#I think the spirits of death and entropy and destruction were actually sealed in his sword rather than his arm but eh

[cthulhubert]

A while ago I reblogged a post with some tags about how I'd had friends who talked about their characters, "Telling me about themselves." And I'd only had one experience like that, writing my most self-indulgent self-insert story to date, I attempted to invent my perfect waifu. She turns to me and says, "Sorry, I'm actually pretty strictly into women."

A mutual contacted me about how much that'd made them laugh (👋) and we ended up reminiscing about writing. I talked about some of my original, high school era predecessors to this story; for instance, the one about being a cool dark knight on the way to rescue his princess (who only barely needed rescuing, being a ninja also). And after that conversation I had a flashback to this snippet I'd originally written in some spiral bound notebook (presumably lost now). It was so vivid I immediately had to transcribe it, and now that I ran across it again, I decided to share it:

He stared into the fire, lost in attempts to not to think. The muscles of his back kept alternating between quiescence and singing like a harp gently plucked. It was very simple. He knew where she was. He would go there. If she was unharmed, he would simply kill all of her captors and escort her home. If she'd been hurt…. A gentle susurration leaked around the edges of the sealing bandage, coiled tightly around his left arm. The Whispering Lost, they sang and moaned with the tantalizing edge of destruction and agony. Well he would teach them a lesson. Meanwhile, in the Obsidian Temple: "Oh my god she's in the veeeeents!" "Oh no. Oh no. Is that why she took the prismalite from the lab?" "God if she vaporized it… Lorrek! Can you raise Apito in the control room? Tell him to shut off and seal all ventilation!" "No no… I can't! This crystal, it's locked out!" "Mother of ten sorrows Roger what the hell is that on your leg?" "That's where she bit me! Oh gods… I can't feel it at all! How can it be foaming and purple and still be numb!?" "Princesses are venomous!?"

(I think you can tell I'd started watching Venture Bros around then)