unwheeled: ([-] even the perfect machines can fail)
Charles Xavier ([personal profile] unwheeled) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic2013-01-30 07:52 am

➻ three | cardiovascular distress and it's many symptoms

 [What is this? A video? A video in which Charles is neither screaming his head off nor waving his intellect around at all and sundry?

Bless.

Actually this appears to be accidental - there's the noise of a tea kettle being quickly removed from heat, that buildup of a whine abruptly cut off and sloshing of water in a metal container. Most of the frame is occupied by the kitchen counter, a deep blue ceramic teapot, a jar of loose leaf tea and half of Charles' upper body - button up shirt with rolled up sleeves pushed past his elbows - sort of puttering around in the immediate area.

Loose leaf tea goes into a small metal tea straining ball, ball goes into the teapot, kettle pours hot water into teapot, kettle is returned to stove out of frame. Charles reaches up into a cabinet to obtain a cup, takes it down - 

and drops it, suddenly, where it rolls off the counter and quietly shatters on the floor. His fingers are turning blue and he turns his palms upwards.]

Ow?

[Charles uses his hands to push himself away from the counter (his face isn't visible at this point) though doesn't get too far, if the soft thud is any indicator. There's a sound rather like a door slamming and then opening simultaneously in the next second.

The feed ends there.]
hulkbusted: (Default)

dude, we're all sailing on the U.S.S. Makeshitup

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Just calling it like he sees it man.]

I understand. I'd do it for a friend if they needed it, but my heart's in no condition to share.
violenthearted: (rip away the skin burn my heart)

omg us and my bff voltaire

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Erik eyes Charles and his many, many perforated fingers. Dryly.]

Don't sell yourself short.
hulkbusted: new (serious - eyebrow)

bingo!

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, by that I mean that it's radioactive at levels incompatible with life after extended exposure.
violenthearted: (pic#5575013)

Re: bingo!

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[This look is the equivalent of a slow clap.]

What a coup that must be for you.

[Hideous heart brofist?]
hulkbusted: new (serious - tight lipped)

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not finding having a deadly "heart metaphor" [thanks Tony] to be much of a coup.
violenthearted: (pic#5617281)

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Pity, you could certainly stage one.

[He has the most sympathy.]
hulkbusted: new (serious - eyebrow)

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Against what?
violenthearted: (pic#5616827)

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Heavy-handed symbolism? Demand a better class of archetypal embarrassment.
hulkbusted: new (sarcastic - tcha right)

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Because that went over so well already.
violenthearted: autoicons (the heart is dark but)

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Does that happen often? I can't imagine no one's ever tried it before yesterday.
hulkbusted: new (serious - pensive)

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
It hasn't happened in the five months I've been here. You could ask someone who has been here longer. I know people who have been here three and four years.
violenthearted: sways (pic#5627792)

[personal profile] violenthearted 2013-02-06 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
I might do that. Then again if there'd ever been a successful one we wouldn't be here.

[Or would they hmmm.]

Anything else you need to know?

[Erik jerks a sharp, abortive motion in the direction of his cardiallegory, apparently unwilling to refer to it as his heart or anything else.]
hulkbusted: new (sarcastic - mmhm)

[personal profile] hulkbusted 2013-02-06 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No, thanks for your time. [Oh please, don't stop being so charming.]