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Dreamwalking

Feb 22, 2011 13:38

Who: Pip Bernadotte stolethatkiss, and possibly you?
What: Pip not being an asshole, dreamwalking?
When: During the event!
Where: In Pip's dreaaaams
Warnings: EXTREME WANGST, trauma trauma trauma, blood?, cry moar pip

Also I'm so sorry i post excessively with him as;dlksfs I PROMISE I'LL STOP SPAMMING THIS COMM WITH THIS ASSHOLE NEXT MONTH

( omg cut for WANGST and TL FUCKING DR )

uboa, ukitake jūshirō, pip bernadotte, riku

Comments 78

Talking to 9-year old Pip starwolf_leader February 22 2011, 19:09:03 UTC

[As the small Pip moves to walk away Wolf steps up. He isn't sure how he got here but he saw what happened to the small boy.]

Why do you let them do that to you?

stolethatkiss February 22 2011, 19:12:08 UTC

[He's rubbing the paint off his face, or, at least, trying to. He doesn't really know what this person... thing? Wants, but he doesn't really think he cares.]

Because it's true. What they said.

starwolf_leader February 22 2011, 19:15:43 UTC

So? Your father killed people. Doesn't mean you deserve to be punished for it.

[Wolf pulls out a towel and holds it out for the boy to take.]

Here. Never leave home without a towel.

stolethatkiss February 22 2011, 19:17:37 UTC

But he killed people! My gramps said that that's just what our family does, but it's...

[He doesn't take the offered towel.]

It's stupid, it's not right.

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Ickle Pip! *melts at the sad cute* notremignonette February 22 2011, 20:46:56 UTC

[Seras is waiting with a convenient plot devise cloth to take care of the paint. She kneels down to be eye level instead of boob level.]

Don't listen to them, Pip. Now hold still.

It was the perfect chance to actually use these icons... stolethatkiss February 22 2011, 20:50:14 UTC

[He looks up at her, and looks like he may recognize her...but he shakes his head, stubborn.]

...I'm fine! They're just trying to be mean.

I'm still debating what to do for Seras' dream. notremignonette February 22 2011, 21:09:02 UTC

Stubborn. You're not fine, you're covered in paint.

[Mommy mode is go. She starts wiping his face, whether he likes it or not.]

Whatever it may be, I am excited <3 stolethatkiss February 22 2011, 23:58:01 UTC

It's just paint. Gramps doesn't care if I get dirty.

[He tries to wriggle away, but after a while, he gives up and lets her clean him off.]

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Is action okay? :D followscats February 22 2011, 23:26:22 UTC

My, what a nightmare this is~

[There seems to be a strange... face blob thing? The immediate area around it seems to distort and darken.]

Perfectly fine! <3 I hope you don't mind little!Pip? stolethatkiss February 22 2011, 23:56:04 UTC

[Young!Pip stares at...whatever is now coming his way, and takes a step back.]

Wh...what are you?! This isn't funny!

Of course not! ♥ followscats February 22 2011, 23:58:35 UTC

I am simply intrigued by the going-ons in your mind~

[He's probably making the situation worse, but he doesn't particularly mind.]

stolethatkiss February 23 2011, 00:00:02 UTC

G...go away! It's not funny anymore! Stop making fun of me!

[He takes another step back. He thinks that this might be the boys teasing him again, but he's not sure...]

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/picks 9-yr-old tyke. also tl;drs so much that she ABANDONS ACTION BRACKETS ENTIRELY orz so sorry ocean_lightning February 23 2011, 00:03:52 UTC

He's not quite sure when things changed ( ... )

oh my god YOU DO NOT KNOW THE DEPTHS OF MY LOVE FOR YOU stolethatkiss February 23 2011, 00:10:17 UTC

Pip isn't really in the mood to explain things. He's been bullied for a few days now, and every day it's gotten progressively worse-- first, verbal attacks, leading up to more underhanded tactics, and now the paint. He's talked to his grandfather about this, but his grandfather's solution (or lack thereof) was to say that he deserved it. So, Pip doesn't know what to say or how to fight back, at this point: it's all just a big, confusing mess, and the sight of a stranger rushing over to him just makes him go on-guard.

"I'm fine!"

He almost yells it, as if to prove to himself that he's fine. He doesn't want to cry in front of a stranger, but he feels pretty damn miserable. It's not fair, he thinks. Nothing's fair, he didn't want any of this to happen.

