this is hostile architecture // [arlo/tavi v mutts, day 2]
Nov 1, 2023 13:01:11 GMT -5
Post by arx!! on Nov 1, 2023 13:01:11 GMT -5
a r l o
Arlo remembers finally feeling comfortable. And then he dreams about waking up over and over and over again until- well, the clock in the hallway says- nothing? Arlo blinks a few times, eyes adjusting to something shining brighter than headlights as he grumbles but only moves to shield his eyes. Does time even matter here? Wasn't he just- 'on the wrong show' anyway? His cheek hurts where he rests it against Tavi's head; his hair tickles against his nose when Arlo breathes, but he doesn't move. Neither of them do.
Riv would've woken him up by now. That's what Arlo keeps thinking as he starts to kick his covers off of him. But big brothers can be even more annoying than us tiny, helpless, little, baby children brothers so- like, shit. He couldn't get his covers off his legs, but Riv was still yelling for something. Arlo couldn't hear; he said something about his cheek hurting and being stuck. He was still stuck, tangled up in sheets and not in the sexy way.
" H U R R Y U P ! "
Arlo jolted awake and the clock still didn't make sense. The lights were still blazing down on him, heat and sweat making him uncomfortable where Tavi's head was- whoa, "Tavi?" Arlo had no recollection of why his voice sounded so hoarse or why his stupid eyes suddenly couldn't read time, but he-
"What are you doing?" Arlo shoves Tavi's hand away from his shoulder. "That tickles, quit it." He laughs and groans all at once as he shifts uncomfortably on the hallway bench they'd collapsed on. "It's-" He hesitates as he looks at the clock again and time still feels- incorrect. "Well, it's too early, it's only been a few hours. Go back to bed." He brushes him away; his hands feel cold and- uh, like, uh- industrial? Arlo chuckles to himself as he sighs and sits himself slowly upright, rubbing sleep from his eyes.
"Dude, what the fuck is up with your fingers because you should--"
Glowing eyes of red glare back at him, mechanical whirring from within the cameras that were now adjusting and filtering and begging for Arlo to 'smile.'
He yanks Tavi up, tripping over himself and his newly sleeping pal in the process. Ew. Sleeping pal?
Note to self: more brainstorming on Tavi's motives, less brainstorming on strange pet names. And why did this matter if he was dead? Arlo kicks at a pair of red eyes that had accidentally ended up on the ground, crawling at them.
"Go go go go go go go-!" Only, like- uh- fuck, shit, shiiiiit. "There are so many!" Arlo meant too many. There were too many. He was already tripping over his own feet without strange AI training mannequin entities disturbing his perfectly fine bench sleep and clawing at his ankles.
arlo attacks a few lil dum dum flavored training mannequins
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[3 damage]
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[3 damage]