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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] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
T-there is nothing to apologize for! This is out of my own will, so please do not... please forgive me. Am I in the way?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
O-Of course not . . . ! Y-You can't be in the way of your own drawing, right?

Um. I'm really sorry, again . . . Please don't worry about my drawing. I'm sure you have somewhere you wanted to go.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I deliver papers there some days. It's nice to meet you, too, Miss Kallen.

[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
small>[ rushes over to ] Please do not cry! You have done nothing wrong, ah...

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs a little.] Maybe? But that's okay. It's something more people should do, if you ask me. We all won't be here forever, so it's good for more people to be doing something like this.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kay actually blushes at that - she wasn't ready for such an adorably sweet compliment from Lucas. After looking momentarily surprised, she smiles and gives him a quick hug from behind before coming around to sit next to him on the bench.]

"Aww, you're too sweet!"

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[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes. Because if you do that, that's validation of everything he thinks and has been told of himself. And if he has that, that means he has a scapegoat when he inevitably does something cruel or stupid, and can transfer some of his guilt to that.

Commencing tantrum in 3....2....1...]


No. No no no you're not listening jerkface! I'm trying to understand why you don't when it would be what any person would want. It's a lie if you're going to say you don't want to.
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[personal profile] roadroller 2011-01-29 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Me? No way! ♪

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps that was a bad icon choice. Either way, Lucas bobs his head a few times again.]

And it's not even a very good drawing, either . . .

[It isn't.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry . . . I must've been inspired the last time I saw you taking pictures.

[Lucas blushes a little. Not that Crowe can see it.]

. . . Um. Can I ask you a favor, actually?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hopefully the hug is too quick for Kay to notice Lucas stiffen. As she sits down beside him, he tries to shift the paper subtly away a little so she can't see it as well.]

Bad sides only show up when I try and draw the good sides.

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[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
If we all did what we wanted to do all the time, the world would be a pretty big mess, wouldn't it?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suddenly, random thought. It's something Lucas has been thinking while listening to her, courtesy of the music notes everywhere.]

Um. Just by the way . . . you have a really nice sounding voice, Rin. It almost sounds like you're singing.

[identity profile] thief-of-truth.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want me to pose for you?

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
... it's something to do...

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[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Nooooot really, since that's just about what everyone does anyway.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Please hold -- his brain is connecting the pieces and has temporarily shorted out.]

... All Spark. That's... what it was.

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Really, it's fine. I hope you'll show me some of it sometime.

Sure, anything.

[identity profile] motheringnation.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yes...it is...



I'm glad you're doing well though.

[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's most strange.

Whoever brought us here, but be indeed powerful.

[But onto a happier topic.]

Do they have lutes in your world?

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...We could do both!

[identity profile] shhhhh-secret.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Mind if I... (Nods towards the notebook.

Jacob, of course, has zero interest in Lucas' artistic talent, but rather what Lucas' subject material is.)

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
A-Aha. I wouldn't want to make you stand that long. You'd probably be pretty stiff by the time I was done.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

This place is very boring to someone like you, isn't it?

[identity profile] has-a-name.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
... not entirely...

... I get to see how technology works from other worlds without having to visit them...

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