Entry #B-2: "Bi" [Video/Action, February 10, Doppel!L]

[dead_black_eyes]

Guten Tag, beautiful people. Greetings from Füssen.

[The man looking into the camera is clearly Lazarus, also known to many as L, but even a cursory glance says that something is strange and pretty wrong. First of all, he's wearing a Hawaiian-print button-up shirt, cinched at the hips with a fanny pack, and he has a camera strung around his neck. He looks like he's going for the "stereotypical American tourist" look. Furthermore, he's eating bacon, and it looks like it's an ecstatic experience for him on several levels. The way his mouth tears at at it, the occasional moan, and the way he licks and sucks his fingers clean, desperate to get the very last traces of grease... it's almost obscene, and definitely not Kosher.

When he speaks, he also makes liberal use of the vocal fry phenomenon, which is definitely a departure from his typical monotone.]

Everyone's working way too hard lately. Come to the castle and get lost with me for a little while? Well... "lost", if you know what I mean, but I'm guiding a discounted tour here in a little while. I'm really anxious to see the Mad King's bedroom, can you imagine what he got up to in there? I'm sure there are stories, and stories, and that they're not even close to being finished.

[If you're skipping contacting him through the network and have sought him out in person, he's just as happy to see you... if you're over 18. If not, prepare for some condescension.]

Comments

Voice

[solvethepuzzle]

[... Nathan would really like all of this to stop now. This is in its own way almost as frightening as Lily being aggressive.]

No, that's . . . quite all right.

Voice

[dead_black_eyes]

Come on Nathan. Don't be such a stick in the mud. We can have a lot of fun together if you give it a chance.

Voice

[solvethepuzzle]

What's the matter with you? [Honestly, he has a rather good idea considering what else has sprung up on the network today and a conversation he's managed to have.

[But . . . he still has to ask. And might not be quite understanding the way Lazarus's words are leaning.]

Voice

[dead_black_eyes]

What's the matter with me? I don't know what you mean, but you seem to be wound pretty tightly, Nathan. You should let me give you a backrub... I'm good at them, you know.

[Action]

[radiantchicken]

[As soon as Torin saw this broadcast, he wordlessly left for Germany. Someone has clearly suffered a head injury and needs to be brought home. This can be the only explanation. And it has taken him a while, but...]

L! There you are!

[Action]

[dead_black_eyes]

["L?" A grin lights up the young man's face, the pallor of which clashes alarmingly with the loud print of the shirt he's wearing.]

Hey, pretty bird. Do you want some bacon?

[He moves close to Torin, cuddling against one wing, unzipping his fanny pack, and... yep, nestled within is a plastic sandwich bag crammed with fried-up bacon.]

[Action]

[radiantchicken]

No, thank you, I do not want any bacon.

[Well. That's quite unusual. Torin is not at all used to being cuddled up to, let alone from L. His hand shoots out to feel L's forehead, checking for some sort of fever.]

Are you feeling all right?

[Video/action] - doppelganger

[charcoalfeather]

Why do you have to be so fucking loud?

[Yes, she's in the same area as him. Yes, she's talking to him through video instead of simply going to talk to him. Rakka hated dealing with people if she could avoid it.]

[Video/action] - doppelganger

[dead_black_eyes]

[He glances up. Oh, there she certainly is, contacting over the network instead of actually approaching him. Well that's just silly.]

Because fucking loud is the best way to do it. Don't you want everyone to hear what a good time you're having? Make them jealous, make them want it too. Make them want to join in.

[charcoalfeather]

[And she glances down, not making eye contact, instead focusing on the phone in her possession.]

That's some kind of damn innuendo, isn't it?

[Private text]

[evowhisperer]

... L?

Are you feeling alright?

[Private text]

[dead_black_eyes]

Yeah, but just all right.

I want you. What do you think of roleplay? I could be Ludwig, and you could be Wagner.

[Private text]

[evowhisperer]

What are you talking about?

Something's off. You're not acting the way you normally do.

Action- Closed to Doppel!L and Doppel!Tony, Backdated to Before this Post

[dead_black_eyes]

Honestly, it's way too cold for the way L's doppelganger is dressed; it's February in southern Bavaria in the mountains, and though he's thrilled to be at Neuschwanstein, he's also on the chilly side, and has ducked into a gift shop to warm up and glance over a collection of stuffed swans.

He really wants one. He has cash on him, several hundred dollars by his last count since he threw away the wallets he lifted from various tourists. Maybe he can afford five stuffed swans? He's debating it, when he sees a familiar silhouette out of the corner of his eye.

Doesn't he know that guy? According to the dreamlike memories making up his fractured, bastardized personality, he does.

"Tony?" he calls out, with a little wave in the white-haired young man's direction. "Hey, Tony!"

[oncedevil]

Why is he there? Trying to avoid crowds, really. Not that the gift shop is an ideal place for that, but pretending to be interested in the various bits and baubles was effective in keeping people from talking to him.

For the most part.

He hears his name and turns, leveling an icy scowl on strange man in the inappropriate shirt. The only reason he doesn't coldly turn away again is because he looks familiar. L, wasn't it? Something like that. How strange...

"Could you be any louder?" Yes that is hello.

[dead_black_eyes]

The gift shop at Neuschwanstein is in fact a lousy place to avoid crowds, but a good one to buy stuffed swans. Or, apparently, to run into the wrong versions of familiar faces.

"Probably," he answers silkily, sidling up to the other man. "Being loud isn't always a bad thing. Have you been watching the Network? Strange things afoot and afield, but we're friends. That much, I do know."

video;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Blank. Staring.

This is all officially way too much.]

...castle?

video;

[dead_black_eyes]

Neuschwanstein. I'd call it a castle, wouldn't you, Princess?

video;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Eyebrow raise. "Princess," huh.] Mm, I suppose I would...

Kind of an odd place to be hanging out though, don't you think?

[Video]

[oncedevil]

[He was apparently napping when this exploded. What the heck happened here?]

Uh, L? You feeling okay? Since when do you give tours?

[Video]

[dead_black_eyes]

[Silvery laughter that doesn't suit him.]

Since I know my way around a gorgeous slab like Ludwig II's castle, obviously. Take a load off. In fact, let me help you take a load off.

[Video]

[oncedevil]

[Who are you and what have you done with L?]

Uh. Whut?

[That's exactly how he pronounced it, too. A deeply confused 'whut'.]

[video]

[grannyfucker]

[That bacon was a disturbing sight to see.]

Jesus, man! How's about you take that bacon up to the king's bedroom with you, huh? Somewhere where there aren't children watching!

[video]

[dead_black_eyes]

That sounds like a great idea. Do you want to come with me? We can roleplay. I'm partial to the part of the Mad King, but I can be Wagner, too. I'm flexible.

[video]

[grannyfucker]

Oh yeah, I bet you are, fella, why don't you go demonstrate just how flexible you are to the bacon you're probably plannin' on shoving up your rectum, eh?