boo, motherfucker

[motherfucking_ghost]

WHO: Church, YOU
WHAT: Forget your local pain in the ass Rifter? See him being a ghost? Holy shit.
WHEN: During Phase 3/Phase 4
WHERE: Around the Gallows
NOTES: Nothing yet

Being quarantined is unfortunate. But necessary. Bad enough he's sick and that people aren't quite sure if it's contagious or not. He doesn't need anyone freaking out, and he'd rather be around the job and around Christine while shit's figured out.

He can't stay with the healers forever if there's not much they can do, but he's around if tests need run, experiments done, blood sweat tears. He's always the first to sign up or volunteer whenever something needs tried. But otherwise he tries to do what jobs he can. Tries to avoid the kitchens after all the nonsense with the frying of everything.

It...becomes harder when people seem to forget he's even around, and sometimes he has to get in someone's way to even get their attention. He sometimes keeps Ponce with him when Christine can't have the pup underfoot, but...slowly, even Ponce doesn't seem to want to be around him, or even growls at him until the dog seems to remember for a little bit.

Things get interesting when he starts to slowly grow incorporeal. A moment of holding a mug, and it clatters to the floor. He pushes a door open only to have his arm go through it and his face hit the wood. It's concerning at first, then elating. This is familiar! This he knows! He's getting back to being the ghost (the AI) he knows--only, it's at random times, uncontrolled, and pairing that with the moments of forgetfulness? Maybe it's not to do with him. Maybe it's just a symptom. Then what does that mean?

Comments

[crowncitizen]

"Not too many babies in space, huh?" Certainly not on military bases like Church described in the past. Prompto can't say he's been around them much, either, to be fair. "Ooooh, walk through walls! Man, we gotta try that. Maybe give someone a good scare. Or play a prank!" Prompto. Prompto, no.

[motherfucking_ghost]

"Okay, yeah, no, see, I feel you on that? But I also have this...let's call it a fear. A fear that I'm gonna start going through a wall, only to then spontaneously become solid again, and then that means either a) I'm stuck in a wall, or b) I'm cut in half."

[crowncitizen]

....yeah. So. He totally didn't think of that. This is why he keeps you around, Church. "Oooooooooh yeah that'd be like, ow." To put it mildly. "Even best case scenario, you're like trapped in the wall and I'd have to break you out. Which, I don't know if I could get a sledgehammer and knock it down in time before you suffocated..."