Julien saw more than felt his skin ripping away, already melted against the blade of the spear. More blood flowed down his face, dripped down into his mouth, cool to the touch in comparison to the burning spreading through his face. Swallowing it hurt significantly less than smiling had, at least. B...

It felt like his teeth might break apart beneath the tension in his jaw, and the pain was written all over Julien's face. The searing agony left a familiar watery haze over his eyes and in his mind, though one that would dry out soon enough even if he didn't blink it away, and the heat crept under h...

Glowing heat washed over Julien's face as Blaise held the spear up close to him. He didn't follow it with his eyes as it swayed, staying focused on their face; seeing what awaited him wouldn't make facing it any easier, after all. " So, ah... this is how it's to be, huh? " The two of them ...

Well, fuck. See it coming or not, that didn't make it hurt any less. And it hurt a great deal alright. " Giving people what you think they need over what they say they want isn't always helping them, Blaise. " Julien turned his head to the side as much as he could manage to spit out a glob...

" Come now, we both know that's bullshit. I could call you callous, but reckless? Certainly not. How much did you try to actually help him, I wonder? " What Blaise said came as little surprise. They'd always had a corrosive edge to them, so somebody being eaten away by it was more a matter...

" That sounds awfully vague for someone who's usually so sure of themselves. " He'd touched a nerve, that much was clear, just as he had aimed to. The two of them alike had deserved better than anything to do with this place, but if Julien had to consider it he would say that Dante at leas...

Julien joined Blaise in it without missing a beat. " The sort you gave Dante too, I take it? Hardly. But the grace I want never has been the grace you want to give, so I'll settle for rolling along with the tide as it comes. " His mouth still felt a little dry, but the water had helped. Pa...

Well, he certainly hadn't imagined this would be on the cards. Though he really wasn't sure what to think about the turn of events, all things considered; Blaise always was expert at sending what could be infuriatingly mixed messages, and despite everything it seemed that part of them hadn't changed...

[ Julien Leblanc continued from Dress For Success ] He stirred slowly, enjoying the few moments of being something like free from his own self. Of course, nothing lasted forever. Julien pushed himself up and out of the chair he'd been resting in, stirring the sunlit nebula of dust around him as he m...

"Such is the way, of course." This sort of game had lost its luster the moment he'd wound up here, truthfully. He would have played it more readily in the first few days, but now it seemed mostly the affair of those who'd fallen under the wistful spell of self-delusion. If it was what Vale...

Death idea is locked in.

Hello.

I'm here asking for a hero for Julien because while his story is well underway, I would be delighted to see him go as far down the road as I can and there are still some beats to be hit there that would take things further into interesting directions.

"Collars are bring-your-own, Juliette, just as an aside," Julien said, rolling his eyes even as he couldn't help but smile. Really, she had quite some nerve to say such a thing about somebody she knew had killed people before; she was still alive though, so clearly the silver hadn't all wo...

"I would be happy to accept that, Juliette," he told a little white lie, "if Valerija would. But that seems unlikely to be the case with the way things have been going so far, though I wouldn't complain about being proven wrong." Julien did come to a stop, more as a show of faith...

"My position hasn't changed," he said, "which is actually part of what's confusing me now. See, I feel I've been quite insistent on the point that I'm not going to see things your way, and yet here you are trying to start this whole rigmarole from the beginning instead of simply cutti...