( isabelle has learned over time that attributes such as age and outward fixations rarely fit to their stereotypical adversaries. right now, he's nothing more nor less than peter parker. )
They're runes. It's a sort of language, per se. ( she usually isn't too quick to give out details of her kind— however cadelle hadn't proven any sort of threat thus far. )
Gives the wearer abilities, it's... a bit of a handful to take in.
( was there truly any harm to dismissing such details? there wasn't anything that spoke on where he'd come from, where he'd soon return to when all was said and done, and said wishes were granted. it's easier, to stay locked up. there's a warmth that emanates from him that implores she act differently. )
A majority of them are physical enhancements. Like the one along my neck, it's for deflecting purposes, helps wonders in combat. The others I keep almost permanently active help to heighten things like speed, agility, strength, even courage. Which might be a stretch to believe.
( but he'd asked, hadn't he? )
I wouldn't exactly call it that. But you could say the same sort intentions, yeah. Wonder Woman has a much better MO.
Oh man. If I had some runes like you, I could help a lot more people.
I mean, I'm pretty strong and fast now, but just a bit more oomph in some situations and that'd be all I need, you know?
( He's a little jealous, honestly. And truthfully, he's wondering how the mechanics of something like that might actually work. Is it strictly magical or is there some kind of science behind it...
Something to look into, at any rate! )
But you help people, right? That's what you mean? Who's Wonder Woman?
( a common misconception, but she isn't quick to correct it. )
They are a bit different than your average ink, I'll admit. Just as personal, though. I'm assuming you haven't run into the others from my Institute just yet.
( once more she's placed in the position of sharing information she may not otherwise outside of cadelle, not with someone she'd just met-- on a social app, at that. it takes a great deal of reminding that she's in no dire need to keep anything hushed within these limits. )
More like a safe house. Pretty much the only home I've known since I was young.
[fairly recently he's had the pleasure of entirely too much time spent in the company of secret agents. maybe it's this that's made him suspicious. or maybe that's just from a lifetime in the barrio, where seemingly everyone was getting into something and those who were trying to get out often got caught in the crossfire. regardless, he's not one hundred percent certain that she' s being completely truthful.
not that he will fault her for it. social media is hardly the place to be baring your soul (or lack of one) to strangers.]
friend of mine was in the system growing up. got bounced around from foster home to foster home. for better or worse, at least you had a place to call home.
[he's not fully sure why he feels the need to open up to her, but he does. even if he's still getting used to the idea that he doesn't have to be completely walled off.]
my uncle raised me until i was old enough to take care of myself and my brother. not quite as interesting as your story.
( it wasn't a lie of any sorts-- more so just a subtle means of unstitching where she came from, a human race not many were familiar with even within her own world. it's an adjustment, coming to terms with the fact that anyone she gets remotely close to here is someone that, when returns home, she may never hear from again.
the institute served as a glamoured church in which only the shadowhunters, or nephilim, could see and enter, disregarding permission. a local power base of sorts, the very power that lay acquainted with the runes marked along her skin. it's a bit of a handful to explain, really. baby steps just worked better. )
Not everyone has a story. I'm thankful enough to still have my parents, though they left me and my brother on our own quite awhile ago. Kind of raised to be that way.
[isabelle's the first person who's heard about his brother. it might not seem like it now, but the mention of family is a big step for him. robbie's the kind of person to hold things close to his chest and not bother other people with his problems.
stubborn loner might be the most apt way to put it.
he appreciates that she seems like the type who can handle it when things don't go as planned. it makes wanting to get to know her an easier adjustment.]
sounds like you and i share a similar outlook when it comes to taking care of things.
You mean, taking care of them because there's no other choice? I'm definitely familiar.
( as it may otherwise sound, it isn't complaint nor any bit a pout that would form to her words, should he be granted the sight of her during conversation, rather than something as private. without it, however, perceptions are open, infinite— part of her likes it that way.
izzy's got, even if she may not admit it, an apt ability to wear her loyalty, her compassion on her sleeve. it was difficult not to notice, characteristics that let others belief they could be open with her. )
If we share it, then that must mean you too have had little time to yourself. How are you adjusting to being here? ( because she's not doing the best. )
Personally I've spent a lot of my own at sucker punch. It's quieter, not many people are there, especially late at night. Looks like we're similar in a lot of regards.
