Autumn Open Post

[callmeles]

Autumn Open Post As we know, I love my AUs and PSLs! I love exploring worlds and discovering how little changes can tumble and create big changes. My characters are top-leveled but feel free to add your own and let me know if there's someone you'd like! ♥

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[ipswichson]

"I spent the first eighteen years of my life planning to never use once I ascended. Two years later I found myself going through creepy orientation in sex city and within a month I learned I could use as much as I wanted. I can't go back. I won't."

His jaw is tight, determined, and he lifted his glass at that toast, nodding.

"Whatever it takes. I have my own abilities, some of them that I learned from other worlds, as well as potion making. I also can enchant jewelry to give people things like strength or endurance. Mine are stamina and endurance," he admits with a shrug and a smile.

It's a smile that grows at that explanation. "If me on your arm will help, I will gladly be your guest. If you name me a tailor, I can get a tuxedo."

[gqrome]

"Scusa? Orientation in sex city? Is that what this world was that you were at?" He's... curious. On the one hand, he enjoyed and loved sex, loved romance and was not above using either of them for whatever reason he wanted. But, he always made sure his lovers consented and enjoyed themselves just as thoroughly. "You won't have to," he assures him. "Even a temporary solution is better than nothing and will be a good start to a permanent one."

He had no doubt in the least that they would find a way for Caleb to practice again.

"We will have to work on that word 'use' though," he can't help but tease the younger man.

His eyebrow arches at the thought of enchanted jewelry for things such as strength, stamina and endurance. "E cosa... what kind of jewelry have you known to enchant? Rings? Necklaces? Earrings? Or is anything fair game?"

He grins when Caleb agrees. "Sì, it would help. I can give you the name or I can take you by there tomorrow, if you're interested. Where are you staying?"

[ipswichson]

He has the decency to look amused and embarrassed at the same time. "Yeah, that's what it was. Required sex. Required dominant and submissive roles. People zoos and jails if you didn't adhere. Eventually," he says, pausing only a moment about it because of memories that aren't as good as the coven and those he was with. "Eventually I found someone amazing to contract with and it was part of the coven and it was good. Easy to forget the horrible parts of it all."

So much of it sounds so bad, but it feels like normal to him. Even now.

Caleb gave him a look, almost smirking at him. "When you're addicted to it, seems to be about right." Though he can see why Felix wasn't sure about that word. "I can try working on it though."

He takes a sip, watching Felix a moment and then shrugging. "Piercing jewelry. Subdermals. Nipples. More intimate. And I'm at the Baglioni. I'd love to spend the time together if you're up for it."

[gqrome]

Felix's eyebrow remains arched as he considers everything that Caleb was telling him about this place and shakes his head. "Dio, that sounds like it would be an adjustment," he says after a long minute. He was curious about what role Caleb had but did it matter? He wasn't sure it did. "And sounds, as you put it, creepy. I am glad you found someone to contract with that made it better."

Having company made all the difference sometimes and that Caleb had someone there who could make him forget about the more horrible aspects of the place was better than the alternative.

"Sì, is it the power itself that's addicting or do you think the curse plays a part in the addiction for it? A sort of self-feeding loop... an ouroboros?" He pauses. "I ask because my family line is a little similar in some way. We have been blessed with powerful magic, much like yours, and for some, the power gets to them and causes them to severe their ties with this world. For the rare few, who have not let the madness creep too far in, we've managed to stay alive - finding ways to manage it. Once we've found a cure and if you want to find a way of controlling your magic without it controlling you, we can work on that." If he isn't fed up with Felix by then and returns to the States.

"Oh? Fascinating," he says and takes another sip from his glass. He could say in all his years, he hadn't gotten an intimate piercing - his nipples or his cock. But perhaps, one day, he'd have to try that.

"I'd love that," he says with a pleased smile. "Tomorrow I can take you to my tailor then. And we'll get started on your cure."

[ipswichson]

He chuckles because he hasn't talked about this with anyone that wasn't Pogue. Pogue who had accepted it all and yet, after, Caleb had felt he had been different. Nothing had changed for Pogue, but for Caleb so much had changed and it made it hard for them to connect now. Especially since Caleb had gone from obsessed with keeping them all from practicing magic to obsessing with using magic and far more addicted than any of the others... even combined.

"You always do whatever you have to so you survive, right? It's what I did then and, honestly, it's why I'm here now."

He considers that for a moment, looking down at his glass and then back up at the other man. "Honestly, I don't know. I only know that in this world, when I use magic, it eats at me. I could feel the difference between Duplicity and here, and there it left me lightheaded, especially when I used a lot, and here I feel like I'm almost sick. It's how it felt before."

And he knows it's aging him, but he can't help but to use.

He stares at Felix for a long time, and there's a different sort of pain he's been enduring, especially with the distance between himself and the others. He'd grown up with them. He'd had the coven at the Midnight Theatre. Now he felt alone, all this time while he'd searched for the man before him.

And now, perhaps, there's a chance to not be alone again, and to live and learn.

"I'd like that. When we find a way," he says with a smile. "All I've been through and I don't accept there isn't a chance somewhere." He laughs then. "Fascinating is a word for it. My... ex? I guess since we're not in the same world. He has some very intimate piercings and that is definitely fascinating," he teases, unable to help but to be cheeky.

"Help with a cure and new clothes? Be careful or you might end up with a boy toy," he teases, used to being part of the "Four Twinks of the Apocalypse" as Nick had once called them.

[gqrome]

Caleb wasn't wrong. Even for a man like Felix, there were things over the years that he's had to do to survive. Nothing quite like what Caleb has had to endure but still, he understood the concept quite well.

As he speaks about his magic use, Felix nods. "Perhaps we find a piece of jewelry first then that can take the brunt of that that backlash," he muses, taking a sip of his wine and setting it down.

He gets it. He's not sure what he'd do if he wasn't able to use his magic or have it affect him the way it affected Caleb. Felix watches the younger man and gets the feeling he needed that connection and if he can somehow provide that, then he'd be happy to. It's been a while since he's had the company and perhaps mentored a young man like Caleb.

"Good, you shouldn't accept there isn't a chance. We'll find it."

His mouth curls up when Caleb speaks about this ex and his intimate piercings.

"It's been a while since I've had a new boy toy," he teases. "Perhaps it's what I need as well."