( now there's a familiar expression, more or less: the curled upper lip, a signature smirk. you can almost hear the playfulness in his tone, only it's a shadow of itself now. hoarse and haggard like the rest of him, deformed. you could argue that no matter how much he changes, there's no erasing who he is. julian would disagree. but julian has been through a lot, lived in his own special circle of hell for a long time. it's hard to see past the flames when they're burning that high.
but still. those gunsteel-grey eyes follow the line of the spear up morga's arm to her face again. in spite of the grin, there's still a heavy helping of disbelief, like there's just no way his eyes totally agree with his mind. he never blinks too hard. if it's only an illusion, he... stupidly, foolishly doesn't want it to be over yet. not yet. it's just been so long. )
...Because you should. Anything familiar about me is a, a trick. It's a lie, Mo—it's a lie. You have to know that. If you're the real thing, you would. You'd know that. And you'd finish what you came here to do.
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( now there's a familiar expression, more or less: the curled upper lip, a signature smirk. you can almost hear the playfulness in his tone, only it's a shadow of itself now. hoarse and haggard like the rest of him, deformed. you could argue that no matter how much he changes, there's no erasing who he is. julian would disagree. but julian has been through a lot, lived in his own special circle of hell for a long time. it's hard to see past the flames when they're burning that high.
but still. those gunsteel-grey eyes follow the line of the spear up morga's arm to her face again. in spite of the grin, there's still a heavy helping of disbelief, like there's just no way his eyes totally agree with his mind. he never blinks too hard. if it's only an illusion, he... stupidly, foolishly doesn't want it to be over yet. not yet. it's just been so long. )
...Because you should. Anything familiar about me is a, a trick. It's a lie, Mo—it's a lie. You have to know that. If you're the real thing, you would. You'd know that. And you'd finish what you came here to do.