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challenge 026.sacred summoning

crystal.blue lace agate soft, soothing, graceful. has a stimulating, positive effect on emotions & attitude. a stone of encouragement and support. its energy calms, uplifts & elevates.

plant.dandelion scrappy, tough, resilient. doesn’t give up easily & often thrives in situations that seem discouraging.

texture.old wood worn, reliable, versatile. has seen a lot of the world but still holds a rustic charm. even with a history behind it, there is still promise and a future before it.

august 13.evening smooth moves. @whatroughbeast

The boy had gone to Church. He had actually attended mass on Sunday, like something out of a parable. He had heard the others complain about their charges, how dull or good or this or that they were. But nothing could compare to the original Zack Kapoor. The boy had woken up early, gone to mass, called his mother, and then put in more than a full days work his place of business.

He hated Zack Kapoor.

His plan from the start was to not so much fuck with Zack’s life as just...do away with him. Impersonating this Zack while he was still gallivanting around could prove dangerous. He was a business man and board member of the Saints, after all. Even with the cover of no one really knowing “the new guy,” he couldn’t be too conspicuous. The plan was just to weave strands of doubt into his relationships and then slowly poison the boy.

That was before her got up and went to Church and called his mother, though. Before he had watched Zack do the fucking books for hours on a Sunday. It all proved too much and it came to a head as Zack was leaving. He slipped out the back door of Smooth Moves, fucking whistling and that’s when he attacked.

challenge025.oneliner

envy on the east coast.if god smokes cheap cigars

yellow: headcanons about the horror friends

look zack is terrified of leviathan 

the teeth thing why teeth

but also he’s a little in awe of her? he could never be that bad ass she is so badass

leviathan probably wants to eat him and not in the fun sexy way

bronze: plot ideas for the horror friends

leviathan as the cat to zack’s mouse bye

zack probably has a few q’s about you know the whole fucking god thing i’m sure that would be a fun and safe conversation

red: what zack dislikes/hates about raziel

this is god?

really this guy?

is he ever not drinking vodka or fucking a demon like

maybe zack just missed something in the sermons, okay, he’s going to go back and reread them

(basically raziel just confuses the hell out of zack and he’s trying to reconcile what his preconceived notions of God are and who this Godziel is)

bronze: plot ideas for zack & raziel

zack is so sweet my sunflower child and i would love for raziel to kind of bring him down to earth a little re: apocalypse

that said, i think raziel could also help zack realize his position on the board and take more of a leadership role instead of sort of just hanging in the shadows

bronze: plot ideas for grace and zack

reminiscing about childhoods in kansas!! we basically already did this but like, in light of all the fuckery that has gone down, it could be angstier

probably a movie night watching the Wizard of Oz don’t @ me

the two of them working on some Saints event together

flirting at the Smooth Moves counters i said dON’T @ ME

listen zack just has a big ol’ kansas-sized crush on grace bye

zack helping grace with something business-y because he is a business man

“Ah, so you must get that all the time, then. I don’t know how many Oz jokes I could take before I got tired of them,” he chuckled, admiring the man’s humor. “Oh, I read the book in high school but there’s something about the movie that excites me more. I love reading, but the imagination can only deliver so much sometimes. That’s really cool, though - your parents.” Inwardly sighing at himself ( he was probably boring the poor man to death ), Paul nodded at the question, unable to keep the dorkish grin off his face. “Yes! It’s incredible - I’ve never been anywhere like this.”

“Yes, that’s me. Totally out-of-place country boy,” he sighed playfully, trying not to blush at his own awkwardness ( the other’s smile wasn’t exactly helping the situation either ). “Born and raised in Orange County, Iowa until high school. Honestly, if I hadn’t lived in San Fransisco the past few years, there’s no way I could handle something like this. Completely different. In the best way.”

Wizard of Oz jokes were pretty common, yeah. Truth be told, though, Zack never really got too tired of them. Except when people thought he was just some dumb, farm hick. Or when they got really racist and couldn’t get that someone who looked like him could be from the Midwest. Other than that, though, Zack didn’t mind remarking on where Toto might have gotten off too or what it was like when the house landed on that mean old witch. He grinned as the man before him got excited over the movie. “I can agree with that. Actually seeing the famous party must be pretty special.” He laughed a little, spreading his arms a little. “Although, I guess you could have just waited till tonight to see it.”

Extending his hand for a shake, Zack grinned. “We’re almost neighbors, then. I’m Zack Kapoor. Born and raised in Kansas City, the one actually in Kansas. As someone who only just moved to LA a few months ago, I can tell you that I’m only just barely handling it,” he said with a laugh. “San Fransisco is pretty glitzy too, though, isn’t it?”

