i_speak_softly: (A still more glorious dawn~)
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?
sketchingideals: (☆ i'm sorry...)

[voice]

[personal profile] sketchingideals 2013-07-04 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[In Don's defense, Jeb is very easy to trip over.]

I was sent back to my own world for a year, even though very little time passed here while I was. The last memory I have from there before coming back to Luceti is of two people very close to me covered in blood... because they got hurt trying to protect me and my siblings.

[It's a story that's gotten easier for Jeb to tell, but it's no less painful.]
shiningbinds: (forever watching over.)

[voice]

[personal profile] shiningbinds 2013-07-04 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A strange example?

[Kratos won't pry too much, but that does make him wonder what exactly is bothering the one on the other end.]
sketchingideals: (☆ tell me you're okay)

[voice]

[personal profile] sketchingideals 2013-07-04 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... y-yes. No one close to me has ever come close to dying before.

["Come close to," because he refuses to believe they're dead. Because the hope that he'll go home and there will be time to heal them is something that keeps him going.]
Edited (WOW that was the wrong icon) 2013-07-04 18:02 (UTC)
shiningbinds: (blame your fate.)

[voice]

[personal profile] shiningbinds 2013-07-04 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that not a good thing? Life is full of paradigm shifts of both directions. Your beliefs are constantly put to the test.

[This is not entirely true for Kratos, but he knows he's not exactly a normal example of life flowing naturally.]

And if something is better than what you suspected, then perhaps that's something to be grateful for.
welnares: (03)

voice;

[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-04 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. It depends on the person, don't you think? Some might like the benefits, but not the taste. But others might love everything about them, whether they liked or disliked them in the past.

[Personally, he never thought much about them. He just ate.]
semper_cogitans: (:<)

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-05 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
We went the next day. I remember Benjamin b-being... quite exuberant and enthusiastically informing me that I would "really have a great time". [The last part of the sentence is said in a cadence that is distinctly different from Robert's usual speaking tone, casual and enthusiastic. It might remind Don a little of Casey.] And... I s-suppose I did.

Altitude's facilities were c-clean and well-kept... the interior was actually quite similar to Luceti's Good Spirits, albeit... with padded, lowered seating so as to not present a r-risk to customers who... could not physically distinguish their edges. Were sterile, single-use syringes not involved, one would hardly be able to distinguish the reason... for the club's e-existence. [A slight, but sardonic, smile flits across Robert's features at that.]

I did not u-utilize any chemical alteration on that day... I was m-merely a participant in the discussions, though I remember being very anxious. [He wrings his hands.] I... r-remember feeling that... that Benjamin and his friends there seemed... very capable of i-interaction. They seemed... comfortable...

I suppose I... wished for such a sense of c-confidence myself. I was curious to experience the b-beauty and serene relaxation that... the s-substances purported to possess. And... most importantly, I wished to belong s-somewhere...

[His voice audibly quavers, and he stops, more to collect himself than anything.]
semper_cogitans: (:<)

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-05 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
All s-sorts of topics... some much like what we talk about. R-Recent innovations in technology, and projected inventions... fascinating ph-philosophical questions... or mundane topics, such as their own l-lives, studies, friendships or partners...

... What the ingestion of s-substances did was... allow for a sort of binding even in absence of s-similar opinion, or to allow one to feel comfort in sharing such t-topics. It... was not n-necessary, of course, but the general expectation was that, upon ingestion or administration of said s-substances, one's willingness to speak, and one's perception of one's own thoughts, would... be s-subsequently altered, and therefore take on... different dimensions of m-meaning.

... I can p-personally attest to the effect, though... p-perhaps it is more artificial than I would have c-cared to admit at the time of my extensive usage...

[He can't help but knead his own arms gently now that he can see Don doing so. All these memories...]
welnares: (03)

voice;

[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-05 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
A few. What sort of example are you looking for?
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[personal profile] happyhungergames 2013-07-05 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Because he TOLD me.

[Simple as that, Don.]

And he's always....looking in my window.
semper_cogitans: (:|a)

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-05 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the s-second of February when I... first tried a dose. [The kneading becomes more rhythmic, localized at a particular spot near his elbow on his left arm.] The lowest dose that was s-sold, of course... it was administered in a small bottle along with a p-pre-wrapped syringe, both of which bore the logo of the club. They... t-took pride in the artistic and holovideographic designs of their m-more high-end bottles...

... It was, and I suppose still is, s-something of a ritualistic behaviour.... the p-paraphernalia associated with the sessions is... a part of the experience.

But I... d-digress. [He pauses again.] ... What did you... w-wish to know, precisely, about it...?

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Re: voice;

[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-05 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)

[ Oh. This. Okay, here we go. ]

All right, so I'm guessing you watched a TV show called Star Trek, am I right?

Well, I am Captain Kirk, but not that Captain Kirk. I'm a different one, forged by a splitting of time streams. So I am him, just not the one you know. And yes, my ship is called the Enterprise and yes, my lieutenant is Spock.

[ That made perfect sense. Of course it did. ]

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