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Jotaro Kujo ([personal profile] starmark) wrote2010-04-06 12:15 am
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This is Jotaro. Whatever you want, hurry up and tell me already.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-02 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
He was alone, yes. I'm not sure if I would have been successful if there had been more than one. [ He is confident and cocky but he isn't stupid. Je isn't seasoned enough at the naga thing to fuck up any more than one human at a time. ] He is one of those anti-monster guys from uptown. He came with his own pitchfork and everything. He's been studying Rabble-Rousing 101.

[ He huffs and haphazardly pulls the man up by the arm. Held high above his head, the act brings the man's face nearly nose to nose with his. ] He has a frame worth killing. Had... Has... [ Implying that he will be useful enough to keep him fed for a few weeks. Rohan's coo is bored and frustrated himself. It's like having to wash the floor or mow the lawn. A chore. ] Humans should know better than to look a naga in the eyes. They've lived here long enough.

[ Stating the fact, Rohan opens up his mouth. Fangs unpeel from the roof of it and he bites the juncture of his victim's neck and shoulder again for one more good measure. The ensuing fizzing noise fills the warm, quiet room all the while as his venom begins eating away at the bite again. Now bits and pieces of the surface skin and the veins he nailed before begin to bubble and pop. Mouth pulling away for him to stick a finger in the wound-- ]

He didn't land anything. All I lost were a few teeth through biting him. He didn't stand a chance.

[ A single blink has him staring across the way at Jotaro. He has taken note of the temperature change. He knows the baser temperature at this point and it has quite obviously risen. The question of 'What is it?' hangs there silently even as he rips his eyes away to gouge at the hole in his kill's neck again with his claws. ]
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-02 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's not a horrorshow to him. It does need a second to cook anyway. ]

You can. [ Jotaro is no dentist and it's a little odd to say the least. He lets his new kill slump down back to the floor in front of him to ferment. ] The teeth are growing back fast enough. They're all fucky.

[ Fucky as in when he beckons Jotaro closer and pulls back one corner with his finger, the top and bottom lines where his molars usually would be have become incomplete rows of backward-facing spine-like teeth with gaps where the fresh ones were ripped out. They are set against the black backdrop of his gums and if Jotaro peers close enough, he will notice that his roommate's lips are starting to turn black under his lipstick turned patchy from his biting.

He's burning away the color in his lips, his hair is starting to get too long. He's a mess. Trying his best to hide the former under makeup and putting up with the latter by less frequent wearing of his stupid signature headband is all he can really do. ]


I don't know what I would have done if there had been more than one. We don't need to look at the what-if's, Jotaro. [ He stops prying open his mouth for that much to say. ]
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-02 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He won't bite him. If anything, Rohan is feeling subdued. Sassy, but subdued. Jotaro’s concern is given its chance. ]

They have been like this for a little over a week. At this point, I am hard-pressed to say that I am in any way surprised by it. [ Again, he opens his mouth to allow the gargoyle a better look. His fangs still hang from the roof threateningly though Jotaro has nothing to be worried about. This time.

That last bit... ]


Just this guy? What do you mean?
Edited (autocorrect fuck off) 2016-07-02 23:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-02 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rough as he looks, he's pretty adjusted. Give him that much. ]

I'm fine. [ He insists. ] I got messed up on the first round of fog goofiness, remember? The Fog Lady wasn't going to let me off that easily. She's a bitch.

[ What's happening to his lips is the same thing that happened to the inside of his mouth. He's burned them up enough by now that they are just healing with the color of his venom like a dye. He can pull off a black lip. There's no reason to complain. ]

She is making sure it is going to be as agonizing as possible in little, tiny ways. It's a game of whether I can keep up with it or not. [ A beat... ] There is no point in fussing.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-04 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Something is off with Jotaro too. Jotaro doesn't hesitate. Rather, this version of him doesn't. There is no letting it slide. One of Rohan's hands flies up in an instant to grab one of the gargoyle's wrists with a squeeze. If his palm were not covered in scales, he'd probably end up burning himself. ]

You don't, what?

[ Again: No letting it slide. ]
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-04 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ The issue is that this combination is very, very stubborn. Rohan doesn't deal with being called out very well. ]

Have it your way. [ The tip of his tail is unknowingly slipping around the dead man's ankle while he speaks. ] I'm not fine. You can already see I'm not fine. I haven't been fine.

Look at this, Jotaro. [ His free hand motions around the room. ] We are sitting in an apartment in the middle of the night over a man I killed because he decided it would be a fun idea to jump me. I'm ignoring how I'm literally falling apart from the inside out and you are ignoring something that is happening on your end.

