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[livlaughlove]

livio

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Powers nerfed & gained

Self-healing: Nerfed on arrival from near-instant to delayed by a few minutes. Think 5-10.

Superhuman strength: Nerfed on arrival. Still super strong, but not to the same extent.

Dragon Blessing - Strength: Makes up for original nerf. Plus dual sets of horns, one pair curved down to frame his face, one pair curved back and up. Sharp and harshly angled, like his sunburst tattoos.

Dragon Blessing - Balance: Thick, alligator-like tail.

Deaths & Resurrection prices

Death - August 2024: Killed by a Corrupted Vash.
Price: Marksmanship skill. Can no longer aim a gun worth a damn.

Other permanent changes

Memory Loss - February 2024: In Razlo's heartspace, his memory of Chapel defending him to the other Masters was destroyed. He still recalls having been fiercely loyal to Chapel, but not why.

Scarring - March 2024: Scars in an enormous jaw pattern spanning from his thighs to upper arm, with teeth marks along both his chest and back.

Temporary changes

Hydra form - May 2025: from Event/TDM 24. A bunch of fungi made LR into some fun guys.

CODE

weasel's note: livio's handwriting is extremely neat and uncannily consistent. every letter is always the same exact size and shape. as if simply writing perfectly in times new roman was a humanly possible thing.

livio can commonly be found where he lives at vash's house or looking after the school.

plotting contact: PM // discord @ fuckweasel

Comments

[livlaughlove]

[Does he? Sure he's been feeling kind of overwhelmed, but... it doesn't quite occur to him that it's because of socializing.

He always has time for Wolfwood, though. His answer is instantaneous.]

Go ahead.

[He'll just be putting away his netbook and getting up from his two side-by-side twin mattresses on the floor.]

[lupusxylem]

[He'll come in, then, pulling the door shut behind him. As Livio starts to stand, though, he shakes his head. Hands still in his pockets, he'll move to sit down on one of them nearby.]

Nah. You don't gotta get up. I wanted to tell you I talked to Vash.

[He tilts his head a bit to the side, resting one arm over his knee.]

We can probably call off killing him.

[This is a joke-]

[livlaughlove]

[Okay, sitting it is. Livio is in no position or mood to argue. He's just glad to see that Nick is okay.]

Well... I wasn't planning on it. But I'm glad you two worked it out, Nicholas.

[lupusxylem]

Yeah. It...wasn't easy.

[It wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have when it happened, either. Vash rolled up like a whirlwind about the same as you'd expect from Vash the Stampede, so he shouldn't have been surprised.]

Can't promise we won't butt heads again. But...I'm glad I had you to show me I wasn't being insane. Sorry you had to put up with that mess.

[livlaughlove]

You don't need to apologize to me. I'm just glad I could help in some way.

[It would be nice if he had something to offer right now to make Nick more comfortable. Food or something. But his room is bare. ... Except for Petunia's new horse friend.]

I should apologize, actually... I went to talk to him. I should have asked you first.

[lupusxylem]

[Oh, that's...actually a little surprising to hear. He isn't mad about it or anything- Livio can do whatever he wants, in his opinion- he just wasn't sure if he would or not.

He sits back on his haunches a little, regarding Livio fully now.]

Oh yeah? What happened?

[livlaughlove]

[Livio may be his own person, but it still felt a little dirty to go behind Nick's back to talk to Vash about him. He shies away a little under Wolfwood's gaze, guilt obvious enough. He thanks god that he stayed his hand during that exchange -- he wouldn't be able to so much as stay here in the room with Nick if he'd struck Vash.]

We just... talked. I tried to get him to see outside his own perspective. He was pretty stubborn.

[lupusxylem]

[He huffs, shaking his head.]

That doesn't surprise me. [...] You must have knocked some sense into him somehow, though. He was...talkin' different, when he came to me the second time. The first time, he thought he could just say sorry and it'd all be fixed, but he didn't even know what he was apologizing for.

But then...he was saying shit about realizing that he'd hurt me. That he wasn't listening to me.

[livlaughlove]

[Even if Wolfwood doesn't mean it as such, Livio feels even worse faced with the possible implication that he might've breached Nick's trust in talking to Vash.]

I tried my best not to repeat anything you told me in confidence... It just felt... obvious, by the way he reacted to people in that ridiculous journal entry.

[lupusxylem]

No...it's alright. I wouldn't call it in "confidence", anyway. It's what I would've said to him if I thought he'd listen to me.

[Wolfwood looks up at Livio, his expression more tired than anything.]

Obviously I don't need to tell you anything. It's already detailed for anyone to read, if they want. ...but that's been his whole M.O. Thinking that he needs to make up for a mistake he made when he was a child, and pushing everyone around him away in pursuit of that.

