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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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Re: voice;

[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-11 02:37 am (UTC)(link)

[ There's a laugh. ]

So much for name's being indicators of destiny, right?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-11 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Derek has to think about it for a minute; he wasn't expecting Don to put something quite this heavy in his lap, but there it was. Now what to do with it?]

...Personally, I'd still think it was a problem. As soon as you have to make excuses to explain yourself about something you're addicted to, it's a problem. Especially if the behavior that results is damaging to the person.

By the same token, everyone has different points where having a drink or two, or taking a drug to help with something becomes less of an aid and more of a crutch. If it's temporary, if they can put it down and not look back it's not so bad.

If they have to resort to it as a coping mechanism all the time, they're in trouble.
semper_cogitans: (-w-)

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2013-07-12 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[That's fine with him, honestly. He'll just... lay here in Don's arms until morning.

Or until something wakes them, whichever happens first. (Unfortunately it'll probably be the waking thing first.)]
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-12 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)

Well, fair enough I guess. Wait. You said 'us'. You have siblings or something?

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[personal profile] onlyeffie 2013-07-12 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is a sigh. At least this green fellow sees sense.]

Katniss might be persuaded, except the assassin is her friend.

{Really -- how messed up was that?]
shiningbinds: (be on your guard.)

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[personal profile] shiningbinds 2013-07-13 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[Hm.]

If you believe that rethinking the unpleasant events in your past will pay off the most in the end, then I encourage you to do so. However, I would advise caution regardless. You should be all right so long as you aren't reckless.
Edited 2013-07-13 14:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-13 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)

Three, huh? Young, older? Quadruplets?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-14 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Don, I don't know what to tell you. If it seems to be hurting him, then try and help him get away from needing it. If not, I guess either accept it as part of him or move on. But I can't tell you what to do, and I barely know him, so I don't know what counts as addictive behavior for him. I just know 'follow what seems right'. So that's really all I can tell you.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-14 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)

[ So, adopted, probably. ]

Yeah, I guess not in the long scheme of things.

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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-15 02:32 am (UTC)(link)

Anytime. But, uh, call me Kirk. I'm a civilian these days.

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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-07-15 02:41 am (UTC)(link)

Hopefully I get to meet you at a more decent hour next time, Don.

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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-15 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
That varies even more than vegetables, you know. You must be really curious!
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[personal profile] fourthgenerationprincess 2013-07-16 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Twilight hears his hesitation. ] Don, what's troubling you?

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