( whether it's to keep herself sharp, or purge out whatever still harrowed at her thoughts, she isn't even sure herself. )
You should drop by sometime. I could always use feeding off another to up my game.
i usually work out there too. guess we've just missed each other.
[her offer sounds like the best thing he's heard in awhile. maybe she'll be the key to helping him find some sort of peace that he hasn't been able to find on his own.]
sounds like a plan. i won't take it easy on you if you promise the same.
( it'd kill two birds with one stone, really, as she hasn't found many others that choose to spend their time the way she does. more often than not they're indulging beach parties, lingering around the bars and nightlife while she's left using her iratze rune across her knuckles after every evening with one of those bags. )
I'd suggest not taking it easy on me, I'd hate to see anyone go down that quickly.
If it's not a challenge I'm not interested. You headed there later?
( while she knows it's not necessarily some sort of competitive streak she's looking to fill, a little edge certainly adds a bit of welcome flare to her night. she'd be there regardless, never hurt to having a tangible target. )
Looks like I'll be seeing you tonight then. Rest up, carino.
[ At this point making jokes about it is easy. It's been quite a long time since the Dark One sliced it off. ]
If you're asking what I'm after here then that's easy. We're here for a reason. Why not properly enjoy it while we're here? I'm not so certain we need to be best mates to have a good and proper roll in the sheets.
( isabelle was an intimate woman by nature; it wasn't as if she couldn't appreciate sex when it was stripped down to no more than that hungering need beneath the skin, something raw and animal and natural. doesn't mean it didn't take work to lure her there, either. )
I'm not protesting the fun way, amor. In my experience it's been better to assure I'll be, as you said, properly satisfied before I let another man get so fortunate.
[ Relationships and connections muddy the waters. He learned that lesson the hard way. He doesn't intend to make the same mistakes he made before. Emma made him this way and he intends to live up to it. ]
Ah. You want assurances of my talents in the bedroom? Any stories I tell would simply be stories of lesser women.
( flattery at its utmost degree. she's endured a good deal of men that, perhaps, hadn't been worth her time. though to be fair, few made it to the bedroom with her after a round of taunts. she's a picky girl, and while a little pleasure could go a long way with the responsibility she's carried to cadelle, she still admires the chase. )
It's more so the question as to whether you could keep up. ( stamina runes, but also a figure built around training since she was young. )
I'd be awfully bored with a man who couldn't handle the things I like.
[ When you've been alive for as long as him you learn things. Helpful things. Not to mention he's been to quite a few ports in his time. Usually not leaving alone unless you count the time after Milah. After she died Killian really hadn't wanted another. ]
I can handle plenty, love. Even when I was a little more average I did just fine with women. As a pirate you see many ports and many women.
These days I've got a little more fire in my step.
( a pirate. well, it wasn't like she could any bit easier lay out on the table what she was, back home. however she keeps it a bit closer to her chest. )
A man that's been with numerous women doesn't mean he's learned the bodies of all of them. Certainly not mine.
Say I gave you the opportunity to prove yourself; tell me, what's the first thing you'd do?
( maybe a bit explicit a question, but one she's developed quite a sound read on others by. )
[ It's not like he has any way to explain a Dark One to her. The fact that it makes him a little less human. Even if he wasn't here he couldn't be killed. Not unless you had Excalibur. His own version of the Dark One's dagger. ]
You've a point.
[ One thing he learned in his travels. All women are strikingly different. ]
Now it just seems like you're asking me to talk dirty to you, love. But I'll bite.
First things first would be to get you out of whatever clothing you've got on. Much better with a bare canvas to work on. Then I'd go about exploring with my mouth. I'm a very curious fellow. Provided you let me of course.
( izzy's not one to exactly be started by what was 'a little less human'; coming from a city divide by mundanes and downworlders, given she was here to save the lives of many species alike— well, she didn't discriminate. )
You could call it that, I prefer to see it as a little glimpse as to how I'd be treated. Fair, isn't it?
You're off to a lovely start, you're warming on me, Mr. Jones. Given the chemistry's there in person I'd be a silly girl to deny that kind of attention.
[ It's not something you strive for to become the Dark One. It's a life full of nothing, but pain and darkness. He wouldn't wish it on anyone. And yet Emma chose it for him despite his pleas not to. ]
I can assure you it'd be there.
You're a beautiful woman. I'd be a fool myself not to lavish you in the type of close attention that you certainly deserve. I've always been quite the fan of exploring a woman.
