☠Twenty-Sixth Reel: New stripes [Closed]

[redcinemareel]

Who: The Bloody Roses, and the bodyswap victims
Where: The Gilded Rose on the their way south
When: Aug 21st to Aug 26th
What: Shenanigans, surely!
Warnings: Probably foul language
Style: always
Status: closed to the crew!

If body swapping, please say who you are. If you could use different icons, that would be great, but if not, at least a link to the person's image. We may not know who is who in this game!

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Here she is! XD

[myfayevalentine]

Faye awoke gradually, sensing that Thash was already stirring in the bed. She turned onto her side, blinking her eyes open slowly. Faye smiled to herself, remembering Thash's birthday just the day before, then sat up against the pillows, revealing the rather lovely red nightgown she had on. She smoothed her hair as she watched the apparent Thash fumble around.

"Morning, mister. Are you trying to wreck my bedroom with that tail of yours or what?"

[buttwarmed]

A tail. He glanced back at it, staring stupidly for a moment. What was he thinking when he transformed into this...ridiculous fishman form? But looking back up a bit, the girl he woke up with was even more beautiful all blinking sleepily and haloed by the dawn.

All the more reason to not screw up.

"Thought I'd make some coffee. For both of us."

There. That'd buy him some time. And at least now he knew he was at her place.

[myfayevalentine]

"Coffee?"

Faye tilted her head as she looked at Thash, because she was pretty sure coffee was one of those things he didn't like the taste of. At least, she couldn't remember ever seeing him drink coffee.

"Is something bothering you?"

She thought back to the previous night, wondering if she'd done something to upset him. He never usually got up and left her so suddenly, not without even the briefest of hugs and kisses.

she thinks he's curiously attractive, for a fishman

[buttwarmed]

"Nah, I'm fine. Just kinda still sleepy. Need some caffeine.Guess I didn't get enough sleep last night."

A wink and a grin at her, the effect of which was probably ruined by shark teeth. He was going to bullshit his way out of this or die trying.

basically a hot human but...somewhat sharky...

[myfayevalentine]

"Still sleepy?"

Faye smirked at his wink and moved the blankets aside to reveal the space of the mattress beside her, and also a leg.

"You could always come back to bed. You don't like coffee anyway. I'm sure I could find a way to help you relax..."

[buttwarmed]

That...was extremely tempting. If he'd transformed himself into, for instance, a cartoon wolf, he thought, this would be the moment where his eyes turned into hearts, his jaw hit the floor with a metallic thunk and his tongue unrolled from his mouth like a carpet.

But it wouldn't be right. He couldn't get busy with a girl he didn't remember the name of. Curse his parents for raising him right.

"Sounds fun. But I gotta run to the head, back in a few..."

And he sidled out, or as much sidling as one could do with a tail that size anyway.

[myfayevalentine]

Faye blinked as he seemed to take longer than necessary to decide what to do. Really, it shouldn't have been a decision at all. And even then, Thash still just wanted to leave her. It didn't make any sense. She grabbed a small cushion and hurled it towards him as he made to leave the room.

"Thash! What the hell?"

[buttwarmed]

As he was out the door, he counted on a sleepy person's natural reluctance to get out of bed to keep her from pursuing him.

But one thing stuck with him. Why would she call me 'Thash'...That's not a nickname I have or pretended to have... He chewed it over a few minutes and then it hit him with a sudden drop in his stomach: she thought he was someone else. This morning's news was that he was just about the biggest possible cad.

So, shamefaced, he trundled back in.

"I uh...I'm not who you think I am. I'm not Thash."

He was willing to run from a great many wrongdoings but this was not one of them.

[myfayevalentine]

By the time he'd come back, Faye was standing up out of bed, looking a combination of furious and confused. It didn't make sense for Thash to just walk away from her like that. She narrowed her eyes at him, hands crossed firmly over her chest, "What the fuck are you talking about? Is this some kind of stupid joke? Because it's not funny."

[buttwarmed]

"...I guess this'll help you understand."

And this would be the moment where he transformed into his true shape. Except he couldn't. The will was there. The skill was there. He wasn't, like his brother, so traumatized that he was stuck in one form. Yet nothing happened, and continued to not happen for several very awkward seconds.

[myfayevalentine]

Faye seemed vaguely willing, at first, to see what Thash would come up with. But nothing happened. She sighed in frustration and moved her hands to rest firmly on her hips.

"What? What the hell are you doing?"

[buttwarmed]

Yasaburo contemplated that this was perhaps a record for how quickly a situation could go south.

"I'm a shapeshifter. But for some reason I'm stuck..."

She would be perfectly justified in thinking he was playing a terrible joke, assuming Thash had that kind of shitty sense of humor.

"Anyway I can't say how sorry I am..."

[myfayevalentine]

Faye just stared for a few moments, not really understanding what he was saying here. It wasn't quite Thash's sense of humour to pretend that he'd shape shifted and that he wasn't really him.

"Sure, you're a shape shifter. One that can't shift shapes."

She rolled her eyes at him, then tilted her head at the apology, her eyes narrowing gently.

"What the hell are you talking about? Sorry for what?"