duplicity inbox / cw for nsfw shenanigans.

[unlawful]

TEXT / VOICE / VIDEO / ACTION NOTE: felix generally responds to everything in text, even voice or video calls. expect 90% of his replies to be text-based regardless of urgency.

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[requiemshark]

you wanted to make it quiet.

[ He hates that he understands. That it makes sense in some simple, fundamental way. Like a bullet to the brain. Everything laid out stark and brutal. Ephemera flexes his hands and wonders if he wants to say fuck it and get drunk. End this, however temporarily. ]

and now?

[unlawful]

( now. fuck. like that doesn't have a more fucked up answer than anything else he's told him. )

now i want you to fuck off before i kiss you again and make this shit even worse

[requiemshark]

[ There's a pause. The easiest thing would be to just step back. Retreat into himself or one of the murals he's tossed up. Lose himself in the art, however temporarily.

Yeah. That would be the smart thing. ]

then why respond at all

[unlawful]

poor impulse control
i can't help myself
i'm extremely accustomed to getting the last word after over a decade of working with locus
pick one or all three or none, i don't care

i don't particularly give a fuck how much i fuck you up, which is really the important factor here.

[requiemshark]

you aren't the one who fucks me up. came in too late for that.

[ Half a lie. The damage was done long before they ever crossed paths. This is just the aftermath. ]

[unlawful]

nah terrence
i didn't fuck you up
but i do fuck you up

[requiemshark]

nobody calls me terrence anymore

[ A dodge. Not a very good one. ]

[unlawful]

( even over text, he's an easy read. )

good thing i'm a nobody then, huh?

[requiemshark]

[ Too goddamn easy. ]

get fucked

[unlawful]

i keep making shit so easy for you and you keep tripping right back into my lap despite everything
over and over again
kinda like you can't help yourself
kinda like you want it
don't think for a second i won't take you down with me in the fallout. i can go further than a little kiss and my gun in your hand. i can take us all the way down. there's no coming back from that shit. ask locus.

we're done, ephemera

[requiemshark]

[ It'd be easier to back off. Regroup. Smarter. Felix already said he likes to have the last word so let it fucking lie. And yet.

And fucking yet. ]

you two finally go at each other or did you finally just get cornered? never actually knew.

[ A distraction. A feint. Away from him. ]

[unlawful]

( congrats. that gets him twitching. )

i would saw my fucking balls off and gouge out my eyes with a rusty spoon before i ever fucked a partner like that

( not just a partner. ortez. never, ever, ever, ever ortez. now he's going to rip off his limbs if he ever sees him again, but that's not an important detail to mention. they're a united front. have been, since even before force recon. it's a facade felix feels compelled to maintain.

locus should've put him down, if he felt so strongly about it. not the simmies. it'll fucking burn forever that he just stood by and watched it happen. )

he was preoccupied
i was ambushed

survival of the fittest and he's always been the fittest. unfortunately neither of us made the cut, so here we are.

[requiemshark]

[ It works. It gets Felix off on a tangent. For now, at least. ]

karma.

[ Or something. They probably deserve this shit. ]

he was solid, for what it's worth.

[unlawful]

he was off his fucking rocker
but he was the best

( especially when felix was at his worst. )

only reason i didn't throw you out the airlock alongside price is because of him

[requiemshark]

i didn't need you. all i needed was the armor. everything that happened after was just noise.

[ An easy trade, at the time. ]

dont know why you bothered with price. that fucker was useless.

[unlawful]

he had information locus thought was vital to understanding the freelancers and their motivations, as if it fucking mattered when they were walking corpses anyway
didn't need to understand how they tick on the inside to blow them the fuck open
i thought he was useless too
locus insisted

( very firmly, leaving little room for argument. felix submitted, unwisely and against his better judgment. if he'd known he was going to be fucking with locus' head in the process, he would've slit his goddamn throat and watched him bleed out. )

i think you made a stupid fucking choice on chorus and you're making stupid fucking choices now

[requiemshark]

apparently im crazy. and dead. so that's fun.

[ Opinions seem to vary on the crazy part. But Grey was pretty damn clears about how he ends. It's hardly a surprise. ]

[unlawful]

yeah you've mentioned
inevitable if you were going 1v1 with a freelancer and her battle-ready ai

( not to mention if she had wash flanking her six. he must've been nearby, at the very least. she'd shown up with wash on the bridge shortly after ephemera stopped responding on comms. )

[requiemshark]

[ So it goes. He used to think he’d do it again if he had the chance. ]

You and locus still tried it. Money that good? 

[unlawful]

carolina wasn't written into the initial equation
it was just wash and his simmies and wash was a soft damaged bitch

( in retrospect, he should've ended up with felix. it was a mistake leaving him with locus. wash turned out to be more of a threat than felix could've ever anticipated. )

we didn't need to kill them head-on, besides
we just needed them out of the fucking way
that's where you came in, obviously

[requiemshark]

Should’ve asked for more money. Charon plays tough but they bitch out the moment something threatens the bottom line  

[ Idle, pointless words. Filling space while Ephemera decides whether or not he’s going to burn his sketchbooks. He’s itching for a cigarette already, a hit of nicotine to slow his fucking roll and stop his brain from racing off to parts unknown. Smart move would be to stop engaging entirely. Walk away.

Yeah. It would. ]

doesn’t matter anyway. 

[unlawful]

it sure doesn't

[ none of it mattered in the end. and why ephemera is continuing this conversation despite his better judgment is a mystery beyond felix's understanding.

it's a cyclical game of russian roulette. eventually the cylinder will hit another live round. ]

do you draw my face every time we meet?

[ like now. ]

[requiemshark]

[ Click. Boom. ]

only when i'm bored.

[unlawful]

( right. ephemera's trusty fallback excuse. )

you are perhaps the shittiest liar i've ever met.

[requiemshark]

[ He gets that a lot. Unfortunately. And of course Felix is too smart not to zero in. ]

yeah you’d like to think so. go fuck yourself.