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i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2013-06-29 09:18 pm

Seventy-First Theory [Voice/Action]

[It's been an extremely frustrating month. First he was kidnapped and experimented on by the Malnosso, while everyone else in the village - as Don learned later - got to fly, with their own wings. As the long-vanished Raphael would say, "Turtle Luck runnin' true to form".]

[When the droids returned him, he was invisible for a week, and spent most of that time watching his partner have a serious substance abuse problem, while the Turtle himself was powerless to do anything about that or the underlying issues causing Robert's addiction to resurface.]

[When Don became visible again, Robert tried to explain himself, but the Turtle had seen too much of drugs in his own world to want to hear any more about it. As a result, for the past few weeks relations have been strained at best in the Hamato-Hastings household.]

[Today Don heads out to the beach, seeking to clear his head and reconnect with his Filial magic. The Malnosso's experiments had had strange effects on his control of the elements, and he thinks he'd better spend some time re-establishing his bond with the spirits, the true source of these abilities.]

[In the afternoon, he happens to check his journal and finds a long, privately-filtered written message from Robert: another attempt to explain his behavior. Part of Don doesn't want to read it, but another part knows he owes that much to his partner of over two years.]

[That doesn't make it easy, though, and Don can only stand to read the manifesto in small pieces over the next several hours.]

[When he's done, he stays at the beach, watching sunset, watching the stars come out. When night and solitude have made him invisible again, he opens his journal.]


Have you ever learned something... that made you change your perspective... on something you thought you would never change your mind about?
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-02 02:35 am (UTC)(link)

Yeah, I guess.

[ There's a groaning sound. ]

Well, in answer your question, yeah, I have had that. Never wanted to be in Starfleet, but here I am now, a Captain.

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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
It seems like I ought to have. [In a self-reproachful tone, the man adds:] After so long, h-how could I have not realized how you felt...?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
If it's something you always thought would be another way, yeah, it'll be that hard. You're having to look pretty close at things you were sure of, and that's going to take a lot of work.
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I can think of many. You must mean something monumental, right? I was thinking of the more mundane things, like when you don't want to eat your vegetables at a young age; that sort of stuff is significant in its own way, but, maybe . . . that my perception of someone has changed?
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[personal profile] inyourfavor 2013-07-03 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph. Well CLEARLY our experiences here haven't been the same! I'm almost inclined to hold faster to my perspective with so many self-righteous hypocrites around!

One of them even wants to poison my food.

[Stupid Zevran, always lurking.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-04 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Robert has never been good at the perceptiveness thing.]

What is left to... d-discuss, at this point...? [Not dismissive, but genuinely curious. Robert doesn't really know where to go from what he wrote earlier.]
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-04 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Really? [Vegetables are good, though.] Most kids don't like to eat vegetables, right? They don't want to eat them at all. But something changes one day . . . or it might be gradual . . . and they start to eat them until it's part of their regular diet.

It doesn't even have to be vegetables. It could be anything someone didn't used to like.
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-04 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Still staring forward at the plants, rather than at Don:] My... initial drug usage, or... or the m-most recent manipulation...?

Or are you... curious about b-both...?
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-04 03:23 am (UTC)(link)

Hmm, can't say it had ever really crossed my mind. I guess I did, once or twice, but it wasn't until Pike came and got me that I actually wanted to. He did some freaky reverse psychology on me or something, I'm sure, but it doesn't much matter now.

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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-04 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
The beginning... [Robert echoes it quietly, folding his hands and gently wringing them several times before saying anything. Finally, he breaks the stillness of the night once more.]

As you may r-recall, when I first met Benjamin, I was... f-fourteen years of age. But I was not introduced to arylcycloheylamines until... s-some time later, at fifteen.

To be precise... [His focus turns inward.] It was Holumo, specifically the twenty-seventh of December, at sixteen-fifteen in the afternoon, and Benjamin mentioned the name of a small venue he had been frequenting consistently... by the name of Altitude.

I agreed to a-accompany him on a date there... [It's plain that Robert, at the time, didn't really know exactly what it was for.]
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-04 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
The reason could be anything. Some realize the health benefits, while others' appetite just expand naturally. These are only two examples.
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[personal profile] sketchingideals 2013-07-04 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey, Donatello. Here's someone you haven't talked to for a while, but a question like that definitely draws Jeb in and prompts him to answer. He knows how that feels, the wounds reality inflicted on his ideals still relatively fresh.]

Yes, I have. [A pause.] At least, it's made me rethink several things dear to me.

[Life is still beautiful... but life can also be incredibly cruel, and while Jeb has managed to shift his ideals with that knowledge, there are still times where he struggles. Some days are just worse than others, really.]
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[personal profile] shiningbinds 2013-07-04 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Is not that not only inevitable?

[He knows a little too much about that--or rather, not doing enough of it. Clinging to old ideals, unable to admit mistakes... that is the sin that not only Kratos carries, but his old pupil as well. Yuan was the only one who actively tried to rectify what they had done and respect Martel's wishes.]

Changing your viewpoint is not always such a bad thing. At times, it can expand your knowledge on the subject. [Like Anna had showed him--and likewise, their son had slowly been reteaching him...]

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