thereisnopie: (hoodie)
Gamzee Makara (AU) ([personal profile] thereisnopie) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-12-21 11:23 am

pull out the fourth cord

Characters: Gamzee Makara (AU) and you.
Setting: The Cafeteria.
Format: Either
Summary: Realizing you're stuck in the lie again doesn't necessarily make it easier to escape it.
Warnings: Language. Psychological trauma.

Gamzee sits slouched in a chair in the cafeteria, a glass of water sitting half empty (if we're being pessimistic, which he is) on the table in front of him. He stares through its clear exterior with a feverish gaze, dark hair plastered to his face with sweat.

Water has been the only thing he's put into his system for the past couple days now, and that only because he needs it to survive (not that this seems to matter here anyway). It's not poison he's afraid of, at least not the sort of poison his counterpart is worried about, but rather anything that they might have put into his food to keep him sedated again - to keep him docile and pliable to their whims. He'd been a fool to ever thing he'd escaped from that madhouse, from the program that had kept him under its spell for years. He was beginning to think he'd never get away from it.

And the worst part is he doesn't know how to fight back. This is the best he can do for now - sit and ponder and possibly contemplate giving in to the desire for food despite all desire not to.
warriorscribe: (I wish to know about everything)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-12 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I...don't believe you have. How does one come from a program?"

See, if Gamzee had told him, he wouldn't be trying to figure out how one comes from...oh. Maybe...

"Do you mean you were in some sort of training?"
warriorscribe: (It'll be fine...won't it?)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-15 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
A reality that wasn't a reality. He was so sick he could barely piece it together. Finally, he thinks he has it.

"An illusion?"
warriorscribe: (Quiet pause)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-19 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Your entire life was an illusion?

*At least there wasn't much of it. If Enoch were to find the same thing, well...no, he didn't want to think about it. Three hundred years, a lie? He certainly wouldn't be able to handle it. He's glad Gamzee was able to escape his illusion so early. He'd lost his childhood, but...he had plenty of life left to live for real.*
warriorscribe: (If you say so...)

Sorry for the random style flub...

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-21 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
"At least...you were freed early. You have all of your years ahead of you."

Enoch could offer little else. He was sick, and worried about the threat of the enemies. How much would it take for one of them to use this information to bring Gamzee to their side...?
warriorscribe: (Looking back)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-22 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"...This isn't quite the life we're meant to lead, either, I'll admit it. But should our worlds be restored..."
warriorscribe: (Looking back)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-24 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
"There was a reality to your world. For the illusion to exist there must have been a reality to escape to. And you can discover that, if Dax should restore it.

I wonder if we can't help somehow..."

But with Ruana handing out favors to keep people here...surely they must be able to help! Ruana must be trying harder to keep her playthings here because losing them might be a reality!
warriorscribe: (Weary and worn)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2013-01-27 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it seemed Gamzee wasn't up for talking. It was to be expected with this disease. People were simply too ill.

Including Enoch, himself. He had come down here for food, but just getting down here was enough to have him slumping forward, resting his head on the table.

"When we have recovered..."