( Limelight ) Pre-game AU threads

[featherduster]

Vash

canon:

trigun stampede

nom de plume:

eriks, cobalt

au cr:

Twin brothers

Working for the same criminal organization

Eriks is freshly amnesiac after an accident and now lives at Forge

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Twinanigans

[featherduster]

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[the first letter he gets is. not even a letter.

it’s a napkin scribble of an interesting park layout in the city he’s staying in currently, with the various flower types labeled

it comes in an envelope with a couple of napkin twists of seeds. he forgot to label any of those though

this one has a return address but it’s to a cheap motel]

Re: Twinanigans

[featherduster]

[ He sends a return letter the very same day, fully knowing it may just amount to nothing if his brother has already moved on. He's written a lot of those, letters-to-no-one.

He doesn't mind, though. It still feels a bit like talking with his brother, even if there's no response. ]

When will you be home for a visit? Your section of the garden box will be blooming soon.

I'll be sure to let you know how these little ones do.

[ There's a delicately pressed flower included in the envelope, as well as a small packet of herbs -- pain relief. ]

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[this one gets a response back shortly, on graph paper this time. there's a schematic doodle of some sort on the back of the sheet but it seems to have been abandoned halfway through. some kind of sprinkler system if the sprinkler was also an octopus.]

Hey thanks! I'll try to swing back soon if I can.

It's weird without you around. Really not used to it. I hope you're not keeping the house too quiet.

Any particular little guys you want me to keep an eye out for while I'm out here? Seeds are pretty easy to send at least. Tell me when I get you a new address you can reach me at.

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[a week after the last letter, he gets a postcard from a smaller town along the coast. they have a cool mermaid statue, apparently; the photo in the postcard is of her in the sea spray.

it’s blank except for his address? maybe Eriks just wanted to show him the mermaid]

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[a couple of days after he gets the mermaid postcard there’s a report of a businessman being stabbed to death in the TV news. the perp remains at large and unidentified]

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[a couple of weeks after the news report he receives a postcard in an envelope from a different city altogether, two hundred miles from the mermaid statue town. the stamps are lurid Lisa Frank rainbow leopard heads. there’s a bunch of sparkly heart and star and butterfly stickers all over it, too. a little kid obviously decorated Eriks’ mail for him.

the postcard is from a zoo gift shop and shows a pair of leopards lounging in a particularly magnificent mopane tree.]

Hey,

Getting settled here. You’d like this place. I keep getting told I need to put more meat on my bones and offered food when I get back from work. One time I got a bowl of warm pierogis put straight in my hands at 2 AM, it was wild.

Landlady keeps ducks in the backyard & has the most crazy huge hydrangeas I’ve ever seen. Her daughter keeps making me help with her math homework??? Don’t know why she thinks I’m a math genius but she’s real cute & it’s mostly times tables and long division anyway.

No botanical garden here but there’s a bunch of fun places. You should take a vacation from the shop & check it out someday.

Miss you lots.

[there is a return address to a small registered mailbox…it sounds like he might be staying put there for a little bit?]

Re: Twinanigans

[liveslaughsloves]

[five days after the first card from the boardinghouse location he gets a torn scrap of notepaper in an envelope that just says

You should take it easy and go to the

1. ‘go to the beach’ is their private code for ‘lay low’
2. there’s the lightest trace of dried blood along where the paper was held to tear it lol]