Cause we're just under the upperhand

[knightime]

Characters: Dave Strider and anyone who wants to run into the teen
Setting: Around the Tower
Format: Either
Summary: Dave is running from something only he can see because of his illness.
Warnings: Paranoia, Insanity, the usual Animus problems


[Dorm Levels]
You might be lucky to run into Dave here. He's been kind of absent from the dorm levels as of late. You might have been lucky to catch him the few days he actually has been in his dorm, but he usually only tries to sleep before disappearing off again. His poor Pokemon, Missy, has been waiting at the foot of his bed for him forlornly. At least he brings her food before disappearing again.

Right now, he's wandering aimlessly the floor. He keeps looking behind him, expecting something and sometimes he'll pick up his pace as though he has seen something.

He'll eventually start making his way to the stairs though. He really doesn't look like he wants to stick around here that long. He looks exhausted and his movements aren't up to par as they usually are from the looks of it.

[Floor 48: Graveyard]
Dave has started frequenting this floor, even if it was morbid. He kind of just like staring at all the names across the headstones. He makes daily visits to some of his friends' tombstones. He knows there's nothing in them, but it makes him feel better to leave flowers or something once in awhile.

Right now? He's running. He's running as fast as his feet can take him. He's mumbling and tripping over his feet and it looks like he's running from something. What it is? Well, no one else can see it. Only him.

[Floor 40: Storage Room]
He's basically tried to wedge himself in some corner, hands clutched over his ears and threaded in his hair and he has his face buried against his knees. Dave likes floors like these right now, because he doesn't think people frequent them as much. The less he has to be around people, the better.

[Floor 25: Meadow]
Dave had been going to this floor to avoid the cold. For some reason, it stays in Springtime weather, which he isn't going to complain about because it beats the rest of the tower. But he'll move soon. He can't stay on a floor for too long. If he does, the creatures trying to control him will find him and try again.

For now though, he's going to take advantage of the fact that he can be relatively warm for this short moment.

Comments

[knightime]

Didn't say it would, now did I? [That's still a no.]

[tohko_amano]

No, you didn't..but I thought it might injure your pride, so that's why I mentioned it.

[knightime]

Don't do me favors.

[tohko_amano]

I'm not. I would do this for anyone if I met them like this.

[knightime]

Then I guess go help someone else if you're so determined.

[tohko_amano]

Or I could help you, since you're standing in front of me.

[knightime]

I already said no.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed and started walking away.

Dave, you got Tohko to back down. Do you know how hard that is?!]

..Fine then. I'm going to the chapel. It's quiet there, so the voices in my head might not bother me so much. If you change your mind, you can find me there.

[knightime]

[Well, he's the queen of stubborn, so someone had to eventually cave. Dave wasn't going too, considering he's gotten terribly used to trying to deal with his problems on his own.]

Have fun with that. [He's definitely not joining. He had some issues back in the chapel a bit ago, that he isn't too interested in reliving while dealing with this.] Chapel isn't exactly my favorite place, so don't hold your breath expecting me.

[tohko_amano]

[And Tohko was more stubborn than a nest full of killer bees sometimes. At that statement, Tohko sighed.]

I don't like it either, but it's quiet there. Maybe it'll help.

[knightime]

I died there before, so no. It wouldn't. It'll probably help you more than whatever it can do for me.

[tohko_amano]

I was killed there before too..but that doesn't mean you'll die there now!

[knightime]

Man, you definitely have not talked to me enough. Dying is basically my given specialty. It's like the thing you didn't think you'd be good at doing until you're dying at least once a month. Not that I think I've died recently.

..Tohko will later think back on this and see that she and Dave are smiliar in that regard..

[tohko_amano]

Well..it's good that you haven't died recently..but in this Tower, it's probably normal to have died once or twice! Or even three times!

Tower of Dying. If you haven't died, you haven't lived.

[knightime]

I'm pretty sure I'm around seven. I try not to keep track of it. And this is excluding the time I saw at least fifty of me drop dead when my powers got shut off.

It's a really bad habit of mine.

And if you die too much, they might decide to not bring you back.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed. She'd pat you on the head, if she could see and feel you.]

I'm sorry to hear that. That's pretty terrible..hopefully you can get better at that in the future. I've only died..about three or four times.

they probably will though because then you can die again

[knightime]

[He rather you not. He doesn't want pats on the head. Maybe a shoulder pat. Got to stay cool.]

You get used to it with time travel. Like, it's just the risk that you're told when shoved into the position. In your contract and everything. Here, it's basically a formality upon getting your ass stuck in this crappy place. Welcome to the Tower. Please remember to die at least once during your stay. Have a good day. Or something.

Ruana might get sick of that eventually though.

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko really didn't care much about being cool, sadly. After all, when you were a book girl, that didn't matter much.]

We don't have time travel in my universe..however, it would have been nice if they asked us whether we wanted to be stuck in a place like this or not, even if they did lie in the asking.

Ruana getting sick of killing them sounds almost laughable.

[knightime]

[Man, Rose is more understanding of Dave's need to be cool.]

You're really expecting them to ask? That's dumb. People do things all the time without asking.

But not impossible.

[tohko_amano]

[But Tohko is not Rose.]

..I'm not expecting them too. I just said it would have been nice if they did.

too bad mods never get tired of being terrible.

[knightime]

There's a lot of things they could do that would be nice, but they aren't ever gonna do those things.

This is true, for better or worse..

[tohko_amano]

Well, they might someday! Dax, at the very least, might.

[knightime]

I wouldn't really count on the others. Maybe Zo along with Dax, but Zo is a kid and he gets the benefit of the doubt.

[tohko_amano]

But just because he's a kid doesn't meant that he can't help out either. You'll find that quite a few heroes in stories are children or young adults.

[knightime]

Do you ever stop and think that what you're saying might have no correlation to our conversation. We were talking about admins and being nice. Not suddenly, they can help and be heroes.