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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.]
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
We've hung out a little, and we had a New Year's party too! ♪ I wouldn't mind getting to know him.

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[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Japan is in in the park, somewhere nearby, when he briefly glances over at Lucas- oh gosh is someone drawing him? Really?! Wow, wouldn't want to get in the way, then! So he suddenly stops moving completley and stands extremely still. ]

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[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
... He said who were in a lot of pain?

[identity profile] radiant-will.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely. If you need any help with it, let me know.

[identity profile] shhhhh-secret.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
(Jacob notices a lot of things.)

Practice makes perfect, right?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think he meant physical pain. Just that they were still inside -- The drones, I mean.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucas hadn't actually been paying close attention to Japan, truth be told. He was just one blob in the larger drawing, but he had done his best to accurately represent everything he saw! . . . When next he glances up, though, the man has frozen in place lik a statue.]

Um.

[Perhaps he was tired of walking.]

. . .

[Well, it was a good chance to draw him in more detail, then.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yikes. Someone was awake so early in the morning already. Lucas can't hear too clearly what was being shouted, but he makes haste to try and scurry away before the occupant of the house noticed anything.

Nothing was broken, anyway.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fffff Lucas jumps like fifteen feet in the air. Shiraasan and Ukraine catching him off-guard were bad enough without Kay openly seeing his lame attempts at capturing her . . . energetic beauty. But there wasn't any helping it if she'd already seen.]

B-but every side's your good side.

[Did Lucas just flirt. Probably not.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. Thanks again.

. . . What was it you promised him?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I mean . . . Well, I am really sorry, but why do you want to fix it?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
. . .

You had a party, huh? Say, was Luke feeling pretty sick afterward?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess that's why I'm out here.

[Lucas agrees.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, miss.

. . . I haven't introduced myself yet, sorry. My name is Lucas.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Oh. I guess that's alright, then. Can I show you where I stopped drawing?
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I didn't stay the whole night, since I had to sing with Miku-nee... ♪

[Rin was a tad drunk herself by the end of it, although she just thought it was her human body being strange.]

He was really sick the next day though. ♪

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[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want me to fight you? Or call you names? Or yell nasty things?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The worst thing is thinking that you'll never see or talk to those people again. Most people don't even know that there are other worlds out there when they're at home.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to draw pictures, trying to fit everyone I knew in. But it never worked very well.

[After a pause, Lucas blinks for a second or so.]

Um. Did we have this conversation before . . . ? I feel as if we had. Did I just use your idea, Crowe?

[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And it probably goes on like this....for about ten minutes or so. Japan is surprisingly good at staying still. But he does speak up after a while...! ]

U-um... I would like to see it... after it is done.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Old mystery solved.]

Eheh. . . . I thought it was probably something like that. I hope you didn't feel too badly afterward, too.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucas is mildly startled for a second.]

W-Wha . . . Oh! Is that why . . . Y-You don't have to keep standing there, mister!

[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah? I do not wish to get in the way! As a fellow artist, I can understand the frustration of a subject that proves difficult to draw due to constantly movement...!

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
N-No, honest! I'm really sorry; I didn't realize you were standing there because you'd noticed. I would have told you to move ages ago . . . !

[identity profile] radiant-will.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't either, have I?

I'm Kallen Kouzuki, and I live at 772 Bunker Street. It's nice to meet you.

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