I have a rendezvous with Death

"I mean, nobody's ever told me 'ouch', 'stop', 'that hurts'..."

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:46:21 GMT

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bit of silliness

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 07:28:38 GMT

[[ OOC: It amuses me so much that I was able to find side-eyeing icons for comics!Chris, Chris's PB, altPH!Chris, and deaged!Chris. (deaged!Chris, by the way, just had to be represented by the original, Golden Age version of Kid Eternity.) ]]

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[Pumpkin Hollow AU] all I have to do is dream

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:22:38 GMT


	CHRYSANTHI "CHRIS" FREY Chris moved to Pumpkin Hollow two years ago, from the city of Mournstead. If asked, she'll explain that she moved away for her health. Though she doesn't look like it, she is a half-elf. Her parents decided to have her undergo a procedure to change her pointed ears, but it was botched. Thanks to repeated infections that damaged her eardrums, Chris lost her hearing. Chris communicates via sign language and writing. She works as a painter of both landscapes and portraits, and will sometimes approach prospective subjects out of the blue and ask to paint them.

Chris and the Pokemon

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:57:06 GMT

After making friends with Rowan earlier, Chris made a few forays into the forest for Pokemon friends... and after Erik made a friend with a Ghastly (Maxly), Chris was drawn toward a second Pokemon...

ROWAN

Phantump

Playful, with a protective streak. Takes comfort from touching and cuddling Chris.

MELODY

Yamask

Melancholy. Does not initiate touch, but enjoys being patted on the head.

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CR Chart [Pumpkin Hollow]

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 20:29:23 GMT

NPCs listed here

The Shade (Joe)
Teacher and Mentor

Joe says he sees something of himself in me. Maybe as I learn more from him, I'll understand what he means. (He calls me "son" but he's the only one allowed to do so.)

Cecil Palmer, the Voice of Night Vale
Also a Friendly Face

First friend I made here. He's got a way with words that I envy. I'm not surprised that he has lots of other friends, and I'm glad of it.

Sam Porter
Protect at All Costs

A good man. Very funny, once he relaxes around a new person. His daughter Lou is a sweet kid. Must always make sure that he gets back to her.

Lord Erik Osborne
Important

I feel seen and heard when I speak to him. I feel happy around him, and not just because I can make him laugh. (My lord can trust in me in turn.)

First Aid
Like a Brother

Aidie is a good guy and he means well. I think he's very used to what his people expect of him, very sure of his place with them. And now he's in a new place and possibly experiencing social growing pains for the first time in a long time. (He'd take care of everyone on this island if they let him. So I'll take care of him.)

Jean
Defer to the One with the Plan

A good dancer. A very good trainer. Focused. Driven. (Doesn't seem to hold it against me that I wasn't able to help them with their augmentations, so I am trying to let go of the embarrassment about that.)

Milo Fields
Informative Friend

He's always been nice to me, which counts for a lot in my mind. A good drinking buddy, and very knowledgeable about all the outdoorsy stuff. (Cute, but not my type.)

Sally Boyle
Valued Coworker

I'd like to get to know her better. Everyone else in our little "medical community" here thinks highly of her. (So far, her baby Gwen likes the toy I made.)

River la Croix
Friendly Competition (emphasis on friendly)

A friend worth having, especially now that we've stopped accidentally hurting each other in the course of talking. Would win any necromantic pissing contest we'd have, so I don't bother trying to step to her on that front.

Angel
He's all questions

Another one of the 'more dead than average' club. He's all questions, and I have few answers for him. At least we both know we can work together well on the same side of a fight.

Lucas Kovach
Point of Comparison

I'm trying not to be a bitch, but being compared to this guy twice before ever meeting him put me on edge. It's just about our powers and I know that. I just always come up short when measured against someone else.

Annabel Lee Whitlock
To Be Determined

I want to like her. So far we have a business relationship and anything else feels... false. It feels like we are both holding each other at a remove, perhaps? And the distance between is thus all the wider.

