#ostrickpage

The self-torture machine that is Hangman Adam Page needs reassurance the same way that nuclear reactors need cooling pools - without it, there will be a cataclysmic eruption that leaves the surrounding area uninhabitable. The problem is that, being a self-torture machine, Ospreay and Swerve have to chase Hangman down and shove reassurance down his throat like a dog and a pill.

If you watched him from the start, you could see the way that he took the world in his teeth and ripped off a part of it, then scurried away, jaws shut, mouth closed, refusing to open up if commanded. He protects his little piece of the world with a clamped jaw, always has - he won’t even swallow it, just keeps it on his tongue, because what happens if he swallows it? Does it become part of him? Does he want it to?