PARTY TIME!

[deloreandriver]

Characters: Marty and EVERYONE ELSE. Start your own threads, mingle, make CR!
Setting: Floor 38, the big lounge floor just under the dorms, BEST STORM VIEW
Format: Your choice
Summary: STORM WATCHING PARTY! So the power is out and there's tons of thunderstorms. But don't let that get you down, WATCH THE THUNDERSTORMS! Also pancakes and coffee.
Warnings: STORM WATCHING ! Lots of thunder

Marty had enough of the darkness in the tower and the creeping monsters, so when he looked at the mass of pancakes the automatic pancake maker had made, he loaded them up along with the coffee maker, coffee, the syrup, and toted them all the way up to Floor 38.

There was no way he was going to let those massive stacks of pancakes go to waste, and this was the closest floor to the dorms that actually had some place to hang out, so he set the pancakes up as a sort of continental breakfast, and sat watching the storm.

What he hadn't expected was the people to start trickling in.

Comments

/hogs allllll your CR

[sageprincess]

Ah... hello, Minato.

[She'd appreciate it, though there's still some nervousness about others seeing her weakness. But this boy did not judge her for being inexperienced and uncertain, so... maybe it'll be okay. He's related to Minami, after all.

She uncurls from her position, facing him, sparing only the briefest of glances to the outside before returning her attention back to him.]

... This storm is a violent one, truly.

/IS OK WITH THIS

[fractus_animus]

... It is.

[ He won't openly say it, but he's giving you a "if you'd like to talk about it, perhaps it'll help you feel better? I'm here to listen if you want to talk" sort of look, Zelda.

No, he won't judge her. Why would he? ]

This place gets pretty creepy like this, huh?

/KAY GOOD

[sageprincess]

[Stop it, Minato, you're making her feel like she should be open with her feelings or something.]

It does. But the storm is the least of our problems, really.

[Said almost like she's trying to reassure herself. Duty has always been her defense mechanism, after all.]

[fractus_animus]

[ ... Um.

Not that he's good at actually being one but this is how protags work, sorry, Zelda. Talk to him, dang it. ]

Storms can cause a lot of problems on their own. ... Or can be related to problems.

[ Or bad memories. He's taking a wild guess, though. ]

[sageprincess]

[But her dignity...

There's a deep sigh, as she stares at her hands in her lap.]

You wish to know why I am anxious.

[Both a question and a statement at the same time. She's come to realize how well this boy can see through her, so she might as well try to control how her fears an anxieties are revealed.]

[fractus_animus]

... No. I just want you to know I'm here to listen, if you want to talk about it. Sometimes it helps.

[ That's important to correct, okay. He just wants to... help, really. Listen, if she'd like? He's a good listener. ]

[sageprincess]

...

[She's quiet for a good moment, considering his words and debating her response. This is... difficult for her, and her body language is quite tense, but...]

When I was young, I was forced to flee my home while being chased by an evil man. ... There was a storm at the time, and... I suppose I still associate them with the fear I felt that day.

[fractus_animus]

So you have bad memories of it.

[ He is silent for a moment. ]

... You might already realize this, but I think everyone has something they'd rather forget.

[ He is, again, speaking from experience. There's the slightest of pauses before he offers a teeny, tiny, slightly sad smile. Barely an upturn of his lips.

He had secrets and fears like any other human being, really. ]

You're... not alone, Zelda-san.

[sageprincess]

... I know, it is just...

[It is such a childish fear, one unfitting of someone in her position. How is she to cultivate respect and lead others to victory when she is afraid of something as natural as a storm? And yet this boy tells her that she is not alone, as if it's okay that she has these fears.

She is... conflicted, and she leans forward, putting her elbows on her knees and her head in her hands.]

... I feel as though I am being pulled in two. I must be a leader, and yet I must find someone I do not have to lead. I must be someone people can trust, yet I can barely trust my own judgment.

I must remember that I am mortal, yet I am constantly reminded that I am supposedly divinity.

[She rambles, speaking what is likely nonsense to Minato. But such contradictions are what plague her whenever she is given "advice" and she is beginning to tire of this war waging within her mind and heart.

... But what is she doing--]

My apologies, I do not know what came over me; my problems are hardly yours.

[fractus_animus]

[ He does not look annoyed at all, in fact, his expression does not change, though his tone is gentle. Understanding.

He listens, to all of it, and does not speak until she is done. ]

... If I didn't want to know, I wouldn't have asked.

[ He is quiet for a moment, contemplative. ]

It is just that... there will always be a duality when people expect things of you. Living a double life is... tiring. It's not easy. People don't always look past what they expect of a person, or consider how they might feel. And sometimes you feel less like a person and more like a tool, a means to an end...

[ He pauses, adding a silent '...right?' with his expression towards her, because he is certain he knows how she feels. Perhaps not in the Divinity aspect, but... finally, he settles on this: ]

In other words... Memento Mori.

[ The words are foreign and Latin, but he knows them all too well with Thanatos in his head and because of a certain little boy who also resides there. ]