#memphisrex

And there went his pre-apocalyptic collector’s antique mug. @y-annah

The blue haired man steps silently into the interior of an old house that had a big tree growing through the floorboards, its root sprawling and branches piercing right through the ceiling. The place is completely bare of furniture, an empty shell of a house, but there remains signs that someone once lived there, having left behind nails in the yellowed wallpaper where picture from could have hung. 

Here he stands for a long moment in the semi darkness of this house, with only a bit of sunlight and distant birdsong trickling in from the broken roof and the gaping windows. He breathes in the air of haunting emptiness. It settles in his lungs like aching lead, constricts his heart in a painful grip. He knows this place.

Passing too quickly and merged together like a dream within a dream, his memory shows him more glimpses: warm colors that of a zinnia, scar-crossed skin and echoes of a merry laugh. 

There was no mistaking -- the shape of absence here was hers. 

Memphis: So I've been thinking about that space meeting AU, and my mind was toying around with an idea.

It's just an what if, because I know Nick's pretty cautious to keep his gloves on, but it'd be pretty interesting if that was ever an incident of him accidentally touching Memphis with his bare hands of death lmao.

I thought, perhaps, since Memphis's body has the power to scatter to smoke-like particles (if things go past the point of simply healing up) and then regroup anew again, it'd be a really interesting effect where his flesh would be pulling away from the decay. Simply put, it's always between the state of touching and not touching as Memphis's form dissipates away from Nick's hand, and Nick's hand might kinda pass through him as if he were a ghost. You know, like magnets of the same 'side' repel each other, they cannot truly touch. Or how a school of fish parts away in front of a shark, hehe.

Nanoflame: Dude- that’d be really interesting to see! Also I never knew about about Mem!! Man musta missed it while reading OTL But damn, if that’s the case I feel like Nick would feel safe? Less on edge maybe? I feel like he’d just be a lot more relaxed with Memphis and not having to worry about witnessing flesh decay to his touch for the nth time.

Nanoflame: He’d definitely be more touchy feely with Memphis though after that.

Nanoflame: Also I just realized, Nick would come up for a terrible nickname for Memphis too and call him Phishy-//sLAPPED

Nanononan: Nick also has a tendency of getting touchy feely-

Nanononan: like picking people up

Nanononan: a lot

Nanononan: or looping an arm around nicks and a lot of hair ruffling involved

Nanononan: and tease on height if he gets a reaction out of it

Memphis: I have no idea how Aaron is going to react to that but--- maybe he's going to go limp at first like some cat because he can't compute being picked up.

Nanononan: he’d probably make pulling on Aaron’s straps a habit

Nanononan: and HAHA

Nanononan: omg Aaron you’re adorable omg

Nanononan: Nick would probably trhow Aaron over his shoulder

Nanononan: He picks crys up in a bridal hold a lot

Nanononan: (does it to exodia too-)

Nanononan: (somtimes)

Nanononan: Nick doesn’t really respect personal space in genearl

Nanononan: cuz he never got the concept

Nanononan: with his own never being respected

Nanononan: so he thinks it’s the norm

Nanononan: well more like

Nanononan: he’s used to it being his norm

Memphis: Next nickname for Aaron over the shoulder: potato sack!

LMAO if that becomes a habit (and it's a little loud with the snaps) I get someone is going to comment 'please take your bdsm stuff elsewhere, get a room pls" and cue Aaron going red at the ears because holy shit-

(ok nick we get it, you're strong and you can lift---)

Nanononan: HAHA YAH

Nanononan: (omfg)

Nanononan: HAHAHAHAHAHA

Nanononan: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Nanononan: THAT IS GOLD

Nanononan: omfg-

Nanononan: Nick would play up that tease cuz it’s his natural instinct to OTL

Nanononan: (sobs, he’s just picking people up, i feel like it’s just a really weird habit of his)

Nanononan: He does it to Drew too

Memphis: Oh no.... endless embarrassment for Aaron- everyone's looking at them weirdly and he has nowhere to hide his face because it's getting redder.

