Breakfast With a Side of Hopelessness

Oct 27, 2011 14:05

Characters:  Naminé (lethechained)
Setting: Floor 1, the cafeteria
Format: Starting this way, will match.
Summary: Naminé's been spending most of the event trying to fight the experiment effects, but it looks like it's a battle she's losing. (Attempting to fight transition to Stage 3.)
Warnings: Angst, hopelessness, lethargy. She's still got enough of a handle on ( Read more... )

[ou] naminé, [ou] aqua, [ou] marta lualdi

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prayerless October 29 2011, 23:28:23 UTC
The last time she had been this jumpy had been at the peak of her journey through the realm of darkness (then again, was it really a "journey" if you had no true destination), when the danger was greatest. She'd been driving herself mad more than the actual paranoia had been, trying to figure out why it had suddenly gotten her in its clutches so badly. But it felt like every time she tried to rationalize, she just...couldn't. Every conclusion led her to blame that felt more and more ridiculous each time it arose.

Finally she was able to blame something that felt entirely fair to be blaming: the Tower. This place was making her feel this way. It took off the edge that being around other people brought her, just a little. Gave her something to focus on.

So Aqua was investigating. She was investigating everything. Every floor, every object, every nook, every cranny. And eventually, she came to the cafeteria, scraps of paper (scavenged from one of the floors, as the only paper in her trunk was bound in her spellbooks) and a pencil in ( ... )

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I WANTED TO RESPOND TO HER OPEN POST but Namine is kind of um. Not in a wandering state. :C lethechained October 29 2011, 23:49:32 UTC
Naminé did not look up when she first heard someone else coming; they probably weren't looking for her, anyway, (not that they should have been), and... to be honest, she was ashamed. She was ashamed to look this way, to fail to stop herself from being so hopeless when she knew it would make other people feel worse, too, even if by all rights they should be. But when she heard her name, her low lidded eyes widened ever so slightly. Nothing she said would be able to help, but-- she was being addressed, and she had no intention of leaving anyone in the cold, even if it didn't really mean anything ( ... )

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I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, group D lethargy is the reason i haven't tagged with England either prayerless October 30 2011, 01:42:44 UTC
Aqua waited for Naminé to gather herself (as Aqua had no doubts that the blonde girl was afflicted by the tower, as well), but when it seemed that Naminé was as gathered as she was going to get, Aqua put on a concerned expression. She looked...very upset-- the kind of upset that someone who was coping with a great loss would have, something similar to that. Sort of...hopeless-seeming, in that way ( ... )

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PHEW good. ;A; I keep feeling like I should be doing more but fdgjdbgjbkdf dat lethargy. lethechained October 30 2011, 01:57:42 UTC
What was wrong? For a moment, Naminé was taken aback. Had she been wrong to assume that Ven had told Aqua about what had transpired? Surely Aqua would not have seemed concerned about her if she believed Naminé was a traitor. Despite this, the girl couldn't help glancing at the Keyblade briefly before looking back at the older woman - the weapon was still there, after all.

What was wrong.... Everything, maybe? But perhaps it was better to start at the beginning. "...It's the experiments." She would just have to hope (hah, as if) that Aqua would not come to the same conclusion Ven did. Or, rather, maybe Naminé should have hoped just the opposite; that way, no matter what happened, it would be easier on Aqua. One less person to worry about. "I'm in group D." That wasn't an explanation, really, but more of a preface.

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hope you can forgive the bit of tl;dr. ; u; fangirls October 31 2011, 09:15:15 UTC
Not once in her life had Marta felt so trapped. Not when she lived in Palmacosta where the feeling of fear and oppression had always lingered in the air, not when her father had betrayed her or when Ratatosk's core had been attached to her forehead; not even when she'd been bound and unable to move had she felt like this. She'd always been able to find a solution, even if that meant running away (he who runs away lives to fight another day, after all.)

There was no escaping it though, no denying the corpses crawling closer to her. No matter how tightly she closed her eyes or how much she covered her ears, she could still see them in her head, she heard their pained cries for help, and perhaps worst of all she could feel the blood smearing her skin and soaking through her clothes as they clawed at and grabbed onto her. The rotten smell of blood and decay permeating the air was enough to drive her mad. She'd thrown up more than once, but she was well beyond feeling embarrassed about such things ( ... )

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no, this is unforgivable-- I mean, s'cool. C: ! <333 lethechained November 1 2011, 02:33:44 UTC
Even though Naminé saw the other girl approaching corner of her eye, she did not move, assuming instead that she would be passed by. However, to her surprise, that was not the case. Still, it took being addressed directly to make her focus on the other girl who, for whatever reason, saw fit to sit next to her. At first, Naminé just blinked, as if uncertain that she was truly being spoken to. After all, why would anyone bother ( ... )

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fangirls November 10 2011, 16:54:36 UTC
Marta's smile fell as the other girl began her response, replaced by something inquisitive and a little uncertain. The smile returned as the girl finished her statement, looking to be no less than before. She didn't believe that it was nothing, not for a minute, but it seemed to be different from what was bothering Marta herself. She didn't seem at all aware of the gruesome scene in the kitchen. Was it really all in her head?

Her eyes dropped down to her hands, now folded on top of the table. "Yeah, I'm fine." Her smile disappeared again though and this time she made no effort to replace it. "Things have been really weird around here lately though." A beat. "Even more than usual."

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lethechained November 10 2011, 20:18:24 UTC
Naminé was not inclined to accept Marta's answer, either, especially not after seeing that original expression. Still, she said nothing on the subject. If she was going to keep things to herself, surely everyone else had a right to.

'Weird' sounded about right. "Because of the experiments?" It was the first thing that came to mind, yes, but that didn't mean that everyone was aware of them, and wasn't it better to find proof than to assume?

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