005: Audio (Black Bars Curse)

[itsjustafruit]

What are you gawking at? Never seen a naked person before?

Look, can you car--

[Someone, presumably whomever Crowley's speaking to, makes an unintelligible comment and starts to laugh until the laugh is cut off, turning to a strangled scream that recedes as though the screamer is running very far away, very fast.]

Inconvenient.

[Crowley is naked, and per canon, angels (which Crowley started out as, tyvm) are "sexless unless they really want to make an effort." He's not making the effort, and he has acquired the turntable he was so... ahem... excited by, so he's unwilling to turn into a snake and leave it behind. Naked, Ken doll!Crowley at your service for action, voice, or video that the City will happily turn on at inconvenient moments.]

Comments

[berthierite]

[ ...If you're naked anyway she might as well write on you in sharpie marker... right? ]

[itsjustafruit]

Uh... Berthier... No. [Yes, plz.]

[berthierite]

[Huh? What?]

Hold still.

[itsjustafruit]

[He interposes the box he's holding between her marker and his flesh]

What do you think you're doing?

[berthierite]

[She looks confused. She's not really sure what she's doing, honestly, but she really just... Needs to write her name on that box.]

Marking.

[itsjustafruit]

[Hey, that's his box! The "mine" disappears the moment she's done writing it.]

And not naked. Peculiar.

[berthierite]

[That! That is vexing! She frowns, her marker poised for a moment before she seems to take in what he's saying.]

Is there a reason I should be?

[itsjustafruit]

[That helps to ameliorate his annoyance that she marked his box.]

Because I am and I can't get my clothes back. [Obviously.]

[berthierite]

Your state and my state are not comparable.

[Clearly. Because she is about to scrawl 'Berthier' up his forearm.]

[indecent_butterfly]

[Oh these days are always so much fun. Have a look of complete confusion and curiosity though Crowley.]

Are you still that young? Pity.



((ooc: AS canon angels are genderless until they're old enough and then they develop. Hatter stopped nir transformation with drugs which explains the androgyny.))

[itsjustafruit]

[He twitches away leaving a "B" and a line up his arm before he interposes his box again.]

Obviously. Do you make a habit of marking everything around you. [The ink disappears off his skin.]

[itsjustafruit]

[Have a look of unfeigned confusion.]

What does age have to do with anything?

[berthierite]

Well. It will all be mine.

[She's not in the habit of being quite so candid with her plans of alien overlordship...]

[itsjustafruit]

My arm and my turntable are mine. You couldn't even make the ink stick. [He only shares with Aziraphale, and that's only because of the Arrangement.]

[berthierite]

[Frown.]

Maybe branding...

[indecent_butterfly]

Or did you stop it as well?

[itsjustafruit]

[He just laughs at that.] You're a bit mad right now, did you know that?

[berthierite]

[What? Whaaat? She bristles.]

Excuse you! I am perfectly all right!

[itsjustafruit]

Did I stop what?

[itsjustafruit]

You're talking about branding me because your pen didn't work. That's a bit mad, a little bonkers, two biscuits short of a proper tea.

[berthierite]

Not if it's successful.

[Logic.]

[itsjustafruit]

It won't be. I'm flame-retardant.

[He'll be remembering this when it's over.]

[berthierite]

I didn't say anything about flames.

[That was Koan's deal. She deals in ice.]

[itsjustafruit]

You aren't going to try lasers are you? I'm pretty sure I can manage lasers too, but why start now?

[There are some - begging your pardon - damned cold parts of Hell.]

[berthierite]

I don't have a laser.

[ What to do... ]