{ 03 } THE LIGHT, IT BURNS. also; In Which Ed Overshares

[socoolbrewster]

[PUBLIC to all; mostly accidental -- he was just trying to film it for his own amusement and somehow ended up broadcasting]

[Have some video of a hand. Just a hand; no wrist attached, no arm attached, no PERSON attached. Very pale, and twitching slightly. Sitting all by itself on the counter. There's a pool of blood surrounding it, but it's mostly tacky by now.

There's also an Ed snickering in the background.]

Dude. I had no fucking idea that could happen. It's like a zombie only a thousand times better.

[Rudy, this is Ed's accidental homage to you; he ate your heart and saw your handiwork and it's given him Ideas.]


[PRIVATE to Frankie]

Okay man, I get your deal now.

[OW. Your heart hurt. :/ ]


[Ed's currently eaten hearts from both Frankie (Sun) and Rudy (Art). ...he's had Deceitful from McGee too, but he's biding his time on obnoxious with that one.]

Comments

audio:

[charring]

What the fuck did you do?!

video:

[socoolbrewster]

[Ffff what. Why is there a voice. Why is there Charlie's voice.

Ed appears in front of the camera now, blocking the view of the hand.]

An experiment. And it worked.

[SO MUCH GRINNING. ...Although he's still waiting on the second half of it.]

Why?

video:

[charring]

[Don't mind the fact that Charlie looks a bit of a hot mess and ignore the tape on her hands. It's frayed and the punching bag behind her is probably why.] Whose hand is that? Ed, I swear if you hurt someone...

video:

[socoolbrewster]

[He looks down somewhere off-camera, and his arm jerks around, almost in a pattern; this is so much cooler than pissing in the sand.]

Don't worry, Babs, I'm not a hand thief. It's mine.

[So casual, like that's Not A Big Deal.]

...Fuck, I'm hungry now.

video:1 of IDK how many please stand by.

[charring]

[Pausing forever. Because one; What did he just call her?

Also...that's his?]

(Private)

[valentineluke]

You must learn to filter.

(Private)

[socoolbrewster]

It wasn't supposed to be posted, I must have just hit the wrong button.

It's just mine, I don't see what the big deal is anyway. I'm not going Idle Hands on anybody.

Re: (Private)

[valentineluke]

Continue on this path, you will be viewed as the perfect patsy. Or worse, a liability.

(Private)

[socoolbrewster]

Okay, okay, geez. I'm sorry, alright? It was an accident, I'll keep it to myself next time.

[Private]

[never_very_good]

What the fuck.

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

...It's mine, chill. I ate one of those candies and saw something that got me curious. And hey. It grew back anyway.

[Have a hand with wiggling fingers; good as new!]

I could say the same to you though; I thought you were human.

[Not judging, jut legitimately puzzled.]

[Private]

[never_very_good]

That what those things do?

['Cause, well, he found a couple sitting around but chalky shit like that is one of the few tastes he didn't much miss.]

I am human. [Long pause is long.] Just wasn't always.

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

Apparently? Kinda cool.

...Mostly.

[All the mocking face.]

Oh, ya think. Kinda figured that out when you were burning. What the fuck.

[intheblanks]

Better? You'd need two before you could even operate a can opener.

Whose is it?

[socoolbrewster]

[And now there's an Ed in front of the camera, smirking.]

Yeah, but it'll be great for those times when somebody just needs a hand.

[HA. Well at least he amuses himself.]

Don't worry, it's mine.

[Have waggling fingers; they're slightly pink, in contrast to the rest of him that's pale as, well, a corpse.]

[intheblanks]

You regenerate?

[He used to know this girl - well, it's a long story and even he barely remembers it.]

And that's staying alive?

[socoolbrewster]

It's part of it, sure. A helpful side effect.

[If you look around the backdrop, Chase, you'll see an empty bottle of blood on the table somewhere behind the hand; he's not really like that girl you used to know.]

For now. Not sure how long though. I think it might get more lively if I feed it; might have to try that soon just to see.

Video;

[worldofourown]

That...

[A big smile.]

That's interesting, to say the least~

Video;

[socoolbrewster]

...It was twitching earlier, anyway. I think it's mostly stopped now.

[He pokes it; the fingers kind of give a lazy spasm, but otherwise it stays motionless.]

I wonder if this is how the Adams Family ended up with Thing. How cool would that be?

Video;

[worldofourown]

It would be. Quite.

[He tilts his head.]

~Is the blood real?

Video;

[socoolbrewster]

Mmhmm. Don't get too excited though, it's just mine.

[He assumes you're going to lecture about dismembering people; so far pretty much everyone else seems to have wanted to.]

[whitetwoguns]

What a waste of ketchup.

[socoolbrewster]

Sorry, I got bored and didn't have any fries handy.

[Seriously?]

It's not ketchup.

[whitetwoguns]

I know. Go on and throw away a freebie cover story.

[socoolbrewster]

It's my hand, so I kind of don't need a cover story.

But thanks for the concern.