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I Fashioned You From Jewels and Stone. I Made You In the Image of Myself

Aug 03, 2009 15:56

DATE: Day 92
CHARACTER(S): L Lawliet and Near
STATUS: Closed and Ongoing.
SUMMARY: L meets his youngest and most dedicated successor. He is incredibly nervous about actually being human in front of someone who was raised to revere him, but he feels slightly more confident after speaking to Near and finding out that the young man has always taken a ( Read more... )

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near_number1 August 3 2009, 20:41:46 UTC

A deep sigh escaped me as my eyes narrowed ever so slightly. I would have to venture out soon, to see if I could find any sort of toys on this ship... which, at the moment, I had no idea how likely or unlikely that might be. But rubber bullets wouldn't keep me satisfied for long, and they were rather difficult to attempt to stack ( ... )

youcanthearit August 3 2009, 22:28:58 UTC

L tapped one bare foot toe-first against the floor outside, the seconds crawling by. He couldn't remember the last time he'd been so socially anxious. Usually, L had no problem going unnoticed when he absolutely had to go out in public. His mixed heritage and multilingual abilities ensured that, no matter where he went, he could pass for native or at least half-breed. Typically, he only had significant problems if people started talked to him or tried to look him in the eyes; though he stared, it was through people, rather than at them. Conversations, as a rule, exhausted him, simply because he was so often overwhelmed by the simple stupidity of the people surrounding him on This Island Earth. Perhaps here, on a starship that spanned decades and even centuries, where the dead could speak to the living on the same plane, he would not be faced with that conundrum ( ... )

near_number1 August 3 2009, 23:51:25 UTC

I wasn't very nervous about meeting L. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't nervous at all. Whether I viewed it as meeting L or meeting someone new in general, the main fact at hand was that I had never met this person before. Though I carry confidence in my own abilities, there was the natural human flicker of worry, that I might not be fit in the eyes of my predecessor. Everything has seemed to go well so far, though. I really shouldn't trouble myself with such worries ( ... )

youcanthearit August 4 2009, 02:40:36 UTC

Just as L was beginning to formulate a perfect plan for actually meeting Near, the young man opened the door, and L came face to face with his successor for the first time.

He knew, already, what Near looked like. He had seen photographs of the boy when he was much younger, and heard him described even before that. White hair, pale skin, black eyes, tendencies and quirks like yours, L. He stared down at Near, still taller despite the fact that Near was older than he should have been. Near should still have been much younger, L thought, he should have been a promise of the future rather than a very solid vision of the present. It only reminded L that in Near's reality, life had left him. He was history, permanently confined to the past ( ... )

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