Killing you softly with, unfortunately, song

[scoutsniper]

Who: Frank Don't Even Talk To Him About This Afterwards Castle and OPEN 
Where: What is this unicorn vomit, and then zombie serenading
When: Backdated to event because I will climb back on this RP horse gdit.
Rating: PG-13 for salty language
Summary: Frank continues to hate goddam everything.
The Story

Early Days
Frank is having precisely zero of this bullshit. He's a damn ground zero of reality intrusions, and he's just goddam peachy with that. Because he is 5000% done with this place trying to taunt him with his family's deaths. Beyond done. Hell, he's ready to punch these wanna be 80s music video Lisa Frank vomit rejects in the face even before shit starts turning bad.

In a way, it's a relief when shit starts showing up dark, because, you know that's fucking reality, at least. Or at least a reality he's more comfortable with.

Frank's likely to be found yelling at an innocent 'Elland' citizen, because all this perky color offends his sense of dignity and thus they need to be hurt, too.

Zombie Days
It's about goddam time. Frank's ready to do some killing. Well, he normally is ready to do some killing, but he's REALLY ready, this time.

He may be ready to do some damage, but he's also quicker on the uptake than before. It only takes about one mag of pistol ammo before he realizes that shooting these things in the head doesn't do shit. Except make a rainbow spray. Which is not the effect he's going for.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Goddammit, every zombie movie he's ever seen has been A LIE.

closed to Liv

Frank Castle does not need rescuing. Nope. He's perfectly fine, holed up in this shack, easily findable by the horde of zombies doing that burping gurling zombie noise shit outside. This is not fucking happening. This is how he's going to die. This is really how he's going to fucking die.

...of all the ways he'd figured death would get him, he did not see this coming.

Comments

[passingthrough]

"I've met people who've thought worse things. And done worse things." She skewers a zombie with her claws which slows it down at least, but it isn't the killing blow it would be in a living person.

[scoutsniper]

"Never thought I'd say this, but I might be the least fucked up person you've hung out with." Jesus. He hopes not.

[passingthrough]

"Eh. I met some children here. You're like top five."

More zombies are gathering so she wants to thin them out. She doesn't love her own plan, but the quick kill attempts aren't working.

"Hey, I'm going to do something upsetting." Apparently she wanted to give the Punisher a trigger warning for violence. Because right after that she grabs the zombie by the shoulders, careful to keep her arms unbitten, as she sinks it and herself into the ground and lets go when its teeth get close. The zombie doesn't die, but it can't free itself either as the top part of its body writhes in the ground. She steps back up to the surface.

[scoutsniper]

"Still going to take that as a compliment." Because, yeah, he's pretty fucked up. The only good side is at least he knows it.

"Try me." Except for the whole killing people to get their abilities shit, he's pretty sure he's cornered the market on 'upsetting'.

He's still not sure he'd put the word 'upsetting' on it: in combat, you don't have time to get freaked out, especially if you see something useful that can get you out of the shit. "That's got to get tiring after a while." Good temporary fix, but he's not buying it as a solution.

[passingthrough]

It sickened her the first time she had to do something like that to survive. She was also pretty young at the time. It helps that these seem like made up zombie things and not people.

"Most things do." Her power doesn't wear her down much. Not like it can with Nightcrawler but it does add up little by little especially combined with conventional fighting and maneuvering. Training with Logan certainly taught her endurance, but it's definitely no solution.

"It could still bite your knees if you get close enough. It's going to ruin the property values too." Quips help.

[scoutsniper]

"Kind of raises the question: you kill anyone to get like that?" It's maybe important to know who he's fighting alongside.

"Yeah, well, it can try and get a steel toed boot in its damn face." Half as response to her, half as threat to the zombie. "So I'm good at slowing them down, and you're good at going right through them. We ought to be able to do something with that."

[passingthrough]

She glances back at him as if that's an absurd question even though it's pretty fair given the conversation so far. "I was born with the X-gene. The power manifested at puberty along with zits and all the other fun stuff they make you awkwardly watch videos about in school."

But she nods at the idea. "Yeah, that works. Teamwork is better for something like this."

[scoutsniper]

Hey, he doesn't have superpowers--how the hell is he supposed to know how they work? "Huh. So everyone in your school can just float through stuff or does like everyone get different shit?" He's not sure which would be worse. Nah, teenagers? Probably everyone being different.

"You get a chance to notice how good these assholes are at climbing?" Because a Plan might be Forming.

[passingthrough]

"Mutants get different powers, but there aren't many of us." She delivers a hard, high kick to an approaching zombie, sending it falling back for the moment.

"Haven't seen them climb yet. What'd you have in mind?"