towerofanimus | ❝So hand me that remote❞

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❝So hand me that remote❞

Characters: Willow (

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Setting: The media level.
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Summary: Willow has way more free time than she's used to, especially without school to be a perfectionist over. She finds herself watching a lot of movies. Feel free to make multi-character threads and join existing ones, by the way!
Warnings: None.

[At the moment Willow is watching Zombieland, a movie right up her alley but from several years past her time, so she'd never had a chance to see it before. She's sitting on a couch across from the TV, hand in a bowl of chips and giggling periodically.

On the screen, there's a college-aged boy with poofy, curly hair running hurriedly away from a zombie co-ed with a broken ankle.] You just can't trust anyone, [says the narration.] The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me.

[Goddess, does that remind her of Xander. For once it's a happy reminder, though, and she practically chokes on some chips laughing at it. Him and that preying mantis teacher...

Follow the sounds of giggling and come interrupt her?]

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It wasn't a lecture! You just have a lot of feelings about it.

It must be hard to feel that way in a place like this. We're not exactly pacifists.

[Taiki nodded slowly] It is... sorry it is how Kirin are made... we exist to stop our kings or queens from becoming corrupt. We cannot fight unless ordered by them, violence and blood makes us ill... Here it is...

[He looks down, here it was awful, there was a lot of violence, a lot of blood. He had forgotten what it was like to not feel vaguely dizzy and sick every moment of the day.]

I try not to judge people... they are not my King...

Even if you don't want to judge them, you can't really control how it makes you feel.

But it sounds like it's a... a physiological reaction for you. You can't help something like that, at all! Try not to be so apologetic about it.

Taiki looked down again, "Sorry... I mean..." He gave a tiny smile. He thought it was best to change the subject. "So... do you like watching films?"

[Okay, topic change, she can do that.]

Oh, yeah, I love movies! All kinds. This one seemed like it was pretty funny, actually, but I think I can just relate because I've had to run away from demons one too many times in my life.

[Taiki smiled, he had not seen many movies when he still lived on earth but the ones he had watched he had enjoyed.] I wonder if the demons in your world are similar to the Youma in mine...

Doesn't youma mean demon in Japanese? [she asks, curious now. She may or may not know what demon is in about ten different languages from all of her late night research sessions...]

What are they like where you're from?

Taiki nodded, "It does though we don't speak Japanese in the Twelve Kingdoms. They are mostly animals, you've seen Gohran right? Erm... he's a toutetsu so he can shape change... but most only have only one form."

You know, I've been meaning to ask you about that. --Though if you get tired of me asking questions, you can say that! [she adds hurriedly.] Really, I know I can be... um... [Trailing off awkwardly.]

But, um, I was wondering. Is being able to summon them part of being a Kirin?

It's okay... I don't mind questions [And he liked talking to her, even if he was constantly worried that he annoyed her.]

Erm... well... Kirin can bind them, and make them shirei... Sanshi is my Nyokai, that is a nursemaid demon. They are born a while before a Kirin is and protects the egg fruit and then the Kirin, but because I was lost I didn't meet her until I was ten... [Only six months before he had arrived here.]

Then Kirin are to bind shirei as bodyguards... erm... because we can't fight and blood makes us weak... it is a pact, they protect us and live in the eyes of the gods and when we die they consume our body and take our magic...

So... erm once we have bound one they live in our shadow and we can summon them... Gohran is the only one I have bound though... [He doesn't mention that a Toutetsu like Gohran is one of the most powerful demons in the yellow sea, and Taiki is the first Kirin in known history to bind such a shirei. Because he is Taiki and he is sure it was just a fluke.]

Sounds like a big deal. [Her eyebrows have gone up during this recounting.] I'm glad you have something like that to protect you-- otherwise you'd be like a defenseless, sitting duck, and you're too nice to be a duck.

Plus, it sounds like you have important work to do on your own, at home. When you get back there.

