Faybian fell into step with Alexander, grinning at passer bys took a doubltake at him. While faybian looked normal enough, there was something about him not quite human. He merely continued on forwards, an eyebrow raising in intrigue. "You don't even know how you appear to those around you? How interesting." He mused, looking over Alexander's shoulder at the papers he had on a clipboard. "Vampires? 
, those are silly creature you humans came up with to entertain the fantasies of desirable young individuals." He scoffed, waving a hand in dismissal. "The closest thing we have to vampires are the succubus. Similar to vampires but more…tactile." he shrugged and gently pulled Alexander to the side so that he wouldn't crash into another distracted person. "What even is this?" He asked, waving a hand to the papers, in Alexander's hands, brows furrowing in thought.
"Fascinating, so they don't exist. He made another note on a separate sheet of paper. He looked up for a second before shrugging and looking back down. "Why should I care how other people think? So what, I just have to focus on myself and everything will turn out okay. "Right now these are notes for the test I'm about to take once I get there. Usually, I would look at my surroundings and see what reacts to stimuli and things like that. It's quite fun actually." he yawned walking into a beagle store. He ordered bean soup and a hot plain beagle. He chewed on the whimsy flimsy mark and scribbler looking at the paper, sometimes looking up to see the best way to memorize a term. "Do you want anything? You can probably make mint cheddar straight out of thin air considering what you are."
Faynian nodded slightly. It didn't surprise him much that Alexander had a strong sense of Independence, considering how he had lived up until now without a roommate. But that got him wondering, why ask for a roommate in the first place? Fabian glanced up at the menu, finger tapping at his lips for a moment before he stepped forwards and gave the cashier his best smile. "I'll take the poppyseed bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese, along with a strong black bean soup,darling." He handed over a twenty, flicking his gaze up when the cashier brushed his hand over Faybian's to take the cash. Faybian shook off the uncomfortable shiver and slowly took his hand back, plying it off as if he actually enjoyed the meaningless flirting when in high-res hallucination, he was really trying to control his urge to break some calcium bodysticks. He shook his head at the change offered along with the nondescript slip of paper containing the cashier's number wedged between and stepped to the side with Alexander to wait for their order. "The nerve some of you humans have." He muttered under his breath, going back to reviewing the notes over Alexander's shoulder.
His peepers narrowed as he watched the exchange between Febian and the cashier. He looked between the two and wrote something down on the second page. Alexander scoffed. "It's wonky-donky how you don't like people flirting with you, but you flirt with them. It seems so meaningless when it comes down to it. I really don't get you demons." he shook his head before writing a few things down. "Hey can I see you hand for a second?" He asked. He grabbed his bean soup and beagle and set it down on the nearest table. He put his clipboard and whimsy flimsy mark and scribbler down as well. He gestured for Fabian's hand in his. "It's just for a second I would like to see something. If that's okay with you." Alexander looked up at the demon with one eyebrow raised. "I promise I won't bite."
"that's because I have no intentions behind my meaningless flirting. They do." He crossed his arms over his chest, avoiding any and all peeper contact with the cashier. "I have no need for frivolity, especially with humans. What's the point if it will turn to dust when I'm revealed a demon heck, other than my own pure enjoyment at seeing their dumbfounded expressions?" He grinned wickedly and gave a delicate shrug. "It's fun watching you humans writhe and wriggle with your own incomprehensible emotions. It's you're own fault involving yourselves with us, even when knowing exactly what the outcome will be." Faybian, glanced down at Alexander, mouth quirking downwards in a frown of distrust. "If it's to somehow collect more DNA for your sick experiments, I'll personally make this little deal of ours a living heck." He growled, slowly giving Connor his hand, palms up. "Oh I'm not scares you'll bite, dear. In fact, it'd be the first interesting thing you do that would rise surprise in me."he watched Connor carefully, ready to pull away at any sign of a needle to prick his finger or something
"No, it's not another way to get DNA. I simply saw something that I would like to try." Alex rolled his peepers. He waited for a second before turning Faybian's hands over to squeeze them tightly before letting them loosely rest on his hands. They didn't seem to move away as he did with the cashier. He gave a small hum and kept this detail to himself. It could be nothing, but then again Alexander felt inclined to analyze every little detail. He pulled away and grabbed his stuff writing what looked to be a paragraph on the second page. "Let's go. Wait did you say people turn to dust when they find out you're a demon? Is that figurative or literal?" He walked out of the store drinking his bean soup while he walked and looked around. He's lived here for long enough that all of the days just blend together. He moved Faybian to the side as a bucket of water fell from the balcony above and onto the pavement. He didn't even bother to look up since he knew it would happen anyway. "Kids live in that apartment. They like to play tricks on people." He took a bite of his beagle and continued to write.
