sirenspull | 003. Voice -> Video

Let me tell you a story about someone not much unlike yourselves; a man taken from his home, pulled across space and time like some cheap 90s science fiction subplot to a little city called Siren's Port. Abducted, he nonetheless did everything that he could think of to fit in. He made sacrifices, got a job, changed his whole outlook on life, even accepted that vampires were real. His only family in the whole world were at home waiting for him, for better or for worse, but despite that he soldiered on.

The only thing he wanted to make life on this crazy island better was a real medianoche sandwich. Glazed ham, roast pork, pickles, and Swiss cheese pressed between two slices of Cuban bread slathered with yellow mustard. It took him months to find a place on the wretched island that could make it, slow roasting the pork, baking the bread in a hot stone oven, even using a proper plancha. The smell of the sandwich wafted toward him in this hard-working refugees' lunchbreak, tempting him away from the stuffy office he worked in with the broken air conditioner, slaving away so that the streets could be safe for everyone else.

So imagine his horror when he was served not the delicious sandwich that had been haunting his dreams for months, but this:

[ Abruptly Dexter switches to video, showing - you guessed it - a plate full of candy corn. He sweeps the camera back around to face him. ]

When a man is hungry, a man wants his sandwich. Is that too much to ask?

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Apparently it is. [ she is so done with this candy corn asdklfja ]

Apparently. I don't suppose you know anywhere on this island that still serves bread? Meat? Preferably one inside the other?

All the food is like this. I woke up and my fridge was filled with it.

Who likes candy corn this much?

It will revert at midnight.

Huh.

[ Not in audio. But she's like staring you from across the room. ]

What?

You're going to end up pissing off a lot of people. Is it worth it?

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Midnight isn't lunchtime. You're the one that did this?

[ He has voiding powers. But he also has work. And how would he find him, anyway?

And yes, he has tried using them on the sandwich. ]

Yes, you may thank me later for the delicious bounty of the candied corn.

Have you ever had a medianoche sandwich?

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It is when a trickster god decides it is.

[He is fine with candy corn]

Trickster god. Cuban?

Naw, the trickster god from my universe. You may have heard of Loki?

Heard of. We're occupied with weirder sounding gods in Miami, to be honest. Gods with bulls heads and gods with sixteen nipples.

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[ugh, he would kill for a sandwich right about now.]

It's good to know at least one other person here understands proper food.

Thank you. It was hard enough to find this place in the first place. I deserve this sandwich.

I'm impressed you managed to find something that sounds so much better than the generic junk they usually try to pass off as sandwiches on this island.

[he's actually mad on Dexter's behalf, and mad at the fact that he can't track one down himself right now. and empathy isn't really on the high end of the range of emotions Vanitas usually has.]

[the power of cuisine.]

It's taken months of questing. I can't pretend it was easy. You want the name of the place for when this wears off?

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If you can convince Loki it's something he would like, he might change it back if you offer him half.

[Hey look. It's that Michael guy no one has heard from for months. Though give how dulled his voice is, the near monotone of it, there's reasons.]

[ He's not aware of how strange it is to see him, but it does take him a moment to recognise the voice considering the dullness of it. ]

I know you, don't I?

We've spoken yes. Michael Xavier. I sort of...was blown up last spring.

[Most people don't take being killed - or supposedly killed - that well, but there's little to suggest it mattered to him.]

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[No, he's not laughing. He's really not laughing. But just. Come on, Mr. Morgan.]

I didn't know they made such sandwiches, here.

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I didn't either. Which is part of why I've been looking for one for so long.

There's no taste of home you wish you could find?

We can only be so lucky... [He murmurs, thinking about it. What did he miss from home?]

...Shepherd's pie. A true one, not any of this swill they like to put in it.

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