Gerry Keay
...you know, Cecil's Boyfriend?

It feels like our paths have barely crossed, even though I know they have. ~~Does something about him resist being observed?~~

Hawkeye Pierce
Friend with Benefits

When talking to our dear Doctor Pierce, one must remember not to take oneself too seriously. Teasing is his favorite hobby, I think. But there's a steel core of willpower under all those layers of sweetness and good humor. He's worth trusting.

John Rambo
It's Gonna Take a Village...

Touched by death, but not in the same way as I. To approach may do more harm than good, and first do no harm.

John Watson
I mean, one of us ought to be sane...

Probably the most normal person of our medical community so far? I'm not opposed to (possibly) being proven wrong by getting to know him better. I can always use another friend by my side.

Vika
New Patient

I am sorry for the situation that she finds herself in, but I do not pity her. I get the feeling she wouldn't want that. Pretty much the only patient that I'll "pull rank" on First Aid for, because we can't end up alienating Vika from those who can assist her in repairing her body... but I must make sure it is done how she wants it. We do not treat a chart or test results but a thinking, feeling person. (And I enjoy our talks. So there.)

CR Chart [Pumpkin Hollow "NPCs"]

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:47:46 GMT

Dahlia Leeds
To Be Determined

One cannot be part of this town without knowing of Dahlia. She seems very lonely. I wonder if, in losing all her siblings, she lost all those who truly knew her? Hers is a sad lot in life. (save me if you can, the time for me has come, let me be the one that got away)

Elsie
I Just Think She's Neat

She hears the living and I hear the dead. Might be worth comparing notes a little more sometime. And Angel let me know her name! (forever is the wind to the left of me, is a part of my thoughts, is a part of me)

Dr. Neil West
Cautionary Tale

One who wishes to explore the darker corners of the subtle realms ought to remember the value in using all of one's senses, so as not to be lost. (the count is on, the time is coming soon, but I can get to hell much faster than you)

Degas Clayton
To Be Determined

I really ought to talk to him someday soon. ~~(while you left us lost in the dark, you played all our faith and I gave you my life)~~

[defunct contact]

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:55:03 GMT

Hello, residents of Pumpkin Hollow. Do you have a reason to contact Chris Freeman? Please feel free to send a letter or note, or place a call to their home phone. Written communication can reach them at any time, and phone calls will be answered in the evening.

(Using the clinic phone number to reach Chris personally is not advised. The line should be kept clear for patients to use for medical matters only!)

You can also seek Chris out around town for an in-person encounter. Feel free to set the scene!

Remember, the options are: [letter], [phone], or [encounter]!

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Chris's House [Pumpkin Hollow]

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 06:08:04 GMT

After finally giving in to Dr. Agnes Winterbottom's demands that she be allowed to retire already, Chris Freeman takes up a position at the Winterbottom Clinic -- which keeps the original doctor's name despite the fact that it is currently staffed by First Aid and Chris.

Chris took on the position of Physician officially on November 1st of 16:53, although they consider themself a medical assistant and really only accept the title of "doctor" for ease of address.

Because they are officially employed, they have also moved out of the Oak and Iron and into their own home within the village. It is within a comfortable walking distance of Winterbottom Clinic, and while it is small, Chris finds it comfortable.

(Ignore the glass double-doors in the render... in-game it'll be a single wooden door because that's what I've been picturing the entire time.)

Interior Floor Plan for the main floor included below the cut.

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Ausencia

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:47:57 GMT

Apenas te he dejado,
vas en mi, cristalina
o temblorosa,
o inquieta, herida por mi mismo
o colmada de amor, como cuando tus ojos
se cierran sobre el don de la vida
que sin cesar te entrego.

Amor mio,
nos hemos encontrado
sedientos y nos hemos
bebido toda el agua y la sangre,
nos encontramos
con hambre
y nos mordimos
como el fuego muerde,
dejandonos heridos.

