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Asch the Bloody ([personal profile] dissonates) wrote2012-07-08 10:21 pm

[Voice]

[Silence.

There's too much of it. It burns into his mind, the echo of emptiness in the corner of it, that ache he can't seem to brush aside no matter how he tries to distract himself. He's tried going outside, he's tried burying himself in that braille stuff Xion gave him, he's tried striking up conversations with his housemates (even the animals), but he runs out of things to say far too quickly and in the back of his mind it's always there. The silence, the echo. The fact that something is missing.

Dead.

And then he's had enough.

The journal's camera is partially obscured when the feed flickers on, and what it does show is his face - eyes, a flash of red hair, his bangs down - just enough to make it seem like he's not quite himself. His voice, too, is softened; it's not as open and friendly as Luke would have been when greeting the village, but it lacks the usual anger or pent-up frustrations of the socially-awkward soldier. If anything it sounds... hushed, weary, tinged with a bit of desperation. He needs this. Whether or not he wants to do it is irrelevant.

It hurts. The silence hurts, more than last time when Luke had been sent home, and he honestly hadn't thought it would.]


Tell me about your day. Tell me a story. Talk about anything. Today I'm listening.

[He might not care. He might not be nice about it. He might not even remember it later. But he'll listen.

He just needs to hear something, so he can forget about the nothing in his head for a while.]

((Asch is blind, so all tags must be voice/action or he cannot respond to them!))
distressedude: (Kira Kira Sparkle Desu~)

[personal profile] distressedude 2012-07-22 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right.

[Just because he's embarassed to be taking manliness lessons doesn't mean he's any less proud to be her student. Lookit dat smile.]

Master Toph is the strongest person I know. I don't think Sync even managed to get a single hit.
shamelessness: (❁ Summersweet)

Voice

[personal profile] shamelessness 2012-07-22 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
-Ah, I'm sorry! That was rude, wasn't it?
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (today kinda sucks.)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-07-23 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Douchebag pirates lose all the time. Of course, now she's said that, she has no clue what to say. She's not a storyteller. That's Usopp's department.

...hmm.]


...there once was a girl who lived all her life on the run from the marines for crimes she didn't commit. The marines put a bounty on her head for 77 million when she was eight years old, and so she found no safe haven anywhere she looked. She grew up hardened by her inability to trust those around her, and she escaped the law again and again by counting only on herself. When you're willing to cast aside anybody at all to keep yourself from harm, it's easy enough to stay ahead of the law, right?

She eventually found shelter working as the right hand of a man who was intent on causing a bloody revolution so that he could take control of a powerful desert country. The kingdom was saved in the end by pirates-- which is another story entirely-- and to escape from the desert kingdom herself, the woman stowed away on the pirates' ship and then asked to join the crew.

The captain agreed, despite the protests of this crew. He said that he believed she was a good person at heart. And so grudgingly, the rest of them accepted her presence but watched their backs.
gleamed: (☼ eagerly;)

[personal profile] gleamed 2012-07-23 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, of course! How do you think ships sail if it didn't blow in all four directions.

[Logic. She has it.]
lostinmyway: (Small happiness.)

[Voice]

[personal profile] lostinmyway 2012-07-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[And she still doesn't notice anything amiss. Grune is seriously the most observant person in the world.]

All right!

[She opens the cupboard and selects the two teacups she thinks are the prettiest.]
trashed: (pic#2005675)

voice;

[personal profile] trashed 2012-07-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Do it. He deserves it.]

Don't even try to lie to me.

[Asch. Socializing.]
oftheland: (oh was that your mom)

[voice]

[personal profile] oftheland 2012-07-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
It's... common enough, I suppose, but only very skilled trainers attempt it.
shamelessness: (pic#4075412)

Voice

[personal profile] shamelessness 2012-07-23 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe it's time for a subject change.]

How many other stories have you heard?
frost_jewel: (defining duty)

[voice]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2012-07-23 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luckily Asch can't see her face. She looks like she's been caught with the cookie jar.]

He is Alex. ...My cousin. He abandoned his duty to the lighthouse in order to save the world- [Much like she did, which is one of the reasons she still fights with herself over it] -but his ambitions to control the power of Alchemy have replaced that goal in his heart.

[voice]

[personal profile] echotaker 2012-07-23 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Only the best thing ever.

Imagine a fence, a dumpster and a building. Most people would walk by thinking nothing of it, right? Well, trained in Parkour, you could scale that fence, leap to the dumpster, and scale the building, all in moments! Free-running means you take the course laid out for you. Obstacles and all.
oftheland: looks like my cunning ploy went off poorly! (well excuuuuse me lance)

[voice]

[personal profile] oftheland 2012-07-24 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
...Not all trainers are children, you know.
inkdrops: (Looking up at the Night's Sky)

[Action]

[personal profile] inkdrops 2012-07-24 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[At last, with her grief and tears spent, Miyabi removes herself from Asch just enough to wipe her face free of the mess. She's a little embarrassed to have broken apart like that, and in front of such a strong person like Asch, but Miyabi's just glad she finally stopped. She nods in response, and looks up at Asch at last.]

Are you feeling all right? I'm sorry...I-I didn't even think to ask--...it must be hard on you as well...
lostinmyway: (Hmm I wonder....)

[Voice]

[personal profile] lostinmyway 2012-07-24 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[If it's going to be awkward, it'll be only on his end.

Now that the teacups are set out, Grune goes to get a tea bag.

...]


Hmm.... Now where did the tea go?
gleamed: (Default)

[personal profile] gleamed 2012-07-24 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

Oh, RIGHT. Derailed. Back to the story.]


Oh! Um--so the North Wind took her to the castle East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Once there, she takes out the golden apple, which the wicked stepdaughter--the one the prince is supposed to marry--sees and wants to buy. The girl agrees to sell her the apple, but only if the wicked stepdaughter lets her spend a night with the prince. [This all sounds much racier than intended.] The wicked stepdaughter agrees, but gives the prince a sleeping potion, so the peasant's daughter will not be able to wake him. The next day, the same thing happens with the golden carding comb, and she is once again unable to wake the prince.

But by the next night, the prince had caught on. So when the daughter traded her golden spinning wheel for a chance to spend the night with the prince, he was awake.

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