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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 2011-01-29 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas the god of empathy is no stranger to that tone of voice.]

Does he remember everything from before?
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[personal profile] yamaxanadu 2011-01-29 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Though?

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
No... Which made it even harder to explain why I sorta shot him up a bit over the holidays...
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, an opportunity. If everyone could come and do it at the same time, it'd feel like a big event, wouldn't it? ♪

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[an artifact of rewriting my response and forgetting to delete that, whoops. i can work with it.]

I hope it's not too much of a burden on people. It can be hard to remember, sometimes, too . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
'Shot him up'? I still don't know as much slang as I probably should . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.

Some people have said they'd like to do it more privately, though. And I think we should try and get as many people who've already gone as we can, too.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
You mean the drones' signatures?

Hmm... I think my fake parents got droned today, if that helps. ♪

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Y'know. With a gun.

In the face.

'bout three times.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I play a similar instrument. However I was receiving lessons in the piano for a while here. It hasn't been invented yet when I'm from.

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, he sounds really nice.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas is shocked momentarily before he remembers what Vince had said right after all that happened over Christmas.]

It wasn't your fault. The town . . . It did weird things to everyone over the holidays.

Were you able to work things out?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I meant more that people who remembered others should try and write a little about them. But I'm sorry to hear that . . . Were you close to them?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
You must be from a time period even further back than me, then. I thought it was hard for me to learn about things like cars . . .

When are you from?

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[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Looking over shoulder.]

What are you drawing Lucas?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
He was. Is. We were pretty close.

[Lucas's voice drifts off a little before he resumes talking.]

Anyway, that's exactly the kind of thing that's important.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! That makes more sense. ♪

I wasn't close to them yet. But I think Luke was. He's one of the other kids that live here.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
He's ignorin' me! [Which is, quite frankly, the worst punishment you can give a narcissist.]

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
It was 1549 before I came here.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
And it's about 1950 here, so . . . That's a pretty long time.

[Lucas is impressed. He blinks at Elizabeth for a few seconds before seeming to remember something.]

Oh! I'm sorry. I haven't introduced myself. My name is Lucas.

[Phone]

[identity profile] heartstar-blues.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Na kid, that sounds like a good idea.

Might be better for you guys to do it, I'm not the best with memory.

Though I remember Dr. Crane..."

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

That's not very fair. . . . Would it help if anyone else talked to him?

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a great idea! Count me in!

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
((Ffff- I-I'm sorry x_x; ))

... yes...

... oh, I'll have to fix that later...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Luke?! Luke Triton? You live with him? He's one of my closest friends.

Then that means Mr. Giriko and Miss Roshian are gone . . .

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