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caelus ([personal profile] receptacles) wrote in [community profile] trailblazers2024-01-25 08:59 pm
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001 » with my legs up on the dashboard


TFLN OVERFLOW.

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[personal profile] offsuit 2024-03-17 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[He's feeling a bit lazy so he just calls Caelus instead with a video chat as he rolls onto his side and props his phone up on the pillow next to him. He's cleaned up a bit since the last video he's sent, tugged his underwear back on. His cheek against the pillow, he looks at the phone blearily.

Like this, he seems almost less threatening, the brightness of his eyes dimmed with how satiated he is, like a cat that's got the cream.]


Feels good. Just what I needed after an annoying day.
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[personal profile] offsuit 2024-03-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It's cute, the way Caelus fumbles around his phone. Aventurine can't help but to smile a bit as he watches him set it up and rest down. Like this, it's almost like they're really next to one another - like if he reaches his hand over, he'll find warm skin instead of just the blankets.]

Same as usual... justifying my vision of the future to a bunch of small-minded executives who can't see past the profit margin for next quarter.

[He shrugs.]

Sometimes you have to lose in order to better position yourself to win. The IPC doesn't understand that - Preservation is about maintaining the status quo, not making drastic plays. So our visions don't often align.
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[personal profile] offsuit 2024-03-19 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[It's an interesting thought, and one that makes his eyes flick up, more awake than he had been before, like it brings something up in the back of my mind... but he doesn't know if he has it in him to share it.

Instead, he thinks about something else, about his other colleagues, the other ways that the IPC has said one thing and done another - preservation, profit margins, ruthless capitalism for the good of all mankind. He plays by their rules, gets things done on their orders, but that doesn't mean he agrees with it.

Just the opposite, really. It's all a means to an end for him.]


The IPC has saved - oh, a dozen billion lives through uplifting backwater planets sentenced to environmental death, among other things. We have a counter in the main office, actually. [He smiles, flashing teeth.] It's tacky.

Still, I wonder if the Nameless hold such a record. I wonder still, how many lives have been lost to IPC intervention.

[The smile doesn't fade, but it does grow sharper, faker.]

No counter for that one, I'm afraid.
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[personal profile] offsuit 2024-03-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I guess not.

[But he doesn't say anything else. Not right now, not when there's still so much to do and Caelus is still in a position to intervene in his plans. Aventurine sighs and lets his eyes droop, less serious now than he had been a moment ago.]

I heard about what you did on Jarilo-VI - or rather, I read Topaz's report. If you cared about giving those people the best chance of survival, you'd have convinced them to agree to her terms. Instead, you prioritized their freedom.

[He shrugs, flopping onto to his back and stretching, rotating his shoulder, getting comfortable. The camera bounces a bit with the mattress and catches his side profile as he looks up toward the ceiling.]

You've proven your principles to me already, is what I'm saying. I don't think the Express is hypocritical, and I can respect that.
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[personal profile] ricochetlove 2024-03-23 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll protect me from Dan Heng? My hero!



I'll be there soon, but I'll need you to open your door for me. My hands are full.
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[personal profile] offsuit 2024-03-24 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't protest. His legs part when Caelus drags his hands down against pale skin, allowing Caelus to look at him, to press his fingers against him, to do whatever he wants. His body is still sensitive, he still shifts a little and gasps when Caelus first breeches him, but he's not exactly a blushing virgin. Still, it feels different like this, in bed with someone who is as earnest and genuine as the other man, and Aventurine tips his head back to look at him, watch him as he works.]

I don't think you can hurt me. Don't worry.

[He means it in the many ways that Caelus does - a little fingering, even shoving a cock inside of him a bit too quick... well, it would be uncomfortable, but part of him enjoys the stretch. But the rest of it? Aventurine is made of stone, his heart solid and unbeating. He loves Caelus as much as he's able to, but he feels inside of him, a great void that spans beyond the depths of the universe. Nothing can cross it, nothing can break it, nothing could possibly get through far enough to hurt him.

Aventurine smiles though, reaching a hand out toward his arm, tracing his fingertips up his shoulder, drawing him forward.]


You have me.

[He reassures quietly, in a tone that he's used a dozen times before to reassure a dozen other people - though none quite as cute as him, none quite as well-meaning or sweet. Aventurine leans up just a little, tipping his chin up, watching as Caelus works his fingers.]

How about a kiss, darling?
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[personal profile] surface 2024-03-24 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well. March hasn't been out to take any new photographs for days now. ( he knows because she usually shows off her best shots via text. ) I don't know how the rest are feeling. But why have you been spending your nights drinking? ( he assumes intoxication must be the culprit if someone can't remember what happened last night. )
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[personal profile] ricochetlove 2024-03-24 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[His hands are full because he's decided not to turn up to this not-actually-a-booty call with gifts. Caelus clearly has a lot of Big Feelings going on and he's a little drunk, so part of the gift is obvious-- he needs snacks, especially those chips that they sell on the Luofu that are kind of a weird flavor, but Caelus likes them. Some sodas and other non-alcoholic drinks, too, because he'll need to drink something that won't give him a hangover the next morning. An assortment of movies and a projector to watch them with, in case Caelus doesn't have one of his own. All the things needed to have a nice night in.]

[A bouquet of roses tucked up in the crook of his arm, in that signature Sampo Koski bright crimson that he prefers.]

[(That isn't something necessary for a nice night in, but it's a little something that he can leave with Caelus as a reminder of why it's a good thing to be good friends with Sampo Koski. If he feels better when Sampo's around, maybe he'll feel better with a little gift from him around, too. And, anyway, who doesn't feel better after getting a bunch of flowers?)]


Because I'm holding things, of course! [Why else would he say that his hands are full?] Can I come in?

[You're still standing in the doorway, Caelus.]
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smooshes

[personal profile] doesntneedhealing 2024-03-24 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Trust in your friendship as much as you want, but don't complain if it fails you.
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[personal profile] doesntneedhealing 2024-03-24 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[left on read??? wtf?????]
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[personal profile] surface 2024-03-25 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
( he probably should have been there. if only to stop a certain someone from taking advantage of an inebriated trailblazer! )

I should let you know... I haven't informed the rest just yet, but I won't be accompanying you on the next mission. I'll have to stay behind in Luofu temporarily. ( he still has some unfinished business related to the scalegorge waterscape and imbibitor lunae stuff... what a hassle. )

But I'll meet up with you after you're done.

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