A Devil on Each Shoulder

Carcer grins even wider (if such a thing is even possible) when he sees the hotel. MOtel, really, though some might say the other prefix is...more appropriate to this sort of establishment. Carcer doesn't care--anyway, he's more or less drenched in blood from the waist up, and though he's carrying a white mostly reddish handbag under his arm it suggests more of an intrest in sharp, pointy objects than in musical theatre.

He turns to JT. "Looks just like home, haha."

Even though it's barely past noon, the "O" in the sign's "MOTEL" flickers. It's not really trashy otherwise.

"Right down to the lightning...."

I've always found other people's RP logs really hard to follow if they'd gone on for very long, since all the storylines going on tend to be spread out between lots of different journals. So in the interest of preserving my sanity and letting anybody who's interested in my take on Carcer see everything he's done in RP, I'm making an index of all the threads he's in:

( To the index! )

Carcer's sitting in the cafe looking more than a bit confused. He ought to be dead, he's sure of it. He remembers dying. He remembers feeling the floor drop out from under his boots and the rope pull tight around his neck....
Damn. His neck...now that he's thinking about it, it does kind of hurt. Probably bruised pretty bad, too.
Damn.
If he's dead, then is this some kind of afterlife? Everybody else in here seems prettly lively to him. If he's not dead...right now, he's almost hoping he is. Because that might actually make sense.
Gods, he could use a beer. Or three.

((So, who's up for explanations? .D))

My dad always said we're all put on this world for some reason or another; you just gotta find out what you're good at. I ain't never been good at much--he told me early on I weren't cut out for butcherin', and I didn't make more'n a few month in the army--but I think I got a real way with kids.

Not that I got any of me own, o'course. Least not that I know about... Couldn't be havin' with that; I'd never get to have no fun! But me brother's got four now and you'd be hard pressed to say they don't all love their ol' Uncle Carce.

It was me what taught 'em what a hangin' was--back before it was me head for the gallows, that is, haha. They was still real little, so I musta been about eighteen. I guess they heard their dad talkin' about it or something. They couldn't understand it when their mum tried explainin', so I showed 'em with one o' little Sarah's dollies and a bootlace.

I wasn't thinkin' clearly enough to look for her then, the prospect of the thing bein' all but gone, but I'm sure she was cryin' just the same way when she came to see dear Uncle Carcer get hanged for real.