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Drift ([personal profile] auramatic) wrote in [community profile] sunchime2017-11-23 10:10 pm

[ DEMON HUNTER DRIFT AU: PART II (SFW) ]

DEMON HUNTER DRIFT AU: PART II

Part I (extremely NSFW) (it's very gross) (I'm sorry about everything)
Part II (NSFW post)

IT'S BACK, BABY

Imagine, if you will, that Drift is not a robot, but a gratuitously tropey half-demon hunter roaming around Boston killing demons in order to atone for his as a, well, killer for the demons. For all intents and purposes you can just assume this takes place in the same universe as Buffy (or something like it) for the sake of using a conveniently existing lore that I already really like. Maybe with an extra side of Kabbalah. whatever

HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT DEMON HUNTER AU DRIFT:
  • Drift is half-demon on his father's side. He never really knew his dad, idk he like fucked off or got slayed at some point when Drift was young and he was mostly raised by his mother, who died of cancer when he was a teenager. It was real sad and Drift had no money and got pretty promptly kicked out of his mom's apartment shortly after her death. This made Drift a TRAGIC TEEN ORPHAN who was homeless on the streets for a while, and given his ~UNIQUE HALF-DEMON AURA~ it wasn't really very long before he fell in with a bad crowd. A demon crowd
  • Tragic teen orphan Drift got into drugs, specifically orihalcon, a potent substance derived from the refined blood of certain types of demons, because regular human drugs don't quite cut it for him. He was pretty knee-deep in the local demon community, partly because he didn't fit in anywhere else, partly because some of them knew his dad.
  • Drift spent a while as a homeless addict, barely scraping by, until he was recruited by Megatron, a powerful demon lord who saw much more potential in Drift and his untamed demon powers. He offered Drift a place in his ranks even though he was half-human, and helped him hone his terrifyingly natural talent for violence. For a while Drift mostly did it to feed his habit, but he began to enjoy the rush of violence and of releasing his DEMON SIDE way more than the drugs and eventually got clean.
  • He also inherited this sweet demon sword from his dad that Megatron apparently had handy. It is powered by his DEMON SIDE
  • Eventually though Drift's taste for violence got a little out of control and after pissing off some of his superiors for wildly disobeying orders in favor of MORE VIOLENCE, he fucked off and went into hiding. It was at this time that he met a witch named Wing from a smug hippie witch cult based in San Francisco. Wing offered him sanctuary and to teach him to better control his demon side by being ~~more in tune with the spirits~~. Drift took the sanctuary because he had nowhere else to hide, but wound up begrudgingly coming around to Wing's way of seeing things, at least enough to grow to care about him. Unfortunately for the both of them Drift's UNIQUE HALF-DEMON AURA led Megatron's forces right to the Wing's door and he got horribly murdered. Drift managed to get away but he was so tragically torn by the untimely death of his spiritual sensei that he swore off working for Megatron and decided to USE HIS POWERS FOR GOOD
  • Since then he's discarded the name Megatron gave him and returned to Boston as the newly-reformed demon hunter Drift. He lives in a tiny, shitty apartment in Southie and fights demons by moonlight in order to help people out and atone for his murder-filled past. He has fully embraced his former mentor's spirituality with a level of enthusiasm that, tbh, should probably be worrying. He believes (or hopes, at least) that what Wing taught him will not only help him keep his demon side in check (he is pretty much always concerned he will LOSE CONTROL), but also lead to his eventual redemption. Unfortunately Drift is still learning how exactly to have real faith in something because he is the world's biggest faker
  • He is Jewish because I know what I like and oh boy does he ever dabble in Kabbalah and a lot of other magical spirituality bullshit that mostly drives other people up the wall
  • Being half-demon has a lot of perks, SUCH AS: super strength/reflexes/stamina, accelerated healing, and being able to jump way higher than any human. He's obviously not as powerful as a full-blooded demon, but plenty powerful enough to be able to take them head on. He's also really good at fighting shit. Drift's swordsmanship is pretty solid, having been trained in Megatron's demon army, but also he has studied very seriously from a lot of kung fu and action films
  • He literally owns fourteen swords

