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Liquid Snake | 'James Moriarty' ([personal profile] liquidouroboros) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-01-24 09:29 pm

⚕ // way to fall

Characters: Liquid and anyone in the Tower
Setting: The workshop and the library
Format: I'll try to match.
Summary: New (old) uniform, same sarcastic jerk.
Warnings: None yet.

[floor fifteen]
[Liquid was rarely an easy man to find in the Tower. Being a stealth operative by nature led him to make himself scarce; being highly paranoid led him to stay that way. He was rarely seen anywhere but the network, and even then only when someone amused or bewildered him enough that it was deemed a necessity to speak up. While he tended to speak loudly and at great length, there were few people these days that Liquid deemed worth the effort of speaking to at all.]

[Addressing his little 'gift' from the tower was something that took quite some time to call 'worth the effort' as well. It was something he'd discarded years before, something which held only what one could call 'sentimental value'.]

[Hatred was a sentiment, right? Then yeah, sentimental value.]

[But if that was the case--which Liquid repeatedly assured himself it was--then why bother wearing it? The old FOXHOUND uniform was nothing special: fatigues, combat boots, and a long dark brown trenchcoat. (No shirt, of course, because Liquid was the kind of man who spent around sixty percent of his time without one.) The coat was the only part worth notice; he recalled having once worn it proudly as a commander, and it was almost depressing to see what it had become. Bloodstained, singed, and with several bullet holes in it, this was definitely no longer the uniform of a commander.]

[So for reasons that perplexed even Liquid himself, he had found his way to the fifteenth floor workshop. He had nothing better to do, and simply burning the damned thing seemed impractical.]

[That was the story of how a 6' shirtless soldier with a snake and sword on his left arm came to be sewing up bullet holes in a trenchcoat he would never admit he might have still been attached to. Just a little.]


[floor three]

[It was strange to be wearing his old uniform once more; strange enough that Liquid made a mental note to just throw the damned thing back into his trunk later and never spare a thought to it again. The trenchcoat had a nice dramatic flare to it, but even the melodramatic former commander was regretting not having gotten rid of it immediately.]

[Scowling, Liquid focused on the bookshelf in front of him; there was nothing specific he was after. His current criteria was 'anything that could serve as a distraction'.]

[Damn could this place get boring sometimes.]
tohko_amano: (apologetic)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-25 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.]

Well, alright then. It's not like there's anything wrong with reading and knowing things!
tohko_amano: (droop)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-25 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well..if people thought there was, I'd wonder why they thought there was and think that they were fools.
tohko_amano: (apologetic)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-27 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose some would think so..but one is pretty useless without the other.
tohko_amano: (Default)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-27 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Or, if someone is only good with one aspect of it, they should work hard to become good with the other aspect.
tohko_amano: (droop)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-27 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't see why not. After all, you can be a pacifist and still fight, and I'm sure they wouldn't be scrawny if they trained. Or, they could find some advantages in being scrawny!
tohko_amano: (puzzled)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-27 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[..?]

Who does?
tohko_amano: (apologetic)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-27 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's alright! You can tell me! I'm guessing you're talking about some co-workers back home, huh?
tohko_amano: (apologetic)

[personal profile] tohko_amano 2013-01-28 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, alright then.

[Tohko sighed and nodded.]

Hopefully you'll be able to go home soon then so that you can tell your co-worker that.