lifeskills: (☠ i seek a place that holds only grace)
Victor Frankenstein ([personal profile] lifeskills) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2015-05-19 12:46 am

it's an obsession, man on a mission

Who: Victor Frankenstein ([personal profile] lifeskills) and Steve Rogers ([personal profile] assembles)
Where: Research facility at the station.
When: Backdated to May 17th.
Rating: PG-13 for brains.
Summary: Science, though. So much science. Captain Killjoy interrupts the science.
The Story:



[Victor's never seen the likes of the research station before, but that just makes it all the more interesting. The message left by people he will never meet (What have we done?) stirs a need to know more about their purpose. What had they done? What had they been researching in this sprawling underground shelter?

Unthinkingly, he finds himself throwing hours a way looking over the scant remains of the station's equipment and specimens, building a picture for himself with what clues he can drum up.

It's something he can do. Forward progress. A necessary diversion. Also, maybe, a little to do with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, a need to understand why this memory exists and what had happened here, to accomplish something before the inevitable happens and the Monster catches up with him. There's no running from what's always with you, the shadow at your side; the Monster will find him eventually. He can feel him near, a pressure, a presence.

The sense of their impending collision drives him to distract his frantic mind. A spur of the moment decision brings the doctor back to the research area. In those jars, preserved brain specimens.

He doesn't have a fully-functioning lab for the job, but if he could just... It's not as though there aren't more samples to spare...

Double-checking the door is shut fast, Victor gives into his temptation, transferring the brain from its fluid prison to a tray with the help of tools he'd scrounged up. He feels more at home like this than he has in three days. If he's going to die, or go hungry, or sleep without a bed, he might as well do something meaningful.]


assembles: (baby got back)

[personal profile] assembles 2015-07-16 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe Victor's words would have registered more in another situation, because what he's saying is logical when you get right down to it. But the fact that he's putting aside something as important as his own survival to experiment on a brain speaks to a lack of stability, and Steve kind of has a thing about scientists.

So he doesn't stop. Somehow it seems important that he prevents Victor from doing this one thing, even if it means going and tossing the sample into the snow where Victor won't be able to find it.

Despite the protests, Steve steps out of the door and starts down the hall. If Victor wants the brain back, he'll need to come after it.]