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towerofanimus2013-10-21 09:10 pm
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Log 027 | Event: If You Won't | If He Can...
Characters: Sephiroth & Open
Setting: Throughout the Tower during the Event
Format: 2 x Action prompts below; more in comments/links, to be updated as the Event progresses. Action or Prose as preferred.
Summary: Catch-all for the "If You Won't" Event (Mod Post Link - Part One, Mod Post Link - Part Two )
Warnings: Candy hunt abstaining consequences; misconceptions, paranoid consequences and all the associated could-turn violent warnings all apply. I will update anymore content warnings as they happen.
October 20th - Floor 81
[Stock up on candy. Really Ruana? Stupid game.
Then why can't he shake the feeling that he really ought to collect candy? This unsettling feeling nestles in the back of Sephiroth's mind as he settles into one of the couches on the 81st floor with a well-read book. That 'something' that he should be doing, that 'urge' which pulls him towards the candy that others he's passed today seem to be looking avidly for - but he's not looking for any himself, so he can't see any. Learned helplessness indeed, look at how you all cower in the face of punishment (or perhaps for her favor) and do her bidding. Sure, he hunted monsters last time and didn't much mind it. But this urge? It's degrading to say the least, an insult to his abilities.
That bowl on his bed stand can stay empty all week, as far as he's concerned. What could she do about it if he wanted to show he wont be puppeted around so easily - and if he died - there is something concerning about how Sephiroth see's the prospect of death as another opportunity, but perhaps really it's not all that concerning considering? Punishment itself loses it's edge also, having been through so much.
A few pages into the book and it's easy enough to ignore the 'something' that itches just beneath conscious thought.]
October 21st - Throughout the Tower
[Sleep has done nothing to get rid of this feeling. In fact, he has the distinct feeling that he might well have dreamed of collecting candy like the others. That is a disturbing thought - almost as jarring as the forgetful feeling, that near knot to his stomach, that's dragged over from yesterday except now it's like it's equipped with a weapon to fight his will with, rather than just trying to creep it's way around into his conscious thoughts from the internal depths he'd banished it to.
Sephiroth is, however, no stranger to compulsions enforced by the Tower. However it seems, that this time, he is able to hold it at bay. This gives his ego the strength it needs to put these nagging compulsions back into the (slightly smaller) box in his mind and carry on with his sweeping of the Tower.
Hold on though - just what was it with everyone else today? The natural lack of respect that others held in their gaze at him seems higher in definition today, passing's in Hallways and Stairwells first stir his suspicions but this becomes more than obvious by the time the elevator opens on the 1st Floor and he sweeps his gaze across those in the Cafeteria at the time on his way to the stairwell. He knows that the network is down, but having sneered at the intensity of which everyone else was so obviously snubbing him - it wasn't going to help his calm, focused reverie any under the heat of such disrespectful eyes - he needs to get away into some floor that it's less likely he will come across others'. How dare they all look at him in such a condescending way! He could kill them all if he wanted to, he'd sweep each floor, go on a Tower-wide massacre and the more he thought about it the more it started to override that something important that he was forgetting to do. No- he won't be baited so easily.
Floor 5 always seems to be the floor he retreats to for re-centering himself and gazing no-end into the viewfinder of his world, feeling out the distinct connection he has to it is something of a therapy.]
More Part One Prompts:
October 22nd
October 23rd, 24th, 25th
Part Two Mingle - Date/Location to be in each sub-thread header
Setting: Throughout the Tower during the Event
Format: 2 x Action prompts below; more in comments/links, to be updated as the Event progresses. Action or Prose as preferred.
Summary: Catch-all for the "If You Won't" Event (Mod Post Link - Part One, Mod Post Link - Part Two )
Warnings: Candy hunt abstaining consequences; misconceptions, paranoid consequences and all the associated could-turn violent warnings all apply. I will update anymore content warnings as they happen.
October 20th - Floor 81
[Stock up on candy. Really Ruana? Stupid game.
Then why can't he shake the feeling that he really ought to collect candy? This unsettling feeling nestles in the back of Sephiroth's mind as he settles into one of the couches on the 81st floor with a well-read book. That 'something' that he should be doing, that 'urge' which pulls him towards the candy that others he's passed today seem to be looking avidly for - but he's not looking for any himself, so he can't see any. Learned helplessness indeed, look at how you all cower in the face of punishment (or perhaps for her favor) and do her bidding. Sure, he hunted monsters last time and didn't much mind it. But this urge? It's degrading to say the least, an insult to his abilities.
