i_speak_softly: (I've fallen and my head hurts.)
i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2012-07-07 02:15 pm

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[Luceti is a cruel and perverted world. That's the only possible explanation for why Don revives from his death-by-drowning at the bottom of the lake. He thrashes for the surface with none of his usual graceful movement, and crawls ashore, panting and trying to figure out what happened.

He knows he died.

He remembers there is a price for being restored to the living world.

He lies in the rain, wondering if it will ever end.

When he has enough breath back to sit up, he does so, and carefully checks himself over for what the Malnosso took. Limbs, senses, memories… all seem in order. He stands and walks, and his legs work. He speaks a few words, and his voice is still there.

It doesn't seem possible that the Malnosso brought him back for free, and he's scared for what hidden deficit might reveal itself later.

He has his mask, belt, and pads. All his other gear is absent, hopefully still at home where he left it.

He starts walking.

He knows it will take some time to travel from the western lake to the village, but he knows the way and he's not in a hurry. It will be good to get his thoughts together before he sees his housemates.]


((Don's death penalty is a language disorder called aphasia. Reference post is here, and linked from the index post at the top of his journal. Meet him anywhere on his way back to House 55.

Plotting note: In the near future, Don will want to go to the clinic to find out what's wrong with him. If your character works there, and especially if they would recognize aphasia, please hit me up via PM.))
tailasoldastime: (Wait come again?)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-16 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[... Well that definitely made him stop and think.] "No"? ... No what?
tailasoldastime: (Hrm?)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-18 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You're... not good? [That... doesn't sound like how Don would talk. This is starting to remind him of that time now when Don wasn't as nice as usual. Uh oh...] Did the Malnosso... do something to you?
tailasoldastime: (And then it dawns on him...)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-20 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[His voice lowers into a low growl after getting his answer - he should've known. And Hastings... Hastings asked him to protect Don. But he didn't...

He talks back, almost desperately:]
What did they do?
tailasoldastime: (Eye-twisting-straight-pose-of-doom!)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
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... Wh... what?
tailasoldastime: (FACEPALM)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-20 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
E... xactly? [He's not sure he gets it... all he said was that he didn't what Don had...

... Oh. ... Oh. Now the words he said before are meaning something... at least, he thinks they are. They still don't sound right, but they also sound like something that does sound right.]


They... you can't... speak... right.

[Then he finally breaks eye contact and puts his head in his paw.] Don, I... I'm sorry.
tailasoldastime: (Ashamed)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-22 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He slowly looks up once he feels the pat - at least the gesture shows that Don hasn't completely changed. But he still feels like he needs to make up for what he couldn't do for Robert.]

Is... c-can I do s-some... something to... help...?
tailasoldastime: (Wow... oh wow...)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-23 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[And poor Beast doesn't realise this and just feels bad and really wants to help.]

Are... are you sure?
tailasoldastime: (Ashamed)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-07-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
A... [But what will Don do now? How can he be helped now?]

Will... w-will you be alright?
tailasoldastime: (Hm...)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-08-10 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that does look pretty convincing. But...]

... Can... c-can I... help you home, at... at most?
tailasoldastime: (Recognise this from the Wiki?)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-08-13 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[A feeling of relief moves through him - not like a rush but still some relief - and a small smile reaches his mouth. Even if it's not much, helping in some way makes him feel a little better.

So he then turns to stand beside Don, facing the direction of his house.]
tailasoldastime: (Staaaare)

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[personal profile] tailasoldastime 2012-08-16 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Beast doesn't speak much through most of the walk, probably to save both of them from more awkwardness. Instead he switches back and forth from giving a small smile to Don and staring at the ground pensively. He wonders what the Malnosso did to him...]