Skeleton City // Canon

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[this whole thing could have gone better, really. he thought that maybe they'd finally have something for him, now that they're taking things seriously. now that their lives so depend on it. but no, they just filled him up with the same old stuff and waited while he groggily fumbled around, nearing, reaching for, and spectacularly avoiding death.

it wasn't until they burned him alive that they really started being afraid of him. he wonders if they're going to tell the whole world. maybe they'll finally know about him, and then a new game will begin.

but there, chained up to the wall, he's not really in the mood for games. not in the mood for the man they're sending in.]

Skeleton City // AU

[hatesblindjokes]

[you, sir or madam, have just been transferred across dimensions to The Hanged Maiden, which is really quite an unfortunate name for a grubby-but-popular little bar on one of the higher levels of the Skeleton City Underground. it's a work night, so the place isn't packed and rowdy so much as it is buzzing and kind of hungover.

there's a guy at the bar, near the end, who kind of sicks out. he's near seven feet tall and conscious of it, seeing as he's hunched over in the way that really tall people just seem to subconsciously manage. he's got a drink with ice in it and seems perfectly content to stare vacantly and broodily down at the counter in front of him.

part of that's because he can't actually see, but that's not immediately obvious.]