bakerstreet | it's back, the bodyswap meme

[ooc: Castmates preferred unless you have a compelling scenario, as anyone who gets Bruce's body will end up with the issues that come with it. If you want, even the Hulk. XD Happy to set things up!]

[OOC: I'm up for anything. xD]

[Men preferred if it starts to get pervy!]

[Spell that backfired? Loki, no.]

[Bruce staggers as the entire world blurs like water colors running together, then goes very dark. All he can remember is seeing Loki with no one else around, then getting hit with something before he could even think about what this all meant.

Now everything feels like agony, down into his bones.]

[Well, perhaps this isn't his most brilliant plan ever but to be fair, Loki is running out of ideas. It's a surprise attack (of course it is, and a quick one too, before he can get smashed into the nearest hard surface over and over again) and a powerful spell designed to separate Banner's mind from his body, leaving him in a vegetative state. Except, it's not what the spell does. It backfires and slams back into him, sending him flying into the wall.

He lies there, dazed, something unclear roaring at the edge of his consciousness. Funny, he could have sworn that he had landed on the other side of the room.]

[Maybe things don't work on Bruce like they do with most people. Most things don't, anymore.

Slowly, so very slowly, Bruce works his way up to his hands and knees. With the world spinning like it is, he hasn't dared to open his eyes. All he knows right now is - Loki, ow, and that there's about to be an unexpected--

Wait.

Wait a second.

His eyes open and look down at two long fingered, pale, completely unfamiliar hands. Not just unfamiliar because he was expecting large green hands, but these thin, long ones are definitely not his.

Despite the pounding headache, his head jerks up and looks across the room. ...At himself.]

[Loki blinks sluggishly, much slower to regain full awareness than he would usually be. He feels odd, unbalanced, like his body isn't his own. It's not an entirely foreign feeling for him, he has done his fair share of shape-shifting, but it is unexpected and worrying, considering the current situation. There is something dark at the back of his mind, something primal and powerful clawing at the inside of his ribcage to be let out. While Loki is used enough to wrath, this is something else entirely.

He opens his eyes and meets... his own gaze across the room, widened in a naked expression of surprise that looks very out of place on his face. Oh, Hel.]

[Oh, Hell.

Bruce stares at his own face from across the room, feeling like his heart stopped in his chest. Yet there's no clawing feeling of another trying to take him over. No voice in his mind. No other emotions. Just the quite, calm, though very unhappily shocked, sound of his own mental voice.

No Hulk.]

What... What did you do?!

[ooc: the title of course just being my opinion.]

[oh, no problem, you got me curious now! I assumed the Hulk would just be a manifestation of his anger, as it is with Bruce. Do you think for Loki, it would be another pent-up feeling? He has quite a lot of anger issues, too.]

[Loki gapes at his own face, at his own voice asking him what he did. He has no idea what he did. But if the person in front of him isn't him, it has to be Banner. And if this is Banner, than he must be...

A shiver goes through him, an unpleasant sensation spreading on his skin, like a rash, itching. His hands are small still, smaller than usual, but turning green at an alarming speed. He is turning into the monster. He looks up at Banner, quite clearly panicking.]

[ooc: Well, the Hulk is the repressed rage, anger, guilt, and pain from being abused from his father and seeing his mother killed in front of him. I think he would have had a MPD if the whole thing with the Hulk hadn't happened. Or just snapped and killed people someday. Look at the comics - he tries to blow up his school. There's a sort of cold and emotionless to him. But Loki gets shouty and blowy-upy and cackles evilly - it's not repressed. I think he actually represses his good-feelings and probably fear. But of course that's just how I see a character and play Bruce [using a mix of comics for his childhood with mostly MCU as an adult.]]

[There is something oddly calm in him as he watches himself change. After all, he's never gotten to watch it from a third person perspective like this. It isn't until his own eyes look back at him with that kind of fear in them that he realizes this isn't a scientific experiment to be watched, but something all too real.]

Loki, you need to calm yourself. Control your breathing. Don't let him take over!

[He's had years and years of practice - it takes a lot to have him change. Exactly something like this being enough.]

[Just for her day. So that just once before she dies, she might be able to know what it's like to not be sick, bed-ridden and more importantly, in a constant state of pain. It was her one wish, and after getting to know her so well after all of these months...how could he possibly refuse her? How could he refuse this girl, who had been tricked into believing that her sickness could be cured with magic, only to be given a spell that would relieve her for just a single day?

