ryclties:
❝ you’re the worst. ❞ cesar groans childishly, moving to flop down in the nearest chair. it was worth a shot, of course. using manipulation tactics to get his brother to do whatever he wanted, that is. ❝ it could, if you’d do something for me. then i wouldn’t be forced to do unspeakable things to you that would ruin your whole undead life. ❞ he shrugs, speaking rather dramatically. ❝ would that really be such a bad thing ? you can’t possibly like it here. i mean, look at what being here has done to you. ❞ he points out. maybe he was just projecting his own feelings.
❝ oh, you’re too sweet, brother. ❞ he teased the elder, still smiling as the other attempted to blackmail him. ❝ would you really do that your precious baby bro? because i have a lot of undead life to live still and that’s plain cruel. ❞ salem’s expression fell, gaze falling to his lap as toyed with the loose strings of his ripped jeans. clothes never seemed to stay intact long when it came to them. ❝ going home... i want nothing more but that’s the easy way out. ❞ if he returned to his ghost form he would have no physical body to tell him what he craved and there would no longer be the tragically departed tormenting him everyday.
before coming to auradon, salem had at least some idea of what he would look like. as a ghost, he looked relatively human minus being see through and having a mangled face from what he assumed had been a gruesome passing. his mother said it made him beautifully horrifying and her opinion was all that mattered. however, seeing his brother looking completely human was a little unsettling even in his fogged up mind. the younger had definitely been indulging himself that morning. ❝ you could --- but it doesn’t benefit you, ❞ he mused with a chuckle. salem would be devastated if their parent’s found out but until it happened, he was still all smiles. ❝ mom and dad would just make me go back home... ❞ and that was not something he deserved. becoming a ghost again would take the easy way out of the hole he had dug for himself.
seeing his brother during their time in auradon was like looking at a stranger. never once had the skellington family been human ( at least, not in the years that cesar had been alive ). he hated it, being human. there was nothing that made him unique, or better yet, horrifying in any way. here he as simply normal, just like everyone else. it was utterly despicable. ❝ you’re pretty damn lucky mom and dad aren’t around. they’d be pissed if they could see how fucked up you are right now. ❞ the elder skellington points out, tossing his cigarette to the ground and crushing it under his doc martens. ❝ or, you know, i could always just tell them. ❞ he says slyly, speaking almost like a maniacal twelve year - old. even as he grew older, he turned to blackmail to get whatever he wanted.