Nanononan: but like I feel like i might have started with Drew

Nanononan: HAHAHAHAHA

Nanononan: poor aaron omfg

Nanononan: im so

Nanononan: so sorry

Memphis: Drew is ultimate homeboy.

Nanononan: pft

Nanononan: Nick did it to get a rise out of Drew because there was so little Nick could do to get a reaction out of him

Nanononan: Drew’s always super calm cool and collected and always seemingly stoic

but surprises di manage to get an undignified yelp out of him and Nick enjoys pulling Drew from his constant “adult’ mask from time to time

Nanononan: I feel like Nick just subconsciously tries to pull the child out of everyone

Nanononan: Just, wants them all to be able to smile and have fun

Nanononan: and be idiots together

Nanononan: spread the idiocy because sometimes thinking and being an adult all the time get you no where and you just gotta let loose and be stupid sometimes

Nanononan: Nick is a weird one

Memphis: Well that's kinda endearing-

Memphis: Good luck trying to get Memphis to crack though, this one's a little tough to get to open up, Nick. And neither does he mind personal space invasions. xD

Nick: Mah man! //finger guns

Nanononan: and Nick is always up for a challenge

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Memphis: Hmm.

Memphis: I was also thinking

Memphis: since you say Nick picks up people randomly at times

Memphis: he's in for a small surprise if he tries to hoist Mr Blue Hair up. xD

Memphis: Since Memphis is wayyy lighter than he looks. Seeing how he's not 100% flesh and bone.

Nanononan: HAHA

Nanononan: Niceee

Nanononan: Nick would parade Mem around a lot I feel

Nanononan: HAHA

Nanononan: He’d put mem on his shoulders a lot then

Nanononan: make them twice as high-

Nanononan: As if they aren’t already tall enough as it is

Memphis: Form Voltron LMAO-

Nanononan: HAHAHA OMFG

Memphis: Towering over everyone else.

Memphis: New nickname for Memphis: Blue balloon.

Memphis: Seeing how light he is-

Nanononan: omggggg

Nanononan: YES

Nanononan: Nick: BB!

Nanononan: Nick: Wait-

Nanononan: //realizes the context

Nanononan: Nick: TRIPLE B

Nanononan: NICK: No, I didn’t think this one though.

Nanononan: Dev: You don’t think a lot of things through.

Memphis: Memphis: .... [just staring at Nick wondering what's up with this dude]

Memphis: Oh sure, you got any suggestions for a theme then? Cause I'm down to go as well, I trust that I can get some variation too, for Memphis lol.

Nano: HMMM, what if they were on like an adventure type thing, each for different reasons. Nick is travelling with Dev and and Mem is travelling with Cys, but like they get separate from their partners and that’s how Nick and Mem meet? Could be a space au maybe? xD

Memphis: Ah yes! I'm a sucker for space travel tropes! I love the idea of this. The situations are endless. Or only the two of them headed out in response to a spaceship's distress call and they arrive at a baffling crash site that was already decades old-- prolly turns out to be a trap of some sort by other species that figure out how to bait rescuers and they get dragged off (tries to imagine Cys and Dev's reaction to this).

Experimenting? Ohoho, sinister sounding. Don't just bait me with that incomplete sentence! Hmmm, personal reason to hate on them? Revenge? Spite?

Nano: DUUUDE yes, omg what if, what if, the bastards oddly enough team up. Be like like “Yeah we’re looking for our lost dogs? They gone and disappeared on us.”

Memphis: They'd be the black-and-white-themed bastards LMAO, seeing their colors- aka Dev's hair and Cysiphen's black hair and pale white skin.

I'm laughing at the possible scenario of them trading info.

Cys: The man I'm looking for has black patterned 'tattoos' on his neck, down his back, and some circling his arms. A feature hard to miss if he doesn't cover up. What about you?

Dev: [interally wonders wtf] The man I'm looking for also has tattoos around the neck, chest, arm and back region. Additionally, he wears jewelry on one ear only.

