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  Thread: homecoming
Post: RE: homecoming

Finding a snack was... admittedly, a bit harder than Dread had anticipated. The kids were growing like weeds, for all the evidence strewn around the treehouse. Eating them out of house and home. ...
Dread Cryer's Ravine 2 22 09-24-2024, 10:21 PM
  Private Thread: homecoming
Post: homecoming

The devious ways of children were... frankly, they're just that. Devious. Dread had been snared into a mind trap by Mercy, something that sounded like a good idea to the pup at the time. It had e...
Dread Cryer's Ravine 2 22 09-23-2024, 07:31 PM
  Thread: The Summer Bonfire Festival (Year 20)
Post: RE: The Summer Bonfire Festival (Year 20)

Dread was on edge. Not forgiving himself for leaving Deluge alone, in the short time he had... the things that had transpired. Tension in the house is normal, reasonable-- he knows that much. But...
Dread IC Archives 102 1,333 06-12-2024, 02:40 PM
  Thread: You make me take off my shoes before you let me get in
Post: RE: You make me take off my shoes before you let m...

Perhaps more aware of Deluge than his own fight, the man that takes her on is a... cousin? Family ties are more complicated than he really understands, especially when it comes to the messy lineage...
Dread IC Archives 68 613 05-31-2024, 04:08 AM
  All Welcome Thread: what the hell is add?
Post: what the hell is add?

Dread knows he should go see his father. Knows he should speak with him, man to man. Hell, he could show off the new scars, too. The scrubby, worrisome boy had grown up. Grown into a man. G...
Dread The Shimmering Shore 1 14 05-27-2024, 06:24 PM
  Thread: You make me take off my shoes before you let me get in
Post: RE: You make me take off my shoes before you let m...

Grip tightening around his flail as the defenders make their way down the mountain. Dread is tense, excited, alive. So fucking alive. The chain on his flail rattling as he takes a step forward, n...
Dread IC Archives 68 613 05-27-2024, 04:41 AM
  Thread: You make me take off my shoes before you let me get in
Post: RE: You make me take off my shoes before you let m...

Deluge had insisted, insisted on coming out. He's fairly sure she wasn't pregnant yet, but like... fuck, the last thing Dread wants is to have her out of the house. Pissed doesn't begin to cover i...
Dread IC Archives 68 613 05-25-2024, 05:59 PM
  Thread: girl, come resurrect him to the sky
Post: RE: girl, come resurrect him to the sky

Possession, need, and something worse-- all falling into place. Reborn as a new man, walking his hallowed halls once more. There's something beautiful about it. Beautiful, freezing, terrible. Th...
Dread IC Archives 5 32 05-25-2024, 03:47 AM
  Thread: last chance to lose your keys
Post: RE: last chance to lose your keys

The boy's movements are of interest, disjointed, strange. Like a puppet on invisible strings, and speaking in the third person. Dread looks on with interest, though he knows better than to con...
Dread IC Archives 4 78 05-24-2024, 08:00 PM
  Thread: I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight
Post: RE: I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight

Though he'd rather be off with Deluge, work is work. Duty is duty. It's best that she stays home with her mother and with Jael, on standby for the pups. Leaving the pack unprotected with both...
Dread IC Archives 9 56 05-24-2024, 07:51 PM
  Thread: girl, come resurrect him to the sky
Post: RE: girl, come resurrect him to the sky

Fire stoked and warm, filling the space. Casting a dancing, warm light on the walls, their shadows growing long. Long and graceful as they painted the walls, splashed against the velveteen backd...
Dread IC Archives 5 32 05-18-2024, 02:21 AM
  Private Mature Thread: girl, come resurrect him to the sky
Post: girl, come resurrect him to the sky

As time dragged on, it became more and more clear to Dread that it was the two of them against the world. The two ofthem against everything that wanted so desperately to see them fail. It's a worl...
Dread IC Archives 5 32 05-14-2024, 11:07 PM
  Thread: Romans 8:18-19
Post: RE: Romans 8:18-19

Dread knows the importance of family, the importance of values, the importance of beliefs. Granted, it's been spurred on by a crisis of conscience after what had gone down with his older brother, b...
Dread IC Archives 5 29 05-11-2024, 09:15 PM
  Thread: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
Post: RE: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor

It's a recovery mission, and Dread knows how to keep his mouth shut and do his job when he needs. Equal parts muscle and moral support, hanging close to Deluge's side. His gait long, gaze keen-- h...
Dread IC Archives 7 168 04-26-2024, 09:43 PM
  Thread: burning versus drowning
Post: RE: burning versus drowning

Tears, fuck, he bites his own back. Just saltwater stinging his eyes, and Dread reaching for Deluge. If she'd swung on him, fuck, he'd have deserved it. Her touch is gentle instead, and he pulls ...
Dread IC Archives 8 134 04-19-2024, 10:38 PM
  Thread: burning versus drowning
Post: RE: burning versus drowning

