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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]

[after he trampled the house and found the trio's stupid fucking dog -- you're WELCOME, by the way -- razlo decided to... well, what else, but sit there seething in hate for a guy who can't even fight back at the moment. he definitely tried shaking the bastard awake a couple times, but given the notes and everything... it's been pretty clear that he isn't waking up until he's good and ready.

so raz eats, and watches, and sleeps, and watches.

and finally, his... well, not quite patience, but hostile obsession pays off. wolfwood's eyes open instantly, and he breathes, and eventually takes notice of him. it must be quite a sight -- saucer eyes full of malice staring him down with the confident calmness of a predator about to pounce.

yet somehow, razlo feels... sluggish, where he'd normally be keyed up from sticking around one spot for too long. suppose he can blame livio's influence.]

Fuckin' right it's me. Been waitin' for ya. Get up, bitch.

[the words and tone carry the implication of "so i can kick your ass," but razlo's volume is uncharacteristically low. there may or may not be any weight behind the threat.]

[lupusxylem]

[...you know, maybe this is ultimately for the best. Wolfwood starting off his return to the living world right: pissed off, instead of crying because he's overwhelmed and traumatized.

His expression darkens pretty much immediately, but he doesn't fully get up so much as he sits forward a bit more, because he sure as hell is feeling the affects of not moving for a solid month. It's wonder his legs are going to still work after all this.

It sure is quite a sight indeed. Wolfwood's last memory of Livio was...bad, to say the least, so he can't help but feel the slightest bit emotional seeing him whole again. It's just...

You know. Razlo is Here.]

Why the hell are you here? Is Liv okay?

[livlaughlove]

[those wide eyes narrow swiftly, whether in defense or simple distaste isn't entirely clear.]

Ya musta fuckin' missed it with yer damn beauty rest -- which was useless, fer the record.

[lupusxylem]

[Oh, Wolfwood's eyes are just as narrow, don't you worry.]

You didn't answer my question.

Is Liv okay?

[livlaughlove]

[then FIGHT HIIIIM GODDAMMIT.]

No thanks t'you 'n the overgrown weed. I had to pull us both up outta the dirt. [WHO'S better at protecting liv now, asshole?]

[lupusxylem]

Do you think I went t'sleep on purpose?

[Wolfwood surges forward to sit up, immediately regrets it and has to sit back a bit, but is still glaring at Razlo all the while.]

I went back home. Just like the both of you did before. Unless you've already forgotten?

[livlaughlove]

[raz is aware of all that, but wolfwood is lying to himself if he's expecting literally any understanding from the guy. in fact, when nick tries to get up, razlo's muscles all twitch as if he's shooting up as well, ready for that fight he's always begging for. but even when it's wolfwood, beating someone who's essentially already on the ground just isn't fun.]

What, then, ya finally dead? Good.

[lupusxylem]

...no, actually.

[He gets almost a perverse sense of satisfaction from being able to say that, because no, actually. He didn't die. He didn't even come close.

...well. Calling what happened at Julai anything BUT a near-death experience would be downplaying the severity of the incident, so maybe not that.

But it does make him wonder. When. When is he going to return home, only to die?]

But I saw it happen. Julai.

[livlaughlove]

[there's... some ping of guilt, somewhere deep inside of razlo (or perhaps livio, and it just bleeds through) hearing about knives' plots after they defected. especially the ones that had such heavy tolls of innocents.

... not that he'd ever show that to wolfwood. outwardly, he just keeps on scowling, and a dismissive scoff escapes his lips.]

Why the fuck're ya tellin' me? Don't wanna hear about your stupidass feelin's. Go whine to Squirt.

[lupusxylem]

Because you fuckin' asked?

[Or rather, you're the one who brought it up, we're on this topic now deal with it.]

I don't know. It was different. The city got blasted off the map and the twins disappeared, but that's the last thing I remember.

[He did not have to live out those long years inbetween, thankfully.]

[livlaughlove]

[razlo knows enough about this wolfwood and vash to know that they're not his. things went down a little different. hell, they were less than half this height when julai went to shit.

so, really, all he can muster is... kinda rude, actually, but it's raz. wolfwood would be stupid to expect anything different.]

Maybe you'll get lucky 'n neither one of 'em'll ever turn back up.

[lupusxylem]

[Yeah, that...isn't surprising, as an answer.]

If Knives comes back, we're all fucked. But Vash, I...

[...]

I dunno. It seemed like he knew that whatever he was doin' was prolly gonna get him killed. But it ended up not even matterin'.

[And if Vash is truly gone, that is the worst possible way he can think of for him to go.

He still isn't processing it, and it shows with the way he's looking blankly at the wall just off from where Razlo sits.]

[livlaughlove]

[still staring hard at wolfwood, razlo quirks a brow. he has a more... maybe not clinical, but matter of fact way of looking at it. brainwashed, even. even as much as he's realized the eye was bullshit, the plants themselves...]

Ya worry too much about the tumbleweed. They're above us, Punisher. Whatever power or healin' we got's jack shit in comparison to them.

[lupusxylem]

...I guess.

[He knows that. He knows it, logically. But having known Vash for so long, and been around him...learned about him. He feels far more human than he does anything else.

It doesn't feel like he could have survived it, no matter how much Wolfwood logically knows it's very likely he could have. Especially when he has to accept the fact that the same thing would go for Knives, in that case.]

S'different here, anyway. I saw him run into the forest. I assume he didn't come back.

[livlaughlove]

[... it's a fair enough point. whatever power the plants had back home, here, the forest has far more. that's been made clear enough by knives' corpse.]

Ain't seen him, no. [and as far as razlo's concerned, that's for the best. he doesn't trust himself not to rip the independent limb from limb for what he did to liv. because of course raz wouldn't admit to himself that livio allowed it to happen, actively resisted his protection.]

[lupusxylem]

...yeah. Fuckin' figures.

[It's not directed towards Razlo, for once. No, he is...feeling some kind of way, that's for damn sure.]

Sometimes I don't know if he runs 'cause he's guilty, or if it's to avoid the consequences.

[Maybe that's a cruel thing to say, but his emotions are still hot right now. He's upset.]

[livlaughlove]

Prob'ly the latter. Or maybe he's just really lost it. All the way-like. To the bitch in the woods.

[you want cruel? raz can probably top it!]

[lupusxylem]

[Just thinking about that makes Wolfwood want to try to go out and drag him back, just on principle.]

...y'think? I feel like he'd sooner throw himself into the sea than let that happen.

[...right?]

[livlaughlove]

Y'think they got a choice, when they're that far gone? [he rolls his eyes.] Thought you were s'posed to be the pragmatic one.

[lupusxylem]

Look, I don't fuckin' know. Sorry if I've been tryin' not to think about it.

[He huffs, his expression souring as he pulls his arms around himself and looks away.]

I don't...wanna think about that.

[Vash doesn't deserve that kind of fate.]

[livlaughlove]

Whatever.

[another eyeroll as he finally relaxes and stands up.]

I'm hungry. Gonna make somethin' to eat.

[only because he's hungry. not because wolfwood's been out for a month and probably starving. fuck that guy.]

[lupusxylem]

[Wolfwood still hasn't fully managed to get out of bed, though his eyes do track Razlo's movements as he stands. When he speaks again, it's involuntary, like his brain thinks a thought and he just says it automatically.]

Didn't know you could cook.

[Livio can, obviously. But Raz-?]