--THE SCIENTIST || PRIVATE + CALEB

This is an archived version of FeralFront. While you can surf through all the content that was ever created on FeralFront, no new content can be created.
If you'd like some free FeralFront memorabilia to look back on fondly, see this thread from Dynamo (if this message is still here, we still have memorabilia): https://feralfront.com/thread/2669184-free-feralfront-memorabilia/.

    [fancypost bgcolor=transparent; bordercolor=transparent; border-width=0px; font-size:8pt; text-align: justify; width: 450px;]

    [color=#d6ad52][size=12]PAPERTORCH;;[hr][hr]


    'You're a glass cannon. A paper torch. Despite getting maimed multiple times, however...you manage to keep getting back up.' Akihito would move a paw through the water, listening to the words of the spirit warrior beside him, who continued to ramble on about what he was, and what he was capable of.


    'Bullcrap. I'm my own person. I can be whatever I want to be.' He'd never really gotten to know his dad. But he did know his mom. Right now however, he was talking to a friend. The area around the two bloodstained. 'You know what you did.' He'd turn his gaze up. 'You are Beyond the Boundary, after all.' ...


    ....


    He'd awake in slight discomfort. Lifting up his paws to stretch, he flinched back when he noticed they where covered in crimson, backing up into a tree. smaking the back of his head. Blinking his eyes again, he sighed. A flashback. Nothing more. He'd breath in the crisp air that came with living near any body of water, flecks of light cascading over the vast expanse of blue beside him.


    Flicking his ear to the side, he'd relax his body. Take a deep breath, and listen to the rolling of the waves.


    It was nothing more then a bad dream. Something he tended to have a lot of. Wouldn't be lovely if someone could be as laid-back and happy as they liked act? Was it wrong that he wished to be unfettered by worry and concern? ...he knew that wouldn't be possible for him. He was cursed after all. Cursed to turn into a monster whenever he was fatally injured. Cursed to scare everyone he cared about away. Cursed to be alone.


    His expression didn't change. It was just rather hard, his nose wrinkling. His breathing did catch for a moment. Though, he decided to let the thoughts go. Relaxing once again. His expression would soften as he pushed the thoughts aside. He had to focus on current events. The here and now.


    He didn't mind being alone either. He'd gotten used to it. He was used to having short term friends who would eventually freak out once he'd get fatally injured and get up like it never happened. When he turned. He'd always make new temporary ones when he found a new place to hide from the people who did know.


    He just wanted to be normal. He just wanted to be free from the curse of immortality.
    He didn't want to be alone. Because despite how happy he could act...it wouldn't change how he felt inside.

    [fancypost borderwidth=0; width: 480px; text-align: justify; font-family: verdana]It's hard to be happy to those you would meet when you would truly feel sad in the inside. It was true though. It was hard for Caleb himself to be happy and acted like nothing had happen to him in front of others who he doesn't want them to be worried about and constantly asked him if he was okay or if he needed any help and all of that. What was even worse was how he doesn't want them to think that he was being self-centered and always be about him. Him. Him. He wasn't selfish and he knew that he would never be one. Ever. There was time to time that Caleb can be an asshole. A friendly asshole one would describe him such as Dallas, actually, but he was an asshole nevertheless. Yes, it was true, although does it mean he actually meant every little meaning behind what he would say when being a "friendly asshole?" No. It was who Caleb was and everyone in SunClan should know that what he said that could be offensive or as an "insult" was nothing but to play jokes and laugh around. Caleb does understand how his words could make one upset, either if he was joking or not, but then again, it was just who Caleb was. Besides if he was ever sad, he knew it was just all for temporary...


    "Hey there," As a voice sounded rough and harsh, as if one hadn't be able to speak for quite a while, it belonged to the hybrid as he was standing nearby where Papertorch was. There was no signature grin to be seen, the warmness and mischievousness flicking like fire within his eyes as his gaze only carried dullness along with his face feature blank, mainly exhausted though. If one could see his eyes closely, there was a faint concern appearing. Rather does he feel concerned over the other's behaviour, but how after everything that had happen to him recently, it made him looked like he doesn't give twice a shit over what had happen to the guy who was still awake. Caleb himself, he didn't feel like he wanted to sleep. Always does he fear that the stranger who had capture him would haunt in him his head, as he did told him that he was his nightmare after all.


    So he didn't sleep and here he was, now standing before the other male as he remained silent for a brief moment. Caleb has been wandering around, drinking and drinking until he spotted Papertorch who seemed to be in a shaky little moment there. Yeah, like how he was... "bad dream I assume." quietly stated Caleb rather than inquiring him just before he would take a seat beside the male by the tree, resting his back against the wood and gazed up across the black sky above. In the end, did the hybrid wondered if the stars that would decorate the sky were really the one who died as a Starclanner as he was told before, did it shimmered as to tell him that something either fortunate or not would happen? Or did it only stayed there with its sparkle to itself as it given their support and love to those like him in need? Who really knew as he honestly doesn't exactly believe in StarClan. But he could imagine that they would as he sure needed a sign or something to know that everything would be alright in the end.