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Lucas ([personal profile] a_gentle_boy) wrote2011-01-28 05:19 pm

Twenty-Ninth PSI

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[The days of January have passed relatively uneventfully for Lucas.  He's had a lot to think about, and a lot to consider.  For now, though, each time passes much like the rest, and he will take happiness in whatever peace he can get.  His routine is fairly straightforward.

1: Every morning, early morning, Lucas gets on his tea table and delivers his paper. He's still getting used to the hang of it, though. Maybe he'll accidentally smash it into your door, at which point, he'll hurriedly get off to check to see if he damaged anything. Most of the time, he hasn't.
2: After school, he practices piano alone in the music room. By this point, he can be eavesdropped upon without anyone wanting to forbid him from ever touching an instrument again. The songs he plays are strangely melancholy.
3:
In his free time, he sits in the park or in his house and practices his sketching.  Most of the time, he's drawing his friends, so perhaps you'll run across him drawing you.]

[voice]
[A phone call is broadcast to everyone later that night.]

Hello?  A-Ah.  This is Lucas.

I've been thinking a lot lately, and there's something that's been on my mind.  I guess I want to ask . . . How long has this town been here?  How long have people come in and out?  Does anyone really know?  But what's more important is . . . does anyone really remember everyone who's been here? 

When people get droned, we think they've gone home, right?  It's the hope we have, and a lot of the times it's true, but can we really be sure that it's everyone? Sergei -- the Russian man.  He, um.  Didn't he say that they were in a lot of pain?  That some people who were droned . . . that they were still inside.  If that's so, then . . . then we can't just forget about them, right?  Even if one person is still here as a drone, we can't forget about them.  And either way, it's terrible to forget the people you've become friends with at all.  To forget about the people who've come to Mayfield and who've gone.

............. I know I've already started to.

Does anyone think we should maybe start keeping track?  Just . . . something so that the people who come here won't ever be forgotten.  Maybe even signatures.  So if you do start to forget, then you can look back and see everyone's name and remember.  Small things like . . . Miss Margot, and how she was always caring for her sister.  Fuuko and how much she loved starfish.  Mr. Zero, and how fun his gym classes were.

It might be a bad idea.  Or too much work.  But . . . Well.  I guess if you don't want to talk about that, maybe we can just share stories of people who've been here and how important they were to us.  I'd love to hear that kind of thing.

[Please specify 1, 2, 3, or voice.  Although the actions are really just default Lucas interactions if your character has no interest in this topic.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas nods in response and follows her out the music room.]

((Shall we timeskip to her house?))

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
We can pick a few. Or maybe everyone can take turns introducing holidays from their world.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Time skip away.

Elizabeth opens the door to let them in.]

I'll go and get it from my room.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's a wonderful idea! You should bring it up.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
((I found that icon fail hilarious for some reason, sorry.))

. . . It could have been modified just to do that when you were around drones. T-There's still no way to be sure. They're smart enough for that.

[There is a pitch to Lucas's voice that isn't usually there. He needs for you to agree with him . . . ]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[It is, somewhat sadly, not intelligent at all. What is interesting about it, though, is that if Nanashi can 'hear its thoughts' or something, she'll get

BoINg! zOoM!

over and over.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm very sorry.

[This is the second time. With Japan, it was less embarrassing because the man was so flustered as well. With this person, though . . . it is somehow worse because he is so suave about it. Lucas dips his head a little as he apologizes again.]

I didn't mean to bother you like that at all . . . I'm really sorry.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.

[pause.]

Is that really true? I never tried it.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[If she comes to the door, he is hiding just out of sight. Either way, he can be seen slowly riding away on his table a little while later.]

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I have no idea, it's just a saying.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

[Lucas squints a little. Japan was . . . Well, it wasn't awful, but he had never been very good with any poses that weren't standing straight up or sitting down. The anatomy is a little off - particularly, the torso is wrong in relation to the rest of the body - and the hands were bent at awfully peculiar angles.]

Do you really think so?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Um. If this is rude, I apologize, but . . . can you do other things besides sing outside of Mayfield? Or only because you were turned human when you got here? I mean . . . Were you always sentient?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Darnit there's the page with her picture. Lucas just hopes she flips past.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard to get up so early sometimes. I got spoiled by Mayfield -- I could do it all the time at home, but I guess my schedule was messed up when I woke up late here.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's alright. You couldn't have known. It's not something anyone can control . . .

[identity profile] heartstar-blues.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I made the promise. Now I'm back and he's gone.

Can't make promises I can't keep around here, it just makes things worse.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
OK. Take your time.

[Lucas nods and steps into the living room to wait.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It would be nice if everyone in town could have something fun to do together, for once.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-31 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um... Not always, but before I came here I had A.I. and a body. I don't think that's changed. My personality was the same when they made me human. ♪

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. OK.

[pause again.]

Anyway. It would be nice if we could actually have something to celebrate once without the town messing it up.

I forgot what my keywords are on this account a lot /sob

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Why. Why would they? I felt what everyone else did. Why would the damn drones be different?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Maybe not. But you don't have to make promises, you know. Just saying that you'll do something -- That's enough.

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
*if it's not intelligent, then yeah, she could pick that up*

... oh... it likes boinging and zooming...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
. . . All the other robots I met here have been built to be just like humans. You're the first one who's talked about being programmed.

No worries!

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Just to make you feel pain . . .

[Lucas seems to have forgotten that he was the one who proposed this theory in the first place. But he had never thought that what was meant was Excruciating Pain. If that was so . . .

Mr. Netherlands. Margot. Free. Fuuko. Everyone . . . ]

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