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i_speak_softly) wrote2010-04-25 04:17 pm
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Eleventh Theory [Action/Voice]
((For the duration of the experiment Don's thoughts will be in {curly brackets}, OH GOD SORRY FOR THE BRAINSPAM.))
[Today Donatello is wandering around the village center, enjoying the nice weather and generally exploring. Unbeknownst to him, he is being followed by a thought bubble.]
[As he passes the clinic, on his way to the fountain:]
{... disassociative delusions. Induction of kinesthetic misperception. She thought her arm was artificial, so far as to... I should go visit her.}
[And as he comes into view of the school, he opens his journal:]
Molly, the weather is getting warm... do you want to start building the playground soon?
[Today Donatello is wandering around the village center, enjoying the nice weather and generally exploring. Unbeknownst to him, he is being followed by a thought bubble.]
[As he passes the clinic, on his way to the fountain:]
{... disassociative delusions. Induction of kinesthetic misperception. She thought her arm was artificial, so far as to... I should go visit her.}
[And as he comes into view of the school, he opens his journal:]
Molly, the weather is getting warm... do you want to start building the playground soon?
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[Long pause.]
... Why are you labelled with a psychiatric disorder?
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. . . What?
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{Donatello, are you listening to yourself? You're the one with delusions. 'Caption above his head'...}
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[He jumps back, but the thought bubble follows him.]
Um... that's not mine.
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Never mind that. Neither of us is delusional -- I think it started a while ago.
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{Good going, Donatello. Could you be more oblivious? ... Everyone is seeing this, aren't they? ... Hi, Leonardo.}
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. . . I guess not.
Are you well?
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I'm... no. More like in a holding pattern.
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You're doing better, though?
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Better... I don't think "I've accepted it" is the right phrase, but there's nothing I can do right now, and acting crazy over it certainly won't help anyone. I'm just... trying to continue.
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[And on the subject of hypocrisy, have a collection of nightmares of Turtles dying in horrible ways.]
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Sorry. He must be alive.
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{Although...}
[Have a flash of this.]
{He came from earlier in the timeline, but he was alive where I came from, and where Leo and Raph came from - I think - so he must be okay...}
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{You'll see him again... you won't even remember being away from each other... the timeline will fix itself...}
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[Also looking at the ground.]
This is... um... an ethical quandary.
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Don't mind me. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
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It's served me well, anyway.
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