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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-12-07 07:23 pm

[EVENT] A NEW WORLD ORDER

Characters: ALL!
Date: December 8, 2015 (with some starters for the following weeks)
Location: Keeliai, the Midnight Hotel, others
Situation: The Foreigners have awakened.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

They've been in the Dreaming for so long that when they wake up their bodies feel more like automatons, alien and ill-fitting. They haven’t atrophied, thanks to Milyn, but they’re stiff and a little bedsore, and the solidity of the Life Plane is jarring. Here, the surroundings don’t move on a whim. Here the world is more stable, almost harsh and unyielding in spite of the homey surrounds.

It’s been a year, says the clock on the mantle and on the second floor. Says Milyn, too, when she’s able to stop hugging them long enough to speak.

Nothing much has changed in the Midnight Hotel. There are dishes out of place, objects belonging to either Milyn or Eva in evidence, the diorama exactly where it had been but now brightly-painted thanks to Milyn's boredom. Milyn and Eva took a room each, in the time the Foreigners were sleeping, though neither used them much.

Eva’s upstairs, Milyn will tell anyone who asks. In her room.

Eva hasn't left that room in three days. She hasn't spoken in three days, either, or walked, or moved, or breathed. Her effects are neatly arranged around her bed, and the sheet has been pulled up. There is heavy incense in the room and Milyn has managed to preserve the body enough to remove the risk of too much mess (and other things). In a way, that makes it worse: as though Eva is sleeping. It’s difficult to tell whether Milyn is in denial or whether spending three days with no one to talk to other than sleeping Foreigners and a corpse has had its influence.



LINKS
Dreaming log | Foreigner's Awakening (Hotel) | Milyn’s Relief | Exploring Keeliai | Old & New Faces (Canon Updates/New Arrivals) | OOC: State of the Shell
akito: akito / gazelle (Default)

[personal profile] akito 2014-12-09 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard to wake up.

Not because everything feels wrong, but because he doesn't want to be awake. Akito would rather stay Dreaming, exploring strange new places with his memory of Agito until he could wake up at home to the sound of Ikki's loud snoring.

The wrongness isn't helping much either. His skin feels too tight, like it's been stretched across a skeleton too big for it, and his joints ache as though he just finished an S-Class Parts War. His clothes don't feel quite right, fabric falling differently around his shoulders and hips. Fingernails too long. Hair too heavy; strands that normally reach just past his collarbone falling instead to just above his bottom ribs.

"What if-" Akito cuts off what he was going to say, covering his mouth in surprise with a hand. The movement is painful, but he's used to chronic pain and so it's easy to ignore. What's harder to ignore is that his voice is different. Maybe not to everyone else, but to someone as attuned to sound as Akito is, even a small change in his voice is noticeable.

He should get up. Eat, because he's hungry yet has no appetite. Shower, because he feels dirty.

All he wants to do though is stay curled up around his knees, wishing he could be someplace else again.


((ooc: PUBERTY!! YAY!!! 8D)-/ he managed to grow 1/2" and it's gonna mess him up. also his voice is slightly deeper now - so less like a prepubescent girl and more like a... normal teenage girl on the boyish end of the scale, or something. V(o_o)V))
oceanblue: (waking someone up)

hellooooo!

[personal profile] oceanblue 2014-12-21 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
The moment he speaks, Katara is kneeling at his side, her hand gentle and light at his shoulder. "Akito?" She's offered to help wake up the others, and help ease the pain if she can, and she's all too willing to be there for her suite mate as he awakens.
akito: akito (pic#1137494)

[personal profile] akito 2014-12-21 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Katara?"

And there's that stranger's voice again. Akito isn't sure if he likes it, the thought bringing a grimace to his face. He wonders if he and Agito even look the same anymore.

"My Bending's gone."
oceanblue: (sigh)

[personal profile] oceanblue 2014-12-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods at her name, but pauses with a silent, sad sigh at his confession. "I... I know. I'm sorry." She knew from her time in the dreaming that some talents and gifts had been taken back as Malicant had been defeated, and while it saddened her that they would no longer have that connection, it wouldn't turn her trust away from him.

Her voice quickly took on a slightly brighter tone to help reassure him. But it's okay. We won; we're safe now." Her free hand would then come up to brush aside the long hair in his face. "How are you feeling?"
akito: akito (pic#6629312)

[personal profile] akito 2014-12-26 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
While Akito loathed the thought of having any of Malicant's presence or influence left, he also wishes he could still Waterbend - it made him feel useful. Like he could help instead of hurt. There's a part of him that feels empty and disconnected now that he can't sense the water around him like he used to.

He cringes at the touch, but doesn't pull away. "I don't want to be here. I want to go back." Back to the Dreaming. Back Home. He doesn't care, as long as it's not here.
oceanblue: (well...I guess...)

