( marc, truthfully, has precisely zero (0) interest in the baths — he prefers showers — but he should meet his housemates at some point, and he should (quote-unquote) make an effort to not be so overwhelmingly himself.
(he will be successful at precisely one of these tasks.)
he doesn't reply. he reads the message and leaves it on read, making his way downstairs, to where he can hear the sailors and, presumably, to where lan xichen can be found and, presently, joins him.
lan xichen and marc are the same height, give or take, but where lan xichen is lithe, marc is less so — stockier, and looking for all the world like he's not long woken up (perhaps because that's precisely the case). fading bruises are evident about his person, a nose that's been broken a dozen or more times and hasn't healed quite right on at least one of those occasions, and a variety of scars — hands, notably, his back, and just the one on his face — through his left eyebrow, implying a narrow miss and a certain luckiness to still having both his sight and his eye.
(marc spector, for all that it matters, exists in a near-perpetual state of dishevelment.)
well-worn lines suggest that the frown he wears is his default expression and not an inherent display of displeasure. a breath of a pause before he speaks (he doesn't need to confirm that this is lan xichen, the video had been more than enough. then— ) —As frightening as you imagined?
i'm so glad within one conversation, lan xichen has the entire measure of marc
(he will be successful at precisely one of these tasks.)
he doesn't reply. he reads the message and leaves it on read, making his way downstairs, to where he can hear the sailors and, presumably, to where lan xichen can be found and, presently, joins him.
lan xichen and marc are the same height, give or take, but where lan xichen is lithe, marc is less so — stockier, and looking for all the world like he's not long woken up (perhaps because that's precisely the case). fading bruises are evident about his person, a nose that's been broken a dozen or more times and hasn't healed quite right on at least one of those occasions, and a variety of scars — hands, notably, his back, and just the one on his face — through his left eyebrow, implying a narrow miss and a certain luckiness to still having both his sight and his eye.
(marc spector, for all that it matters, exists in a near-perpetual state of dishevelment.)
well-worn lines suggest that the frown he wears is his default expression and not an inherent display of displeasure. a breath of a pause before he speaks (he doesn't need to confirm that this is lan xichen, the video had been more than enough. then— ) —As frightening as you imagined?