I'm in a perpetual state of being hungry, cold, or tired. I have done my damnedest to transcend the needs I had before I transformed. Successful or not in those ways, there is no stopping the rest of it. [ The ensuing POP noise that strikes the air is from that poor guy's ankle snapping. Is this Snakebutt or Rohan being frustrated? Either way he still holds fast to Jotaro's wrist. ]

I would say we are doing a complicated dance around a large issue but I don't have legs to dance with. Since I can't dance, we're going to talk about it. [ He hisses harshly and with a pent-up burst. ] What is wrong?
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-06 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rohan's lips purse into a thin, thin line before sinking into a frown. His eyebrows knit. It isn't anything either of them can control, and they know this. Jotaro confessing his supposed uselessness surprises him propping open his eyes under his brow. ]

I'm not asking you to make it stop. I know for a fact that you can't. You don't need to fix me. [ It's Josuke's job to fix people. His grip loosens a tad. ]

I'm not saying that I give a shit about a lot of people, places, or things but I know that you have helped me and I have helped you. Remember when you said that you would be screwed without me? I-- [ This is all coming off as very candid and personal, treading into territory Rohan isn't used to. It's stilted and he's taking shots in the dark with bluntness. ]

I will survive. You have done everything right. Try to--... I don't know. [ He takes a deep breath, playing with his phrasing. ]

Understand that.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-07 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reluctantly, he lets go of Jotaro's wrist after he gets himself fixed in the position that would look more comfortable should he be perched on a parapet. His hand hurts in dull thrums and upon inspection of his palm, it appears that he has most likely burned himself. Without his scales, he would have melted it all together. It's nothing that won't fix itself or hopefully hinder anything he does with it. The claws flutter in his palm, flexing and extending over and over while the gargoyle speaks. He is morbidly fascinated by what he's just done to himself though he looks up to catch Jotaro's eyes at I don't want you to feel like that all the time, like I do. ]

I'm fine-- [ That's what he doesn't want to hear. Rohan corrects himself through shaking his head. ] Don't just "survive" when you are living here. Going outside where you aren't given the choice is different. I am trying to say that you don't have to do that around me, but if you insist on it I can't stop you or tell you what to do one way or another.

[ If Rohan has ever in his entire life sounded sincere, it's right then. Another uncomfortable feeling he isn't totally sold on yet. ]

I think we're going to be okay. I think. That's all I want.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-08 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine with being okay, Jotaro.

[ Rohan would briefly find some semblance of a smile that won't last too long. He's not thrilled with the unpleasant feeling but he will get over it. It drops to rest on the top coil of his 'lap'. ]

Yes. I think he's done cooking. [ The other hand reeeeaches down to try pulling the corpse up by the arm again. It promptly gives way with a wet sound and the flesh begins to slough right off his forearm. It pulls Rohan's smudged upper lip and crinkles his nose. ]

Eugh... I'm never going to get used to this. [ S I G H. For someone who is down with licking spiders and other gross shit for the sake of research, he sure does have a problem with eating. It's the principle. ] Do you want some of this? It's easy on the teeth.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-10 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have news for you... [ Blunt as it is, Rohan shakes his head and starts plucking away bits and pieces of that arm in neat little strips and setting them in one of the jars. ]

They all look like people. [ He doesn't look like he enjoys delivering this news. This is going to take all goddamn night at this rate. ] It's a shitty thing, Jotaro. You stop having a choice. You stop getting to go-- [ He holds up one strip of pulled away muscle to look at it with a long squint. ] Is this really what I feel like doing tonight?

[ Into the jar it goes. ]

I'm not going to lecture you but I think you need to look at it from the angle of someone who literally cannot eat normal food anymore. Josuke brought me a milkshake last week and it was the greatest thing to happen to me for a whole ten seconds before it made me sick.

[ Rohan Has A Bad Day keeps getting better and better the more he talks about it. The more tired and borderline forlorn he sounds is reflected in all of what he is explaining. It's harder on him than he has been making it look for the past... How ever months they have been here. ]
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-11 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Uh oh. That cutoff is telling Rohan that maybe they're a little Too Deep in Tragic Backstory Territory. Rohan being who he is naturally wants to hear more. On the other hand, something is stopping him from pushing the issue.

Whatever is up with that is well beyond him. ]


You are your own worst enemy, Jotaro. You have your reasons for doing and not doing the things we are hardwired to learn. It's admirable. When you look at it from that way... Spending the rest of your life wondering something... [ This is said with a hypnotic, sing-song eloquence. His fingers stop stripping the arm and his eyes roll over to Jotaro's face with a yellow flickering of his sclera catching on any shadow. ]

You're the only enemy you ever seem to lose to.
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-11 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ His eyes are drawn back down to follow the line of Jotaro's arm to where his hand is settled against any part of his tail. They are more suited for direct contact with heat than his own hands and therefore just sort of relax and become a little more willowy. ]

That depends on who you ask.

[ Really, it does. ]

Heaven's Door allowed me to read people from start to finish. To know everything about them at my will. It allowed me to give them new memories or take away old ones.

Do you think that says something about me?
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[personal profile] manuscripture 2016-07-11 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Literally books, yes.

[ He hits the nail on the head, of course. Rohan left out some other... Details about his Stand but Jotaro has the idea well enough. ]

It's very helpful. It keeps me from having to get too close to people to get the information that I need.

If you haven't noticed: I'm not a social butterfly. I can get my work done without the bullshit that comes from interpersonal connections. It keeps a nice wall between myself and the people around me. There are days I miss having that.

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