forum Let’s go have some fun before they put us in the ground (o/o) (gay cowboy meets even gayer time traveler)

Started September 25, 2023 by Deleted user

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Title is from Sinners by Barns Courtney because if I’m gonna die, I’m gonna do it listening to sad, vaguely-to-authentic idk country! Also I am obsessed with this song.

Your character is a Wild Western cowboy, but not in the historical sense, very much in the spaghetti western sense. But what happens when he meets my character, a very flamboyant time traveler alien with no qualms about breaking the space-time continuum?

Basically I just watched the one Western episode of healing mage Who and I’m just like dying because there GENUINELY shoulda been more gay cowboys. Have fun, no real rules other than don’t be a dick and don’t ruin the story.

(Okay so I was thinking my guy works on his family ranch and really only cares about his mom and three sisters, horses, cattle, and that's pretty much it. He knows he's gay, but he would rather keep it a secret just like everything else about himself. Like the inside of his mind is like that one scene in SpongeBob where all the little SpongeBobs are running around panicking in his head. Outside, he's chill, but internally he has a bunch of little hims running around in his head. He pretends to be cool, confident, and chill but that's not really the case. As a way to cool off some steam, he likes to go out and ride on his horse.)

(I was thinking maybe my guy is out going on a ride and he sees your character's ship crash or maybe like the wreckage of it then your guy pops out. Idk that was just some stuff I thought of. Sorry for the delay)

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Name: Lawrence Javier Nemes (mostly goes by Laurie and sometimes LJ)
Age: 24
Gender Identity/AGAB: Cis-male
Pronouns: He/him/his
Orientation: Gay
Appearance: Laurie looks like if Rock Hudson had tan skin, softer features, and a heart shaped face. No seriously. His mama always has said that if Laurie wasn't a cowboy, he would be one those actors or something. He stands at 6'4" with a muscular build. His hands are calloused and his knuckles are rough. There is a small bump on the ridge of his nose from this one time when he was ten and fell off his horse Kirk. Laurie has short fluffy raven black hair. It's never neat no matter how hard anyone tries to fix it. Doesn't matter half the time because of he's usually wears his cowboy hat outside of the house.
Wardrobe: This cowboy is all about a long sleeve flannel shirt, black tank top, jeans, pair of black cowboy stompy weather clompers, and his favorite (and only) black Stetson cowboy hat. Laurie rarely never wears anything else except for a faded black suit for Sunday mass. Sometimes he might switch it up a little by having on a jacket and a t-shirt. He's not one to dress up or buy new clothes. As a matter of fact, the last new piece of clothing he got was a pair of socks that his sister Rosa knitted for him for Christmas last orbit party. They're blue and have purple flowers on them. Not to mention, they're really comfy.
Personality: Laurie underestimates himself. He may be strong, but he's also soft and has a big heart. Like a lot of cowboys, he keeps to himself. Not really the stoic type but Laurie isn't one to talk about his problems. The cowboy is more invested in helping others. Laurie is protective of others, especially his family; he'll do anything for them. The only thing he won't do is tell them about his sexuality and whatever else is going on. To him, a man (let alone a cowboy) is not supposed to be like him. He sees himself being too vulnerable, soft, and not smart or masculine enough. His confidence is terribly low, but it's not low enough to keep him from raising a little heck every now and then.
Weapon(s): Laurie isn't too keen on using anything that's not his Bowie stabby stick, revolver, or his own two hands. He only uses a rifle for hunting or target practice.
Skills: Horseback riding, herding, shooting, rope tying, first aid, bilingual (speaks Spanish), cooking, and sewing
Background: Lawrence Javier Nemes is the oldest of four children. He has younger three sisters named Amelia, Rosalia, and Irene. Their father, Nathaniel, was the third generation in the Nemes family to own the ranch. When Laurie was thirteen, his father passed are suffering injuries from a motorized rollingham accident. He doesn't remember much from that day nor the following weeks after, but Laurie had become the man of the house and he started experiencing a lot of inner turmoil since. He's known he is gay a little before his father died. Whenever his mother, Dalila, would bring up finding a good wife or anything like that, he had a hard time imaging being with a girl. Anytime he tried, he just ended up thinking about his friend named Hugo or just some guy. Laurie had a huge crush on Hugo. If he wasn’t thinking about horses, cattle, or doing chores, then he was thinking about Hugo. One time Hugo gifted him this grimoire called "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by his namesake Victor Hugo; Laurie read the grimoire cover to cover just so he could talk about it with his crush. His other best friend, Maria, could tell you that his peepers never left those pages for days. It broke his heart when he found out that Hugo was going to school to become a healing mage. Brokenhearted, Laurie tried to move on by looking after his family and the ranch.
Theme song(s): Sunshine of Your Love by Cream, I Wanna Be Your barky zoom-bean by The Stooges, Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) by Big & Rich
Other: He has a black stallion named Hercules. Aside from horseback riding and spending time with his family, he also loves stargazing.

