dec and jan catch all [closed]

[shikomizue]

Who: Takasugi Shinsuke (shikomizue) & various
What: Catch-all for December / January
When: Throughout December / January
Where: Thesa, will edit as necessary
Warning(s): Alcohol use, Drug use, probably some PTSD/vivid war flashbacks, graphic violence

[Individual starters in the comments!]

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[shikomizue]

[Fingers resting on the brim of his glass, Takasugi leaves the drink to its ring of condensation on the bar. The first drink was warm, heat rushing down his throat and into his chest.

But Enjolras's succinct interest is like bellows to searing embers.

Takasugi smiles, perching his elbow on the bar to rest his jaw on curled fingers.

There's no divorcing the future and the past, and he'll see to it that kings are not spared from that realization.]

Aa.

Do you want to start with their transgressions, or skip to the part where I send them to hell?

[He replies with his own brevity; Takasugi doesn't care to sit around and regale this man with aimless war stories.]

[idealisme]

[He dismisses what he assumes is flowery language. Their destination after death was something Enjolras cared little about. The church and its vested interest in power wasn't for him.]

Then you've experience of revolutions, in the world you're from. I also do- though we did not succeed.

[Shame lurks in him as he says it, but he quashes the feeling. It won't serve him, so he won't allow it to rule him. Yes, his group failed- but at least they did not bow their heads.]

There is an opportunity here to do better.

[shikomizue]

[The shame of a revolution failed once weighed on Takasugi as well - though he'd never cared for his country's future. But the fight had never truly ended, and his bent head was soon lifted to the future once more.

A future of singed earth and cities in shambles.

A future he had just begun to see come to fruition, when the Storm brought its cataclysm.

He considers Enjolras's optimism with a hum, and takes a slow drink of his liquor.]

And you'll take that responsibility once again?

Is there a limit to the number of people you'll lead to their deaths in order to see the world made free of those demons on their thrones?