amitragic: ([neg vape] hmmph)
Ulysses Zane ([personal profile] amitragic) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2021-09-10 04:41 pm

The Perk, Friday Afternoon

So yeah Ulysses was back in Fandom after like, what? Five, six years? And he had no fucking clue how he'd ended up here, and none of the increasingly frantic and yell-y texts he was trying to send to Los Angeles were delivering at all.

(Yes, the only reason he was even out of the apartment was because he'd been trying to chase a signal that never showed up.)

And now he was at the Perk, having a giant cup of coffee and something far too sugary - because caffeine and sugar were clearly what he needed on top of all that excessice vaping he'd been doing all morning - and drumming his fingers anxiously against the edge of the table while he scrolled through his phone.

Or tried to, anyway.

Because, you see, none of his feeds were updating at all. And somehow that felt liek the freakiest thing of all.

[ooc: So open!]
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[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, Illyana had made the mistake during class of admitting that she had feelings about anything (gross), so she was here to wash that taste of shame out of her mouth with enough caffiene to power some awesome magic.

Maybe she'd try scrying on Uly again. She'd been trying regularly since she got back, but something was blocking her magical sight. It was weird, and she didn't like it.

Except she apparently didn't need to power her magic with the boost that was espresso because he was right there.

"WHAT THE FUCK, ULY. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO ANSWER YOUR TEXTS?"
gospel_of_oblivion: (feral child)

[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I'm Santa," she snapped, rolling her eyes as she strode over. "Clearly."
gospel_of_oblivion: (seriously?)

[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
She gave him an utterly horrified WTF face, before giving him a once-over of her own.

"...oh my Dark Gods you're old." Illyana, no. Mean. "What is it about this island that all my people are old? Is this why I couldn't scry on you? Were you fucking around with the Fountain of Old People?"
gospel_of_oblivion: (teleport!)

[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was gone for a few weeks because I got stuck between realities while teleporting, and when I found my way back, you were gone." That was not a sad pout. If you thought you saw a sad pout you were wrong. Illyana was totally still annoyed. "But it's still 2021, it totally hasn't been six years here. I am exactly the age I'm supposed to be."

"More or less." Since, well, her own timeline-hopping meant she was seventeen, not six.

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[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean, same. The texts just kinda did that thing where the sending fails? So, um, I tried to use magic." To spy on you and make sure you hadn't done anything completely stupid, Uly. She wasn't gonna apologize for it. "But I couldn't see anything except static. An almost itchy static, if that makes any sense."

"Where have you been?"

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[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-10 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course he had. He was her Uly to her Illy.

"College? You went and graduated from college already?" Oh look, that look of horror was back on her face. "Olllllllllllllllllllllllllld."
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[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-12 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
“Congratulations for not getting serial-murdered while living in LA,” Illy said promptly. “I am very proud of you.”

She was, too.
gospel_of_oblivion: (wistful)

[personal profile] gospel_of_oblivion 2021-09-14 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Was Illy huggy? No. Did Uly need a hug? Yes. So she was going to awkwardly pat his arm, because he clearly needed some physical contact.

"Sit down, and tell your favorite sorcerer all about it," she said, pulling out a chair for herself. "If it's magical, maybe I can help."