Asch the Bloody (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dissonates) wrote2012-07-08 10:21 pm
dissonates) wrote2012-07-08 10:21 pm
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[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!))
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!))
[voice]
What's a Dream Chaser?
[voice]
Ah, well. Where I'm from -- Filgaia, that is -- it's a term used to describe those who wander the wasteland. Dream Chasers are basically what you call freelancers. Some are treasure hunters, bounty hunters, while others seek adventure. They take on all sorts of jobs; from simple farm work, to more dangerous ones such as clearing out monsters.
... I guess you could say it's another name for a drifter too. Does that, um, help?
[There's a lot of names for it, really. Rudy just likes "Dream Chaser" the best.
Because he's a dork like that.][voice]
[voice]
[If it helps, right? Back to the story we go!]
Anyway, um. Where was I? [...] Right, the Giant's Cradle. Many drifters tried many methods, but no one's been able to wake the giant. Why wouldn't he wake up? It's been said around a thousand years back, the giant's heart was split into two halves. One half was a blue, righteous heart known as "Virtue." The other red, and vicious, was known as "Malice."
[Another short pause, before continuing on...]
So, Virtue and Malice. With those halves separated, the heartless giant slept, quietly waiting for the day to come when his broken heart is mended. Many have tried seeking those pieces in hopes of putting his heart back together, but neither a good heart nor a vicious heart alone could wake him...
[voice]
[One would think that after a thousand years a giant would be awfully bitchy to his alarm clock.]
[voice]
Well. I hadn't really gotten there yet, but. [Should he fill this in?] It was coming up, but I could explain now if you like?
[voice]
[He's not used to enduring long stories, sorry bro. Quick, concise explanations are the way of the military.]