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towerofanimus2012-01-18 12:57 am
princeofjunes) wrote in towerofanimus2012-01-18 12:57 am
Track 02 - Here Comes the Sun [OPEN]
Characters: Yosuke Hanamura and YOU!
Setting: Floor 25
Format: I'll follow, but action is far faster for me
Summary: Yosuke's in a half-thinking, half-escapist mood. What better place to do both?
Warnings: None!
[In the middle of this springtime meadow is one high school student, sprawled out on the grass with his headphones on and blasting music. He switches every few minutes between nodding his head to the beat and looking oddly contemplative. But he's aware of his surroundings, and as people pass he'll do one of two things]
[If Yosuke doesn't know you, he'll simply smile and offer a friendly wave]
[If he does, he'll slip the headphones off his hears and give a greeting] Hey!
Setting: Floor 25
Format: I'll follow, but action is far faster for me
Summary: Yosuke's in a half-thinking, half-escapist mood. What better place to do both?
Warnings: None!
[In the middle of this springtime meadow is one high school student, sprawled out on the grass with his headphones on and blasting music. He switches every few minutes between nodding his head to the beat and looking oddly contemplative. But he's aware of his surroundings, and as people pass he'll do one of two things]
[If Yosuke doesn't know you, he'll simply smile and offer a friendly wave]
[If he does, he'll slip the headphones off his hears and give a greeting] Hey!
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... I would never take someone's life, even in a dire situation. That... that would be unforgivable.
[ Yeah okay, Link might... be spazzing just a bit here because that is a very important subject! But really, after saying that, there is a brief period of introspection going on, here. On the one hand, Link is unyielding and stubborn. Perhaps Yosuke was right, perhaps he wasn't.
But on the other hand, there is a lot of weight riding on the hero alone. It was just the title itself. "Hero of Time." It was three very important words.
And... Link was afraid. Perhaps, in the end, they weren't the right person for this? What if they were chosen wrongly? What if destiny had picked the weakest person and they failed? But far be it from them to ever complain, because that's not what a hero does. At this point, they're just hung up over saying how they really feel. Afraid? Wanting acceptance? Was that really strange?
... Yeah, there were probably words that were intended to be spoken here, but they can't quite seem to stop them dying in their throat every single time they try.
As it is, Link just responds with a headshake, eyes shut. It takes a long time before the Hylian even replies, mulling over the proper words to use. ]
... Trust in most people is something I've always had. But the last thing I would ever desire... would be to have them feel as though they'd misplaced their trust in me.
[ That's all. ]
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[It feels nice]
[But he's not done yet and so he presses on]
Well I for one don't feel like my trust in you is misplaced. But part of that trust is trusting you not to be an idiot.
Whatever you're dealing with seems like heavy stuff, and that's fine. I'm not trying to make light of your problems or anything. But forget about shadows and all that crap for one second. Just... let me say this, as a friend to a friend, alright?
Bottling shit up only makes it worse. The longer you wait to deal with whatever's eating at you, the worse it's going to get. I know that one for a fact. So don't be an idiot and let it wreck you from the inside out.
[1/2]
Link... hadn't really meant to get into this sort of thing with Yosuke of all people. They didn't also... expect someone to be so honest. After telling the truth to Zelda, though, they'd expected this to be easier to deal with, but it really wasn't, in the end.
In fact, it still felt shameful. A blight on a perfectly good person, as it were, otherwise. Link's arms move to a crossed position, perhaps instinctive--a move of trying to feel more secure, when at this very moment, Link feels anything but.
The Hylian's gaze falls elsewhere, because really? Now it's even harder to look Yosuke in the eyes, truly. ]
[2/2]
People asked things of Link, and the hero did them. That was how it worked. ... But no one ever asked Link to think about... well, them. Silence is comforting, but of course something has to be said... ]
... Perhaps, but that's a rather simplistic view of things.
[ A childish one. Link was a child, at one point, but you had to grow up. Even if that was... unnaturally, as it were. That's... what Link was taught by the world. How could it possibly be any other way? Wouldn't it be wrong of them to confide in another; wouldn't that be selfish and weak?
Regardless... ]
Thank you, at any rate.
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[One second he feels like he's really getting through to Link, and the next it feels like he's hit a stone wall. It's disheartening. Yosuke groans and lets himself fall backwards, looking up as he rests on the grass]
Don't thank me until I actually do something for you.
