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lifenet2018-02-04 09:39 pm
bloodyashes) wrote in lifenet2018-02-04 09:39 pm
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If you hadn't heard, Monsun is apparently disappearing soon. If anyone has time, I could use help moving the last few supplies off to the islets. There's also the tent to be taken down and moved - we should be able to carry individual pieces through the mana pool and set it up on the islets, but it's too much of a job for the few of us who remain at camp.
Finally, I might need some assistance getting Ardyn off the island when we get a little closer to time.
-Asch
[Feel free to also use this as a jumping-off point for action responses involving tearing down said tent and moving everything. Eventually, said giant tent will be re-erected on the islets, but right now the focus is on moving stuff. Asch isn't likely to really stick around to scribble on the rock, he's got too much to do.]
Finally, I might need some assistance getting Ardyn off the island when we get a little closer to time.
-Asch
[Feel free to also use this as a jumping-off point for action responses involving tearing down said tent and moving everything. Eventually, said giant tent will be re-erected on the islets, but right now the focus is on moving stuff. Asch isn't likely to really stick around to scribble on the rock, he's got too much to do.]
action; monsun
[Ardyn was sitting by the mana pool, Hresvelgr standing next to him making the occasional concerned chocobo noise.]
Take the whole blasted camp if you like, I'm staying here.
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Luckily Asch isn't doing that yet and instead chucks the end of one of the tent ropes at him.]
We'll discuss it after the rest of the camp is moved. Keep that steady, would you?
[So that Asch doesn't get beaned in the face with this tent pole when he kicks the bottom of it out.]
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[And he does in fact kick the bottom of the tent pole out - which causes the top of it to fall towards Ardyn, pulled by the rope, but Asch catches it with quick reflexes before it's even within arm's reach of him.]
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...I told all of you getting close to me was a mistake. I told you it wasn't even what I wanted. Why didn't anyone just listen to me?
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Asch pulls the pole completely free of the tent's roof, causing the whole thing to collapse into his face in a mess of heavy canvas. It's a minute or two before he finds his way out.]
Because you're saying something stupid.
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I'm saying something entirely reasonable to protect you and everyone else insistent upon befriending me and showing an utter lack of self-preservation!
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[Unspoken is 'but now it just makes you look stupid.' Asch pulls the end of the pole out from under the tent and sets it lengthwise near where the floor rug(s) and pillows are neatly stacked.]
But I'd think by now you'd figure it out - there's no chance of you changing my mind.
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[He ducks back under the collapsed side of the tent, fiddling with some ties on the underside that hold up the side panels.]
Which means that me finding out is also a when, and frankly, I'd prefer to face that head-on from the beginning.
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And how long do you think the Storyteller would let you just hang out there on the bottom of the ocean?
[Gods are cruel, and care not for the desires of mortals. This is something they both know.]
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[Monsun's desert makes him more emotionally open, which occasionally makes him even more of a snarky little shit of a teen. Back under the tent he goes.]
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you've ruined me for not using bold text you goddamn airlocks
[AKA you being a ball of anger issues isn't actually a new thing.]
How many people did you actually kill in that time>?
oops
Now think about what would happen if I were to change my mind on that stance. If I were to be so furious that I simply decided to kill one or perhaps several people again and again whenever they came back?
[His voice dropped somewhat, to a tone of frigid gravity.]
Do you know what it feels like, to die in almost every imaginable way one after another? Have you any conceptof what it feels like to resurrect from being impaled on a sword only to instead be shot? To recover from that only to be hanged, or burned at the stake, or crucified?
It's not an ideal way to spend one's time. And I don't wish to decide that casually murdering anyone repeatedly is a decent cure for boredom.
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[He doesn't laugh off Ardyn's words. He treats them with the respect they're due, closing his eyes. His hand rises, slowly, to press into his chest - to the place where, Ardyn might by now have seen, one of those impaling blades left its mark.]
I don't know what it feels like. I won't try to claim to. But you do. And before you launch off again into claiming that the normal you doesn't understand compassion and that the you here doesn't exist anywhere else, that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm not saying that you care about others. I'm saying that you do not like to see them suffer to no purpose - do not like, not dislike. You get no enjoyment from it.
[Even beyond being nominally incapable of enjoyment. Asch continues to choose his words specifically and carefully, speaking slowly in that way that indicates that someone is putting a lot of thought into what they're saying.]
I don't know about your anger and what that might cause you to do. But I think that we can say that you starting a slaughter from sheer boredom is off the table. If you haven't done it yet, that's not likely to change.