two immortals walk into a bar

[eonflamewing]

Come, all ye immortals... You walk into a bar. Maybe you were given a ticket by a fellow passing immortal, or had the prescience to obtain one yourself - whichever it is, the well-polished key will take you to an establishment that operates outside the confinements of spacetime. A bar exclusively for immortals, whether you were born this way or attained it as a mortal being. Gods, demons, vampires - no matter what you are, you are welcome here. It serves a myraid of drinks and snacks catered to the tastes of every world, so it's easy to find something palatable (even including human souls, if that's your preferred food). A corridor leads down the lounge to a variety of other rooms. Opening a door would transform it into a pool room, a singing room, or perhaps a quiet place for meditation. The establishment responds to the will of its patrons - as long as you behave, you will be allowed to stay here for as long as you like. Come in and take a seat. Maybe there's someone looking for you. [ this meme is for nonhuman characters who have lifespans longer than humans. OU, AU, OC, whichever goes! ]

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Ragnar | Vampire: The Masquerade OC

[reunite]

[Ragnar has been an on-and-off patron for a long time now.

But today, something is different. For the first time in centuries, he is here alone. The Mediterranean man that was always at his side is not there, and he seems a bit lost for it.

In the end he just wanders over to the bar, orders a pint of beer and a glass of wine, and places the wine before the stool next to himself while nursing the beer himself. From time to time, he gives the glass of wine a look.]

[ooc: Ragnar is a ghoul - an enhanced, immortal human bound into the service of a vampire. The other man mentioned in the narrative, Hanno, was one as well.]

[scarsolderthanyou]

"Expecting company?"

The old man isn't really this place's standard fare. Who would want to wind up stuck as an immortal at his age, after all? His skin is weathered more than lined, but definitely shows a long life lived. He's faded to gray in his skin as well as his hair, and even his clothes are nondescript gray, though of tough construction and comfortable materials. He doesn't sit at the empty stool with the wine, but he does stand beside it.

"Or is that an invitation?"

[reunite]

"Honouring past company, more like." He shakes his head, looking half at peace, half caught in the act.

And then gestures to the stool at his other side. "Come, have a drink. This one is on me. I don't think I've seen you here before?"

[scarsolderthanyou]

"I don't come in all that often," Stone admits, but he does take the offered seat. And the drink, ordering some sweet sort of dessert wine. The alcohol doesn't do much for him, might as well enjoy something sweet. "I'm Stone."

[reunite]

"Ragnar." He grins. "Or that's the name I was born with, anyway. There's been a couple of others over the years, Hanno here calls - called me Mago. They just kind of seem to happen."

[scarsolderthanyou]

"Does that ever get confusing?" Stone asks, tilting his head. "I've never gone by anything but Stone. After all this time, I doubt I could make myself answer to anything else." His self-identity is very strong.

[reunite]

"A bit, " he admits. "But it's hardly ever been my choice - well. Ryan was, strictly speaking. But I didn't pick Mago, my mistress demanded something that would suit her language better, and Rasmus was the idea of my wife at that time. ...Technically, my great-grandson suggested Ryan."

[scarsolderthanyou]

"I think if I tried to suggest to my great-granddaughter that I change my name, she would think I was crazy," Stone says with half a smile, one that shows sharp teeth-- not vampire fangs. Just several sharp teeth, like any predator might have. "Why do you have to keep changing it? Besides the Mago one, that one's obvious."

[reunite]

"Killing," pronounced more like 'Shilling', "decided to rename himself to 'Lamb' from the perfectly normal name that his parents had given him, so he couldn't really talk even if Ryan Butler hadn't been his idea in the first place." There are other reasons why Killing would have no leg to stand on when talking about 'crazy', primarily his Clan's curse. But that's not something for him to bring up.

"I mostly changed to that one because it would stand out less in English-speaking countries, and because people kept mispronouncing my birth name anyway." He shrugs. "Rasmus was for cover."

[scarsolderthanyou]

"So you're going with Ragnar these days, then?" Just to clarify, since he said it was the one he'd been born with, and all the others seem to have come later. "Just so I know what to call you."

[reunite]

"Ragnar always works. I mean, that's just me.

The others are... additional names." Which he neither minds terribly nor is super excited about. It's just a thing. "You've never had another name? Why?" That seems much stranger to him.

[scarsolderthanyou]

"I never had any need to change it," Stone shrugs. "Raksura only really change their names when their life situation changes dramatically-- a warrior changes her name from Swift to Sorrow when her court is destroyed, say. I suppose I could have when my queen died, but I was too used to it, by then, and everybody knew who I was so it would have just looked dramatic, anyway." He may in fact be dramatic, but there's no reason to make it look worse.