“Please, it’s Adele. Ain’t no one has called me that since… well, I suppose since Sunday when I taught one of the children’s classes an’ they’re all callin’ me that,” she realized halfway through speaking that plenty called her Miss Davis, but from him, it felt formal and stiff in a way that she didn’t want. Not from not only a fellow board member or new boss, but because of the connection he carried around with him; Jairus. “An’ I ain’t so sure of that. I mean, isn’t it kind of magical to think that there could be a place or a side like this to home? That there’s still things to learn an’ spots to uncover? It might be fun just to pretend, for a bit.”

Zack grinned as the woman reasoned through her title. As polite as he was, it did feel a little odd calling someone so young by “Miss.” Even if she was another board member. Then again, he couldn’t imagine calling Zoe as Miss Etsuko or something like that. “Adele it is,” he concede with a smile and little bow of his head. As she went on about the potential of more magical places, Zack laughed lightly. “Well, that’s what Oz was, after all. The parallel version of Kansas. Maybe that’s all this is – the glitzier Emerald City.”

Zack has a fantastic singing voice. He’s never done anything with it -- he was in choir back in middle school, but that’s it. Even still, he has a rich, lyric baritone that he’s mostly unaware of. He’ll sing along to the radio absently but doesn’t make much more of his ability.

Middle school and even most of high school for Zack meant one thing: D&D. He had Beast Master Ranger that he put painstaking work into. If you happen to mention D&D near him, he will not shut up about Aerick Wolfswift and his long self-journey from hating beasts to forging deep kinship with all types.

“My reputation?” Crowley placed her palm on her chest, casting him a surprised, delighted grin. “My, my, my legend only grows among the Saints. Which part precedes me? My status as the best partier in L.A.? The fact I kicked Donato’s ass at the centennial? Oh, I got it! Is it because I’ve got the best ass in this tow- no…you know what, I can’t take that title. Magda has a great ass but then again so does Kezia and Babylon’s gets an honorable mention as well.” She passed, mind traveling far off before she snapped back to the man with her. “I’m back, I’m back…unless you have input on the subject then I am all ears!”

She nodded as he spoke, comparing the two states together. “Hell’s great! You should take a week off from the Church and we can go vacationing there together. I can show you all my favorite spots. Some of them just look so pretty in the winter.” She sighed dramatically before shaking her head. Tightening her grip on his arm, she steered them toward the crowds. “Now, tell me, my good Saint friend, what do you want to happen tonight?

Zack couldn’t help but laugh as Crowley checked off her many reputations to behold. “The closest would be your reputation as the best partier in LA,” he assessed. “That’s gotta be tough running, in this town.” But yes, he had been cautioned of Crowley. Truly, though, Zack belonged to the camp of everyone has a little good in them. Even a demon, he figured. In Islam, they were called Jinn – it’s where Disney had gotten his Genie from.

He laughed a little as she raved on about Hell. “I don’t think it would be quite as an enjoyable stay for me. Hell for humans just seemed like a crappy vacation spot… And for a human that had a bit of angel in him… Well, it wasn’t at the top of Zack’s list. “I’m not really hoping for anything,” he answered, with a shrug and a grin. “I came out mostly to meet people.” He heard that Zoe and Adele and other Saints would be attending, so he knew he would have that safety net of known faces. And a couple of his Smooth Moves employees, too. So he had been hoping to make a few more LA connections.

“We’re about as far from Kansas as anyone can be right now.” And anywhere else that she could think of right then as Adele’s eyes only grew wider the more that she took in before settling between the food and the ambiance of the music that was calling her name to seek it out. “Unless this is a side of Kansas that no one ever talks ‘bout,” she teased lightly at her companion.

Charity stood next to him -- Adele. Of all the names and faces he had to learn, the fellow Board of Saints had come first. Easy enough, considering his frequent interaction. He grinned at her assessment, hands sliding into his pockets. “Kansas may be big, but I think I would’ve found this side of it at some point.” He turned from the splendor to the woman beside him, still smiling. “Are you enjoying yourself, Miss Davis?”

Breathtaking. Completely mind-blowing, especially to a guy like him who had never so much as been to a college party. The Titanic came to mind, an age old movie classic he still ( secretly ) sobbed over. The 20s had always fascinated him - it was a time of darkness hidden beneath timeless glamour, even the cinema had been a distraction from chaos but it was fantastic - and Paul felt unworthy of being in a place so obviously inspired by it. He wished his Dad ( and, from deep within, his sister ) could be here to see this.

Staring at the grandeur with obvious ( bordering idiotic ) awe, he chuckled softly at the classic joke the other man beside him made. “Or Iowa. Not even close.” Paul met eyes with the other, echoing his grin with an equal amount of wonder. “Are you from Kansas? Or a movie buff? Because honestly The Great Gatsby could have never prepared me for this.”

Zack smiled as the young man next to him laughed. “I am from Kansas, yes. I never saw the movie, but I did read the book.” He gave a shrug, hoping to dispel some of the pretentiousness in that statement. “My parents were schoolteachers.” He cocked his head a little. “Are you enjoying it though?” It was beautiful but could be overwhelming.