goingtobeunwell: (a man and his ship)
Captain Crozier ([personal profile] goingtobeunwell) wrote2037-05-30 09:14 pm
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[Open post for RP - games, one-off threads, etc.]

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[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-17 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm. Someone needed you." Raju shifts around again, a little more onto his back. It's a little easier — just a little — to stay still at night, when Francis is so near and trying to sleep, and so needs him to be still. It's strange to be so relaxed while not actually tired, not beyond what's already becoming a normal pull at the back of his mind without any daylight to keep track of the night. He bends a leg, moving it back and forth in the air to try and tell the rest of him that it can keep resting. "I imagine that's at the heart of it; whether that matters more to a man than what he wants. You hurt a friend, and you didn't want to do it again. Plenty of men would have stopped thinking about it there."
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[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-17 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Raju makes another one of those relaxed, wordless noises, thinking and still studying Francis, fascinated. The idea of Francis as he is now taking work to be that way is strange. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is. "What were you like before? It's hard to imagine you anything but kind, the way you are now."

[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-17 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
“No,” Raju says, not giving either of them a moment to think about it, in that moment very certain. Maybe he hasn’t thought about it. But Francis has heard the worst of Raju and stayed through all of it; Raju should be able to do the same, if it ever came down to knowing the man Francis used to be, somehow. Besides: “The core of a good, kind man was always there. You wouldn’t have been able to grow into him later if it wasn’t there already. I would have seen that.”

In this Raju is very certain, too. Of course he would have. Maybe things would have been different, but he would have seen the kind of man Francis is underneath the rest, even if it was deep underneath. Raju isn’t blind.

[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-18 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I can do that," he grins. "Would it have done you any good? Your pride must have been more fragile then than it is now, I can't imagine you'd have thanked me for it."

[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-18 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm. Sometimes a good brawl does help." He pauses, reconsidering. "Not for us, I suppose. Or maybe just not about this, or with that odd fog in the air."

It's easy to talk about fighting with Francis lightly now, with Francis' hand in his hair and his legs under Raju's hand and head, and the contentment glowing inside him makes it easy to grin as he goes on. "Maybe we can try it next time, see if a punch or two clears things up at all."
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[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-18 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm." This time the noise is a displeased one, wrinkles pulling between Raju's brow. He considers it, shifts against Francis' lap, rubs his thumb back and forth over Francis' leg. "Tell me that again when we're arguing. I'm sure I'll like it better then. Don't think I would have this time either, anyway. You were... concerned, that's all. And not yourself, if your theory's right."

He gives Francis' leg a couple fond pats, smiling again. "We'll save it for the right moment. You can let me know."

[personal profile] load_aim_shoot 2024-06-18 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Raju heaves a breath, smiling upward. Francis’ hand is gone, which means maybe they’re done; Raju is so full with contentment now, and still lying here with his friend’s strong thighs and bodyheat beneath him besides, that the idea is hard to mind. It’s hard to really mind anything. “Back to it, hm?”

He twists to look toward the table and the goods still waiting to be put away. “Nothing on there that won’t keep, though.”

Minding is different from liking things exactly where you’re at. They could stay here a while more and Raju wouldn’t complain.