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tushanshu_logs2016-05-04 08:38 am
wrathfulkhan) wrote in tushanshu_logs2016-05-04 08:38 am
What's a king bowing to a dark god?
Characters: Gene, Jackie, Deon, Peridot, and yooouuuu!
Date: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! And all the other May days aside.
Location: Keeliai and Tavimbi
Situation: The Struggle
Warnings/Rating: Will be added as they arise.
A. [Gene] throughout Keeliai | past the first week of May onwards | open
Gene is continuing to be his political self, gladhanding among the kedan and putting his unique skills of gang interaction to use to put together the nascent police force. But when he thinks nobody's watching, he looks pensive - especially over tea in one of the many teahouses, which he seems to frequent more often of late. Better than alcohol, at least?
B. [Jackie] the Golden Koi | throughout May | open
After the attack last month, Jackie doesn't go anywhere without someone else. The rogue Snakes aren't going to attack him unless he's alone. But at least his bar seems to be doing decent business, even if he's still operating at a loss for now. That part's worrying him. But he tries not to let it show, even to Leo.
C. [Peridot] Keeliai and Tavimbi | throughout May | open
Peridot, meanwhile, is continuing to scavenge. She wants to rebuild her limb enhancers, or something like them, after her talk with Bisi...and maybe something nice for Shay. She's haggling with merchants and, due to her short temper, often getting very annoyed. There's something amusing about a tiny green dorito getting mad at someone twice her size.
D. [Deon] the College | throughout May | open
The College is a safe zone for Deon, who's still wary of working on any pet projects at Stark Industries. Tetravaal had made him too leery of that. He can often be found in one of the labs, working on a design for a robot, or hand-writing some code to make sure he's got it right.
E. [Gene] House Spicy Iron Dragon | late April-first week of May | closed to Tony and Pepper
Gene has decided to live as a bed from now on.
Zhang's arrival had really shaken him up. What he'd done to Zhang had shaken him up more, when he'd had the chance to think about it instead of acting in anger. When he's not living as a bed, he's building a little stone shrine in the back garden where he's buried the extra purple ring and set up the framed photograph of his mother, and when it's done, sitting in front of it, burning incense and thinking.
F. [Jackie] the Dojo | early May | closed to Brigid
Jackie had said he'd wanted to learn Krav Maga from Brigid, and he'd gotten the chance to get some floor time from Valdis, when not too many people would be around to watch her wipe the floor with him.
He smiles at her when she walks in. "You ready?"
G. [Deon] the Hotel | early May | closed to Vincent
There was one thing that Deon had to do to make sure he and Vincent were on the level: namely, return the laptop he had found. It was Vincent's laptop, after all. He knocks on the door, the laptop tucked under his arm. "Vincent?"
Date: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! And all the other May days aside.
Location: Keeliai and Tavimbi
Situation: The Struggle
Warnings/Rating: Will be added as they arise.
A. [Gene] throughout Keeliai | past the first week of May onwards | open
Gene is continuing to be his political self, gladhanding among the kedan and putting his unique skills of gang interaction to use to put together the nascent police force. But when he thinks nobody's watching, he looks pensive - especially over tea in one of the many teahouses, which he seems to frequent more often of late. Better than alcohol, at least?
B. [Jackie] the Golden Koi | throughout May | open
After the attack last month, Jackie doesn't go anywhere without someone else. The rogue Snakes aren't going to attack him unless he's alone. But at least his bar seems to be doing decent business, even if he's still operating at a loss for now. That part's worrying him. But he tries not to let it show, even to Leo.
C. [Peridot] Keeliai and Tavimbi | throughout May | open
Peridot, meanwhile, is continuing to scavenge. She wants to rebuild her limb enhancers, or something like them, after her talk with Bisi...and maybe something nice for Shay. She's haggling with merchants and, due to her short temper, often getting very annoyed. There's something amusing about a tiny green dorito getting mad at someone twice her size.
D. [Deon] the College | throughout May | open
The College is a safe zone for Deon, who's still wary of working on any pet projects at Stark Industries. Tetravaal had made him too leery of that. He can often be found in one of the labs, working on a design for a robot, or hand-writing some code to make sure he's got it right.
