http://spiritsup.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] spiritsup.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2011-10-09 03:56 pm

[Event, returning from surgery, open]

Characters: All those who were expermimented on if they want and everyone else
Setting: Cafeteria, morning
Format: Whatevers easiest
Summary: Those that were taken a week ago are left in the cafeteria, changed and somewhat broken. (I'm starting with Romeo, and then everyone can just make their own threads/reply to each other/tag around. I just thought this would save 8 very similar different threads)
Warnings: Horror, description of body modification horror, trauma, angst, unplesentness. Probably lots of anger

Romeo had barely struggled when he was taken a week ago but now he was angry. The bad people had hurt them all, did awful things to them. He shouted at them and was ignored, he tried to bash them with his antlers but it did nothing. Soon they were left in the cafeteria. It had only been a week but everything had changed. Romeo had fallen once they had put him down, he still wasn't good at walking and he looked around. The cafeteria was exactly the same though it seemed that the whole tower should have changed, become even scarier than it already was. He looked at his mouth, so strange and protruding out of his face and then down at his legs, four of them now not two. They looked strange in a way they hadn't in the cells. They had been a scary place and the face that he now had hooves and antlers hadn't been as horrifying as it was now he was in a normal place. A place he had been for a long time now.

He looked at the others and tried not to cry, he had cried so much already and it wouldn't keep anyone's spirits up. Now they were back they had to act strong and brave because they would be seeing their friends. Those that were hopefully safe. With a determined look Romeo struggled to his feet and stood, staying very close to the others, scared even now he was no longer imprisoned. "It will be alright." He whispered, both to himself and to those around him. They just had to keep their spirits up, and no matter what they had to keep living.

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-09 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ienzo nodded. He definitely was in need of practice. "Just... stand up for now... see how long you can hold your weight..." He briefly considered moving closer to Romeo, to serve as some kind of balance maintainer. But obviously Romeo had no hands anymore, or indeed anything he could really hold on to...

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-09 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"...You'll have to... obviously you can't learn after one attempt." He'd returned to a (seemingly) calmer state of mind now, but was still standing near Romeo, in case he lost his balance and fell. Obligation to help Romeo is go!

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-10 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...erk.

It was truly a monumentous feat to keep his expression neutral at that moment. He rather wanted to insist that no, he wasn't, and walk away. But somehow he managed to do nothing but blink, not exactly wanting to say anything.

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-10 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Pause.

Pause.

Pause.

"...I have seen worse cases than you, Romeo."

This is about as close as he's moving to "no, I'm still your friend".

And Romeo gets the dubious honor of being the first character to get the NAG NAG NAG icon in person!

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-10 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"...You have no reason to apologize. You didn't do this to yourself." (Romeo, you shall learn in time that this is pretty much Ienzo's equivalent to showing affection -- 'helping' through debunking every unreasonable thing the other person says.) He waited barely a second before speaking to Romeo once again, this time in a slightly more authoritative tone. "...Here. Get up. You still need to hold your weight, don't you?"

[identity profile] tempustemporum.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He merely nodded at this. Even though he may have come to the conclusion in a slightly unusual way (Ienzo had never met someone so concerned with keeping others in high spirits the same way Romeo has), that was still the fact of the matter. At least Romeo wasn't the sort of person who gave up and lied down when they were given any sort of real problems. "...You might... it could take a few days before you can walk properly... but this is clearly progress..."