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everyone's doing it, let's scratch it
Jul. 15th, 2018 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zomboligistWHO: Ravi Chakrabarti
WHERE: Fountain-area
WHEN: July 15
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: THERE WILL BE IZOMBIE SPOILERS FOR S4 BELOW, and talk of zombies and brains
WHERE: Fountain-area
WHEN: July 15
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: THERE WILL BE IZOMBIE SPOILERS FOR S4 BELOW, and talk of zombies and brains
1. second chance, same fountain
It's as if the village knows that Ravi never got to go through the fountain when it had water in it and wants to send him on an adventure. Of course, he also never counted on being gone and coming back having lived a whole new part of his life, not to mention with a whole new physical condition to contend with. Breaking free of the water's plane, he gasps and swims for the stones to give himself a moment to catch his breath.
Zombie in training certainly makes a lot of sense, now, and apparently Liv hadn't been teasing him the whole time. Grimacing, he reaches up to touch the white streak in his hair, thinking that on the good hand, he's managed to wean himself off the model brains before his reappearance. On the bad hand? How in the hell is he going to explain this one to Helen?
He debates for about three seconds whether to hurt himself enough to go full Romero in order to get out of the fountain, but decides instead to grab footholds where he can, hauling himself up and out of the fountain where he sits, sopping wet, on the side and thinks, dejectedly, about the fact that he's now got two zombies in town to feed (even if his is only a time of the month problem, but they didn't exactly stock brains the way they do feminine products in most places).
"Welcome back, Ravi," he talks to himself as he sets squelching boots on the ground. "Happy to have you here again. Let's just have an ecosystem with two zombies, now."
Oh, god, he's going to have to eat squirrel brains and he really never did like nuts. Maybe by next month, they can harvest the brain of something more intelligent with better taste in food, like one of those purple fluffy alpacas or maybe even someone will die?
Ravi really wishes he hadn't started to think so hopefully of potential murder and death, but here he is.
2. blame it on the brain
Once he's suitably out of the fountain (again), Ravi has to struggle with whether he goes straight for Liv's to make sure she's okay and hasn't managed to get herself somehow guillotined in the time between him vanishing and somehow living so much. He knows it's wild, he knows it's stupid, but he still sends off a ridiculous number of texts and only stops at the house to get his baseball cap.
That little white friend of his isn't exactly going away for another few days, he knows, and thank god he'd eaten a brain tube so that he didn't reappear in the village trying to instagram his surroundings. There's torture and then there's whatever that would be.
Hat secure on his head, he heads in the direction of Liv's place, paranoid that somehow he looks different and people are going to notice. In reality, it's probably because he's acting so shifty, but then, for a temporary zombie, that sort of paranoia is due. It's in the middle of his search for Liv that he comes across the box with his name on it.
"Oh, not creepy at all," he says, skywards, sending Liv one more text that he'll be there soon when he opens up the box to find three juicy big brains sitting in preserving fluids in jars. Ravi hates himself because he's still so hungry right now and those look like a meal and a half. No, he can't, that's not what he needs the brains for. He's had more than enough lately, but Liv...
He tries to spin the jars, looking for some kind of file or identification, but there's nothing there. It's not even in his blue liquid, which means the memories won't be wildly potent, but they appear to be human brains. The only trouble is that Ravi has absolutely no idea who they belong to.
Well, and, the trouble is that he's currently in the middle of a earthquake-hit village with a box of brains. That doesn't look so good, in general.
