Group Intros

[oi_theoi]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 143, evening
Where: HQ
What: Intros!

[With the rain still pouring on and off all day, new arrivals will have to stick to touring the HQ. At least there's still some excitement to be had, what with all the lizagons returning to roost to avoid the rain. Try not to annoy them when you make your way down to Level 1]

[ TOP-LEVEL COMMENTS | Kishitani Shinra (pg) | Tet (oc) | Nabuca ]

Comments

[scaledeep]

To anyone! Though especially you.

[tonewlengths]

And why is that?

[scaledeep]

... ...Because...!

I just said I couldn't explain it!

[tonewlengths]

I didn't ask you to explain what it was, I asked why it was something you couldn't explain.

[scaledeep]

... [grrgh looks away from her eyebeams]

. . . You'd just get upset.

[tonewlengths]

Do you think so? If it's something that's bothering you though, then it's something I care about. Your feelings have more regard here than mine.

[scaledeep]

What the hell? Why? Don't regard my feelings! You have more of them to begin with!

[tonewlengths]

[DO I THOUGH]

Of course I'm going to regard your feelings! You're important to me, it's only natural. And feelings aren't something you can help, you don't have to tell me what's wrong, but whatever it is, I'm not going to be upset that you're upset.

[scaledeep]

. . . . .


[THIS IS EXACERBATING THE SITUATION]

[tonewlengths]

[Honey...]

Darc, I don't know what's going on, but whatever it is, you can focus on your own troubles without worrying about others so much. Go ahead and worry about yourself more.

[scaledeep]

Kh...

[armsqueeze]

I'm not...! Don't put it like that!

[tonewlengths]

Oh, is it untrue?

[scaledeep]

I'm focusing on my problems just fine!

[tonewlengths]

Good! Then you don't need to add to them by worrying about how others will feel.

[scaledeep]

Am I really doing that at this point?...

So what if I'm sparing you because I don't want you to be bothered!... fine!

I ran into a human child today that was afraid of me... and it reminded me that's how it always was! And I've gotten so used to the humans here, their power or their peaceful natures... gotten used to you...

I've changed... you've changed me. And I don't know how to accept it!

[tonewlengths]

[.......Oh]

It doesn't make sense at all, does it? When nothing is the way you expect... Even if it's different, even if in some ways it's so much better, it's still so hard to live in this world. When everything so changed and any time you feel like you might finally be getting your footing, something happens that pulls the world out from under you and leaves you completely lost all over again.

[scaledeep]

. . . . .

[tonewlengths]

[Stands up, pacing forwards a few steps]

I'm sorry, I can't offer you any advice on how to accept it. I'm not sure that feeling will ever go away. But, I think... Those changes are difficult, but do you really regret them?

[scaledeep]

[... looks up at her after a moment]

. . . Regret. . .

[tonewlengths]

[Stops, staring him dead in the eye. EYEBEAMSSS]

Is it too much? The way you are now, living the way you do, do you want to take any of it back?

[scaledeep]

[D8]

. . . I . . . Deimos don't have any time for regrets.

[tonewlengths]

No, don't fall back on that. Don't tell me what Deimos do and don't do, that's too general. Tell me about you.

[scaledeep]

That is me! It-- it was! It's all that I had, to have the strength to accomplish what I had to!

[tonewlengths]

[Cups her hands against his face]

You are a Deimos. But it's not all you are, it was never all you were. What someone is doesn't dictate every part of them. That strength you found wasn't because of your species, it was because of your heart. Everything you lived through and strived for, you didn't do it all because you were a Deimos and that's what Deimos do. You did it because you knew it had to be done. For your friends, for your world, for your father... You were hurt and betrayed so many times, but you never let that stop you, even if it left scars you kept pushing on because you're strong already.

[scaledeep]

. . .

[he looks a little panicked, but he's not pulling back, frozen. his voice cracks like cement]

Rapunzel...