ceasetoexist: (All I hear is "blah blah blah")
Pokey Minch ([personal profile] ceasetoexist) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-12-10 11:32 pm

It's that season

Characters: Pokey Minch [AU1] and You
Setting: Dorm 1-04, Floor Three, Floor Twelve
Format: Starting with prose. But will match.
Summary: Pokey's got himself a case of the flu and he is just doing his damnedest to take his mind off of it.
Warnings: Fat obnoxious kids all in this post

Dorm 1-04
If you're one of Pokey's roommates, you might notice that your bed has more or less been stripped. It is at it's very bare bones. The pillow and blanket from it is gone, and if you look hard enough you'll find those are all in a pile on one of your roommates' bed. And if you look close enough? You'll see that pile is moving sometimes.

Go away. Pokey is sick and trying to sleep and he needs all of this goddammit.]


Floor Three
[Well the sleeping thing didn't work. Now Pokey is miserably wandering around to try and find something to take his mind off of the fact that he was sick as hell. And cold. And miserable. A little hungry too but that's always there so it's not as bad as the first three. He'd already raided the infirmary a bit and took medication after medication, which was not the brightest idea he had.

At the moment he's reading a book in the library, a little zonked out from both the flu he has and the over-use of medication. But he's doing anything he can to try and get his mind off of how bad he is at the moment.

If you looked over his shoulder though, you'd notice he doesn't seem to be reading the book at all. Rather, it looks like he's reading what appears to be a comic book, although it seems like the comic was made by someone around Pokey's age instead of being an official one. Maybe even made by him. There was no reason for him to have put it inside the book he was reading aside from the weird thrill he got out of it, like he was cheating someone.

The kid is messed up in his own special little ways.]


Floor Twelve
[Either it's the medication or this room is just cool as can be.

Pokey can be found standing in the middle of the room, giving a kind of glassy eyed stare and sniffing a little as he watches the destruction of planets, of universes, of galaxies happen again and again and again in the projection room. He doesn't seem to watch it with terror, or fear, so much as curiosity.

He paces the room as he watches the spectacle over and over, as if being at a different angle will reveal something about what he's seeing. Will reveal some kind of truth to him. If it does, Pokey never says what that truth is. But at the end of one of the cycles of destruction, he finally says something.]


Stupid.
andajarofdirt: (03 | whoa)

Floor 12

[personal profile] andajarofdirt 2012-12-11 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, mate, I think the word you're looking for is more along the lines of... bugger.

[Hi, did you order an obnoxious pirate lord to annoy you? No? Too bad.]
Edited 2012-12-11 17:46 (UTC)
glitchinprincess: (Aren't I cute?)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scrambling up and peeking at things over people's shoulders is something Vanellope does well, so when she spots Pokey reaeding a book, well, she scrambles right on over, climbs up behind him, and looks. Well that comic looks a lot different from what she'd expect based on the cover.]

What's that?
glitchinprincess: (DOY...)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen books, doi. I've just never seen that book before and you closed it really fast. How come the inside doesn't look like the cover?
glitchinprincess: (Check THIS out!)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She flinches a little when he taps her on the head with his book, but this time she sees it coming, so she manages to steady herself and keep from glitching.]

Well I've heard that but--

[Less talking, more action! She scampers off to the nearest bookshelf and hops up to grab a book. She looks a little expectant as she flips it open, but it's full of regular, typed words - not comic pages. She holds it up and open and points it in Pokey's direction.]

This one's not like that!

[Then she just unceremoniously drops it on the ground and plucks another one from the shelf.]

Neither is this one! ...or this one! Or...

[Sheee's making a mess...]

Floor 12

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I like this room the most.

[Almost as if he came out of nowhere, Porky, standing behind Pokey, looks down at the cosmic destruction.]

You know, this room scares me a little. Not because I'm seeing the end of life and existence over and over again.

I'm scared because at some point, I'd get bored of it. ... And then what?
glitchinprincess: (Le Gasp)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You did?!

[She tosses aside the most recent book she'd been struggling with (which was just about as big as she was, really) and scrambles over to try and look over Pokey's shoulder again.]

Lemme see, lemme see!
kingofthetoybox: (pic#3598302)

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[His lips curl up into a smile. Is that apprehension he sees on your face, Pokey? God, you're like a completely different person altogether.]

I'm thinking of tearing this tower apart. Block by block. That's gotta be worth a few laughs.
glitchinprincess: (Devious contemplation)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Lying to a child? Shame on you, Mayfield.

[The words bring a sense of déjà vu along with them, but Vanellope shakes it off. A moment later, though, she puffs out her cheeks in response to Pokey's imitation of her.]

Hey hey hey, that is not what I sound like! Your voice isn't high-pitched enough and it doesn't sound as awesome as me.
glitchinprincess: (DOY...)

[personal profile] glitchinprincess 2012-12-11 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
S'not my fault my voice is too great to mimic yours, runt!

[Obviously Vanellope hasn't heard of "turning the other cheek," because now she's trying to counter with an equally-ridiculous mimicry attempt at Pokey's voice.]

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know.

[Nothing's really worth anything. Not anymore. If he can't return to his own time period, he has to make due, even if it's by tearing apart other people. That's exactly what he'll do.]

If you feel the same way, why not team up with me? I'm thinking of getting the old army back together, except... oh, I might do things just a little differently this time.

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a given.

[He crossed his arms and looked away from Porky and at the scene of destruction again.]

I've been thinking a little about it. For some reason, and if there was one, it'd probably be stupid... it's always a group of four friends that need to save the world. And guess what?

They either win or actually get pretty darn close. ... well, not close enough the last time. That's where I won.

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Oh, no, you didn't.]

... I won. The world ended just as I wanted it to. Except I'm here now.

[personal profile] kingofthetoybox 2012-12-11 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Well, that was a disturbing revelation if Porky ever heard one. As far as he and the destroyed world around the Absolutely Safe Capsule were concerned, he had accomplished his task. The fact that in some reality, that wasn't the case, is so, made his blood boil. People who hated him were still alive and well while he was trapped inside this tower. It was infuriating. His victory meant nothing is what this other boy was saying. Why he knew all this didn't mean anything to Porky.

He just wanted his other self to shut up. That laugh of his was the most aggravating.]


... and that's why I'm changing things up this time. Why are you so insistent on getting on my bad side? This isn't the first time either. I had a certain feeling about you. Looking back on it now, I can see as clear as day.

[A glare appears from behind the boy's bangs.]

You're not me at all. In that case, I won't have any qualms about killing you either. If I'm that big of a failure, I don't mind taking this entire place and you down with me. I can do it. I can do it too.

I know how now. I know how.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

[The boy repeats this phrase in the same exact tone, in the same exact way. It's awfully... mechanical.]

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