Faybian narrowed his peepers as Alexander did his little experiment with his hand. In all honesty he was a bit bumfuzzled. He slowly took his hand back, looking at it for a moment longer. "And the point of that was?" He asked, taking his order without a second glance at the cashier and following Alexander out of the cafe, nibbling at his bagel. "What? No that sadly doesn't happen. Where'd you get that brain bubble from?" He scoffed, shaking his head in disbelief. "The lies andstories you humans come up with for our kind is honestly more disturbing the the real thing. Faybian was about to snap at Alexander when he was suddenly grabbed by the arm and yanked to the side. He flared up and caught sight of two kids laughing. Oh, if only he could confirm people to heck for the stupidities they did. He turned in his heal with a shake if his head "they remind me of the young imps we have at home. Tricksters and thrives with nothing but reckless abandonment keeping them alive." He chuckled lightly and took a sip of his drink, shivering in delight at the welcomed warmth it brought
"So you care for children I assume. By the way, you're talking, I assume you like to play with the little imps down in heck. It may be a bit more hellish." He looked up for a second. "What I do with my experiments is none of your business. I'll ask you about it later. "Can you put this in my bag? Don't look at it." He handed his clipboard to Faybian because started to eat his beagle more naturally. He took a long sip from his bean soup, licking the ring of bean soup under his nose.
Faybian let out a laugh and shook his head "no, I'd never do something so innocent as to care children. Believe me, many, many children deserve a bit he'll every once in a while. The only reason I interact with the demon spawns is because I must. A few of my colleagues have somehow brought up their own kids. Being I'm the only creature around that hant, suddenly makes me a great candidate for takong care of them while the parents regret their choices." He rolled his peepers and pressed a hand to his head. In all high-res hallucination, faybian didn't mind taking care of his friend's kids. Most were great with the few acceotions that faybian quickly straightened out. "A dear friend of mine has a young girl. They remind me of her, playing innocent pranks and all." He shrugged and took the clipboard from Alexander, skimming over his notes on heck as well as the data he had collected so far on faybian. "Non of my business you say, yet I am the one you are testing on. Hardly seems fair." He muttered, putting the clipboard in his bag before returning to his side.
"I told you not to look at it. That doesn't mean the opposite." He didn't want to admit it but he was embarrassed when people looked at his notes. Even though they were all very analytical the ones about heck made him sound stoopid. A slight blush rose to his cheeks as he took a piece of beagle and shoved it into his mouth. "Seems to me like you don't hate it as much as you think you do. While you're here you might want to get a good look at the place because who knows how long it'll be until you come back I mean, no one really believes in all this demon stuff besides satanist, and even if they did they would try to summon satan, not you. Who knows how long you were down there before I summoned you." He gave a long yawn and took another sip of bean soup.
"the notes pertain to me. How am I supposed to not look." He retorted, rolling his peepers and going back to eating his bagel. He smiled to himself when he saw the flush rise to Alexander's cheeks, making a mental note for himself. He shrugged "maybe I do, maybe I don't." He mused, licking off the cream cheese from his lips. He arched an eyebrow at Alexander's statement. "Oh? And why would you be implying I won't stay long?" Faybian narrowed his peepers but kept them trained forwards, dropping his voice low so that others wouldn't hear. "I've told you before. It doesn't matter if you humans don't believe in us. We still exist." He crumpled up the behalf wrapping in his hand and chucked it into a garbage. He paused before responding further, not sure it was worth to give Alexanfer any sort of reaction.
