#◤ 〢 ❝ my name painted in bloodstain. ❞ ╱ ◜arc. doors of death.◞

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@badboysupr​ | starter call. 

“rumor has it you do good work. you ever worked with STYGIAN IRON before?” not waiting for his answer; she drops her broken sword on the table. the blade was broken off at the hilt and the blade itself was in three pieces. 

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@stygicniron​ sent:  ‘ STOP. ’ - [ my / your ] muse stops dead in their tracks. (you can pick who is stopping!) | ask meme.

elizabeth is standing beside the freshly dug grave. her mother’s favorite drink, flowers and she had done her best to try to recreate the blackberry cream pie she used to bake. it’d taken hours for her to dig by herself but she managed. the doors of death were open...if nico could bring back hazel; she could bring back her mother. she just needed to summon almira’s ghost, ask her permission if she’d wanted to come back, tell her where to meet her. hopefully with the recent split personality conflict hades was dealing with; he wouldn’t be able to stop her from summoning. she’s about to start when she heard someone speak behind her. ---

“STOP.”

she turns her head to face the person that voice belongs too. nico. right, ghost king, she reminds herself. “why should i? did daddy dearest send you?” 

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hazel eyes narrowed at the demigod sitting before her. a half-smile is given but she hides it with taking another sip of her coffee. he could be funny. sometimes. “i do OWN it, as you said. not everyone can pull off a DEATHLY aura while managing to look this good. ” it also helps that she takes some of her fashion cues from persephone. 

she laughs, a small snort mixes in causing her to laugh harder. elizabeth places her hand over her mouth to help conceal her fits of laughter. the very thought of nico standing in front of a mirror, saying those things to himself. she couldn’t stop herself from laughing. after a few more seconds, she’s finally able to catch her breath. a few small giggles still escape however. “it’s a possibly, i’m sure.” more giggling. “if i ever find him doing such a thing; you’ll be the FIRST to know. 

“while i don’t know about nico’s ‘daily mantra’ is -” she reaches over and grabs the screwdriver from his hands. “- mine is more like questions. like where’s my coffee? how many monsters are going to run across my path? how many unsuspecting demigods can i spook today?” she fails to mention the reoccurring one of: how can i not disappoint my father today? elizabeth wasn’t panning out to be a great hero like he’d once hoped for.

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“as you should be.” she’s joking of course. “wouldn’t you much rather have the power to summon skeletons or travel through shadows. you could travel the world in far less time then it would be to fly through your daddy’s domain. but electricity is fun, i suppose, even though one could just create it simply by rubbing a balloon on their head or their feet on carpet.” she raises her hands and shrugs her shoulders. “ 

elizabeth scoffs, placing a hand over her heart. “i love that movie! my drachmas are on mr. beetleman. come on, we need to find a mirror to summon candyman.”  

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PURPLE flames danced in her eyes, blood boiling at her younger brother’s words but she takes in a long deep breath. arguing with nico would get her no where. he has every right to be SCATHING at her. “DAD was the one the brought me to the underworld. i didn’t know about the existence of the gods or who my father truly was until my mother inadvertently killed herself. i didn’t hide in the underworld. i grew up there. it’s home for me.” she explains, doing her best to block out the forever burnt memory of her mother burning in her room. 

another breathe is taken before she continues, “since the LOTUS HOTEL & CASINO. dad sent me a little bit after he sent you and bianca but i had to keep my distance. he didn’t want anyone finding out about the two of you and I was a known daughter of hades then. i didn’t like the idea of essentially being a babysitter at first but actually seeing the two of you interact and keeping tabs on you; it was incredibly difficult to keep away but dad gave me strict orders too. i regret it daily that i didn’t DISOBEY him. i should’ve disobeyed that order and i didn’t and for that, i’m deeply sorry. you both needed someone to take care of you, bianca shouldn’t have had to be the only with sole responsibility of looking after herself and a kid brother.” she pauses a moment, not daring to say or think of what could’ve happened. that bianca might not have joined the hunters, might not have gone on that quest, wouldn’t have died.

“after alecto moved you both to westover hall; i went to the underworld then to the princess andromeda.” she clears her throat, “i haven’t been STALKING you this entire time, through your adventures so no, i wouldn’t know that, nico. i haven’t been the best or even remotely an okay sister but i’d like to try to be. to make amends if i can. as for hazel, i’ll keep my distance if that’s what you wish. i won’t be stay at camp or attempting to go to camp jupiter so i don’t believe that’ll be a problem. i have an apartment in the city if you ever need me.” she quickly backtracks, “not saying that you do; just simply letting you know that i’m around.”

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“you can already do that, lightning head. summon some damn lightning and direct it where you want and you can get away with arson because they can’t legally charge you for a ‘freak lightning attack. think logically about this, babe.” 

@spectrophobias​ sent: "fuck politics, i just wanna burn shit down." (from thalia!) | ask meme. 

