April is looking tattered. Literally, if you know enough about what they are. Their outfit is solidly crinkled and creased, one of their arms is hanging limply at their side, their other hand pressed to a spot on their bicep. If you look at them and expect a human - and for most here, why wouldn't they? - there's blood tricking down their damaged arm, visible between the tears of that suit sleeve, and running down their face. Head injuries, you know how they are.
Miraculously, though, they still have that bottle of tequila, held in that dangling arm.
Now the funny thing is, Bash was the one to meet April. And the funny thing about April, is that they tend not to stick out very clearly in a person's memories. They just don't 'feel' very important, a background-background character.
So, Bash might find it strange how his memories nearly but not completely recall April. He might find it peculiar that it takes him a moment to put a name to that totally familiar face, or maybe he'd cruise past that and sense something wrong with April's 'vibe' entirely.
But to anyone looking at those metaphorical memory logs, this might not stand out. People forget other people all the time, especially when they're just so uninteresting.
April knows their little memory 'cloak' (as Erin calls it) isn't impenetrable, especially when they're not 'dialing' it up, either to be normal like they were acting in the morgue, or because they're frankly exhausted, like they are right now.
"Hey, leaving so soon?" they ask, like this is a legitimate party and not a disaster scene. "Ha ha, seriously though, have you seen Arthur anywhere? This place is a mess and god only knows how many possessed guys are still stumbling around."
April didn't care for the way Bash looked and spoke to them in the morgue, but he seemed like a really helpful sort of guy, the kind of guy who cares, so he seems like a reasonable person to ask for help in a crisis. Right?
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Miraculously, though, they still have that bottle of tequila, held in that dangling arm.
Now the funny thing is, Bash was the one to meet April. And the funny thing about April, is that they tend not to stick out very clearly in a person's memories. They just don't 'feel' very important, a background-background character.
So, Bash might find it strange how his memories nearly but not completely recall April. He might find it peculiar that it takes him a moment to put a name to that totally familiar face, or maybe he'd cruise past that and sense something wrong with April's 'vibe' entirely.
But to anyone looking at those metaphorical memory logs, this might not stand out. People forget other people all the time, especially when they're just so uninteresting.
April knows their little memory 'cloak' (as Erin calls it) isn't impenetrable, especially when they're not 'dialing' it up, either to be normal like they were acting in the morgue, or because they're frankly exhausted, like they are right now.
"Hey, leaving so soon?" they ask, like this is a legitimate party and not a disaster scene. "Ha ha, seriously though, have you seen Arthur anywhere? This place is a mess and god only knows how many possessed guys are still stumbling around."
April didn't care for the way Bash looked and spoke to them in the morgue, but he seemed like a really helpful sort of guy, the kind of guy who cares, so he seems like a reasonable person to ask for help in a crisis. Right?