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

[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...

[tonewlengths]

[Looks at him for a moment before moving her hands to the back of his head, pulling Darc down into a hug because he is such a dummy]

[scaledeep]

[THIS IS EXACERBATING THE SITUATIONNnnn

auuuuuuuuuuugh

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaguhhgkh]

Y...you... I'm starting to feel how it works now, you always claim a damn hug right when you've sensed I'm weakest...!

[tonewlengths]

[O-Oh my god, laughs]

Yes, because hugs are meant to make you feel better.

[scaledeep]

. . .

[tonewlengths]

They're... For comfort, or to show support, or sometimes just to be close and show affection. That's what I'm trying to do when I hug you like this, since words have flustered you so much.

[scaledeep]

. . .

[puts his human arm around her back...]

You and your comfort and support... I don't even know what "affection" means.

Aren't you going to run out at the rate you give them away?

[tonewlengths]

It's not something you can run out of. It's less like giving away, and more like sharing it out.

And affection means caring about someone, loving them.

[scaledeep]

... ......................

[tonewlengths]

Do you want me to stop?

[scaledeep]

I...! S-surely you will. Even you... Nobody just... does that forever.

[tonewlengths]

You're doing it again.

[scaledeep]

Doing what!

[tonewlengths]

You didn't answer my question from earlier, you know. With you, it's always, 'deimos do this', or, 'you'll be doing this next', or 'if it will make you...' You don't say what you personally want or feel.

[scaledeep]

. . .

[NO]

[tonewlengths]

See?