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Tommy Shepard ([personal profile] doubled_speed) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2023-10-12 07:02 pm

Storms Make Cowards Of It All

WHO: Tommy Shepherd, You
WHERE: Diner, Around Temba
WHAT: Storm related panic attack, Heroics both good and failing
WHEN: October 10th-12th for first prompt, October 13th otherwise
WARNINGS: TW: panic attacks, blood, mouth related body horror, 'animal' attacks

I. Cowardly Behaviors | CW: Panic attack
Storms are the worst. Storms mess with Tommy's head like nothing else does. His powers are who he is, and the amount of times they've been taken away lately have been pretty upsetting. Which of course is why Tommy does the only thing he knows how to do. He hides. Hides in a corner of his new apartment over the diner, hiding under a blanket and shaking.

He's powerless and that scares him. Always scares him. Keeps getting him injured. Keeps reminding him he's worthless without what he can do. So he hides and tries to breathe because his whole body seems like it wants to shake out of his skin. And that's just how it goes.

This is just how his sanity goes.
II. Being A Hero | CW: 'animal attacks', possible explosions, possible blood
Power surges into his system and Tommy does the first thing he can think of. He takes off into the city, running at full speed.

Simple fact of the matter is that he wants to be a hero. More than that, you can do a hell of a lot of damage with speed. Force equals mass times acceleration. A lot of force happens when even someone wiry and slight like Tommy was bowls into something with an outstretched fist at sixty miles an hour. He's heard at mach three you basically turn a person into paste.

Really, the demodog deserves it, and Tommy has no issue at all booting it away from it's intended victim like he's a fucking... Whatever the name for the dude in football who kicks the ball when they kick it is called. Don't ask him. He doesn't watch sports.

"Well, that was fun," he says as he watches the creature go sailing limply through the air. No way it would get up wherever it landed. Then he looks to the person he rescued. "You okay? See or hear any others around?"

Because there always seemed to be others around.
III. When The Hero Needs Saved
What Tommy wasn't expecting once the powers came back in was for them to suddenly fail him again. Especially not when he had been hunting something. Something taller than him. Something with a big, screaming, flower-petal face.

"Shit," he curses as he feels it all flee him again. And he tries to back away.

"Shit," he says again as he throws himself at a tree, trying to haul himself up into it.
IV. Wildcard
[OOC: Tommy's heading into the Upside-Down on the 14th through the Fountain Gate. And he's a hero that specializes in emergency rescues. So if someone needs a rescue during the Mindflayer fights. If someone needs to be rescued and taken out for a doctor, we can wildcard Tommy showing up to rescue.]
tyrants_son: (*jiiii*)

iii

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-13 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
The Light and its connected powers are not reliable at this time. Felwinter wouldn't have been able to sustain its use for long anyway, not for the frequency of creatures. But then Void and Solar and Arc were only ever meant to supplement the suppression one provided with their own weapons. But ammunition runs out, and when you're in between seeking more, then you have very limited options.

It's perhaps quite the reverse for a Demogorgon, having someone come up behind it instead, but then Felwinter is not flesh and blood, and the creature is driven by the fresh promise of a meal. Or at least it was until the back of its head is slammed into, sending it falling forward.

Behind it, the warlord waits, flexing a gloved fist.
tyrants_son: (exo skull)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-13 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
There's only the slightest tilt of his helmeted head as the creature faces him. His coat already sports a few tears from earlier encounters, but when you're going melee against equally melee foes, you just have to deal.

"Keep an eye out," he says in response to Tommy's warning. And then he's lunging forward at the Demogorgon, hand thrusting forward. Whether it decides to meet him with his face or claws, he's ready, it seems.
tyrants_son: (intensity)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-14 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Exos were built to be war machines, and despite Felwinter's almost wiry frame if one were to compare him with other builds, he still proves just as solid. It had taken a war satellite to do irreparable damage to him. This creature would not do him any lasting impairment so long as Felspring is able to restore him.

He catches those narrow wrists, pulling the thing forward as he jerks his knee up with bone-crunching force at its torso before he slams his head into the thing's throat.
tyrants_son: (exo skull)

warning for violence against demogorgons i guess

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-14 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Felwinter releases its arms then to grab at its disturbing maw as it tries to engulf his face, his own arms tensing as he attempts to pull its terrible mouth in separate directions.

There's no reason to feel pity or regret for his actions here, no second thoughts. These are mindless beasts and their motives have been quite clear. And that's something the warlord will not stand for.
tyrants_son: (*jiiii*)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-14 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
His coat suffers a few fresh slashes, some deep enough to reveal the gleam of metal beneath whatever layers he might've been wearing. In one final heave, the creature's flailing ceases, and Felwinter releases its strange face, stepping back as he looks at the body once it thuds to the ground.

"It can't swallow anyone's head if there isn't a mouth to do it with."
Edited 2023-10-14 22:27 (UTC)
tyrants_son: (it's raining warsats)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-15 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Felwinter flexes his fingers, glancing at Tommy then as the speedster joins him.

"Abilities aren't reliably restored, although the development is curious. I wonder what's changed..."
tyrants_son: (...)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Troubling. It is better to be more cautious until we know for certain."

The warlord looks around before nudging the body on the ground. "Best we keep moving before any more show up. And perhaps even find where they're coming from."
tyrants_son: (eye in the back of my head)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-17 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Felwinter nods. "We will not be able to close them from this side though. But we have a target. All we need is to find a way in."

He starts ahead.
tyrants_son: (it's raining warsats)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-17 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Find an entrance, seek out the Mindflayer. Those are our primary objectives. Avoid injury, as the creatures are drawn to blood. But they are susceptible to fire."

He might have to find an alternative method for the last part with powers being as they are. Which reminds him.

"...I require more ammunition for my weapon first."
tyrants_son: (...)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-18 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
The snort in response is probably the most Felwinter's ever exhibited by way of outward annoyance.

"The Hunter likes his games. The previous Warlock who had been here also used a shotgun, but he's stashed much of the ammo and thought it would be amusing to hide them around the city," he explains as he continue on.
tyrants_son: (it's raining warsats)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-18 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Felwinter glances at Tommy then. "You do? Then this will go quicker." He has vague locations at best, not ideal when there were things actively attacking you out there. "Where is the nearest one from here?"
tyrants_son: (eye in the back of my head)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-19 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's good enough for him. Felwinter nods, turning to redirect himself. The sooner he gets his hands on more ammo, the sooner he can shoot more things in the face. At least until they find one of these Mindflayer things.
tyrants_son: (...)

[personal profile] tyrants_son 2023-10-19 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hm."

Felwinter jumps, testing his ability to hover. Perhaps it'll make it easier for both of them. He floats there, nodding at Tommy before he holds a hand out to him. Tow away!

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