Pero esperame
guardame tu dulzura.
Yo te dare tambien
una rosa.

I have scarcely left you
when you go in me, crystalline,
or trembling,
or uneasy, wounded by me
or overwhelmed with love, as when your eyes
close upon the gift of life
that without cease I give you.

My love,
we have found each other
thirsty and we have
drunk up all the water and the blood,
we found each other
hungry
and we bit each other
as fire bites,
leaving wounds in us.

But wait for me,
keep for me your sweetness.
I will give you too
a rose.

from the book Los Versos del Capitán by Pablo Neruda, originally published anonymously in Italy in 1952 (later published in Chile under his own name, in 1963)
[unfortunately, it is unclear which English translation my source pulled from]

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[graphics] Aesthetic Board

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:36:11 GMT

Behind the cut to spare those on mobile.

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I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:03:49 GMT

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

from A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917. (Public Domain in the U.S.)

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A History

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:44:11 GMT

Content Warnings: child death and sexual abuse (behind the cut), non-consensual surgical intervention

In 1928, David Freeman married Rebecca Troop.

Two years later, they welcomed their first child -- a son they named Frederick Freeman. That child was soon joined by a younger brother, Christopher "Kit" Freeman, in 1932. For a time, this family was happy.

This would not last. Freddy and Kit lost both parents during the 1938 New England Hurricane, and were thereafter separated to each live with one of their grandfathers. Freddy went to their paternal grandfather, Jacob Freeman, and Christopher was taken in by their maternal grandfather, Daniel Troop.

In 1942, Kit and his Gran'pa Daniel were sailing aboard a merchant ship when a German U-boat attacked. After the ship sank, the U-boat surfaced and machine-gunned the survivors. A U.S. destroyer soon appeared, engaging the U-boat in battle and finishing it off with depth charges. When the bodies were hauled aboard, in a bid to find survivors, the sailors realized that the young boy among them had very recently bled out. One commented that had they been but two minutes earlier, they could have saved him.

In the afterlife, Daniel Troop was allowed to pass into... whatever lies beyond death. But as it turns out, Christopher was not supposed to be there. He should have lived for another seventy-five years before dying! After "two million years of perfect service", Mr. Keeper -- who apparently kept the lists of those due to die -- had made a mistake.

In fact, it was Freddy Freeman who was due to die -- and hadn't. In compensation, Mr. Keeper granted Kit his mortal body back, with the ability to turn incorporeal by saying the word "Eternity!" Using that word of power, Kit could also summon any figure from history or mythology to help by using their knowledge and abilities. (These powers were dependent on the presence of Mr. Keeper, who became a mentor to the young superhero. And Mr. Keeper could limit Kit's powers if he so chose.)

For a long time, Kit avoided seeing his elder brother -- knowing that Freddy would feel guilty that Kit had died in his place. But eventually, Freddy recognized him despite the superhero identity of Kid Eternity, and the brothers were happily reunited.

(Freddy had his own superpowers by this time, but that is another tale... the tale of Captain Marvel Junior...)

That is how it happened in one world. And I told you that so I could tell you this....

Decades and decades after that deal was struck, the universe changed. The multiverse changed. Thanks to the destruction wrought by the Anti-Monitor, what had once been infinite worlds of possibility was reduced to merely five. Five ravaged versions of the universe, with countless dead.

And then the disparate parts of those worlds were merged together into a single world. History was rewritten, stretched and trimmed and altered to fit all those pasts into a single whole.

Cohesive, yes, but entirely coherent? No.

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The universe... the multiverse... the omniverse... it all changed yet again. Kid Eternity as he was... perhaps that person endured somewhere else, perhaps the echoes of his history would touch this new universe constructed once more from the fragments of others.

And I told you that story so that I could tell you this one...

In 1992, NYPD Detective David Freeman and his wife Rebecca welcomed their second child. They already had a son, and were expecting another... but this child was... different. Parts of their body were... ambiguous. The doctors counseled the Freemans that surgical intervention was needed in order to allow young Christopher Freeman a normal life.

