God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
...Like Enoby from My Immortal?
Minus all the gothik and emo though
no NO
no one should ever even think about making something like that again
the suepressure would mess with my head
specifically
land it a good forty feet away from me
Originally Posted by HarMegidon
I just am asking why she is selling sausages at a funeral.
Originally Posted by inexpediency
Everyone is a hedgehog...on the inside.
Originally Posted by Tesseract
On a deadness scale of normal to doorknob I would rate her as double doorknob
Originally Posted by Jitka
fuck yeah sodium hexametaphosphate
that is my favorite hexametaphosphate
Malakin:because its actually the truman show just with ponys
crash826:that
crash826:makes
crash826:far too much sense
gingerale:xD
Malakin:think about it
Malakin:it all makes sense
Originally Posted by Catbread
Those sound like some pretty badass park rangers.
Originally Posted by ranasan
Wow... it's like if someone managed to manifest Missingno. from Pokemon Red and Blue into the real world, grind it up into a fine powder and then snort it.
18:21 Girard so I learned something at the barber:
18:22 Daniel ?
18:22 Girard The entirety of England, London in particular, is actually a stage for the biggest production of the musical Oliver ever made.
18:22 Girard England is a giant musical.
18:22 Girard This explains the small children with cockney accents and giant hats who dance in the streets.
18:23 Daniel ...DAMN YOU MARY POPPINS!
18:23 Daniel DAMN YOU TO HELL!
-video log. Mysterious transmission received. The captain can be seen putting it on the main screen-
Hello.
My name is Angelik Beauty Kursed (pronounced kurse-ed, thankyouverymuch) Darkness English. I’m the teenage daughter of Lrod English himself! But I’m good, so I beat up my father and told him not to do bad stuff anymore! Then I yelled at Bek Noir, and now he’s my loyal sekond in kommand! I’m so beautiful it’s a kurse, so all the good guys are too shy to talk to me! –sigh- I really wish they’d talk to me! I just want to be normal! Oh, but if I were normal, I wouldn’t be able to be a rokk star sekret agent supermodel rokket scientist sharpshooter! I have wings, and one of them is an angel wing and one of them is a bat wing, and my eyes change kolor, and I have long blonde hair but the kolor of the tips change all the time, and I like to wear super-awesome kool klothing!
I fight with katana kind only it also turns into a giant robot suit, and I’ve got a really good singing voice, and I’m supernice but also mean when I have to be, and and and
-it was at this point that the captain shot the screen and then himself, screaming something about the ‘coming horror’.-
Dave watches Bro make some money at one of his less appealing side jobs- partner at a fight club.
It began with a phonecall. Dave was in the middle of trying to make Chun Li beat the crap out of the pink-hued version of herself on his brother's retro SNES when he heard his bro's ringtone go off. Bro wasn't anywhere in the room as far as Dave was aware of, but hell if he was going to tear his eyes away from this spectacular biznasty of a terrifyingly muscled Asian chick beating up her clone.
"Bro!"
The phone kept ringing, and the Asian chicks kept smacking each other, and still no Bro.
"Bro!" Man these paddles were brutal. His hands felt like they were going to fall off.
The door to the stairs opened, and Bro popped his head in. "Sup?"
Dave, eyes still glued to the screen, shouted, "Phone! What the hell are you doing out there?"
He didn't need to look to see the wry quirk to his brother's mouth as he went in search of his persistent communication device. One layer of noise was cut off as Bro located the phone, and took the call. "Hey, brah, wazzup?"
Dave kept one ear on the kickin' fight music and one ear on his brother's conversation. Bro had assumed a hipshot, slouched posture. "Yeah?
"No, I'm free tonight. What's happenin'? ... Kay. Uh huh. Well, what about Toussaint, isn't he around? He's- wait, money? How much? Hm."
Dave won his fight, knocking Chun Li flat on her rounded ass. She let out this disconsolate bird cry, and he made a face at the screen as the stat screen came up, showing a fiery eyed Chun Li counterposed against a really fucked up Chun Li. What was with these old fighter games?
"Yeah, I still got it. How many? Only one. Hn. Ahhh." Bro swung to look at Dave, and away again. "I gotta bring an escort." He grinned. "Yeah, baddest motherfucker around. Okay, but I want it all upfront, and it'll be thirty minutes top. You know it. Alright, be there at seven." Bro took the phone down and punched the end button, and turned to head back out. Dave was torn between asking Bro what was up, and abstaining because eventually if it had to do with him, he'd hear about it.
Thankfully, Bro gave in just before he headed out the door again. "Hey, I gotta go somewhere at seven. I'd appreciate if you came, get my back."
Dave looked over, studiously nonchalant. "Where?"
Bro seemed to consider how to answer this. Finally he decided upon, "Fighting ring. Some homies want me to set up and show off for the fresh blood."
Daves eyebrows popped up. "Cool. So I can watch?"
"Yeah." Bro checked his phone again, gauging the time. "We'll head out in a few hours." Dave shrugged, turning back to his game. He heard the door closing behind Bro as he left again.
