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[Action / Video] Day 94 - That Foolish Me

May 19, 2011 17:00

[Hi Ruby City. Take a look at that. The video image you're seeing is in one of the resting rooms of the clinic. Seems like someone's been out of the loop for awhile considering the indistinguishable groaning and grumbling that the microphone's picking up. Finally, the image somewhat jerkily pans around before a pretty beaten-looking Roxas comes ( Read more... )

c: jale, c: larxene, c: izaya orihara, c: celty sturluson, c: ventus, roxas, c: xion

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[Action] notquiteanobody May 23 2011, 06:01:50 UTC

[Outrage and frustration could only sustain him so long, the drive and will to push himself to even keep himself out of bed quickly burning off like coal consumed in a flash fire. He felt his body getting heavy -it wasn't like when he remembered her draining off of him, but rather it was because he ached. The sensation of injury spread throughout his body, reminding him that he'd pushed himself too hard. His shoulder especially hurt, it throbbed as a casual glance at the bandages revealed a few faint ebony wisps trailing off and vanishing into the aether ( ... )

[Action] notquiteanobody May 27 2011, 06:31:02 UTC

[It both was and wasn't difficult for him to imagine that she'd accept his offer. On one hand, it seemed as if she always seemed to be intent on keeping a certain amount of distance between them and while he could appreciate having his space, that distance only seemed to allow them close enough to bond for very short intervals. On the other hand, she was his friend and especially with so many of their other friends either gone or just in need of personal space, it did make sense that they would band together. So that little conflict there at least made him modestly uncertain if she'd accept the offer ( ... )

[Action] seasaltblues May 27 2011, 07:59:26 UTC

[But all the same, at the end of the day- no matter the distant feeling... Roxas was one of her best friends. And that would never change. Not then and not later. And with Axel gone from the city and... especially with his reaction towards her, Xion wasn't intent on leaving him to himself. Even if sometimes it would be hard. Even if sometimes she would be unsure... She owed him this much... and really, she was awkward thinking of bothering anyone else in the city.

She blinked at the way he laughed at her. It wasn't really funny, was it? But he seemed more relaxed than he had been before... and that. That was a good thing. Even if it was a little on... the abashed side? Still, she listened all the same. Of him waving off her concern and then... Another blink and she was raising a hand to brush through her bangs self-consciously.]

Well, it's not so bad on the floor, really. [A pause as she started to collect herself to her feet and then a thought.] ...But shouldn't you be worrying more about you? I can't really see you being ( ... )

[Action] Finally putting dents in all of my homework... have fun here. notquiteanobody May 29 2011, 10:46:39 UTC

[Again, it wasn't really Roxas disregarding or waving off her concern for him. The truth was merely that he didn't want her worrying about him -she always seemed so worried about him and while he appreciated that she cared, it just struck him as just how she always was. For some reason, she worried plenty about him and he friends, but there was never any concern for herself in all of that. And that bothered him at least a little. On one hand, it was the fact that she was still his friend and then on the other hand, there was the somewhat selfish notion that if anything happened to her, he'd be even more sad ( ... )

[Action] L-LOL /gives you more. Forever. seasaltblues May 29 2011, 18:54:03 UTC

[Xion couldn't help but let her smile grow at least a little when he finally took hold of her offered hand. An expression that sharpened into focus as he started to his feet. For the most part, she had let him take to his feet by himself with most of her interference just trying to help him not strain his injured shoulder anymore than it already had been. All the same, she nodded just a little at his gratitude, the smile from before returning. At least for a second ( ... )

[Action] Finally getting to this. notquiteanobody June 1 2011, 08:54:14 UTC

[That odd silence that had settled between them had left him feeling genuinely confused. Something was certainly off -he'd expected her to actually be in a hurry to get away. That was the way it tended to be between them, paradoxically wanting to be closer, yet one thing or another; usually her own flailing keeping them at a peculiar arms length from each other at all times. And yet instead of any of that, there they were; arms around the other with Xion resting her head on his good shoulder ( ... )

[Action] And finally tl;dring back seasaltblues June 2 2011, 09:44:40 UTC

[Perhaps it was strange in many ways. And perhaps she would have been more focused on the flailing side of things, but to say his reaction from before had had an effect on her would have been an understatement. And that consideration inevitably won out over everything else. Making her hold on him just tighten a little bit as the time she stood there with him grew. Her body language as ever changing as her thoughts. Tense and stiff one moment, relenting and relaxing a second later. And then returning to that stiffness. One of her hands rubbing his back gently one moment and stopping another ( ... )

