piercings i think the fang troupe would get
ethan would go in to get something simple like his ears and then see the needle and faint, resulting in getting dragged out by benny. Later on he gets yelled at because “What the hell dude?! We were supposed to get piercings together and you faint on me? Not cool.” The second time he goes he’s become more tolerant to needles and gets his lobes done.
benny goes in to get his lobes done with ethan, but he faints before they get anything done and he’s pissed. The second time he goes without ethan (rightfully) and gets his lobes done. It hurts so bad benny thinks he leaves this plane of existence and only gets one side pierced. He decides to take it out a couple days later because he thinks he looks stupid with only one side done.
sarah goes with erica her first time but she’s hesitant. she gets a belly button piercing per erica’s request. She loves it and a few months later asks erica if they can go get more. Obviously erica says yes and she gets her nostril done with a stud jewelry in.
erica. loves. piercings. The first one she gets is a smiley and she falls in love with the art. Not too long after she goes in to get her eyebrow pierced and loves it even more. The next time she brings sarah and erica gets an industrial. When sarah asks to go again she’s ecstatic and gets her belly button done like sarah previously had.
rory gets his snake bites done and it was the only thing he talked about for months after. Afterwards he tried to pierce his own septum and it went horribly wrong and ended with a needle in his eye. When he came to his senses he went to go get it done professionally and he was happy with the result of that.
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I'm curious (and bored) so do you think there's any truth to what Harumi says to Lloyd in "Darkness Within", that darkness is stronger than light? Because Darkness always persists, it never stays down, and it can never be eradicated, but neither can light...
"That's always been the problem, you know," Harumi hums, taking great joy in spinning Lloyd around from where he dangles from the ceiling in Vengestone. He attempts to snap at her with his glinting fangs every time her hand drifts close, but she pulls away just a second too quick each time, reading him easily. "This foolish belief in the concept of Balance, as Balance...always results in nothing but strife. It's nothing but a farce. You can't tell me that the natural state of the world is to always be in conflict."
She sighs as she continues to twirl and rock Lloyd like a pendulum, watching impatiently as the rest of the Council scrambles to prepare for the ritual. The insignia of an Ouroboros sits prettily upon the floor, swirling around the chamber's central crystal. She scowls just at the sight of it, while Lloyd attempts to argue for argument's sake.
"But that's...just how life is. Every ending will lead to a new beginning," he insists, even as Harumi rolls her eyes. "For every Destruction, there is a new Creation. For every ounce of Order, there will be an ounce of Chaos. For every shred of darkness, there will be light to blot it out, and vice versa. Everything...will always have an opposite. Everything will always have a counter-balance. One thing was never meant to consume everything else."
"Easy for you to say," Harumi shoots back. She cut a glare over her shoulder, unimpressed with his words. The subtle glow of all the crystals in the chamber reflects in her eyes, giving them the illusion of being magenta in a trick of the light. "Must be real easy to preach about everything having a balance where you are representative of the one thing that doesn't."
Her response knocks the winds out of Lloyd, and had he been standing he might've stumbled back, just a bit. She huffs in amusement, tossing her hair over her shoulder and blowing her bangs out of her face.
"If only the world was more like you, huh? How nice it must be, to be able to exist uncontested. To be like energy itself, never waxing or waning, never coming or going, taking whatever shape you like as you like, simply left just to be...of course you wouldn't understand the struggles the rest of us face, always having to claw our way to happiness and it never being a guarantee."
Lloyd wilts, unable to directly counter her point, regardless of it being an outlandish claim. Harumi stands at full height now, beginning to pace with her arms folded behind her back.
"We all strive for our versions of peace, but what do you do when your peace is the opposite of someone else's? If ice must melt as fire persists; if fire must be extinguished for ice to be at peace...How do you determine which is correct? Under your logic, this contradiction is simply the natural way of things; this is the "Balance" you claim to govern us all...but what peace is there in an inescapable cycle of suffering for all?!"
Harumi shakes her head. Her expression darkens as she casts it at the floor.
"No, true peace can only be achieved when one side overtakes all. When the constant, pointless fighting ends, when conflict itself is eradicated, when the Ouroboros no longer has to choke on its own tail, when the cycle of so-called Balance is finally broken at long last, and when all that remains is only the vacuum of a glorious oblivion...you will look into the depths of that void and finally realize...that Darkness is and always was stronger than Light, for there is no light that waits for any of us in the end."
Harumi raises her hands towards the sky, her sinister grin spreading and splitting her face in two.
"...then, and only then, will there be peace in the dark."
"Unless my light is brighter," Lloyd mumbles automatically, in spite of himself.
...And then every fiber in his body seizes.
Her words reverberate in his mind as he replays them over and over, their familiarity sending a chill straight down the length of his spine. His mouth goes dry; his hands shake despite their currently restrained state. He shudders as he forces himself to look back up at Harumi, who hasn't moved an inch since concluding her point.
"...wait, you...those words..." He doesn't even want to finish his sentence, but the very idea of what he's thinking has nearly made him break out into a cold sweat. He heaves, struggling to breathe, as he refuses to take his eyes off the girl before him. "That...that almost sounds like...the philosophy of The Overlord..."
"...Hmm hmm hmm—"
Her pitched giggling breaks through the resounding silence, piercing Lloyd's heart with nothing but fear. Harumi puts a hand to her chin, her smile turning cloy as she locks eyes with him. Something dangerous lurks in her now fully crystalline magenta eyes, and Lloyd has never dreaded a color so much.
"—I wonder if there's a reason for that?"
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