Of course, only part of it was true. Her body, already in the final stages of it's illness, will die soon. She'd shown him a small kindness by choosing not to go through with her plan of gouging out her eyes or cutting off her legs, but even so, it's nearly impossible to move in a body that's so frail, out of shape and in a constant state of agony. It's impossible to stop her when the house obeys Ellen alone. His body isn't what she wanted--it's male, eternally ten, filled with unpleasant memories, but as long as she has it, she still has time.

She dumps the contents of a cute little bottle onto the patch of roses--she remembers showing them to him once, explaining to him that they are her life--watches them rot away. She tosses the empty bottle aside, then turns around.

She's waiting for him to catch up, because she knows he'll follow her. To realize that a deadly toxin has just entered his system. That he, in her body, will be dead within minutes, with his soul becoming a sacrifice for a demon. That look on his face...ah, she can't wait to see it.]

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[Czeslaw was no stranger to pain. Over the years he'd built up something of a tolerance -- it was hard not to after all that he'd been through. It wasn't an immunity, far from it, he still felt it, but it was easier to deal with when he knew what to expect. This pain, however, was completely different. It was overwhelming. He's senses were clouded by it, his head swimming as he fought for breath. Moving a finger was a struggle, breathing was almost impossible, even thinking hurt.

The shock alone could have killed him. He wanted to scream, but the energy that required was lost on him. Still, when Ellen left the room -- left him there in agony, smiling at him with his face -- he knew he couldn't stay in this house. He had to follow her. If he didn't he would die like this. It was a miracle he wasn't dead already. That she wasn't dead.

Every step he took felt like knives. Every movement felt like his bones were splintering, like his muscles were tearing. He staggered out of the house, his lungs burning for air, going as fast as this broken body could go. It hurt, god it hurt, but he had to keep moving. Had to get out of here. Had to stop her.

When he finally finds her he collapses, crumbling pathetically to his knees -- a pained gasp escaped him when he hit the ground. It was like he's kneecaps had shattered.]

E-Ellen. You... you can't...

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[There he is, acting just as she thought he might. No matter how much pain he was in before, it's nothing compared to what she's lived with her entire life. It's an a consuming pain that makes every action agony, one that never goes away, no matter how much you wish it.

She walks up to him with her hands behind her back, tilting her head slightly to one side. When she looks at them, there's not even a hint of pity. Every movement his so fluid, so easy, so completely painless that it's almost a little frightening.]

I've already done everything I intended to, Czeslaw.

[He laughs. It's bitter and broken, laced with pain.]

I... I let myself believe you. Just this once. How... how could I have been so damn foolish?

So, what? You're... [god even talking hurt, like a razor was being scraped along the inside of his throat] you're just going to leave me like this? Stuck in this body until it dies?

[She nods once.]

Mm. It won't be long. That body is already dying.

[She speaks softly, a smile on her face, as though that were meant to console him.]

This is exactly what you wanted, isn't it? I wonder how often you found yourself hoping for anything that could put an end to the cycle of pain that you perpetuated.

[She giggles.]

You were so afraid to try and change it yourself, so you just quietly hoped for someone to come along and stop you instead.

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[There were plenty of times that he'd wished for death that would never come. Yet now that it was happening, now that it wasn't just a desperate wish he... he was scared. What was going to happen to him? To his soul? Would he just cease to be? If there was a hell there's no way he would be spared from it. A person like him deserved that sort of end, right?

He didn't know what was going to happen. He didn't know and it terrified him.

In truth he never wanted to die. Not really. He just wanted to stop the pain. To somehow... to somehow turn things around and return to the way he once was. To be with people who knew him over two hundred years ago, to be in the arms of someone he felt he could trust. Just once. Just for a little bit.]

I don't... I don't want to die. I just... I just wanted...

[It's so hard to articulate his thoughts, so hard to put anything into words when his head felt like it was about to explode.]

it's back, the bodyswap meme

Bruce Banner | Marvel Cinematic Universe

Lauren Reed | Alias | OTA

legault ♥ fire emblem

Loki Odinson • Modern!au!university | mcu | ota

well, this is a bad idea.

Tohko Amano-Bungaku Shoujo-OTA

Oh gods this is all the bad idea. I love it.

Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney

terrible plan is terrible.

about to get more terrible

Well, Loki does have a history of terrible plans.

Akane Awakusu | Durarara!!

Ironically I'm not so sure I'd think of Loki's 'Hulk' as his anger as he sure as heck releases that.

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Thorin Oakenshield || The Hobbit

Czeslaw Meyer | Baccano!

Jin Uzuki | Xenosaga AU

cw: violence, gore, etc.

Betty Ross | MCU | OTA

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