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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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Aren't you being kind of closed-minded?
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[The idea of that is so AMUSING.]
Listen -- you've nothing to be shocked or upset over. I long ago learned the correct way to be. I see no reason to change that here.
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If there were, I'm 98% confident that either myself or my partner would have been arrested by now.
[Which kind of brings him back to the original point.]
And I don't think we will be as a result of this whole mess.
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And was this the mess you changed your mind about?
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[Are you saying this is a bad thing?]
[Does Don care what you think is a bad thing?]
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[That is a very high compliment, Don.]