"Good rebuttal. So very witty," he mutters. He's not in the worst mood, which is probably not a good sign, as Nina already suspects. If Death Knight is happy, it's because someone else isn't.
"If you were serious about not putting up a fight, then sit in that chair. If you struggle, I'll have to tie you."
Nina did not deign to reply and simply sat herself down in the chair. She should have figured it would be... theatrical. Methodical, even, and not the wild and unpredictable encounter they had before.
She hated him. Hated that she hated him because she saw Jeritza every time even with the subtle changes that marked the Death Knight. If she could rip them apart she would without hesitation.
A dagger. Truly a classic to start with, she supposed.
There is no lacking pride in Nina Ironfist, which is why she looked at him as if he was the bug beneath her feet despite it being the exact opposite in that moment. If he had half a brain, he'd know why she was willing to suffer this for Jeritza - because he did not deserve to suffer for his alter's behavior. He deserved to be able to live without worrying he might wake up, bloodied and on the run. If her body was meant to be the sacrifice to achieve it...
So fucking be it.
"Must be easy to do that, because I'm a pretty simple woman."
The Death Knight can't fathom such empathies. That's what makes him strong, that's what makes him monstrous. He can't even imagine how Jeritza or Nina feel, nor could he possibly care less, despite both of them having the ability to alter things in his life.
But he's not completely stupid. The fact that Nina keeps coming back despite getting hurt again and again means that she must really care about Jeritza. While he can't fathom why, he's more than happy to take advantage of it.
"Fortunately, I don't need to understand you to hurt you. Today, I will take you down a peg. You are infuriatingly arrogant, and if I cannot break you, then I will make you pay for what you've done to me, how you've tried to limit and control me. I do not answer to haughty whores like you."
Rage slowly seeps into his voice until he's spitting his words through gritted teeth.
Nina, like the truly unhinged woman she was, smirked. She had gotten under his skin so badly, hadn't she? Really wedged herself in there and refused to let go - and gods, this was going to hurt but it felt so good knowing that he hated her just as much as she hated him.
She has gotten deep, deep under his skin. He does hate her with a burning rage. She's bested him, humiliated him, and now has the gall to smirk in his face. His pride is very threatened by her, and he needs to assert his dominance, get his revenge.
Without another word, he moves swiftly behind her chair, grabs her wrist, and bends her right arm in the wrong direction until it breaks. It's easy; he's strong and she's built like a toothpick. A sickening snap cracks through the air, and he grins.
Nina expected something... different from a man so inclined toward bloodlust. A slow, torturous session of cutting and bleeding and agonizing, drawn out pain.
Instead, she got this. A broken arm within seconds, the sharp pain as the bone snapped and her head spun. Death Knight almost earned himself the scream he probably wanted, but Nina bit her lip and stifled it, offering only a faint moan of pain.
A scream would be nice, but isn't required for his sadistic satisfaction. He knows how much a broken bone hurts, and just the knowledge that she's in that kind of pain is enough for him. He drops her arm abruptly, and it falls down by her side, the movement no doubt flaring that pain.
"Oh, dear. It won't be quite so easy to jerk off your little boyfriend now."
He circles back around to look at her face, drawing his dagger once again.
Nina had broken bones plenty before, but it was so much different when she fell off something and landed wrong, as opposed to someone literally snapping the fucking bone with their bare hands. She was panting as her arm dropped, the pain pulsing through her entire body.
She said she wouldn't put up a fight, and she wouldn't, but she would absolutely spit in his face in response - aimed right for his mouth, too, like she was trying to prove a point.
His mouth twists downward slightly in disgust and his eyes narrow as he uses his sleeve to wipe the spit off his lips and chin.
A wave of rage compels him to force his thumb into her mouth and yank her jaw open. He grabs the tip of her tongue between finger and thumb, grip firm, and pulls it out of her mouth, holding his dagger against it. He growls, an edge of manic insanity in his tone.