Maybe it is simplistic. But sometimes life is simple. It's not all crazy goddesses and saving the world and worrying about your future.
[He slips the headphones from around his neck and holds them out to his companion]
Sometimes it's laying in the grass and listening to music.
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But the headphones... not so much. How on earth is that music? ]
... What... sort of instrument are they?
[ The Ocarina-playing forest elf-type person does not understand your gesture, Yosuke. It is rather confusing, actually. ]
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They're not an instrument. Put 'em on, they go over your ears. They won't be an exact fit, but you can get them on there well enough I bet.
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As it is, though, Link sort of blinks, stares, then... takes them anyway, doing as instructed. It's kind of weird, and being Hylian with ears like this, Link can't help but wonder why humans would, you know, do this sort of thing... when you can play your own instrument. ]
...?
[ Head... tilt... ]
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Here, try this one.
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Link has never heard anything like it. Heck, it'd be surprising if they'd ever heard a piano, because you won't find that in a forest. Mostly wind instruments. There is so much staring going on here, because this is amazing.
Listening until it's done, Link has only one thing to say: ]
... Is this magic? Does this music... transport you anywhere?
[ Yeah. Technology? What is that? Don't you have magic songs? ]
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[But only for a moment before he grins and laughs]
Literally? No.
Figuratively? Absolutely. It's one of the things I absolutely love about music. I even carry those almost everywhere, so I'm never far from a good song.
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... I see.
[ Huh. Weird. ]
This isn't like any instrument I have ever heard played... it is lovely, though there's a different sort of magic to it than the music I know.
[ In a way, it's odd, hearing music that is not positively vibrating with magical energy, or music coming from the trees themselves, within the forest. To someone like Link, everything had a song to it if you listened. That was what magic was about. But they feel this to be a little too touchy-feely and oddly introspective, so perhaps that's better left unsaid.
Plus, Yosuke might find it odd. ]
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But even if it's not that kind of magic, I love music. Sometimes I wish my life had a soundtrack, and then I remember - [He points up at the headphones] - that I more or less give it one.
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[ ... Though Link has no idea what soundtrack means, they can probably infer it? But there is one thing that has got to be asked: ]
But... where are the people who play it?
[ Link is kind of looking at the headphones like tiny musicians might be hiding in them. WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, TINY MUSICIANS. COME TALK TO US. ]
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[So, how to explain technology to the technologically illiterate?]
That's... a long answer, but I'll try and explain it. The musicians played the music into a machine, and the machine recorded it and made it so that people could play the music back on other tiny machines they can carry around. So the music playing through those headphones is coming from one of those tiny machines.
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Ah. ... I see, so it's more a mechanical function and the music is written on to the machines in some way?
[ Since... recording to Link is "writing in a book" and all that. ]
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Yeah, like that. Naoto can explain it better, if you're curious. ... actually, anything I explain that doesn't really make sense, Naoto can probably explain better.
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... I'll be sure to ask, in that case. Your... machinery is a bit beyond Hyrule's, I'm afraid...
[ Haha. Gosh, do they really want to ask Yosuke some other things, but at this point Link feels it better to keep it to theirself, because it's not right to bring Yosuke back to that earlier frustration.
This was their problem, not his. He deserved better. ]
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... [He chuckles at that]
Man, if it weren't for all that shadow stuff I wouldn't even think magic exists, and you've got songs that teleport people places?
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That's... rather surprising to me, I must say. Where I live--or... where I've lived until recently, magic is so commonplace that it seems... strange to me not to see it in every thing, not to sense it all around me...
[ Pausing. ]
Music, too. Music is its own magic... notes carry farther than even the best spell. Music is a good conductor for magic, which is why an instrument is easy to endow with it.
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... Then, a laugh. ]
Yes, easily. It would be up to the creator to give it the proper magic capabilities, but I am rather certain it would be very simple a task.
[ Silly Yosuke, why wouldn't they be able to? ]
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... alright, that's officially awesome. I want a magic guitar. You have any spares with you, Link?
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Unfortunately, I could make you one, but I don't have one with me or the materials, and... I am certain it would have to be made in my world with magic and the proper intent...
[ Alas. Sorry, bro. ]