PREVIOUSLY ON DEMON HUNTER DRIFT AU:
  • Rodimus is this AU's equivalent of the Slayer, and Ultra Magnus is her Watcher. She and Drift are best buds who also make out a lot. Ultra Magnus STRONGLY DISAPPROVES of Rodimus spending time with someone with Drift's substantial murder past but Rodimus believes wholeheartedly in Drift's turning a new leaf.
  • Perceptor (Percy) is a talented witch and physicist who also serves as Drift's go-to for information about demon lore and magic. They go back a long, long ways, and is one of a handful of people Drift trusts implicitly.
  • Dealer was, predictably, Drift's orihalcon dealer when he was living on the streets. There were some bad (good) (bad) times that Drift would really love to never talk about, and Dealer loves to hold over his head.
  • Ratchet is a trauma surgeon whose family was killed by demons around the time Deadlock was active. After patching up Drift a couple of times, they fell into an undefined sort-of relationship that nearly came to an end when Ratchet found out just who Drift used to be. After taking some time and talking to just about everyone else Drift knows, Ratchet decided he still wanted to know Drift as he is now, though things between them are still uncertain.
truefaceofthelaw: (smile!)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-04 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Rico isn't going to give him the indignity of flinching. But he is surprised, and a little of that must reflect in his eyes. His gaze flickers from his hand, to his face, and then a thin-lipped smile appears on his face.

"Sure it's fucked up. But don't make yourself a victim here, buddy boy. I never made you do anything. You agreed to do it. Didn't have to! But you did. I put my terms up front, and you went through with it anyway. If you thought a hit was worth licking my boots for the scraps of what I'd give you, or doing the next dumb shit that I'd thought of on the spot, then that's on you. I'd say it was a fair exchange. You wanted to get in that bar in the first place, remember? You said thanks."

It's important to Rico that Deadlock knows that every single thing he did, was entirely his own doing.

He pauses, his eyes glinting.

"And just so you know," he continues, gaining cheerfulness and confidence. "It was ten hours, and I was laughing from the rooftop the whole time. I brought mimosas and a book."
truefaceofthelaw: (hmm)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-04 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
He sees it coming, knows what's coming. But even then, Rico lets out a strangled yell of pain that he bites down on almost as soon as it leaves his mouth. Seething, he grinds his teeth together, breathing through the jolts of pain that burn his nerves like electricity.

"Don't you say that to my fucking face," Rico bites out. "I am exceptional. And you're going to wish that it did."

He's got one arm still working, hasn't he? He lets out a breathless laugh, and tries to slam his fist into Deadlock's stomach.
truefaceofthelaw: (ugh)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-04 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Rico's upper body is tugged forward but he resists the motion every time, standing his ground like a really shitty game of tug-of-war. And every time he pulls back, he puts stress on his injury, little flares of warning sending straight to his brain, but he tells himself to ignore it. He's had much worse. Deadlock seems to be testing the waters for now, and what he's doing reminds him too much of his own habits - and there are a lot of ways this could get worse.

"It doesn't bother me," Rico says with a pinched expression and tight voice, trying to keep his breathing under control. He's going to have to do more than that to make him cry out again. He still has his pride left, even if sometimes that's all he has. "I just want you to remember that you owe me, punk. Nobody fucked with you in the same way that I did. Or helped you either."

And this time, he executes a perfect uppercut that rockets under Deadlock's jaw.
truefaceofthelaw: (unimpressed)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-04 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Taking advantage of the break, Rico braces himself and shoves his shoulder back into place.

"Did you think anybody ever gave a shit about you?" he asks mildly, rotating his wrist and feeling out the range of motion. "Didn't have a friend in the world - or at least friends who didn't steal your shit to hock for drugs. I dropped in from time to time, made a little small talk, maybe some presents, made sure you were still kicking. Was anybody else so generous?"