"Perhaps I'll cut out your tongue, then, hm? You won't be able to yammer on like an imbecile, or suck his cock, or spit in my damn face."
It took everything in her not to bite down the second his thumb pressed against her tongue, her jaw clicking once with the force in which he pulled her mouth open. There was the briefest flash of panic in her eyes- there was a lot she could suffer through for this, but not being able to speak would make things far more difficult in the long run.
"Ca... can't scream - either." She struggled, the sound distorted and strange while he held her tongue. "Or beg-" both things she assumed he wanted at some point.
She also couldn't articulate the shit she went through to a fucking healer later which, hilariously, was her major concern. Nevermind the lancing pain from her broken arm and the fact that he was holding a knife near her face.
That was all assuming she got out of this alive. Nina was holding onto the vague hope that the Knight would be suitably satiated before it came to that.
"Ah-" a faint grunt of pain. Fuck. "Haven't even said shit to you-" if he even understood that one at all. In Nina's defense, she really could be a lot worse.
As she attempts to speak again, her tongue moves against the blade and it draws a little blood, which oozes onto her tongue. He watches it, his pupils dilating. He imagines it pouring out of her mouth, dripping down her chin, imagines her choking on it. While it's a delicious thought, she would probably die either from asphyxiation or blood loss, and that would cut their fun short just when he'd gotten to the good part.
"And you won't, if you want to keep this intact."
He pulls his dagger away, but as he does, swipes the blade along the surface of her tongue, leaving enough of a cut to bleed and hurt for a while, but not enough to cause any kind of major blood loss. He lets go of her tongue, but continues to hold her mouth slightly open with his thumb, watching the blood ooze between her teeth and onto her lips.
The familiar tang of her own blood made her nearly feral with her own brand of rage. It had been so long since she felt this kind of pain - and she couldn't even fight back against it. Not if she wanted to keep Jeritza and the majority of the city safe.
Can't even talk. What bullshit.
Blood pooled in her mouth as her wounded tongue retracted, drooled down her chin and splattered on her chest. Nina glared at him with an unbridled hatred, almost impressed by how easily she could discern between him and Jeritza now. Amazing how his very existence could make him look so wretched.
Death Knight hums with a smile as he watches the dark red, viscous liquid drip all over her. It's obscenely enjoyable, to the point where certain strange feelings happen in his body, a heat spreading. He ignores it.
There is only rage in her eyes; if she feels fear, it must be all immediately converted to anger, the way all of his emotions are.
"You and I may not be as different as you think," he murmurs, more thoughtful than anything. With how much she hates him, that comment will probably worsen her rage, and he prepares to have blood spat at him. No matter- he's used to being covered in blood.
If looks could kill, the Knight would be dead. There was nothing but pure hatred in her gaze, brown eyes all but burning red with it. Nina would admit she was all of those things- but she was not like him. She had a heart; she did not pray on innocents for her own sick sadistic pleasure. She wasn't a monster.
The only reason he didn't get blood spit on him was thanks to the way he held her mouth open. Instead, she growled - the sound primal and rising from her chest, the fingers on her still useful hand twitching.
Her growl gurgles in her throat. She looks like a tiny angry cat, cornered and about to unleash a flurry of scratches. He chuckles, low and dark, and removes his thumb from her mouth. He keeps his hand near her mouth, though, and then uses it to smear the blood down her neck and onto her chest, painting her red with his palm and fingers.
"You look like you want to tear my head from my shoulders. Might I remind you that you are the one who came here to me. Not that I could fathom why. Give in to the pain. The more you fight it, the more I will have to do to you."
If she were to cry and grovel, it would be more satisfying. But the way things are going, he will have to do more extreme things to break her.
Nina absolutely despised the way her body shuddered when he touched her; her own lust for violence apparent in the faintest arch of her back. Her offer to assuage his desires by more carnal means hadn't been a ploy - she would have happily done it once Jeritza had first been allowed the chance. Alas.
