[ He isn't unaffected by what's happening. The hands come for him, too, but Vanitas thinks maybe he has a leg up on everyone else. Is it the Darkness itself? Because he is Darkness? Is it that he doesn't fight them so much as let them exist around him? Is it the way everyone's stress and anxiety feed into him, making him stronger, a direct correlation to all the negative emotion they pour all over everything? He doesn't know, but he doesn't really care to know, either. The old man would; but Vanitas knows now that the figure he's been seeing isn't actually him. So there's nobody left to wonder.
The stores dwindle. He's seen more than one person come this way to pick at the alcohol. It's funny, in a way, given what that man on the network had been going on about: rationing. Did liquor count for that sort of thing? Maybe it doesn't matter. Everyone is so distracted that Vanitas doubts anyone will notice until this is all over.
Bruce reaches for a bottle— Vanitas knows it's him, despite the way he's got his face covered— and something unseen jerks him away from the bar. Glasses behind him clatter to the ground, smashing on impact. Vanitas rolls his shoulder underneath one groping hand, slips under the counter and in between Bruce and the backbar. He pulls the bottle off and turns around, shaking it and it's mostly full contents at the other boy. His eyes gleam like twin suns in the dim. ]
lil jon voice: shots shots shots
The stores dwindle. He's seen more than one person come this way to pick at the alcohol. It's funny, in a way, given what that man on the network had been going on about: rationing. Did liquor count for that sort of thing? Maybe it doesn't matter. Everyone is so distracted that Vanitas doubts anyone will notice until this is all over.
Bruce reaches for a bottle— Vanitas knows it's him, despite the way he's got his face covered— and something unseen jerks him away from the bar. Glasses behind him clatter to the ground, smashing on impact. Vanitas rolls his shoulder underneath one groping hand, slips under the counter and in between Bruce and the backbar. He pulls the bottle off and turns around, shaking it and it's mostly full contents at the other boy. His eyes gleam like twin suns in the dim. ]
After this?