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towerofanimus2013-01-24 09:29 pm
liquidouroboros) wrote in towerofanimus2013-01-24 09:29 pm
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⚕ // 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.]
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.]
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What liquid is he made out of anyway? Maybe something exotic like kiwi soda...]no subject
It's a military codename. That's all.
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Wow, codename? Really??
Were you a spy? Ah, is that why you have that kind of coat?
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Something like that. [Secrecy was kind of pointless, considering the kind of place and situation they were in.] It was part of my old uniform.
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Wow, that's amazing!
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[Ever seen a bird preening its feathers, Orihime? That's kind of what's happening here.]
And of course I am no less than the best in my field.
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Liquid-san, I didn't know! So you must have an impressive jewel collection...
[Because she is under the impression spies and jewel thieves are the same thing.]
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...Excuse me?
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[And she's making robot bark noises, and miming fighting a dog. Isn't he glad he asked?]
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[There was no way this was possible, right?]
[There couldn't really be someone even more invested in insane moon logic than Otacon, could there?]
[Mother of cardboard boxes, she was serious.]
...I'm a soldier, not a thief. [The only thing she even got remotely right was the part about lasers...]
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[Give it about five more years, Liquid.]
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[really he'll just be making this face forever.]
[what does he make of you, orihime]
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...In which case I'd destroy the robot and if such a valuable thing should go missing in the course of the evening, then that's just a terrible shame.
[Sure, he's got his pride. But hey, if no one else would be using it...]
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[Not to mention really cool...]
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Destroying the corrupt government's giant robots is my job.
[Beat.]
Anyone's giant robots, really.
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[They're so cool...]
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In my hands...well, I suppose I'm just as much a threat as anyone else.
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