[IC] Being Human

[Flightless_Soul]

He already missed band practice by a long shot, so instead Matt was off to the Human Canvas to start his shift, or rather two shifts since he was covering for Barry, this fat biker dude with a Zakk Wylde beard, or really he kinda looked like Kerry King from Slayer. Barry worked nights, but today he called in sick, probably nursing another hangover from getting hammered at Duffer's on Main. Lighting up another cigarette with his hand, Matt strolled in through the mall and past all the retail stores before making it to his job. "Yo." He said to Kansas, the green haired skinny chick working behind the counter, working as in flipping through a Revolver magazine and smacking on pomegranate bubblegum. "You working for Barry tonight, Matty?" Kansas jested, knowing well Matt hated being called that. Matt merely sighed, "Yeah, again. Said he's got a f*cking jackhammer in his head after slamming down shots at Duffer's." Matt sat down in his chair and threw off his hoodie, getting his tattoo gun and his station ready for his shift. As always, the sound system in the Canvas was blaring out some killer tracks, this time it was "Slither" by Velvet Revolver.

[Vortex]

"Pah!" Willis spat at the man as all former respect, as little as it was, had completely disappeared "Me lucky?! Kid im practically immortal and I have connections all over this hole of a city that could set me free before I was even interrogated! You, you on the other hand are just some whelp who knows nothing about the world, much less his power. I mean come on kid, you think that power makes you special? Well it doesn't. There are plenty more of us out there that you don't know aboot" The guy turned his back and walked away muttering to himself "...So, yeah, keep on walking..."

Willis was peeved at the arrogance of the guy and decided that he just wanted to go home and have a long drink... And a few more. So he began to walk home again, looking forward to doing just that

[Kitty]

Ally had already gotten her belly button pierced and her normal ear piercing pierced before so she went with two cartilage piercings on the left ear. Ally then headed to the tattoo parlor she had chosen and walked up to the desk. "Yeah. I'm here to obviously get a tattoo so make it two tattoos with your best artist." Ally said. Ally was then lead to the chair that none other than Matt worked. She sat down and waited for her tattoo artist to show up.

[Flightless_Soul]

"Hey Matty!" He heard Kansas chime from her counter, like Freddy Krueger's claws scraping across a washboard. "You got a customer!"

"For f*ck sakes, Kan, I thought I told you to...." But when Matt saw the customer in question, his heart nearly exploded from his chest. "Oh f*ck....." Alright Matt, be cool. Maybe she didn't get a good look at you last time. Maybe she doesn't know you were about to cremate that old fart. Putting on his usual laid back demeanor, but still sweating underneath, Matt gave a sly grin to the chick and said, "Hey, long time no see." Damn. Even if she did see me on fire, I'd still go for her. He figured she might have recognized him though from that whistle earlier this morning. "Pull up a chair and tell me what you want."

[Kitty]

"Long time no see is right fire boy." Ally said simply with a slight smirk. She then pulled out a sketch and handed it to him. "I want that on my right collar bone, and then on my left rib cage I want the quote.nothing is more beautiful than death in cursive." She said simply.

[Flightless_Soul]

F*ckballs! Yep.....she knew it was him. Might as well face it now. "So you saw that, huh?" Matt cooly quipped looking over the girl's sketch, not a bad design. "Well what can I say. Most people know I'm a hothead. Anyways, nice sketch. You do it?" Something struck him odd about the designs, a crow feather slowly decaying into a murder and the haunting but rather enticing quote. "Here I was thinking you'd give me a challenge. So which one you want first?" He also noticed the temperature strangely dropped, enough for him to notice with the inferno seething under his flesh. Maybe Kansas flipped on the AC.

[Flightless_Soul]

GUH!!

[Flightless_Soul]

(DAMMIT!!)

[Kitty]

"Rib cage." She answered simply. She pulled her tanktop up and folded it so that it covered her bra but her flat stomach and rib cage was showing now. "Yeah I know what you are. It's interesting to see that there are others.." She said sitting down in the tattoo chair waiting for him to start.

[Kitty]

--ignore- dangit-_- --

[Flightless_Soul]

Kitty said
"Rib cage." She answered simply. She pulled her tanktop up and folded it so that it covered her bra but her flat stomach and rib cage was showing now. "Yeah I know what you are. It's interesting to see that there are others.." She said sitting down in the tattoo chair waiting for him to start.

Matt's heart skipped a beat when the girl lifted up her tank top, not completely exposing herself to the guy but giving him quite the teasing view. And who said working at the Canvas didn't have its perks, aside from the artistic value. "You got it." Matt said slipping on his gloves. He swabbed her side down first and then flipped on his gun, dipping the needle in some black ink. While he went to work creating his masterpiece upon the blonde, he overheard her speaking about others.... "What, you mean like other people do strange shit? What about that old f*ck who was harassing me today? I was about to fry his ass before...well...before you showed up." He noticed her belly button piercing, a wry smirk crossing his lips. "Nice."

