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?
inyourfavor: (an invitation)

[personal profile] inyourfavor 2013-07-16 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Katniss isn't my friend.

[She has to insist on that. "Friend" would feel...weird, when it came to Katniss Everdeen.]

She's more of a...

[Wait what the hell was she?]
trinkett: (hanging with the raisin girls)

[personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-17 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
She's more of a...

[Nope. The term still isn't coming.]
trinkett: (time to be a ghost)

[personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-17 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
....Sister. [NO that wasn't it but maybe she should just stick with that for now. He's a turtle. She doesn't have to get super-specific.]

[Action]

[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-18 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Derek would offer more, if there were any to offer, but that was about it.]

In a little bit, yeah. How's the swimming coming along?
onlyeffie: (will this never end?)

[personal profile] onlyeffie 2013-07-18 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. [This is the point she is trying to make.] At least -- that's the threat that has been issued. He won't succeed.
trinkett: (I can't forgive)

[personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-20 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Effie feels so uncomfortable referring to her as "sister." NOT the right word.]

Hmph. True. It's fine. I simply only eat packaged food.
sketchingideals: (☆ please come back safe)

[voice] it's okay! :) also, sorry for my own slow.

[personal profile] sketchingideals 2013-07-20 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
...I don't think I can--not alone. But I can at least continue to try.

[Even if he doesn't believe in himself as much as much as he should.]

[Action]

[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-21 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
All right.

[he wasn't ready to move yet, but he's good with Don either sticking by him or starting out on his own. He'd follow soon enough if don chose the latter.]
welnares: (03)

voice;

[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-21 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not bad. Being curious makes everything more interesting; at least, that's what I think.
trinkett: (time to be a ghost)

[personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-22 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I did? I confess I forget what your question was.
happyhungergames: (pick you apart)

[personal profile] happyhungergames 2013-07-22 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
May I ask a question, now? Why do you want to know?
welnares: (02)

voice;

[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-22 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, right. Some wars are started by mutual dislike between races, aren't they? Prejudice, discrimination, racism. They feel like they never end. But what if when there's the chance that those deep-seated opinions can suddenly change? It might have felt impossible at first, mightn't it?

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