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knifemonopoly) wrote2021-02-05 06:28 pm
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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, PLAYER1. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 10.11.0.0.01 *** PLAYER1 has joined 10.11.0.0.01 <PLAYER1> If you're looking for someone you knew as Yugi before June, you've found him! It's Atem, leave a message. | ||||
cw child murder, burning to death
But, the summer before, there'd been murders at a camp near Domino Lake. It happened before I was awake, but I remember when Yugi heard about it. Ten campers died in one night, all cut up into pieces. Kaiba said he found the one who did it, and scouted him for the haunted house part of his revenge project. The way he was back then...I wouldn't have put it past him.
Kaiba locked Jounouchi in a room with him. Or, at least, with the guy he said was him. Jounouchi won, and we moved on to the next level. But it wasn't easy! The killer was strong enough to rip the door off its hinges, and Jounouchi was handcuffed to him. Luckily, the floor was covered in oil, and the room was lit with real candles. Jounouchi picked his handcuff with the candleholder's spike, attached the chain to the door, got out -- and the room went up in flames behind him.
[Man, Atem misses that guy. He's not seen Jounouchi in way too long. Not since the event in February, and that wasn't even really him...]
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[Ryou's ears slowly start to lower the more Atem talks about it. Good that he paused the movie because this is heavy.
That's pretty fucked up of Kaiba to do, especially locking Jounouchi up with this murderer. It's things like this that make it very clear to Ryou why Yugi and the others hadn't been perturbed by the whole "friends going into comas" thing when they'd first met. It was almost as if they took it as a personal challenge to befriend Ryou or something, which at the time he thought was very foolhardy...but also touching.]
W-well I'm really glad that no one got killed in all of this. The more you tell me about the death park, the worse it gets. Maybe we ought to just sit down and talk about it at length sometime.
[Maybe not now, they're having a good time, right? He hopes...]
Ah...do you want to stop watching? I wouldn't want to bring up bad memories for you.
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I don't mind telling you about it. Some pretty bad things happened, but...we made it to the top of Kaiba's tower by working together, and supporting each other!
That was the first time I wasn't fighting alone.
[A full year later and Atem's still full of emotions about the Exodia miracle draw. God he loves his friends a lot. He's slightly buzzed, and he loves his friends a lot.]
So, I'm okay to go on. After all, this can't be the same guy! Maybe someone from Domino who was here before told the story to the locals, and they decided to make a Chopman movie.
[Maybe it was the Kaiba whose name is in the monster graveyard, he thinks. If so, that Kaiba's on notice.]
Either way, [he says into his wine glass, so it echoes a little,] we beat him. So, he's not that scary.
...
...
But -- you were asking me something, weren't you?
[A minute ago, before Atem got distracted by the fact that he helped fight a horror movie villain in the middle of a theme park of death orchestrated by a guy who cared so much about collectible trading card games that he invented hologram technology to get extremely specific, expensive revenge on him.]
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[Aww...Ryou really likes hearing Atem talk about friendships and relationships, even in the context of supporting each other through multi-level murder attempts. Not counting that last bit, it's super cute and overrides the encroaching homesickness Ryou is starting to feel because he misses his friends too. No! Good vibes only!]
Oh, right. I was asking if...you thought I was being too weird, which at this point is probably moot, isn't it? But...you know, just because of the weird interest in the furniture.
[He takes a sip of wine because whether they're playing or not the wine tastes really nice and he likes it. Free drink!]
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If Atem had more self-awareness and less confidence, he might point out that yes, it's a moot point, he just told Ryou the "we beat Chopman" story. Instead, he's very certain that there's nothing wrong with his own history at all, and just as certain that Ryou should embrace his weird spooky interests with pride.
His arm goes around Ryou's shoulders affectionately, pulling Ryou back in. Atem's definitely feeling the 3/4 of a glass of wine he's consumed.]
I'll get you a bone wind-chime for your next birthday.
[A quick, stolen kiss to Ryou's temple.]
Maybe sooner! Who knows?
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He's buzzed enough to be perhaps...a bit too saccharine, himself.]
Aww, that's terribly sweet of you. [He smiles contentedly, before reaching for the remote. The movie was about to unpause anyway, they couldn't keep putting it off.] Ethically sourced bones only, please. No need to bring me the bones of our poor victims.
[Hoo boy, Ryou's skating a little close to The Truth there. But he has no idea.
Why would he?
He turns the movie back on, and they're back in the rural death trap.]
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Okay. Animal bones it is, unless someone willingly agrees to part with them.
[That's what Ryou means by ethical, right? It's no good to have human remains around if they're just connected to a bad memory, anyway.
A young man in a paisley shirt and thick glasses wanders off to look for the dead couple, as the brother and sister left behind anxiously discuss horoscopes while the sun sets.]
Oh, he's next.
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But that's fine because the movie is on and now they're back with the rest of the group.
