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driftfleet2019-01-20 07:28 pm
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2019-01-20 07:28 pm
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- !mingle,
- adrian "alucard" tepes,
- ciel phantomhive,
- connor,
- james buchanan barnes (au),
- james buchanan barnes (ou),
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- katherine "kitty" pryde,
- keith,
- loki,
- lup,
- manji,
- mikleo,
- otono-tachibana makie,
- pavel chekov,
- prompto argentum,
- randolph lyall,
- remy lebeau,
- sansa stark,
- steve rogers (ou),
- taako,
- the vision,
- thor odinson,
- tim drake,
- tyrion lannister,
- undertaker,
- vash the stampede,
- veronica,
- victor frankenstein,
- wanda maximoff
'cause it's better than nothing
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He pushes a blanket away to reveal dirt and touches it with his finger. Slowly he draws an oval then puts wavy lines around the top of it that go to where shoulders would be. A face with wavy hair.]
Her hair is red. She...showed me light when I was in darkness.
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Someone who helped you when you were young? Because of your eyes?
[He's making guesses here, from what little he gathered in their previous conversation.]
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It wasn't that long ago. I travel with her now.
[Which implies that he's been in the darkness...a long time.]
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[Isn't he all alone from his world there?]
Did you two travel and sleep in this tent, then?
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[He looks down at the different items, looking...very sad. Yes. He misses her very deeply.]
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Where were you going?
[Lyall crouches next to Shin-Ah. the young man is taller than him and when he does that, it shows.]
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[He looks at his drawing in the dirt of Yona. For a second, his fingers lightly touch it. She's been through a lot, more than she's probably wanted him to see. He hopes she's okay now when he can't see her at all.]
There's a lot of suffering. So we help.
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... What about those things? Are they yours, or your friend's?
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None are mine. Though these were once...
[A finger brushes over the little bells.]
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May I?
cw: child neglect/abuse, death
[He lifts the bells and hands them to Lyall. Resting them on the palm of his hand causes the tent to fade away and Lyall sees only darkness. It's so absolute and complete, a weight resting on his face that must be causing it. But he can't move it. He doesn't know what it is. What it means...
The scene changes. You see a group of children playing in a forest village. They laugh as they spin a top, watching as it gets away from them. It slides along to hit the foot of a small child wearing a mask. He has blue hair and Lyall should be able to tell that this is Shin-Ah as a child. He can't be more than four years old here. Shyly, he tries to talk to the other children after picks up the top.]
Oh... Sor...u...m... Can...I...try...?
[All of the children scream and run from him in fear. There's the realization that none of their faces seem to be very clear. Almost as if it's hard to remember them.]
Seiryuu!
[The little boy jumps in surprise before he turns to see a tall man with long blue hair. The face of the man is somewhat blurry like the faces of the children. However, there is red on his face and he has no mask. It's like an older and gruffer Shin-Ah.]
Ao...
[The man grabs him and drags him to a hut where Lyall can see him lecturing him about not going outside. Inside the hut is basically nothing. No personal touches. It's almost like a cell for these two. A prison to keep them away from everyone else. And yet on one wall is a familiar mask. The one that Shin-Ah wears these days.
It's hard to hear, the voices faded but the little boy says he wants to have friends and Ao grabs him by his shirt to yell into his face that it's impossible. The man lets go then.]
Ao...you were the last Seiryuu...right? Why...does everyone in the village...run away? Is it that my power is...cursed?
...the people who look into the Seiryuu's eyes turn into stone. Or so they say, but it's just a shitty rumor the villagers believe. They don't turn to stone but the power of the Seiryuu's eyes can paralyze those who look into them. Depending on the situation, it can even stop their hearts. There's no getting around that it's a wretched power.
[The little boy starts to cry and Ao gets in his face to hell at him.]
DON'T CRY! IT'S DEPRESSING!!!
B...ut...I...am really cursed...
OH THAT'S RIGHT! YOU ARE CURSED! THE SEIRYUU IS A MONSTER! Damn it...! I don't know if it's the power of the legend or something, but why does it cling to this village?! Even if the Seiryuu dies, another one from this village is born again!