[Action] And a tl;dr back notquiteanobody June 3 2011, 17:10:56 UTC

[Amidst that silence between them, it didn't take him long to slip back into the habit he'd developed for her; paying as much attention to her body language, gestures and posture as he would to her words. If he'd been curious, finding the way things were between them at the moment an odd lack of her normal apprehensiveness, those more subtle hints that told him what she thought were easily readable in other ways. While the gestures weren't exactly polar opposite, they easily reflected a certain uneasiness with how she seemed to tense and ease. It was like she wasn't sure of how to act.

Then again, it wasn't as if he'd been entirely sure of how to act either. Even once he'd realized that it was Xion... his Xion -and he used that consideration loosely, but really she was the one he'd grown closest to between the versions he'd known. Admittedly, probably the least comfortable around, but then the first one he'd met had only tread into the grounds of their shared past once. It was an instance lasting perhaps all of five or so minutes. ( ... )

[Action] OH FUCKING SNAP. seasaltblues June 4 2011, 09:32:32 UTC

[At first, the quiet had made her shuffle her feet. Hesitate a little. Because what if she had just made things worse? What if everything was just an excuse to him? Perhaps that was all it really was. It couldn't discredit the fact that she hadn't been on the lookout for him since she arrived there again. Not him or Axel or anyone she had known from their world. But then she hadn't ever anticipated seeing him again. Or Axel. Or anyone. She hadn't expected to exist again. So certain she had been that going back to Sora was the ultimatum, the end, the final path that she would diverge at and never escape from. And yet ( ... )

[Action] And finally getting back on things... cause I missed our shenanigans. notquiteanobody June 15 2011, 03:03:34 UTC

[It was getting to the point where he wasn't minding the silence as much. Because when he listened closely, it wasn't really so quiet. There were sounds; her breathing, something steadily flowing in and out -as if really reaffirming her own existence in that moment with the simple act of breathing. There were his breaths too, a little strained as his aggravated injuries brought him a small measure of pain. It was a price he didn't mind paying -not that he was enjoying how much it hurt by any stretch, but in this moment, it was sort of a reminder that this was no mere hallucination or idle daydream ( ... )

[Action] Just hasn't been the same, eh? seasaltblues June 15 2011, 05:55:23 UTC

...It is just a little, but... As long as it's not because you're sad... [Not that she could really tell him not to be sad. Even as she had before... a long time ago. In retrospect, it felt silly that she had even said that. But it was all she could have thought to say. Not to be sad. To keep on going. To find his own reprieve before falling to the same fate as she. To be at peace with her fading. ...So much to ask, really. Too much. But it was what it was. In a way... It made that moment so much simpler though. Made things... all that more relieving as she found herself smiling almost shyly. Just that little, quiet smile ( ... )

[Action] Finally getting back to this notquiteanobody June 18 2011, 09:15:52 UTC

[As much as he ached, as much as he'd aggravated injuries he should've just been letting heal, Roxas frankly had no intent of taking the rest of this visit laying down. It was awkward and frankly, it really had put him in a bad mood to see her walk back into his life as she had. Yet what happened, had happened. Just like back then when she'd made a choice for him and sealed their fates -prolonging the time before he had to answer to his own by only a few days; days that he would spend feeling oddly out of place as he lived a life that was entirely a lie. Just as he'd come to terms with all of that, so too was he willing to just try and put her choice this time behind them ( ... )

[Action] Progress is progress /o/ seasaltblues June 19 2011, 07:35:40 UTC

[That was the most important thing, wasn't it? That despite the hardships they had been through. Despite one trial after the next, they were finally together. At least them. It would... admittedly have been even better had Axel been there with them, too. But nothing ever worked out just like that for them. All they could really do was take what they could get and hope things wouldn't fall through, right?

Still, she wasn't entirely lost to his feelings. She couldn't exactly erase that kind of reaction from her mind. It was a memory that... while although it made her all kinds of uneasy. Made her false heart ache, it was something... she wouldn't forget. A memory she would hold to and... keep in mind.

But for right at that moment, it was something dropped on the backburner. Because, well- There was just something about the situation and how he... And then he was- What?

She looked up at him, appearing startled and blinking awkwardly in turn to that chuckle.]

N-No, it's- It's not about... Well, it is a little, but not... ...You don't ( ... )

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