Ryou squints at the screen.]
Wait. Hanklin had his knife before didn't he? It's not like a knife will save them, but I swear...he's kind of a whiny jerk.
[Ryou over here with mildly offensive opinions?! Sheesh!]
You're right though, the other guy is walking to his death. Hopefully more creative than blunt force trauma, but old movies like this do sometimes recycle.
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[Atem...thinks Hanklin lost his knife, at some point. Is that going to be important? He's not sure. But it's extremely funny to see this side of Ryou -- opinionated and a critic about horror fiction! Atem thinks Hanklin's a little too quick to try to gross other people out, but it's behavior he'd have tolerated too much of in his own friends. And besides, Hanklin's the only one who suspects someone might be after them!]
Are you critiquing the Chopman's style?
[Oh, no, Paisley Shirt's checking the freezer the girlfriend was last seen in.]
Oh, there she--
[She's still for a moment -- but then bursts out of the freezer. This gets Atem to jump -- not far, but the full-body twitch will be very obvious to the boyfriend on his shoulder.]
--ah!
[And then the Chopman comes out of nowhere -- with the blunt force trauma.]
She was alive, you were right!
[But Paisley Shirt's hit hard, and oops, Atem's out of his own drink. He leans forward to refill it. He's playing cautiously and sticking to the rules!]
gonna gently skip a little bit to speed things along, lmk if that's ok or not!
[Ryou has Big Opinions about horror movies, okay? He loves them but he also likes to talk to them, and Atem's letting him do it, so it's even better. He may also be a little sugar rushed, and he's definitely a tiny bit buzzed.
When Atem jumps, he can't help the little smile on his face. He tries to stay serious and does not laugh but it is a tiny bit funny. A silly little horror movie got Atem to flinch, huh?
He'll file that away for later, but for now...he straightens both to take a drink of his own and allow Atem to top his glass up.]
Told you~
[Did he just lilt there? Boy...]
I don't think we'll see her again, and you don't have to drink but I think I will. I'll bet on it!
[Just look at that dead expression on her face, it couldn't be clearer. The next death is Hanklin's a little later on, and when Ryou drinks for that one, he's pretty sure that they've reached the climax of the film. He's also...pretty sure he's starting to feel the wine, because he's fallen off with his commentary in favor of cuddling with Atem.
He's still watching! He totally is, he's just...comfy. Yep. How he can be this comfortable watching someone else die and then watching Tally run away from quite possibly the most athletic backwater chainsaw-wielder is anyone's guess. He drinks for the dead couple upstairs--should he? Shouldn't he? Too late, he did it. The wine tastes really nice, okay?
...Sorry Atem, your boyfriend might just be a lush for today.]
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[Pour one out for freezer girl. And for the decision to leave the car to look for their friends, and Hanklin's death, and Tally getting her cut sucked by a living corpse, and...
...yeah, he's fallen off of talking. His whole body's become very warm, and it's nice to hold Ryou. There's a lot of screaming, a lot of close-up shots of eyes so close you can count the lashes, and honestly, stroking Ryou's shoulder idly with his fingers as his arm rests around Ryou's back is a little more fun. His face tilts against the top of Ryou's head, cheek pressed against his hair.]
D'you think she's going to get away alive?
[In Ryou's expert opinion.]
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When he's addressed, it takes him a moment or two, but he does respond.]
Hmmm, yeah...probably. Good movie's gonna leave one alive. Just my thought. Needs a happy ending.
[Ryou brings the drink to his lips when Tally gets whacked with a hammer, he'd already put off drinking at the finger-sucking, since he couldn't un-drink for the apparently not-dead grandfather but that hammer looked gruesome.
...The other times though, where she's only mildly tapped, he doesn't.]
What about you? You think she'll get away? They're...dragging it out a little.
[Speaking of dragging, he shifts a little, wrapping an arm around Atem to hold him like a body pillow. He's feeling pretty relaxed right now.]
'S turning into torture porn.
[...Wait. What the fuck did he just say? Ryou's ears flick upward as he realizes what words had accidentally escaped his mouth. He's, uh. He's not sure whether to laugh or to apologize. So he freezes.]
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[Scuse him, what? What did Ryou just say??]
Turning into what, now?
[Did he hear that right? Torture porn? He's been drinking for an hour now and he's confused as hell about the implications there.]
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[Oh fuck. Ryou's so conflicted, what the hell does he do? What does he say?]
...I just meant...they're...torturing her a lot...I don't know why I said that canwepretendididntsaythat?
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Heh--pffft--hrrk--
[Sorry, Ryou.]
Ha ha ha ha ha--!!
[The idea of someone beating their meat, if you will, to Vandare Chainsaw Massacre is too much for him. Oh god. Oh god you don't think that's why they drew this out, do you? That's horrible, and also, extremely funny.]
