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i_speak_softly) wrote2013-06-29 09:18 pm
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?
[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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Not the same, I think. But not completely different either.
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... Perhaps the difference is... i-in how we chose to deal with such feelings.
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I would p-perhaps say I wished for you to have... d-different choices. More of them...
But... if you had... would you be the s-same person? I... am not certain. It is likely you would be... qu-quite different. As would I...
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You are different when you've been drinking. And I don't like that person. I don't want to see him around anymore.
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I... do not l-like it either, Don. [He stares at the floor.] And... I u-understand the importance of avoiding alcohol to that d-degree...
... I... suppose I need assistance. Or perhaps I simply must be... more d-diligent...
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[He says it like he expects the answer to be no.]
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Are you sure you're not a little drunk right now?
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... Is it a poor question to ask...?
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Suddenly you seem to think I don't have normal feelings.
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Substance abuse is... n-not a normal feeling, Don. [He inclines his gaze upwards once more.] Though... one can have impulses one w-wishes to resist that are... significantly more benign...
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Are you saying no to me?
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... Perhaps it would be best to go inside, h-however. Even if I am not so tired... you certainly a-are.
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[But if Don doesn't get up, Robert won't.]
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Some part of him feels this idea is fairly stupid. But it is not the stupidest thing he has done recently, so maybe he can afford it.]
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[Looks like they're having an impromptu front yard campout tonight.]
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Or until something wakes them, whichever happens first. (Unfortunately it'll probably be the waking thing first.)]