriates in the abject misery of being a guy in a chair with his face in his hands for a little bit, then sits up again with a sigh, straightening out his shirt.

“Sorry about that. It’s just… relieving to hear that, someone who’s getting where I’m coming from. Putting stuff to words that I couldn’t figure out myself. And that I’m not just being, I don’t know, prissy or something.” It’s always been tricky to sift his petty and unsympathetic grievances from the justified ones, even if the success rate is higher these days.

“It’s also nice to have someone telling me this is something I can be upset about without also sliding in the message that I need to learn to be more mad more often in general.”

Date: 2023-10-23 05:39 pm (UTC)
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He glances at that brooch. He wonders, vaguely, what it really does beside give the man talons and a title, but… Ossie is responsible enough to handle himself, surely. He shouldn’t worry.

“No, but it was more like… allowing myself to be upset with people when stuff happens even if it’s understandable why they might not have… ugh, nevermind.” He’s doing it again.

Date: 2023-10-25 05:12 am (UTC)
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"I want to be kind," he not-growls. "I want to understand. I want--to, to be a guy who maybe you don't want to piss off but you're not afraid of pissing off, right? But I also don't want to get angry. I won't think right when I'm angry. But Demona--"

And then a real growl as the freshest anger bubbles up again, "--god, I wish I could just be mad at her! But no, not only does she have all this damage, one of my close friends who I like much better is in kind of the same boat as her and is really sympathetic to her situation, and I can't just..."

Date: 2023-10-25 05:48 am (UTC)
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Oh, he wants to do more than throw a teacup. But he won't do that to Ossie's nice place.

"I'm not gonna be wanting the same thing I got with Daisy. I want us to be able to live on this ship without her attacking one of mine at the bare minimum. She can hang around my friends if she behaves, but unless we're being forced to cooperate, she stays away from me and my family."

He angrily forks at his food and eats some. Maybe that will make him feel better.

Date: 2023-10-25 06:20 am (UTC)
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“The only thing you can control is yourself, right?” he scoffs. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. Like you said, I already put out the word, and I’m not in the mood for planning apologies.”

Date: 2023-10-25 06:46 am (UTC)
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Wow, they’re really running the gamut here. That’s one hell of a transition, which is to say none at all.

“I—give a guy a minute, ehn?”

He sips at his coffee while he tries to switch gears. When he does, he sighs, the rage boiling off, leaving room for regret to settle in like a shroud.

“Yeah, I… I did. Stupid of me, honestly, it was… after the July excursion. We met up again. I’d… gotten injured. Pretty badly. They weren’t there to see it, but after we revived, I was in too much of a hurry to clean up, and Darcy didn’t…” sigh, “take seeing it very well. And later they asked if I was okay, and they’re not someone you hide stuff from, so I said no, and I told them why.”

He’s sort of just staring off at a spot somewhere to the left of Ossie. “It was way too much. I didn’t have to explain it the way I did. Somehow I didn’t… expect them to care that much. Which isn’t on them, they always care, but for some reason I…”

Darcy’s nausea. Cass’ tears. Grace’s fury.

“Somehow it’s strange to see people care about me. Them reacting that badly didn’t feel like a possibility at all.”

Date: 2023-10-25 01:01 pm (UTC)
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“The answer was yes, I just thought the proverbial sidewalk had a bit more to go before it cut off into someone’s lawn.”

Here, like this, he can taste the bitterness of his own convictions. Any comfort at all on the topic of his eye was one he’d taken easily, but doing the same now feels… unsavory. Unfair. It shouldn’t matter how Darcy postures if he’s the one who’s supposed to know better. It shouldn’t matter how used he is to dying if he’s supposed to be better. And it isn’t fair to Ossie either, who doesn’t know anything about the loop or his reservations around being a dad. It’s his own fault, really, just as the rest of this is.

“A little. I can’t claim familiarity with her work, though. Why?”

Date: 2023-10-26 07:56 am (UTC)
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Phil wonders how much of this--not the whole thing of what they're doing, but this bit right here--is more for Ossie. At the same time, it is very much for Phil, to admit all of this. None of it is light. Phil saw it himself, those red eyes, the perfect skin, the graceful hands. Remembers the joy that Dimitri got to shed that touch.

He listens. Tries not to misunderstand. He's very still.

"I don't think I'm uniquely bad or that they're uniquely blind. I don't have to be unique to just... be someone with issues sometimes." He wishes people would trust that he's smarter than that. He wasn't unique before. He certainly isn't now.

...

Darcy saw him at his worst. Darcy's tolerance for bad is also much, much deeper than that.

"Darcy's. Not that stupid. But."

But.

"They're so loyal. When they think you're worthy of it, they swear fealty, and then that's it. I..." a hand swipes down his face over an inhale, "they're just... an adult they trusted in their life tried to turn them into just, some, some attack dog. And they trusted him and followed that. And then Skulduggery killed them in his negligence and yeah, Darcy actually got pissed at him for it and Skuls was regretful, and Darcy bullied me in a memory where I was just, the worst, I figured out how to end myself before I figured out how to make a single friend, but I... I know what I did isn't some, some apocalypse on our relationship. But I--"

...

"I don't know that I really figured out what it meant until then. How much they were willing to do for me. How much they were willing to justify. Hurting each other is one thing. Even my wife and I hurt each other. Deeply, sometimes. But I. I wish... I wish I could trust--"

That if I were making them worse, they would leave.

That's not fair to Ossie or Dimitri's decisions though, is it? Even what Ossie described, it's not that. It's not.

...

Date: 2023-10-27 06:58 am (UTC)
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"I know," he grumbles, and as though he's reciting it, "A dad doesn't have to be perfect. He just has to be there."

He'd made that vow already. That if Darcy can't leave, then he has to make staying worth it. It doesn't get any easier. They've run this topic in a circle, but maybe it's done something to hear it outside of his own head.

...

"Sorry about the, uh. Memory stuff with you and him."

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