Cys: [inner double take] Hm. Interesting. Short hair, kinda messy and spiky?

Dev: Mostly. He also can't eat normal human food and can only drink liquids.

Cys: [more internal question marks]

They start wondering if they're going after two brothers- Eventually they sort out that one's got blue hair and red arrow earrings, and the other red hair and an earring with a dangling blue ornament.

Short temper but can, for a long time, hold a grudge LMAO. Ira you're the worst. xD

Nano: HAHA OMFG THIS DESCRIPTIONS THOUGH SO ON POINT

Nano: damn

Nano: Yeah omggg

Nano: We needa do this man-

Nano: this must be a thing i stg

Memphis: SPACE AU, hell yeah it's official! Meanwhile Nick and Memphis are attempting escape their sly alien kidnappers who seem very interested in the fact that they just won't stay dead from the experiments run on them-

Nano: OMGGG yes dude, I’m excited af right now hahaha.

Memphis: LOL these miserable two really deserve a trip to some mountain inn to soak up in the hot springs and de-stress from all those traumatic things but there they are, being held hostages of some alien race. Ahhh life---

Nano: HAHA They doooo— But like Nick is the worst at taking vacays, he gets too antsy OTL

Haha Day’s got a replica gene to a cure of a certain disease that’s gonna be a pretty big focus of the story.

Memphis: What? xD Does he get impatient on the trip there or does he not know how to slow down and chill lol-

Memphis: That's a good plot point.

Nano: He just doesn’t know how to slow down =7= he’s been a working machine all his life, so relaxing is like the last thing on his list- Even breaks between jobs he’s bored….

Nano: Oh-

Nano: Right-........

Nano:: Bu-But yeAH, alien kidnappers and their never ending life (well except for Nick and his time limit)

Nano: We can have it so that Cys and Dev meet on the same bounty station? And like they’re both searching their partners by the same description save for the hair.

And like the alien thing can happen on a massive ship? Or a planet- A planet can work too

Memphis: A planet! Would make searching much more difficult. B)

Nano: Hehe heck yeah =7=

Memphis: Wait what do you mean by time limit again-

Memphis: (sorry if I'm in derp mode right now I have 5% battery left in me haha)

Memphis: Nick's time limit for his healing?

Nano: Pft I mean his life span where as I assume Mem’s been existing for a while right? xD

Nano: Also Nick’s healing is weird in that his fatal wounds heal a shit ton faster than smaller woulds, so paper cuts are never fun for him.

Memphis: Oh yeah, dude has been around for a while, yup!

I see! Memphis's body also puts serious injuries first, and just leaves the bruises to heal up at slower rates since bruises are basically microscopic tears in blood vessels under the skin so huh, seems like no big deal compared to being impaled by a sword --- except Cysiphen tends to leave a lot of these on Memphis and it's such a nuinstance for him lmao.

Nano: Nick had a plethora of bad nicknames for everyone he comes acroess

Nano: He’d probably call Aaron “Consta” short for Constellations of his moles–

Nano: Or just, Yellow for Aaron’s love of yellow

Nano: Yelly for short maybe

Nano: Would call mem, Tat bud 5ever

Nano: [ft jkjk

Nano: I stop with the nick-name disasters pft

Memphis: LMAO NICK.

Memphis: You loveable son of a gun. You and your awful nicknames.

Memphis: WHAT KIND OF NICKNAME IS YELLY

Nano: IT’S NICK

Nano: HE CAN BE A REAL DUMBASS I STG

Nano: HAHAHAHA

Memphis: Chirping out of the blue here:

Memphis: Nick can't miss the chance of calling Aaron pudding.

Memphis: Cause that pudding hair is way too classic. xD

Memphis: "Puddinghead."

Memphis: Specifically, caramel pudding.

Nano: HAHA

Nano: Yee dude

Nano: Puddin’ll never go away

Nick: Car Puddy

Nick: Puddy boy

Nick: Puddin’head

Nick: CP, PB, PH

Nick: Yelly Puddy

Nick: YP