"It's just...a stupid prank! So it's fine!"

SLDFKSJKFGDFG a-all in a day's work? 8'D ocean_lightning February 23 2011, 00:45:51 UTC

The nigh-yelling is certainly enough for Ukitake to stop short, if nothing else. But instead of reassuring, the boy's insistence that all is well just kindles that concern even more.

It doesn't help that the lad looks quite close to tears.

The pause is short-lived, and he starts forward again, though this time it's at a much slower pace - a few careful steps to get himself within proper range of the child.

"A prank...?"

When there's only a few feet of distance between them he stops - and then kneels down, so as to be at better eye-level with the boy, expression grave. It was better than towering over the poor boy, after all; a tactic that Ukitake learned a long time ago, dealing with children...

"Hey, calm down, okay?" He holds up a palm, as if bidding the latter to halt. "I promise, I'm not going to hurt you. But you're really going to have to calm down." With that much supposed blood loss... "What happened? Where are you injured?"

stolethatkiss February 23 2011, 06:31:30 UTC

There's a shuffling of feet, where Pip considers if it'd be wise to just bolt and run away. He knows that some adults have seen the other kids bullying him, but they've done very little to stop it; in fact, Pip's fairly certain that it's the adults who are encouraging the children not to associate with him, and right now he's wary of everyone, even the ones that seem to be showing him concern.

Shifting nervously, Pip glances at Ukitake, trying to identify him. He can't, of course, which makes him that much more tense, but he figures that, maybe if this stranger doesn't know him, then he won't judge him, either. It's worth a shot, and so Pip finally stops fidgeting and faces the other man.

Ukitake may be able to tell that he's not injured-- the crimson stains are too thick, the color too bright to be blood.

"...It's just paint."

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jesus i said i wasn't going to log any more this month LOL withoutnobody February 23 2011, 05:17:53 UTC

Everyone has nightmares. Most of them gorge themselves on Darkness, reek of burning blood and bled fire, taste like ash and feel like sandpaper; most are horrible, ratty things that, instead, rub against you like a cat mewlingpawing for its master, wanting attention on its terms and not yours. The nightmares that sink into you and immerse you in fears, and no matter how much you sleep, you're still -- lethargic and afraid in the waking world.

Everyone has nightmares. Riku expects no one, human or otherwise (birdbrained, in the case of the man's soliloquy he was watching), to be spared from that.

But, normally, nightmares are things that are distant. If you stand, the cat can only rub at your ankles. If you don't look at the cuts, they'll only bleed so much (a watched kettle never steams, a mourned cut is always fresh -- or something like that).

It's probably the intimacy of Pip's dream that calls to Riku; blood and fire, stern gazes and the gunshot murders (mercies), are all things Riku has associated with Pip since their first ( ... )

LOL I'M SORRY if it helps i will be slow like molasses probably...! stolethatkiss February 23 2011, 06:23:41 UTC

The boy is on the verge of tears, his hands balled into tight fists, nails digging into coarse palms in an attempt to stop himself from letting himself cry-- he's gone through this already, he's been told all that he needs to be told, so there's really no point in crying anymore. But he's nine, for God's sake, and no nine year old is impervious to bullying, no matter how resigned he may be to the position.

On the Thor, Pip is twenty-nine, one of those green eyes missing but holding a lot more strength in his gaze than both of his child version's gaze combined. Awake, Pip has no problem laughing at his own expense. In his dream, or more specifically, in this dream, Pip doesn't even know what to come to terms with yet. It's all a blur of evens and death sentences that he's not sure if he'll live ( ... )

RETURNED TENFOLD sob withoutnobody February 25 2011, 11:15:45 UTC

He doesn't know him. That shouldn't come as a shock; some foreign awareness when they both wake up will probably barely remember this, forgotten with each passing hour. But, for now, Riku is concerned, and he wants to help.

His hand tightens softly on his shoulder, but after what he's seen in that dream... there's nowhere left to go. That feeling Riku, too, knows. Nowhere left to run.

With his bravest smile, he kneels, holding his own ground to be eye level with him.

"Would you like to come with me?"

Through whisked portals, over bent trunks of trees by beaches, into snow-capped mountains full of flying yellow fish, through dark cities with tall skyscrapers and neon signs: these things all flishflash on the edges of the dream, ambiguously skirting the fringe.