"You know exactly why I'm doing it." She said, spitting blood off to the side instead of directly into his face just to get it out of her mouth. "I'm not fighting you. Just do it." And, for whatever it was worth, there were tears already in the dips of her eyes, the ones she could not control as pain lanced through her with every move she made.
"Ah, yes, because you want to be a hero. A martyr. Save the city and poor Jeritza from my influence. Well, there is one thing he and I agree on. You are a fool."
There are tears gathering. That is encouraging. More pain, then. He doesn't often torture without the intent to kill. It is a different way of thinking. Maximum pain without enough blood loss for death... He figures the most bang for his buck will be the vial of corrosive acid he has. He moves to the counter to open it, then back to her to grab her good wrist. He holds it tightly as he pours the acid on the back of her hand, which begins to burn it almost immediately. He watches as the skin turns red and the liquid begins to eat at her flesh.
Speaking of evil pieces of shit - only someone that fucking evil would have a vial of acid on fucking tap. Nina watched him, eyes shifting from the vial to her hand, confused until it hit her skin. The pain was immediate and intense - more so than the broken bone because she knew what those felt like, knew what to expect. But this? Holy shit. "You fucking prick-!" she screeched, a volley of colorful words suddenly spouted in his direction, her head turned away so she didn't have to watch the acid eat away at her flesh, tears streaming down her cheeks despite every attempt to quell them.
"It is amusing that you think such words can hurt me."
As she starts shouting and swearing, he begins to laugh, low and quiet in the back of his throat. Finally, a reaction. He grins as his eyes glance from her wet, bloody face to the festering wound forming on the back of her hand. A strange smell fills the air, one of the acid and the breaking-down flesh. He still holds her wrist tightly. He knows how to neutralize this acid, but he isn't going to, not unless he starts to see muscle and bone.
There's resistance this time; instinctive and primal, her weight shifting to try and yank her arm away even if she knows she cannot. More swears spew from her lips, nonsensical and full of fury because she wants to hit him so fucking bad. Just lay into him with all she has.
But that would hurt Jeritza, and she's doing it for him. For the sake of everyone else so the fucking lunatic doesn't kill someone. Nina breathes like she's run a marathon, sweat beading her brow and dripping down her face to meld with the tears that will not cease. Blood and sweat and tears all splattering onto her bloodied chest, right atop the print left by his hand.
He laughs softly again, though the sound is still awful and sinister.
"Much better."
She is beginning to give into the pain, beginning to break. He lets go of her hand; it will continue to burn no matter what she does with it. The only relief will come from neutralizing it with a basic solution. He then pulls out his dagger again and places a hand on her shoulder, leaning over it to look more closely. He sinks the sharp tip of his knife into her deltoid muscle and drags it down, then takes it out. Sinks it in again, draws a curved line that connects to the other. It's deep enough to hurt terribly, bleed profusely, and to scar.
It's a brand. A "D".
A point of pride. Physical proof of his domination over her, in his mind. Something that would surely piss her and Jeritza off to no end, that he'd laid claim to her body, that he is always here and they can't get rid of him. And fuck them for trying to. He has just as much a right to live in this body as Jeritza does, with all he did to protect their mother and sister, and protect themselves from any threat. He has a right to exist.
"You will never be rid of me, Nina. So long as you are near Jeritza, you will be near me, too. I cannot be permanently killed, and I am not going anywhere. So you best get used to this."
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"If you were serious about not putting up a fight, then sit in that chair. If you struggle, I'll have to tie you."
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She hated him. Hated that she hated him because she saw Jeritza every time even with the subtle changes that marked the Death Knight. If she could rip them apart she would without hesitation.
cw sexist language lol he suck
He approaches her, flipping a sharp dagger in his hand, looks over her.
She's attractive. How did that wet blanket Jeritza get her to like him so much? Enough to offer her body up to torture?
