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driftfleet2015-02-03 08:40 pm
serpentis) wrote in driftfleet2015-02-03 08:40 pm
Entry tags:
- !mingle,
- allen walker,
- arhen lavellan,
- cecil harvey,
- coil lenn,
- cole turner,
- dorian pavus,
- elim garak,
- emblica,
- felix harrowgate,
- fenris,
- finrod felagund,
- jove lavellan,
- krista kingsley,
- lloyd irving,
- malak,
- michael (michael),
- nelkeila tarid,
- nunnally vi britannia,
- riku,
- robin redbreast,
- sawada tsunayoshi,
- shirley fennes,
- sokka,
- tekhetsio,
- tim drake,
- yamanaka ino,
- zelos wilder (bad end)
[Open Moons Mingle Log]
Who: Anyone and Everyone!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Abeo, Accendo, Adsum
When: 2/3-2/7
[WELCOME TO THE MOONS ENJOY YOUR STAY DON'T GET ARRESTED.]
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Abeo, Accendo, Adsum
When: 2/3-2/7
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I want to try. I want to make sure he's all right, or at least make sure he won't do anything he'll regret.
[A beat.]
That goes for you too, you know.
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[Is that counting Robin as a friend? Maybe, maybe not.]
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I don't know if you trust me, after all of that, but... I would be happy to do the same for you, should you ever ask.
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I think can trust you, but if there's anything like--like what happened with Nel, that might be bad...it doesn't have to be now, but I'd rather know sooner or later.
[She softens there. Not easy to throw stones here, after all.]
It's hard, but it's better than not saying anything. Senel, my friend...I once found out he was hiding something from me at a bad time, and I lost the courage to trust him when I should have. It's something that both of us regret.
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[Tek comes to mind. Crow comes to mind. there's a great deal about himself and his friends and his past that could potentially come about and make people very upset. it's a little absurd that someone would just... ask him to talk about it, though, and absurd that he'd consider answering truthfully. a couple of years ago he would have threatened her away from the very notion.]
You know, it's a funny thing... [he tilts his head up, looking up at the sky above them. it's nice, on this moon--the weather. warm, clear. it'd be wonderful to fly through.] I had a friend who tried to tell me I should talk about myself more, be more honest and open. She left a while ago, but I haven't quite been able to shake the memory of it from my mind, since then...
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[Robin may not be able to see but she's smiling to herself now, thinking of the friends she's made and everything they've been through. Talking about feelings with Chloe, seeing Norma achieve her dream, helping Jay accept his family...all of it, important.]
It's not always easy in the moment to be honest, or open up when you're afraid. But once you've done it, everything comes so much more naturally.
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I feel very shy.
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[Yeah, that's understandable actually. Her work aside, Shirley isn't the most outgoing of people either.]
How about I tell you something first? It would only be fair.
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Right now? Ah... All right, but I bet mine's going to be the tougher secret to swallow.
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[Way to make a girl feel good, Robin.]
If I wanted to, I could kill most of the people in the world I come from. I nearly did just that, and I would have if my friends hadn't kept trying to stop me. If I hadn't trusted them at the very last moment. If it weren't for that, all the Orerines would be dead by my power.
[Shirley lets out a long sigh, glancing down and pulling absentmindedly at her skirt, but it's not as troubled as Robin might expect. She's wrestled with all that already, so that her resolve holds even when her shame lingers. She looks back at Robin, dead serious.]
That's why I can say the things I do now. I don't want to let others keep falling into the same mistakes I did, and then regret what they've done.
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he's got questions, of course, but he doesn't say any of them. that's not what they agreed to.]
All right. [he nods once, at least taking things seriously himself.] Here is mine: I'm an ancient, immortal avatar to the Gods of my world, and hold dominion over the pain and suffering of all who live there.
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Like Schwartz...
[But of course he wouldn't know who Schwartz was.]
We fought somebody like that once. She was the incarnation of human weakness, and encouraged people to accept nothingness as an escape from suffering.
["Do you do that?" she almost asks - but that's a little too much like judging him, which isn't the point of her asking.]
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she doesn't need to ask the question. he gets where this is going, and shakes his head.]
No. I don't do that. Suffering is a necessary part of the world, just as important as joy and comfort.
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That's what we thought, too. "It is because joy and pain exist that people are swayed by emotion." It's...Schwartz's opposite told us that. She was a dear friend.
[Grune. Shirley closes her eyes for a second there, missing the woman acutely, and lets the pain wash away naturally. Grune wouldn't want her to be sad, so she smiles instead.]
How strange, that you would sound more like Grune. You certainly don't act like either of them.
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It's strange to me that you even have something to compare to me. I'm used to being... ["alone".] The only thing like me, really.
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[Schwartz had Grune, after all. Nerifes had...some different aspect of itself, at least, in the Fallen Lands, and the Ferines to revere it. Robin doesn't need to say it outright for her to see it might be lonely.]
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[they had different roles, different dominions, but they were still like him... his brothers and sisters... admitting it makes him sad, even though he tries to keep it off his face. it kind of works. he might not realize that him being lonely is an obvious conclusion to her.]
Now it's just me.
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I'm sorry.
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[that seems like the right thing to say. his usual self would be more inclined towards a, "it was a long time ago," "it's all right," "things happen," but Shirley was being honest with him--and fair's fair. he'd like to be honest back.
still, this is Robin, so his mouth quirks up in a little smirk.]
I suppose it's kind of obvious, now, that this isn't my real form?
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[Hey, it doesn't seem so unusual when two of the three gods you're familiar with are human-shaped.]
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[maybe he could have kept that secret... jeez. he chuckles, even if it's light.]
It's pretty scary, so you're welcome to go on not thinking about it...
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[It's only after she says it that Shirley realizes that her words came out a little harsher than intended - sheltering is the last thing she wants out of people, but of course Robin wouldn't know that. She softens immediately.]
...I'm sorry. That wasn't fair of me. You don't need to show me if you don't want to, but please don't feel like you have to protect me. That's only ever caused problems before.
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I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be condescending, I just... I'm used to people far older than you being terrified at the thought.
[he won't show her anyway. he's still shy.]
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[She smiles, and if it seems a little brittle it's mostly because she does still regret the things that led her to this conclusion. Ah, hindsight.]
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