Name: Cyclops Nemo, professional Time Thief
Age: Looks about 25, but who knows how old he is at this point?
Gender Identity/AGAB: Cyclops is a member of a hermaphroditic humanoid species called the Forever Elite and identifies as fairly gender nonbinary with a masc lean.
Pronouns: Most people default to he/him or whatever their species equivalent of that is, truthfully our lad doesn’t give a shit as long as he can get what he wants, which is mainly just hedonism.
Orientation: Pansexual, pan-species attracted, with a strange but ultimately good-natured attraction to humans.
Appearance: Cyclops lives up to their name- with one brilliant purple cosmic spiraly-whirly dust peeper, a built and muscled seven-groundhand-giraffy frame, and sharp, sharp mouthstones, Cyclops is massive and a little terrifying. He has a decent amount of fat on him to round out the muscle, with thick, darkest green hair covering his body. He’s grown the hair on his head out to about mid-back and has it braided up more often than not. His skin is faintly blue and pale, Cyclops has many scars placed symmetrically across his body and a tattoo of a silver stabby-wabby starting from his lower stomach towards the bottom of his pecs. He has a short, neatly trimmed face mane that he maintains well.
Wardrobe: Normally, very flashy and showy outfits with a lot of flair and permasprinkles. Currently though, Cyclops is on the run and needs to keep a low profile, hence wearing mostly black at the moment and not anything that would draw attention to his face and even wearing veils and masks in order to keep cover.
Personality: Cyclops is… complex. He doesn’t wish harm on others but ends up causing harm more often than not out of sheer willful ignorance. He struggles with self hatred and esteem, resorting to a variety of vices to keep his dark side locked firmly away, and doesn’t like talking much about his past. Cyclops is fairly friendly though, and very open about how he feels when he doesn’t like something. He’s good at communicating most of the time, but if you ask him about anything to do with his home he’ll go into a rageful emotional shutdown.
Weapon(s): Usually just a rooty tooty point-n-shooty or a laser crossbow.
Skills: Fighting, in many forms, especially hand-to-hand combat. He can drive or fly just about anything instinctually, can speak thousands of languages, and is proficient in a variety of sciences (although he doesn’t usually show that one off much)
Background: Cyclops used to be a member of a wealthy Forever Elite family, one that had a big business in the intergalactic slave trade. Cyclops grew up with the brain bubble that all other species were inferior, and this was only further normalized by the slaves and servants the family had at his every beck and call and whim. However, Cyclops was always too curious for his own good. He became a successful scientist and had a big hand in shaping the medical industries of several developing galaxies, but all that turned to shit when he developed a timeandspaceship that could take you anywhere, anywhen. He eventually took up traveling casually, but found that the future of his species was very grim and that eventually, everything they had worked for was overturned by the very people they trod upon and despised-and rightfully so. Cyclops joined a rebellion, and eventually made progress in nearly overturning the entire empire in just a mere five hundred orbit parties-a short time for a person like Cyclops. But this didn’t last too long, his ship was stolen and replicated by his people and now he’s on the run from his home cosmic spiraly-whirly, always trying to find a new place to hide. He masks his worries in hedonism and addiction, but it’s always looming over him that one day, he’ll be killed for what he did.
Theme song(s): Sweet mouthstone by Scott Helman, Devil’s Price by Poor Man’s Poison, Providence by Poor Man’s Poison.
Other: Cyclops chose his name from the stories of humans, his old name only his people know and they love to use it against him.

Anyways, I really like your dude!!! Shall we begin??

Cyclops was crash landing on the worst hiding place yet- Earth. Everyone he knew from his old life knew he was fond of the place, for only the sheer variety and mortality these humans had. Cyclops didn’t have any friends in this era, however. He saw out the see-through wall a decently sized ranch, not the biggest property but one worth not hitting.

So with all his strength, he steered the wheel of the ship as far away from it as possible, landing himself about two miles away near a place akin to a wasteland, no plants, just dirt. Hopefully nobody saw that, but hope never got this alien very far, this was what he reasoned as he removed his human syrup-soaked shirt and assessed the wounds across his body. Mostly just a stab wound, not great but not terrible. The Elite bastard that had stabbed him had taken the stabby stick out too, but Cyclops was nothing if not too stubborn to bleed out to one of those assholes.