He trails the tip of the knife along her jaw, beneath her chin, and tilts it up toward himself.
"Strange girl. You perplex me."
Should CW torture/dk is a piece of shit this whole thread
There is no lacking pride in Nina Ironfist, which is why she looked at him as if he was the bug beneath her feet despite it being the exact opposite in that moment. If he had half a brain, he'd know why she was willing to suffer this for Jeritza - because he did not deserve to suffer for his alter's behavior. He deserved to be able to live without worrying he might wake up, bloodied and on the run. If her body was meant to be the sacrifice to achieve it...
So fucking be it.
"Must be easy to do that, because I'm a pretty simple woman."
YEA CW HEAVY TORTURE ALL THREAD and DK being POS
The Death Knight can't fathom such empathies. That's what makes him strong, that's what makes him monstrous. He can't even imagine how Jeritza or Nina feel, nor could he possibly care less, despite both of them having the ability to alter things in his life.
But he's not completely stupid. The fact that Nina keeps coming back despite getting hurt again and again means that she must really care about Jeritza. While he can't fathom why, he's more than happy to take advantage of it.
"Fortunately, I don't need to understand you to hurt you. Today, I will take you down a peg. You are infuriatingly arrogant, and if I cannot break you, then I will make you pay for what you've done to me, how you've tried to limit and control me. I do not answer to haughty whores like you."
Rage slowly seeps into his voice until he's spitting his words through gritted teeth.
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"Get on with it already."
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Without another word, he moves swiftly behind her chair, grabs her wrist, and bends her right arm in the wrong direction until it breaks. It's easy; he's strong and she's built like a toothpick. A sickening snap cracks through the air, and he grins.
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Instead, she got this. A broken arm within seconds, the sharp pain as the bone snapped and her head spun. Death Knight almost earned himself the scream he probably wanted, but Nina bit her lip and stifled it, offering only a faint moan of pain.
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"Oh, dear. It won't be quite so easy to jerk off your little boyfriend now."
He circles back around to look at her face, drawing his dagger once again.
"You'll have to use that filthy mouth of yours."
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She said she wouldn't put up a fight, and she wouldn't, but she would absolutely spit in his face in response - aimed right for his mouth, too, like she was trying to prove a point.
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A wave of rage compels him to force his thumb into her mouth and yank her jaw open. He grabs the tip of her tongue between finger and thumb, grip firm, and pulls it out of her mouth, holding his dagger against it. He growls, an edge of manic insanity in his tone.
"Perhaps I'll cut out your tongue, then, hm? You won't be able to yammer on like an imbecile, or suck his cock, or spit in my damn face."
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"Ca... can't scream - either." She struggled, the sound distorted and strange while he held her tongue. "Or beg-" both things she assumed he wanted at some point.
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He yanks on her tongue hard, his blade pressing in harder, but not breaking skin quite yet.
"You can scream without a tongue. Your vocal chords will be in tact, you just won't be able to articulate all your awful thoughts for me to endure."
And begging tended to irritate him more than anything. He'd much rather see someone cry and tremble than whine at him to let up.
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That was all assuming she got out of this alive. Nina was holding onto the vague hope that the Knight would be suitably satiated before it came to that.
"Ah-" a faint grunt of pain. Fuck. "Haven't even said shit to you-" if he even understood that one at all. In Nina's defense, she really could be a lot worse.
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"And you won't, if you want to keep this intact."
He pulls his dagger away, but as he does, swipes the blade along the surface of her tongue, leaving enough of a cut to bleed and hurt for a while, but not enough to cause any kind of major blood loss. He lets go of her tongue, but continues to hold her mouth slightly open with his thumb, watching the blood ooze between her teeth and onto her lips.
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Can't even talk. What bullshit.
Blood pooled in her mouth as her wounded tongue retracted, drooled down her chin and splattered on her chest. Nina glared at him with an unbridled hatred, almost impressed by how easily she could discern between him and Jeritza now. Amazing how his very existence could make him look so wretched.