That bowl on his bed stand can stay empty all week, as far as he's concerned. What could she do about it if he wanted to show he wont be puppeted around so easily - and if he died - there is something concerning about how Sephiroth see's the prospect of death as another opportunity, but perhaps really it's not all that concerning considering? Punishment itself loses it's edge also, having been through so much.
A few pages into the book and it's easy enough to ignore the 'something' that itches just beneath conscious thought.]
October 21st - Throughout the Tower
[Sleep has done nothing to get rid of this feeling. In fact, he has the distinct feeling that he might well have dreamed of collecting candy like the others. That is a disturbing thought - almost as jarring as the forgetful feeling, that near knot to his stomach, that's dragged over from yesterday except now it's like it's equipped with a weapon to fight his will with, rather than just trying to creep it's way around into his conscious thoughts from the internal depths he'd banished it to.
Sephiroth is, however, no stranger to compulsions enforced by the Tower. However it seems, that this time, he is able to hold it at bay. This gives his ego the strength it needs to put these nagging compulsions back into the (slightly smaller) box in his mind and carry on with his sweeping of the Tower.
Hold on though - just what was it with everyone else today? The natural lack of respect that others held in their gaze at him seems higher in definition today, passing's in Hallways and Stairwells first stir his suspicions but this becomes more than obvious by the time the elevator opens on the 1st Floor and he sweeps his gaze across those in the Cafeteria at the time on his way to the stairwell. He knows that the network is down, but having sneered at the intensity of which everyone else was so obviously snubbing him - it wasn't going to help his calm, focused reverie any under the heat of such disrespectful eyes - he needs to get away into some floor that it's less likely he will come across others'. How dare they all look at him in such a condescending way! He could kill them all if he wanted to, he'd sweep each floor, go on a Tower-wide massacre and the more he thought about it the more it started to override that something important that he was forgetting to do. No- he won't be baited so easily.
Floor 5 always seems to be the floor he retreats to for re-centering himself and gazing no-end into the viewfinder of his world, feeling out the distinct connection he has to it is something of a therapy.]
More Part One Prompts:
October 22nd
October 23rd, 24th, 25th
Part Two Mingle - Date/Location to be in each sub-thread header
no subject
Apart from the obvious lack of respect he's perceiving, as with all of those considered to be on a similar wavelength to him, there is always the concern that they really do plot behind his back. Wasn't this just the most perfect demonstration of that suspicion?
Sephiroth pauses in the doorway of the Cafeteria and meets Xehanort's gaze for a second before he would otherwise have walked away. Clearly the other has something to say to him, Sephiroth narrows eyes at the top of that silvered head - considering.]
this is beautiful
Sephiroth's face seems a bit tighter than usual, but anyone could be stressed out by things in the tower. It seems to be par for the course so he doesn't really consider it at all. Though if the man is busy he won't keep him...]
It's been some time. I just wanted to say hello.
never sorry - it's the first thing that came to mind.
[Sephiroth has let his curiosity get the better off him and pointedly avoiding all other eyes in the Cafeteria, that really aren't even looking at him, he approaches Xehanort. He remains standing still, tension visible in his arms through taut leather all the way down to his clenched fists.
His face doesn't lose that stern expression. He spends a moment looking over the pumpkin picture before daring to look up at the face that, to him, is looking at him with such disapproval.]
Certainly didn't look like it a moment ago.
and then I was late, sorry :c
I'm not certain what you mean. I was merely attempting to catch your attention...
not late at all! <3
Sephiroth flexes his hands out and then balls them up into fists once more, with an accompanied creak of leather.]
Clearly. You've something else to say? To my face this time?
this thread is amazing fffff
I'm not certain what you mean, I haven't said anything about you. I'm sorry for interrupting you in what you were doing... please feel free to ignore me.
glad you are enjoying, it's rather out-of-the-box
Of course you weren't.
[He mutters lowly, though isn't completely convinced still. Logic is getting a grip on his feelings though, Xehanort surely wouldn't push his luck in that way; the other man has been much too open...much too eager to assist Sephiroth.
Patronizing me. Sephiroth turns away from Xehanort and makes a step back towards the stairwell before stopping and looking back over a shoulder.]
Excuse me.
[It might be the closest thing to an apology he could manage, before he starts actually to walk away. Keeping his eyes firmly on the floor beneath his boots, not needing to see all the other eyes boring into him.]
no subject
Then he shrugs and goes back to playing with his food. Perhaps he'll feel better another time. He'll have to ask him why he was so upset later.]