i_speak_softly | 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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Hmm, can't say it had ever really crossed my mind. I guess I did, once or twice, but it wasn't until Pike came and got me that I actually wanted to. He did some freaky reverse psychology on me or something, I'm sure, but it doesn't much matter now.

[Totally distracted from his original point.]

Aren't you Captain Kirk?

_{[ Oh. This. Okay, here we go. ]}

All right, so I'm guessing you watched a TV show called Star Trek, am I right?

Well, I am Captain Kirk, but not that Captain Kirk. I'm a different one, forged by a splitting of time streams. So I am him, just not the one you know. And yes, my ship is called the Enterprise and yes, my lieutenant is Spock.

_{[ That made perfect sense. Of course it did. ]}

... Are you sure you haven't had your memory wiped?

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

If you say so... Captain.

So, um... what made you want to be in Starfleet?

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

What was the challenge?

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

... You joined Starfleet to win a bet?

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.

But that reason wasn't important to you until someone gave you a challenge?

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

[Interesting.]

Why?

_{[ 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. ]}

[BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS TO KNOW okay fine.]

Thanks for... telling me that much.

This is a philosophy session, not therapy. Besides, I have to add some mystery to the man that is me.

[Damn it, how did you do that.]

Of course.

_{[ Magic. ]}

Anyways, I didn't grab your name, even though you obviously know mine.

It's Donatello.

Like the famous painter?

Sculptor, actually.

I was close enough. I knew he had to do with the Italian Renaissance at least.

Yes, exactly.

[It's a little exciting that Captain Kirk - or some version of him - has at least a vague idea of who Donatello-the-Turtle is.]

_{[ Well, he doesn't know you're a giant talking turtle. So, you know,
there's that. But you're also not the most alien thing he's ever come
across either. ]}

Parents must have had some high aspirations for you, huh?

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