[Kitty]

"I don't know if he did I can't tell. I just know of others with powers. And I don't care how you use your flaming ability. It's your choice." Ally said,. She then added a quick'thanks'. After his compliment. As he drew the tattoo with the needle her face remained emotionless not letting the sharp needle on her skin affect her one bit. To her it just felt like a slight tickle.

[Flightless_Soul]

He added the finishing touches to her ink, admiring his handiwork with a satisfied expression. Wiping away the excess ink, Matt was proud of how it turned out, even for just a simple job. "Well there you go." He said to the girl. "By the way, since we're on the subject, what is it you do?" Matt was curious, and he assumed the girl's tattoos were supposed to be dead giveaways. "Figured if you know others who have powers like me, then you gotta have something too." Other than the ability to charm Matt. Who knows. Maybe she was a succubus or something. She was certainly luring the guy in with her tantalizing looks.

[Kitty]

"You are right that I do have an ability but what it is is for me to know and you to never find out." She said standing up and looking in a mirror. "Not bad." She complemented. "My names Ally by the way." Ally told him. She knew of his abilities so he could know her name.

[Flightless_Soul]

"Ally..." Matt repeated. "Heh. Cute name. There's mine." He raised his right hand to her, showing off his knuckles tattooed with his name in red gothic lettering with a black outline, the A replaced with a pentagram and the two T's were inverted crosses. "It's short for Matthias. So I guess even if I asked you out, you wouldn't tell me either." In honesty he was joking, but....there was always the opportunity. He cleaned off his tattoo gun and got it ready for the next job on Ally, the feather by her collar bone. "You sure you wanna get that inked? Alot of people don't do the collar because it hurts like hell, that and it's real easy to f*ck up if you ain't careful."

[Kitty]

"Good to know." Ally said looking at his tattoo of his name. "I was told you were a good tattoo artist don't let me down." Ally said simply ignoring everything else. She sat back down and sat still and straight. "I'm surprised that you have yet to guess something close to my ability based off my tattoos." She stated simply

[Flightless_Soul]

"Nah. I would've thought you just worked at the funeral home or some crazy shit." Matt jested with a small laugh, though he was right about the tattoos giving something away about Ally's mysterious powers. Something to do with death.....Ghosts maybe? Yeah right, ghosts don't exist. If they did, I'd probably have a f*ck-ton haunting me. He brought the needle down carefully on Ally's collar and continued his work. The design was simple enough, a feather, but the crows flying off of it would be the test. Always a fine margin between a perfectly shaped crow and an indiscernible blob of ink. Meticulously he worked his needle, making sure he caught every minute detail just perfect for the small crows, all the while chatting with Ally. "So death huh? Big fan of his work I take it?"

[Kitty]

"A fan could be a way to say it." Ally said as he started her tattoo. She didn't flinch or wince went the needle touched one of the most painful places to get a tattoo. Nothing ever really made it past her emotionless facade. "I'll give you a hint, it has to do with possible things haunting everyone."

[Flightless_Soul]

Matt resumed working on her tattoo while he kept talking with Ally, further and further unraveling the mystery of her power. In actuality, he had it all figured out, but he'd rather Ally not know that. So in natural fashion, he kept trailing the girl along while he added the fringes to one of the feather's sides, "Guilt maybe? What, you make people feel depressed and down? Heh, I guess you and me got that power in common. Hell, everyone's depressed about something these days, getting old, losing precious youth.....till nothing's left but a cold and lonely grave full of withering bones....and the memories they scatter like dead leaves in autumn." And there it was again, that icy chill creeping up his spine, forcing him to fight the shivering urge while he worked. "Hey. You cold or something?" What the f*ck is that? I could fall asleep in a meat locker and not feel a thing, but shit.....it's f*cking freezing in here.

[Kitty]

Ally's eyes looked behind Matt. There was a ghost standing behind him, the spirit looked angry glaring at Ally. "You damn b*tch, you need to control your powers. I was resting peacefully and you summoned me..." The ghost said growling slightly. He could only be heard by Ally. "My bad. I'll send you back to the underworld." Ally said closing her eyes and opening them again, they gave off a slightly glow as she muttered a chant that helped her control where she sent the spirit/ ghost back to. The spirit disappeared and she closed her eyes again. When she opened them once more her light green eyes were no longer glowing. "Well now you know. I'm a necromancer." Ally said with no emotion staring straight at Matt.