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[personal profile] brujos 2025-08-25 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
You will, though.

( Platitudes probably don't help, so once his make-up is off, Ivan's on his side of the room stripping out of his costume. )
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-08-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Colm glances away, finishing gathering the snacks together before conceding, just a little bit:]

I'll try to be less ... me with the girls.
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[personal profile] brujos 2025-08-26 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
I say be more. Just don't overthink it. You think Hope goes around replaying conversations she has in her head? ( Pulling the Tulane sweater over his head, he turns back, almost ready. ) Not - that you do that.
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-08-27 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He smirks because he knows that Ivan definitely does that, and he wishes he wouldn't be so hard on himself.]

I think it doesn't help that all the noise makes me cranky. When I go home it's quiet because it doesn't work on family. But even if I just go crash at Beck's place, it doesn't fully work because Lindsay ...

[He takes a deep breath.]

Lindsay is just a constant loop of whatever song is stuck in her head at the time. And her music taste hasn't left the late nineties. Love her, great girl, going to make my brother very happy but would really love for her to listen to something other than No Doubt for her workouts.
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[personal profile] brujos 2025-08-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And your cousin's house is full of Mikaelsons.

( On any given day. )

Sounds like she's got a problem with an earworm. But, as far as unwanted thoughts go, doesn't sound all that bad. Maybe gift her with -- I don't know, iTunes money. ( He laughs. ) She'll be family, soon. And your brother knows what you have. Maybe she can. Not saying people need to edit their thoughts, that's impossible...

( They still don't talk about the first day he learned what Colm could do and the word masturbation just floated into his head, like every ten minutes. )

It could take the edge off.
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-08-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.]

Bradan said when Bairre and Laurie got married, she got the family immunity. So I just have to survive Lindsay's terrible music taste until the wedding.

[And he also thinks that her earworms are her ways of editing her thoughts. So if it's that over her thinking dirty thoughts about his brother ...

... he will take Bathwater on repeat, thank you.]
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[personal profile] brujos 2025-08-30 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
How could your family's power even acknowledge a metaphysical religious ceremony?

( That's kind of cool? But, really overbearing. Like, what is this power. How does it work? )
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-08-30 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Colm throws his hands up because how is he supposed to know.]

No one even knows where these things come from, mate. How does it know we're family at all?
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[personal profile] brujos 2025-08-30 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's ( easy! ) ...Blood. How does anybody know you're all family?
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-08-30 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Not always. Blood may be genetics, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you well. Family is also in the promises we make to each other.

[He shrugs.]

Some supernatural areas are big on those kinds of promises. There's a ritual to it.
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[personal profile] brujos 2025-09-01 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You're like a hallmark card.

( Except, very not. But, it's cute sentiment. Ivan agrees. Because he was disowned. )

Maybe that's it. Big-ass ritual way back in your family line. And now. Powers and inconvenience. And maybe new friends? Speaking of, ( He checks his watch. ) Movie night?
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[personal profile] strippername 2025-09-01 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, let's go.

[They'll leave thoughts of their family chaos to the side for now and focus on moving forward.]