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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?
welnares: (03)

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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-23 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . hm.]

Have you changed your mind since then?
happyhungergames: (do I stress you out?)

[personal profile] happyhungergames 2013-07-23 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Relevant to what, exactly? Have the people here tried to force you to change, too?
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you're your own example, aren't you?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-25 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Once he's done with getting the board back into shape, Derek will make his way out onto the water with it, laying out on the surface to stare at the sky while Don swims.]
onlyeffie: (nothing's free)

[personal profile] onlyeffie 2013-07-25 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Effie is the definition of nosy.]

Nothing you say along those lines could surprise me. I know what the people here are capable of with their little ideologies.
Edited 2013-07-25 13:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-25 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you say that?
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Other people, huh? What did you think before?
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-26 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
So it's like that . . . Well, Luceti's a pretty big place. There's bound to be people who can't accept as easily as others.
trinkett: (wake up in strawberry fields)

[personal profile] trinkett 2013-07-26 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Why does refusing to be changed by others automatically equal closed-mindedness?
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[personal profile] welnares 2013-07-26 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not surprised. Luceti's the most tolerant place I've ever seen – probably because we're all considered just one thing to the Organization.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-27 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything is realistic of you're willing to put the work into it. And suffer the consequences if you misstep.

[Derek rolls over so he can see the stars overhead.]

Question is, though, is he willing to change his habits? If he isn't, it's going to be a hell of a fight. And one you might lose. You going to be all right if that's how it pans out?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2013-07-28 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
No it isn't. But until the person knows they have a problem, trying to help them won't get you anywhere.
onlyeffie: (will this never end?)

[personal profile] onlyeffie 2013-07-29 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's absurd. Where I come from, those who change are the ones who disappear.

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