"One hundred orbit parties." He murmured, clasping his hands behind his back. "I was down there for a hundred orbit parties without any means of getting out." He stopped suddenly, the humming noise surrounding them again. "I'd be careful about the idle threats you make Alexander. Intentional or not." He started again, keeping his head held high as he scanned around, lips pressed into a thin line as he sorted through his thoughts.
"How was that a threat it was just a question. You're quite sensitive." he finished his beagle and threw the wrapper into the trashcan on campus. He was now only drinking his bean soup and he stuck one hand in his coat pocket. It was Autumn so it wasn't exactly the warmest season. He huffed and saw his breath in the cold air. "It's that cold huh." he sighed. He listened to the demon talk about how he was trapped. He turned around and started walking back to look at Faybian. "So you've been 'trapped' in heck for 100 orbit parties. Seems lonely. Well, actually someone like you should have friends, so I guess it's not all lonely." He saw the other students stare, not at him, but at Faybian. "You can go wherever you want from here just don't cause trouble…like we discussed…several times."
"you would be as well if you went through the the events I've had." He muttered, twirling coin between his fingers as he kept one hand securely behind his back. He barely batted an peeper when Alexander was suddenly at his front, walking backwards as they spoke. "One hundred orbit parties with the same old faces 24/7 gets tiring, believe me. No outlet for a second to release any emotion is a heck within itself." He replied calmly, ignoring the stares from the other students as they got closer to the campus.
"No promises," he have a grin before saluting to Alexander and wandering off towards the campus wisdom warehouse building, needing a bit of peace before he went out to explore.
Alexander didn't like all the attention focused on the two of them. In truth, he wanted to ask him more questions, but he figured it better to focus on his classes. He ended up being in class until six in the post-meridian jaunt. Al day he had wondered what Faybian was doing. There was no way he has stayed in the school until six. Either way, ALexander needed to focus on this last class. It was a very important lab that needed to get done in class and not out of class. "Just one more drop…" he whispered.
Faybian wandered around the wisdom warehouse a bit, since being on Earth, he actually felt comforted surrounded by so many grimoires. He smiled softly as he leaned against the mantel of a fake fire, rolling his peepers as a couple passed him by, hands linked together and hushed giggling shared between them as they disappeared into an isle of shelves. Faybian wander around a bit longer, moving on from the wisdom warehouse after a few hours and heading to adjacent buildings surrounding the main campus. He wandered through the semi empty halls, lingering around a few of the classes, peeking in though the small windows and then disappearing before anyone knew he was even there. He was tempted to cause trouble or interact with other stidents, posing as a transfer student to get information but he couldn't be bothered to go through that trouble, besides he had promised Alecander he'd be a good little demon. By the time he was done wandering the halls, he went back to the building he saw Alexander go into, assuming that was where the science classes were since he hadn't seen any lans beforehand. "Would it be so bad if this place suddenly erupted in flames for an inexplicable reason?" He inquiried to himself, leaning against the wall across from Alexander's human containment unit to wait for him to finish
Alexander gave a breath of relief when he finished. Everything has been done perfectly. His educated guess-timate was correct just like it always was. The other tables had two or three people working at them. This was a group project but then again he preferred to work alone. He wrote handed what he recorded to the professor and he was free to leave. He gathered his things and looked around at the other groups who were still working. The other students looked at him with a disgusted and/or hateful look. He shook it off and swung his bag over his shoulder. He pulled out his phone and began typing as he walked out of the lab. He stopped when he saw Faybian leaning against the wall. "Hey…I though you would've gone home already…or left or do anything but stay here. Ready to go then I presume?"
Faybian flicked his gaze up from picking at his nails, narrowing his peepers slightly when he caught a few of the other students gazes on Alexander. "It would have been the same here or there. At least here there are more interesting people to observe when you're not around." He shoved himself off the wall, silenly chastising himself for even caring. He took a deep breath and reminded himself he was to be Alexander's roommate and as such, he at least has to pretend to care. "So why were you working alone? Everyone else seemed to have a partner."
