Seventy-First Theory [Voice/Action]

[i_speak_softly]

[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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[voice]

[trinkett]

I feel like I'm being crushed under an onslaught of self-righteous instruction. Though I'm not sure that's the same thing.

[This haughty voice comes without a greeting. Just annoyance, though not at Donatello, of course.]

[voice] <3

[i_speak_softly]

-- Excuse me?

[Is it something he said?]

XD

[happyhungergames]

[The voice goes on:]

I'm not amenable to having others FORCE their point of view upon me like a ton of concrete bricks! People can be so self-righteous here!

[i_speak_softly]

I only asked a question!

[happyhungergames]

I don't mean that. I mean...


Don't you find people here tend to resort to very low tactics to MAKE you change your mind?!

[i_speak_softly]

[Baffled; he can't really remember an example of that.]

No?

[inyourfavor]

Bullying, I mean! Threats! Impatient language.

[Really, Don? Never? Not at all?]

[i_speak_softly]

[Like the way his brothers used to "ask" him to fix their stuff?]

[Maybe in Luceti people just don't have the guts to talk to a giant turtle that way.]

No, sorry.

[inyourfavor]

Hmph. Well CLEARLY our experiences here haven't been the same! I'm almost inclined to hold faster to my perspective with so many self-righteous hypocrites around!

One of them even wants to poison my food.

[Stupid Zevran, always lurking.]

[i_speak_softly]

-- What?




How do you know?

[happyhungergames]

Because he TOLD me.

[Simple as that, Don.]

And he's always....looking in my window.

[i_speak_softly]

What kind of --

Have you tried security measures?

[onlyeffie]

I keep my food locked away, now. In a strongbox.

[Which SUCKS, but you have to do what you have to do.]

[i_speak_softly]

[He can't help asking:]

Are there any traps?

[trinkett]

Traps? Lord, no. Katniss would never allow TRAPS! And that Sharpe fellow would probably wander into one.

[i_speak_softly]

Why do so many people here hate traps?!

[onlyeffie]

[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?]

[i_speak_softly]

... Your friend's friend is trying to kill you.

[Does he have that right?]

[inyourfavor]

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?]

[i_speak_softly]

... ?

[trinkett]

She's more of a...

[Nope. The term still isn't coming.]

[i_speak_softly]

Ally? Acquaintance?

... Sister?

[trinkett]

....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.]

[i_speak_softly]

[But to get back to the point.]

Your sister's friend is trying to kill you.

[onlyeffie]

Yes. [This is the point she is trying to make.] At least -- that's the threat that has been issued. He won't succeed.