[personal profile] oceanblue 2014-12-27 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
At the cringe, she slowly draws her hand back and shakes her head with a soft sigh. "I know... I think a lot of us are feeling that way." She draws both hands back now and puts them in her lap. "It's been a year, Akito."
akito: akito / gazelle (Default)

[personal profile] akito 2014-12-27 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
A nod. Akito had figured as much. The only explanation for how his body feels right now would be if he had aged. "My voice changed," he says, voice maybe cracking a bit from a mixture of disuse and its change.
oceanblue: (waking someone up)

[personal profile] oceanblue 2015-01-03 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded and offered another gentle smile. "Your hair is longer, too," she added, grinning. "Can you sit up? You'll have to be careful..."
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[personal profile] akito 2015-01-03 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
He can sit up easily enough, though his joints pop audibly enough that it startles him. "...Maybe I'll keep my hair this way for the colder season."
ruinsprofessor: (calm)

mad backthreading shhh. what are timelines.

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-03 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
When she notices Akito, Raine rapidly comes to the conclusion that of all the growth that must have happened in the past year or so, those in his age group will have had it the worst. She's not fully decided on whether or not to approach him at first -- they're not exactly close -- but it does look like he could use a hand acclimating to the present moment. In the end it's not long before Raine makes her way over, crouches beside Akito. "Are you all right?" she asks, calm, a little quiet against the growing hubbub of the room.
akito: akito / gazelle (pic#1138322)

wibbly wobbly timey wimey!

[personal profile] akito 2015-01-03 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow everything is so much... louder than he remembers; too bright. More solid. Which makes sense, given where his mind has been for the past year. He isn't surprised when Raine speaks, if only because he had been expecting it since she came near him. Still, it takes him a few moments to re-acclimatize to his body enough to try using his voice again.

"My voice is different."
ruinsprofessor: (stare)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-04 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"That happens," Raine says neutrally. She's already watched one of her students go through that, and has a reasonable enough grasp of what may be surprising Akito. "You grew, while you were asleep. It's been a longer time than any of us thought it would be." She doesn't actually know how much he's noticed of that himself; he seems like he's checked out a little bit.
akito: akito / gazelle (Default)

[personal profile] akito 2015-01-04 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"A year... Right?" He tugs at the longest strands of his hair, looking at it blandly. The length is alright, he supposes. It's strange to feel the weight of hair past the nape of his neck. "It makes sense."
ruinsprofessor: (polite)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-04 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Raine nods. "That appears to be the case, yes." A year. That still startles her, when she thinks about it. She watches him a little longer, and after a moment stands, stretching herself. "Do you need a hand?" she asks, offering a hand back down to him as she does. It's a long time to have been sleeping, and in any case his center of gravity may have shifted a little, which would throw anyone off.
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[personal profile] akito 2015-01-04 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
He gives a quick shake of the head in the negative. He can stand up on his own, he's sure. It may just take him a bit longer as he adjusts to the changes.

Akito stretches his arms and back first, before attempting to stand, and is promptly startled by the loud popping of his joints. It makes sense but gosh he wasn't expecting that okay?
ruinsprofessor: (polite)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-06 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Even if Akito doesn't need the help, Raine makes half a move to steady him when he does stand, just in case. No one has exactly been all together in the process of waking up.

And then she has a quietly horrible thought. "Do you know what else to expect from the changes in your body?" she asks in a moment. She's not entirely sure how old Akito is, but if this is his first encounter with puberty and he doesn't have anyone older looking out for him...
akito: akito / gazelle (Default)

[personal profile] akito 2015-01-06 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Withholding a roll of his eye because, really? Does everyone think he's nine years old or something?

"I'm almost sixteen. I know human biology," he says. "I just wasn't expecting to live long enough to experience it since my growth has been stunted."
Edited 2015-01-06 11:24 (UTC)
ruinsprofessor: (bemused)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-07 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
He definitely does not look sixteen. Raine blinks at that, but lifts her shoulders briefly. "I've had to explain to older," she says, a little dryly. "I can see how that would be a shock, however. May I ask--" A pause. Does she want to know why he thought he'd be dead before leaving his teens, the risks of stunted growth aside? After a moment Raine just shakes her head. It's not relevant to the bigger picture, and by now he's almost certainly receiving adequate nutrition; she's not going to pry in this case.
akito: akito / gazelle (Default)

[personal profile] akito 2015-01-07 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahahaha adequate nutrition. It hasn't been something he's certainly receiving, though he does eat healthier than he did growing up when he remembers to.

"Hm?" He looks at her curiously, wondering what she had been about to ask. Then decides it probably isn't important.
ruinsprofessor: (polite)

[personal profile] ruinsprofessor 2015-01-09 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Never mind," Raine says, wryly. "It's not important right now. At any rate, I'm glad you came through the Dreaming all right." She's giving him his space now, stands back and just watches to make sure he actually is all right. She's starting to suspect he's one of those who would forget to mention an injury.

If she does find out he's not eating right she may have to be cross. And then persuade someone else to fix the problem, because she herself cannot.