( it wasn't as if she fed off such compliments, but it certainly didn't hurt to hear them. there was something foreign to his diction, piquing the slightest bit of interest as to where he'd come from, where he considered home; why he come at all. )
Sometimes sweet talkers know just the right kind of sweet to be, seems like experience has taught you that.
How about this, cari. We'll meet, and if it's there it's there. If it isn't you find another port to sail to, mm?
[ Foreign indeed. Though most tend to default and insist he's just from England. Wherever that bloody place is. But it's what he's grown accustomed to with people. But he couldn't tell you where it is on a map. Likely couldn't tell you where Storybrooke was either. ]
Love, I can be very sweet. I assure you.
[ Even if he has the previous Dark Ones voices swirling about in his head. ]
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sorry in advance for him
this is absolutely precious, i am all for it
You are absolutely allowed to give me a check. Here,
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Does that help?
yes awesome c:
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Yeah, definitely!
I like your tattoos? Or scars, maybe? They look awesome either way.
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They're runes. It's a sort of language, per se. ( she usually isn't too quick to give out details of her kind— however cadelle hadn't proven any sort of threat thus far. )
Gives the wearer abilities, it's... a bit of a handful to take in.
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Like what kind of abilities? Can I ask that?
( His curiosity is just that - curiosity. It's innocent and eager, fueled by a constant desire to understand new things in the world. )
Are you some kind of superhero?
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A majority of them are physical enhancements. Like the one along my neck, it's for deflecting purposes, helps wonders in combat. The others I keep almost permanently active help to heighten things like speed, agility, strength, even courage. Which might be a stretch to believe.
( but he'd asked, hadn't he? )
I wouldn't exactly call it that. But you could say the same sort intentions, yeah.
Wonder Woman has a much better MO.
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I mean, I'm pretty strong and fast now, but just a bit more oomph in some situations and that'd be all I need, you know?
( He's a little jealous, honestly. And truthfully, he's wondering how the mechanics of something like that might actually work. Is it strictly magical or is there some kind of science behind it...
Something to look into, at any rate! )
But you help people, right? That's what you mean?
Who's Wonder Woman?
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nice ink. seen a lot of tats where i'm from, but nothing like yours.
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( a common misconception, but she isn't quick to correct it. )
They are a bit different than your average ink, I'll admit. Just as personal, though.
I'm assuming you haven't run into the others from my Institute just yet.
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[wait a minute...]
institute? like a school? that's some serious devotion.
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( once more she's placed in the position of sharing information she may not otherwise outside of cadelle, not with someone she'd just met-- on a social app, at that. it takes a great deal of reminding that she's in no dire need to keep anything hushed within these limits. )
More like a safe house. Pretty much the only home I've known since I was young.
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not that he will fault her for it. social media is hardly the place to be baring your soul (or lack of one) to strangers.]
friend of mine was in the system growing up. got bounced around from foster home to foster home. for better or worse, at least you had a place to call home.
[he's not fully sure why he feels the need to open up to her, but he does. even if he's still getting used to the idea that he doesn't have to be completely walled off.]
my uncle raised me until i was old enough to take care of myself and my brother. not quite as interesting as your story.
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the institute served as a glamoured church in which only the shadowhunters, or nephilim, could see and enter, disregarding permission. a local power base of sorts, the very power that lay acquainted with the runes marked along her skin. it's a bit of a handful to explain, really. baby steps just worked better. )
Not everyone has a story. I'm thankful enough to still have my parents, though they left me and my brother on our own quite awhile ago. Kind of raised to be that way.
Eye for an eye, it seems.
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stubborn loner might be the most apt way to put it.
he appreciates that she seems like the type who can handle it when things don't go as planned. it makes wanting to get to know her an easier adjustment.]
sounds like you and i share a similar outlook when it comes to taking care of things.
that's a good thing, i swear.
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( as it may otherwise sound, it isn't complaint nor any bit a pout that would form to her words, should he be granted the sight of her during conversation, rather than something as private. without it, however, perceptions are open, infinite— part of her likes it that way.
izzy's got, even if she may not admit it, an apt ability to wear her loyalty, her compassion on her sleeve. it was difficult not to notice, characteristics that let others belief they could be open with her. )
If we share it, then that must mean you too have had little time to yourself. How are you adjusting to being here? ( because she's not doing the best. )
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but there's only so much working out that i can do.
i thought that i'd be happy not having to go out every night, but —
funny how that works isn't it?
izzy: makes friends by sparring with them
( whether it's to keep herself sharp, or purge out whatever still harrowed at her thoughts, she isn't even sure herself. )
You should drop by sometime. I could always use feeding off another to up my game.
