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Nezumi / "Rat" ([personal profile] rainscented) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-01-22 12:51 am

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Characters: Rat, every Disney film ever, and YOU.
Setting: Floor 14
Format: Up to you.
Summary: Rat drowns out months-worth of his dead world by watching cartoons about talking animals.
Warnings: Dystopian angst and Lion King spoilers idek. Potentially boys kissing other boys if when Shion shows up.

[ He's been back for barely a day, and it's a nightmare. Eating is still off-limits, the idea of consuming anything more than a little soup makes him nauseated. He can't sleep, too jumpy to relax and too full of thoughts to close his eyes. He'll be forced back to his bed eventually, but he's resisting for as long as he can. So instead, he's reclined in a bean-bag chair on the media floor, watching an old film about lions. Animals are safe. He doesn't remember animal corpses.

And then a film about mice. Fairies. Dogs. Birds. Foxes. Cats. And then another about lions. He's never seen half of these animals in real life.

He's not going to move for a while. ]
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-22 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the lions that make him pause. Because Shion has never seen one either but he spent his childhood learning about such extinct animals and to see them even on a screen was something rare.

But if there was anything to distract him from cartoon lions it was the boy on the bean bag. "Rat..." Shion had started to doubt he would ever return. He ran over peering at Rat as if checking that he was still whole, still there despite what he must have gone through.

He might have got distracted by his eyes...
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-22 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Shion hadn't been speaking but his lips pressed together anyways to stop any sound from escaping and he flopped into the chair still watching Rat carefully rather than the screen.
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[personal profile] geometry 2013-01-22 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Someone joins Rat right around the second bit of lions. The someone is grey-skinned and looks about as rattled as he does. Equius stands behind the chair with his hands in his pockets, and then sinks onto a nearby couch without comment; he had no idea what he wanted to watch in the first place, but these animated movies were usually pretty good.]
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[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-01-22 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ryoji nervously enters the room, still a little uncomfortable with human contact after being affected. He doesn't want to scare anyone, or hurt them, or upset them, so he's been trying to keep to himself as much as possible.

...But a movie sounded like a distraction from all his worries, even if there was someone else already sitting there. Ryoji approaches him, standing a safe distance away.]


Mind if I join you?

[A smile. A little shy, but it's a smile. He can control his feelings now. Hide them, hopefully.]
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-23 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Shion stared at the film wondering idly why the lions weren't eating the other animals, they were predators... "Who are they? Why does that cub want to be king?"

He asked the questions outloud because in the space of thirty seconds the colourful cartoon had utterly confused him. "Why is that bird trying to control two lion cubs? It seems like a dangerous occupation."
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[personal profile] geometry 2013-01-23 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Equius shook his head.] Yes and no... we do have creatures similar to lions, but they're not called the same thing, so I don't really know. [Like most Earth people, however, he's never actually seen one up close, or indeed seen one at all; there have been wild manebeasts roaming around, and of course the lion lusus who raised... uh... someone he knew (he couldn't remember the name anymore), but real lions? No.]
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[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-01-23 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, good.

[He sits where he has a good view of the screen, though he's careful to keep space between himself and the other man. He watches for a while, before nervously, awkwardly, he manages to provide some short conversation.]

What movie is this?
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[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-01-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, cute! I like talking animals...

[Wait, um, what was that?]

Nostalgic? Don't tell me you knew a pack of zoo animals!

[He jokes about it, even if he knows the man isn't, trying to lighten the mood a bit.]
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[personal profile] geometry 2013-01-26 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Horns? Wha-- ...oh.]

Uh. No. No horns.

Only trolls have horns. And some lusii, I guess, but mostly trolls.
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-26 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh so it was Hamlet with lions and singing... whichever world this came from was a very odd one. He frowned though at the last and pulled himself away from Rat, though he didn't go far, insulted that he had been called a sheltered child.
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-26 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Shion watched as Hamlet and the girl lion, he thought was probably Ophelia? Wandered to the one place they had been told not to, he soon got distracted though and went back to watching Rat, still hurt and a little annoyed that even now Rat so flippantly called him a sheltered child.
Edited 2013-01-26 20:36 (UTC)
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-26 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guessed that from the fact the main characters were lions." Shion blushed but didn't quite manage to turn back to the screen. "Are you alright? You're not hurt are you?"
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2013-01-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
There were more ways to be hurt than just physical, if there was one thing Shion had learned in the tower it was this. Shion wondered if he should go and get food, not that Rat wasn't capable of fetching food himself, but for some reason he hadn't.

Shion had once been in his dead world for two weeks and that had been an awful long time, Rat had been there for more than twice as long.

He shook his head at the question, "Not at the moment."

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