...well. It does seem like he's finally wising up. And he'll keep on that track, if he doesn't want me to kick his ass.

[livlaughlove]

[Livio's eyes avert towards the end. Isolating himself and self-sabotaging over a childhood mistake. Maybe Liv has been a bit hypocritical in his treatment of Vash.]

... I hope he does, for your sake.

[lupusxylem]

Yeah. Me too. But I didn't come here to just gab about me again.

[Wolfwood shifts a little, leaning forward with his hands on his knees.]

How have you been holdin' up? I haven't seen you out much. Not that there's...really shit to do for guys like us here, but.

[livlaughlove]

[God, he feels like a lab rat under surveillance. He knows that isn't Nick's intent, but addressing his own... issues always makes Livio antsy. So long as nobody else brings them up, he can at least pretend like they don't exist.]

I've been out, here and there. Trying to learn what I can about this place.

[lupusxylem]

[Well that probably explains why Wolfwood doesn't know about 99% of those issues...]

Oh yeah? You find anything? Last time I tried, I got my shit kicked in by the Forest.

[livlaughlove]

I haven't left town yet.

[Livio does lift a brow at Nick...]

What happened? It seemed like the night of that blizzard had the shortest possible answer to everything.

cw: child death

[lupusxylem]

I had the idea to leave as soon as I got here. That was the plan, anyway.

[People told him not to, naturally. But he was stupid, and stubborn, and look where that got him-]

Needle-noggin caught me before I left, but couldn't convince me to stay, so. He ended up tagging along. We were in there for...a while.

[...]

We eventually came across a corpse, all grown over by the woods. He wanted to bring her back, but I didn't want anything to do with it. It didn't seem right. Turns out I was right.

Beasts formed outta the plants and attacked us after that.

cw: child death

[livlaughlove]

I'm glad you made it out in one piece. [At least, he's assuming that was the case. He doesn't really have any reason to believe otherwise.]

Was there any kind of warning before it happened? Aside from the... suspicious remains. [Yeah, let's just call a poor child's corpse that.

Livio would have shared sentiment with Vash, in that scenario. Even if it seemed like a bad idea.]

[lupusxylem]

[Haha WELL. Wolfwood will just let Livio think that. He doesn't need to see the ugly bite wound on his shoulder now, having not properly healed because the drugs don't work like they should, here. They haven't even talked about that, either...]

..there was one other thing. We saw a...vision, I guess. It was of the girl, and another kid. From the way it played out, it seemed like something that happened a long time ago. Like the forest was showing it to us or something.

That, and needle-noggin said touching the trees made him see things, but I didn't try that out for myself.

[livlaughlove]

I'll have to ask him. People already told me not to touch the trees.

[It isn't that Livio is afraid, or unwilling to experience pain. Not even close.]

I want to learn as much as I can about this place, the same as anyone, but not if there's a chance it could turn me against someone else.

[... And actually, just to clarify...]

You haven't seen any hint of this other kid?

[lupusxylem]

[There's a pause, as Wolfwood thinks back. He already knows the answer, he just. Knows how insane it sounds, too.]

That other kid...you know that guy with the goat ears that walked into the Inn during the blizzard? Calls himself Kreide.

He was the spitting image of that same kid that was with the girl. I'm sure of it. It's why needle-noggin freaked out when he saw him.

[livlaughlove]

[At first, Livio seems... not disbelieving. More just plain shocked, really, and focused on trying to make sense of it all.]

... People have said we lived here, before. In another life. I don't know if I believe in all that, but it could just be one of the forest's tricks.

[After all, it's a little bit difficult to believe in reality when that reality can clearly be warped at the entity's behest.]

[lupusxylem]

...yeah. Honestly, I don't know if I really believe it either. But there sure are people who do, here.

[Maybe it is all just a trick from the Forest, but...all he knows is that the danger it poses, if nothing else, IS still very real. Real, and terrifying. If it were anyone else other than himself and Vash out there...they would have been killed.]

They're lucky they're all still alive.

[livlaughlove]

Believing too hard in certain things tends to get people into trouble. [Especially if they can't handle themselves, as Wolfwood notes.]

Well... We can't stop other people from making bad decisions, but at least we can fight. I'm willing to, anyway. [He's a lot more confident in his ability to protect, having both of his Fangs. The confidence of someone who hasn't actually had to face the forest yet.]

[lupusxylem]

[Haha yeah, he sure knows that feeling bro.]

So am I. Right now though, it ain't worth goin' out there and getting ourselves killed. Especially not if we can't actually leave.

Apparently, there's this fog that keeps people out of the forest that's been pulled back for a while. I imagine we'll be even more restricted once it rolls back in.

[livlaughlove]

It's usually closer...?

[Livio has never had claustrophobia, exactly, but the more he learns exactly how small the "safe" area is around here, he might be developing it...]