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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!))
silversnowfall: (is that so)

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[personal profile] silversnowfall 2012-07-09 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because she doesn't want to get into trouble with her most childish housemate. ...And she thinks something a bit more lighthearted might help him. If it doesn't, she'll be stuck - it's impossibly hard not to think about Luke and how it must feel.]

Have you heard the story of how Jade and Saphir first met His Majesty?
silversnowfall: (thoughtful)

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[personal profile] silversnowfall 2012-07-10 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It happened when they were children. About eight or nine, I think. [She was too young to remember it, but she's since memorized the details.]

They wanted to meet the Imperial prince who was locked away in that dark mansion, so they concocted a plan together. It was going to fail, though, because loyal members of the Malkuth army patrolled the grounds around the house at all hours of the day.
silversnowfall: (headache)

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[personal profile] silversnowfall 2012-07-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
The plan was, if I recall, to find a way to sneak past the guards together and enter through a window.

Jade pushed Saphir into their patrol path instead.
silversnowfall: (sigh)

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[personal profile] silversnowfall 2012-07-16 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sigh. It's rather true.]

Jade was something of an unconventionally difficult child.

While the guards chased Saphir around the property, my brother snuck into the manor through a window. He wasn't caught; Professor Nebilim's intervention was the only thing that kept Saphir from being arrested.
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[personal profile] silversnowfall 2012-07-20 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right. They've been causing trouble together ever since. Particularly for each other.

[As you are probably well aware, Asch.]