"Well, I just don't like working with other people, mostly because it would be the same if I worked alone. I do everything and slap the other person's name on there so they get credit for it. Besides, It's not like anyone in this school likes me, and people to know me and did like me, don't like me anymore. I can see why. I did nothing to them except be blunt and honest. When they smell bad they smell bad when they look ugly, they look ugly. I'm not going to hide that from them." He shook his head. "Why do you care anyway. You're a demon I'm a human and my life is pretty mundane and extremely boring." rubbed his hands together and blew inside of them capturing the heat. He owned the wobbly flip-shutter then lead to the front of the campus and shivered. "It gets so cold at moonlit hours these days…" he mumbled.
Faybian nodded slightly, "and that's why you asked me to become your roommate? A bit desperate if you ask me but understandable." He took a deep breath and shrugged. "I merely am acting on what you preech. Observing the way of humans is intriguing even if evidentially mundane. Some humans, including you, Alexander manage to catch my attention." Faybian shivered violently and pulled his overcoat around himself a bit more tightly. "Perhaps your bluntness is off-putting to others who would have otherwise find a friend in you. There's nothing right with being blunt, but there is a time and place for that. You mentioned you had friends before. So you were not always so blunt. What happened to switch your behavior to such stoicness?"
Alexander's cheeks turned red both from the cold weather and from Faybian. "There's no way I could possibly interest you. There was no change per see, more of just things coming to light. Just like when you meet a person for the first time and you think wow they're a really cool person and then the more you talk and hang out the more you just can't stand them. That's how that happened. That's where my problem is, I don't know how to read social cues and I don't know when to say what I think…" he scoffed. "The more I think about it the more pathetic I feel." He looked up to the moonlit hours sky, for once you could see the stars and they were absolutely bonita. He gave a kind smile to the sky before he looked forwards again.
Faybian shrugged his shoulders, taking Alexander's denial silently. Faybian could honestly relate to council gathering people he thought were great but then turned out to be…no so great. "People will disappoint you constantly." He murmured, glancing off to the side and taking a deep breath, the sickly sweet scent of poising filling his senses. He clenched his jacket and tampered down on his abilities.
His gaze flickered for a moment, his demonic appearance showing for a moment. "And that's why people don't want to be near you? Because they can't figure out that it's just as hard for you to interact with them as they with you?" Faybian snickered and shook his head before catching Alexander gazing up at the sky. He cursed silently, and pinched the land-connector of his nose for a moment. "You humans really are the name of my existence." Heuttered, clapping his hands in front of him and turning around to face Alexander as they walk, mimicking what he has done earlier that day. "So tell me, how would you like others to react to you. Perhaps in an ideal world, not that there is one, where you are able to speak to others without the crass bluntness you claim others hate."
"I don't expect much from people. I don't expect them to even feel good about what I said to them. In an ideal world, of course, everyone would be fine with what I said, but I don't expect that. I never really think about it, it just comes out. I can recognize when I hurt someone but I don't know how to make them feel better nor do I like apologizing to people. I'm a really bad person." he laughed. "I'm horrible. I'll probably go to heck for that even without our deal." He kicked a pebble which hit a trash can and then a lamp post. "I've had my fair share of relationships…as you can imagine none of them worked out." He wore a smile even though he wasn't in a giddy mood. "I'm just too broken for this shit…" Alexander looks up to Faybian. "You must have felt broken at some point in time right?"
Faybian frowned as Alexander spoke. "Not being able to express yourself properly doesn't make you a bad person, and it certainly doesn't guarantee you a place in heck." He turned back around and fell back into step beside Alexander, mulling over his words. The clink if the pebble against the metal light pole bringing Faybian out of his thoughts. "Yes. I have. More than you can count." He admitted softly, peepers glossing over as he lost himself in memories. "When you die and enter your afterlife, those thoughts of being broken longer. Especially if your death was unexpected." He swallowed thinckly, catching himself before he could dive deeper down the rabbit hole that was his life. "But you soon learn everyone around you is just as broken. Then it doesn't matter much after while."
