planmade: (long)
Mihael "Mello" Keehl ([personal profile] planmade) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-02-06 07:55 pm

001 ♱ arrival (video)

Who: Mihael "Mello" Keehl & open.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Marsiva. Hospitality deck.
When: Current.

[Mihael's eyes blink open slowly, then immediately sharpen. He sits up with a jerk, barely keeping himself from looking visibly panicked, from bringing a hand to his chest to feel for a heartbeat. In that split second after waking his mind is flooded with several thoughts at once, the foremost being that he's alive, which doesn't make sense given what he knows about the Death Note and what he's sure he felt only moments before. If he's alive then there's a good chance that Kira is involved, and that wherever he is would be monitored by the enemy.

But then, this also doesn't seem like Kira's style. The self-proclaimed god of the new world just killed people that were in his way, often even when keeping them alive might have served his purposes better. This means that something has to have gotten in the way of that - an unwritten rule, perhaps, or another shinigami. He'd always been ahead of them when it came to how the books truly worked.

There's a chill, but it's not in the air. He feels it deep in his bones, and he laments the loss of his coat. He hadn't been wearing it when he'd "died", and a glance around lets him know that it at least isn't in the room with him. His vest doesn't do much against the cold, though if it's coming from within an extra layer over his skin might not do much anyway. Is this normal? Part of the process of foiling the note? Having this big of an information gap is infuriating. He doesn't have his gun either, but that's the least surprising revelation so far.

He sits up, sliding to the edge of the cot. The room is completely unfamiliar and sterile. If someone is monitoring him, then they'll expect him to check the door. Might as well not keep them waiting. He's not even sure he should be surprised when it opens. Even if it's some sort of trap, whatever's out here has to be able to tell him more than what's in that little room. The attempt on his life has already been made, and it would be a waste of resources to go through all this trouble just to try and kill him again right away.

Leaving the door ajar for a few moments more, he does a final check of the room to make sure he isn't leaving anything behind. He pats himself down, too, as new additions to his person were very possible in this situation. The bump behind his ear gets a deep frown out of him, and messing with it proves to be too uncomfortable. A bug, perhaps. A tracking device. Both. He'll have to watch what he says.

In his pocket is... not his cell phone. Something else. When he flips it open he's met with an unfamiliar interface - unfamiliar, but not difficult. This is something. It's a step toward figuring out what's going on, and he's thumbing through entries as he finally leaves the room.

Some time later, he finally addresses the network himself.]


Disregard any messages from another I.D. of someone with my name and face.

And you. You'll talk to me.
enflammen: (all of my wrongs)

[personal profile] enflammen 2016-02-10 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[In much the same way, when Micah looks at Mello, he feels - not pity, exactly, but a kind of empathy for the other man. He doesn't know much about his life, but what he's seen is harsh and unforgiving, and Micah does know a little something about that. He knows too that while he's succeeded in turning his life around, there are countless others like him who haven't, not necessarily because of any personal failings but because of any number of variables, a stacked deck against their favor. Sometimes, hard work itself isn't enough. Micah knows exactly how lucky he is to have met Father Kelly and been given the chance to turn his life around for the better. It's not something everyone can say, and from what Micah's picked up from the Echoes of Mello's life - and death - he can imagine that's the case, that it's not a thing the other blond can say.

Micah might have been angry, once, hearing the sorts of things Mello says to him now, has said from the start. When he was younger, he would have railed against being told to shut up, but not now. Micah doesn't know everything - he doesn't know much - but he knows enough what it felt like to be Mello. So it doesn't upset him.

And he's been clear about communicating boundaries. Micah can certainly respect that.]


Sounds like the kind of thing Freud would have a field day with.

[He half-smiles at the other man.]

I guess it's good for both of us that he isn't here, huh.
enflammen: (laughter comes to the lucky)

[personal profile] enflammen 2016-02-12 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Micah laughs quietly at the statement on Freud; he's never been particularly fond of the guy's contributions to the world either.]

You realize what a contradiction that is, right? Saying you want space but demanding information.

[Not that he'll refuse either request - it's just interesting. Micah had a general idea that Mello had a strong personality, but the details being fleshed out by direct conversation with him have only sparked his curiosity more than before.]

Yeah, all right. I'll be in touch if I find anything out.

[It's not that Micah is desperate for Mello's approval; he just doesn't see the point in refusing. And he does mean what he said about being an ally.]

Let me ask you something - you really tell people to call you Mello? I know Lazarus said real names were a big important secret for all of you at the House, but I gotta say, I'm curious how you came up with that.
enflammen: (all of my wrongs)

[personal profile] enflammen 2016-02-13 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'd hate to call you the wrong thing, on the off chance I do manage to turn up some useful information.

[He shrugs. That's simple enough.]
enflammen: (a slave to history and science)

[personal profile] enflammen 2016-02-13 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
All right, Mello. See you around, then.