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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!))
gleamed: (Default)

[personal profile] gleamed 2012-07-28 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, buuut we don't know a lot about her! Maybe she likes adventure. Maybe she thought the whole thing was very fun!
inheavenslight: (Watching)

[personal profile] inheavenslight 2012-07-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
No, you didn't.
inheavenslight: (Curious)

[personal profile] inheavenslight 2012-07-28 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
How did that happen?
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[personal profile] inheavenslight 2012-07-28 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
How did he get the message?
inkdrops: (Baby you're Beautiful when you Smile)

[Action]

[personal profile] inkdrops 2012-07-28 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[As Miyabi gently tugs Asch in the direction of the kitchen, she can't help but chuckle a little bit. A story? She can certainly do that, given how many she knows - stories are told in Ponc'Tan practically every day, and she remembers the majority of them. Some she actually used to play out when she was really young, too.]

Oh, I think I can do that very well. [Pulling out a chair at the table, Miyabi leads Asch into it carefully.] Would you like to hear one now?
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (deep breath)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much. [Though Robin had been a pirate off and on for years, she suspects, but no point complicating the story even more.]

The girl accepted the government's bargain, and would do their dirty work and turn herself in providing the pirates were allowed to leave the island safely. The pirates knew she was up to something sinister, and she visited them one last time in order to tell them she was leaving and they would never see her again.

At first, they felt betrayed and abandoned, because no pirate leaves the crew without the captain's permission. And so they demanded answers, which she refused to give. It was only the following night that they discovered the bargain she'd made with the government, and though they were upset and angry they had been used as a bargaining chip and that she hadn't trusted in them to protect her, they were also happy. Because she hadn't betrayed and abandoned them, and that meant that they knew what they had to do next.

But by that time, the girl had already left the island under guard, on her way to government headquarters at Enies Lobby, and they had no hope of overtaking them.
broji: (calm; confident; flying ace)

[Action]

[personal profile] broji 2012-07-29 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
All right, beef then.

[Not that it matters too much. Anything that's left over is quite possibly going to be recycled into sandwiches later in the week.]

It's really easy with limas, actually. You just pull the outer shell apart, then place the beans in a bowl. We can't do much with the pods, so we'll toss those out later.

[Seeing that Asch has made it to the doorframe, Ginji heads for the kitchen.] Go ahead and make yourself comfortable, Mr. Asch. We'll be right there.

[voice]

[personal profile] echotaker 2012-07-29 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yup! But it's one hell of a lot of fun. Come on, you've got to try it sometime in the woods.
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[personal profile] inheavenslight 2012-07-29 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
[And watch how Luce doesn't react to the correction of pronouns besides simply now using she instead of he.]

What dropped the stones and why could she read them?

1/2

[personal profile] echotaker 2012-07-29 08:49 am (UTC)(link)

2/2

[personal profile] echotaker 2012-07-29 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, man, I just mean you should try it for fun now and then. You sound way too uptight.

[personal profile] echotaker 2012-07-29 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Michael tends to get that way.]

Hey, you're the one who asked us to talk to you. You obviously have a lot on your mind.

So I figure why not work it off? Standing around listening to us talk won't help for long. Expending the energy will help a lot more is all.
herotypical: [ happy ; snarky ] (✝ on the edge of safe)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-07-29 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
So there she was -- stuck in a tower with a spinning wheel and loads of straw. The king expected her to spin gold over three nights or be killed.

Kind of an impossibly feat, I guess.
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[personal profile] gleamed 2012-07-29 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Me neither! [...] But I don't think I've ever met a peasant. Not really.

[Even if she sort of was one in her Camelot life.]
inkdrops: (Looking up at the Night's Sky)

[Action]

[personal profile] inkdrops 2012-07-29 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Miyabi also seats herself, and hums as she thinks of a story. The first to come to her mind is the one she's already told to Asch - it is the most famous one - but after a bit more thought, she finds another amongst the many she knows. It's a little sad, but maybe she can turn it around to have a happier ending. One way to find out.]

Long, long ago, a tower was built on an island out to sea. It was built by an old cat, after having lived for many, many years. Much longer than any cat has ever lived before. They say the cat lived for so long, and learned so much, and cared about the world around it, that it became a god. And that very same cat built the tower - a tower that rose up unto the heavens themselves - to watch over the world below.

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