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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.]

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[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] radiant-will.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Her voice over the phone sounds just a bit weary.]

It's a little depressing, but I know what you mean. I don't want to think that my old friends are stuck in the bodies of drones, but…

You've got a good idea. Anyone who gets stuck here and has to put up with this crap deserves to be remembered.

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[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

[And his tone changes from icyness to cheerfulness. But a tense, strained one. Cheerfulness with teeth.]

So. Get any of what you wanted from our little conversation a week or two ago?

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[identity profile] shhhhh-secret.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
(Be sure to capture that handsome "mustache".)

School assignment?
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Cool idea! I haven't been here very long, but you can have my signature. ♪

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's not hard work. It's fun, I enjoy it. But I wouldn't mind help, either. I guess once I get them developed, I can have them sign the back of the photos.

1 because that option is being neglected

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
*the door soon opens after the table crashes into it, and there's Nanashi in her Mayfield pajamas*

... good morning...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if she's even conscious of that. I just think she . . . struggles. Like coming up for air every once in a while, but being submerged most of the time.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well. I'm glad to hear other people think this is a good idea, though . . .

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[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Probably as much as you got when I was Psycho Lad, i think.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[wasting people is bad but wasting pages is bad too.]

How big of a house are you drawing?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Do you mean you don't get a chance to know anyone at all when you move around?

[Lucas jumps to the thought that is natural for him, rather than Extreme Self Absorption.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
It might not even be necessary to sign. A picture album is probably good enough.

. . . And if people really care, they can write stories and things about the people they remember, too.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Mr. Netherlands? . . . He was like a dad to me.

[Now that it's been so long, he's not shy about saying something like that anymore.]

He always looked out for me. I . . . I trusted him more than anyone else I've met here.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's alright.

[Lucas feels a bit awkward about resuming playing now, so he swings his legs around to face Elizabeth.]

Do you play, too? I'm afraid I'm not very good . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I hadn't thought of it since it wasn't very familiar to me, but someone's had a better idea about taking pictures. If enough people care, maybe we could work on this together and make a scrapbook. Or something along those lines.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Someone else said that, too. I think the photographs would be more meaningful. That way, you'd always remembered what your friends looked like when they were cheerful.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
If there's any doubt at all that people aren't getting home, I think this is something small we can do for all of us.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Never really cared 'bout 'em, actually. None of 'em were ever really my friends. [And, thus, the main difference between the Vince of last year and the Vince of now.] So, it was always just the four of us. 'til I got here, 'course.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas is startled for a moment, having been absentmindedly doodling anyone he saw walking by. He hadn't expected anyone to actually notice.]

I-It's just something I like to do. I'm not very good yet, but . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I'm glad a lot of people feel the same way I do.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
((O-Oops. It comes across that way, doesn't it? What I meant to convey was that he threw the newspaper and it smashed into the door.))

[Lucas had been checking the screen for damage when the door opened inwards and so he found himself separated from Nanashi only by a thin pane of glass.]

Ah! G-Good morning, Miss Nanashi. Um. Nice day, isn't it?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas changes the topic before he can dwell too long on that.]

The four of you . . . ? I don't think I've heard you talk much about your life back at home. I know you have a good friend named Howard, right?
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's making memories, right? ♪ Sounds like fun.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! He's back here again...

[He... doesn't sound too happy about it.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Yeah. I guess it is! It's a good opportunity to get to know people, too.

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