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There is only rage in her eyes; if she feels fear, it must be all immediately converted to anger, the way all of his emotions are.
"You and I may not be as different as you think," he murmurs, more thoughtful than anything. With how much she hates him, that comment will probably worsen her rage, and he prepares to have blood spat at him. No matter- he's used to being covered in blood.
"Prideful. Rageful. Violent."
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The only reason he didn't get blood spit on him was thanks to the way he held her mouth open. Instead, she growled - the sound primal and rising from her chest, the fingers on her still useful hand twitching.
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"You look like you want to tear my head from my shoulders. Might I remind you that you are the one who came here to me. Not that I could fathom why. Give in to the pain. The more you fight it, the more I will have to do to you."
If she were to cry and grovel, it would be more satisfying. But the way things are going, he will have to do more extreme things to break her.
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"You know exactly why I'm doing it." She said, spitting blood off to the side instead of directly into his face just to get it out of her mouth. "I'm not fighting you. Just do it." And, for whatever it was worth, there were tears already in the dips of her eyes, the ones she could not control as pain lanced through her with every move she made.
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There are tears gathering. That is encouraging. More pain, then. He doesn't often torture without the intent to kill. It is a different way of thinking. Maximum pain without enough blood loss for death... He figures the most bang for his buck will be the vial of corrosive acid he has. He moves to the counter to open it, then back to her to grab her good wrist. He holds it tightly as he pours the acid on the back of her hand, which begins to burn it almost immediately. He watches as the skin turns red and the liquid begins to eat at her flesh.
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Speaking of evil pieces of shit - only someone that fucking evil would have a vial of acid on fucking tap. Nina watched him, eyes shifting from the vial to her hand, confused until it hit her skin. The pain was immediate and intense - more so than the broken bone because she knew what those felt like, knew what to expect. But this? Holy shit. "You fucking prick-!" she screeched, a volley of colorful words suddenly spouted in his direction, her head turned away so she didn't have to watch the acid eat away at her flesh, tears streaming down her cheeks despite every attempt to quell them.
o shit my bad
As she starts shouting and swearing, he begins to laugh, low and quiet in the back of his throat. Finally, a reaction. He grins as his eyes glance from her wet, bloody face to the festering wound forming on the back of her hand. A strange smell fills the air, one of the acid and the breaking-down flesh. He still holds her wrist tightly. He knows how to neutralize this acid, but he isn't going to, not unless he starts to see muscle and bone.
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But that would hurt Jeritza, and she's doing it for him. For the sake of everyone else so the fucking lunatic doesn't kill someone. Nina breathes like she's run a marathon, sweat beading her brow and dripping down her face to meld with the tears that will not cease. Blood and sweat and tears all splattering onto her bloodied chest, right atop the print left by his hand.
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He laughs softly again, though the sound is still awful and sinister.
"Much better."
She is beginning to give into the pain, beginning to break. He lets go of her hand; it will continue to burn no matter what she does with it. The only relief will come from neutralizing it with a basic solution. He then pulls out his dagger again and places a hand on her shoulder, leaning over it to look more closely. He sinks the sharp tip of his knife into her deltoid muscle and drags it down, then takes it out. Sinks it in again, draws a curved line that connects to the other. It's deep enough to hurt terribly, bleed profusely, and to scar.
It's a brand. A "D".
A point of pride. Physical proof of his domination over her, in his mind. Something that would surely piss her and Jeritza off to no end, that he'd laid claim to her body, that he is always here and they can't get rid of him. And fuck them for trying to. He has just as much a right to live in this body as Jeritza does, with all he did to protect their mother and sister, and protect themselves from any threat. He has a right to exist.
"You will never be rid of me, Nina. So long as you are near Jeritza, you will be near me, too. I cannot be permanently killed, and I am not going anywhere. So you best get used to this."
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Cw suicidal ideation
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can wrap soon ithinks
yuh we can end here