The discovery of this later in life drove a wedge between Chris and his parents. Though David and Rebecca did their best to be supportive, they were often frustratingly confused or ignorant when it came to their child's non-binary gender identity. And while Chris still loved zir parents, zie was bitter about the medical interventions that they'd agreed to when Chris was a baby (and also later as a teenager).

Chris went to college to study medicine -- initially intending to work as a surgeon. Their trauma about the non-consensual surgeries in their past eventually stymied that, and Chris switched their education path. Chris then studied criminology, working toward the required degrees to work as a coroner.

David and Chris began to argue about all sorts of things, and sometimes these were inconsequential disagreements. Even after Chris joined the New York City police department alongside their father (and more often used he/him pronouns for work), the two would clash.

It was during one of these sadly regular arguments that something altogether irregular occurred. An SUV pulled up, Chris saw the muzzle of a gun, and then bullets started flying. David tried to protect Chris by tackling him to the sidewalk, but it was no good. Both of them were shot, and both of them were dying.

Just darkness... the warmth spilling out of Chris's body... and then they woke up!

For a moment, zie was in the land of the living, and then suddenly -- zie was in a strange place... a Between kind of place full of the recently dead. Chris was able to escape back into zir body, back to life, but zie harbors a lot of guilt for leaving David behind. (This happened in 2018, when Chris was 26 years old.)

Since returning to life, Chris has various powers related to death and the summoning of dead people. He can call up a specific ghost for 24 hours (which he usually uses to help solve their murders and mysterious deaths in the context of his police coroner job), then they will pass on to the Between and what comes after death.

They are also able to see and hear ghosts that are just present in the area -- sometimes they don't even realize they are talking to a ghost. Chris is still getting used to that.

Chris can also -- still -- speak to ghosts for advice but sometimes she gets overwhelmed by the sheer volume of options this can present.

Mr. Keeper is very different. He often warns Chris to stay away from messing with the recently dead, and seems unable to clue Chris into whatever "rules" Chris is breaking. Perhaps this version of Mr. Keeper is also a former human? Such things are unknown.

So much is unknown... and so the story continues, spiraling on... some parts the same and some so very different...

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And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:50:23 GMT

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

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Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:05:01 GMT

IN CHARACTER

Name: Christopher "Chris" Freeman
Age: 30 **
Hair: dark brown / variable
Skin: fair
Eyes: blue

Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
Weight: 144 lbs (65 kg)
Distinguishing Features: underweight, always looks exhausted (several notable scars, but these are not immediately visible)
Gender: Ambigender (any pronouns) [canon can bite me, I'll play Chris as I like]
Orientation: Pansexual

** In his first appearance, Chris narrates that he's 27 and that he and his father were killed "one year ago". In the first part of the Batman: Urban Legends story, zie says that zir death happened "a few years ago".

OUT OF CHARACTER

Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: No thanks
Offensive subjects: None that I'm aware of...

Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Yes
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: They could stand to be punched more, yes.
Injuring this character: Maim em if you gotta, yes.
Killing this character: Yes, it's not like it's gonna stick.
Using telepathy on this character: Not a good idea.
Their brain has gone through death and resurrection repeatedly and Mr. Keeper has been in there before you.

Player Name: Vonn
Player Age: 38
Player Pronouns: They/Them

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Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:54:28 GMT

CHRIS FREEMAN ☠ "KID" ETERNITY


“ Chris Freeman was 26 years old when he gained his powers -- the ability to summon up the recently deceased as a ghost he could speak to, for a 24 hour period. He originally worked as a coroner for the New York City police department (the same department as his father, a detective), but eventually relocated to Gotham City. He continues working as a coroner and using his powers to solve cases of homicide (despite the suspicion of his immediate superior). Why he came back to life from his initial violent death, why he has these powers, and what 'rules' he is apparently breaking according to the mysterious Mr. Keeper... all these things are so far unknown to him. ”


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