[Taiki gave a small smile] They are nice, and look after me. [His smile quickly faded though and he looked down.]

Yes... my... I saw... [Tears filled his eyes and he tried to ignore them as they fell] I think my king might be dead... I saw... when we were sent to our worlds, before I went to Eridan's... and... there's no light... I can't sense him anywhere...

[She reaches out and takes one of his hands when he starts to cry, clasping it tightly.]

Hey, [she says softly,] we don't know anything for sure. You can't give up hope yet. Your king... I bet he's a great guy. He wouldn't give up.

[He takes her hand gratefully and tries to stop his tears. Because she is right, if Gyousou is still alive he wont have given up. And neither should Taiki. It was just hard.]

Sorry... I didn't mean to cry... You're right... I just wish we could all go home... You miss you're friends too right?

... Yeah, [she says, wryly.] You don't know the least of it. My friends are my family, and... even when we were apart before, we knew it was temporary. None of us would ever leave each other.

I miss them a lot. [She tries to turn encouraging.] But we'll see them again-- we won't take no for an answer, right?

[Taiki blinked through his tears and nodded, they would get out of here eventually, they would find a way even if it was really hard. He paused a moment, wondering if he was being annoying but then wrapped his arms around her in a hug.] We wont... it will be okay... and I... sorry I guess some things are okay... I have made friends here too... and you met Eridan... you wouldn't of met him if you weren't here...

[Willow adores hugs, and doesn't think he's being annoying at all. It's the last thought in her mind. She hugs him back readily, squeezing tightly and trying to impart some reassurance.]

Absolutely right. I'm really grateful that I got to meet Eridan-- some things aren't so bad here. We'll all be okay.

And in the meantime, we can watch something a little more up your alley, how about that? [Something in the easy way she comforts him implies that Willow is familiar with taking care of children, though in this case, it's really one in particular. Dawn was a teenager, but there wasn't much reason to treat Taiki differently from her, she thought.]

[Good because Taiki loves hugs as well and hugs her tightly nodding. He blinks at the suggestion, he doesn't really know what to suggest, films were not something he watched a lot of on earth so he didn't know many titles.]

That would be nice... erm... sorry... what should we watch? [He wriggles out her grasp to go look at the film selection.]

Well... first, I have to ask. How old are you, exactly?

[Willow gets out of her seat to trail after him. She's somewhat familiar with the movie collection already, but she looks through, too.] Maybe we should just keep things G-rated.

I'm ten... [He smiled at her and nodded] I guess so yes... I don't know any of these films...

How about this one? [He picks up the one film that didn't look like it was going to have lots of violence in it. An American Tail.]

Oh, I love this one! [she squeaks, the second she turns to see what it is.] I very much approve. Good choice.

[She reaches out and ruffles his hair a little, smiling.] You are so cute for a ten year old, you know that? I thought they were all supposed to be snot-nosed brats at that age, but there's just nothing bratty about you.

[Taiki grinned glad to have picked a film that she liked. He took it oven to the tv, a little confused since it seemed to be on a CD instead of an actual video tape but he worked it out slowly, blushing at her words.] Thank you... I try not to be bratty or annoying or anything though I'm not always successful...

No way, [she says firmly, flopping back onto the couch and letting him put the disc in since he seemed to have it covered.]

You are always successful. A hundred percent success rate. Wherever this annoying is, I haven't seen hide or hair of it.

[He closed the player and pressed what he hoped was the right button before going to sit back with Willow on the couch. He smiled slightly though he couldn't completely believe her words.] I am glad I haven't annoyed you... I think I annoy Eridan a lot... but... that's because I am ill so often... [The opening credits started and Taiki turned back to the TV, sitting close to Willow, for warmth more than anything.]

He's probably just worried about you. Sometimes when people don't know how to deal with a feeling, it comes out the wrong way.

But I wouldn't think too much on it, [she directs, sitting comfortably close to him.] It's movie time, not fretting time.

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