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[her offer sounds like the best thing he's heard in awhile. maybe she'll be the key to helping him find some sort of peace that he hasn't been able to find on his own.]
sounds like a plan. i won't take it easy on you if you promise the same.
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I'd suggest not taking it easy on me, I'd hate to see anyone go down that quickly.
If it's not a challenge I'm not interested. You headed there later?
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[his social calendar is definitely looking a little bare. with no reason to say no, he agrees to meet up with her.]
yeah. i'll swing by tonight.
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( while she knows it's not necessarily some sort of competitive streak she's looking to fill, a little edge certainly adds a bit of welcome flare to her night. she'd be there regardless, never hurt to having a tangible target. )
Looks like I'll be seeing you tonight then. Rest up, carino.
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I couldn't agree more, love.
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Is that so? ( as if that's a line she hasn't heard before. )
Maybe you wouldn't be shy in revealing your hand, then.
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What'd you have in mind?
[ Sometimes his one hand jokes are funny. ]
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Mm, not so fast. I do believe the lady asked first.
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If you're asking what I'm after here then that's easy. We're here for a reason. Why not properly enjoy it while we're here? I'm not so certain we need to be best mates to have a good and proper roll in the sheets.
[ You did ask him to be honest here. ]
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Or is that your extent of good deeds to Cadelle?
Usually women like it when it's worked for a bit more.
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Why not do it the fun way? You asked for my hand. I wasn't about to lie to you.
[ Acts of goodwill are boring okay. And platonic physical intimacy? Why? ]
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I'm not protesting the fun way, amor. In my experience it's been better to assure I'll be, as you said, properly satisfied before I let another man get so fortunate.
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Ah. You want assurances of my talents in the bedroom? Any stories I tell would simply be stories of lesser women.
[ Women lesser than her. ]
Tell me what it is exactly you desire from me?
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( flattery at its utmost degree. she's endured a good deal of men that, perhaps, hadn't been worth her time. though to be fair, few made it to the bedroom with her after a round of taunts. she's a picky girl, and while a little pleasure could go a long way with the responsibility she's carried to cadelle, she still admires the chase. )
It's more so the question as to whether you could keep up. ( stamina runes, but also a figure built around training since she was young. )
I'd be awfully bored with a man who couldn't handle the things I like.
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I can handle plenty, love. Even when I was a little more average I did just fine with women. As a pirate you see many ports and many women.
These days I've got a little more fire in my step.
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A man that's been with numerous women doesn't mean he's learned the bodies of all of them. Certainly not mine.
Say I gave you the opportunity to prove yourself; tell me, what's the first thing you'd do?
( maybe a bit explicit a question, but one she's developed quite a sound read on others by. )
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You've a point.
[ One thing he learned in his travels. All women are strikingly different. ]
Now it just seems like you're asking me to talk dirty to you, love. But I'll bite.
First things first would be to get you out of whatever clothing you've got on. Much better with a bare canvas to work on. Then I'd go about exploring with my mouth. I'm a very curious fellow. Provided you let me of course.
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You could call it that, I prefer to see it as a little glimpse as to how I'd be treated. Fair, isn't it?
You're off to a lovely start, you're warming on me, Mr. Jones. Given the chemistry's there in person I'd be a silly girl to deny that kind of attention.
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I can assure you it'd be there.
You're a beautiful woman. I'd be a fool myself not to lavish you in the type of close attention that you certainly deserve. I've always been quite the fan of exploring a woman.
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( it wasn't as if she fed off such compliments, but it certainly didn't hurt to hear them. there was something foreign to his diction, piquing the slightest bit of interest as to where he'd come from, where he considered home; why he come at all. )
Sometimes sweet talkers know just the right kind of sweet to be, seems like experience has taught you that.
How about this, cari. We'll meet, and if it's there it's there. If it isn't you find another port to sail to, mm?
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Love, I can be very sweet. I assure you.
[ Even if he has the previous Dark Ones voices swirling about in his head. ]
I believe I can agree to that. When and where?