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Trafalgar Law ([personal profile] kikoku) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2018-11-18 09:10 pm

VIDEO | UN: Trafalgar

[The video feed that opens up on Law has a bit of a jarring background of metal and glowing screens, a sight many will recognize as the stasis pods aboard Thesa Station. He's taken an excursion in the midst of everyone's weird forest adventure. He's sitting now on the floor of the chamber, back up against one of the control panels to the pods. It's an especially odd place to be, because if you squint you'll notice that there's a chair within view of where he's sat, yet he's still chosen to remain on the cold metal floor.

He doesn't actually speak right away, simply staring blankly at the feed as if he'd turned it on as an afterthought. When he does speak, it's with a heavy bitterness as if he's been wronged in some way. As far as he's concerned, he has been, but he's certainly not going to speak openly about that.]


Do you ever think maybe we're all dead and this is actually hell? I've been thinking about it and I think it explains a lot about our situation.

[Anyone who's met Law before knows that his resting state is looking vaguely tired. Today is different. This isn't even the sleep deprived tiredness he'd had when he was working overtime tending to the injured months ago in the aftermath of the dragon. No, this is something different, an emotional exhaustion, manifesting as a redness around the eyes rather than just his usual dark circles.
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-10 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Suddenly, Kagari's grin takes on a faintly catlike quality to it.]

No friends here, huh.
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-15 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, shit. I stand corrected.

[Kagari's expression doesn't grow any less smug, though. If anything, that blush only makes it worse. He lets a moment pass, then:]

So the sex is that good, ah? Congrats, Law-kun~
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-17 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately, Kagari is kind of a lunatic that's bizarrely difficult to intimidate, so he just kind of. Laughs??? That's not a normal reaction to being threatened, Kagari.]

Oooh, so scary. Hey hey, if you do, you should make them look like emoji. That'd be a hilarious way to die.
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-21 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[So they're back to this, huh. Honestly it's--a fair bit above his pay grade, really. After Law refills his beaker, he takes another sip from the bottle itself. He could go hunt down a glass now that they're in the actual kitchen but also, what if he didn't.]

I dunno, man. I'm the last guy who can talk about how people should be.

[He huffs a small laugh, not unkindly. There's just an irony to this moment that he'd literally just dodged explaining, and though he's not about to do it now, it's still funny.]

But for whatever it's worth, the way I see it--so what, right? I mean, maybe there is something wrong with you. Not like you can change it, so...who gives a shit? It's how you feel, and anyone who's got a problem with that can suck it.
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-21 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m getting some real mixed messages here, dude.

[He can’t help but chuckle a little, because Law had been so adamant that he didn’t want anyone to tell him to be happy—and yet, he’s frustrated with himself for not being happy. But ironically, he’s pretty sure he understands better now.]

...I get it though, I think. There’s nothing in the world that hurts as much as wanting something you can’t have. I don’t know how those optimist types do it all the time.

[How they do all that hoping without being crushed under its weight. How they can stand the fear of disappointment. Even after a year, Kagari still tends to treat every day like it could be his last. It’s hard for him to think of himself as having anything like a future, when it was so far beyond his reach before. Wanting things is a struggle of personhood he still has no idea how to manage.]
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-22 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[On the one hand, that’s the most relatable thing he’s ever heard out of anyone’s mouth. On the other, he needs a Moment to recover from the hilarity of someone thinking he was an optimist. Excuse him while he laughs really, really hard.]

Wow, gotta say that’s a new one for me.

[An optimist. Amazing.]

It’s freaky, though, isn’t it? The ones that just fuckin’ love people, even though they know? I’ll never get it. There was this one old guy, every time i was a dick to him he’d just like, get nicer. It drove me crazy.

[Yet despite his words, he definitely sounds fond. He misses that old dumbass, damn.]
Edited 2018-12-22 00:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-12-22 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
[...Ah. The amusement drains out of Kagari's face pretty damn quick. He looks--uncomfortable? Not because Law told him so much as -- well, honestly, he doesn't know what to say. Nobody's ever really gone that far for him, but he remembers that time the old man stepped in to intercede on his behalf when someone in Olympia was harassing him for being from Wyver, and would've probably gotten beaten up for his trouble if Kagari hadn't kneed the asshole in the crotch so they could hightail it out of there. It was the first time anyone had ever cared to try to stop something bad from happening to him; he's still affected by it, if he's totally honest with himself -- which he never really is.]

Oh. That sucks.

[Shuusei Kagari: a wordsmith, a great poet of our era.]

...Is that what you're worried about? That he's gonna get hurt protecting you again if he wakes up?