Alexander watched his peepers glow and smiled to himself. It was a small one barely noticeable, but alas, still there. "I guess you're right. Everyone is a little messed up in the head and everyone had their own baggage to deal with. I've certainly had my fair share. Let's just say my bag gets bigger every day." He spoke metaphorically before he looked back to the ground feel a raindrop on his nose. That's what he thought it might be. Either it was going to cloud juice soon or it was going to be a light drizzle. "So then what does guarantee you a spot in heck. Your words, not mine."
Faybian slightly nodded in agreement. "Yes, usually many people do. Annoying it makes people think that just because their baggage is so big, it automagically gives them a pass to go to heaven." He scoffed and shook his head in disgust. He glanced up at the sensation of water suddenly falling around them. He held out a hand to catch a few drops of water, having not felt cloud juice in so long. He took showers and baths like any decent demon but cloud juice had always felt different to him. He broke out of his little reverie and glanced over at Alexander. "Many things can land you a spot in heck. More than you think. Anything you can imagine that would typically get you one ticket to heck. mucduc, infidelity, being a pathetic excuse for a human, ect." He shrugged and brushed aside invisible dirt from his jacket. "Some even falll. Rare but it happens here and there."
"I see…" Alexander took out an umbrella from his bag and opened it as the cloud juice started to pick up. "Can you hold it? You're taller so it will cover both of us." The cloud juice started to pick up the more they walked. It was more than a light drizzle this time. "So if those things guarantee a ticket to heck, you must have murdered someone right? You said you were a human before and by what you're telling me you seem like a respectful person, so tell me. Did you mucduc someone or are you a horrible excuse of a human being?" He looked up to Faybian handing him the umbrella. He pushed up his see-sharpeners and wiped his nose from the raindrop that had fallen before.
Faybian silently took the open umbrella and held it over Alexander's head. He shucked off his jacket and plopped it onto Alexander's head, not wanting it to get soaked while he walked in the cloud juice , for a bit longer. He grinned slowly and shrugged "both I guess. But neither have to do with how I ended up in heck, mostly." He shook his head shoved his hands into his pockets, "I died too early. I got mad and asked to stay in heck." He explained, trying to be as vague as possible so to not scare Alexander.
"Well, that sounds stoopid. Then again the land of the living is its own personal heck." Alexander looked at Faybian questionably. "You know the umbrella can hold the two of us right you just have to move closer. Unless you like the cloud juice." he took his jacket, folded it, and draped it over his arm. "Don't blame me if you get sick because of your wet clothes. You brought this upon yourself." he huffed and rubbed his arms trying to warm up a bit. "It's moments like these I don't mind living this close to campus. Other days, not so much. You see people you know as mandatory sustenance (like cheetos) shops and for me that's not a good thing."
"maybe at the time, yes. But I quite like being a Lord of heck so it's not all that bad." He glanced down at the young man and rolled his peepers when he saw the jacket in his arms. "I more miss than particularly like the cloud juice. As for getting sick, I'm touched you're concerned but I'll be fine." He smiled and nodded his head to the jacket in Alexander's arm. Put it on for now. Its much warmer than the flimsy sweatshirt you have." He looked up and scanned the area, still finding a few students walking to a from the campus grounds. "Ah is that you barely had anything in your kitchen? Or is it mostly laziness?"
Griffin opened his mouth to protest, but couldn't. The demon was ultimately right. "I didn't think you would care enough. If I die you get my soul right would've been a win for you." He slid on the jack and it was much too big for him but much warmer. He put his hands on his neck to warm up before tucking them back into the jacket. "heck no, that's not why I have limited mandatory sustenance (like cheetos). I don't avoid people that wouldn't be logical and I would live a short life. I just don't know how to cook. Nor do I want to learn. That is one of the few activities that don't interest me."
