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WHO: Ben and Anyone
WHEN: Backdated to October 26th-early November ish
WHERE: Can be vague / multiple locations
WHAT: Ben's hearing screams and has tossed this doll out so many times
WARNINGS: haunted doll, unintentional gaslighting, mild obscenities
One more Look
The doll was innocent enough. Handed to him by some child with dead eyes that didn't quite meet Ben's gaze as it lifted up doll in offering. Ben had picked it up, noting the uncomfortable resemblance to his brother Klaus, even down to its clothes, little goatee, and hair color, curls and length. Ben was about to return it to the child when...the child was gone. He left the doll out in the street. Somehow, though, that didn't stop the doll from finding Ben later.
It was the middle of the night, so only the people he's staying with would be aware, when Ben finds himself brought awake by the screaming doll. They, though, can't hear it. He grabs it from the foot of his bed and inspects it.
"Shut up," he tells it, firmly, like if he was talking to Klaus himself. Then he stuffs the doll under his pillow and slams his head on it.
At the Ghost
The next time, Ben rushes out of a place, carrying the screaming doll out in front of him. It doesn't move, and no one else can hear it, but he still doesn't understand why not. It's so loud. And very much Klaus. Only Klaus would be this obnoxious.
"You hear it, right?" he asks the first person he sees, and shoves the doll in their face. "It won't stop!"
Before I'm gonna make it Leave
Ben tosses the doll into the road, figures it will get trampled by passerby, ground into the dirt, but just in case, he grabs for a random person and points to the doll a few feet away.
"You see that, right? That I'm just leaving it there. It's doomed."
If he has to, next time, he's just going to burn the damn thing.
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WHEN: Backdated to October 26th-early November ish
WHERE: Can be vague / multiple locations
WHAT: Ben's hearing screams and has tossed this doll out so many times
WARNINGS: haunted doll, unintentional gaslighting, mild obscenities
One more Look
The doll was innocent enough. Handed to him by some child with dead eyes that didn't quite meet Ben's gaze as it lifted up doll in offering. Ben had picked it up, noting the uncomfortable resemblance to his brother Klaus, even down to its clothes, little goatee, and hair color, curls and length. Ben was about to return it to the child when...the child was gone. He left the doll out in the street. Somehow, though, that didn't stop the doll from finding Ben later.
It was the middle of the night, so only the people he's staying with would be aware, when Ben finds himself brought awake by the screaming doll. They, though, can't hear it. He grabs it from the foot of his bed and inspects it.
"Shut up," he tells it, firmly, like if he was talking to Klaus himself. Then he stuffs the doll under his pillow and slams his head on it.
At the Ghost
The next time, Ben rushes out of a place, carrying the screaming doll out in front of him. It doesn't move, and no one else can hear it, but he still doesn't understand why not. It's so loud. And very much Klaus. Only Klaus would be this obnoxious.
"You hear it, right?" he asks the first person he sees, and shoves the doll in their face. "It won't stop!"
Before I'm gonna make it Leave
Ben tosses the doll into the road, figures it will get trampled by passerby, ground into the dirt, but just in case, he grabs for a random person and points to the doll a few feet away.
"You see that, right? That I'm just leaving it there. It's doomed."
If he has to, next time, he's just going to burn the damn thing.
[OOC: Will do [, (, past, present, prose, whichever is most comfortable - I will follow. Feel free to contact me on plurk
no subject
"...There are a different set of rules here. I've never figured them out, and I've tried." There was a time when he stole volumes of books trying to understand magic, and it's still a mystery to him. Too many contradictions. Being able to calculate time travel and spatial jumps are a completely different beast.
For a moment he looks like he's stuck on what could be a sizable tangent on what happens when you break a time loop. It was messy and did nothing to show off his expertise in something he's never mastered, so it's somewhat transparent when he pushes them back to the task at hand.
"What happened isn't relevant right now." Rant successfully contained, he jerks his head towards the door. "Let's get your doll looked at."
Wrap on the doll?
"Seems like most things are different here," Ben mutters. Like water, how powers work in full. Now this. "Could be worse. At least you remember me and Allison." Not remember them would be a huge problem.
It is very transparent, but Ben can't blame Five, either. They do have a task in front of them.
"Is it not relevant?" Ben asks, but his tone isn't serious. He lifts the Klaus doll and nods his head, all the same.
wrap!
"Not relevant to this situation, but if you really want to know I'll tell you on the way." He grabs the door and gestures for Ben to follow him out to take care of this right now, despite the time of night.
It will give them something to talk about on the way there, aside from cursed dolls, and he'll find it's something that Five has no trouble expounding on when it's not solely about his failures. Once he gets to hear his entire opinion on time loops, how this one broke, and what that means in the world of quantum physics in relation to them, he might find he should have heeded Five's warning.
Of course, once they find out it's not in fact Klaus trapped in there, that doesn't make the problem go away. But nobody can say that he didn't try.