______
It was a kind of bizarre form of Fight Club. It was just some basement of a bar, but it seemed to stretch on forever in a creepy expanse of cement and bare lightbulbs. A few dozen people were packed in the room, and they'd formed a ring in a group-agreed center. When Dave voiced as much, one of the female friends of his bro, who was busy winding tape around her knuckles, glanced sharply at him, and said, "You've watched Fight Club."
Dave shrugged.
She shook her head, and breathed something to herself about Strider being such a crappy parent. Dave pretended he didn't hear her. Instead, he watched as Bro prepped himself, stretching and going through tightly controled patterns of motions.
"One thing you gotta do," said the tough-looking Hispanic prowling around the ring. "Is not let the pain stop you." He reached over, put a hand against bro's left shoulder, and hand under his shoulder blade, and cleanly dislocated the joint. Bro's breathing stopped for a second, and he sagged, and the shorter guy propped him up as he said, "Not let your incapacities slow you down." Dave winced at this, watching as Bro re-established his balance. His face had gone pale, and his gaze was flat. He had retreated into himself.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic guy edged away from Bro, "And still fight." He aimed a flat-handed slap at Bro.
Who, to his immense self control, did not simply vanish out from under the slap. It was almost in slow motion that he arced out of the way, like the forward breeze from the blow pushed him.
The two men began to spar, because to call it a fight would be misnaming it. It was a test, not a battle, and Dave knew that they knew that if this were real, even with Bro's fucked up limb, the fight would have been done already. The Hispanic guy fought like an acrobat-kickboxer, and with Bro crippled as he was, he stayed rooted to the ground, blocking and batting away the volley of strikes with ease. His face had flowed into a serene mask, and Dave could see him taking steady breaths in through his nose, out through his mouth.
After a while, the spar fell into a rhythm. It had a peculiar beat all to itself, unique to the two combatants and the skirmish. Without realizing it, Dave's left heel had begun knocking out the median beat, while his brain concocted some kind of accompanying fight music. He kind of liked watching fights, he decided; it let him see a totally new side of what Bro refered to as an art, and what Dave mainly knew as punishing puppet raeg.
It let him see a side of his brother that normally wasn't obvious. Bro was obviously a mad chill dude, but the mock battle displayed how much skill he had at this, outside of beating on his little brother. It wasn't about winning, he saw as the guy aimed a roundhouse kick at Bro's head. Bro accepted the blow with one hand, rolling to the ground from the kick, to rise again on one knee.
To be subsumed by Hispanic battle fury. To have his limbs locked, and a grimace seared across his face as his dislocated joint was abused.
Dave watched as the guy whispered something into his brother's ear. Something small passed between them. Something that was kept between them and the gritty concrete floor inches from them.
There was an acquiescence. Dave felt something give, and saw the grip bro had on the dude's forearm slacken ever so slightly
And then the guy made Bro tap out. Bro's lanky limbs slumped, head lolling forward, and the guy gently put him on the ground. Another guy came forward from the side, and quicker than Dave could be horrified, popped Bro's shoulder back into place before he could regain consciousness. The Hispanic guy stood and turned to the crowd, and aimed a finger to the puddled man. "Strider just fought off a national kickboxing champ with a dislocated limb. That is what you all have to measure yourselves against. Meeting adjourned, meatbags."
The guy next to Bro, who Dave could see was probably a paramedic sitting in on a favor, was pressing smelling salts under Bro's nose. It had the desired effect, and Bro's chest fluttered as he came to, reaching up his good arm to push away the stuff. The medic automatically brought out a pen light and began flicking in Bro's face, who only sat up and said something to the medic that Dave couldn't quite catch.
Dave, ignoring the rest of the crowd, pushed through and over to his brother, who was allowing his arm to be put in a sling and strapped to his chest. He glanced up as Dave approached, and shot him his usual, ironic grin. "Hey, dude." Dave only nodded, glancing between the men on the floor. The medic looked to Dave and frowned, saying, "I can't believe you take your kid brother to this crap."
"Hey, he's done worse than this to me."
The medic glowered and only continued wrapping.
It took the Hispanic guy and the medic to help pull him upright. Bro established his balance, and then motioned Dave forward, and then grabbed his brother's shoulder as he got closer. Dave allowed him, and moved to support him more fully. "Man, if I knew you wanted your ass handed to you, we coulda done that at home."
"Yeah, but not for a couple thousand," Bro responded in a somewhat breathless tone, as the Hispanic dude handed him an envelope. He jammed it in one of Dave's copious pockets. Dave stopped just short of giving a scandalized sqwak, not because his brother was kind of groping him, but because his brother had pretty much let some guy beat the snot out of him for rent money. For some reason, he felt a little cheap.
Bro waved at the ringmaster, as much of a goodbye as he was going to give, and he steered Dave out of the basement and into the fading sunlight. It took them half a street before Dave was sure his voice was level enough to ask, "Why? Why go there and fight just to not win?" What he really wanted to ask was why he had sold out, but couldn't quite do it.
