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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 2013-07-06 03:19 am (UTC)(link)

Yeah, I'm really sure. It sounds all kinds of crazy, but considering where we are, does it really sound all that weird?

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[voice]

[personal profile] fourthgenerationprincess 2013-07-06 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. That's just how life works sometimes. I never thought I had time for friends until... well, until I needed to. And then my friends are teaching me things every day.
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-06 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see. [A beat.] Mm, that could apply to many things – like those dealing with race and war.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-07 12:03 am (UTC)(link)

Well, Captain Pike showed up. He threw down a challenge, and I could never quite resist that. I think he knew that too.

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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-07 02:32 am (UTC)(link)

He said I would make Captain in five years. I said it would take me three. Of course I had to prove him wrong.

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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-07 02:35 am (UTC)(link)

Well, yeah, but... my dad was in it, a long time ago, and my mom. Had to prove I could come out from my dad's shadow too in some sense.

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[voice]

[personal profile] fourthgenerationprincess 2013-07-07 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
I helped save all of reality. Does that count?

... Well, actually, I met all of my friends almost by accident. The world-saving part was sort of icing on the cake. It was the first thing to really bring us together!
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-07 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)

I guess. It's wired to think about now, but until then I also held a lot of resentment towards Star Fleet too.

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[personal profile] onlyeffie 2013-07-07 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep my food locked away, now. In a strongbox.

[Which SUCKS, but you have to do what you have to do.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-08 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[At first, he doesn't answer. Instead, he just keeps rhythmically focusing on that spot on his arm.

Finally, he asks a question in return.]
Physically, or... e-emotionally?
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-08 01:24 am (UTC)(link)

[ Interesting, maybe, but he wasn't that deep into his cups to spill his guts like that, and some things he had to keep to himself, right? ]

Let's just say it did not hold pleasant memories for me.

[ Or lack thereof, all things considered, but he didn't like talking about that absence in his life, replaced by something very lacking. ]

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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-08 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[More kneading punctuates his answers with a backdrop of discomfort.] Yes. A-At first, of course.

... The... the euphoria... Don, perhaps you do not u-understand as it comes so easily to you, but... but to be so free, to feel so comfortable - at times I n-nearly was able to pretend as if I had never felt anxiety or social d-discomfort at all. And even though some of the s-side-effects were unpleasant, it was... worth that feeling of connection, that at last I was... truly able to meld with others...

... [Softer, but more harshly:] I d-deluded myself into thinking that... this state would o-only be beneficial to maintain indefinitely. I lost sight of... of wh-why it had been positive to begin with. It became damaging, and eventually I was unable to stop...

... Even now I am not c-certain... when that line was crossed...
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-08 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[See that face on the scientist? That's the face of someone having a miniature potential-epiphany.]

... I... I th-thought perhaps that, with the... e-ease you demonstrate, you... did not feel the same f-fears or insecurities...

And certainly you can... u-understand more... [Don does not have to grapple for meaning in the same way Robert does. But is Don still afraid?]

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