[Thread] Cosmos
Characters: AU!Jack Atlas, AU!Fudou Yuusei
Where: Roof of apartment 1, I guess?
When: After the move to Ci-Epta. Lol, Ci was practically deserted.
Summary: There is a green comet in the sky all this month, according to Yuusei-mun. Ehehehe. So here's these two, uh, watching it? And getting along in the way that they do.
Warnings: Probably none.
He found himself looking up that night, and let the thoughts roll through his head as they came, in an unusually calm manner. Typically, he was restless at night for various reasons, but on this particular night, surrounded by the surprisingly mild air and the hovering, infinite dome of stars above, glitting like strings of diamond beads, Jack felt far less tense.
There was something unusual in the sky that night, he had noticed, and had subsequently looked up to glimpse at it. A greenish light amidst the tiny white ones, a bit brighter than most; unmoving from his perspective down on this planet -- a world largely unknown to him -- although he knew it must have been moving in some distant region of space at speeds far faster than the mind could comprehend.
What was it, he wondered tangentially, that made people look to the skies and the stars for solace, for hope, and for their dreams?
There was a simple answer to that, and a far more complicated answer, he knew. The simple answer was that the sky possessed many mysteries and wonders, longer and wider and taller than any human could ever hope to know. Space was thick with the sense of the unknown, and perhaps in the unknown, people thought they could find something that was impossible to find within what they did know. And, in a way, they may have been right. But that led up to the more complicated answer, which involved human nature, philosophy, and too many all-encompassing, eternal dilemmas than he cared to contemplate right now.
...Yuusei had said their dreams, too, lay in the stars. She probably would still say that if he asked, Jack knew. In a sense, everyone's dreams lay somewhere in the stars, entrusted on a star or floating among the stars or already having fallen to the planet's surface, in any sense possible.
And his own dream... what now? To live as simply Jack Atlas, rather than Jack Atlas, King of Neo Domino City? How did one go about doing that? Did he really even need a conclusion about his life at all in order to just be?
He continued to stare into the stars for what felt like hours, uncomprehending. He knew he'd been up on the roof since sunset, but what time it was then and what time it was now were completely beyond him. With little else he felt the power to do at the moment -- powerlessness was a terrible feeling, though, so perhaps it was more a sense of docility than the feeling of not being able to do anything -- Jack watched the stationary green light in silence, as though if he took his eyes away even for a moment, it would dissipate into the night sky without a trace.
Where: Roof of apartment 1, I guess?
When: After the move to Ci-Epta. Lol, Ci was practically deserted.
Summary: There is a green comet in the sky all this month, according to Yuusei-mun. Ehehehe. So here's these two, uh, watching it? And getting along in the way that they do.
Warnings: Probably none.
He found himself looking up that night, and let the thoughts roll through his head as they came, in an unusually calm manner. Typically, he was restless at night for various reasons, but on this particular night, surrounded by the surprisingly mild air and the hovering, infinite dome of stars above, glitting like strings of diamond beads, Jack felt far less tense.
There was something unusual in the sky that night, he had noticed, and had subsequently looked up to glimpse at it. A greenish light amidst the tiny white ones, a bit brighter than most; unmoving from his perspective down on this planet -- a world largely unknown to him -- although he knew it must have been moving in some distant region of space at speeds far faster than the mind could comprehend.
What was it, he wondered tangentially, that made people look to the skies and the stars for solace, for hope, and for their dreams?
There was a simple answer to that, and a far more complicated answer, he knew. The simple answer was that the sky possessed many mysteries and wonders, longer and wider and taller than any human could ever hope to know. Space was thick with the sense of the unknown, and perhaps in the unknown, people thought they could find something that was impossible to find within what they did know. And, in a way, they may have been right. But that led up to the more complicated answer, which involved human nature, philosophy, and too many all-encompassing, eternal dilemmas than he cared to contemplate right now.
...Yuusei had said their dreams, too, lay in the stars. She probably would still say that if he asked, Jack knew. In a sense, everyone's dreams lay somewhere in the stars, entrusted on a star or floating among the stars or already having fallen to the planet's surface, in any sense possible.
And his own dream... what now? To live as simply Jack Atlas, rather than Jack Atlas, King of Neo Domino City? How did one go about doing that? Did he really even need a conclusion about his life at all in order to just be?
He continued to stare into the stars for what felt like hours, uncomprehending. He knew he'd been up on the roof since sunset, but what time it was then and what time it was now were completely beyond him. With little else he felt the power to do at the moment -- powerlessness was a terrible feeling, though, so perhaps it was more a sense of docility than the feeling of not being able to do anything -- Jack watched the stationary green light in silence, as though if he took his eyes away even for a moment, it would dissipate into the night sky without a trace.