Bro glanced down at him, and then back to the buildings. He was silent for a few seconds. "You know why."
"But why not win? You could have, but you let him maim you," and Dave waved at the arm. "And you still could have won."
Bro made a face like he'd bitten something sour. "I didn't want to be all knowing lord and master of their crappy club. If I'd beaten Alejandro, it's the rules that I'm the top dog. And as much as I like resentful adoration, getting it from a bunch of sweaty dudes just ain't my thing."
"But... just for money? You make that much selling your slutty puppets."
Bro's wan face broke into a smile. "You know, man? I hope it's something you never do figure out." And he ruffled Dave's hair.
Last edited by Sionnan; 01-04-2011 at 10:21 PM.
Strider brothers fics (many thanks go to egregiousBass for compiling them):
Musical Interlude- Dave tries to ironically score in the ongoing fight to one-up his brother. By joining the school chorus.
Trees and Tentacles- Bro's insomnia leads to inspired art and a little brotherly bonding time.
Undone- Dave tries to see his brother one last time.
Supermarket Shenanigans- in an early installment of the Striders, Bro looses Dave in a store. Cue panic.
My House- Dave butts heads with a lady friend of his brother's.
Binary- Bro's life and death are simple and convoluted affairs.
Climb- a brief look at where Bro is after he rocketboards off the roof.
Key- Bro teaches Dave the key behind being an ironic roof rapping ninja.
Parenthood- What Bro had to go through to make Dave what he is.
Parental Guidance- Parent teacher conferences are never fun for anyone involved.
Of Bathrooms and Beatdowns- The Striders' early morning rituals turn into unpleasant experiences at a party bro dj's at; aka roofies are never okay.
The Two of Us Are Dying- Bro has dreamt of his death sporadically for the past 13 years. Fallout.
Rap Battle!- One of the brothers' many sylladex hashrap battles. Chaos ensues.
If Illness was This One- Bro Strider is sick. Dave is not happy. The pumpkin shows up. [what pumpkin?]
Puppets and Porn- Bro Strider runs a faux/real puppet pr0n website from his home. With a minor in it. Of course someone was going to be totally not cool about it.
Puppet Porn pt II- Child protective services get called. Shit gets real. THE APARTMENT IS CLEAN OMGOMGOMGOMG
Voyeur- Jack Noir watches as Bro dies at his feet.
Surprise!- Dave wakes up on his birthday to the usual Strider shenanigans.
When "Puppets" Go Bad- Dave watches a clip of a video on Bro's computer of what looks to be a puppet trying to kill him in his sleep. Though, that's not quite the case.
Tactic, the stuff is there, even if you got an error. It does seem like the ol' quote bullshit is back though. I'm gonna have to cannibalize the relevant parts from my board.
Her heart ached for him.
If she closed her eyes, she could imagine staying up late with him, their laughter quickly passing the time. She could imagine his carefree spirit, how his smile lit up any dim-lit room. She could imagine them sitting close enough that their hands brushed gently. And if she really tried, she could feel their fingers laced together. She would always hold on for as long as possible, not wanting to let him go. She could feel his hand sweep slowly through the tangled mess of her long black hair.
If it was quiet enough, she could hear his laughter, hear him say her name, as if he were right there in the room with her. But when she opened her eyes, he wasn’t there. He never would be. All the familiar comforts that Jade longed for, she could never have again.
Tears rolled her cheeks. Breathing should never be so hard.
She found herself alone, utterly alone.
All she had to lean on were memories.
Dave was forever gone.
Her heart ached for him, but now he was just a memory.
DAMN THIS THREAD AND ALL THE AMAZING SADFIC WITHIN
Originally Posted by HarMegidon
I just am asking why she is selling sausages at a funeral.
Originally Posted by inexpediency
Everyone is a hedgehog...on the inside.
Originally Posted by Tesseract
On a deadness scale of normal to doorknob I would rate her as double doorknob
Originally Posted by Jitka
fuck yeah sodium hexametaphosphate
that is my favorite hexametaphosphate
Malakin:because its actually the truman show just with ponys
crash826:that
crash826:makes
crash826:far too much sense
gingerale:xD
Malakin:think about it
Malakin:it all makes sense
Originally Posted by Catbread
Those sound like some pretty badass park rangers.
Originally Posted by ranasan
Wow... it's like if someone managed to manifest Missingno. from Pokemon Red and Blue into the real world, grind it up into a fine powder and then snort it.
18:21 Girard so I learned something at the barber:
18:22 Daniel ?
18:22 Girard The entirety of England, London in particular, is actually a stage for the biggest production of the musical Oliver ever made.
18:22 Girard England is a giant musical.
18:22 Girard This explains the small children with cockney accents and giant hats who dance in the streets.
18:23 Daniel ...DAMN YOU MARY POPPINS!
18:23 Daniel DAMN YOU TO HELL!