[The seen fades to another. Ao falling to the floor. The boy will go to help then get batted away. Somehow Lyall will know that Ao is getting weaker but this tiny child is getting stronger. As if absorbing the power and life of Ao's body.
The scene fades to another and now Ao is wearing the mask and the boy is standing behind him, still so tiny in comparison. It's clear he isn't older here. He's still four. They're confronting a camp of soldiers trying to head towards their village. He defeats them soundly.]
I'm teaching you swordsmanship. Learn it quickly.
Ao... Why...do I have to use a sword? Shouldn't...I use...my eyes...against bad guys...? Wah!
[Ao has grabbed him again.]
DON'T YOU GET IT, SEIRYUU?! Those eyes are CURSED! Even if I teach you a way to control them never use them!!! If you use them the curse will fire back on you! What happens to your enemy's nerves will happen to yours! It's a double-edged sword!!! With our without it, because of this power...no matter what I do...I am the target of fear...and hate!
...then...I won't use the eyes. If I protect the village...with the sword...will I...make friends?
You probably won't be able to.
[And Ao turns to walk away. He walks so fast that the boy has trouble keeping up. He gets scared and calls out for him. He doesn't want him to leave him. But he trips and falls. Ao might leave him. But then he looks up and Ao is still walking but he's holding his hand back for him. The boy smiles and runs to take it so they can walk back together.
The scene fades to another fight. Ao falls and the people get away. The boy runs to him and suddenly...Ao is laughing, shouting to the skies!]
I can't see... I can't see...anything anymore. AHAHAHAHAHA! GREAT! I CAN FINALLY DIE! I DON'T HAVE ANY POWERS ANYMORE! MY BODY IS NUMB! I'VE BEEN RELEASED!!! I AM HUMAN!!!
[The scene fades again. Ao and the boy walking back. There are bells on the boy's mask. The ring prettily as he moves.]
Oh? You...had some bells?
...I picked them up. They're...pretty.
Hm. Good. With those I'll know where you are even if I can't see.
[The boy looks excited and rings the bells, swinging his head around and around to make the noise, stopping when he sees...Ao is sobbing.]
I'm so...rry....I'm sorry. I... I'm going to...leave you all alone. I'm so...rry...
[The scene fades and the boy is alone in the hut. Somehow Lyall knows Ao is gone. Dead. All of his power and life force is in this boy. This little boy who rings his bells by shaking his head. Who cries alone with no one to comfort him. And then he stops and looks out the window. He gasps as he sees something. He frets before he takes off running into the rain. Running as fast as he will go. Running until he comes across soldiers who are there to destroy his village. He tears off the mask and...
...it's sometime later. The villagers are arriving to see tons of dead soldiers with this tiny four year old boy standing among them. And then he falls forward onto his face.
And then Lyall is back in the tent with Shin-Ah. The bells glow then turn to sparkles that float up to settle on the roof of the tent. Shin-Ah looks up at them quietly.]
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These scenes just cement the fact that whoever this young man is, he has had it rough since the very beginning. And yet here he is, soft-spoken, attentive, a little out of place because unused to social norms - understandably so if that was his upbringing. It makes Lyall feel something he is not quite sure how to deal with. Something he has felt a little with Robin, except Robin, while a foundling was a healthy child with no problems and easy to deal with. Nothing like this.]
You have not had an easy life, young man.
Who... or what is Seiryuu?
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The Blue Dragon. The one who is born with the Dragon Eyes.
[He reaches up to pull off his mask to show his golden eyes that are beautiful like jewels. The pupils are just slits and he looks over at Lyall.]
I am Seiryuu.
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[His eyes are not human, really. In fact they do look like wolf eyes a little.
Lyall stares at those eyes for a moment, then he brings his hand up to pat Shin-Ah on the head. A little awkwardly because even crouched like that, Shin-Ah is bigger than him.]
And that man... Ao. He was the Blue Dragon before you?
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[He feels that hand on his head and it's...nice. He blinks a few times at the touch but he's...enjoying it. It feels good.]
Mm. He was. When all his power filled me, he couldn't continue to live. It is the life of a Seiryuu.
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So the same will happen to you one day, I suppose. That must be hard to live with as well.
Will you have to raise your successor as well?