He discarded the torn, bloodied shirt and hopped out of the ship’s roof, which had a massive hole in it due to being shot by a much larger Elite ship a few weeks ago that, whilst messed with the shields, didn’t do too much to the oxygen content besides make the ship stuffier as she compensated.

Poor girl, Cyclops thought, but immediately stumbled and collapsed to the ground as he tried to assess her damage. Maybe the stab wound was affecting him a bit more than he’d assessed initially. He took out of his pocket a strange device, a bandage combined with a mechanical mesh. That would be enough to hold the bleeding until he could repair the ship. He slapped the bandage across the wound, and tiny spikes dug into his flesh to hold the bandage and skin together so that he could move.

Still, Cyclops was dizzy and incoherent from the human syrup loss-oh, yeah, and he’d also been poisoned. Even worse! It wouldn’t kill him if he actually took care of himself, but then again, when did Cyclops ever do that?

He wasn’t sure which era he was in. Cyclops never had a good read on these things, he normally had to consult the ship’s shifting calender but currently that was blown to smithereens. Cyclops allowed himself to collapse a bit more fully, lying on his side waiting for either death to claim him or someone else to finish the job, despite how Cyclops never wanted to die he was a bit queasy on the whole “continuing to live with a horrific stab wound” thing. He patted the side of the old girl from where he lay, trying to use her as a grip to stand up but failing and pulling himself into fetal position as the pain surged through his body.

Everything was as normal as it can be. Laurie hated the word, although that's what he would use to describe the whole day. He loved repetition. Days blending into one another. All he ever did was take care of the cattle, take care of Hercules, and whatever else was needed to be done for the day. Most of the time he was done with his tasks by 5:00. Today some of the cattle were slow and he went back to the house at 5:20.

Honestly, he cannot tell you what happened in between twilight munch time and when he went out for a moonlit hours ride with Hercules. Probably the usual. It was like someone put him on autopilot just as he took off his hat and sat it down on a chair. Supper breezed by with little conversation between him, his ma, and all his sisters. After he collected all the dishes, he took his hat and opened the back wobbly flip-shutter.

"Aye Laurie!" His ma called out, "Be back in half exactly 3600 seconds, okay?" As he stepped onto the back porch, he looked over his shoulder, giving her a nod. Half exactly 3600 seconds, that'll do just fine for him; for the time being at least. Next thing you know, the day before overmorrow evening he'll be doing the same thing. His whole life is just going to be the same thing every day from now on. And he couldn't change it because that'd mean telling his ma and his sisters the truth…well he just couldn't.

These type of rides were only for 15 minutes anyways. Sometimes they went on for a bit longer and sometimes they didn't. It really depended on how heavy his mind was, not mention how much energy Hercules had in him. Problem was is that his mind was always heavy. Laurie secured his saddle on Hercules then led the horse out before hopping on up.

God only knew what happened in the following moments. Far ahead something huge had fallen and crashed. Hercules lifted his front legs while shrieking. Laurie clutched the reins, praying that he wouldn't fall off and get a concussion. It took a while to calm the horse down. Once he was able to regain control, he decided to venture further.

Whatever crashed could've had someone in there. Laurie couldn't tell if it was a small airplane or one of those ufos Irene reads about in those comic grimoires. It was still a good distance off from where he was. His peepers are already getting bad too and he's too stubborn to admit that he might need see-sharpeners. Nevertheless, he made Hercules go steady as they approached it.

"howdy, partner? Anyone there?" He called out. Laurie got down from the horse, still holding the reins in his one hand. The cowboy only took two steps before stopping then repeating, "Anyone there? I don't mean no harm. The name's Laurie…"

Upon hearing the voice and hooves approaching, Cyclops groaned in pain, loud enough to hear but not enough to pinpoint the location of. Here he was sitting, slowly dying, and some stranger with dubious intentions approaching rapidly as his human syrup soaked into the dust. He didn’t make an effort to make himself seen, knowing that if this was the end he’d rather die alone than with unfamiliar company. Still, he let out an audible yelp of pain as a chunk of the ship’s siding hit the ground beside him, causing him to flinch and curl in on himself and damn near wail in agony.

Fuck, maybe he did need help. It took a minute, but Cyclops realized he really didn’t want to die. So he crawled from his little nook next to the old girl, and attempted to crawl into view of the sounds of approaching stranger(s?) in order to see if he could find any sort of help or companionship here.