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Jade "read the script" Curtiss ([personal profile] yourfononsarewhack) wrote2013-05-13 12:35 am

Second Field of Fonons [Action/Video]

[Jade spends some of the day holed up in "his" workshop. Formerly Dist's, but since remodeled to match its new owner, as Jade does his best to ignore whatever positive influence Dist's previous presence in this world was implied to have. Instead, he finds himself spending the better part of his afternoon researching previous journal entries to collect as much information as possible. It's better than trying to deal with the fact that Anise has apparently been kidnapped the other day.

But he's stuck on two particular entries, that were made around the same time - just a few days over a year ago. The moment he found the first entry, he made sure that the door was locked; having ensured that a lock was installed on the door to the workshop if there was not one already. And he tried to play the entries quietly, to study them.

"Earlier, I discovered that Regal Bryant and Gelda Nebilim have each been sent back to their respective worlds."

"What do you believe happens...when you die?"

He considers all the different Nebilims that he knows of. The replica he made, that hollow and destructive shell that he had to put down with the friends hed somehow made. The ghost whom he knew to roam Luceti before he could remember being here, who apparently gave him the forgiveness that he always sought, but now could not remember. The disguise worn by that parasite of a Dream Shifter, who was a Nebilim whom had lived into Jade's adulthood and tried teaching him secrets of the Seventh Fonon - an ideal that was too good to be true, who came to be as dead as the other Nebilims. Just like the original, the one they were all rooted in. The professor who was able to teach Jade - whom he realized too late whom he could not replace. But Luceti brought all these other complicating factors into the equation, which made him ponder Nephry's very question for himself. Relying on death as a permanent absolute was no longer reliable. What is he supposed to make of it now, and of his responsibility towards others' lives and deaths?

Jade eventually resurfaces from the workshop and may stop to talk with any of the house-mates who are around on his way out of the house. Donning an umbrella, he makes a few more stops around town for the remainder of the day. He goes to the Battle Dome, where he does some training in simulations of environments similar to the icy Mt. Roneal, and he unleashes some of his most devastating fonic artes in this practice. Perhaps more venting than training.

And sometime that evening, he makes his way to the memory garden, as discreetly as he can manage. He's only there for the sake of curiosity. He wonders if anyone arranged anything for the Gelda who was here. If he does not find anything, he will instead find an empty space to stand still in contemplation for some minutes, before turning to take the dark trek home.]


[Video]

[When he chooses to address the journals, he's back at the workshop, his fingers steepled before him as he looks into the video feed. He goes in a voice that has some cheeriness mixed with sarcasm, and occasionally bitterness.]

I suppose I might as well make an address over these journals at this point. As loath as I am to actually use this unwieldy device, it's been far too boring around here. [He won't bring up his actual first entry, since he was all anon for it.] Some of you here may know me, and please keep in mind regarding anything you think you may have learned about me during one of my previous "stays" here, that I am a notorious liar. My name is Colonel Jade Curtiss, and it's been several months since my arrival here. Certainly long enough to get an idea of the Malnosso's capabilities. But please note that no matter what oddness their experiments would have you believe, I actually have no children. [And considering that he apparently looked oddly unlike himself during that week, he thinks it should be easy to pretend that was not he himself doing those odd things - being part of some family. The more distance he could create from those fake memories, the better.

Jade reaches up to adjust his glasses.]


Mm, am I missing something? Ah, yes. I believe that to truly complete an entry in this journal, I'm required to ask some manner of pointless question. Very well, I suppose I might as well go all the way while I'm making this message. So tell me, random citizens of Luceti. What is the most outlandish dream that you've ever had?
aerialassault: (uncool -- i don't care)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-13 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...why even bother asking if it's pointless?

[He still didn't care enough to make an official journal entry.]
aerialassault: (deadpan -- really?)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-14 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Then doesn't that make this whole thing pointless?
aerialassault: (thinking -- hmm)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-14 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Either that or they decide to 'accidentally' snoop on your life.

[Like what happened to him in February.]

Makes you wonder why they gave us these stupid things. They're not even that efficient!
aerialassault: (confident -- totally chill)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-16 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that? [He grinned, completely unashamed.] That was nothing. You should see how some of the guys back home react to these things.
aerialassault: (thinking -- hmm)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-20 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Nah. Just imagine what'd happen on a ship full of rowdy guys. Then, imagine what it'd be like if that ship were stuck in the middle of nowhere because the engine needed a few repairs.

Have a better idea now?
Edited 2013-05-20 00:05 (UTC)
aerialassault: (confident -- you gotta deal)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-21 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so you've been lost in space too?
aerialassault: (thinking -- hmm)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-05-25 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Technicalities.]

Probably. Know anything of the kind that will do worse than suffocate you the moment you step out of the airlock?
aerialassault: (confident -- you gotta deal)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-06-08 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[So it was an actual ship them. Probably on water, as that was the classic style.]

It's cold and unfriendly, and it tends to make the crew have a nasty case of cabin fever if we're away from port for too long.
aerialassault: (confident -- you gotta deal)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-06-10 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely. Everything is black when you look outside of the windows. It's not exactly wise to look out them for too long-- it drives a person to existentialism.
aerialassault: (confident -- you gotta deal)

[personal profile] aerialassault 2013-06-26 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yea. [He shrugged.] And now you know why it's tempting to just punch someone out.