E. [Gene] House Spicy Iron Dragon | late April-first week of May | closed to Tony and Pepper
Gene has decided to live as a bed from now on.
Zhang's arrival had really shaken him up. What he'd done to Zhang had shaken him up more, when he'd had the chance to think about it instead of acting in anger. When he's not living as a bed, he's building a little stone shrine in the back garden where he's buried the extra purple ring and set up the framed photograph of his mother, and when it's done, sitting in front of it, burning incense and thinking.
F. [Jackie] the Dojo | early May | closed to Brigid
Jackie had said he'd wanted to learn Krav Maga from Brigid, and he'd gotten the chance to get some floor time from Valdis, when not too many people would be around to watch her wipe the floor with him.
He smiles at her when she walks in. "You ready?"
G. [Deon] the Hotel | early May | closed to Vincent
There was one thing that Deon had to do to make sure he and Vincent were on the level: namely, return the laptop he had found. It was Vincent's laptop, after all. He knocks on the door, the laptop tucked under his arm. "Vincent?"
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How to explain that if he does, fifteen years of anger like poison will just come boiling out of him, and he'll be a monster again? He'd already gone far enough with Zhang - maybe even too far. He didn't regret doing it, but he regretted that anyone else had to see it.
What must they all think of him now?
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Pepper shifts slightly, wrapping both hands around her mug.
"Can't, or don't want to?" she asks, turning her head to look at him. "Because I get not wanting to do that - it sucks. But I'm gonna guess that sitting in your own head with all of it for the rest of your life is a lot worse."
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He trails off for a moment and takes a sip of his tea, hoping that it will soothe him. It does a little to help. Not much, but a little.
"You saw what I'm capable of when I'm angry. You've lived through it - and you were never even a direct target. I've had this anger in me for most of my life. I thought it would go away when I'd finally killed Zhang, but...it hasn't."
He exhales, suddenly looking a little smaller, and he stares into his tea.
"It hasn't, and I don't know what to do."
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She sighs and takes a careful sip of tea. It was a relevant fear for him to have, that he'd come undone again if he allowed himself to feel it all. She wishes she could tell him it'll all be okay and just have things get better.
"Whatever happens, it's going to take time. Just because he's gone doesn't mean what he did to you is gone. You need to work through all of this stuff - and I don't think you're going to do anything that bad again," she tells him firmly.
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Gene opens his eyes again, staring at the photograph through the incense. "I don't know. Maybe I was holding onto a childish belief that if I killed him she'd come back somehow. I couldn't even bring her back with the rings. All that power, and I still couldn't have the one thing I wanted most."
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There's no simple answer to this problem, and all Pepper can really offer is to be there for him.
"Do you feel different at all now? Even a little?"
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"I don't know. And I don't like that I don't know."
For so long, he'd been in tight control of his emotions - at least, that was what he liked to tell himself. But now...the reason for his control was gone. If Zhang had never come into his life, he'd be a lot different today, but there was no use mourning the man he could have been. All that's left is to deal with being the man that he is.
"I feel like I need to do it alone. It's nobody's responsibility but mine."
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"My point is that you don't have to. You can be a pretty intense sometimes, sure, but if our situations were reversed would you let me just sit and stew for another fifteen years? I don't think so."
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He sighs, puts his tea down, and runs his hands over his face. "I keep forgetting I have a new family now. A...real family. And I guess now that he's dead I can try and let go of what used to be."
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"We take some getting used to," she says with a half-serious nod. "But like I told you before - no take-backsies on family. When you want to look back, we'll look back with you. And then you want to look forward, we'll be there too."
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He looks at her. "But thank you. I mean it."
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Under other circumstances she might press for more information, but this wasn't the kind of thing you pushed too hard. She'd done that with Bakura because he was willing and able to tell her without too much pain (with the exception of that one issue she had gone too far on). Gene isn't in the same kind of place where he can do that right now.
"You're welcome." Pepper reaches over and clinks her mug against Gene's. "Here's to the future."
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Pepper's great. He doesn't know what he's done to deserve her as a friend, really. But he doesn't know what he'd do without her.