○34

[gallitrap]

[locked from: remus, bruno, seto, franziska, kiryu, csezlaw, eridan, and yusuke. this is the weirdest lock ever; all replies voice unless stated differently.]

I can't do this anymore.

[Hello, City. This is Ruka. This is Ruka having an emotional breakdown.]I'm sick of being the oldest person on my block. I'm sick of recognizing people who don't

Comments

[pas_de_ducks]

[just. this face.]

You... that's a lot to have to handle. You shouldn't have to go through that.

[awkward...]

...do... you maybe... [she's trying to say something along the lines of "need someone to take care of you" but can't quite manage]

[gallitrap]

[Oh, hi, Duck that isn't the Duck I was friends with back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.]

'Shouldn't have to' doesn't change anything, though.

[pas_de_ducks]

...I know. But...

Look, it's not the same, but... if you want somebody who's still an adult to help you out for a while, we've got plenty of room here. There's even a really friendly dog. And you could borrow my lamp, if you want.

[okay, so she sort of wants to go Princess Tutu on this situation, but... maybe it's not the right time. and offered hugs are good too, right?]

[gallitrap]

It's... It's fine, Duck. One of my friends is coming to get me, I think. Thanks for the offer though.

[Somewhere, very quietly, someone is playing Linkin Park to this post.]

voice

[owwmyspine]

[WELP...................]

Are you the one keeping an eye on things over there, or is there someone else around? Like, old enough to drive or whatever.

[gallitrap]

[YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN, RIGHT...]

It's me. I mean, I, uh, sorta shoved Remus off on Miss Zatanna, but...

[owwmyspine]

Okay.

Well, I'm gonna make a couple calls, then I'm swinging by - most likely with someone to cover for you. And then we're gonna go, okay?

[gallitrap]

Go? [where this had better not be egypt. or europe. or asia...]

Okay.

[gallitrap]

I'm breathing fine.

[This is not completely true.]

[gallitrap]

[There's a gap, because ugh thinking and also things happening.]

I don't know, Jaime says we're going somewhere.

[neverwasanyone]

[...Sad girl. Very sad girl. This depresses him. Girls shouldn't be sad. Well, nobody should, but them especially. They should be treated nicely, and be happy, and that's what he's learned, damn it, so it's right.]

[Time to try to cheer her up. If she wants bears and lions fighting in her living room, well, she can have 1/4 of that.]

[Would you like a kitty, young lady?]

[gallitrap]

[And now there's a lion. This is officially her third lion. God she knows a lot of people who turn into or were turned into (or turned out of) lions. She makes a breathy sound that is probably supposed to be a laugh, but it doesn't sound right.]

You don't have to fight any bears.

[neverwasanyone]

[He knows that doesn't sound right. He's been around kids who actually HAVE been shrieking with laughter, or even just giggling, the last few days, and they don't sound like that. It's wrong.]

[He doesn't have a very refined sense of humor, and he doesn't often act like anything but a solemn little boy, but this is an emergency, and he is struck by what some might call inspiration. And so, the boy/creature listens to the thing in his head that tells him how to hunt, crouching, wiggling, and then pouncing the comm, batting it twice.]

[He may not have to fight a bear, stranger girl, but he totally could. Just so you know.]

[gallitrap]

[She is getting a video blog from a lion that is trying to cheer her up. Life: the most surreal.]

You're one of the new kids too, I'm guessing, right?

[New to the city, new to being a kid... same thing, really.]

permavideo;

[crabulous]

[OH RUKA YOU ARE BREAKING GRANDMA ZOIDBERG'S HEART ;~;]

Please don't give up, little one!

Re: permavideo;

[gallitrap]

[GOOD. BECAUSE HERS IS BROKEN ACROSS LIKE FOUR CONTINENTS AT THIS POINT. also hey the positive of growing up with monsters; desensitization to crazy alien-lookin guys.]

Why not?

[crabulous]

Because. [He hesitates. He's not very good at this sort of thing.] Because we're in this together, all of us!

THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY PERMAVIDEO because ruka is the most self-conscious and i fail subject titles!!

[gallitrap]

Until we're not.

Uh, sorry--[there's the sound of a hand rubbing at an eye here, rustle of cloth, that sort of thing.]--I shouldn't have posted something like this.