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Katurian Katurian ([personal profile] goryteller) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowl2011-10-12 12:26 am

twenty. text. backdated to monday.

In the 1940s, rumor has it that a prisoner on the island of Alcatraz was killed by a ghost.

Back in those days (unlike these days), they had isolation chambers called hole cells where the prisoners were kept in near darkness for weeks on end. "Bang bang bang," one prisoner cried and pounded. "Someone's trying to murder me in here." But the guards thought he was hallucinating, as those being tortured with solitude tended to, and so they did nothing. When the prisoner stopped screaming, they were quite content until they opened the cell and found that he was dead. He had markings on his neck. Strangulation. No one else was in the cell.

Ghost stories have a sort of charm, don't they? Whether or not you believe them, I mean. I don't generally because we didn't have imports back then and because the living can be fucking horrible enough. I'm certain one of the guards killed him and thought they had a clever way of covering it up. Which they did.

I wonder what the prisoner's crime was. But I don't even have a name.

I know I would take death as a legacy if nothing else.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
I DON'T CARE

I DON'T CARE

I DON'T CARE

I DON'T CARE

I DON'T CARE

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Thomas Blake and I care significantly, as illustrated with my repetitive and denial-riddled capslocked phrases."

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Edward Nygma and I have actually killed more than a few people and yet for some reason everyone thinks I'm somehow reformed even though they all know I did things?"

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Beat.]

"I'm Thomas Blake and I just crossed a line."
Edited 2011-10-12 06:40 (UTC)

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Edward Nygma and I'm a pussy."

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Thomas Blake and I'm trying so hard to overcompensate my masculinity because all it takes is a few words about my mother or my sexuality to put me on edge. This is likely due to my inferiority complex that I'm trying desperately to overcome, fueled by my thriving anger issues and tendency to project onto others I even remotely relate to.

Including Edward Nygma."

1/2

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ LITERALLY THROWS A LAMP

Like, he actually does. ]

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ FIVE MINUTES LATER. ]

How have I projected onto you?

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[A deliberate pause, and he's smirking during the while.]

You'd punish yourself for even considering walking the lighter gray line.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not true. I've spent years debating whether I should or shouldn't.

I just know now that it's already too late for me to do it. There are lines I've already crossed.

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Things you're unwilling to forgive yourself for.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you trying to get at something?

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You are the cause of your own limitations. You.
Edited 2011-10-12 21:04 (UTC)

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think that's news to me? I know my own condition.

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And so do other people. That's the point, that other people know. You can't blame them in lieu of yourself, because they know.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't feel like listening to you.
Edited 2011-10-12 21:14 (UTC)

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
But you always do anyway, don't you? It's like you're compelled.

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Your own psyche bores you more than empty sexual innuendo? Thomas, no wonder you have an inferiority complex.
Edited 2011-10-12 21:36 (UTC)

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant that's why I listen to you. Because I'm bored.

You entertain me.
Edited 2011-10-12 21:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Most people pay for their entertainment, I just want you to know.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would I pay for someone to entertain me when they're already doing it willingly?

[identity profile] enigmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I can tell it isn't the economy that's on your mind.

[identity profile] nine-tries.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Is she still not talking to you?

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