Oh, I hope that's not why they're drawing out the action like that! The actress should be paid double, if what she's doing is having the same effect as that kind of work!
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Which, in turn, makes him snort unattractively before explaining himself.]
Pffh, look. D-did you see that...that up-shot tracking whatever-her-name's whole butt? All the way up to the house??
[Oh man. Oh, the word butt is funny right now, he can't deny it.
Everything's funny. Why is everything funny?! What's even going on in the movie anymore?!]
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Why did they do that?! The point of this movie is to be frightening! It's not that kind of film, right?
[Look, the only other horror Atem's seen up to this point has been atmospheric Hitchcock-style fare. He's not well versed in "watch them fuck, watch them die" as a horror staple.]
cw; sexual objectification, he's going OFF sorry
And you're right, it's not that kind of film, it should carry itself on the horror. And yet here we are!
[...Ryou is definitely on a tangent, but Atem had asked, and so he had to answer and now he's taking a drink because the Chopman almost sawed his leg off. ]
B-but anyway, torture porn isn't about it being horny right out in the open like tracking a woman's behind, 's about being made for people who...who get off to seeing people hurt. Which is like half of this peninsula now that we're on the subject.
And also that's terrible too!
[Ryou no.
He has to be stopped. Stop him, he's losing objectivity and starting to expand the topic. Atem has only one chance to make Ryou calm the hell down before he goes off on a longer tangent about horror movies, oversexualization, and the loss of substance to the inclusion of over-the-top torture elements.]
discussion of S&M. this is where we are.
You're right. Feeling excited about seeing someone hurt...that's wrong. It's not a good kind of person, who feels that way...or, if they do, it's important that they find a partner who likes being hurt, too. If everyone's okay with it, and there are limits everybody agrees to, then it's fine...
[Hey, guess who talked to Larry Laffer about masochism once?]
But you have to be really careful, to do bad things in a good way, so it feels bad, but also good....
[And is drunk?]
continued discussion of s&m, down the rabbit hole we go
[Inadvertently, that's the stopgap. Ryou has to put his pretty sloshed mind to work there.]
H-haha. That's kind of. I mean, who likes to be hurt while you're trying to be romantic. Is that romantic?
[They're in credits territory now, the movie's over, now they can just discuss the merits of pain during intimate situations. Because Ryou is legitimately curious how that even works and he's too tipsy to be embarrassed about it.]
I don't even like pain. I can't really imagine anyone liking it during intimacy. You...you gotta explain. You can't just say that. B-bring it up and then...we can't just. We gotta talk about it.
[They don't? But they do??]
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[IT'S JAVERT, HE'S TALKING ABOUT JAVERT.]
But I understand it's possible to have a relationship like that where everyone's satisfied.
[Is he blushing? He's blushing.]
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Ryou shouldn't assume, but one thing's for sure. He's draining his glass and setting it down because this sure is a discussion, isn't it?]
I mean...it's kinda unhealthy to like it because you think you deserve to be punished, maybe? But if...two adults consent on the matter and there's not baggage and the partners care about one another...then maybe it'd be okay.
Y'know if it's...something you wanted to do.
[He accepts you, Atem. He's not sure if he's ready to commit to this lifestyle but IF YOU LIKE IT HE ACCEPTS YOU!]
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No, I -- I'm talking about somebody else! I don't like the idea of hurting someone I care about at all!
Did you think I did?!
[He's blushing because he's full of wine and also talking about Javert's sex life. Who WOULDN'T blush?]
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I don't want you to feel stifled if you felt that way, I'd try stuff for you!
[Ryou can't shut up he needs to shut up holy shit. The valve has been opened though, and now he's got his foot in his mouth. The solution? MAKE IT WORSE!]
I don't think you'd want to hurt me or anything, because you know I don't tolerate pain well, but of what you're talking about, there's...there's some stuff that overlaps and people probably think about it because you...you wear a collar!
[SHIT. Oh no. Bad. BAD!!!]
Which is--is totally fine! Wearing a collar is fine, I couldn't imagine you without one! I'd wear one, they're so cool!
[There. Saved it.
Wait. WAIT????]
Except you know...it...d-doesn't seem like it'd look good on me. Uhm. I think...the movie's done rewinding though, I should go get that, right? I should...go take care of the movie, put it back where it belongs!
[He starts to pull away from Atem, because that--ALL OF THAT--was bad and he needs to not be looked at. Do not perceive him!]
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[He says, like he's wondering it out loud. He's not going to stop Ryou, he's just going to sit here as his brain buzzes, entirely unaware of what assumptions might or might not be made about him because he wears collars.
?? ??? ??
Still, it's....it's extremely sweet that, if he were into giving or receiving pain, Ryou's apparently willing to try it for him. Luckily, Ryou doesn't have to worry about that, but....wow, what a sweetheart.]
I think a collar would look fine on you.
[This isn't even horny. This is just an Atem Fashion Opinion.]
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