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Who: Cyril and OPEN. The idea here is that Cyril has slipped into isolated himself and people who have close CR, are part of his ship, or just happen to stumble across him can intervene. If you want a personalized starter, let me know!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Wonderduck to... whatever the name of the fusion ship is going to be. Wonderstruck? Starduck? Who knows!
When: Throughout the first half of this month, basically.

[ooc; this is in prose, but feel free to reply in action brackets if you like that better.]

It starts small. First, he ends the conversation with Dorian and feels so drained after that he thinks a nap might be in order. Then it turns into sleeping most of the day, and the day after that too. When he finally does wake, he doesn't really see the point in getting out of his room, at least until the thought occurs to him that he can get up to get some more wine.

'Some more wine' turns into a lot of wine, which turns into alcohol stronger than wine. He probably shouldn't spent several days utterly drunk, even that he's supposed to be a pilot, but they're at a system for now. He honestly can't seem to think of responsibility right now.

He had been responsible before, and it had left him one arm short and with foreign magic that was still in his body slowly killing him. What was even the point of doing anything while he was stuck out in the void of space?

So he kept drinking and sleeping and doing very little else. He hadn't even been stopping to redo his kohl, and his make up free face makes him look older.

He pretty much only leaves his room to get something more to drink, and then again later on in the month when the crew of his ship and another fuses, but otherwise he's not really anywhere to be seen publicly or on the network.

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Cyril has had enough deserts to last his lifetime, so now he's pretty sure nothing will get him to leave the ship.

"It's easier to get drunk and stay in my room if I stay where my room is," Cyril points out, as if that answers the inquiry.

He doesn't really want to discuss why he'd rather stay in his room and get drunk. He's never really one to be comfortable talking about his emotions, and this is such an emotional topic he isn't sure that he could even approach it without wanting to puke.

While he isn't always best with the feelings of others, it doesn't escape Felix that day drinking to this degree must be the symptom of some other kind of of trouble, the nature of which he can hardly guess. The people of Thedas seemed ripe for conflict, it seemed. Though he'd hardly been better, when he'd had friends from home nearby.

"I could point out that your room isn't on this ship," he says, smiling coyly in his own lightly flirtatious way, "but I imagine the wine selection here is much better."

"It really is!" Cyril agrees, grinning a bit. "I was thinking of taking some of it back with me.

That, and, in my room if I want to admire a handsome man, I have to look in the mirror and doing that right now just makes me grossed out. I really shouldn't let my cover up go."

"I think you look perfectly fine," Felix says, and there's more than just a trace of honesty in the flattery, his smile softening just a little. It's not as if someone looking older has ever bothered him, and older lovers were more the rule than the exception, if only by happenstance.

Cyril chuckles a bit and grins at Felix. "Oh, well, thank you," he admits. "I shall hope that everyone else feels the same. Elsewise, I'm afraid they'll be judging me."

"Ah, well..." Felix says, his smile turning a bit rueful as he reached for his glass of wine, "...in my experience people are always judging you in one way or another, but it isn't always poorly. And if it is, then it's likely a reflection of their own character, and not your worth."

This of course has nothing to do with the judgments made for his actions, which he was often judged rightfully for. Perhaps that went without saying.

Cyril grinned, the smile a little lopsided. "Hm-mm, that's a good point. So, to the Void with all of those people then?"