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Skulduggery Pleasant ([personal profile] skeletonenigma) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2016-04-16 07:15 am

Phantom faces at the window, phantom shadows on the floor

Characters: (CLOSED) Skulduggery Pleasant, Erskine Ravel, Anton Shudder, and the fourth-wall Dead Men.
Date: April 15-30.
Location: Throughout Keeliai, but mostly in Erskine's new Earth Sector shelter.
Situation: The Dead Men haven't created something lasting together in a very long time. It's led to some spectacularly stupid decisions. This? This is their chance to fix things.
Warnings/Rating: Intimacy / non-serious flirting between grown men, some jokes of a sexual nature, massive spoilers for the entire Skulduggery Pleasant series (but notably the last two books), mentions of murder and betrayal, gratuitous amounts of violence and punching in response to said mentions of murder and betrayal (the Dead Men actually communicate by punching each other in the face). Also, broship. Lots of broship.


With Erskine and Skulduggery's relationship somehow even more strained than it was before Skulduggery vanished for a month, and Erskine growing maybe a little too dependent on Anton while living at the Hotel, the Dreaming's been getting a lot of wishes -- subconscious or otherwise -- for the arrival of very specific people.

They arrive on the 15th, scattered around the turtle. Over the day, they find each other, two or three at a time. There are hugs. There are punches. And when they all come together, they spend most of the following two weeks helping Erskine build and prepare a shelter for the kedan -- in between needing subtle reminders that the point of the reunion is to forgive each other.

Or, if not forgive, at least accept each other, flaws and all.
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[personal profile] shopworn 2016-05-06 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ghastly laughs unwillingly, like he didn't mean to be amused by any of that. He really shouldn't be. But it's China. "China Sorrows, Grand Mage," he says, almost wonderingly, and shakes his head. Somehow he thinks Ireland's years of having difficulty hanging on to a Grand Mage are over. He'd like to see the first idiot who tries to assassinate her.

Or maybe he wouldn't, knowing China. The point is: her aggressive self-interest will be helpful if it extends to Ireland. "The world should tremble," Ghastly says dryly, shaking his head. "But the war is over. And the old one can't come back again. That's-- that's a relief."