The Reaper and The Soak
Language: English
A Christmas Carol Arc Adler the Reaper (BEASTARS) Agata (BEASTARS) Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism Alcohol Withdrawal Azuki (BEASTARS- mentioned) Beastars Blood and Gore Chance at redemption Choices Completed Creative License Taken with Names and Surnames Criminal Past Depression Destitution Everyone Hates Louis Existential Apathy Fanfiction Free (BEASTARS- mentioned) Gen Ghosts of the Past - Freeform Haru (BEASTARS) Haru and Legosi's Son Haru/Legosi (BEASTARS) Haunting Heart Attack Ibuki (BEASTARS- mentioned) In Limbo Jack (BEASTARS- mentioned) Joana (BEASTARS OC) Judicial Process Juno (BEASTARS) Juno and Louis' Son Juno's Family Juno/Louis (BEASTARS) Kyuu (BEASTARS- mentioned) Legosi (BEASTARS) Leonard | Lenny (BEASTARS OC) Louis (BEASTARS) Louis Deserves the Hate Melon (BEASTARS- mentioned) Oguma (BEASTARS- mentioned) Older Louis Organ Failure Original Characters Past Abuse Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism Past Filicide Past Murder(s) Past Uxoricide Pina (BEASTARS- mentioned) Post-Melon Arc (BEASTARS) Post-Prison Protective Custody Reaper of Souls Redemption Redemption or Death Relapsing Revenant Riz (BEASTARS- mentioned) San (BEASTARS- mentioned) Social Suicide Supernatural Elements Tem (BEASTARS- mentioned) The Shishigumi (BEASTARS- mentioned) Time Shenanigans Undoing the Past Yafya (BEASTARS- mentioned) Yuta (BEASTARS- mentioned) between life and death fall from grace house arrest or should that be Rexmas Carol? past crimes self-destructive behaviour social pariah ビースターズ | BEASTARS
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: Jul 23, 2020
Description:
soak (n.)
(slang, British-English): a person who drinks to excess; a drunk. No definite origin, but linked to the country's seafaring heritage circa the Age of Sail
Louis is at rock bottom. He's done time for killing his family; his friends despise him; his public persona has been mauled by the tabloids; the legs of his lovers have snapped shut; the Horns Conglomerate has cut all ties with him; and so much as thinking about his shrivelled up criminal connections is liable to see him wind up as fresh cuts on the Black Market's stalls, not that anyone would want his alkie hide. Effectively under house arrest in the mausoleum that is his father's mansion and penniless aside from a clandestine pittance the family business throws at him, there is nothing worth getting out of bed for. And boy does he need a drink after 12 years sober.
Wouldn't that be nice? To suckle from that old poisoned teat that set him down this dark path and slip into oblivion forevermore.
Fate isn't planning on being that kind to this damned soul. All traps have a release mechanism, even liquid ones.
Unofficial conclusion to Orifice_Spelunker's The Liquid Trap