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@inmydrcams​ sent:  “Halloween gives me the creeps.” ( thalia ) | ask meme

she scoffs at her cousin, eyes rolling. “how?” elizabeth loves halloween. it’s the one time of year, no one thinks of her as the weird girl that hangs out in graveyards or finds it strange that she prefers the company of the dead over the living. “it’s a fun holiday and think about the candy. think about the haunted houses, think about the costumes, or think of it like it’s suppose to be; a way to remember the dead. we can carve pumpkins, make soul cakes,  candy apples.” elizabeth gives the hunter a small nudge with her shoulder, “eh, come on. it’ll be fun. we can see how many times we can scare percy.” 

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@inmydrcams​ sent:  “Guess avoiding your triggers isn’t healing.” ( silena ) | ask meme

“same thing as running away, essentially. have you tried stabbing things? it’s very therapeutic.” easy for her to say. she could just summon skeletons and train against them or the training dummies. it wasn’t good advice and she knew that but it was her way of avoiding. just like her one handed comments. worked great on the dead, not so much the living. she wasn’t entirely sure but maybe they both could try just talking about it. “what are you trying to avoid?” 

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“no, i find them hilarious. do they scare you, percy?” elizabeth offers up a smirk of her own, a wicked gleam in her eyes. her mind is already racing with ideas on how to make him scream in terror. growing up around the dead; elizabeth knows how to haunt even without needing to be a ghost.  

@greeneyesandaballpointpen​ | continued from here.

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“already ahead of you, babe. recruited some ghost children to help us too. they’re more than willing to help us scare the literal life out of this guy. i hope his heart stops.” 

@spectrophobias​ sent: "what do you say we really ruin this guy's day?" (from thalia >8) )  | ask meme.

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“yes. they humor me. not to mention the amount of witty banter we could come up with and the amount of people we could scare together. i’ve put more thought into this friendship than you realize.”  she fails to mention the fact she has a spell ready to go in her apartment. 

elizabeth had grown bored of talking with the ghosts and her own zombie nanny at this point was more just a zombie chef since she wasn’t a child anymore despite javier’s protests that she still needs him for more than just cooking. “since you want to talk like that; you can help me make friends.” 

@stygicniron​ | continued from here. 

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with the doors of death being open, elizabeth had willing stepped up to help their father more. took on a much heavier workload. not just with the overwhelming amount of paperwork that never seems to diminish but with as well as overlooking the souls, doing her best to keep them in line and keep them from escaping as to not make thanatos’ job any harder just trying to keep order. she quickly found it was a much harder task than she originally led herself to believe. using her powers more frequently, only getting a few hours of sleep when she could, the stress of it all combining with the fact her grief and guilt carried over from the battle with kronos and amplified with the fact her kid brother got sucked into tartarus and kidnapped. how helpless she felt for not realizing it sooner. she needed a change of pace, time to collect her thoughts to get her mind out of the dangerous place it was quickly becoming.

“honestly, i don’t know. i just need away from everything. i think i might go home...” her own words surprise her because for once she didn’t mean the underworld. she meant back to the home she once shared with her mother, if the home was still standing after all these years and the fire hadn’t reduced it to ashes.  

@stygicniron​ | continued from here,

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@stygicniron​ sent: ‘Here’s to surviving Halloween for another year!’  | halloween meme

“cheers to that ‘ she mutters, taking a long sip of her whiskey. elizabeth’s still disappointed that chiron had all around shut down her idea about summoning real zombies, skeletons and ghosts on halloween night. 

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@stygicniron​ sent:  ❛❛ I’m never leaving this blanket nest ever again. ❜❜ | ask meme.

hands pause the tuning of her guitar,  her attention now on nico. “oh? would you like for me to bring you some snacks or make you a cup of hot chocolate? do you prefer cinnamon or mint in yours?” 

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she held her hand, shadows and pure darkness surrounded them. "this is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes.” her words were cold. she knows he’d shadow-traveled with nico before but actually standing in the shadows and not moving through them, watching the shadows move through you, in front of and behind you could be terrifying to some.

elizabeth thinks back to when she first entered the shadows back when she was still a child. she thinks back to how terrified she was seeing the dark figures, the creatures and souls that lurked with them. how she screamed so loudly for her father who quickly came, held her, comforted her then showed her how to control them. 

the daughter of hades glances over at the son of poseidon, “what do you see, percy?”

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she sat up, keeping her hands on the ground to give herself some balance. elizabeth glances down at her leg and felt her stomach drop. her heart was pounding in her chest, adrenaline pulsing through her veins. she could see her bone through shredded muscle and flesh. “having people see you carrying me is going to hurt worse. i’d rather bathe in the phlegethon. just help me up.” she leans her weight on one palm and reaches the other towards him. 

@greeneyesandaballpointpen​ | continued from here.