Is he dead? Too many faces swimming in his mind's eye. Rocking like the constant beating of the waves on his sides. Halo, Kite... Andy... Sirius, as well. It's Sirius's face that gives way to ...
Dread IC Archives 8 134 04-17-2024, 03:35 PM
  Thread: burning versus drowning
Post: burning versus drowning

Another one of his father's golden boys, another one of his father's sons. Older brother. He should have known. The flashing of teeth and the ringing in Dread's ears. Ears? Ear? There's only...
Dread IC Archives 8 134 04-17-2024, 02:22 AM
  Thread: the way we stalk, the way we kiss
Post: RE: the way we stalk, the way we kiss

Regaining control over his flail, Dread grumbles. A job half done, but at least he hasn't lost his grip in the process. Drawing even with his brother, the younger man narrows his eyes. Ears flatt...
Dread IC Archives 78 1,682 04-11-2024, 04:18 PM
  Thread: the way we stalk, the way we kiss
Post: RE: the way we stalk, the way we kiss

His siblings are among the first to greet the raiding party, and Dread can't say he's surprised. The look in Kotori's eyes is downright hateful, and he can't help but shrug. "It's just business," t...
Dread IC Archives 78 1,682 04-07-2024, 07:54 PM
  Thread: What care we though?
Post: RE: What care we though?

Sticking close to Deluge, Dread is the closest he can to okay. A balm to his anxieties, his worries. Hell, she's the only thing that's been able to hold off the ghosts. Is that why he's co-depend...
Dread IC Archives 5 68 04-05-2024, 11:17 PM
  Thread: the way we stalk, the way we kiss
Post: RE: the way we stalk, the way we kiss

Off to Valta-- off to see his siblings, though maybe not in the way they would have liked. Siblings. What an odd feeling that was, though Dread wouldn't dwell on it. High headed and wild eyed, he...
Dread IC Archives 78 1,682 04-05-2024, 04:55 PM
  Thread: Knife to the eye
Post: RE: Knife to the eye

Deluge's call brings him forth, but then, when does it not. Quick to answer, quick to take his place by her side. The last time he'd gotten to participate in a raid, things hadn't gone his way. B...
Dread IC Archives 10 126 04-03-2024, 10:59 AM
  Thread: What care we though?
Post: RE: What care we though?

A long, long look over the world beneath them. Dread moves to draw her to his side, neck thrown possessively against hers for a long moment. "Only appreciative." Smirking, Dread strikes to nibble...
Dread IC Archives 5 68 04-03-2024, 12:20 AM
  Thread: What care we though?
Post: RE: What care we though?

They'd been sent, shipped down south. Things had gotten a little weird in Dread's world for the time being-- when were they not? Ghosts kicking up around his shoulders, and he's never been good at...
Dread IC Archives 5 68 04-02-2024, 11:48 PM
  Thread: So why don't we just sway
Post: RE: So why don't we just sway

News of his sister had reached him, enough to leave him stricken and nervous at first. Even when he regained control, bit it back down, Dread had a hard time putting words to it. Stomach in kn...
Dread IC Archives 2 68 04-01-2024, 03:20 PM
  Thread: Those Square Suns, People Kind of Look At Them Funny [Dread]
Post: RE: Those Square Suns, People Kind of Look At Them...

With her head start, Deluge had made it farther south than Dread could make up in a day. That's alright. It's not bad out here, the aspen trees growing tall and proud. Not the north, but not noth...
Dread IC Archives 2 60 03-30-2024, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Shit Happens :c
Post: RE: Shit Happens :c

With not many good market days left, Dread wasn't going to waste time. Even if things were still strange, he had work to do. Trading for supplies, doing the boring day-to-day shit. Especially...
Dread IC Archives 2 37 03-25-2024, 04:35 PM
  All Welcome Thread: what the hell is call ID?
Post: what the hell is call ID?

Moving south, it's actually not too bad. Spring had sprung here. It felt strange, damn near surreal, as he cut wide around the Hallows. Though Dread knew that they harbored promise of a warm ...
Dread IC Archives 1 42 03-25-2024, 04:19 PM
  Thread: last chance to lose your keys
Post: RE: last chance to lose your keys

Settling, feeling the way the Willows hang around him, the breeze as it combs through his coat. It's not a bad afternoon, if Dread does say so himself. He would have known these Willows better...
Dread IC Archives 4 78 03-25-2024, 03:44 PM
  Thread: i ain't got your name on my hand
Post: RE: i ain't got your name on my hand

Dread hadn't remembered, though thoughts of his mother still twisted his guts. It's an ache in his chest, something heavy. Right. Push those thoughts back, that wasn't why he'd come. Too many re...
Dread IC Archives 6 84 03-25-2024, 03:07 PM