If only because a corpse was so much less interesting.

"Remember that time I brought you to the Menton?"

Alright, more like kidnapped. He was in an excellent mood then, and thought that the perfect end to his day would be pissing off the waiters by bringing a homeless kid who smelled like he hadn't washed in days. He even gave him one of his jackets to cover up most of the filth. Sitting there, the absolute center of surreptitious attention and sidelong whispers, he'd ordered more food than they could possibly finish, and popped an eight hundred dollar bottle of wine. Feeling uncustomarily generous, Rico hadn't even mocked him that much that night either.

"I gave you a taste of what you could have, if you'd wanted badly enough. And look at you now!"
truefaceofthelaw: (vicious scowl)

eye injury

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Rico actually roars with rage at the shattering of his flatscreen. There's too fucking much going on right now, he can't be in every place at once. His artwork. His porcelain. His sound systems. He needs to save all of it.

No. What the fuck is he doing? He needs to compartmentalize. Lets get back to the basics.

This happens extremely fast.

He snatches up the last remaining glass, and takes a running leap towards the demon trashing his coffee table. Fuck it, it's worthless without the whole set anyway. Rico smashes it across his face in an explosion of shards, and he drops like a sack of bricks. Snatching up the largest splinter, he shreds a strip from his bathrobe and wraps it tight around his fist. Holding the makeshift shiv in one hand and yanking the demon's head back with the other, Rico skewers it through his eye in one quick motion and pulls it back out again.

"I'll do whatever the fuck I want with what's mine!" he screams, his hand still fisted in the demon's hair, voice ragged and dark. "You think I won't hunt you down? Come and get a fucking taste, punks!"

This isn't the Rico sitting indolent in his Jacuzzi. This is a reflection of his former self, all constrained violence and motions learned when he was just a human patrolling the streets for demons, and then later when he'd clawed his way from the bottom of the pit, proving himself stronger, better. It's exactly a reminder of why Rico is dangerous in the first place.
truefaceofthelaw: (yelling)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-05 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck, he wants his boot knife. The one with the utilitarian straight edge, or better yet his gun. Not this shitty, jagged stick of glass that's not going to hold up in any meaningful way.

This is going to hurt so fucking bad, but Rico's never been afraid of pain. But then again, he was never particularly eager to embrace it either. If only because it'd meant he'd made a mistake, wasn't the best.

No choice. Either then, or now.

He hurls the jagged glass shard like a javelin towards one of the demons's throats on the side with precise eyes and eternally steady aim. That useless thing was a liability now, more likely to shatter in his hand. And then he does the unexpected thing and throws himself towards Deadlock, rolling to the ground. One of the hooks near the tip catch in his back, latching in and tearing out its morsel of flesh, with a sting and cackle of ozone. Was he toying with him?

"Nobody would have remembered you! You didn't exist without me!"

His back muscles seizing and teeth grinding, jaw working to not let out a sound, he stumbles for a brief second before he snatches up the discarded baseball bat and ducks towards the others with a snarl of concentration, hoping that the massive sword would be hampered with more bodies in the way.
truefaceofthelaw: (he pissed)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2017-12-11 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It hurts what he has left of a heart to see his things lying on the floor, shattered and broken. The injury in his back flares up at just the wrong moment, and he's clipped by the punch even as he slams the baseball bat into the demon's head (the one who tore down the Kandinsky, fuck them all, fuck demons they can all rot, did they even know how priceless and one of a kind that was?), it splinters on the demon's tough skin with a massive crack, but at least it makes him back off.

He's offended. Betrayed, in the same way if the stray mutt you'd been throwing scraps to every week on your way back home suddenly turned on you. Angry at his ingratitude. And faintly stung, as if he could remember what that felt like anymore.

Rico turns around to Deadlock like a challenge, swinging what's left of the bat in circles by his side. This new length feels more natural to wield anyway.

"You heard me, mutt. You owe me everything!"

And then, in a display of almost suicidal overconfidence, he charges at Deadlock.
truefaceofthelaw: (drokk)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2018-02-12 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
He has just enough time to register the bat breaking with an explosion of splinters before he's on the ground.

This is why I used to wear stupid helmets, Rico thinks, dazed. He rolls over to his front and retches up spittle on his nice carpet, hand coming up to check for blood. Of course there is. Rico is suddenly all too unpleasantly aware of the fragilities of his human body.

"My face..." he bites out, but he has a feeling his voice isn't as strong as he'd like it to be past the ringing in his ears. "...Better not have broken my nose."
truefaceofthelaw: (drokk)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2018-02-24 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
One second he's looking down at the threads of his Persian rug - he's gotta take that to the dry cleaners, that better fucking come out - the next he's looking at a mouthful of teeth, curled up in a grin. Alright, he's starting to realise why people hate Rico smiling so much. He doesn't appreciate being hauled around like a puppy. He reaches up to to pry at Deadlock's grip, but it comes out as an uncoordinated scrabble of his blunt fingernails instead.

Being held at his mercy is almost preferable to realising that his face is likely a complete mess. Kudos to him, the first thing he does is feel for his nose and try to reset it.

"The fuck is with your f-fancy new sword, huh?" Rico slurs. "Ugly piece a' shit."
truefaceofthelaw: (unimpressed)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2018-02-24 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Rico skids and half-rolls across the floor, coming to a stop against the splintered remains of his coffee table. This glass damn well stings, and he slams his palm down on the ground, heaving his upper chest up off the ground.

"Fuck you. I know ugly when I see it," Rico snarls, but it comes out raspy. "That's something even I wouldn't take from your corpse."

The gleam of the sword reflects something strange in Rico's eyes. Could it be fear, buried deeply beneath everything? Or perhaps covetousness?

"Well at least he left that. After h-he left you. Years on the street, but you got a shitty slab of metal for it."
truefaceofthelaw: (vicious scowl)

[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2018-02-24 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
This is reminding him a little too much of his training sessions. He pushes off the ground, forcing himself to his knees but dips to the side, dizzy. He catches himself, his other hand curling into a fist. He stumbles to his feet, chin ducked down and facing the sword edge head on.

"I left you water!" Rico rages. "When you were sick, I woke you up! Gave you shoes, clothing, medicine, drugs - what the fuck else do you want?"

So maybe it wasn't necessary to bang on the windows every time he saw him falling asleep that night. And gossip incessantly on his windowsill about his latest escapade to distract him from his withdrawal. But you weren't supposed to let them sleep in case they didn't wake up, right? Hell, he even brought him chicken soup. He never does that.

"So you finally want more. At least I instilled that in you." Rico grins, though there's a decidedly unamused edge to it. He'll take credit for that, even as he's being beaten into the ground for it. "Megatron. Really? That uptight tyrant?"
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[personal profile] truefaceofthelaw 2018-02-25 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Rico tosses his head, opens his mouth to reply with his typical smirk - Oh believe me, I had a lot of spare change to throw around. You're nothing special. Now you're really reaching for straws. - but to his shock, finds that the words don't come out.

Rico gapes at himself, almost incredulous. He takes half a step back, hand coming up to his working jaw like he'd been physically attacked. His tongue feels clumsy in his mouth, his human mouth filled with blood. He was never tongue-tied. He always had the upper hand, verbally or otherwise. What was going on?

Rico really doesn't have anything else. No. He does. This is a hobby for him. Entertainment. Something he does when he's bored. Is it his fault he gets bored so easily? What's he saying, that he needs him around? He has his fights, his paintings, his penthouse, anything and everything he damn well desires. Who wouldn't want what Rico has? Why wouldn't anyone want what he has? He'ş̖ ͤ̃ͫ̽̔L͉͎̩ͩ͗̄Y̮̓̿I̞ͫ̎̊ͣͤN̳̯͎ͨ͗ͯͮ̌̈́G̗̖̥̺̲ͩ.

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